It is important to tap into your senses to improve our wellbeing, feel pleasure and improve all of our abilities.
Use Your Senses To Enhance Your Wellbeing
Thinking: Best Friend or Enemy?
What do you think? Is thinking your best friend or greatest enemy? Oftentimes, we are not very aware of our thoughts and we don’t give much attention to them. They are somewhat on an unconscious level. When we are unconscious of the content of our thoughts, they are more likely to control us. Observing them objectively develops self-awareness and strengthens your ability to take charge.
Being mindful of our thinking enables us to make positive choices for personal wellbeing. The first step is to be aware of our thoughts and that there is a choice to stop and change a negative thought to a positive thought.
The more we become identified with our thoughts, especially our negative thoughts, the more we lose our center and our intuitive mind – that wise, spacious presence that allows for surprising discovery.
Mindfulness helps quiet the mind and awaken the intuitive mind. Meditation is not the only mindfulness practice. Walking, doing the dishes, painting, petting your dog or cat are other possibilities for mindfulness.
Wellness means attuning ourselves to the life-giving or death-dealing energy of our thoughts. Wellness requires conscious selectivity in choosing those thoughts. If we feed our mind encouragement, beautiful images, and positive input, we will enjoy a high-level of wellness.
What Do Feelings Have to Do WIth Wellbeing?
Are you aware of how your feelings affect your bodily processes? Can some feelings be hard to manage or accept? Managing feelings can lead to improved wellbeing.
Feeling is the 6th dimension in our Wellness Inventory program. Feelings are core to our human experience. Feelings act as our internal guidance system. It is important to be able to be open to a full range of emotions. Being able to experience joy is essential as is the ability to appropriately express anger in ways that resolve issues. Taking the time during the day to ask yourself how you are feeling is beneficial. It is equally beneficial to be able to graciously accept positive feedback from others. The importance of positive emotions has been shown to improve health and longevity. If we focus on what we want and what is going well our feeling state can improve. Practicing appreciation and gratitude can have a positive impact on our wellbeing. The well-known psychologist and pioneer in the study of self-compassion, Kristin Neff, says it is common to beat ourselves up for faults big and small. But she says that self-criticism comes at a price. It makes us anxious, dissatisfied with our life and even depressed.
Self-Responsibility and Love Your Foundation for Wellbeing
Having a sense of self and being responsible to that important self is key to health and wellbeing. It is the foundation to make any changes you desire.
Staying Safe and Sound in the Hospital
We all need checklists and tools when we are hospitalized. Pilots use them, surgeons use them and patients need them for safety too! Go to this Campaign Zero link and download your own hospital safety checklists. https://www.campaignzero.org/your-campaignzero-hospital-checklists/
Moving a Basic Expression of Life
We hear about many different types of exercises and fitness programs we should be doing. I believe we need to address how moving is an important part of our life and health and discover all the ways we enjoy moving our body and design our own “fitness plan”. Watch the video below.
Thinking Of Food As Medicine
In honor of all the wonderful food around us on Thanksgiving, I thought it would be helpful, maybe not if we want to treat ourselves for just ONE DAY, to listen to my radio spot about thinking of food as medicine. Hopefully, after Thanksgiving we will not need medicine because WE DID EAT ALL OF THAT!
