Gary Ward Training, Health and Lifestyle

Detox skin cleanse #1

So the detoxification process began this week as I mentioned in an earlier blog post. If you didn’t catch it, I am proving that I walk my talk and don’t ask clients to do that which I would not do myself!

This week I have had to carry out a dry skin rub prior to bathing or showering as a means of detoxification via the skin. The skin is the biggest organ in our body and it acts as a third kidney, meaning it has a very important part to play in the whole detoxification process. Interestingly enough, embryologically, your skin grows out of your brain or put another way, your skin is your brain (which is why it feels nice to touch and may be a good reason why people make love with their clothes off – because it feels better than with the clothes on which reduces contact with the brain!) Hmm!

Other important roles that the skin plays is to:
• Act as a protective shield to the body
• Regulate body temperature
• Act as a respiratory organ
• It performs absorbtion activities by assimilating oxygen and other nutrients
• And it aids in the elimination of toxic waste from the body.

To find out how I got on, click the link below and continue reading:

Six upcoming lectures

I am putting on a series of talks covering all aspects of health and nutrition. My previous talks covered a broad range of topics in a bid to introduce the concept of natural and holistic health to the people of Newark, Nottinghamshire.

I now plan to elaborate on each topic I covered in further detail for you to really understand what you can do in your life to make the change you need to achieve your health and your dreams.

There will be six talks in all:

1 Make food your medicine and medicine your food
2 Secrets to weight loss
3 Stress – what’s really causing it?
4 The consequence of dehydration
5 Sleep – the missing link; are you getting enough?
6 Mind over matter?

Follow the link below to find out more about content, location and cost...

The Detoxification programme

I don’t know if this is the kind of material you wanted to read… but I figured it might be a good thing to attempt to prove to my readers that I definitely do try to ‘walk my talk’. For those of you that don’t understand that terminology – Yes, I do everything that I ask you to do – so there’s no “do as I say, don’t do as I do” about my approach to your health, wellbeing and fitness.

This blog is a chance to introduce what I will be going through over the next eight to ten weeks and unless I have a considerable back lash against the content, then you should be able to follow my experiences online. Currently I have no idea of how graphic they might turn out to be. So what am I doing? Detoxing.

The second part of my Advanced level two course for Metabolic Typing is to learn all about detoxification using a variety of tools to help me detox myself. The one I’m most looking forward to sharing with you will be the coffee enema. Yup, most of you will know that I haven’t physically taken coffee orally for about 3 years now – not once, and now for the purpose of qualification, I have to stick it where the sun don’t shine for health benefits! Bet you can’t wait to read about that…

So what is detoxification? It’s a means by which the body releases toxins and heavy metals from the body cells in order to relax the stress or physiological load on the body – to prevent poor health. The presence of toxic and heavy metals in the body is inhibiting for the body and it’s processes. I have worked with many people over the years who have experienced a healing crisis and have quit on my advice because they weren’t expecting to detox so quickly and it can be a shock to the system. When you heal yourself, your body releases toxicity and it can worsen your symptoms for a time. Medication doesn’t cause a healing crisis because the toxins can remain in the cells – you simply feel artificially better.

What about celebrity detox? Oh yes, a bit of sugar (maple syrup), a few vitamins, a dodgy urine looking colour and a big celebrity smile on the label. Suffice to say I won’t be doing anything like that, rather I will keep up my optimal food diet – which on it’s own is enough to produce detoxification as good nutrition displaces toxic minerals with good healthy minerals in the cells – no going hungry and feeling weak.

With each detox, I’ll outline the benefits for you and what is expected. So if you have the good fortune to work with me over the next ten weeks you’ll be able to witness first hand if it’s doing me any good or not!!!

First detox: The dry skin rub….

When would you most like your muscles to work best?

Now there’s a question. I’d love to know some of your answers… I’m going to try and explain why many of you have pain and limited ranges of movement even though you may feel like you cover all angles in your exercise routine. What about Michael Owen – world class footballer on the worlds biggest stage and his buttock decides not to fire at the crucial moment and BANG, England were one ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) short of a functional squad and a chance of victory. I’ll bet we all know when Michael wishes his muscle had worked most…. Right before his ligament snapped!!

In principle the answer is just that… we would all like our muscles to operate just prior to injury in order for injury to be prevented! Thank you very much… What we don’t realise is that in every movement we undertake, we are literally seconds away from injury at any one point in time. Our inability to activate a muscle in a movement will therefore result in two outcomes… injury or compensation.

