How Are We Like Horton the Elephant? Read On...

Our health is so important to our well-being. But, did you know that our emotions and feelings are connected to our health? Every cell communicates with one another. I liken it to the Dr. Seuss story, Horton Hears a Who.

Horton the elephant took responsibility to save this "world" that existed on the fluff of a weed. That is how we are in a way. We have our thoughts. They are powerful. More powerful than we often realize. And, our thoughts are responsible for the welfare of the trillions of cells within us.

There are outside influences, of course, such as the chemicals in the environment and the foods we eat that can influence our health. We have to be wise and avoid harmful, non-nutritive foods and substances for our body's sake. However, we can contribute health and wellness or we can contribute sickness to our own bodies by what we think and feel, too. Our emotions play a vital part in our own well-being.

Take responsibility for the world within you. Choose to have happy thoughts, and thus happier cells. Dwell on thoughts of peace and prosperity. Guard your thoughts so as not to slip back in the past, or harbor regret. Enjoy every moment of every day and embrace life. You'll see better health if you enter each day with a cheerful heart.

In love & joy,
Donna

Cheerfulness As A Life Giver!

Greetings to you. I love the topic of cheerfulness. People tell me that it's hard to be always cheerful in the world we live in today. There are so many that express depression, worry, and sadness that keeps them from feeling joy. However, cheerfulness is Life-Power. So what can we do to find cheerfulness? It's hiding within you.

Try this: Sit quietly in your favorite spot. Breathe deeply and think very happy thoughts. Think upon a very happy memory, or a vision of what would make you happy. Make it as real as if you have already done it. Feel it! Bring those feelings deep within you-into your gut. This is so important because cheerfulness brings health and well-being to your very soul. It's vital for a healthy life.

Do this several times a day. Laugh out loud, too. Make your own world of cheerfulness. I promise you: If you do this every day for a week, you will begin to feel better. You'll feel more peace within yourself. You'll start loving yourself and the world around you more.

If everyone knew the power of cheerfulness as a health tonic, and the power of laughter as a life-prolonger, the sadness which now clouds the minds of so many would disappear, and I suspect that doctors would find fewer patients in their waiting rooms. Our emotions affect us just as much as the foods we eat and the outside elements do.

Try this little experiment. Let me know how you're doing. You are an awesome creation and deserve a life filled with joy. God bless you.

In joy,
Donna

"Laughter heals the heart."

"Father, We Thank Thee"

Wishing you a beautiful Sunday...

“We Thank Thee”
For the flowers that bloom about our feet;
For the song of bird and the hum of bee;
For all things fair we hear and see,
Father in heaven we thank Thee!
For the blue of the stream and the blue of the sky;
For the pleasant shade of branches high;
For the fragrant air and the cooling breeze;
For the beauty of the blooming trees,
Father in heaven we thank Thee!
For the mother-love and father -care,
For brothers strong and sisters fair;
For the love at home and here each day;
For guidance lest we go astray,
Father in heaven we thank Thee!
For this new morning with its light;
For rest and shelter of the night;
For health and food, for love and friends;
For everything His goodness sends,
Father in heaven we Thank Thee! –Ralph Waldo Emerson
Amen

Taking Time Off-Conclusion

Whether you take time off every day to do something that you love, or you take that once a year vacation, do so with joy in your heart. Leave your cares behind! Don't worry about the house that didn't get cleaned or the extra paperwork you meant to do at the office. Put your mind as well as your body at rest and just enjoy the moment.

Busy moms absolutely need time off once in awhile. The doctor or lawyer needs to take a break. The store clerk and student needs time to recreate. No matter what your vocation or lifestyle, inorder to have joy in living, make the time to have fun. Make time to relax. It is good for your spirit and your health.

To your good health and well-being,
Donna

Are You A Baby Boomer?

If you are, you're like my husband and I who are Baby Boomers: The group of adults born shortly after WWII who watched shows on those little, itty-bitty TV's which had one or two stations and the indian when there wasn't a show to view. That was a few years ago, and times have changed. We've come a long way, and we're "still here" as the song goes.

