Take A Moment To Reflect

Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day:  A dear friend of mine sends me daily affirmations from Yehuda Berg (thank you, Lady).  The madness of the holidays is upon us and sometimes, we question events in our lives - especially at this time of year.  I thought I would share this with all of you today.  Read it and reflect:

Not Having The Answers
Monday November 25, 2013
When you don’t understand why things are the way they are in your life, don’t rush to find reasons. It’s okay not to have all the answers. Sometimes trusting everything is happening for a reason, is much more powerful than knowing the reason.

Where Are You And What Do You Want

In an Iyengar yoga class yesterday, the instructor gave us an intention to contemplate while doing our practice: "where are you and what do you want?".  This translated in my mind to 'I am here and now and I want it all'.  Part of this intention requires a plan and sticking to the intention given a well thought-out motis operandum.  This includes saying what I mean and doing what I say I will do.  Integrity, honor, and discipline go into this mix.  Too often, I encounter people who have no intentions, no plan, have no idea where they are nor what they want in this life.  They are the drifters....they wander here and there, but never attain a place because they've never had a real goal.

Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day:  stop for a minute today and think:  where am I?  What is it that I want?  Health, happiness, wealth, travel, business - make your answer your intention.  Have a plan and practice integrity, honor and discipline; in the end, you will get what you want.  Remember, we all stumble and have to tweak the motis operandum from time to time, but it is your friends that will see you through.  True frieinds are your looking glass consciousness and will call you when you don't say what you mean or don't do what you say!

Receiving the Smile Back

A few days ago, I wrote about the flowerbed that I started and how so many individuals became involved in my project.  The smiles that this little patch of hostas has given so many is truly remarkable.  Today, a patient of mine surprised me with a lovely ornamental basil plant to add to the flowerbed.  It 'will go to seed and before you know it, you'll have a whole lot of them for next year' is what my patient told me.  I was thrilled to receive this wonderful healthy and beautiful plant that will work in perfectly with all those hostas.

Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day:  When you put good intentions out there and help to make people smile and laugh, sometimes it comes back around the bend to you.  I got such a smile from this plant today....the circle is complete.  Remember, what goes around, comes around.  Try to throw some good vibes out there today!  There will be no blog tomorrow...I'm goin' fishin'!

And Life Goes On

Over the weekend, as I was working on my latest landscaping project, I observed a dead beaver near the woods where I was dumping weeds and old branches.  He was lying flat on his back, eyes closed and, as the life had left him, his little body was flat from the lack of soul.  He must have been dragged from the Basherkill Preserve nearby, as there were smooth stones still attached to his body.  I looked up at the trees and there were three turkey buzzards perched in the branches ( I never knew how big those birds actually were!), eyeing me cautiously as I moved from the dead beaver.  I told them to relax, I was leaving, and what was left next weekend when I returned to my project, I would bury.  The chain and miracle of Mother Nature...one life lost to feed many others...it is the nature of Things - The Dao.
This is the final blog for this week; don't worry, I'll be back on Monday!  I'm off to a cadaver class to further enhance my learning and skills.  For you folks out there who have never taken a cadaver class....first of all, it's not 'gross' or 'disgusting' or 'creepy'....it is the self-sacrifice of one person to donate their body so that medicine and learning can progress; so that the healing of others can continue and cures can be found for various diseases by the examination and study of the human body.  The cadaver is treated with the utmost respect and nothing can compare to this learning experience.  One life ends so that many others can live...it is the nature of Things - The Dao.

Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day:  Consider this today - when you're dead, you're dead.  Your soul is separated from your physical.  Your various organs can be donated so that other lives can continue.  Give organ donation a second thought today - be an integral part of the nature of Things - The Dao.
Have a good week/weekend....see you all on Monday!