Regardless of the weather, let's navigate health together!
HAPPINESS
Dis-ease may contribute to disease.
Conversely, combined with medicine, positive mindset is empowering.
Ebb
Clear
Let Go
Exhale
Expire
Respire
Inspire
Inhale
Welcome
Accept
Flow
MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
Exhale = Expire
Breath = Respire
Inhale = Inspire
BREATHE
Spiritual well-being begins with respiration,
the root being spire/spirit,
the dynamic energy interplay
connecting the physical body with the universe.
While otherwise still,
breathing that is slow, deep, smooth, and rhythmic
relaxes us while improving oxygenation and blood pressure.
It brings awareness to the present here and now.
Ahhhhhhhhh.
MINDFULNESS
non-judgmental observation/experience of being
GRIEF
Everything that we love, we lose.
The universal law of impermanence tells us that.
Grief and loss are an essential part of the human experience.
It's an inevitable form of suffering that every single one of us will face.
suffering = pain x resistance
~ Sky Jarrett
GRATITUDE MINDSET
It starts with the dialogue between one's ears.
Bliss comes from within.
FUNDAMENTALS
+Abundance
+Appreciation of Others
+Focus on What One Has
+Awe
+Behavior
+No/Positive Social Comparison
+Impermanence
+Present Moment
~ Gratitude White Papers, Greater Good Science Center
INNER DIALOGUE EXAMPLES
+ I have so much in life to be thankful for.
+ I'm really thankful for family, friends, co-workers, tribe.
+ I reflect on how fortunate I am to have basic things like fresh clean air, running water, food, clothing, shelter, and freedom.
+ When I see natural beauty I feel awestruck.
+ I use rituals to remind myself to be grateful.
+ I do not compare myself to others and if so do not envy. Each person has their own hardships .
+ The future is uncertain so I live now to the fullest.
+ I enjoy life as it is; now is a gift called the present.
GRATITUDE IN PHILOSPHY
Of all crimes that human creatures are capable of committing, the most horrid and unnatural is ingratitude ~ Hume
Gratitude is essential for maintaining a society based on goodwill. ~ Adam Smith
The key to happiness is to be grateful for the simple pleasures of life. ~ Epicurus
Gratitude is more than the greatest virtue, it is the mother of all the other remaining virtues.” ~ Cicero
There is no way to happiness.
Happiness is the way.
NATIVE AMERICAN
POEM
I WALK IN BEAUTY
There is beauty before me.
There is beauty behind me.
There is beauty above me.
There is beauty below me.
There is beauty around me.
It is finished in beauty.
It is finished in beauty.
It is finished in beauty.