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Pandemic . . . Poop??
No, this isn’t some new, obscure symptom of Covid-19 (or at least, that’s not where I’m going with this!). But a look at how lockdown, quarantine and our current life is affecting every part of our body – including our bowels. Life is different Right? Even if you are back at work there are masks and gloves and hand sanitiser, or you’re all set up with the ironing board to work from home, smart top in place for surprise video calls. But all those things you normally do to keep your bowels in good, healthy working order might be harder right now. Jean Marie Houghton, a gastroenterologist with UMass Memorial Health Care explains that “a lot of our habits depend upon other cues, such as our morning coffee [or] our morning walk,” and that includes the habits of our bowels! So if your routine is all topsy turvy then your bowel movements might be as well. Exercise is harder Did you know that your intestine and guts move due to a muscular motion called peristalsis? Which means that the more you move and make the surrounding muscles work – the better your digestion works too. “Our activity is significantly tied to bowel regularity,” Houghton explains, adding that physical activity tends to put our bowels in motion so less physical activity, “tends to slow things down.” Exercise is “a big deal” when it comes to regularity, said Mark Donowitz, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “That’s the biggest change for a lot of people, who normally go to work and do their 10,000 steps or go to the gym — none of that is available.” So if your home work out isn’t providing enough movement then . . . well you might not get a “movement”. Eating in rather than eating out Spending all that time right next to your fridge may not be helping! And while sourdough bread and cinnamon rolls and waffles for breakfast (my personal favourite with papaya and greek yogurt!) might be helping pass the time they might not pass through you very well at all. If your usual routine is a pre work smoothie, a light lunch on the go and a carefully prepared dinner then suddenly coming to a grinding halt in front of your fridge might not be helping. “Most people have figured out what’s good for the bowel habits they want to live with,” said Donowitz, adding that even if you have your perfect “poop diet” down to a science, you might not be able to get all your usual ingredients. “Fresh fruits and vegetables are natural laxatives, plus they have a lot of fibre,” Donowitz continues, “so if people are not eating them, they can certainly become more constipated.” Don’t forget that frozen and canned vegetables work just as well as the fresh kind and adding in some good Spanish lentejas and garbanzos (lentils and chickpeas!) will help too. How big is your glass? As Ina Garten has now infamously said, “during lockdown cocktail hour is any hour!” And while you might have previously limited yourself to a glass of wine at the weekend, with the days blurring into each other then any day is a Friday! “Alcohol in small amounts can speed up motility and cause diarrhoea for some people, while large quantities can cause constipation,” Houghton said. Alcohol can also “be an irritant to the stomach and intestines and may cause pain, bloating and reflux,” she added. So your extra glass may be having an extra effect! Stress Stops And for many of us there is that big, all encompassing word – stress. Stress and anxiety about the global situation. But also about your specific situation – finances, children, parents, access, loneliness and isolation will all be adding to that stress (and its symptoms!). And that constant level of stress can have an effect on your bowels. I always joke that there are two kinds of people in the world – the ones who carry stress in their neck and those that carry it in their stomach! As Houghton explains, “the hormones and neurotransmitters involved with stress can affect the motility of the gut and cause a multitude of symptoms,” including cramps, diarrhoea and constipation. But “It’s not one way or the other — some people have [fewer] bowel movements, some have more,” Donowitz says. “Some people will get more diarrhoea, some people get more constipation.” Steps to take Well the obvious ones are to exercise more, eat more fruit and veggies, drink less and become less stressed! Ha! And to that list I’m going to add winning the lottery and finding a magic genie, because that’s how easy some of those are going to be right now! In practical terms Lisa, our resident Digestive Health Expert has 6 simple ideas: A fibre supplement such as Psyllium Husk or even something as simple as soaking up some Chia Seeds can really help with constipation. And the almighty Magnesium, (this is Lisa’s go to mineral!) this can really help when stress is involved as it helps to relax and “free up” the whole body therefore improving symptoms of digestive stress – constipation and/or diarrhoea. There are lots of types on the market but Magnesium BisGlycinate or Magnesium Malate are Lisa’s recommendations. (send her a quick WhatsApp if you need dosage advice!) Colonic Hydrotherapy can help to “clear the pipes” and reset the whole system leading to better digestive health. It also reduces bloating and improves gut motility (which laxatives do NOT- these destroy bowel tone!). Combine with a coffee enema to improve liver function and promote Glutathione production (a vital antioxident for detox). Lymphatic massage (especially the electro kind!) can help with the gut’s peristalsis movement and also reduces bloating. And if loads more fruit and veg seems a big hill to climb right now, then add some broccoli to one meal 5 days a week – it acts like a cleaning brush to your bowels! If you need more advice then just give us a call on 952 883 151, send us a WhatsApp on 699 703 936 or email us on reception@TheBodyworksClinic.com. Or, if you’re not sure where to start arrange a free 15 minute telephone consultation with our Patient Care Coordinator Emmie.
