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A is for Advice for A new Awakening of your Awesome Natural Beauty and Natural Health

Posted on January 23, 2012 | Leave a comment

Yes, you can!  Begin again today!  Here’s some helpful, healthful tips and links to get your started on your new dawn, new day, new life!

Start every day off with a healthy breakfast (see B is for Breakfast).

Get enough sleep   (S is for Sleep).

Smile  (it’s naturally beautiful!)

Have an attitude of gratitude and expectation.

Stay hydrated (drink plenty of water to keep you in the flow).

Be kind to others.

Be social…connect with others.

Take care of your body…it’s the only one you’ll get.

Exercise daily.

Know that you have a purpose-discover it and work towards it.

Don’t procrastinate…your future is not going to wait…it’s happening now!

Be organized…a cluttered life or home distracts you and causes stress.

Strive to learn something new every day.

Even when it’d appear things are going wrong, stay optimistic knowing the tide will change.  “This too shall pass.”

Make a plan on how you’ll achieve your goals.

Spend time daily in reflection or meditation…seek direction and wisdom.

Don’t hang on to the past, learn from it and move forward.   “Yesterday’s the past and tomorrow’s the future. Today is a gift – which is why they call it the present.”

Alive and Awake and a New Day of Natural Health and Beauty

 

 

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W is for What to do When your World is Woeful

Posted on January 11, 2012 | 1 Comment

Live Positively for your Natural Health

When bad things happen to good people, what can they do to get on with their lives, even when life isn’t fair?

Shit happens. Life sucks.  It’s not fair.  Yell. Scream.  Cry.

Did that help?  Maybe yes, maybe no.  The truth is, this next moment comes no matter what you did the last moment.  (It’s been said that people who consider suicide don’t really want to die, they really want things to be different and better).

Some days, you might just want to pull the covers over your head and stay in bed and feel sorry for yourself.  Problem is, what are you going to do tomorrow?

If you stay in bed for too many days in a row, then you have to go find help.  Find a therapist.  Find a spiritual advisor.  Join a 12 Step Program.  Get help.

If you can actually pull yourself out of bed and want to face the next moment and the next day, here’s some tips to get you going in the right direction.

1.  Accept the fact that things are going wrong right now.   Take your time to allow the bad feelings to register.  Feel bad.  Then remember that This Too Shall Pass.

2.  Stop.  Take a breath.  Concentrate on your breathing.  In.  Out.  In.  Out.  Repeat.

3.  Get a massage.  Take a hot bath in relaxing scents.  Drink some chamomile tea.

4.  Watch a funny movie.

5.  Play with a pet or a child.

6.  Go out and help someone worse off than you.

7.  Eat some chocolate chip cookies and drink hot chocolate (for non-diabetics only).

8.  Make some art.  I once started a collage without any idea what my intention was – when I finished, I had a large poster of smiling mouths and faces.  Every time I looked at it, I couldn’t help but smile!  (It took no talent, so don’t worry about that for goodness sakes!).

9.  Get some fresh air.

10.  Look up – at the sky, at the ceiling.  Lift up your arms.  Open your mouth.

Say –  Zip

A

Dee

Doo

Dah!

Repeat.

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Q is for Quit Qomplaining

Posted on December 5, 2011 | Leave a comment

Complaining is not good for Natural Health

Q is not an easy letter.  But I’m not Qomplaining!  And I hope you aren’t also.

So – the dog ate your homework and the check’s still in the mail.  Yes, we all have valid things to complain about.  But the truth of the matter is, the world really does not want to hear about it.  Maybe sometimes.  Maybe you’re lucky enough to have someone who will sit still and listen.  But most of us don’t.  And the poor people who happen to step in the way of you whining and complaining are looking for a way out, not a way to help.

Look around you and you’ll see whiners everywhere.  Some people use whining and complaining as a way to begin a conversation, to establish rapport with the other person.  But is that really the rapport you want to establish?

Negative talk can create a circle of negativity that is hard to break out of.  Writers like Louise Hay and Caroline Myss have described the negative consequences of too much complaining.  They have written that too much negativity can even create illness.

Constructive complaining can be very beneficial if the purpose is not just to be heard or to vent.  If the purpose of your complaint is to find a solution, then go for it.  Being aware that “negative attitudes create negative responses within the physical body” can open you up to making changes in your lifestyle that will allow you to heal and grow and become a more positive person.

But Qonstant Qomplaining – just Quit!

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P is for the Power of Playing – even for Parents or Mature People!

Posted on December 4, 2011 | Leave a comment

Playing is good for your Natural Health

Just because you’re older than 10, doesn’t mean you should ever stop playing.  In fact, it might make a lot of sense to start playing at any age to improve your natural health.  We’ve talked about the power of positive thinking, well how about the power of positive playing!

Play is as important to our adult mental and physical health as eating right, exercising and getting enough sleep. Play teaches us how to go from feeling down and depressed and negative, to feeling up and alive and happy!  It helps us to continue learning, relieves stress, and connects us to others and the world around us.  Play can take an otherwise boring work day and make it into something fun and engaging.

Work doesn’t have to be drudgery, and companies that foster playing tend to be more successful and have less turnover.  People who enjoy their jobs tend to stay longer and do more productive work.

Playing when you are an adult can teach you how to handle the difficult things that will come up in life.  Playing teaches you how to compete and to do so fairly.  Playing teaches you how to win gracefully and how to lose graciously.  Playing teaches adults how to take things in stride and how to laugh at our mistakes.  Playing teaches us how to reason things out in a better way and how to not take things so seriously.  Playing is fun so why not do it today – PLEASE!!!!

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P is for Positive Psychology – Put it into Practice

Posted on December 1, 2011 | Leave a comment

Put on a happy face for Natural Health

Pardon me!  Maybe you feel like you’ve been “smiley-faced” to oblivion over the past few years or decades, but pardon me – I can’t help smiling when I look at that big yellow guy – or when I run across another person who is smiling.

Call it the Law of Attraction or call it Positive Psychology – I just call it “feeling good!”

Positive Psychology is a movement started in 1998 by two psychologists, Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentamihalvi who believed the academic study of and therapy with communities and people that are happy and thriving is worth developing into a scientific field.  If one can study happy people and groups like families, perhaps this could lead to treating people who are unhappy or groups who are at odds with each, perhaps even eventually end war because everyone can learn how to be happy and how to be happy with other people.

Researchers attempting to quantify some statistics about happiness have come up with several different “life experience questionnaires” that rate pleasure before, during and after a particular incident.  Other theories have been based on studies of the brains in MRIs by neuroscientists which have shown differences in brain activities as a result of pleasurable or non-pleasurable events.

What affects happiness?  Is it money?  Is it the weather?  Are people who are religious and have faith happier than atheists or agnostics?  Are married people happier than single people?  These and so much more influence our positivity and if you are not happy and want to be happier, it might be worth your while to talk to a Positive Psychologist!  A good place to start or to find someone to help you  become more positive is to visit the website of Dr. Martin Seligman, founder of the movement, at the University of Pennsylvania – http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/Default.aspx.

People who are positive may live longer, look better, be healthier, and have better relationships!

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