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Let Phantom of the Opera Move You

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Phantom of the Opera 31MR8VN0B3L._SL500_AA300_ Lately, I’ve been sharing some Feel-Good Tunes here and here, but I completely forgot about The Phantom of the Opera, one of my favorite musicals.
I even own the stupendous Phantom CD set featuring Michael Crawford (what a voice!), Sarah Brightman (glorious!) and Steve Barton (awesome, too). In fact, I love this show so much that I’ve seen it two — or is it three — times on Broadway.
Thanks for Therese J. Borchard (author of The Pocket Therapist and Beyond Blue) for the suggestion to listen to “The Music of the Night” and other tunes from The Phantom of the Opera.
Borchard recommends listening to music as one of “7 Quick Ways to Calm Down” on the website, Beliefnet.com
Ah, just what I needed on a night when I’m feeling low on energy (oops, stayed up too late writing) and didn’t go to the gym, my favorite way to unwind after working on my book, Beyond Sugar Shock.
So I’m here alternately working, singing and boogying to The Phantom of the Opera. Thank you, Therese, for the suggestion!
I just can’t get enough of this!
“…Softly, defly, music shall surround you…
“Feel it, hear it, closing in around you…
“..Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar!…
“And you’ll live as you’ve never lived before…”
You can read the full lyrics here.
Speaking of music, listen to my Gab with the Gurus Radio Show today when I spoke with composer and inspirational speaker Paul Hoffman about how tunes can move you to action and success.

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Feel-Good Tunes: Suggest More!

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Do you listen every day to certain musical favorites that make you feel powerful, centered and motivated?
Here are a few tunes that encourage and uplift me, which I’ve been listening to while writing my next book, Beyond Sugar Shock (for Hay House).
More specifically, I boogie to these tunes during rest-my-back-and-brain breaks. They either move me (emotionally) or make me want to move!
Join me and boogie your way to feeling good, weight loss and inner joy!
Here’s Enya enticing you to get out of your funk with “Age of Loneliness,” which you can listen to, courtesy of YouTube.
For you heartbroken or lonely single or divorced women feeling like you need a mood boost, first get inspired by the old tune, It’s Raining Men, with the Weather Girls, then Beyonce’s Single Ladies, then Rihannna’s feat (ft. Nicki Minaj)
Now, I dare you to dance non-stop to this Feel-Good Tune from Yanni, The Storm. You can buy a DC with that tune and many others here.
Now, here’s a melody to make you feel victorious, thanks to U2’s City of Blinding Lights.
Now, here are two of many, many suggestions offered by JJ Virgin in her book, Six Weeks to Sleeveless and Sexy. Check out the amazing list of JJ’s favorite Workout Music on pages 175 to 180.
Have fun boogying to Mony, Mony from Billy Idol.
And now here’s the upbeat, fun-to-dance-to Livin’ on a Prayer from Bon Jovi.
Get dozens more Feel-Good or Comfort Tunes here. They’re complete with many YouTube videos and links to even buy some of the songs.
What tunes bring you out of your funk and transport you to a place of possibility? Please suggest some, but first check here to see if I’ve already included it.

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Jack LaLanne: Tribute to the Legendary Grandfather of Fitness

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As you may have already read on my Sugar Shock Blog, Jack LaLanne — who passed away yesterday — was one of my heroes.
Can you think of another man, who’s been as influential in the field of fitness?
And can you think of another person, who’s been as outspoken as he was on the dangers of sugar and refined carbs?
As I mentioned here, I’ve had the pleasure to interview Jack several times.
I encourage you now to listen to one of my interview with the enthusiastic, energetic Kind of Fitness and Sugar-Free Pioneer.
I conducted this interview with Jack LaLanne on May 1, 2008.
Listen now.

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Lose Weight with Best-Selling Author & Spiritual Activist Marianne Williamson

