Tips for self development, spirituality and mentality
Since 1996, Jesse Cannone has devoted his life to helping people reach their fitness goals. He is especially interested in the rehabilitation of people who’ve suffered things like stroke and Parkinson’s disease, so in the process, Jesse has become quite the expert in back pain treatment. He founded The Healthy Back Institute, he has also authored several publications to help people with both pain and fitness issues.
Life isn’t the sweetest candy. Sometimes, when I feel like the world is just too heavy, I look around and find people who continued to live fascinating and wonderful lives. And then thoughts come popping into my mind like bubbles from nowhere - “How did their life become so adorably sweet? How come they still can manage to laugh and play around despite a busy stressful life?” Then I pause and observed for awhile I figured out that maybe, they start to work on a place called ’self’.
Marci Shimoff, a contributing author of the phenomenal book “The Secret”, is also one of the most successful self-help authors for women with bestsellers including “Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul”, “Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul”, and “Happy for No Reason”.
“3-2-1 Happy New Year!” Is it? When that ball dropped in Times Square did you have some New Year’s resolutions all ready to start January second?
I received an email from a woman I know last week. She considered me a happy person. It surprised me. I don’t consider myself particularly sad or pessimistic, just not what one deems happy. I’m simple. Maybe that is what she meant. She gave me ten seconds to reply.
As I type this my 4-year-old son is sitting beside me. He has a cold and a slight fever, but all he has said today since he woke up six hour ago is “I’m better now. I’m all better.” How much can our attitude change how we cope with a chronic illness and even make us happy?
If our grandparents and great-grandparents knew how the diet-, food- and pharmaceutical industries have a hold on us, they would surely turn in their graves. There is a pill for everything, there is a diet for everyone and every body style, even every blood type. Today we are bombarded with “shoulds” and “should not’s” and people feel guilty for eating foods in the first place. Some feel that just looking at foods makes them gain an ounce (heavens forbid). What a joke!
A famous remark made by the Frenchman Brillat Savarin after the famous defeat of Napoleon and the French army at the battle of Waterloo was ” The fate of a Nation and it’s people depends on how it is fed”
Looking out the window early this morning it was evident that the world in the San Francisco Bay Area has returned to “normal.” At least on the outside it looked that way. Traffic was backed up bumper to bumper by 6:15 a.m. and I was heading off to work at the suicide prevention hotline, where life for most callers continues to be anything but normal. The days after the Holidays are a let-down for many people and many can’t get themselves out of the pit by Spring time. It’s when everyone seems to break free from the cold weather and wake up from the hibernation stage that lonely and depressed people tend to do the opposite: fall even deeper into a stage of sadness.
There are songs that glorify women’s big behinds and undoubtedly there are men who love, really LOVE a big butt on a woman. There are even cultures in our world who not only make women stuff fabric and pillows into their dresses to appear rounder, there now are plastic surgeons who give us permanent butt implants.
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