British psychiatric researcher Malcolm Peet has conducted a provocative cross-cultural analysis of the relationship between diet and mental illness. His primary finding may surprise you: a strong link between high sugar consumption and the risk of both depression and schizophrenia. Continue Reading
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”
Edith Lovejoy Pierce
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I had to include this article from AARP. It gives such great meanings to having purpose, finding purpose, and why we need to feel a purpose. The story a about Marge Jetton is incredible.
For 77 years Marge Jetton had identified herself proudly as a doctor’s wife and found meaning in the work she did to support her husband, James. Their partnership was magical, says Marge, a former nurse, but it all ended abruptly the morning Marge found James on the bathroom floor of their Loma Linda, California, home, the victim of a fatal fall.
Marge grieved for a few months, then regrouped and got back to the business of living: she started volunteering again at her church, worked as a fundraiser for a gospel radio program, and delivered used magazines to elderly hospital patients. “I realized the world wasn’t going to come to me, so I went back out into the world,” Marge recalls. “I reconnected with old friends and felt satisfaction from helping the community. I guess you could say that I recharged my purpose batteries.”
That was five years ago. Today, at 104, Marge says she owes her can-do vitality to her religious faith and her fervid belief that as long as she’s around, she can make a difference. Continue Reading
Passport To Happiness by Anne Marie Evers
There are affirmations …and then there are affirmations. If they never worked for you before, this book will tell you why, and show you how to do it right. Evers makes a clear distinction between wishful thinking, and positive, precisely-worded affirmations, guaranteed to generate results. Filled with inspiring anecdotes, simple exercises, and specific affirmations for numerous situations, this book is a strong call to action, based on self-responsibility.
Evers is living proof of the effectiveness of her Personal Contract Affirmation Method, and it is almost impossible to read her book without feeling powerfully motivated to turn your life around. Whether you are looking for a new job, having problems in your relationship, trying to overcome a phobia, or coping with self-esteem issues, this book will show you how to obtain the results you desire. Evers explains the importance of forgiveness in the fulfillment of one’s dreams, and shows readers how to release old resentments, and work with their subconscious minds in order to guarantee success.
Also check out Anne’s blog for wonderful inspiration: Passport 2000