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Since it’s a new year, it’s time, of course, to begin to release your extra weight.
Join the internationally acclaimed spiritual activist and best-selling author Marianne Williamson on my Gab with the Gurus Radio Show on Thurs., Jan. 6 at 2 pm EST for the first of a number of shows designed to help you peel off excess flab in the new year.
Marianne is author of the exciting new book, A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever.
If you’ve been struggling with your weight, you’ll get powerful spiritual-based tools, exercises and ideas to help you finally cut lose of your excess weight.
As usual with Gab with the Gurus Radio Shows, you can listen live. (The show airs Thursday, Jan. 6 at 2 pm EST.) In addition, if you’d prefer, you can get inspired by Marianne listen later, here, at your convenience.
Or listen below, when the time works for you.
Listen to internet radio with Gab With the Gurus on Blog Talk Radio
Now for a little more about my fabulous guest. Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher. Among her 10 published books, four of them — including A Return to Love — were #1 New York Times Bestsellers.
A Return to Love is considered a must-read of The New Spirituality. A paragraph from that book, beginning “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure” – often misattributed to Nelson Mandela’s Inaugural address – is considered an anthem for a contemporary generation of seekers. The Age of Miracles hit #2 on the New York Times Bestsellers list.
Marianne’s latest book, A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever, has achieved considerable acclaim.
Marianne’s other books include Everyday Grace, A Woman’s Worth, Illuminata, Healing the Soul of America and The Gift of Change.
She has been a popular guest on television programs such as Oprah, Larry King Live, Good Morning America and Charlie Rose.
In 1989, Marianne, a native of Houston, Texas, founded Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves homebound people with AIDS in the Los Angeles area. Today, Project Angel Food serves over 1,000 people daily.
Marianne also founded The Department of Peace Campaign, a grass roots campaign supporting legislation to establish a U. S. Department of Peace. In December 2006, a NEWSWEEK magazine poll named Marianne Williamson one of the fifty most influential baby boomers.
According to Time magazine, “Yoga, the Cabala and Marianne Williamson have been taken up by those seeking a relationship with God that is not strictly tethered to Christianity.”
Again, go here to listen to the acclaimed author Marianne Williamson on my Gab with the Gurus Radio Show on Thurs., Jan. 6 at 2 pm EST.
Special thanks to Hay House — which is, incidentally publishing my next book, Beyond Sugar Shock — for helping to schedule this radio interview with Marianne Williamson.

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What Do You Need & Seek to Move Beyond Sugar Shock? Help Me Help You

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Can you help me to help you? What do I mean?
Well, as you may already know, I’m now in the midst of writing my next book, Beyond Sugar Shock, which is the follow-up to my first book, Sugar Shock.
Beyond Sugar Shock, which has the subtitle, The 6-Week Plan to Break Free of Your Sugar Addiction & Get a Slimmer, Sexier, Sweeter Life, provides a step-by-step program to help you escape from Sugar Shock, as I shared previously here and also here.
This new book is designed to help you if you’re a sugar addict, overweight, obeseor plagued by headaches, headaches, depression, “brain fog, fatigue, low libido or severe PMS.Hay House images
Beyond Sugar Shock is coming to you, thanks to my new publisher, Hay House, which is the international leader in self-help and transformational publishing.
Let’s face it, kicking or even cutting back on sugar can be tough to do even though you know that kicking it can help you to lose weight, get more energy, boost your libido, prevent or reverse diabetes and live longer.
That’s why in Beyond Sugar Shock, you’ll get valuable tools and tips that will make letting go of your sugar addiction simple – and even fun.
This is where you come in. I’d like to know what you’d like to see included in this book.
In a hurry? Just click here to give your feedback.
So what will you get in Beyond Sugar Shock?
Basically, you’ll be given many tried-and-true tactics — ones I’ve created, starting in 1998, when I kicked sugar on doctor’s orders and ones I’ve developed as I’ve been coaching or connecting for the past 12 years with sugar addicts around the world. In addition, you’ll get tools from dozens of other health experts.
For instance, in this book:
* You’ll undertake simple, interactive adventurcises™ (my word for adventurous exercises) and playcises™ (playful exercises), which will drive you to important self-discoveries.
* You’ll get several dozen ways to stomp out your sugar cravings.
* You’ll discover your Sugar Color Code. (Yes, we’re all different in our relationship with sweets, and this knowledge will empower you to make the right choices for you.)
* You’ll detox gradually so that your body, mind and soul won’t go into shock as you move beyond your sugar obsessions and towards a better life.
* You’ll get healthy meal plans and tasty recipes from a nutritionist and exercise physiologist.
* You’ll learn to Enjoy a Sweeter Life Without Refined Sweets™.
* And much more.
Now, here’s where I’d like your help.
While I’m writing my book, what would you like to see in Beyond Sugar Shock? Please share your thoughts here.
Thank you for helping me to help you.
Warmly,
Connie
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P.S. I’m eager to hear your suggestions. So remember to send them here.
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From Size 14 to Size 10: Natalie Ledwell’s Amazing Mind Movies Story — Great Holiday Gift

