Today is Tuesday and a rainy day that makes you want to curl up with a good book. I awoke this morning and decided to read before I started my day. My brain is quiet and uncluttered in the morning. I ran across a saying that made me think about my inner dialogue...others can say what they want and I get to choose how to react. The saying was about being angry at something that someone did and how we carry the anger from it. That anger is hurting our body and making us feel terrible and the person that made the mistake created in our mind has moved on. Think about your feelings next time you get angry over some one's mistake or unkind words. If we can train the mind to accept that a mistake is not ours it squelches the anger. Own your mistakes not someone else's.
I love elderly people and we can learn a lot from them. I have been studying the behavior of some of my elderly friends. I have some that are in their eighties to late nineties. They are all still physically able to take care of themselves. They are very cognitively up on current events and modernization of society. I am trying to learn what is keeping them thriving. Any help I can get on how to stay active and healthy as I grow older will help.
I used to think it was all genetic... the longevity. However if you look at the siblings of the elderly I have studied they did not all live long nor were they without health problems. I did look at their lifestyles. The nine that are still alive are ranging from 81 years to 96 years old. The number one common thing is they all socialize frequently with other people. Three are widowed and the rest married. They all do some kind of exercise everyday. Walking was the number one exercise. The 96 year old still golfs when the weather permits. They still take care of their homes. They take a multivitamin and they eat healthy. They read the newspaper and three of them I know have a computer.
One of the ladies has had lung cancer twice and been treated and is in full remission. She is a very joyous person who at 91 still goes out with her girlfriends and starts everyday with a plan on what she wants to get done. She takes no medicine that I know of. She is married and her husband despite some medications is till doing fine. They like to travel and play bingo. One couple still goes to Florida for the winter.
None of the nine elderly act like old people. They come across as much younger. I don't mean that they don't have wrinkles or that they walk a little slower. The way they present themselves and their poise and happy personalities makes them seem much younger.
So is it genetics or taking care of your body and mind. We take care of the flowers so they can flourish and we must take care of ourselves. Investing in your own health lifestyle allows you to plant the flowers. The nine still have beautiful yards and flowers.
May we grow old surrounded by friends, flowers, take our multivitamin and keep walking.
Life is beautiful !!
Elizabeth😊
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Monday, November 4, 2019
The Brain Is an Important Organ
It is Monday and a new day and week. The past is gone and we should be focusing on today and not worrying about what is happening in the future. I have been working at living by these words of wisdom. They will set you free if you can get your mind to focus on what is happening right now. I think for a lot of people worrying about what will happen in the future causes them great anxiety. I have been guilty of this. We miss the beauty of the day when we worry about the future. Even if we have a bad day let it go like throwing away the trash. Replace the thoughts with something positive that happened. We can not change the past but we can react differently to situations that may have caused us pain in the past. We can not control what others say but we can control how we react.
We all know stories about patients that recover quickly and others with the same illness that never get well. My conclusion on this subject is the mindset. The brain is a powerful organ. It controls our other body organs and yet it is to me the most overlooked organ at the doctor's office visit. It is our own computer in our head that is controlling our body. We call the computer geek to fix our laptop. We are more worried about our laptops and phones crashing than our own brains. So the people that are getting well faster perhaps have a healthier brain. Do we look at the brain when people are ill? Think about it...could an unhealthy brain affect a patients recovery.
I have seen situations where a patient is being treated for cancer and they are not doing well and have unhealthy thoughts. No one addressed the brain and the fact that it is controlling all the organs, the mind and thoughts. Where is the geek who fixes the brain our control center. The brain is the center that stores our thoughts, controls our impulses, controls the neurological system, and identifies who we are. The brain is affected by past experiences, drugs we take, food we eat and injuries to the head. We need to look at the whole person and certainly acknowledge the brain that is controlling us. It can be treated and addressed as the other organs of the body are.
There are some doctors that address unhealthy thoughts and neurological problems when treating a patients with long term illness. Those patients are the lucky ones that will hopefully live a happy and positive life. They are not just an illness treated with drugs. They are humans with a brain controlling them that deserves to be healthy.
My thoughts changed after I was treated for a B12 deficiency. The brain relied on the B12 to produce healthy neurotransmitters. I thank God everyday for the doctor that didn't treat my symptoms but treated the cause. He searched for the cause of an anxiety and the exhausted person I had become.
For beautiful eyes look for the good in others,
For beautiful lips speak only words of kindness,
For poise walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn
Life is beautiful!!
Elizabeth
We all know stories about patients that recover quickly and others with the same illness that never get well. My conclusion on this subject is the mindset. The brain is a powerful organ. It controls our other body organs and yet it is to me the most overlooked organ at the doctor's office visit. It is our own computer in our head that is controlling our body. We call the computer geek to fix our laptop. We are more worried about our laptops and phones crashing than our own brains. So the people that are getting well faster perhaps have a healthier brain. Do we look at the brain when people are ill? Think about it...could an unhealthy brain affect a patients recovery.
I have seen situations where a patient is being treated for cancer and they are not doing well and have unhealthy thoughts. No one addressed the brain and the fact that it is controlling all the organs, the mind and thoughts. Where is the geek who fixes the brain our control center. The brain is the center that stores our thoughts, controls our impulses, controls the neurological system, and identifies who we are. The brain is affected by past experiences, drugs we take, food we eat and injuries to the head. We need to look at the whole person and certainly acknowledge the brain that is controlling us. It can be treated and addressed as the other organs of the body are.
There are some doctors that address unhealthy thoughts and neurological problems when treating a patients with long term illness. Those patients are the lucky ones that will hopefully live a happy and positive life. They are not just an illness treated with drugs. They are humans with a brain controlling them that deserves to be healthy.
My thoughts changed after I was treated for a B12 deficiency. The brain relied on the B12 to produce healthy neurotransmitters. I thank God everyday for the doctor that didn't treat my symptoms but treated the cause. He searched for the cause of an anxiety and the exhausted person I had become.
For beautiful eyes look for the good in others,
For beautiful lips speak only words of kindness,
For poise walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn
Life is beautiful!!
Elizabeth
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