October 2014, Volume 4, Issue 10

Happy October, SynerLINK friends,

This month’s lead is a beautiful, powerful video that left me speechless.  It explores all that we give up when we let technology rule our lives.  Look up.  What are you missing?

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As always, I welcome suggestions, comments, or interesting links.  Please send to:  chelgason@synergeniusconsulting.com.

Best wishes for your health and happiness,
Chanel Helgason, MD

September 2014, Volume 4, Issue 9

Happy September, SynerLINK friends,

As the school year begins for many of our families, I believe it’s important to reflect on consciously on the choices they are making and how they impact our well-being.  This month’s lead article challenges some of our assumptions about our lifestyle, the choices available to us, and how busy we really are.  How would our days be different if we simply did one thing after another?

Colorado community members – Don’t miss my upcoming free talk on the 7 Foundations of Health and Happiness.  I’ll be speaking to the Northwest Metro chapter of Colorado Business and Professional Women this Wednesday, September 3rd at 6pm, at the Kokopelli Beer Company, 8931 Harlan Street in Westminster.  Hope to see you there!

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As always, I welcome suggestions, comments, or interesting links.  Please send to:  chelgason@synergeniusconsulting.com.

Best wishes for your health and happiness,
Chanel Helgason, MD

August 2014, Volume 4, Issue 8

Happy August, SynerLINK friends,

This month’s article explores the common story we tell ourselves about being too busy to exercise.  In truth, fitness actually improves your productivity, more than making up for the time you “subtract” from your other tasks to work out.

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As always, I welcome suggestions, comments, or interesting links.  Please send to:  chelgason@synergeniusconsulting.com.

Best wishes for your health and happiness,
Chanel Helgason, MD

 

July 2014, Volume 4, Issue 7

Happy July, SynerLINK friends,

This month’s lead articles are a pair lovely essays about embracing your body this summer.  What joyful things are you holding yourself back from because of your fears and self-judgments?  What would it be like to let those go, even for a little while, to embrace all the wonderful things your body can do, right now, just as it is?

Also, be sure to check out the link to a special radio show on PTSD, which I was honored to have been asked to contribute to.

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As always, I welcome suggestions, comments, or interesting links.  Please send to:  chelgason@synergeniusconsulting.com.

Best wishes for your health and happiness,
Chanel Helgason, MD

 

June 2014, Volume 4, Issue 6

Happy June, SynerLINK friends,

This month’s lead article is a collection of highlights of my media appearances and writings over the past year, including articles about SynerGenius programs and services.  This collection is especially for those who may not be active in social media, because I wanted to make sure everyone in our community was up on the latest happenings.

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As always, I welcome suggestions, comments, or interesting links.  Please send to:  chelgason@synergeniusconsulting.com.

Best wishes for your health and happiness,
Chanel Helgason, MD

May 2014, Volume 4, Issue 5

Happy May, SynerLINK Friends,

This month’s lead article is a really amazing paper on the tremendous impact of social support on our overall life satisfaction.  Having a strong social network was worth over $130,000 per year.  The bottom line: Friends are truly priceless!  How can you strengthen your social network this month?

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As always, I welcome suggestions, comments, or interesting links.  Please send to:  chelgason@synergeniusconsulting.com .

Best wishes for your health and happiness,
Chanel Helgason, MD

April 2014, Volume 4, Issue 4

Happy April, SynerLINK Friends,

Don’t forget to register for our upcoming “Master Time in the Real World” group, which starts this Thursday, April 3rd.  I’m also offering a $50 off last-minute discount for you as a valued SynerLINK community member, using the discount code SYNERLINK14.  Feel free to share this code with friends or family who might enjoy the group.  Bringing a friend is a great way to build extra support and accountability into the program – and to make your changes stick!

This month’s lead article is about a counter-intuitive piece of research supporting, of all things, making the choice to work through lunch.  Now, working through lunch or not taking enough breaks through the day isn’t something I normally recommend.  However, I think this research highlights a key principle for successfully achieving life balance that is a cornerstone of the 7 Foundations program – that everyone’s choices will be different and the “ideal” will look different for each individual.  While it helps to really look carefully at your reasons to work or rest in any given moment, once you’ve done that self reflection, it’s enough to consciously make your choices, and then embrace them.

