Your Mind Over Habits

By Elle Swan

Learn how to live a healthy and vibrant life the easy way! In this practical guide you’ll discover the secrets to:
• Losing weight
• Stopping bad habits
• Eliminating toxic relationships
• Having more energy and enthusiasm
• Using your mind to change your life
This step-by-step plan can take you from STUCK to SUCCESS in no time. No more diets. No more pills. No more failure. Your time is NOW!

For years, Elle Swan wanted to die and couldn’t. Her darkest days left her addicted to drugs and alcohol, 67 pounds overweight, penniless and living on the streets of California. On May 29th, 2000, during an overdose in an abandoned van, her misery merged with death, and Elle Swan suddenly crossed-over into the pits of hell.
“But, when your soul knows you belong here,” she says, “it won’t let you go.”
Her miraculous journey from deprivation and despair, to elle-evation and abundance is nothing short of a miracle.
Many use the phrase: from the Gutter to Gucci to describe her comeback story from nothing to worldwide success.
Her dramatic personal transformation unfolded into a quest for knowledge in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Yoga, Nutrition, Quantum Physics, and Hypnosis. The synthesis of these modalities, combined with her near death experience, shapes her uncanny ability to pin point lasting solutions to teach others how to elle-evate.
Today, Elle Speaks all over the world, teaching the benefits of rising above mediocre living. Her story and strategies have been featured on ABC, FOX, NBC, PBS and in The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of several books including “Elle-evate: Change Your Life in 60 seconds or Less!”
“I’ve dedicated my career to elle-evating the minds, hearts, and lives of every willing person on this planet,” Elle says.
“It’s the reason I was raised from the dead.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Elle Swan
• Release date: May 24, 2012
• ISBN: 9780984959334

Elle Swan

For years Elle wanted to die and couldn’t. In her darkest days she was 67 pounds overweight, addicted to drugs and alcohol, homeless and penniless living on the streets in California. After five years of being a depressed drug addict and alcoholic she was desperate to escape from being alive. On May 29th 2000, during an overdose in an abandoned van, her misery merged with death and Elle Swan crossed-over into the pits of hell. “But, when your soul knows you belong here,” she says, “it won’t let you go.” It was in that moment that she began to “elle- evate” and has been soaring high ever since. Her miraculous journey from deprivation and despair, to elle-evation and abundance is nothing short of a miracle. They say she went from the Gutter to Gucci. This dramatic personal transformation unfolded into quest for knowledge in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Yoga, Nutrition, Quantum Physics, and Self-Hypnosis. The synthesis of these modalities combined with her near death experience shapes her uncanny ability to pin point lasting solutions to teach others how to elle-evate. Today Elle Speaks all over the world teaching women how to rise above mediocre living and “elle-evate” their lives. “I’ve dedicated my career to elle-evating the minds, hearts, and lives of every willing woman on this planet,” says Elle. “It’s the reason I was raised from the dead.” Elle’s elle-evation principles have been featured on ABC, FOX, NBC, PBS and The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of several books with the most recent release “Elle-evate: Change Your Life in 60 seconds or Less!” Elle’s mission is to put an end to mediocre living and show women all over the world how to "Get elle-evate" in Love, Wealth and Health!

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Your Mind Over Habits

A Woman’s Guide to a Happy Life

and a Vibrant Body

Smashwords Edition

by Elle Swan

Published by SwanSense at Smashwords

Copyright 2012 by Elle Swan.

All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-9849593-3-4

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Contents

About the Author

Introduction

Part One

Joy, Joy, Joy

Make Today a Holiday

More than Peace

Self-care vs. Health Care

A Little More Retro-Winning

Winning

The Silent Virus

Building Day by Day

The Handbag Theory

Tomorrow

On Behalf of Your Elbows

Bill’s Wife

A Hundred Billion Ways to Use Your Spare Time

Now or Later

Life’s Irritations

Every Little Bit of It

Three Wise Men

Easy, Easy Does It

The Boogeyman

A Lesson in Vanilla Cream

Using My Mind Wisely

Part Two

Getting Bigger

Revelation

Making the Decision

24 Hours of Truth

Awareness Helps

Attitude Adjustment

Body Hatred

Like Body, Like Earth

Honest Action

Perfectly Responsible

Eating Patterns

Driven by Beliefs

What’s Driving You?

