Optimum Health

Affirmations:

Everyday in everyway I am happier and healthier.

Every little cell in my body is happy; every little cell in my body is whole.

Life is good and getting better.

I love my body and it loves me and supports me in doing what I love.

Optimum Health at Every Age

While here in Hawaii, we review how best to maintain optimum health.

Over the years, we have experimented with a number of diets and lifestyles.

Robert, my life partner and husband of thirty-one years, is a naturopath.

We have studied, taught and practiced many different holistic health practices and paths.

We have maintained a vegetarian diet, mostly vegan the last few years.

We have explored different exercise programs and ways and times of eating.

Macrobiotics, sugar free, glucose free, and for 15 years before Robert, only brown rice and veggies.

Today we continue to explore and adapt to our own unique metabolism and energy usage.

The foods we eat often depend on where we live and find good quality fresh produce.

What we discover is that our bodies’ needs change over time with schedule and stress.

Recently we have tried raw food diet, blood type diet, and just added eggs and some dairy.

Consumption of calories also changes with different foods eaten and exercise changes.

It is always best to pay attention to what your body asks for to be most energized and healthy.

Our usual schedule for good energy.

At home we usually wake up at 5:30AM, breakfast at 7:30 AM with brown rice cereal and some eggs.

Lunch at 12:30, 20-30 minute power nap and dinner between 6-7 with bedtime at 10 PM or so.

Robert exercises on a stationery bike and I will be adding walking and Tai Chi daily.

I work in the office with clients 8-12 and 3-7PM usually. 

The rest of my time is spent phone coaching, writing Loving Reminders, responding to email requests and office work, plus simply enjoying the life I have.

I use my time with focus on learning and teaching, giving and receiving all I have in service.

Everything is quality time serving each one and everyone, including myself.

Hawaii Time

While here in Hawaii on sabbatical, our schedule is similar with writing Loving Reminders and correspondence 6-7, walking and water exercise from 7:30-8:45, Breakfast of fruit and yogurt.  Lunch is brown rice and organic veggies and beans. Power nap mid afternoon. Another 45 minutes water exercise and then dinner a fresh organic salad.

We spend time inner listening, visioning what the next year is calling for, planning the schedule and preparing the next steps.

There is plenty of quiet time and opportunity to tune in.

Summer Time

We have the grandkids as much as possible throughout the summer.

It is our joy to offer them time in nature, horseback riding and local ranch work daily,

They love mornings at the Owens ranch and afternoons swimming, plus free creative time with us. Lots of games and crafts and reading.

Dan McDonald is a favorite online presenter and raw foods teacher with lots of practical recipes and lifestyle experimenting. 

Here is his simple recipe for health, happiness and energy.

Oxygen is the number one nutrient for health and the key to health, happiness and energy.

Keep your circulation good with fresh fruits and fruit juices, pure water and sunlight on the skin.

Get vigorous exercise in the freshest air you can find. Walking is the king exercise. 

Focus on saturating your body and mind with oxygen and your health and outlook on life will improve dramatically.

Life Saving Recipes

http://www.regenerateyourlife.org

I love us all to be healthy and happy.

We spread goodness and joy everywhere we are.

Loving you in loving you well.

Betty Lue

KEYS TO HEALTH & VITALITY




NUTRITION

Ingest the best and forget the rest.  Take into your body, mind and spirit only that which supports, sustains and inspires the BEST in you.

MOVEMENT

Life is flow. To move with the flow is healthy. To resist is stressful. Move with the natural inner movement physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, etc.

BREATH

To breathe in (inhale) fully life energy, Spirit, Prana, inspiration, is to expand our awareness to open to an enlightened mind.  To exhale fully is to truly release what is no longer needed.

TOUCH

Reaching out with Love and respect for each other opens our bodies and beings to trust in the gentleness we all deserve to experience.

THOUGHT

Choose for those thoughts which heal and free you to be unlimited in health and wholeness. Forgive (erase) the beliefs which are limiting or false.

ATTITUDE

Carry with you an attitude of gratitude and love for yourself and others.  Allow yourself to see all things work together for good.

BALANCE

Moderation in all things will bring your life into harmony.  As we give ourselves what is really best for us, the extremes are gently released.

