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Truth about Abs Videos are finally here!

As you probably already know, The Truth about Six Pack Abs has been the best-selling online abs program for over 3 years now.  You might even have a copy of the main program.

But everybody has been asking for VIDEO versions of all of the unique exercises and workouts to go along with the manuals.

Well, they are finally here!

Mike worked directly with Dr. Samhouri, an expert Doctor of Physical Therapy, to go through all of the TAA exercises, workouts, warmups, specialty exercises, etc for you on video.

This is like having your own Personal Trainer and Physical Therapist right on your computer (or your iPod too!) showing you perfect form on every exercise, tricks to maximize results with each exercise, how to prevent injury, and TONS more.

To celebrate the launch of this new Truth About Abs Video program, Mike and Dr. Samhouri have decided to give you access this entire VIP Video program for 70%-off until this Saturday March 13th.

Make sure to grab this now!

Healthy Drinks: What are the Healthiest Drink Choices?

Drink to Your Health

When we create a weight loss plan, we always account for the food that we eat. What about what you drink? Choices here are just as important as eating.

If you look on the back of a soda can or a bottle you’d be astounded at the amount of calories in one glass of soda. And, when buying those value size 20-ounce bottles, you probably didn’t notice that each one contains two and a half servings. So when you drink the entire bottle, you are taking in almost triple the amount of calories.

Here are some alternatives that won’t be adding hundreds of extra calories to your healthy eating plan each day. You are probably familiar with all of them. Maybe it’s time to get reacquainted.

Water is the healthiest drink you can have. It contains no calories. Some people say that it has no flavor, but depending on your region or what type of water you have, some people like the taste of some water over others. Bottle, tap, well or carbonated, water is still good for you.

If you can’t drink it straight, spruce it up with a flavor packet. Just about every juice company has created drink crystals that can be added to water bottles for the same great taste as soda or juice but without the added calories.

Milk contains calcium and vitamins A and D. Calcium is needed for strong bones and teeth. Milk is also filling to the body, especially when you drink it warm. You can buy low-fat chocolate milk if you prefer that taste. All milk contains these healthy vitamins and minerals but low-fat or skim is better as far as fat and calories go. For those who are lactose intolerant, try soy varieties.

Tea, especially green tea, has been praised for its antioxidant properties. Antioxidants fight the free radical damage inside the body. Herbal teas contain ingredients that work to ease stomach pain, cramps, headaches, nausea and help calm you after a hard day. As long as you use a sugar substitute or very little sugar, the caloric damage is next to nil. Choose hot or iced teas depending on what strikes your fancy.

Juice has both good and bad points. Vegetable juices such as V-8 usually have no artificial ingredients. It can lack sweetness but you can overcome that by juicing your own vegetables to capture more of the natural sugars.

With fruit juices, the calorie count can be high. If you choose 100 percent juice and limit your intake to one cup, you will reap the vitamin benefits of the fruit.

What you drink is just as important as what you eat. Choose healthier drinks so that the majority of your calories are coming from food.

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Easy Ways to Get Some Mind Rest

Have you ever tried to go to sleep but your mind is racing a mile a minute?

Sometimes when we just want the mind to rest, it won’t listen. Here are a few ways that you can silence the noise and learn how to give your mind a rest.

First, try to reduce your multitasking. Everyone today tends towards multitasking to make all of their activities fit into one 24-hour day. If you can’t think about five different things at one time, you are in the minority.

You may get a lot done, but there is a price. When you try to find the calm after the storm, it isn’t there. One of the main reasons is that we don’t let our bodies stop at the same time. The mind and body are connected. It is hard to keep the mind at bay when the body is still moving.

To that end, the first way to help your mind to rest is to stop moving your body. Find a quiet place in your home or another location where you can be alone (sans kids and hubby). In this space, refuse to lift a finger unless it is lowering yourself on the bed or a bench.

Try a few breathing exercises. Yoga is great for teaching you how to listen to the sing-song rhythm of your breathing. You probably didn’t notice that you were breathing shallow and fast. Now, you can slow it down and go deeper to bring more oxygen in your lungs. Increased oxygen levels also increases mental clarity and focus.

Thirdly, try to get rid of distractions. No one likes to think of their family as a distraction, but when you need to center yourself, anyone or anything that vies for your attention is just that. Turn off your cellular phone, your PDA and your pager. Let the only noises you hear be the natural sounds around you. Besides, with these devices close at hand, your body remains tense waiting for them to buzz.

Find something to occupy your time that is not related to work or problem solving. Often we are thinking of ways to fix or change something. Try reading a favorite book, fishing, watching the ducks in the park or simply staring up at the clouds. By changing your focus, your mind gets a chance to rest from its labors and concentrate on something that is not stressful.

One device that you can have is a music player of some kind. Music usually conjures up memories of less stressful times. It also calms the savage mind. Let the dulcet tones lull your mind into a deeper consciousness.

You might also like this free meditation course from Secrets of Meditation creator Matt Clarkson: Click here now to enroll for free.

