They all laughed when I told them that one day I would discover the secrets of invisibility.
If only they could see me now.
Month: November 2019
✨ Inspiring Quote ~ You Are Strong
When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us. ~ Thomas Merton
🖋 Writers’ Wisdom ~ Uncage the KAT
“When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don’t know where the story’s going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.” ~
🍎 Health Hack ~ Choose Real, Whole Foods
Eat whole, real foods.
Make it your goal to have most of your nourishment come from unprocessed, real foods that are as close to the source as possible. What does that mean? Check out the ingredients. If you are eating a handful of almonds for a snack, the only ingredient should be just that: almonds! Whole foods fill your body with more vitamins and minerals, the nutrition we need to stay healthy on the inside.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ A Grateful Heart Works Wonders
Have a Grateful Heart
If you can be happy with simple things, then it will be simple to be happy. Find a book or a journal, or start a website, and write down three to five things you’re grateful for from the past week. … Some people write in a notebook by their bedside. In 2003, researchers Robert Emmons and Michael McCullough asked groups of students to write down five gratitudes, hassles, or events over the past week for ten weeks. The students who wrote five gratitudes were happier and physically healthier.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~It Pays to Remember
The 20-Minute Replay
Writing for twenty minutes about a positive experience dramatically improves happiness. Why? Because you actually relive the experience as you’re writing it and then relive it every time you read it. Your brain sends you back. In a University of Texas study called “How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Words,” researchers Richard Slatcher and James Pennebaker had one member of a couple write about their relationship for twenty minutes three times a day. Compared to the test group, the couple was more likely to engage in intimate dialogue afterward and the relationship was more likely to last. What does the 20-Minute Replay do? It helps us remember things we like about people and experiences in our lives.
🖋 Writers’ Wisdom ~ Writer’s Block Be Gone
“To unlock the writer’s block is to keep writing until you can unknot the “not”. If you cannot, then put a can in the plot and unwrap it a lot!” ~
Today’s Poem ~ There is Strength in Proving it Can be Borne
There is Strength in Proving it Can be Borne
by Emily Dickinson
There is strength in proving that it can be borne
Although it tear —
What are the sinews of such cordage for
Except to bear
The ship might be of satin had it not to fight —
To walk on seas requires cedar Feet
Although it tear —
What are the sinews of such cordage for
Except to bear
The ship might be of satin had it not to fight —
To walk on seas requires cedar Feet
✨ Inspiring Quote ~ You Are Strong
You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice. ~ Bob Marley
🍎 Health Hack ~ Exercise is Good for Your Memory
Remember less as the years go by? You’re not imagining things: Your memory declines about 2 percent each decade because your hippocampus (the part of your brain that stores memories) literally shrinks. But you can even the playing field by keeping up with regular exercise, says neurologist Majid Fotuhi, M.D., Ph.D., director of NeurExpand Brain Center, and author of Boost Your Brain. “A third of your brain is made up of blood vessels, so it makes sense that your physical fitness impacts your brain health,” Fotuhi says. “Research shows that after a yearlong exercise program, the size of the hippocampus increases by about 2 percent, which effectively reverses age-related brain loss.”
