GoodHealth2U

09/07/2024

Go to the Beach - Your Brain will Thank You

Ocean waves can help regulate the nervous system by activating the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS).

How the PNS works
The PNS helps regulate automatic body processes, such as lowering blood pressure and heart rate, and stimulating digestion. 

How the ocean activates the PNS
The sights, smells, and sounds of the ocean can activate the PNS. The sound of the waves, the smell of the salt air, and the blue color of the ocean can all have a calming effect. 

Other benefits of the PNS
The PNS can also improve cognitive function and emotional regulation. It can help reduce anxiety and make it easier to manage anxiety-provoking situations.

07/01/2024

This means so much!!!🥰🥰🥰

Your health journey involves letting go of past trauma, setting boundaries, removing toxic traits by understanding your personality better, and finding your people! Guess what? Healing is hard but so worth it. Support is essential. True friends will stand by you no matter what!! Hint-parasite highjacking, coffee e***a day, your awesome wins, setbacks, you name it. A little friendship lesson here: Life gives you friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime. Friends for a lifetime are the ones you can call at the crack of dawn, and they will not only answer but are ready to listen. Don't be afraid to find those individuals. They are out there. Let it happen organically and authentically! And don't be afraid of the reason and season friends (these relationships can be authentic and imprtant as well)....just remember what they are and let it be fluid in your life without getting hung up on why they aren't your lifetime people!

06/21/2024

Yup! This is definitely me.

05/15/2024

04/28/2024

I LOVE THIS ANALOGY:
You are holding a cup of coffee when someone comes along and bumps into you or shakes your arm, making you spill your coffee everywhere. Why did you spill the coffee?
"Because someone bumped into me!!!"
Wrong answer.
You spilled the coffee because there was coffee in your cup. Had there been tea in the cup, you would have spilled tea. Whatever is inside the cup is what will spill out.
Therefore, when life comes along and shakes you (which WILL happen), whatever is inside you will come out. It's easy to fake it, until you get rattled.
So we have to ask ourselves... “what's in my cup?"
When life gets tough, what spills over? Joy, gratitude, peace and humility?
Anger, bitterness, victim mentality and quitting-tendencies?
Life provides the cup, YOU choose how to fill it.
Today let's work towards filling our cups with gratitude, forgiveness, joy, words of affirmation, resilience, positivity; and kindness, gentleness and love for others.

Source: Austin Tang

04/27/2024

DID YOU KNOW?? Alice in Wonderland syndrome, also called Todd's syndrome or dysmetropsia, is a brain condition that changes how a person sees the world. People with this syndrome might see things as smaller or larger, or closer or farther away than they really are. It can also affect other senses besides sight.....................................................
"Do you love me?" asked Alice.
"No, I don't love you!" replied the White Rabbit.

Alice frowned and put her hands together as she always did when she was hurt.

"See?" retorted the White Rabbit.
Now you're going to start asking yourself what makes you so imperfect and what did you do wrong so that I won't be able to love you at least a little bit...
You know, that's why I can't love you. You will not always be loved Alice, there will be days when others will be tired and bored with life, they will have their heads in the clouds and they will hurt you.
Because people are like that, somehow they always end up hurting the feelings of others, whether due to carelessness, incomprehension or conflicts with themselves.
If you do not love yourself, at least a little, if you do not create a breastplate of self-love and happiness around your heart, the weak discomforts caused by others will become lethal and destroy you.
The first time I saw you I made a pact with myself:
"I will avoid loving you until you learn to love yourself"

Excerpt from “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
By Lewis Carroll
First published in 1865

04/23/2024

THE TEACHING OF THE DONKEY
One day a farmer’s donkey fell into a well. The animal cried loudly for hours, while the farmer tried to find something to do to get him out.
Finally, the farmer decided that the donkey was old and the well was already dry and needed to be covered anyway; that it really wasn't worth pulling the donkey out of the well..
He invited all his neighbors to come help him. They each grabbed a shovel and began to throw dirt into the well.
The donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly loud. Then, to everyone's surprise, he quieted down after a few shovelfuls of dirt.
The farmer finally looked down into the well and was amazed at what he saw... with each shovelful of dirt, the donkey was doing something incredible: It was shaking off the dirt and stepping on top of the dirt.
Very soon everyone saw surprised how the donkey reached the mouth of the well, went over the edge and trotted out...
Life is going to throw dirt at you, all kinds of dirt... the trick to getting out of the hole is to shake it off and use it to step up. Each of our problems is a step up. We can get out of the deepest holes if we don't give up...
Use the land they throw you to get ahead!!!
Remember the 5 rules to be happy:
1. Free your heart from hate.
2. Free your Mind of distractions.
3. Simplify your life.
4. Give more and expect less.
5. Love more and... shake the dirt, because in this life you have to be a solution, not the problem!

04/11/2024

Not many people are aware of the connection between immune health and gut health. Both have a symbiotic relationship with one-another. The Standard American Diet (SAD) poses a lot of challenges to gut health daily. Due to SAD, most Americans suffer from intestinal permeability, also known as

04/06/2024

Wise Advice from a Farmer's Wife
Whenever you return a borrowed pie pan, make sure it's got a warm pie in it.
Invite lots of folks to supper. You can always add more water to the soup.
There's no such thing as women's work on a farm. There's just work.
Make home a happy place for the children. Everybody returns to their happy place.
Always keep a small light on in the kitchen window at night.
If your man gets his truck stuck in the field, don't go in after him. Throw him a rope and pull him out with the tractor.
Keep the kerosene lamp away from the the milk cow's leg.
It's a whole lot easier to get breakfast from a chicken than a pig.
Always pat the chickens when you take their eggs.
It's easy to clean an empty house, but hard to live in one.
All children spill milk. Learn to smile and wipe it up.
Homemade's always better'n store bought.
A tongue's like a knife. The sharper it is the deeper it cuts.
A good neighbor always knows when to visit and when to leave.
A city dog wants to run out the door, but a country dog stays on the porch 'cause he's not fenced-in.
Nothin' gets the frustrations out better'n splittn' wood.
The longer the dress hem, the more trusting the husband.
Enjoy doing your children's laundry. Some day they'll be gone.
You'll never catch a runnin' chicken but if you throw seed around the back door you'll have a skillet full by supper.
Biscuits brown better with a little butter brushed on 'em.
Check your shoelaces before runnin' to help somebody.
Visit old people who can't get out. Some day you'll be one.
The softer you talk, the closer folks'll listen.

04/05/2024

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