Tips for a Long, Healthy, Joyful Life
* Enjoy life: your own and life, all life, in general. Embrace living.
* Keep weight at the recommended body mass index for your height and gender. I can't emphasize this enough. Most health problems are magnified once your weight exceeds the recommendations. Few people can get away with adding on the pounds and not adding stress to internal organs.
* Avoid injections of anything into or from your blood stream. If necessary, injections should only be done by trained medical professionals.
* Do not ingest burnt materials--this means not smoking, not inhaling smoke, not eating food with carbonized content. Burnt materials are more than often carcinogenic.
* Stay active. Two to three hours staring at a screen per day should be maximum. Active involvement with what is on the screen is fine, but just staring and not moving: not good.
* Don't try to meet people or be social, but don't avoid people. Go out and do what you enjoy and the social encounters will just happen.
* Keep yourself open to possibilities. If someone invites you to something and it doesn't interfere with anything you find important, do it. If someone talks to you, respond and engage.
* If you find yourself saying "I should..." stop yourself. Should implies those outside yourself are telling you to do something but you have not agreed to do it. This includes "shoulds" which originated with religion. This does not mean you can consider incorporating beliefs and thoughts and directions from others, but make them yours first.
* If someone observes and gives you directions to do something you don't want to do, tell them "I don't tell you what to do with yourself, what makes you think you can tell me what to do. You are not the owner of me!"
* No one is reponsible for you other than you and, in the end, no one else is going to help you with your life. That doesn't mean that you won't meet people along the way who do help you, it just means you can't expect it. You forge your own path and find your own alternatives.
* Everyone you meet in life is a part of your life, whether they did something that, at the time, hurt you or helped you. So embrace those encounters and those people and don't brush them aside, hold grudges, worry about them. Everyone you interact with is part of the tapestry of your life.
* Enjoy eating and drinking. Taste. If you just shovel food and pour in liquids you miss out on experiencing one of your senses.
* Focus on the small, the large and the in-between. Too often we are drawn to the large but miss the small, look at the giant redwood tree but don't admire the blade of grass, enjoy the large rock formations but ignore the grain of sand.
* Keep weight at the recommended body mass index for your height and gender. I can't emphasize this enough. Most health problems are magnified once your weight exceeds the recommendations. Few people can get away with adding on the pounds and not adding stress to internal organs.
* Avoid injections of anything into or from your blood stream. If necessary, injections should only be done by trained medical professionals.
* Do not ingest burnt materials--this means not smoking, not inhaling smoke, not eating food with carbonized content. Burnt materials are more than often carcinogenic.
* Stay active. Two to three hours staring at a screen per day should be maximum. Active involvement with what is on the screen is fine, but just staring and not moving: not good.
* Don't try to meet people or be social, but don't avoid people. Go out and do what you enjoy and the social encounters will just happen.
* Keep yourself open to possibilities. If someone invites you to something and it doesn't interfere with anything you find important, do it. If someone talks to you, respond and engage.
* If you find yourself saying "I should..." stop yourself. Should implies those outside yourself are telling you to do something but you have not agreed to do it. This includes "shoulds" which originated with religion. This does not mean you can consider incorporating beliefs and thoughts and directions from others, but make them yours first.
* If someone observes and gives you directions to do something you don't want to do, tell them "I don't tell you what to do with yourself, what makes you think you can tell me what to do. You are not the owner of me!"
* No one is reponsible for you other than you and, in the end, no one else is going to help you with your life. That doesn't mean that you won't meet people along the way who do help you, it just means you can't expect it. You forge your own path and find your own alternatives.
* Everyone you meet in life is a part of your life, whether they did something that, at the time, hurt you or helped you. So embrace those encounters and those people and don't brush them aside, hold grudges, worry about them. Everyone you interact with is part of the tapestry of your life.
* Enjoy eating and drinking. Taste. If you just shovel food and pour in liquids you miss out on experiencing one of your senses.
* Focus on the small, the large and the in-between. Too often we are drawn to the large but miss the small, look at the giant redwood tree but don't admire the blade of grass, enjoy the large rock formations but ignore the grain of sand.