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Welcomes you to our annual Heart to Heart Luncheon

Welcomes you to our annual Heart to Heart Luncheon. The Importance of Loving Yourself. Dr. Michael Amster, Medical Director, Center for Pain Mangement, A NorthBay Affiliate. ♥ What is love? ♥. I've been looking for a long, long time,

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Welcomes you to our annual Heart to Heart Luncheon

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  1. Welcomes you to our annual Heart to Heart Luncheon

  2. The Importance of Loving Yourself Dr. Michael Amster, Medical Director, Center for Pain Mangement, A NorthBay Affiliate

  3. ♥ What is love? ♥ I've been looking for a long, long time, for this thing called love,I’ve ridden comets across the sky,and I’ve looked below and above.Then one day I looked inside myself,and this is what I found,A golden sun residing there,beaming forth God’s light and sound. ~Rumi ♥

  4. Why is self love important for our health? • Decreases rates of disease and deaths from all stress related conditions including • Heart disease • Vascular disease • Hypertension • Diabetes • Cancers • Depression, anxiety and mental illnesses.

  5. Brilliant Health / Happy Heart Program • “Happy Heart” program at Mayo Clinic for patients after a heart attack • Applying 9 Brilliant Health (BH) priniciples with cardiac rehabilitation. • BH Patients recovered faster and stayed healthier. • BH Patients had a happier attitude, were more motivated to adopt healthy choices and took accountability for their health.

  6. What is Brilliant Health?

  7. 7 Steps of Self Love • Setting an Intention for Love • Owning your life - taking responsibility • Nurturing your body and mind • Identify and make central the things you love • Cultivate Generosity • Cultivate Gratitude • Connecting with Spirit

  8. 7 Steps of Self Love • Setting an Intention for Love • Owning your life- taking responsibility • Nurturing your body and mind • Identify and make central the things you love • Cultivate Generosity • Cultivate Gratitude • Connecting with Spirit

  9. Setting an Intention for Love • Intention is your choice to be fully aware of what drives you in any situation. • What is your attitude and the way you look at things? • Ask yourself in any situation, What is your intention? • Setting an intention for self love is the first step for living in self love. • Intention setting is important because it changes the patihways of your brain

  10. Attitude The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on my life.

  11. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think or say or do. 

  12. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

  13. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

  14. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me, and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you...

  15. 7 Steps of Self Love • Setting an Intention for Love • Owning your life- taking responsibility • Nurturing your body and mind • Identify and make central the things you love • Cultivate Generosity • Cultivate Gratitude • Connecting with Spirit

  16. Owning Yourself • Taking responsibility for your actions and your thoughts • Letting go of the victim attitude. • Forgiving yourself and Re Do yourself • Owning that you won’t love everything about ourselves • Learning to Trust Yourself –integrating your heart, mind and gut. “Take your life into your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.” Erica Jong

  17. 7 Steps of Self Love • Setting an Intention for Love • Owning your life- taking responsibility • Nurturing your body and mind • Identify and make central the things you love • Cultivate Generosity • Cultivate Gratitude • Connecting with Spirit

  18. Nurturing your Mind and Body • Give yourself healthy fuel - eating green foods and avoiding processed foods • Exercise your body- yoga, qi gong, walking, sports, gym activities • Develop a meditation practice, as simple as being aware of your breath.

  19. 7 Steps of Self Love • Setting an Intention for Love • Owning your life- taking responsibility • Nurturing your body and mind • Identify and make central the things you love • Cultivate Generosity • Cultivate Gratitude • Connecting with Spirit

  20. Identify and make central the things you love • Take time to discover what brings you self love in your life and make it central. • Do and be the things you love. • How can you cultivate and create self love in your life? “Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” ~ Henry David Thoreau “Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.” ~ Paul Hawken

  21. 7 Steps of Self Love • Setting an Intention for Love • Owning your life- taking responsibility • Nurturing your body and mind • Identify and make central the things you love • Cultivate Generosity • Cultivate Gratitude • Connecting with Spirit

  22. Cultivate Generosity • The practice of giving is universally recognized as one of the most basic human virtues, a quality that testifies to the depth of one's humanity • Giving to ourselves and others is wonderful way to cultivate self love? • What is your intention and motivation for giving? • How does it feel? Think about the times you have given and the times you have been given to.

  23. 7 Steps of Self Love • Setting an Intention for Love • Owning your life- taking responsibility • Nurturing your body and mind • Identify and make central the things you love • Cultivate Generosity • Cultivate Gratitude • Connecting with Spirit

  24. Cultivate Gratitude • Appreciation is healthy for the cardiovascular system and central nervous system. • Appreciating yourself • Expressing appreciation for others “The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.” ~ The Dalai Lama

  25. 7 Steps of Self Love • Setting an Intention for Love • Owning your life- taking responsibility • Nurturing your body and mind • Identify and make central the things you love • Cultivate Generosity • Cultivate Gratitude • Connecting with Spirit

  26. Connecting with Spirit You are much more than a body, feelings, and thought. You are much more the sum of your experiences. When your heart is open to spirit, love flows through you, and as it does, it becomes infused with your myriad, unique colors, textures, flavors, and aromas. You are a brilliant beacon of the Creator’s divine love. You are soul. Shine on!

  27. Commit to Yourself in Love • Being in a state of self love is a learned behavior. • You have to choose self love, it doesn’t come without intending and choosing it. • Begin anew each day, See every moment as a new opportunity. • Be kind to yourself: Let go of expectations. Let go of Blame and Praise. • Start by trying one self love act everyday! Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.” ~ Lao Tzu

  28. Questions? This is no journey’s end. Love is all there is. NorthBay.org

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