Many of the people we've met of our age look at themselves and wish they were younger again-wish they felt younger again. Do you ever long for the good ol' days and wish for the past days of youth? If so, there is a secret. If you wish to remain young, carry the joyousness and buoyancy of all those former years with you into the coming years: Be young at heart and in mind.

My husband has an analogy that I like. He says, "I hear many say,'I'm reaching on in years. The Bible says that man's life will be 3 score and 10 years,' and they just accept that that should be their lifetime as if it were written in stone. I just got tired of hearing that phrase and went back to when God was talking in Genesis, when he said that our years would be 120. I accept that. It means we're just middle age. We've got a lot of living to do!"

He has a very optimistic outlook, and I love that. That's having a thought world like Ruskin describes when he wrote, "Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us yet know, for none of us have been taught in early youth, what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought--proof against all adversity."

If you would have your body be strong, be in good health, and beautiful as in your younger years, think young. Think happy. Think love, and you will internalize those thoughts in your body. In the degree you keep young in thought, will you remain young in body. In turn your body will aid your mind, for the body helps the mind the same as the mind helps the body.

In addition, never ever stop learning new things, going to new places, and meeting new friends. Never stop playing or having fun, and laughing out loud. And, never give up on your dreams. All these things gets one out of the ruts of life, and makes everyday a new adventure-one to look forward to. Keep building your "fairy palaces of beautiful thought" no matter what your age.

Live life to the fullest everyday,
Donna

Abounding Health

If we continually see ourselves as frail, weak, or infirm, our subconscious mind takes hold of that thought, seizes upon the pattern that is sent, and builds cell structure accordingly. That is one reason why one, who is chronically thinking and talking of their ailments and symptoms or who is complaining and fearing, is never truly well. It is when we live half-hearted by worrying or fearing, vacillating between faith and fear, which always will bring unsatisfactory results in life and your health.

That is why it is so important to to believe, and picture yourself in your mind continually as well, strong, healthy, and active to furnish a pattern for the mind to follow. Give a positive suggestion to the subconscious so that it will begin to build cell tissue having the "stamp," if you will, of the force of healthy, vital, active life, which in turns means abounding health and strength for you. Whatever is pictured in the mind and lived in, the Life Force will produce.

It may take time. However, there is so much benefit to living in JOY, love, happiness, and faith-assured, un-vacillating faith. Live it. Feel it. Make it a part of your very being. Your cells will love you for it.

Stay happy, & God bless you,
Donna

Health Through Love

In a sense love is everything. It is the key to life, to our happiness, and to our health: Yes, our health. We must be diligent in eating right, and by getting enough exercise, fresh air, sunshine, and good water. However, in addition, we must think and feel love thoughts-happy thoughts, if we are to stay healthy.

A prophet of old proclaimed a wonderful chemistry of life: "A merry heart doeth good like medicine." And the beauty of it is that it does good not only for yourself, but your partner, neighbors, and your friends.

I well know that this works. I was home-bound and frequently totally bedridden for weeks on end over a period of 11 years from an injury. With the prospect of being in a wheel chair, I took this scripture very seriously. In my thoughts and conversation, I had to begin to speak ONLY love/happy thoughts and very often that wasn't the easiest thing to do. Do you remember what I said of Helen Keller in a former post? She said she had to "jealously guard her thoughts." I had to do the same.

To dwell on the negative side of things is always destructive. This is true of the body the same as it is true of everything else. I literally began to send love thoughts with strong feeling out to every cell of my body while visualizing wholeness in every area, and I continue to do that. As a result, my state of health began to improve, and keeps on improving. Thinking and feeling happy thoughts, also, helped to maintain a good relationship with my family and spouse during some very difficult years.

It hasn't happened overnight. However, I have learned that through faith, patience and perseverance in guarding my thoughts, there is no condition , no experience that rightly viewed and rightly turned and used will not bring us stores of good through love.

Are you in a state of poor health? You can do the same. More on this tomorrow...

Have a beautiful, joyful, hope-filled day,
Donna

Be Cheerful!

"Be cheerful. Give this lonesome world a smile.

We stay longest but a little while.

Hasten we must, or we shall lose a chance

To give the gentle word, the kindly glance.

Be sweet and tender--that is doing good;

Tis doing what no other kind deed could."

Joyous is nature's garb of health.--Lamartine

Have a great day,

Donna