“Highest Health” Blog #86

Am I bogged down with all kinds of peoples’ personal problems around me?

Stressing about every detail of my life, am I caught up in dangerous daily drama?

Why is my inner health so important anyway?

Life happenings make me stronger, IF I let them. There is purpose in everything I do. There

is a lesson in everything that happens to me. However, It’s my character, attitude and

honesty that directs my sail into calm, serene peaceful waters, or do I choose a storm of

stinging, sinking sadness? Have I got healthy friends?

We all know who we are, so many of us, addicted to a “yo yo” lifestyle. Up, down, up down,

we believe and feel this or that can “work” for us, until it does not. When we don’t want to

look at our own life, we jump into fixing somebody else’s life. There is a fascinating book I

have read a while back. The title is; “The Blue Zone”, by Dan Buettner.

A person does not have a long, healthy life just by accident.

The whole point of this book is to focus on a few select areas of the world includes U.S.A

that show people living into their 100’s and just dying peacefully!! Why is that?

One of the most fascinating facts in the book is that all over the world these people

live thousands of miles from each other, yet they have one huge thing in common. They

eat, think and live in a higher health self-mode.

We can all benefit from a good quality of life. It is not enough to live life and just survive, a

higher health attitude is to want to thrive. Dan Buettner went personally and visited each

of these places and met and visited with the people who live there. They look and feel

and act remarkably young into their eighties and nineties. I urge you to read his book. It

was ironic how earlier in my life when I lived with my grandfather, I felt safe around him.

He lived to be almost one-hundred and the day he died was sunny and warm. He went

upstairs after a big healthy breakfast, laid down on top of his bed, and went to sleep

quietly and peacefully. What a beautiful way to leave this earth. I was fortunate to be in

his life for his last years. There was never a question of nursing homes. My grandfather

was revered, treated like a king, then waited on until his last day on earth. This seldom

happens any more, especially in the United States. Older people are shoved away. Left

alone, they lose their desire to live, let alone thrive.

Yes, many elderly people DO need medical help, yet there are so many that do not. It just

is not “convenient” to have them around. So goes the norm now and the majority of

senior citizens are “sent away” never to live with any of their family ever again. How sad.

In the book the “Blue Zone”, Dan Buettner talks about the impact and the necessity of the

elders teaching the young in families they live with. In Sardinia, Okinawa, Loma Linda, Calf.

and Costa Rica, there are healthy thriving loving families all together. Then when a person

reaches the “golden years”, they are treated by family and friends in “golden ways” Most

of the elderly live with their children and grandchildren. Three generations under one roof

and thriving! The great secret to their long lives is found in what they eat, how they think

and what they do. In Okinawa, Japan, people put family first, they enjoy being with their

family. Most of these people belong to a faith based society. They slow down and they

laugh a lot, they wake up each morning with a plan for their life. They eat healthy foods;

Brown rice, beans, fruit nuts. Little to no meat. They cook corn beans and squash

together. Eating almonds wards off cancer.

There is little to no disease where all these people have found a higher health way of life. I

can go on and on and IF they are living into their hundreds they MUST know something

good! In Loma Linda, California, the Seventh Day Advetists’s have long lives.

They exercise daily, eating fruit, vegetables, nuts and beans and the result is a healthy

productive, happy life. In the United States, loneliness has become an epidemic! We are

set on livestyles that force us into isolation day after day. We are attracted to different,

dangerous sites on the internet that does not produce healthy habits.

In Japan the longest living people believe forgiveness is key; “Forgive quickly”

It’s interesting to read how people in these countries live healthy each day. They do not try

to figure out the ending before they do something. So many of us STOP going forward just

because of FEAR - (False Events Appearing Real). Healthy rituals of repetition are

essential.

Make my Monday a day to start fresh, fresh fruits and vegetable only to eat. Tuesday

is a day I explore more, lovely places to walk, different stores to shop at for food. By

Wednesday its midweek. I plan something productive for myself, a new hobby a new

friend I can meet at the book store or the food store. I am reading constantly because

this is good for me. IF reading is not working, I can always listen to audio books, in

my car or before I go to bed.

Did you know the majority of food eaten in the Blue Zone areas is EARLY IN THE DAY.

Far better to process and metabolize our food before we go to bed. Our Urine should

be the palest color lemon and bile should be lightest brown with no odor. What we

put into our bodies decides our health. This is not only food, but our thinking and our

feelings as well. Four glasses of water daily is essential, and cleansing for me.

People who weigh themself daily are usually 15 pounds lighter than those who don’t.

Keeping a big pot of fresh vegetables and home made soup are healthy staples.

I know how I feel when I have eaten the wrong way, I feel bloated, depressed and

irritable at end of day. There is no need for this any longer. I replace sugar as much

as I can with honey. I do not drink any dairy and my choice of liquid for my cereal

of oatmeal or raisin bran with flax is Oatmilk or Almond Milk. All of these things I share

to show how easy it is to make the courageous change for higher health.

IF I start my morning in thankful prayer and end with “Not my will, but THY WILL BE DONE”,

there is a great possibility that I will make good choices in everything I do.

so I buckle up, it may be a bumpy ride today, yet I have my spiritual seat belt on.

Even IF I have had a rough day and there was little or no chance of laughter, I can

come home and deliberately find a “funny movie” to watch that will make me smile.

Life is like that, I get to choose. I can change the channels constantly. I am in charge.

I want a higher healthier life style in everything I do. People will come into my life

at whatever level I am at. Today I choose to “Lift the bar”, I WANT HEALTHY FRIENDS.

I want to live my life at its fullest, filled with love not fear. Today is my brand new day.

“Can I choose a Higher Healthy life for myself now?”

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