Healthy Boomer Lifestyles

Welcome from Joyce Dillon

Welcome, everyone. I am so excited about starting a blog that celebrates and shares ideas and experiences about how to live an awake, conscious, healthy, and empowered life.

If you’re over 40 this can be the best time of your life! You finally get to live life on your terms…

But many people over 40 are struggling with issues like these:

· Finding a deeper sense of direction or purpose

· Fitness, Aging and health matters

· Relocating to an area to live a simpler lifestyle

· Unhealthy life choices

· Stress, and Insomnia

· Career change, empty-nesting, retirement

· Divorce or unhappy relationships

· Managing aging parents, children or grandparents

· Worry, anxiety and depression

  Financial issues and realities

Are you struggling with any of these issues?  If so, let’s figure out how to change them.

This blog has been created to help boomers get clear, make change, and create the ideal life and lifestyle they have always dreamed about but have yet to attain.

If you want to comment on what I write, you are welcome to do so. I’d love to know what you think, and to have your ideas about what you’d like me to write about.

Until the next time…..

HEALTHY LIVING BOOMER EXPERT TO HOST COSTA RICA RETREAT

Baby Boomers are blowing the lid off the concept of what it’s like to grow old. With so many professional and personal opportunities to explore and expand, Boomer women are reshaping what “middle age” looks and feels like. For many, “50” feels more like the Indy 500. But somewhere, at some point, before they blow an engine, women have to get off the fast track to refuel, refocus, and then get back on course.

Joyce Dillon, R.N., M.N., owner of Healthy Living and Balance and a Boomer expert, is like the “crew captain” who ensures you’re properly tuned up, balanced and fueled to stay ahead of the game.

“Baby Boomer women, in particular, are making major transitions in their careers, relationships, health concerns, and lifestyles – and they have no intention to slow down and grow old. Fifty is the new fifty, so these women keep packing on the responsibilities – and the adventures – with aplomb,” Dillon says. “Yet few have the kinds of support they need to make transitions with clarity and joy rather than stress.”

She offers women that much-needed support and the benefit of her lifelong transformative teaching experience as host of The Awaken to Life Empowerment Retreat, November 7th-November 14th, 2008 at the El Cafetal Inn, in Atenas, Costa Rica.

The package includes all retreat activities, accommodations for seven days and seven nights at El Cafetal Inn, admission to all afternoon activities, all breakfasts and three dinners at El Cafetal Inn, and transportation to and from the airport and retreat activities.

Dillon adds, “Women have claimed a high degree of power and, along with its advantages, we find our days and nights packed with responsibilities. Few women can find the time and privacy to go within and reconnect to what’s truly meaningful for them. The Awaken to Life Empowerment Retreat is designed especially for such women, to help them relax, refocus, rejuvenate and recommit to the incredible life path that is possible for all of us with just a little help,” she says.

Though relaxing, the retreat promises a challenging and supportive program, including structured group activities on clarifying what you want for your life, preparing for the changes you seek, sharing your meaningful life stories, awakening your inner awareness, and creating a blueprint for the next steps in your life.

Retreat participant, Pam Cook, says, “The best part for me was becoming part of a group of women that accepted, listened and supported me to live my authentic life.”

“The advantages of our retreat over a local workshop are immense,” says Dillon, “starting with the essential element of separating from day-to-day responsibilities long enough, and getting the right kinds of support and coaching, to go deeply within, truly relax, and reconnect with what really matters.”

Dillon, a master’s prepared nurse, certified life and wellness coach, and transformative educator, brings twenty-five years of clinical experience and extensive training in mind-body medicine, meditation, energy medicine and transformational work. She dedicates her life to helping individuals and groups live a more empowered, healthy and conscious life. She has worked with individuals and organizations, including such major organizations as Kellogg, Subaru, Protein Technology, and The Carter Presidential Center.

Founded in 1998 by Dillon, the company Healthy Living and Balance: A Center for Conscious Living, offers a full-range of preventive, wellness and life enhancement programs, and courses and private sessions that promote health, healing and inner balance. The Healthy Living and Balance wellness approach is based on holistic, mind-body principles of change that combine the wisdom of ancient traditions with western contemporary medical approaches to address the totality of a person’s body, mind and spirit. For more information about The Awaken to Life Empowerment Retreat, visit: www.lifeempowermentretreats.com or call Joyce Dillon, 404-881-1322.

For more information about the company, visit: www.healthylivingandbalance.com.

You CAN Get What You Want! Using Your Intentions to Create Your Life

Think, for a moment, how you feel when a desire of yours unexpectedly comes true, when something you wished for appears out of nowhere: a call from an old friend just when you needed to hear a kind voice, a new relationship appears in your life or you find the perfect home for which you have been searching.

It is as though the universe heard your heart's desire and responded to your need. This IS exactly what has happened, and if you become aware of how it happens, you can learn to create your own destiny.

We may believe that we have to work hard to make our dreams come true, when in fact most of the work we do is actually preventing our dreams from coming true.

Do you often wonder why your dreams or intentions are not being manifested? Do you believe intentions work for other people but not you?

If you have had difficulty manifesting what you want in some areas of your life - relationships, health or financial - the first step is to take an honest look at your beliefs and how they are impacting your life.

You need to think in a clear, unobstructed, conscious manner about your thoughts.

First, you have to eliminate patterns of thinking that obstruct the universe's ability to carry out your intentions, or dreams. Often, we have hidden, unconscious beliefs that are in conflict with what we are trying to manifest such as, "I don't deserve"; "I'm alone in the universe"; "I'm not good enough." These are often not conscious patterns and beliefs, but they can and do control your life.

Here is how you can begin to change the way you think about creating the life you truly want! Let's look at the process closely to gain clarity about the mechanics of intention, which is the most important step.

1.     Sit quietly and relax your body until you feel calm inside.

2.     Think of the outcome you want - be specific and definite. Express yourself verbally. Framing an intention with words is the first step in making it come true. Whenever a word is backed up by intention, it enters the field of awareness as a message or a request.

3.     Don't get bogged down in the details of how the end result will be achieved.

4.     Expect and believe in the outcome. Know that it will happen.

5.     Let go of the desire to control the results. It may not happen immediately.

Remember, the feedback produced from an intention is capable of manifesting in unexpected ways; it will not always come back to you in the way you want it to. Become aware of subtle results and messages that do not fit your pre-existing goals or judgments.

I have found this process to work for me in fun, miraculously unexpected ways that I could never have created by myself. When I truly let go, that is when the universe starts creating miracles. It is a marvelous universe!

If you are ready to work on creating your destiny, click here.