HEALTH

What you perceive in others and the world you strengthen in your Self.  Focus on illness, disease and weakness and you actually weaken yourself.  See only health and wholeness and you move yourself in the direction you are looking.

PURITY

To clear out toxins and purify the system requires a willingness to eliminate toxic thoughts, activities, relationships as well as foods from your system.  Flushing the system clean is aided with water, fresh air, gentle movement and forgiveness.

REST

To rest and relax your mind and body are invaluable to being refreshed and revitalized. Each person has unique methods of relaxation - meditation, music, being in nature, focused simple activity.

Love Without Attachment

Affirmations:

I let go with love and set myself free.

I allow others to be and do as they please.

I trust that we all are learning from our own life choices.

I mind my own business and choose what is best for me.

Love Without Attachment

Love is letting go.

Love is setting free.

Love is allowing what is to actually be.

Love is releasing our neediness, demands and restrictions.

Learned ways of loving come from what most parents practice and children learn.

When we get feel pressured to “Do it my way”, we are attached to how things should be.

When we think love is ownership and possession, we believe we owe the beloved our allegiance.

When we try to get people to give love the way we want love to be, we will be confused.

Love is the natural low of energy that allows things to be as they are.

I have often said, “I only want people to do and be what they want to be and do.”

When folks are trying to live up to others’ expectations, they often don’t succeed.

It may make people angry or sad trying to gain other’s approval by being what is wanted.

Consider that Unconditional Love is letting go of neediness and attachment.

Consider when we want to be together we are loving and when we want not to be we are loving.

Love can be the action of detachment..

Love can be what gives space and allows others to simple be.

Yes, of course there are rules of loving taught by family systems and our religious beliefs.

There are rules of conduct to maintain honesty and respect, responsibility and cooperation.

When one follows the rules, we often feel open, honest, confident, and trusting.

Consider creating rules that you prefer and inviting those you love to share their own.

Do you love with or without conditions?

Do you expect people to be and do as you wish?

Do you trust people are always doing what they really want?

Do you want the same for yourself?

Treat others as you want to be treated.

Love others as you want to be loved.

Respect others choices and changes as you respect your own.

Agree to what is highest and best for both parties.

When we are choosing what is highest and best for both, everyone is at peace.

When we are asking others to choose what we want, we may be causing resentment

When we are demanding that others follow our rules, we may set them up to lie or cheat.

When we invite others to express their own preferences, we are creating an environment of mutual respect.

I love you and trust you to do what is right and true for you.

I want you to create your life to work for you without causing limitation to either us.

 I want you to be and do as you choose to follow your own path and live your own purpose.

I  free you to fully actualize your life learning and free myself as well.

Do the Process  Getting Free by Setting Free.( below)

Read Love is Letting Go of Fear by Jerry Jampolsky.

Learn the joy of Loving No Matter What. (below)

I am loving you,

Betty Lue

Getting Free 
(By Setting Others Free)

It is not unusual for us human beings to secretly wish and hope that the people we’re close to don’t become too magnificent. We don’t really want these significant others to be too free or too powerful or too creative or too successful or to dream too wild a dream. We actually prefer that they stay small, “manageable”, non-threatening, tame. After all, we don’t want to be made to feel uncomfortable or inadequate or diminished or challenged by the boldness and joyfulness with which someone else lives his or her life.


But, until we are willing and actively desire that the key people in our lives be totally free and powerful, we cannot be free and powerful ourselves. So, here is an affirmation-prayer that may help us begin freeing others, so that we can begin to free ourselves.
 


I, _____(your name)_____ want you, _____(his or her name)_____, to be the highest, clearest, most powerful expression of God that you can be. I would not limit you in any way, knowing that only as I encourage you to expand, explore and grow, can I myself be free. So I fully support you in being and expressing all that you are.


I want you to go where you feel called to go, to speak and act as you feel guided, and to express yourself in whatever ways seem right. There is nothing I do not want you to do, for I know that all movement is contained within God and always leads us to Him.


I am at peace with whatever decisions and choices you make, no matter how they may seem to affect me. Since I know that God loves and supports me perfectly, I know that however you choose to be with me must be a manifestation of that divine love and support. Because I trust God, I trust you. And because I trust you, I trust myself.