Interval Training Benefits

Are you looking for a new idea when it comes to changing your workout? Maybe you have hit a plateau and don’t know what to do. Interval training is one way that some are making great strides in their fitness program.

What is interval training? In a nutshell, it is using both high intensity and low intensity components to create a complete exercise program.

This is how it works. Let’s say that you are at the gym and you want start interval training. The program will begin with a warm-up. A warm-up is important for all types of exercise programs. It gives your muscles and your cardiovascular system a heads up to say, “I am about to exercise this body.”

After a three to five minute warm-up, you can begin the first high-intensity phase. Whatever you choose to do, it is done for sixty seconds. Run on the treadmill at a fast pace (about 4.0), ride the stationary bicycle, or ride the elliptical, for example. Once that time is up you move right away to a lower intensity exercise. This can be done on the same piece of equipment only at a slower pace. When you are finished with your workout, don’t forget the cool down to return your heart rate to normal.

Interval Training Benefits

The benefit comes in when the cycle is repeated over and over to create a full workout session. Interval training is beneficial to those who are trying to reach the other side of a plateau. This change up in your usual routine may be enough to do it.

If you participate in any type of sport, interval training helps improve your cardiovascular fitness and your aerobic capacity. It challenges your body to keep up with the change in program. This is important if the sport you do is one with fast-paced intervals like basketball.

This is what is called the basic type of interval training. There is a more advanced phase for those who are in peak physical condition. Instead of performing your high intensity phase for 60 seconds, you can stretch it out to two minutes or more before moving to the lower intensity portion. The risk here is that if you take it too far, you could hurt yourself. The optimum range for burning fat is at around 75 percent to 85 percent of your maximum heart rate. Exceeding that is dangerous.

As with all other forms of exercise, you know how much you can handle. It is always wise to consult your doctor before beginning this or any other exercise regimen. With interval training, erring on the side of caution will lead to a safe and productive workout.

The Ultra Mind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain By Healing Your Body First

Book Recommendation from ACMom: The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First
Available in audiobook and hardcover from www.amazon.com

The Ultra Mind Solution is a book by Dr Mark Hyman, a well-known expert in the field of alternative medicine. In his audiobook, he presents an easy to implement six week plan to fix our broken brains by restoring a healthy body. If you, like millions of other people, suffer from depression, attention and focus problems, anxiety, memory loss and stress, Dr Hyman’s book will help give you the knowledge to achieve calmness, confidence, a feeling of being in control and gain a focused mind.

In his audiobook, he gives details of his personal story and illness that changed his way of thinking about conventional medicine (when it failed him). He is a strong advocate of Functional Medicine, a discipline that does not give a condition a name and drug, but looks for underlying problems and then corrects the body back to optimum functionality.

The book also features the “Seven Keys to Ultra Wellness,” which cover optimizing nutrition, balancing hormones, fixing digestive tract problems, boosting energy, reducing inflammation and achieving a calm brain.

The six-week plan puts into place the changes necessary to achieve a healthy body and healing a broken brain.

This audiobook certainly offers new approaches and tools for anybody who is interested in relieving symptoms of brain related problems from migraines to depression.

Learn more here >

Staying Motivated in Exercise: How to Spice Up Your Exercise Regimen

Many exercise gurus recommend sticking with an exercise program for three months at a stretch. This doesn’t mean that after three months you can quit. Now, it’s time to change things up a bit.

Usually it takes that long for your body to get used to the routine you are doing. Another way to tell is if you hardly break a sweat even after going at it hard. Also, when you hit that plateau, it’s time for a new way of thinking.

What were you doing before for exercise? If it was jumping rope or walking on the treadmill, add a new component to your workout. Combine your earlier workout with elliptical training or weight training, or hop in the pool and swim a few laps. After the pool, use the treadmill to cool down a bit and stretch those muscles.

How about working out with a friend? Having someone new in the mix can take your program to the next level. A friend is like a friendly competitor. They inspire you to work harder and stick to it. Also, there are exercise routines that work better with two people (throwing the medicine ball, spotting when working on weights).

If you are a member of a gym or have a friend who is the member of a gym, go as a guest and take a class. Most gyms have a variety of classes from spinning to aerobics, to kickboxing to dance classes. It is both heart pumping and fun to be in a group for once instead of by yourself.

If you are looking for a way to jumpstart your results again, try cross training. If you are used to working out to exercise videos in your living room, how about riding your bike for a change? Your legs may be used to squats and kicks but pedaling uphill is a whole different story. This creates muscle confusion and makes them work harder to compensate. You build more muscle quicker that way.

For the runner, this could mean taking to the pool and swimming for a while. You are challenging the same muscles in new ways and new muscles altogether when you cross train. Along the same lines, consider joining a local sports league to get some exercise and a social break as well.

When you are no longer thrilled with your exercise program, you are less likely to stick to it. Also, your body won’t respond the same any more. Use the above suggestions for ways to throw a new twist into your workout.

