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Healthy Lifestyle ClubNewsletter Issue 36December, 2009What a crazy, busy end of 2009! Mum decided to move to a retirement village and so we sold the family home and all in 15 weeks! At the same time I managed to finish my Masters degree plus a few very satisfying papers and articles. This last newsletter for the year will be a fitting close to 2009. The psychotherapy workshops were great with some very happy participants getting much more than they expected. Thanks for those who helped Dad's In Distress by buying a book. $10 from each book sale went to Dad's in Distress. If you still want to help out and get a copy of my book to boot you can either buy the book here for $25 BOOK PLEASE FOR $25 or go direct to the Dads in Distress website and donate directly DONATE and just send me $15 JUST THE BOOK PLEASE FOR $15 for the book. Thanks for helping out! Lots of the usual in this newsletter to activate the brain, exercise the body and lift the soul. Hope you enjoy it. If you want to know any more then send me an email. I'd love to hear from you. email now | |
Chalk drawings and all on a FLAT surface!!
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Raspberry Chicken |
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Ingredients:
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
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Method: 1.Season chicken with thyme and salt on both sides. Set aside. 2. Heat oil in skillet over medium heat. Cook onion until browned and soft. 3. Add chicken and cook until well cooked, approximately 8 minutes each side. Then, remove chicken and set aside. 4. Add fruit, balsamic vinegar and pepper to oil in skillet. Cook for several minutes until ingredients well combined and fruit is mushy. Add chicken back in skillet. 5. Serve chicken with sauce poured over top. Serve with tossed salad. |
HEALTHY WEDNESDAY ACTIVITIESMind: This is a time to get the legs moving and the neurons firing. Revive your brain by breathing deeply as you walk. Several times during your walk close off one nostril for 10-15 breaths and then swap to the other nostril. This enervates the opposite hemisphere to the nostil that is inhaling. Soul: In between the nostril closing exercise focus on about 6 breaths. You might look inward to thoughts or feeling and you can use the breath to clear any stale energy out or you might focus on something beautiful in the environment and you can inhale that beauty to relax and connect. |
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Being up-beat in life can seem to be such a tricky thing and there are a million and one reasons why the human brain and body can
get stuck in a struggle. Still, what gets in the way? Certainly the whole winner/loser thing that I describe in my book is a
huge part of the disruptive force. What we are really searching for is some sense of personal meaning. Something that helps you understand
how the whole struggle can be relevant to you. Making personal meaning of what happens to us and discovering what we want to do with our
lives is the main game. The winner/loser mindset disconnects you from your centre and makes it very hard to find meanings
that matter!
There's the lovely story about a vet who visits a family only to find that their pet dog is very sick and really needs to be put down. The family decided that their 7 year old should be included in the experience. The vet was uncomfortable about this, but it was a family decision. The child was very caring and calm during the whole experience. Afterwards the vet was talking things through to ease the family's distress. The vet described how dogs don't live as long as humans, but that is the natural way. The child brushed off the vet's soothing, claiming that he know what it was all about. "Humans have to spend years and years learning how to be happy and get on with everyone else. Dogs know how to do that from the start, so they don't have to live so long." Wow! As I say in the book, the purpose of life is to creatively participate in the experience. Even more simply, I could say, get involved and have fun! It is through fun and play that we enable the best bits of our brain to create and grow and we turn on the best parts of our immune system and how we open up the parts of us that enjoy being connected, engaged and communicating. We know that we know, but it can seem so hard to do. Getting out of the winner/loser head and into the creative world head is worth a try. I believe that it might just make us be a little more like a dog. So next time you meet someone, let your whole body show the pleasure, just like a dog that wags its whole body. Run, jump and play with everyone and anyone who is there with you. Stretch when you get up after sitting or lying down for a long while. Maybe we don't need to be so angry and bite when just a little growl might do. And when someone is having a bad day, just be quiet, sit close by and nuzzle gently. Maybe it's not so hard to be happy, get along and find the meaning of life for yourself. Dogs do it every day.
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Dog Cool! | |
This is a motivational and inspirational talk given on a tour of Australia with the great 'clown doctor' Patch Adams. The book "How the 'real world' Is Driving Us Crazy!" is brought to life. How to overcome the winner/loser problem is made clear and easy. It's 45 minutes long, but if you want to skip to the last 5 minutes I'm singing the song "Live Your Life". Hope it inspires.
How to stop the 'real world' from driving us crazy! from Richard Hill on Vimeo.
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Happy New Year Everyone!!!!! | |
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Share your thoughts and suggestions? richhill@iinet.net.au
Looking forward to sharing more thoughts, suggestions, news and making a very Healthy Wednesday connection with you! Take Care, Richard, Susie and The Healthy Wednesday Team |