So, be free, be powerful, be unlimited. And know that I, _________, want you, _________, to be the highest, clearest, most powerful expression of God that you can be. I fully support you in being all that you are.



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Love……No Matter What 


Our personality EGO gives love to “get” love.

Our Essential Spirit gives Love for the sake of Loving.

Love is our natural state.

Love is the way we live with forgiveness and faith.

When we are self-forgiving, the love within us is apparent. 
When we love ourselves, the wellspring of love is overflowing.

When we allow ourselves to be the Love we are, we naturally extend Loving kindness to all.

When we are innocent and unconditional in our loving, we seek nothing in return.


Love flows when we are not blocked or withholding.


Love goes wherever there is a lack of love. Love seeks to express itself with our thoughts, words and deeds.


Where there is lack of self-love, there may be grief and depression, guilt and fear, regret and shame.

Where there is lack of forgiveness, there may be anger and resentment, blame and demands.

 When there is lack there may be neediness, dependency and attachment to getting Love and approval.

 We may need to heal hurtful thoughts, words and deeds as well as past history.


True forgiveness heals. 
Forgiveness is an eraser filled with love.

 Forgiveness seeks to clear the past and present misperceptions.

Forgiveness opens the way to see all things differently with new perspectives.

As we heal from within, our reservoir of love is filled. 
As we heal our minds, we see the love and call for love everywhere.

As we heal our emotions, we feel the abundant joy of love within us.

As we heal our bodies, we are filled with the power and peace of Love in all we are and do.

There is no lack when we allow love to flow without blocks or withholds.

There is only abundant good that comes from sharing our Love with others.

There is no forcing or insistence, no need or expectation.

We flow Love naturally.

Love is our natural state, given with the innocence of a child, filled with joy and delight.

Betty Lue

Inspirational Time on Sabbatical

Affirmations:  (* Create your own affirmation to remind you of what you want to be.)

I live in love as a Loving Reminder for the purpose of inspiring Love.

I balance my life with inner inspiration and outer service.

Life works with giving and receiving from all that is given.

Love and Joy and Peace are my natural state.

On Inspirational and Creative Sabbatical!

Robert and I are on Sabbatical until May 18th,  Robert’s birthday.

We travel to the Big Island, Hawaii (our home away from home) once a year for retreat and renewal.

We usually begin with a group retreat; This year we focused on Creating Inspired Living.

It is our time to envision what are the highest and best way to spend our time and energy.

With three Reunion Holistic Centers in Brentwood, Pleasant Hill and Middletown plus many clients, groups and projects, we use a getaway to have an expanded overview for what works for the Greater Good.

I am editing two books: Family Reminders and Healthy Reminders and writing the daily Loving Reminders. I continue to be inspired to receive the reminders emailed daily to thousands of folks for the last 18 years.

Life works on the inner with meditation and reflection, daily reception of inner guidance and sharing.

Life works when Robert and I work and play as a team creating partnerships with those we encounter.

Our inner contentment comes from respect and appreciation for everyone to inspire happiness in others.

We are blessed with being aware of the beauty and goodness in all situations and encounters.

Observing with an open mind expands our vision.

Relating with a responsive heart creates connection.

Enjoying the beauty of the earth gives us a secure foundation.

Our awareness that “serving one is serving all” gives us true prosperity.

Our everyday life is always balanced with inner and outer, yin and yang, experiences.

Whether in our home, workplace or travelling in temporary lodging, we are aware of our journey.

The meaning of life is ever present in the people we see, the activities we do and the stories we hear.

What we think and say and do is always relating and creating the best we know to be given and received.

Life is a journey of trust and freedom, what we call Universal Love.

It is with Peace of mind and Love in our heart that we can see the Good.

Everywhere we go, we serve, as we forgive the errors in our mind.

Whatever we do, we come to serve all and remember the Good within all Things.

We are here as teachers and learners, learning from everything and teaching what is beneficial to all.

We are here to create from the inner vision, principled guidelines and truth we are shown.

We are here to share teach, learn and practice what we need to remember.

We are here to realize it is within all of us to awaken to be as we are created to be.

When we remember to live in this awakening consciousness, we will all be whole, happy and free.

Let us mindfully awaken to ourselves and the love within us, as we sing others to their awakening self.