The Force is With You; You Can Change

Creating Personalized Affirmations

Getting Inside

The Thinker vs. the Knower

Embrace the Power of Yoga

Epilogue

About the Author

For years, Elle Swan wanted to die and couldn’t. Her darkest days left her addicted to drugs and alcohol, 67 pounds overweight, penniless and living on the streets of California. On May 29th, 2000, during an overdose in an abandoned van, her misery merged with death, and Elle Swan suddenly crossed-over into the pits of hell.

But, when your soul knows you belong here, she says, it won’t let you go.

Her miraculous journey from deprivation and despair, to elle-evation and abundance is nothing short of a miracle.

Many use the phrase: from the Gutter to Gucci to describe her comeback story from nothing to worldwide success.

Her dramatic personal transformation unfolded into a quest for knowledge in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Yoga, Nutrition, Quantum Physics, and Hypnosis. The synthesis of these modalities, combined with her near death experience, shapes her uncanny ability to pin point lasting solutions to teach others how to elle-evate.

Today, Elle Speaks all over the world, teaching the benefits of rising above mediocre living. Her story and strategies have been featured on ABC, FOX, NBC, PBS and in The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of several books including Elle-evate: Change Your Life in 60 seconds or Less!

I’ve dedicated my career to elle-evating the minds, hearts, and lives of every willing person on this planet, Elle says.

It’s the reason I was raised from the dead.

Introduction

The second half of a [woman’s] life is made up of nothing but the habits [she] acquired during the first half.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Happiness comes when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You are bigger than your habits. It doesn’t matter if you have too many habits to count, or just one that refuses to go away. You are bigger than your habits. There is a part of you that is designed to stand up for your greatness. It knows how powerful you are and how you will feel when you tap into that power.

You don’t need another diet. You don’t need another magic pill or gimmick to take you from where you are to where you want to be.

There is a part of you that will give you the strength to say no, so that you can say yes to your best.

My habits left me stranded on the streets of California with an alcoholic liver, a fat body, no job, no family, no friends, and absolutely nowhere to call home. That painful ride led to the solution you now hold in your hands.

The overall focus of this book is achieving a more exciting quality of life. It’s about more than eliminating unwanted and unhealthy habits. These pages are filled with a variety of strategies; how they affect your body from head to toe, inside and out, is clearly explained.

This book is purposely interactive and as you move through each page, you’ll find moments where you’ll be asked to pause and view the scenery inside yourself. You’ll be given steps to honestly examine your current way of living. These exercises are designed to meet you wherever you are on the road to sculpting a body that makes you truly feel excited about being alive.

Let’s begin by exploring Joy . . .

PART ONE

Joy, Joy, Joy

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things are right now. Joy is a by-product of Gratitude, although it is easy to see them as two words for the same thing.

Joy is like the essence of your favorite perfume; Gratitude is like the action that it takes to acquire the perfume in the first place.

The more reasons you can become grateful for something, the more you will experience the beautiful fragrance of Joy. The best part of seeing things this way is that doing so even works with things that bother, annoy, or irritate you.

So, begin to look closely at those areas as well, and sincerely ask Joy to reveal itself to you. It’s there; trust me, it’s there.

Remember, the first part is the action!

In other words, if you don’t take the steps to walk to the perfume counter you’ll never experience that precious scent.

Joy is everywhere. Try it. You’ll see.

Make Today A Holiday

Have you ever watched a toddler who has mastered walking and soon after runs everywhere he goes?

Have you ever wondered why, or what you