“There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go.” ~ Frederick William Faber Make the deliberate decision to be this sort of soul. Physical Health Eat Well Snack a lot, do you? Perhaps your brain is influencing your choices....and what you can do to steer towards 'better' choices. https://www.outsideonline.com/2290731/why-junk-food-cravings-brain Be Active This is your brain on exercise. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/this-is-your-brain-on-exercise Let's move! This is a pilates + chair workout that will really hit your core and legs. It's ABAB format. If you have time, repeat.
Description of the moves attached.
Spiritual Health
Dealing with change - or lack there of - is part of your brain's gift to you. Adaption is mankind's superpower.
https://elemental.medium.com/it-will-get-easier-30d90976b260
Mental & Emotional Health
Free happiness? Well, happiness is always free (as it is a choice you make), but sometimes we need a little help getting there. And here it is!
https://www.upworthy.com/yale-happiness-class-free-online
Social Health
A thought rather than a link:
Says Flannery on a weekly relationship ritual: “Some of the best advice I ever got was from the mom of a family I used to babysit. As she rolled her eyes after her husband put the kids’ lunch boxes away in the wrong spot for the millionth time, she said to me, ‘There are roommate issues and there are relationship issues and you should never mix up which is which.’ I think about this ALL THE TIME.”
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Happy Monday! Too often, we take what we are offered at face value. The zoom setting is determined by someone else, and in our rush to get onto the next thing, we fail to discover what is going on within. Conversely, once you understand how something works, it can be hard to look at the whole again in the same way. If you want a cool example of how this works, click on this photo of 84 million stars, a composite of photos shot by a telescope in Chile. The ESO telescope is capable of putting together a 9 billion pixel image. But once you click once, you can zoom, again and again and again. Those repeated clicks reminded me of just how vast the galaxy is, more than I ever could have learned from a single picture. It turns out that this vastness is repeated in every system in our lives. If we only care enough to zoom.
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1242a/zoomable/
New recipe: There are often winces and snorts when I use the words 'favorite' and 'lentils' in the same sentence, but these lentils? Even an avid lentil-hater will like these.
https://www.heprecipe.com/post/easy-lentil-curry
New post: every day life hands us a lot of things. We can't grumble about all of them. Even sour grapes can have a good side.
https://www.healthyexpatparent.com/single-post/2020/04/23/Sour-grapes-and-lemonade
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