Life is this glorious opportunity to awaken together in love with peace and joy and gratitude in our lives.

Loving you with these loving reminders.

Betty Lue

Ten Keys to a Good Life:

Be Responsible for the entirety of your life.

Be Open to learn from everything and everyone.

Be Forgiving of all mistakes, yours and others.

Be Truly helpful by thinking, speaking and giving your best.

Be Impeccable in caring for your body, relationships, home, work, finances.

Be Willing to live with moderation in all things.

Be Aware of the Gift of Love and the Call for Love.

Be Exact with your thoughts and words; they create your life.

Be Hard-working with wisdom, gratitude and joy.

Be Good.  See Good. Think Good. Speak Good. Give Good.

It Is An Honor!

Affirmations:

I am privileged  to love the children in my life.

I offer the best I have with clean thoughts, inspiring words and respectful behavior.

I  model the behavior I want to teach.

I share and tell, teach and learn, give and receive those in my live.

It is an honor to nurture a child.

It is a privilege to raise a child.

It is a gift to celebrate each birthday.

It is a blessing to be responsible for their learning.

It would be so wonderful if every parent were awake and aware.

It would be so helpful if we all would be able to respond with Love.

It would change our world if all nurturers and nourishers were willing.

We all are partners in raising the future generation.

Every teacher, parent, grandparent, coach, mentor, healer, counselor and neighbors is able.

When we have the privilege of encountering any child along life’s way, we are responsible.

Each encounter can be a blessing or a curse, filled with appreciation or condemnation.

When even one person offers unconditional love, the child is remembering their own life purpose.

We teach by example, showing the way of peace and harmony.

We demonstrate by living a meaningful and purposeful life.

We show each child how to be happy and healthy and successful.

We model forgiveness and unconditional love with every act of kindness.

Children are learning from the news they see and the information they hear.

Children are receiving the programming for their lives from the media they watch.

Children are imprinted in how they see and feel about themselves from how they are treated.

Children receive our thoughts and words and interactions simply by being present.

Everything is written on the open tablet of their mind and heart.

Let us respect their innocence and beauty by giving only our best.

Let us clean up our own archived material with conscious respect for their impressionable minds.

Let us undo what we want to no longer be carried on generation to generation.

Stop the complaining about kids and take responsibility.

Stop the negative words and hurtful behavior.

Stop feeding unhealthy food and unhealthy media.

Stop distorting the truth with prejudice and hateful words.

Our children deserve to receive the very best from all of us.

They need us to clean up our inner and ourter environment.

Kids need to feel safe and secure, loved and cherished.

We, all of us, are responsible for all children everywhere.

We can give them good food, clothing and shoes.

WE can give them good health and good education.

We can teach them they are loveable and capable.

We can show them how to achieve, contribute and serve.

No matter who we are, we have the opportunity to help all children succeed.

Inspire them, teach them, encourage them, provide them with what they need.

Give each and every child the best we have as a family, a culture, a society.

It is a privilege and honor to nurture and nourish every child with our best.

It take all of us to build a new strong, creative and confident generation.

Let us join together for the good of us now and in the future.

Loving us all for our willingness to be and give our very best.

Betty Lue

The child is thinking, and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child, from parent to child, from parent to child. The child is vibrationally receiving your fears, your beliefs, even without your spoken word... If you want to do that which is of greatest value for your child, give thought only to that which you want, and your child will receive only those wanted thoughts.

---Abraham

Love Anyway!

Affirmations:

I am loving you in everyway I know will be good for us all.

I receive the love I freely give.

The more I give, the more I have to give.

I choose no complaining and appreciate all I have.

Are You Disappointed?

You didn’t get what you wanted?

No one noticed how much you do?

They seem to take advantage of you?

You feel overlooked and neglected?

If this sounds like complaining, it is.

If you feel exhausted and drained, you are.

If you want to be noticed and valued, then pay attention to you.

Life is a feedback system that shows us what is missing in our lives.

When we deny ourselves anything, we teach others to deny us too.

When we always give, we teach others to expect what we have always given.

When we neglect to show, tell and enjoy what is given, we will be given less.

Children and immature adults do not know how to value, share love or appreciate.

Everyone needs to be carefully and consciously taught.

