Month: December 2019

🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Make Time To Talk

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Connecting Is A Great Way to Life Your Spirits

Whether you’re baring your soul or just discussing the weather, talking with others can make you feel more connected and involved. Even striking up a group chat with your friends is a great way to feel less alone.

If you need professional support, there are free hotlines you can call like the National Alliance on Mental Illness Helpline or the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration National Helpline. Hate talking on the phone? You can also send a message to the Crisis Text Line, which provides support from highly trained counselors for no fee.

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🍎 Health Hack ~ Battling a Sore Throat?

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Sip Some Tea

A warm cup of tea may provide relief when you have a sore throat, but it may also help prevent you from getting sick too. “In order to stay healthy, it’s important to stay hydrated. One way to do that is to drink tea,” says Dr. Segal.

But not all teas are created equal. Dr. Segal recommends sipping on green, black or white tea, since they contain powerful antioxidants that can help your body eliminate bacteria that cause colds or the flu.

For a little extra protection, drizzle some honey into your tea. Research has shown that honey has the power to kill bacteria.

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Today’s Smile 😃

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Why was the computer so tired when it got home?

Because it had a hard drive!

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Today’s Poem ~ You, You Only, Exist

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You, You Only Exist

Rainer Maria Rilke

You, you only, exist.
We pass away, till at last,
our passing is so immense
that you arise: beautiful moment,
in all your suddenness,
arising in love, or enchanted
in the contraction of work.

To you I belong, however time may
wear me away. From you to you
I go commanded. In between
the garland is hanging in chance; but if you
take it up and up and up: look:
all becomes festival!

💫 Inspiring Hack ~ Don’t Stop Dreaming

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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

🖋 Writers’ Wisdom ~ George Orwell’s 6 Tips for Writers

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1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

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🍎 Health Hack ~ Exercise Is a Great Medicine

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Know Someone With Diabetes? Exercise May Be a Big Help

For people who have diabetes—or almost any other disease, for that matter—the benefits of exercise can’t be overstated. Exercise helps control weight, lower blood pressure, lower harmful LDL cholesterol and triglycerides, raise healthy HDL cholesterol, strengthen muscles and bones, reduce anxiety, and improve your general well-being. There are added benefits for people with diabetes: exercise lowers blood glucose levels and boosts your body’s sensitivity to insulin, countering insulin resistance.

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Today’s Poem ~ One Day I Wrote Her Name

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One Day I Wrote Her Name

Edmund Spencer

One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
“Vain man,” said she, “that dost in vain assay,
A mortal thing so to immortalize;
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eke my name be wiped out likewise.”
“Not so,” (quod I) “let baser things devise
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
My verse your vertues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name:
Where whenas death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew.”

🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Hugs Are a Feel Good Thing

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Give Yourself a Hug

You know those warm fuzzies you feel when you get a hug from a pal? You actually trigger that same release of oxytocin and reduction of cortisol in yourself via touch. Expert in the field of self-compassion Kristin Neff says squeezing, stroking, or rocking your body when you’re nervous can effectively tap into feel-good sensations—excellent for when your self-confidence is faltering before a presentation.

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Today’s Smile 😃

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I told my physical therapist that I broke my arm in two places.

My therapist told me to stop going to those places.

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