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Behind the Mask
“The eyes shout what the lips fear to say.”   “Your eyes are a reflection of your spirit.”   “Smile, your eyes sparkle when you do.”   Are these statements really true at the moment? What do we see in the eyes of strangers in the street out for their daily exercise, or in the supermarket? What do we see in the eyes of our friends and family over zoom or facebook live when we have not been able to physically meet up? Is it happiness, fear, anger, stress, sadness, loneliness, or are they worried? Can we tell what they are feeling behind the mask?     Just a few days ago, here in Andalucia we moved on to Phase 1. There are still some regions remaining at Phase 0. Phase 1 means we have a little more freedom. Some people have been able to go back to work with restrictions on their business to allow for social distancing. In addition to being able to drive alone to our nearest supermarket, and walk the dog for between 50-200m max, we were also allowed, as single adults to exercise between 6am -10am and 8pm-11pm. Now this week, we are able to visit those businesses that have been able to re-open, without an appointment. Some businesses are only permitted to have one client in at any one time and must carry out a rigorous hygiene routine after each one. Bars and restaurants are only allowed to serve clients at tables on their outdoor terrace areas. They must have 2 metres between tables and are able to only use up to 50% of the maximum capacity in that area. They have various rules to comply with also. Groups up to a maximum of 10 are able to socialise. Life is very difficult at the moment, but we are safe. I see pictures on social media and in the UK press of crowds of people on the beaches enjoying the sun, with no thought or precaution for social distancing. It is scary!   The Tourism industry here has been one of the hardest hit along with the businesses that rely on tourists. As yet, there are no flights into Malaga for holiday makers. At the moment, people can only travel for essential business and will be under quarantine for 14 days on entry into Spain in any case. The only tourism that is possible is for people within Andalucia to holiday within Andalucia – but even at that, there is no access to common areas such as the gym or swimming pools. This is very tricky, other even if Malaga airport opened tomorrow, the Government advise for some countries is not to travel – some predicting that this could be the case until 2021. The other problem is, that people will be anxious about people coming into the country without having been following the strict guidelines we have here in Spain – how do we know they will not bring a new wave of the pandemic with them! Everything is so uncertain around the world.   As our state of alarm has officially been extended once again until 7th of June, and as our restrictions are “eased” as we hopefully move through the different phases towards “the new normal”, it has just been confirmed that as of today, it is compulsory to wear face masks in public places where social distancing cannot be respected. The new rules apply to everyone over the age of six. The use of face masks is also recommended for children between three and five years of age. Exceptions to this will be people with respiratory problems, or those who cannot wear masks for other health reasons or due to a disability. The order makes exceptions for cases where wearing a mask is incompatible with carrying out activities, due to the nature of the activity. Running falls under this exception. This means that people do not need to wear a mask while going for a jog. A person can be fined between €100 and €600 for minor breaches, and up to €600,000 for very serious offenses regarding all restrictions and rules revolving around the lock down. People here in the main, are respecting the rules due to the severity of the fines.   I do hope this will not become “the new normal” in months to come.     I am getting used to my life in lock down and am thankful for the small relaxations in the rules. I seem to have plenty to do to fill my day, and am more appreciative of everything around me. There are some beautiful sunrises, wild flowers, water cascades. The sea is very peaceful. My dogs love me being at home! In addition to everything that fills my day, I have taken up a challenge of choosing one thing and ensuring I do it every day for 30 days. It can be anything! For me, I chose art. My theme for this year has been all about ME! This is something for me. This is my time to relax and enjoy something that I haven´t done for years. It is my time to disconnect.     If the masks are here to stay, they might as well be functional, pretty and make a statement that your lips cannot say!   If anything I have said here resonates with you, I would welcome your thoughts and comments. We are all in this together!  
