How do walk away from chocolate!?

Happy Easter!  

I always think of Easter as a gift. It's permission to take some well-needed and well-earned time out, to step away from the hamster wheels we’ve been running on and do whatever floats our boat. It’s where we get to regroup and recharge our batteries, however, that looks for you. 

Whatever you’re doing, simply enjoy yourself and forget about the Easter eggs, its’ just chocolate after all. It might be in fun shapes and glittery wrappings and boxes, but, it’s still the same chocolate that you can buy any old day of the year.   

Even I find myself looking at the glamorously wrapped offerings on the shelf and feeling the familiar tug of feelings and excitement that yes, Easter is coming;  “I’ve been working hard, a little smackeral of a bunnies ear would be a tasty treat, and don’t I deserve one of those beautiful Easter eggs in boxes?”  

But that is just the pistons of the past firing off and I have to switch gears in my mind and bring conscious awareness back to the supermarket isle I’m standing in. Marketing is playing “go fish” with our brain because they’re interested in the contents of our wallet, whilst we’re interested in our energy and vitality, and that brown stuff just becomes sludge in our system. It messes with our blood sugar, disrupts our brain, and causes a painful cycle of wanting that then becomes an even more painful cycle of sugar addiction that we have to deal with.   

Chocolate is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all year, every year, and fills shelves in almost every shop we walk into. There is literally nothing special about it.  

Break free from the marketing matrix and become a #freedomseeker instead. 

Focus on outside time, having fun, finding connection and laughter.  

Whatever’s happening in your world at the moment isn’t going to be improved by chocolate. But getting outside and experiencing the real sensations and pleasures of life will: 

• Improve your perception 
• Uplift your mood 
• Give your nervous system relief 

If all the cells in your body were solar panels, stepping outside is what makes them all turn and look up and that is where real joy is experienced. 

Life is wonderful, we don’t need to enhance it with “treats”; the sun will always circle the earth, the weather will continue to change, seasons will come and go, flowers will bloom, bees will buzz, butterflies will butterfly and birds will fly high. Life morphs from where we are to where we want to be through consistent small adjustments, repeated every day.  

Step into your Personal Health Leadership™ this weekend, bring your whole self to the supermarkets, and feel the true joy of walking out with what you decided was important to you.  

Happy Easter.