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Wouldn’t it be great to just watch a short video and then watch your body shrink?
Are you frustrated that you haven’t lost weight or achieved your other dreams and goals yet even though you’ve been following the Law of Attraction?
You just have to learn some amazing stories here, because you can achieve remarkable successes using a revolutionary technique, called Mind Movies.
You see, a few days ago, for the finale of my Sweeter Holiday Summit — which presented a whopping 38+ programs — I had the pleasure of interviewing Natalie Ledwell, co-founder of Mind Movies 2.0, along with her business partner Ryan Higgins.
Natalie_ledwell In case you don’t know yet, a Mind Movie is a visualization tool…a short 3 minute video or digital vision board…a picture of your perfect life which is a combination of positive, present tense affirmations, reinforced with powerful photos and images and your most emotionally inspiring music.
You’ll learr how Natalie, a successful business woman, who has operated several different businesses with her husband, Glen Ledwell, has been working hard to make Mind Movies 2.0 a huge success, but in the process the weight piled on.
So what did she do? She created her own Mind Movie and watched the weight slide off.
In this Sweeter Holiday Summit finale program, which you can listen to below as my gift, you’ll discover:
* How Natalie used Mind Movies to go from what seemed to be an insurmountable goal – going from a dress size 14 to size 10 in 7 weeks.
* Why people who believe in the Law of Attraction don’t achieve their dreams.
* What led to the development of Mind Movies?
* Some amazing stories about people who’ve used Mind Movies.
* How Natalie’s successes led her to create an educational, easy-to-follow, effective success program called “7 Secrets to Happiness” to help anyone adopt right habits to achieve any goal they set.
What did you think of this program? Wasn’t Natalie inspiring? (FYI, please see Disclosures here.)
http://www.sugarshockblog.com/2010/12/from-size-14-to-size-10-natalie-ledwells-amazing-mind-movies-story.html

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Institute for Integrative Nutrition: Discover the Joy

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Often, I’m asked where I went to school to study health and wellness.
As a grad of the student of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN), it’s my pleasure to spread the word about this amazing school, which has a fabulous mission.
The school seeks to play a crucial role in improving health and happiness, and through that process, create a ripple effect that transforms the world.
Because of getting so many questions about IIN from would-be students, I even created a post here on the Sugar Shock Blog to answer them.
But yesterday, I was honored to be joined by IIN staffer Sharon Stevens, who was kind Sharon Stevens210 enough to answer your questions about this school.
She appeared in one of the final programs of Sweeter Holiday Summit, which featured 35+ experts in health, wellness, personal empowerment, the Law of Attraction, abundance and more. (It was an awesome program — I urge you to check it out and take advantage of the Super Sale.)
* Anyhow, Sharon kindly answered a bunch of questions about the school to help those of you who may be interested in attending. For instance, she told you:
* What is a health coach?
* Who are some the leading instructors at the school? (Hint: Big names in health and wellness.)
* Where Health Coaches work.
* How attending the school can be a life-changing experience.
* What you can expect to learn at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.
* About some graduates of the school, who’ve gone on to make major contributions.
* How the program is delivered.
* How you can take advantage of a special offer if you enroll this week. (You’ll receive a special Self Care gift bag.)
* How you can find out more about the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Email admissions@integrativenutrition.com or call now with questions or to enroll:
US callers: (877) 730-5444
International callers: +1 (212) 730-5433
Listen to our program now.

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Look Younger With Ageless Sisters Cynthia Rowland & Jackie Silver

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What a fabulous program with the Ageless Sisters Cynthia Rowland and Jackie Silver last night.
These two youthful, beautiful, dynamic women told you How to Look Younger Naturally, Starting this holiday season.
Jackie and Cynthia gave you secrets on how to turn back the clock by about a decade. (You read right!)
This is part of the Sweeter Holiday Summit, which presents 35+ experts through Dec. 14 so that you can thrive, not just survive, this holiday season.
Just sign up now so you can listen for FREE for 48 hours to this fascinating program with the Ageless Sisters.
Here are some fascinating takeaway points from my conversation with Cynthia Rowland and Jackie Silver:
When you listen to this program, you will:
* Discover one simple activity that will peel years off and make you youthful.
* Find out how to get a non-surgical eyelift without having to spend $3,500 to go under the knife.
* Get the scoop on how botox may be far more dangerous than you realize.
* Learn how to tighten and tone your annoying jowl (the saggy flesh that often droops at the lower mouth) without having to go under the knife.
* Discover the many virtues of one versatile vegetable, that does triple duty in the world of beauty.
* Find out about one of nature’s best-kept secrets, which is anti-viral, anti-bacterial and anti-fungal. (It smells and tastes good, too.)
* Discover how to enjoy something sweet and delicious that almost tastes like candy but isn’t.
* Get a powerful affirmation that you can use every day.
* Learn one simple thing to do every night that’s very important.
* Find out about two fool-proof things you can to do to look great.
Go here to find out about Luscious Lips and Facial Magic.
You want to keep a lookout on these two remarkable women. And congratulations to Jackie for being quoted in today’s New York Daily News story, during which she was interviewed along with Heidi Klum.
Go here to sign up for this exciting Sweeter Holiday Summit — which features 35+ experts.
Special thanks to Tanya Lily-Reid for help with this blog post.

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