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#LivingInLockdown Your Stories - Inez Robinson
Inez lives in the hills above the Costa del Sol on the edge of the campo with her husband and six rescue dogs. She is a nutritionist, a business she runs online from home, and has spent lockdown helping a local charity provide food for families in need and doing the weekly shop for her elderly neighbours. Click on the link below to see a video of Inez’s LifeInLockdown  
Brain Fog - is it a real condition or all in our mind?
Brain Fog – is it real? We all have a bit of fun with our aunts and older sisters, but have you ever wondered if this is a real health condition? It is not mentioned in medical texts books and not really recognized as a condition by many doctors, women often find that they are feeling confused or disorganized, find it hard to focus or forget small things. Occasionally they cannot put your thoughts into words. It may be hormone-related as this is more common at menopause, but there are also other common reasons behind it all. Read more about this article Weight Loss during menopause There is no doubt that menopause is one of the biggest changes a woman’s body undergoes. Apart from the symptoms it brings, body fat, cellulite, and those extra kilos accumulate in areas that we really don´t want it to! it seems to appear very rapidly without us noticing, so what can we do, is it impossible to remove this stubborn excess weight and fat? Read more about this article      Natural Hormone Balance Therapy Women are aware of the dangers of chemical-based hormone replacement therapies. They continue to research for themselves as to what is good and not good for them. Dr. John Lee knew what women needed and so now Natural Hormone Balance cream ProgesterAll is available for women worldwide who seek an alternative treatment without the side effects.   How can ProgesterAll help you? What is Bio-identical cream all about?  What symptoms are associated with hormone imbalance? Could my migraine attacks be hormone-related? Should I take a holistic approach to menopause? Who is Dr. John Lee?  
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Guest Blogger Feature... The Magnificent Elke Ulrike Weigel
  IAM delighted to introduce you all to my Divine friend in todays Guest Blogger Feature… The Magnificent Elke Ulrike Weigel. Elke lives withs her husband in Germany, living each day passionately from the heart, being true to All of herself, Body, Mind & Soul.   Elke has always loved reading fairy tales… happy endings… she now remembers she naturally and warm heartedly brings into being. She allows herself to play quite magically in life, especially in nature who inspires her to paint intuitively the beautiful vibrancy she senses and journals about on her blog.   Elke just loves the thought of her own magical flow watering the seeds of fellow hearts who are all coming into their own blossom time now.   You can sense in her intuitive art how her soul-joy expresses her perception of nature’s beauty and joie de vivre and it is her soul-joy that she offers as inspiration for us all to connect with our own soul-joy.   Elke encourages us to ¨Look at the pictures. Just stay quiet with it. Let them touch your senses. They carry energy and offer it to you: The pictures do not have titles, so you can choose with your pure heart-feeling. What inspires you and your soul-joy? AND this is why you will find in my shop “something beautiful and inspiring for you” ♥Soul Joy Pictures♥     Elke shares her Magical NewEarth Story with YOU…   At some point, around the year 2000, I stood right here, on the blue planet Earth, on my balcony and prayed urgent and wholeheartedly into the starry sky: “Help me that my soul can find its true destiny!”. Since 1992, I went through many intense years of upheaval and excitement, which finally was the beginning of my Awakening and my journey to my “true inner source”.   Today I can trust: I AM human AND divine creator and a very long journey will come to its completeness in this lifetime of mine on the beautiful planet Earth.    It took me many years on this earth to finally let go of the usual “struggle to survive”. It was not always easy, because everything in me called me to fight as soon as a challenge appeared in my everyday life.   But in a time of transition there, I, the HUMAN also then experienced that it got easier with time. A problem occurred, something called me to fight as usual – and I first had to learn to stop, breathe and allow during a “loving pause”: ALLOW.   ALLOW what I was feeling now AND… what I liked to feel.… what I didn’t like to feel at all… what scared me.… what gave me pain.… that I had to be first in my life.… that I couldn’t make a mistake (only experiences)… that I had the decision and responsibility in my life alone.   TO ALLOW myself to sink into my own divine creator hands: With every step on this beautiful earth that I loved so much.   AND I already experienced the first magical sparks during this time of transition. Changes occurred. Problems changed themself or became resolved, or the results unexpectedly changed. It also helped my mental mind to calm down and a source of deep TRUST became available to me.   