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…….take advantage of the moments you have in your life. Really, for all the planning and dreams, you are living your dream IF YOU MAKE IT SO! No matter what is happening, stressful or not, you are in charge of how you respond and the choices you make!
Yesterday I saw an unbelievable woman at the grocery store yesterday. As I started across the street to the store I saw an elderly woman who was totally bent with her face looking at the road. She couldn’t look a head nor to the sides. With cane in hand she began the long walk across the street.
I wanted to do something. Suddenly I felt protective of her and started walking slower. I wanted to see her safely to the store. I hesitated to ask if she needed help because she was okay and keeping her freedom in the ability to do it herself. Together, she slowly, and I quietly, made our way across the road.
She made it and I sighed a breath of relief. My immediate thoughts fast-forwarded to the moment and I realized how grateful I should be for what I have this moment. Fleeting they are.
Earlier I went to physical therapy for my wrist. It’s still very painful but yesterday I went several hours with little pain. 
When I came to a big mess of traffic and road construction I saw a little old lady, and I mean LITTLE and VERY OLD! She was so skinny and her white thick hair fell in curls to her shoulder. She rode right along with traffic then headed across the street to the construction area. There she enjoyed the downhill slope and her speed increased. She maneuvered and wiggled her way to a point of less traffic and no construction.
Again I sighed a breath of relief for her safety. It made me realize that even when we get very old we still have the choice of what we will do and the state of our minds. She needed to (or wanted to) ride that bike exactly where she was. She did it. If I’d seen her in a market I would NEVER have believed it.\
Take a lesson from these wise women who forge ahead no matter what the circumstance. We are young and healthy. Get to it, and smile and laugh often.
Cuddle today. A child, a grandma, a partner, anyone you can! It’s healing for you both. If you don’t have anyone to cuddle catch the hug I am sending via cyberspace, and hug yourself!
CREATE a wonderful day!
Our human body is magical, incredible, and it can be self-healing if you just learn some basics. We aren’t taught the basics in school. It should be required. “Body basics 101″.
For instance: Did you know that a complex part of our brain called the autonomic nervous system prepares our body when stress enters the picture. It’s called the “fight or flight” response. The autonomic nervous system was ONCE thought to be so automatic it was beyond our control.
Without you even realizing it your body prepares for danger by slowing digestion so that blood may be directed to the muscles and the brain. It is more important to be alert and strong in the face of danger than to digest food. Isn’t that cool?
Your breathing gets faster to supply more oxygen for the muscles. The heart speeds up, blood pressure soars and forces blood to parts of the body that need it. (Remember your heart beginning to pound fast when you are stressed?)
Perspiration increases to cool the body. This allows you to burn more energy. Muscles tense
and prepare for action. Chemicals are released to make your blood clot more rapidly. If you are injured this clotting can reduce blood loss. Sugars and fats pour into the blood to provide fuel for quick energy.
This body magic is done automatically for you when stress enters, when you are injured, or fearful. It can be invaluable for survival in critical situations.
The problem with this automatic magic is that if it happens too often, it can take a toll on your body, spirit, and your mind! This is why it is important to learn to recognize and manage stress. It will put you in charge of your own life. You will absolutely be able to learn “other methods” to address most stress.
To reiterate, in critical situations, these automatic responses could save you. In everyday situations, however, you just waste all the value of the response mechanism. After repeated times you can actually damage your body.
You can learn through exercising your mind to slow your breathing, calm your heart rate, lower your blood pressure, relax those muscles and make optimum decisions during stressful times.
Think about it. Now take a breath and learn to relax!
When you learn to deal with anger skillfully it can lead to LIBERATION. Life is relentless and demanding in nature. We are tested daily in patience, tolerance, generosity, and the use of our intelligence.
Each situation is unique and the wisdom to handle situations must be dug from deep within us to find a resolve. Each challenge we face can throw us into a rage. We become aggravated, enraged, and then derail our best intentions by contaminating all the good we seek to do initially.
We impose our own anxieties on others and our mode of interaction, with even our loved ones, we become torqued out of shape. We let our anger compound allowing the situation to spin further out of control. Many times we have unrealistic expectations of solving problems and that adds to the “life and death” struggle we have already placed in our hands.
These encounters with anger test our spiritual mettle as well. They escalate in a hair’s breath. One moment we are engaged in working on resolve, and the next we are ANGERED beyond even our own control.
There are people who are spending their life time in prison because their anger got the better of them. Relationships have been ruined, and children scarred because we haven’t learned to
use the gift of oxygen when a problem arises.
Do not indulge in this aggression. At the very moment you feel flushed and peaked to anger, take a breath! I am serious. When we are in pain we hold our breath. When we are angry we also have a tendency to hold our breath! The old “fight or flight” syndrome kicks into action.
The danger in NOT breathing is NOT making rational decisions! When our brains suffer from lack of oxygen, our intellect dwindles, insuring we won’t turn the scenario into a positive situation. You can be sure you will “retaliate” in some manner that just plainly screws things up even worse!
INITALLY to find that self control I repeat: Take a breath. Stop for 30 seconds and take a few breaths. In doing just this, your mind and body will relax a bit, you will lower your blood pressure, and your intellect will be established fully again.
Use your oxygen to think more effectively on how you will handle any state of anger you find yourself feeling. Empower yourself with your secret weapon – your oxygen! It is your first line of defense against negative anger. It will put you in control of your bodily responses and possibly keep you from making a dreadful mistake.
If this sounds just too easy, it is! What is a bit more difficult is to get into the habit of doing
this. We habitually get angry and defensive. We make rash and sometimes terrible decisions.
ANGER IS TOTALLY DAMAGING TO OUR PHYSICAL WELLBEING! It can
cause nervous breakdowns, heart attacks, and more……protect yourself by empowering yourself with your own defense: Use your oxygen!
REMEMBER: if you find yourself getting angry take 30 seconds and use your oxygen. YOU will be the one in the situation who makes the better decisions and actually is visibly more together. Anyone can loose control. It takes an intelligent person, one who actually cares about doing the right thing, to work towards trashing the out of control anger. The only thing loosing your cool does is make you look like a fool and throw your body and mind into a terrible state.
Keep your cool and act the wiser individual? OR loose your cool and look the fool? You pick.
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