Ten
Positive Energy Prescriptions:
1. Awaken intuition and rejuvenate yourself.
2. Find a nurturing spiritual path.
3. Design an energy-aware approach to diet, fitness and health.
4. Generate positive emotional energy to counter negativity.
5. Develop a heart-centered sexuality.
6. Open yourself to the flow of inspiration and creativity.
7. Celebrate the sacredness of laughter, pampering, and the replenishment
of retreat.
8. Attract positive people and situations.
9. Protect yourself from energy vampires.
10. Create Abundance.
- Judith Orloff, M.D.. Positive
Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming
Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength and Love.
2004. Resources, index, 353 pages. ISBN: 0609610104.
To laugh often and love much; to win
the respect of intelligent
persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of
honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to
appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self;
to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a
garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and
laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even
one life has breathed easier because you have lived -
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once one knows what really matters,
one ceases to be voluble.
And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing,
doing and thinking - and these are the sum of all wisdom...Both
must move ever onward in life, to and fro, like breathing in and
breathing out. Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought,
thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his
way back to the right road.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Reverse
Your Biological Age by:
1. Changing your perceptions.
2. Deep rest, restful awareness, and restful sleep.
3. Lovingly nurturing you body
through healthy food.
4. Using nutritional complements wisely.
5. Mind/body exercises for enhancing integration.
6. Exercise: strength and aerobic conditioning.
7. Eliminating toxins from you life.
8. Cultivating flexibility and creativity in consciousness.
9. Love and loving relationships.
10. Maintaining a youthful mind.
- Deepak Chopra, M.D. and David
Simon, M.D.. Grow Younger, Live Longer:
Ten Steps to Reverse Aging.
This is what you shall do: Love
the earth and sun and the animals,
despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the
stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate
tyrants, argue not concerning God…
- Walt Witman
Recipe for Staying Young
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctor worry about them.
That is why you pay him/her.
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle.
"An idle mind is the devil's workshop," the devil's name is Alzheimer's.
4. Enjoy the simple things. When the children are young, that is all you can afford. When they are in college,
that is all you can afford. When you are on retirement, that is all you can afford.
5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. Laugh so much that you can be tracked
in the store by your distinctive laughter.
6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is
ourselves. Be alive while you are alive, don't put out a mailbox on the highway of death and just wait
in residence for your mail.
7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it is family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies,
whatever. Your home is your refuge.
8. Cherish your health. If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can
improve, get help.
9. Don't take guilt trips. Go to the mall, the next county, a foreign country, but not to guilt country.
- "Quote of the Week" from the CS Dept Friday Memo, 1/25/2002
Basically, there can only be two
answers. One is to overcome separateness
and find unity by regression to the state of unity which existed before
awareness ever arose, that is, before man was born. The other answer is
to be fully born, to develop one’s awareness, one’s reason, one’s
capacity
to love to such a point that one transcends one’s own egocentric involvement,
and arrives at a new harmony, at a new oneness with the world.
- Erich Fromm
The
Principles of Integrative Medicine:
1. A partnership between patient
and practitioner in the healing process.
2. Appropriate use of conventional
and alternative methods to facilitate the body’s innate
healing response.
3. Consideration of all factors that
influence health, wellness and disease, including mind,
spirit and community as well as body. A philosophy that neither rejects
conventional medicine
nor accepts alternative therapies uncritically.
4. Recognition that good medicine
should be based in good science, be inquiry driven, and be
open to new paradigms.
5. Use of natural, effective,
less-invasive interventions whenever possible.
6. Use of the broader concepts of
promotion of health and the prevention of illness as well
as the treatment of disease.
7. Training of practitioners to be
models of health and healing, committed to the process
of self-exploration and self-development.
- Andrew Weil, M.D..
Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to
Your Physical and Spiritual Well Being.
Four rules of life:
Show up,
Pay attention,
Tell the truth,
Don't be attached to the results.
- Angeles Arrien
Practically speaking, a life that is
vowed to simplicity, appropriate
boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and
lots of walking brings us close to the actual existing world
and its wholeness.
- Gary Snyder
I have come to terms with the future.
From this day onward
I will walk easy on the earth. Plant trees. Kill no living things.
Live in harmony with all creatures. I will restore the earth
where I am. Use no more of its resources than I need.
And listen, listen to what it is telling me.
- M.J. Slim Hooey
"I have done my best."
That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
- Lin Yutang
To educate yourself for the feeling of
gratitude means to take
nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind
that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you
is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the
good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off
the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
- Albert Schweitzer
When it's over, I want to
say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
- Mary Oliver
The clearest sign of wisdom is continued
cheerfulness.
- Michel Montaigne
The colors of the rainbow so pretty
in the sky
Are also on the faces of people goin' by
I see friends shaking hands saying, "How do you do"
They're really saying "I love you."
I hear babies cry, I watch then grow
They'll learn much more than I'll ever know;
And I think to myself, What a wonderful world;
Yes, I think to myself, What a wonderful world.
Oh yeah!
- Louis Armstrong
That a man is successful who has
lived well, laughed often,
and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent
men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and
accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he
found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem,
or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's
beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best
in others and gave the best he had.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Live with intention. Walk to the
edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness.
Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn.
Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there
is.
- Mary Anne Hershey
Contemplate the workings of this world,
listen to the words of the
wise, and take all that is good as your own. With this as your base,
open your own door to truth. Do not overlook the truth that is right
before you. Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly
and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and
wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants,
and trees - should be your teacher.
- Morihei Ueshiba
Joyful is the accumulation of good
work.
- Buddha
This is the joy of life
Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one
Being a force of nature
Instead of a ferverish, selfish, little clod of ailments and grievances
Complaining that the world will not devote itself
To making you happy.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community
And as long as I live, it is my privilege
To do for it what ever I can.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die
For the harder I work, the more I live.
I rejoince in life for its own sake.
Life is no brief candle to me,
It is a sort of splendid torch
Which I've got a hold of for a moment.
And I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on
To future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
Bibliography
Exhuberance: An Affirmative Philosophy of Life.
By Paul Kurtz. Buffalo, New York, Prometheus
Books, 1985. 178 pages.