Month: February 2020

🍎 Health Tip ~ Try Some Stress Busting Eats

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Stress-Busting Foods: How They Work

Foods can help tame stress in several ways. Comfort foods, like a bowl of warm oatmeal, boost levels of serotonin, a calming brain chemical. Other foods can cut levels of cortisol and adrenaline, stress hormones that take a toll on the body over time. A healthy diet can help counter the impact of stress by shoring up the immune system and lowering blood pressure. Do you know which foods are stress busters?

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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ What Interests You?

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“My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.” ~ Susan Sontag

👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Putting it Behind Me

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I’m going to put this cloud behind me and walk into the light.   

🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Love Finds a Way

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“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.”

~ Ivan Panin

Today’s Smile 😃

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Question: Why are frogs always so happy?

Answer: They eat what ever bugs them.

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🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ G’on, Let it Go

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Let go of patterns and relationships that no longer serve you. Let go of unnecessary guilt and anxiety. Surround yourself with those who love you, believe in you, and want the best for you.

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Today’s Poem ~ She Walks in Beauty

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She walks in Beauty

Lord Byron

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

🍎 Health Tip ~ Want to Live Longer?

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Simple Changes Can Help You to Live Longer

A 20-year study of more than 111,000 people found that a healthy lifestyle could increase life expectancy free from three common chronic diseases by up to 10 years for women and seven years for men. The key healthy lifestyle traits explored were: never smoking; a healthy diet; a body mass index of 18.5 to 24.9; at least 30 minutes’ moderate to vigorous exercise each day; and a moderate alcohol intake – no more than a small glass of wine or pint of beer a day. Women aged 50 who met four or five of these criteria were likely to live another 34 years without contracting cancer, cardiovascular disease or type 2 diabetes. This is 10 years longer than those who followed none of these practices. For men, the average expectancy was another 31 years of disease-free life – seven years more than those who had less healthy lifestyles.

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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Apprenticeship of Writing

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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

~ Ernest Hemingway

🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Love & Kindness

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“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference.”

~ Helen James

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