Magic moments have always been there, but I had forgotten how to perceive them for a while after my childhood. Instead, I marched for a long time with armour and helmet and was prepared to fight. I had become such an experienced combat pioneer! So it took some time for all the armour, helmets, walls and combat tools to be put down: from every part in me, from ALL that I AM.   AND while I walked normally through a daily life with work and family.   So while I have learned many lifetimes to fight and survive in everyday life on the old earth, this is no longer necessary at all on my New Earth!   NOW I AM. I AM HERE – on my New Earth.   The air is pure and clear. The sun is warm and pleasant. It rains when the earth needs rain: Soft, gently and in the right amount. I can visit or feel any climate if I choose it.   The flora is lush and varied and she can feel, what colors, shades and scents would serve me particularly well on every day that I enjoy walking through them, and then it presents itself to me in exactly the same way. She serves me the fruits, roots and berries that are just right today and the tastiest for me. We exchange information harmoniously.   The animal world is diverse and cheerful and lives harmoniously with us humans who have chosen the New Earth. The behavior of feeding on other animals or killing them has meanwhile come to an end in the animal world. Likewise, we humans of the New Earth have let go of feeding on animals. It changed completely natural and without any force.   On some days when I hike through nature, I meet beautiful, trusting, wild animals. We may greet each other quietly and just walk past each other. Another time we sit together in peaceful harmony and exchange ideas without words. Some animals like it to be touched by me, they then signal it – others do not want it. I respect it. Some of them give me their gifts: berries, fruits or eggs for consumption.    We also meet in front of my house – the animals sometimes flock around me when I sit outside and paint rainbow pictures or design something in other ways. They inspire me as I can inspire them.   Where and how I live, I can scoop here very quickly and easily. So I imagined my beautiful house on a gentle, lush green slope with a wide view of a nearby large lake. When I sit on my large, all-round terrace, I can hear the lapping of the waves on the lake in the wind.   If I want to live somewhere else, I can imagine the whole house in a different place, for example by the sea I love so much with a white beach – or create a completely new house. The possibilities are endless – they have always been – but here, on the New Earth, I can consciously design and experience everything in my capacity as a divine person.   It gives me great pleasure to furnish and design the living space for myself, which is why I allowed this creation to grow slower so that I could lend a hand myself. It was possible to have the house built within a day. It is much easier and faster to manifest your own creations than on the old earth. But “slow enough” to savour the experience and be able to observe it well. I made the fabrics and furniture and decoration myself with a lot of love and enjoyment. I love being creative and creating beautiful pieces.   I have brought my love for the rainbow colours and the beauty of nature with me and can live and unfold it all here on the New Earth with incredible beauty and variety. Every day brings me a wealth of opportunities and potential and I love to surprise and expand again and again. My natural creativity can spray here unexpectedly!   I experience and research, and now experience every day and every experience with ALL senses that I AM. These are enormously more senses than I could have ever imagined on the old earth. BEING energy and experiencing consciously how I can design and create and observing it is an immense pleasure for me!   The best thing about it, however, is: I can do all of this completely free of restricting fears, worries and pain! In my past lifetimes I have lived through these difficult experiences and feelings to the point of excess and I AM now completely free to only jump into such experiences if I feel like a bit of life’s thrill.   The New Earth allows everyone who has chosen it to freely shape their experience of the New Earth. This is basically the same on the old earth, but everyone who lives there agreed to forget completely for first, that he is the creator of his own reality. On the New Earth the divine man is aware of it and so there are centres where we can meet and share and exchange our multi-faceted experiences. We also like to celebrate together.   We exchange silently the vibrating energy communication, but if anyone is interested, we use language because it sounds so nice and melodic, enjoying the slower creating of expression. Everyone immerses themselves in each other’s experiences while sharing them and alternatively use them to shape their own world of experience.   We inspire each other with complete acceptance and honour. We also work together and exchange with joy and clarity, things, goods and creations, which everyone can do best and really loves to do.     