Living So Much Better On So Much Less.

The key to life is not a Secret! The key to life is to open up and SHARE!
FROM TOXINS AND TERRORISTS TO PEACEFUL WARRIORS AND GENTLE HEALING STORMS....
How would you like a health and happiness storm to hit you this year?

Well all righty tighty then, welcome, fellow lovers of life! Come share a little piece of my peaceful storm with me.

Actually it isn't all so peaceful around the big ol' world, but world peace begins with inner peace, prosperity, health and oneness. We need a balance of spiritual, physical and emotional energy plus a good measure of effort to bring the changes we want in our personal world as well as in the world at large. We need to find better ways to bring higher levels of health, wealth and harmony into all of our lives. We are not little islands unto ourselves, what happens to our neighbor, for better or worse, ends up impacting our own balance for better or for worse.

Our world is like one of those mobile things that hang overhead on our patio; it makes tinkling noises when the wind blows. If one piece falls off the whole thing goes out of balance instantly. If one piece is replaced by a piece that is just a shabby chunk of junk the sound it makes is sour and annoying. We all need to stay sharp but mellow, on top of our game, but mindful of others needs and rights to do the same.

One of the greatest abilities we have within our every day activities that actually helps mend the broken places within ourselves, within our families, within our neighborhood our workplace or our school .... within even the most grouchy of people is to do little things that make life a bit easier for those you rub shoulders with, whether you like them or not.

If I do dozens of extra nice little things every day I will feel better about myself and be an example to those who see me do stuff as well as I do a little bit or a lot to change the mood of the recipient of my little nicety. Who knows? It's worth a shot. Better to live this way than any other way, I'll guarantee that!

It is scientifically proven in double blind studies that good little deeds, no matter how small soften the connecting tissue in our body which feels more relaxing, and allows oxygen to flow more freely through our entire cellular system. We likely won't succeed in curing all of our diseases this way, but we certainly will have better mental and emotional health and some measure of better physical health due to the three things mentioned above: one) The psychological effect of knowing you are doing nice things. Two) Significant softening of tissue and extra efficient physiological reactions. Three) Better oxygen flow to brain and other bodily functions.

There are hundreds of big and little things we can do to improve our brain function, our emotional balance, the health of our organs, our finances, our job performance, our relationships with co-workers, neighbors, friends and loved ones. It starts with harmony within ourselves and spreads out to others which goes a long way in mending our corner of the earth.

If we keep doing the nice little things they will become part of us eventually, and while we will did notice that these little things took a little extra time when we first started to do them, our new reality is that they saved us from many large and small irritations further on down the road. Life just got a bit easier and more pleasant. Plus all that extra oxygen in the organs which all works together to create a little more relaxed peaceful feeling within us, especially if we stick with it.

This bulletin just in from the improved version of the brain wave department:
One of the things that would help us feel and perform better is to spend one hour at least once a week all alone looking at awesome vegetable-picture-cook-books (library or thrift store?) making a real deep meditation of it.

Look at the juices, the textures the colors of things in the stew-pot, the green, orange, red, and gold juicy, succulent things on the serving platter. Let your mind and appetite glands get excited. Keep doing this as long and as often as it takes to get you totally excited about running to the fresh vegetable section of the grocery store and buying a half dozen vegetables that turn you on the most.

Go easy here because we don't want you to over-buy so that you get turned off by having to look at shriveled-up, slimy vegetables that you didn't have time or interest in cooking after the buzz of eagerness wore off in your same ol' same ol' kitchen.

Your next best little thing to do will be to poke into your kitchen drawers and cupboards and start grabbing two or three things out of every drawer or shelf; things that you absolutely totally need to prepare a quick meal. No specialized tools, just the most basic of basics, like on a simple cooking show.

Put them all into an unbreakable tall vase or basket and leave them on your counter top. Shut your eyes at all the other stuff that clutters up your counter top and simply but firmly swooooop into a basket, box or drawer and label "stuff for sooner or later" and then start washing your vegetables in warm water and a rough scrub cloth, maybe adding a little vinegar to the water.

When washing stuff to eat stay the heck away from chemical based cleaning agents, please, for your own good! Never mind all the bloody awful hype about poisons, bacteria and crap that comes along into your kitchen clinging to your food, its all a bunch of money grubbing hype to get you to consume cleaning supplies that are not only unnecessary, but more toxic than anything your vegetables ever touched before entering your little kitchen ... although they most assuredly did get touched with unnecessary toxic chemicals, it is nothing that warm water and a little vinegar can't wash off. Adding soaps just adds more toxins than the dirty vegetable came home with in the first place.

Please note that your chances of getting samonella or e-coli illness(even in an epidemic situation!) is about as likely as getting run over by a big bus today. In fact the old terrorist joke applies here: It is far more likely that you will be struck down by a terrorist than getting sick from inadequately washed vegetables... after all the real toxins and terrorists are our governments and all the commerical products that we think are protecting us!

More about this health stuff later.
So for now, have a happy little deed doing today!

Sharing ideas regarding the most prevalent health problems in our lives starting with eating, drinking and making merry in the street.