We too need to learn to balance giving and receiving.

We must validate and appreciate what we want to encourage.

We must not negate or diminish the attempts by others to love and give to us.

In a world with so much to get, there is a lack of knowing how to truly give.

When we have what seems like insatiable desires, it may feel like we never get enough.

When we think of love as getting our needs and wants me, we forget the real value of loving.

When we are busy comparing what we give and what we get, it may never be enough for us.

Love is not measureable or comparable.

Gifts are just things and words are just words unless we mean them.

Spending time, responding with appreciation, seeing the good, respecting what they do.

The ways we love one another often are invisible and go unnoticed.

How we fold their clothes, cook their eggs, clean up the bathroom are all ways we love.

When we turn off our phone and listen, when we scratch their back, stay within a budget.

When we thank them for bringing home money or snuggle at night or simply be present.

When we smile at their home-coming, laugh at their jokes and say “I simply love you.”.

When we say “Yes” to requests, watch the game with them, these are all acts of love.

So many more simple gestures of love are really important.

Often men and children need to know specifically what we want to be able to please us.

Often people need to be given appreciation for all they do to be helpful and kind

We may assume our loved ones are aware and know how to care.

We may intuitively know what is important, but often we are only pleasing ourselves.

We may assume the other know how to love and care for us, but we have not shared.

We may be so picky, we may unconsciously teach others to not even try.

We may be so needy that others feel drained by our complaining.

Perhaps this is your wakeup call to look what you communicate and how you give.

Perhaps it is time to learn to really love yourself and learn to appreciate what you have.

Perhaps we can all learn it is in giving with generosity and joy that we receive joy.

Perhaps you are the One within your family and friends sent to give all to all.

Learn to love anyway.

It is in giving that you fully receive the gratitude of Love.

Loving you with Joy and always having more to Give.

Betty Lue

Do It Anyway

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.  

Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.  

Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies.  Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you.  

Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy it all overnight.  

Build anyway.  

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous.  

Be happy anyway.  

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow.  

Do good anyway.  

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough.  

Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.  

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God.  

It was never between you and them anyway.

Love No Matter What!

Affirmations:

I am always loved, whether I know it or not.

I am Love Itself.

I share Love easily and naturally.

Love is the Way, the Truth and the Life.

Unconditional Love Prevails

There is no greater gift than to know Unconditional Love.

There is no greater experience than to be loved without conditions.

To know how to love even One forever and always is a profound  healing and awakening experience.

To open one’s heart to love everyone is the Eternal Bliss of Freedom and Trust, True Enlightenment

Love feels.

Love heals.

Love reveals.

Love is Real.

Sometimes we cry with Love.

At times we sigh with Love.

Often times we smile with Love.

And perhaps we die with Love.

 

Love never ends.

So no matter what, we continue loving.

We give all we have and more is given.

We share what we know and more is known.

When we get stuck with judgment.

When we fear being rejected,

When we feel guilt or regret,

We can always return to love.

Love never leaves us.

It waits for us to return.

Love never deceives us.

Forgiveness looks deeper.

Love is the answer to every prayer.

Love is the song we sing when we dare.

Love is the gift that is received in the giving.

Love is the way we know abundant living.

Whether we know it or not, love hits the spot.

When upset, angry or filled with regret, return to Love.

When we allow love to be blocked, we easily find the key.

Forgive ourselves for withholding our natural state of Love.

Love is the answer when caught in doubt.

Love is the power, when lost in helplessness.

Love is the healing, when we feel hopeless.

Love is the light when we are hiding it the dark.

 When we answer with Love, we release all fear.

When we listen to Love, we find the way.

When we remember to Love, we return to wholeness.

When we seek only Love, we see the Light.

Love, only Love and you will know You Are only Love.

Loving you with all my heart and soul.

I am here to always remember to Love.

Betty Lue

Happy Mother’s Day to us all.

Without our mother, we would not be here.

Remember :

True Love needs not to be recognized, acknowledged or appreciated.

It is received in the heart of all beings, whether the personality knows it or not.

Give only Love to all those, in body or not, present or far away, open or closed.

This Love will heal and bless you both.

I am loving us all.  

It is love that prevails in all things, large and small.

Above all, let us simply remember to love.

Betty Lue