In these centers, which house a kind of large energetic library, interested people can meet and gather their experiences from the local energy library or arrange joint experiences. If someone chooses to experience worry, fear, or pain, they can do so. In this case, he deliberately delves into this experience, lives through it, emerging from it at any time they want to leave. Nobody gets stuck in painful permanent loops as this is no longer possible on the New Earth.   Nevertheless, every divine person can live through all diverse and deep experiences. (If you are wondering why someone wants to experience pain, fear or worry voluntarily: There are many souls who have never been incarnated in a human body. On the New Earth one can live through all experiences of the human spectrum. It is no longer necessary to immerse yourself in heavy energies with complete forgetfulness.)   Everyone on the New Earth is completely sovereign and lives in his own creation – and yet nobody ever feels alone or lonely (unless he chooses for it himself in the experience centre). Love is unconditional and possessive love no longer exists (unless someone has chosen to experience this for themselves in the experience centre).   I AM ALL THAT I AM: If I want to travel to other wonderful places on Earth, I can get there instantly by mere choice or slower using the gentle means of transportation of the New Earth. The advantage of this is, I am able to walk there in several sections and can gain a lot of intensive experience on the way. AND I, the HUMAN, love to have experiences, and I, the divine SOUL, love to draw wisdom from it.   On my New Earth, I can easily travel to any area that I AM as a multidimensional being. I am now experiencing an extensive, beautiful, multifaceted, lush LIFE that I as a person on the old earth could never have imagined.   In the transition to my New Earth.   It was not ME, the HUMAN, who was responsible for Awakening and Realising, but a natural process unfolded through the WISDOM of my SOUL, who I AM. In this respect, it was not the human and in no way my mental mind that was able to shape and experience my New Earth, it all came from the WISDOM of my SOUL, who I AM. When I look back now, I know that TRUST was essential.   I, the brave, brave, experience-loving HUMAN had “only” the job to ALLOW from a certain point. And as soon as I agreed, it sped up the natural process.   The natural process of Awakening and Realisation is a very personal and individual.   One uses many lifetimes for this – the other opens his eyes in the morning and everything is done.   So it took my own TRUST. TRUST in my own inner magic, my own divine nature and my deep inner feeling. Sometimes it was as if I was blindfolded and groping my way through a forest. Another time, as if I came to a canyon with my eyes open – and something told me: Go on. The path is created when walking. And as I walked, a new bridge was created with every step. Or it turned out that the bridge was there, but invisible to me and I felt it by putting one foot in front of the other.   So NO: There was no instruction manual or visible path of 25 stations that led to my New Earth or would have been visible to me (and certainly not to my mental mind).   I lived an extensive period of transition on the old earth and was able to experience how my New Earth magically unfolded from exactly where I was:   On some days it sparkled and flowed around me – on other days nothing seemed to happen. By the way, that often frustrated my mental mind. He had already had some magical experiences – and had started to get used to it (he used to freak out and wanted to question everything) – and then he tried for a while to repeat it and to call up the events at the push of a button. When that didn’t work, he complied and began to learn again: “The great change” could only happen – by ALLOWING and TRUSTING:   ALLOW my true nature – the divine human. TRUST that everything will unfold for my benefit – no matter how it looked at that moment.   My mind was often able to attend as a guest on the fence and could start to adapt, but it also missed many crucial moments because he was not able to interprete some things. Only when it began to unfold in everyday life he could recognize it. And yes, that needed a lot of TRUST, because the mental mind and the emotions, that he used, caused me a lot of turbulence on some days.   But I had finally accepted that I AM ALL, THAT I AM – and therefore the mental mind (which is rejected in many spiritual teachings) is a valuable tool and changes when it comes into contact with my divine soul wisdom. Through: ALLOWING.   I, the divine HUMAN, walked right through the middle of my well-known, eventful, challenging everyday life, and imagined and wished for what I liked. As a child I was able to play in my own worlds. Now I learned again to use my imagination with all my senses. I also perceived when there were doubts and fears and also allowed them in the inner space that I AM and ALLOWED ALL THAT I AM.   I ALLOWED my divine I AM to fill the room and then I let go so I could sink into his permission. It was like an important everyday exercise for a while: BEING, BREATHING, FEELING and ALLOWING. Accepting anger, fear, worry, judgment and failure was usually not so easy for me. I wanted so much to be and live the free, unencumbered, fear-free, sovereign being that WHAT I AM IN TRUTH and in many moments I could touch it like a facet. But natural development has its very own, timeless pace and moves ALL I WAS into ALL, WHAT I AM.   