My trip to Yorkshire

I spent today in Leeds, one of the countries biggest cities and I was shocked at what I saw if I’m honest. The lady sat opposite me on the train was reading about the latest biscuit diet to help you lose weight… how is that going to help? What’s really sad is that you can simply pick and choose your information and advice these days… last weeks front pages said that chocolate could save your life and the week before it was asparagus or something. And people simply buy into this stuff because we are a society who simply cannot think for themselves.

So I won’t mention the Leeds game that I got dragged to (I actually went willingly) – suffice to say, all being well, I can see them swapping places with Forest next season without too much effort! Any one know a decent striker in Leeds – Jeez!!

I went up to darkest Yorkshire initially to visit my pal Sven who requires a double hip operation at the tender age of 31. His attitude to the whole thing is amazing and I can only look up to him and how he deals with what life has thrown him. One of the reasons for my visit was to help him realign his nutrition as he is going to be out of action for a good six months and also to show him some basic hip opening exercises to get cracking with before his first op to loosen the muscles around the joint and stimulate the nerves affecting the damaged muscles – this way he will have some functional nervous activation in place once his first op is successful.

After ploughing through his fridge and banning about 80% of his foods (white bread, sugar, packaged, processed foods, cage raised eggs, refined grains, semi-skimmed milk) whilst promoting locally sourced meat, vegetables and good old saturated fats and coconut oil. He was interested in my nutrition policies and has decided to give them a go – he obviously trusts me! – we first had a chat in December and since he has cut out alcohol in the week and crisps and chocolate too. So well done mate! Together we will get you through your op and ski together once again… in about a year I reckon!!

So what shocked me most? Sven’s fridge? The shocking Leeds United performance (losing to ten men!)? No, something else. I was confronted all day, at the game, in the city, on the train and at the station by some incredibly unhealthy looking folk. Junk food and sugary drink fuelled kids and adults alike, scatty and wired minds, aggressive behaviours and prejudices. These people aren’t even listening to information presented to them, they are simply getting their food and drinks from outlets that couldn’t give a damn about their health, but just want their money. Information is a whole other level, something they may never be exposed to because our society is intent on providing the wrong information to all walks of life…

Headlines in the Yorkshire Post this evening were about the Rich-Poor Health divide… stating that the gap between the rich and the poor also represents a link to the number of heart attacks in each wealth band. The problem is we shouldn’t and wouldn’t be exposed to heart attacks if we didn’t promote such poor quality foods and materialistic lifestyle requirements… far too many of us fail to look inside at who we are and are always looking outwards, working for someone else’s goals, worrying about others instead of our self and have little or no reason to even concern ourselves with our health. If this is you, it’s time to rise above your situation and carve out a viable future for yourself. Both nutrition and stress are the main causes of ill health and is evident in both bands. Sure wealthier people may buy more expensive foods but they experience high levels of stress too. There is more to disease than meets the modern eye… and weight loss… and happiness… and on and on…

Anyway… here is a picture of Sven and me in his fitter days

– I’m going to post it on the blog (Secret Vision Board Style) and post it out to the universe to manifest a healthy and vital Sven so that one day soon we can ski again. I’d love it very much if those of you who know him would post a message (click comments below!) and manifest a healthy and vital Sven whilst wishing him luck and a mega quick recovery.
Cheers guys.
Thanks for me roast dinner Sven.
Love you all

Filling you in...

Apart form the hair mineral analysis, I’ve been getting down and dirty with my clients harvesting some real results. I’ve been dealing with emotional upheaval and some fairly major detox within my client group. But these guys have such determination that they have driven themselves forward in their pursuit for health and have been grateful for my insight and motivation as well as ability to educate them on how they are feeling and why? I think this is the crucial part of any recovery process, understanding what you are going through and why.

This is what I hoped to bring to people on my nutrition and lifestyle courses, which unfortunately didn’t take off as I had a couple of people drop out last minute and it wasn’t feasible to run the course.
However I have bumped into two people who attended my talks, both at the supermarket ironically, and both gave me such excellent feedback and demonstrated to me that the information I provided was sufficient for them to make changes for the better. This has inspired me greatly and I will be holding more talks so I can reach out and help more people improve their lives.

These talks will home in on each of the topics I discussed in greater detail and I hope to bring one to you that focuses on how to keep your children healthy and vital too. I’m sure the food one will arouse further interest.

