Joe: “Pete, Do you want to hear a COVID-19 joke?”
Pete: “Sure.”
Joe: “I’ll tell you a COVID-19 joke now, but you’ll have to wait two weeks to see if you got it.”
Month: June 2020
🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ Want to Stop Constant Snacking?
Keep the Kitchen Clean
In a chaotic, messy kitchen, women eat twice as many cookies, a 2016 Cornell study found. That’s because the disarray primes us for a lack of self-control and also can cause stress — both of which make us want to eat, says Wansink. However, when women have a meditative mindset and feel in control, they’re better able to resist temptation, the study showed. “You’ve got two choices: You can learn how to meditate, or you can clean your kitchen,” Wansink says.
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “All the nail salons, hair salons, waxing centers and tanning places are closed because of COVID-19.”
Pete: “I heard about that.”
Joe: “It’s about to get ugly out there.”
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Check Out of the News and Check In to Something That Makes You Laugh
A Good Laugh has Great Short-term Effects
When you start to laugh, it doesn’t just lighten your load mentally, it actually induces physical changes in your body. Laughter can:
- Stimulate many organs. Laughter enhances your intake of oxygen-rich air, stimulates your heart, lungs and muscles, and increases the endorphins that are released by your brain.
- Activate and relieve your stress response. A rollicking laugh fires up and then cools down your stress response, and it can increase and then decrease your heart rate and blood pressure. The result? A good, relaxed feeling.
- Soothe tension. Laughter can also stimulate circulation and aid muscle relaxation, both of which can help reduce some of the physical symptoms of stress.
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Making Characters Real
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
~ Ernest Hemingway
🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ What Is The Healthiest Fish to Eat?
It’s a No Brainer
Not all fish is created equal. Salmon — and other fatty types of fish — contain the greatest amount of omega-3s fatty acids. Omega-3s are extremely important for the optimal function of your body. They’re linked to improved wellbeing and a lower risk of many serious diseases (1).
Although salmon is mainly prized for its beneficial composition of fatty acids, it also packs a massive amount of other nutrients. A 100-gram piece of wild salmon contains 2.8 grams of omega-3s, along with lots of high-quality animal protein and ample vitamins and minerals, including large amounts of magnesium, potassium, selenium and B vitamins (2). Studies show that people who eat fatty fish regularly have a lower risk of heart disease, dementia, depression and many other common diseases (3Trusted Source, 4Trusted Source, 5Trusted Source, 6).
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ A Tear and a Smile
A Tear and a Smile
Khalil Gibran
I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart
For the joys of the multitude.
And I would not have the tears that sadness makes
To flow from my every part turn into laughter.
I would that my life remain a tear and a smile.
A tear to purify my heart and give me understanding
Of life’s secrets and hidden things.
A smile to draw me nigh to the sons of my kind and
To be a symbol of my glorification of the gods.
A tear to unite me with those of broken heart;
A smile to be a sign of my joy in existence.
I would rather that I died in yearning and longing than that I live Weary and despairing.
I want the hunger for love and beauty to be in the
Depths of my spirit,for I have seen those who are
Satisfied the most wretched of people.
I have heard the sigh of those in yearning and Longing, and it is sweeter than the sweetest melody.
With evening’s coming the flower folds her petals
And sleeps, embracingher longing.
At morning’s approach she opens her lips to meet
The sun’s kiss.
The life of a flower is longing and fulfilment.
A tear and a smile.
The waters of the sea become vapor and rise and come
Together and are a cloud.
And the cloud floats above the hills and valleys
Until it meets the gentle breeze, then falls weeping
To the fields and joins with brooks and rivers to Return to the sea, its home.
The life of clouds is a parting and a meeting.
A tear and a smile.
And so does the spirit become separated from
The greater spirit to move in the world of matter
And pass as a cloud over the mountain of sorrow
And the plains of joy to meet the breeze of death
And return whence it came.
To the ocean of Love and Beauty—-to God.
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ The Start of Wisdom
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
~William James
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Some Things You Just Do
My face mask is not a good look but I’m wearing it anyway. I owe it to everyone I pass by.
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ I Can Choose
I can choose how I respond to any situation. I will see with eyes of love and heart filled with hope and courage.
