Hi folks, welcome to my rambling thoughts on life, and it's improvement by the efforts of oneself!! WARNING: this post contains food for thought, not some potted wisdom statement, so if you don't want to think about it move on and enjoy this lovely day, but try to stay flexible in the process. This really is what went on in my brain over a period of a minute or so after being summarily banned in ... Read more
The Benefits Of Exercise As Revealed By Forced Inactivity, Which Is Turning Me Into An Old Person
Hi folks, welcome to my thoughts of the day! Yes, I just write about what is on my mind and going on in my body at the time. This lovely misty morning I took Willbe, our yellow lab, for a nice walk, during which time I had plenty of opportunities for reflection due to his need to sniff at every post and tree. I am clearly suffering from a number of adverse symptoms of my forced inactivity. I normally undertake ... Read more
Back In The Weight Room With A Health Challenge? Case In Point An Expanding Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Hi folks, welcome! It's good to be here. You can ask for advice, but you would still be well advised to think through your personal situation when it comes to exercise with a dangerous health challenge. As I entered the weight room this morning, which felt great, I started to calculate: what can I do to maintain my general level of fitness, prior to impending surgery, that would not put my abdominal aortic ... Read more
Looking Versus Seeing, And Don’t Forget To Play Each And Every Day
"Having spent much of my life teaching people how to fly parachutes, I have noticed a tendency of human experience. If there is but one tree in a field of grass, a scared parachutist will land in it." Brian Germain. Hi folks, welcome. We project our knowledge and experience out into world, and this affects what we see, noticing this but not that. We appear to create our world to a large extent, so we can choose ... Read more
Is Your Life Spinning Out Of Control? Then Sit!
Hi folks! Welcome to another lovely day! It pays to prepare for life's challenges well ahead, physically with exercise, intellectually by questioning your thoughts, and emotionally by sitting. If you think that your life is on a collision course with disaster, remember that 99.999% of the time (most of the time) it is probably an imaginary disaster, and things will come nicely back on track if you learn to calm ... Read more
What Is Time, I Wonder?
"Are you in a hurry to achieve something important today? Then slow down, and you probably will." FitOldDog. Hi folks! Welcome. I consider the questioning of 'the obvious' to be a critical component of a full human life on planet earth, as a result of which, from time to time, I find my self wondering about the nature of time. Watching the hand of a clock turn relentlessly, or the sun rise smoothly in ... Read more
Taste Life Today
"Habitual thinking is a prison. Repeated patterns of cognition lead us to experience only what we have in the past. Our life becomes a broken record when we let our inertial thought processes rule our lives." Brian Germain. Hi folks, welcome! Don't let a day go by without truly experiencing something great, like the scent of flowers or the crisp explosion of biting into a ripe pear. Don't let a day go by ... Read more
Does Fear Make Us Stupid?
Hi folks, welcome! As fear seems to be playing an unnecessarily powerful role in my life, and potentially my decision-making, I thought it germane to read the book by Germain, so I downloaded it to my Nook. I was struck by one sentence in the synopsis, "Fear makes us stupid." I wondered, is this true? Well! Even today in my 70s, I have an abject fear of heights, which ruined my ability to enjoy the scenery in ... Read more
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