In the last month I have done three months worth of writing for Men’s Health Magazine (UK) and will feature in the April, June and July issues. April edition is out early March, as ever so keep your eyes peeled. I have also done my first feature for the magazine when I was asked last week to represent a panel of experts on weight loss. One of my favourite subjects!

This month has also seen me book on to my CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Coaching Level 3 in San Diego and Linzi and I (we’re both doing it) have decided to take August off and tour California before the course. This course will be extremely demanding and our attention will need to be placed firmly within if we are to maximise what this course has to offer. A holiday will represent the ultimate parasympathetic preparation we can muster… hopefully the RV will co-operate 

Four weeks until my Ski Sail Tour to Norway and I have stepped up the fitness regime… currently I’m doing over 200 lunges a day and building. 2000m ascents is a fair amount of half lunges to endure so I plan to be ready. At some point I’ll begin the dreaded hill running training to explode my lungs. Running is not my favourite activity but I respond really well to exercise so have avoided a six month of running slog. What’s more important to me is that I remain functional and stable so the act of climbing uphill doesn’t disrupt my system in any way.
Not sure if I’ll be able to blog when I’m in Norway, but if I can then I’ll be posting pictures for you all to see.

Watch this space for info on all of the above...

Now you can watch your health improve...

Well, it’s been a while since I last blogged – for various reasons; mainly having exams and part one of a course to pass. Which I successfully have… obviously!

So I can do hair mineral analysis which is not a diagnostic test rather it enables us (client and myself) to keep an eye on the mobilisation of toxic minerals and metals in your system. This is highly motivational for the client who cannot see or feel any major difference in their feeling or appearance – we’ve already discussed the value of looking for results on the outside rather than the inside! We don’t want your outward appearance to benefit at the expense of your internal health. So tracking minerals will enable us to physically see improvements in your internal make up – which is all about the cellular structure and make up.

Heavy metals such as aluminium and mercury are examples of toxic minerals, if these get into your body cells, they will displace healthy nutritient minerals such as calcium and potassium. As you heal your body from the inside out you would expect to see an increase in the level of toxic metals in your hair tissue, as good nutrition replaces nutrient minerals back into your cells and rejects the toxins into the hair tissue on it’s way out of the body. This process is known as detoxification. Detoxification can lead to what is known as a ‘healing crisis’. This is when, during the process of healing, one can experience symptoms of illness or underlying problems at a greater level than is normally experienced – and is a major reason why people (understandably) give up on nutritional protocols because it makes them feel like sh*t. With the hair analysis, you would be able to visually see that not only do feel bad, but you are healing at the same time. Heavy metals are linked to many major diseases when they are located in the body’s cells. Often a sick person is told that nothing is wrong following a blood, urine, saliva or hair test when actually they are seriously sick at a cellular level. Why are they told that there is nothing wrong? Because blood, urine, saliva and hair tests are all tissue level tests! If the metals are already in the cells, they can’t be seen in the tissues… but levels of calcium, phosphorous, potassium and sodium will all be present – indicating potential healthy person! The problem is these minerals have all been displaced form the cells where they balance the body systems into the body tissue where they don’t.
I plan to use hair mineral testing with all nutrition and lifestyle clients from now on as the motivational factor for cure is very strong.

Incidentally the balance of minerals in the hair can identify initial stages of stress, the exhaustion stage of stress and even thyroid and adrenal deterioration function as well as blood sugar balance and carbohydrate metabolism.

So it’s an all round good thing… in the right hands.

Nutrition and Lifestyle Courses

How to Eat, Move and be HEALTHY

• Who? This programme is for those who want a renewed lifestyle focus. Do you suffer with excess weight, poor energy levels, sleep problems, high levels of stress and lack will power.
Conditions such as stress related, MS, ME, back pain, joint stiffness and digestive disorders will benefit.
• What? An 8-week course designed to open your eyes and see how simple it is to make life changing adjustments and feel your best every single day!
• Where? In the new AURA conference Center on Manners Road, Newark.
• When? First meeting on 12th February 2007 at 7pm.
• How? Weekly group coaching sessions and group email forum for additional support. To ensure personal attention and individual success the groups will be 8 - 10 people max.
• Cost? £100 per head (includes Health assessment questionnaire)

Individualised Nutrition programme

• Who? This course is for anyone suffering from nutrition related problems. Obesity, poor energy levels, sleep disorders, general digestive discomfort, bloating and suffering food sensitivities.
• What? An 8-week course designed to help you make life changing adjustments to your diet. You are what you eat, so eat what’s right for you!
• When? Starting in February 2007 – actual dates TBA
• Where? In the new AURA conference Center on Manners Road, Newark.
• How? Advanced nutrition assessment managed by weekly group coaching sessions and group email forum for additional support. To ensure personal attention and individual success the groups will be 8 - 10 people max.
• Cost? £150 per head (includes full dietary assessment; does not include supplement requirement to optimize your diet plan). Group format saves you £100.