As children, we loved opening the fresh poppy flower buds and unfolding the crumpled petals. This did not cause the poppy to bloom faster. On the contrary – it often completely destroyed the flower. I got the comforting inner hint that I cannot destroy my own blossoming, even if I still impatiently pluck on my folded leaves. It remains unaffected. My leaves open up through my divine being when the time comes. Point. And then I KNOW. Point.   NOW at the moment, on the old earth, which is undergoing magical change.   The real magic of life itself unfolds beyond my mental mind. And I often experience them as innocent, pure and clear in very simple situations. I like to describe what I perceive as the “joy of my soul”. It cannot be explained and described in any particular way, but can simply be shared via energy. And every divine person chooses whether he wants to be inspired by it.   When I paint my rainbow pictures or meet the flowers and plants and animals in the beautiful nature of our earth or when I am celebrating a “Loving Pause” with myself in my quiet time, the “joy of my soul” and its magic flow is more noticeably for me. I share them with others in the form of my pictures, photos, cards and word creations. I call all my creations  “pictures of soul’s joy”. Cordially♥, Elke Ulrike   Please follow the link to read Elke’s original German version of her story Magical NewEarth.     Elke’s Biography…   IAM Elke Ulrike Weigel, born in 1969, married with no children.   I worked part-time in a bank for over 30 years, but since 2014 I work as a software trainer in adult education that is so much more satisfying than working as a financial advisor.   With the serious illness and subsequent death of my father in 1993, the opening to my Awakening began. After many years immersing myself in various spiritual teachings and following rituals, formulas and rules, (also very helpful) I came to the conclusion that my spirituality is simply completely natural. LIVING that now in everyday life is probably my main task.   Spirit – our divine spark – is contained in everything that exists, which is why our sparkle can also be experienced in very simple everyday situations.   In my blog, I mainly tell stories from my everyday life and my own personal experience. So I can express my emotional levels in words and simply offer them for sharing.   Whenever there is a thunderstorm and the rainbow appears in the sky, I still get ecstatic about it, like as a child: I love the colors of the rainbow, which is why I chose to paint mainly in strong rainbow colors.   When painting, I follow my inner impulses and presumably I like to use the sparkling elements (hologram glitter, gold and crystal stones) because they also find their correspondence in nature: in the sparkle of water drops, in sunlight and in our inner divine spark.   Even as a child, I loved to travel in the forest and meadow “playing as an Native American Indian” – and today I find it easiest to ground myself and relax in the great outdoors.   All my intuitive art invites you to discover how I perceive beauty and joie de vivre in our nature. In the outer nature of Mother Earth and our inner nature. Everything is formed from energy and vibrates: we come into contact. We can touch and inspire. With and without words. Cordially♥, Elke Ulrike   Please follow the link to read Elke’s original German version of her BIO.     Elke’s Creations…   Elke shares her discovery of her beautiful nature with you through her paintings and pause cards… inspiring you to connect and enjoy your own Divine Sparkle within.   Take a look at Elke’s Etsy Shop and be inspired…. ElkeUlrikeRegenbogen   Connect with Elke…   Website: ElkeUlrikeWeigel   Blog: ElkeUlrikeWeigelElke has 4 categories she writes about in German, it’s easy to copy/paste a post into google translate and read about her life in English. Here is a PDF of one of her latest musings I’ve copied for you.   Pinterest:      ElkeUlrikeWeigel   Facebook: ElkeUlrikeWeigel     Magical NewEarth   Do you want to be part of my Guest Blogger Feature…    Throughout May, IAM hosting a Guest Blogger Feature to put YOU and your writing talent in the LIGHT. Not only this, your story Magical NewEarth will be part of a Free E-Book we will be publishing worldwide to inspire mass consciousness who is now Awakening.   I know this is an incredible venture that is deeply impacting the world we live in.   For more information and how to apply, please read my post here.   Call to Action…   I would love you all to share this Guest Blogger Feature on your blog… (Sorry I don’t have a reblog button as I host my own website… but maybe you could write an introduction and link your readers back to this post too?) And remember this writing challenge is open to everyone. Thankyou, together we can support each other and co-create Magical NewEarth.   ©Barbara Franken… Creative Visionary & MasterCreatorInspiring New Energy Consciousness   A paperback and Digital Book is available from all Major online stores… Amazon and Apple   I share my own magical journey, exploring Who I AM with the help of nine Elemental Beings and expand from a world of fear, struggle and limitation into a New Energy Consciousness of love, grace and freedom. It is in this loving space that I discover my Divine and ALL LOVING self and allow myself to integrate together as one Body Consciousness… a DivineHumanBeing… and Magnificent Master Creator who expresses and creates heart and soul passion on the physical plane and beyond. 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My Quarantine Life
