The day you understand who you are and love what you discovered, you’ll rejoice and start singing.
Month: March 2021
🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ Is Gardening Good for Your Health?
Gardening Has Many Health Benefits
A study showed that engaging with a garden distracts us from our worries and stops us from obsessing about our problems. Over 12 weeks, participants saw an improvement in the severity of their depression during and immediately after the gardening study, and three months later, they still reported significant improvements! Japanese researchers discovered that spending 30 minutes in the woods could not only lower cortisol levels, but could also improve heart rates and blood pressure. Similarly, another study showed that after 30 minutes of gardening, participants’ cortisol levels dropped and their moods were boosted by the activity. The takeaway? Spending just half an hour with your hands in the soil, surrounded by vegetation, can provide serious benefits for your body, mind and overall health. Interested? Here are some tips to help you get started.
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ There are No Rules on How to Write
Hemingway on How to Write
“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Early Spring
Early Spring
Rainer Maria Rilke
Harshness vanished. A sudden softness
has replaced the meadows’ wintry grey.
Little rivulets of water changed
their singing accents. Tendernesses,
has replaced the meadows’ wintry grey.
Little rivulets of water changed
their singing accents. Tendernesses,
hesitantly, reach toward the earth
from space, and country lanes are showing
these unexpected subtle risings
that find expression in the empty trees.
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Embrace Life
Choose to slam the door on your fears today. Choose to embrace live with joy, hope, and love in your heart.
🤗 A Better Life ~ You Are the Architect of Your Life
What would your life look like if you could recreate yourself? Why not start now? Become the architect of your life. Don’t wait. You will create a masterpiece.
🤗 A Better Life ~ Discover the Difference
Is it possible to set differences aside and together discover what unites? One doesn’t lose anything, one gains from the new discoveries. I’ve seen it time and again.
🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ Is Smiling Related to Health?
Smile On and Reap the Health Benefits
Whether you call it a grin, smirk, beam or smile, there’s no denying the feel-good power of this happy facial expression. We are born with the ability to smile, yet as we age, we smile less often. Research shows that children smile an average of 400 times per day, compared to the average happy adult who smiles 40-50 times per day and the typical adult who smiles only 20 times per day. Why is smiling important? Smiling not only offers a mood boost but helps our bodies release cortisol and endorphins that provide numerous health benefits, including:
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- Reduced blood pressure
- Increased endurance
- Reduced pain
- Reduced stress
- Strengthened immune system
Furthermore, studies show that people who smile appear more likeable, courteous and competent. Smilers tend to be more productive at work and make more money.
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “My wife asked me to bring the baby to her.”
Pete: “Did you?”
Joe: “I told her wait until he crises because I couldn’t find him.”
