STRESS, AGING and THE POWER TO OVERCOME IT

Since 2008 I have seen some of my customers age almost twice as fast as they once used to. I feel like the population as a whole is getting older faster and more and more people I know of all ages are getting cancer.

The Platinum Lift service at Beauty By Mary Schook as seen in Vogue would work magic and last! The machine still is magical and is in high demand, but for some customers it's A LOT more difficult to achieve an effect than it used to be. It seems the effect of the treatment on both old and new customers with high stress levels may not be as long-lasting causing me to have to really pull out other tricks to get the effect I once did with just the Platinum alone.

I see the same problem with facelifts and eye jobs. They're not lasting on people like they used to in the past (and not because people are less stretched or pulled than before).

The biggest things that have changed since 2008 are stress levels, technology and higher consumption of processed food/lack of nutrients. People are staying up at all hours on facebook, surfing the web or sleeping with their smart phones and mobile devices causing sleep interference. I don't have to tell you what lack of sleep or nutrition does. That's not what this entry is about anyway.

I'm here to point out the power of the mind. We hear that all of the time and usually it sounds so abstract or hokey, but science has actually proven how powerful the mind can be! Science has given this power a name. They call this power a PLACEBO. Yes, I know that is not what placebo means, but that is what I'm calling the successful effects of the mind in these studies. Countless studies done with drug companies alone show that sometimes the mind can be as powerful as the effects of the drug. Have you really ever stopped to think about that?????? Science on a daily basis shows how powerful the mind really is! This means you have the choice and potential to harness the power of your mind and take back your health and your looks!

Cancer survivors that I have spoken to over the last few years say 80% of surviving cancer is a positive mental attitude...another great example of the power of thought.

Over the last few months I have definitely not been getting sleep (trying to juggle several business ventures), but I have been retraining my brain to process and develop more positive thoughts like I did when I was a younger athlete. Instead of thinking about how incredibly hard things are, how businesses keep doing unethical or unproductive things to me in an already brutal economy or focusing on loved ones who have died recently or have cancer, I have now approached every moment and experience as a blessing.

I've always been a deeply spiritual person and have each and every day always been thankful for my life and what I have been able to experience in the short time we have here, but I really haven't looked at EVERYTHING (both good and bad) as a blessing in a long time. I saw experiences as lessons, but never something positive. Changing this thought pattern has really opened things up for my business and my personal life. A lot of that will be revealed soon.

Dr. Emoto of Japan is famous for demonstrating how thoughts can effect physical things like water and more recently rice as the video above demonstrates. I had first discovered Dr. Emoto many years ago when I was first doing research about water and what the different types of water do to the body and our cells.



Today I challenge you to channel all of your thoughts into positive ones no matter what you're experiencing in your life at this very moment. Try it for a week. Something tells me you're going to see some changes.....and if you're a client of mine perhaps I won't have to work as hard to get that lovely face of yours off the ground!

P.S. I begin my day by lying with my eyes open or closed before my feet ever touch the ground being thankful that I have been given the blessing of another day, another opportunity and then declare that it will be an amazing day and amazing things will happen...and they have.