If you enjoy the newsletter, please forward to friends or colleagues who may enjoy receiving it, as well.  They can click the links at the bottom of this newsletter to subscribe, or to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, or go to our home page:
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As always, I welcome suggestions, comments, or interesting links.  Please send to:  chelgason@synergeniusconsulting.com .

Best wishes for your health and happiness,
Chanel Helgason, MD

March 2014, Volume 4, Issue 3

Happy March, SynerLINK Friends,

I am very excited to announce my 2014 “Master Time in the Real World” group program, which is starting April 3rd.  It really is the next best thing to a 25-hour day!

This upcoming group program will take only an hour and a half per week out of your busy schedule – a minimal time commitment that offers you a huge jump-start toward the life you want.  Completing the full 8 week series will provide you with an in-depth understanding of the 7 Foundations system for maximizing your health and happiness, through individualized action steps to apply each week’s learning to your real, day-to-day life.  After completing this program, you will have personally experienced how it feels to truly master your own time, make your own, empowered choices, and implement the life changes that will serve you most.

It will run 8 consecutive Thursday evenings, 6:00-7:30pm MDT.  All the details you need are here: http://www.synergeniusconsulting.com/mastertime/  

So, the biggest question you need to ask yourself right now is – do you need this so badly you are saying to yourself that there is no way you can make time to come?

I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve hosted an event or a group, only to have the people who needed it most come up to me, with an embarrassed laugh, and tell me they know they must need this because they couldn’t possibly take off a whole day – or an afternoon – or even just over an hour a week  – for “something like this”.

So ask yourself – do you need this so badly that you are about to try to talk yourself out of it?  If so, I’d like you to take a moment to really reflect on what would serve you most, right now, in creating the life you really want?

If you are feeling drawn to make some real, lasting changes, I’d like to support you.  I’m offering an early bird discount of $100 off the regular price of $350. This offer is only good through March 15th.  Just follow this link, and enter the discount code EARLY100 in checkout.

This month’s lead article is a really fun one with 10 great tips on enhancing happiness, and the science to back them up.  There is so much out there right now on happiness, and it’s become such a buzzword, that it can be hard to tell if the information you’re getting is reliable science, or just someone’s opinion.  This article does a nice job of presenting a balanced view of what do, and don’t, know about happiness at the current time, even when some of the results are a bit unexpected!

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As always, I welcome suggestions, comments, or interesting links.  Please send to:  chelgason@synergeniusconsulting.com .

Best wishes for your health and happiness,
Chanel Helgason, MD

February 2014, Volume 4, Issue 2

Happy February, SynerLINK Frienda,

This month’s lead article is a pair of articles on how our lifestyles – from interpersonal interactions to the practice of meditation – can affect the expression of our genes through the fascinating field of behavioral epigenetics.

Colorado friends, I’d love to see you at my upcoming talk at Alfalfa’s in Boulder on February 16th.  Flyer is attached below, or online here:  http://synergeniusconsulting.com/images/HealthandHappinessFlyer.jpg
I also have a workshop and book signing event coming up in March.  Stay tuned for details!

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As always, I welcome suggestions, comments, or interesting links.  Please send to:  chelgason@synergeniusconsulting.com .

Best wishes for your health and happiness,
Chanel Helgason, MD

January 2014, Volume 4, Issue 1

Happy New Year, SynerLINK Friends,

In honor of the new year, I invite you to explore the role “busy-ness” plays in your life.  I recently enjoyed Brene Brown’s book “Daring Greatly” and highly recommend you check it out.  This month’s lead resource is an interview with Dr. Brown explaining a little-recognized role of being busy, exhausted, and constantly swamped.  Are you using “crazy busy” as a numbing strategy to deal with difficult emotions?  If so, what changes can you make in 2014 that will help you embrace your own whole-heartedness?

Colorado friends, keep an eye out for announcements of several upcoming events in Boulder in February and March.  Details coming soon!

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As always, I welcome suggestions, comments, or interesting links.  Please send to:  chelgason@synergeniusconsulting.com .

Best wishes for your health and happiness,
Chanel Helgason, MD