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My Master
I am resting in front of the kitchen sink like a Zen Buddhist monk sitting serenely on his meditation cushion. The water is flowing, filling the left side of the kitchen sink, dishes slowly begin to submerge under the water. Scrubbing the filth away, imagining it to be the cleansing of all the impurities of my mind. I allow myself to be absorbed by the moment. Not to escape it by imagining there is someplace more fulfilling. There is nothing more worthy of my attention than what is. The future I conjure in my mind creates only anxiety or hope. But not peace. Peace is subtle and hardly noticeable. It accepts things with such grace and lets them go in the same way, like a mother bird who watches her young fly away, leaving the nest for the first time to fly into the unknown.
By Rosemary 5 years ago in Longevity
Come into the flow
My thoughts are clear and focused. I am completely in the here and now, absorbed in what I am doing. I feel good. The world outside is far away. I hardly notice myself and my worries. As early as 1975, psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi used statements like these from athletes, artists, and scientists to describe those special moments when people become completely absorbed in what they are doing and forget everything around them. The American-Hungarian researcher, who worked for many years at the University of Chicago, gave this fulfilling state the name flow.
By AddictiveWritings5 years ago in Longevity
Look My Friends, You Don't Have To Be An Omnivore or Carnivore To Get All Your Nutrients And Enjoy All Your Favourite Foods!
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. - Hippocrates During my adolescence, I had one goal to pursue for the rest of my life: to be some sort of vegetarian and then be a vegan when I'm mentally, physically and emotionally ready! I believe being a vegetarian or vegan is the most beautiful thing in the world, because it reduces your vulnerability to certain ailments like heart disease, multiple types of cancers, diabetes and can be a weapon to mental illness for some people.
By Talia Devora5 years ago in Longevity
How To Make Your Home Wheelchair Accessible
If you are in a wheelchair, sometimes getting around your own home can be challenging, but it doesn’t have to be an impossible task. Making your house wheelchair accessible doesn’t mean you have to build a new house from scratch, you can simply adapt yours to make it less daunting. Updating your home can result in you being safer and ensuring comfort whilst making your house feel like home again.
By Modern Mobility5 years ago in Longevity
Meditative Woodworking
The air around me is redolent of the sweet smell of cherry wood. All is quiet at an hour when the sun has yet to ascend past the horizon. The only sound I hear is the soft scraping of the hand plane as I run it along my workpiece, following the grain of the wood. The woodgrain is my guide. The occasional small mistake is my teacher. I am in my own world for while as I seek to shape my piece into what I think it should be. I am a creator. My creations do not know my name, but neither do they criticize or bring any complaints against me.
By Jim Sprouse5 years ago in Longevity
Building a Life, Not Earning a Living
My passion, or my life goal, isn’t something you can simply achieve with positive thinking. Have you ever had someone tell you to just think positively about something and it will happen? Extremely frustrating! Especially when you're already well into adulting with tiny humans and responsibilities...
By D. Wisekal5 years ago in Longevity
Create Your Happiness - Bringing Characters to Life
“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity,” – Friedrich Nietzsche
By Clive Ewers5 years ago in Longevity
Know about 7 steps to your new life
Seven free, and most importantly, really effective steps to a new life. Everyone who tried it - thank you, we hope it will come in handy for you.
By ROBINSON JAMES HERBERT5 years ago in Longevity
It all started with a cross
It all started with a cross. Well, I assume that’s how all good love affairs begin. A cross here and there. To be honest I can’t remember how it started. But for as long as I can remember I have been cross stitching. Nothing fancy. Just some good old fashioned crosses. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with the fancy types. I have tried them all over the years. Long stitch, embroidered flowers, herringbone, whitework. But my happy place is always back in the comfort of a cross.
By Mel Houlahan5 years ago in Longevity
What lifestyle should you follow after having your thyroid gland removed?
Thyroid-free life What lifestyle should you follow after having your thyroid gland removed? Yes. After the operation, there is a persistent deficiency of thyroid hormones. This condition is called hypothyroidism. However, this is not a complication of the operation, but its consequence. Mandatory thyroid hormone replacement therapy is indispensable. They are needed to maintain a normal metabolism.
By ROBINSON JAMES HERBERT5 years ago in Longevity
Scuba Diving as a person with a disability
My life went a bit crazy for a while, but one thing to come from it was it gave me a new outlook on life. Life is for living so make the most of it whilst you've got it. This new outlook on life led to me taking up a new hobby, I had wanted to try Scuba Diving for several years after a try dive on a holiday in Tenerife. Little did I know at the time that the experience I had was nothing compared to the experience I was going to have. My previous experience was much about being made to feel disabled, being dragged around like a rag doll rather than being enabled to experience the freedom I learnt I was able to have. I truly feel free and equal to everyone else once I am in the water even though my technique is different to most other people.
By Sarah Park5 years ago in Longevity
Food as Medicine
Many things fulfill me in life, from road trips, music, writing, the hospitality industry, and other joys I pursue to maintain happiness. However, there is one thing that fulfills me in a more overwhelming way on a daily basis and that thing is food as medicine. I know this can sound cliché or even not make sense to many people. It could sound like I am diminishing the importance of science and healthcare by pointing to food for treatment. Stay with me on this passion of mine and you could begin to understand why.
By Kylie Martin5 years ago in Longevity