So we have been in quarantine for around 2 months (I’ve lost count of the days now).  I thought I’d share what I have been up to.  The first couple of weeks were difficult.  It was just a normal day, we had been to burger king for lunch and then at home we switched on the news and saw that it was happening.  Our first thought was we better get to the shop since we didn’t have anything in.  When we got there it was like an apocalypse!  People frantic trying to grab what they could, I had never seen anything like it! We went straight to the meat section which was totally empty.  The fruit section was hardly anything left, we just got what we could.  We even bought caviar just because there wasn’t much else to buy, we made jokes on how we were the posh quarantine people  Then the first few days was just watching the news, listening to people talk about different conspiracy’s, what the government did wrong and just trying to get used to the new norm! These were the worst days because it was just such a step into the unknown.  How long would it last?  what will happen?  how will we recover from this?  I started to panic thinking our life and the whole world is being controlled by this virus and there is literally nothing we can do but just sit and wait! I had daily panic attacks where I just had to focus on my breathing and take time to myself.  I had spent the last two years working on myself to get to the bottom of my anxiety.  I pushed myself to try things that made me uncomfortable, listening to hypnosis audio, anything and everything I could to beat it.  I celebrated every victory, simple things like taking something back to the shop which usually I would find difficult and avoid.  Basically I would avoid doing a lot of things because I was convinced I just couldn’t do it, things that were normal to everyone else!  Over the last few months I was finally in a good place.  Then with this coronavirus and quarantine I got worried that it would set me back.  What if by the time this was all over I was even worse and couldn’t leave the house.   I had written a book before to talk about all the tricks I had learnt that had helped me.  So I decided to start implementing all those things daily to help me get used to this new norm!  I exercised everyday, only allowed myself to think positive thoughts.  I would listen to my hypnosis audio (they were what I got with the Paul McKenna books I had bought and work really well for me).  I stopped watching the news because I thought we get to hear whats going on from other people anyway so there is no point drowning in it when all it does is make me worry more.   So I got myself in a new routine which having routine is a good thing to have.  I also found an old notebook with another idea I had for a new book.  I thought perfect, now I have something constructive to do.  I actually wrote it in a week thanks to quarantine.  It is all about the things I have learnt over the years about keeping a positive mindset to reach success.  It includes things like gratitude, vision boards, letting go of the past, self-esteem, not worrying what other people think and much more.  All the books I write are very straight talking and straight to the point.   It really gave me my motivation back and inspired me to get back on track with helping others have a positive mindset.  I started making videos again for my YouTube.  I also got back to writing on my other blog which is a beauty blog and I just got a new focus in life rather than just sitting home and waiting for life to get back to normal!   I still occasionally think to myself will we ever get back to normal?  Will we have to get used to talking to others behind a screen of glass.  Can we ever just go for a stroll around the shopping centre or go for dinner as normal?  However, now I choose to just let the thought be and let it go.  Just take one day at a time.  I choose to focus on a positive future.   I hope my quarantine story helped you and I’m going to put links to my social media below, if you do follow/subscribe please leave a comment here so I can return the favour. Although this is just to share my story, if you would like to see more about my book, these are my books available on Amazon, click here  (you can read for free with kindle unlimited). Anyway thanks for reading, here are my links: click for YouTube click for Facebook click for my beauty inspired Instagram click for my main Instagram Remember if you follow/subscribe then leave me a comment here so I can return the favour. I hope you are all staying safe in this difficult time and hopefully there will be light at the end of the tunnel! 
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