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Free Core Energy Meditation Technique by Kevin Shoeninger

BestSelfHelp.com is pleased to announce that Kevin Shoeninger has made available a Free Core Energy Technique [direct - no-opt in]

Who is Kevin Shoeninger?
He’s a a certified holistic fitness trainer, meditation instructor and Reiki Master/Trainer.  He’s been teaching people how to de-stress and find lasting fulfillment in life for nearly 30 years.To learn more, check out his website here.

Over the years, Kevin has worked with countless personal growth techniques and practices.  And yet, what he found will remain a mystery for most people. Many “personal growth” approaches only work on a “surface level” while ignoring the deeper reality of “who you really are.”

Then, more recently, scientists made some amazing discoveries about the human bio-energy field and the major energy centers in the body.

These energy centers literally determine how good (or bad) you feel each day.  And of course, the better you feel, the more you are able to attract the good things you want into your life.

Kevin’s new system draws on this cutting edge research, as well as nearly three decades of personal practice and teachings. You can read more about these discoveries here.

In a nutshell, Kevin has developed a 20-minute practice (called Core Energy Meditation) that balances ALL your major energy centers.  It’s a short daily practice that allows you to balance and energize every aspect of your being.

Why is that important?
Balancing all aspects of your being is a total workout for the mind, body and spirit.  Kevin’s students say they feel wonderful.  They are healthy and happy and they have a better sense of their own life purpose.

When you learn to come “from your core” as Kevin teaches, amazing things begin to happen in your life.  You find yourself being drawn toward what TRULY inspires you.  You see the Universe lining up for you all manner of delightful gifts!

Kevin’s system also gives you a blueprint for tapping into your personal guidance system.  When you feel connected to Source you know when you are taking the RIGHT action for your life in the here and now.
Read more about it here

Or click here for your Free Core Energy Technique.

Samadhi

Are you a fan of meditation and all things transcendental? Then you might be interested in learning more about the process of achieving Samadhi.

Samadhi is a type of meditation state that is a tenet of many kinds of yoga practices. In eastern religions like Buddhism and Hinduism, it is a state of consciousness that is above most others and hard to reach.

Meditation is used to help you focus on a single thing. If you are meditating to free your mind of negative thought, then your focus will be positive energy. In yoga, meditation is one way of bridging the gap between the mind and the body. You concentrate on your breathing and also how your body feels to better control it.

Samadhi is a state of spiritual consciousness where the focus is so complete you feel like you are on another plane entirely. You are moving in a separate realm of consciousness from the one that we currently exist in.

There are different levels of Samadhi that can be reached through meditation and practice. The lowest level is Savikalpa Samadhi. Here, you can achieve a transcendental state where you are no longer on the human plane of consciousness. Those who have experienced it are aware of a shift in space and time.

In this meditative state, a person can see who they are and who they are supposed to be with clarity. You are aware of things that don’t penetrate the mind in the human body. After the meditation period is over, you are aware of yourself again and return to normal human consciousness.

The next level is Nirvikalpa Samadhi. In this state you can be freed from your mind. You hear things all around you but they don’t bother or affect you. In Nirvikalpa, your goal is to become one with your soul.

Some describe it as the mind as we know it melting away so that all you see and feel is peace wherever you are. The perception of things is different because you have been released from the confines of conventional human thinking. You are hitting on deeper levels of meditation, much like a self-induced trance.

Because of the joy of this state, returning to a normal human consciousness takes some time. Instead of waking and immediately knowing who you are and where you are like in Savikalpa, it takes a bit of time to settle back into your human state.

Many spiritual masters strive to achieve this state, and do. But there is one even higher called Sahaja Samadhi. Here, you are so above things here that sometimes, the consciousness of the person doesn’t return to the body but remains on that highest of planes. It is thought to reflect being with God.

Samadhi is a high state of consciousness achieved through spiritual practice and meditation. It is a practice of Indian and other eastern religions.

Learning more about Samadhi:

The Experience of Samadhi: An In-depth Exploration of Buddhist Meditation

Twenty-Five Doors to Meditation: A Handbook for Entering Samadhi

SAMADHI DVD

Fitness Challenge Board Game

The Fitness Challenge Board Game

Where to buy: The Fitness Challenge Board Game at

www.amazon.com The Fitness Challenge Board Game is a fun way of getting you active and helping you to lose weight.

It is an eight week fitness challenge and competition for two players. The game has a unique point system that makes you exercise at least three days a week for eight weeks if you want to win.

It comes with different workout choices and exercises you can do, so you won’t get bored. The included wager cards give fun ideas for all kinds of things to bet for. They give the players lots of incentives to get fit and exercise. Some incentives include, for example, massages and dinners out in nice restaurants. Non-incentives are having to wash the car or clean out the garage etc.

The game board can be hung upright on the fridge with the included magnets. You collect stars every time you exercise and place these on your board. The game is reusable and can be played over and over again.

The Fitness Challenge Board Game is an excellent motivational game to enjoy with your partner, friend or children.

For more information, click here: The Fitness Challenge Board Game