Showing posts with label healing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healing. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Take A Breath


Exhale.

Sometimes life hands us people that work very hard to diminish us. Bullys, show-offs, people entrenched in competition or one-upsmanship, and people that hold grudges. These people might talk behind our backs, steal our ideas or thunder, or diminish us right to our faces. They can eat us up and break us down and make us forget how many people really love and value us. The trick, I think, is to pay them no mind at all. The trick, is to just let karma set it's own course and turn our attentions to more productive voices. The trick, it to treat them like what they are, allergens that fill the air around us and kick start our defense mechanism and stress responses. So go ahead, filter those people, their word and actions right out. And I mean literally. Stop hanging out with that friend that drags you down. Set some boundaries with that pushy coworker. Filter anyone who does not make you happy out of your social media feed. Stop going to the weekly thing you go to where that toxic person is, you can find another weekly thing that doesn't stress you out. Filter your social space just like you filter your air. It works.


Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Take Care of You



Heal.

There are some illnesses and injuries that are neither life threatening nor particularly treatable.  In these cases the frustrating answer from health specialists is rest, eat good food, and, in general, take good care of yourself.  Recovery never seems to be as fast as we would like it to be.  I do however enjoy the side benefit of being forced to create new, healthier habits and hopefully drop some old, less healthy ones.  Try as we might we all have vices, proclivities, weaknesses, and things we simply just don't like to do.  But when it comes down to it, our day to day choices are the single most important thing for our health, make them good ones.

Michael Pollen's Resources for Food and Eating:
http://michaelpollan.com/resources/

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