• Sign up to both, pay up front and save 10%

SPECIAL OFFER: Sign up for either course by 7th February 07 and get a block of ten PT sessions at 20% off

Take a quantum leap to a new you...

A quantum leap is the explosive jump that a particle of matter undergoes in moving from one place to another... Like being you, as you know it, in one moment in time and winding up a completely different - yet same – you at another point in time, without apparent effort and without covering all the bases between the start and end points. For example, fat, overweight and unhappy one day and happy, healthy and looking great another! The difference being there are no painstaking steps to get there – just belief… allow me to explain a little.

Some of you know about my beliefs in energy and the Universe. The Secret (a 2006 movie) explains the law of attraction and how we can manipulate energy to our advantage. It states that everything in the Universe is energy, I am, you are, the chair you are sitting on is and the screen you are reading… Energy is the making of everything in the universe. Quantum Physicists measures it; clairvoyants see it; healers manipulate it; people feel it and clients steal it (from me!), leading to me having to cultivate it for myself.

By learning how energy works and understanding how you can manifest it to work for you, you can ultimately have anything you want. As long as you believe it! There are many beliefs that underpin this theory. Your thoughts are energy, and your thoughts create who you are, what you have achieved, and what will happen to you in the future – both short and long term – in fact everything in your life is energy and whether you like it or not, you have asked for it and it has been delivered. My guitar is just a small example of this: I focused on the thought of having a guitar, I imagined myself strumming it, tuning it and sitting round a camp fire being everyone’s favourite guitar guy (come on, who hasn’t?). With little or no effort, the guitar was given to me as a gift without any prompting and now I have it.

Thought did that.

If you want something badly enough, you will have it – if you believe you can have it. That goes for a car, a guitar, your health, a house and /or money. Thre is a down sie, however: you will also be presented with the bad thoughts that you focus on if you truly believe they will happen! Like debt, poor health, break ups, problems etc. Whatever you spend your time focusing on and believing to be true you will get - “Your wish is my command!” says the genie; an age old metaphor for the Universe.

If you truly learn to focus on what you really want and not what you don’t want, then you can make significant long lasting changes to your Self, your health and your financial situation – whatever you want. Remember all you have is now! So don’t look back, don’t project into the future. Know what you want, NOW, believe you already have it, forget about the small steps you need to take to get you there but simply truly believe that you already have it and it shall be delivered. Take a quantum leap to a new you… try it; it can’t hurt, can it? www.thesecret.tv

The Machine gets Personal

So far, my blog has been all about the modern day problems of health and nutrition. I find an article and attempt to ridicule it or suggest an alternative way of looking at it. I have a conversation with somebody which is commonplace in most people's minds, but I think it's uneducated and misinformed so I write about it in the hope that I can enlighten some of you in your way of thinking. Effectively I have been like a machine, pumping out fact after fact, destroying common thought and replacing it with alternative ideas that you may or may not take on... Whilst I don't plan to change that too much - I think you guys do deserve to know the truth and the facts about real nutrition that are so cruelly kept from us - I do plan to make my pages a little more personal. My mentor, Lea, thinks this would give my blog some personality and maybe enable people to get more idea of who I really am... So I’ve got lots in store for you all, I just hope you maintain interest hereafter!!

In a bid to strengthen my creative side (6th chakra enhancement!), I have begun to learn to play the guitar! This is fascinating as for the first time in a while I can experience the joys of being a pupil as opposed to the teacher, and it's really tough isn't it? To learn a new skill (or an exercise) takes some thinking and really requires a large amount of input from the brain! I had a guitar ‘Master class’ with my Friend Ollie Keeler today (thanks Ollie) and I now am actually able to play a tune, albeit basic, I can knock a song up playing 12 bar Blues and just about fumble through 'Don't look back in Anger' by Oasis. I am overjoyed to tax myself like this and my left arm/hand is in pieces - give me lunges any day of the week!
As for the guitar playing – I’ll keep you posted…