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theroadtoadvancedwellness-blog · 4 years

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Wellness Is Where You Find It - Or Is It?

Introduction

Who said wellness is where you find it? Is it true? How can one know where to look? Have you found it? If so, where?

Why does it seem that so many people spend their lives lookin' for wellness in all the wrong places, lookin' for wellness in too many faces, searchin' their eyes and lookin' for traces of what Halbert Dunn, Jack Travis, Bill Hettler and doctors, philosophers, wellness report publishers and so many others are forever dreamin' of?

Well, let me back up for a minute by addressing the first question, namely who said wellness is where you find it?

Thomas W. Flynn said that or, more specifically, wrote it on a gift card that humorously exhibits his disdain for Santa Claus. The gift card was signed and inscribed just for me, thanks to a donation made to a secular fund-raiser by a friend. I can't mention the name of my beneficiary - she insists on anonymity. (Why I don't know - perhaps she's a lottery winner hounded by supplicants, or is in hiding owing to a fatwa levied by Ayatollah Khomeini, or perhaps her shadow-dwelling nature is related to traumas from her Catholic upbringing - who knows?)

Tom Flynn is an American author, journalist, novelist, Executive Director of the Council for Secular Humanism and editor of its journal, Free Inquiry magazine. He's also director of the Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum and the Freethought Trail - and an acquaintance. I first met Tom thirty years ago during the Christmas season in Orlando when he gave an entertaining and thoroughly convincing lecture about his one-man war on Christmas in general and the Santa Claus silliness in particular. His point of view, described in a 1993 book entitled, The Trouble with Christmas, is that early immersion in the Santa myth predisposes children to accept absurd religious teachings in later life.

Digressing for a moment, let's apply the second question (Is it true) to this matter of the alleged harm attending early immersion in the Santa myth. Does this tradition really incline little humans to grow into gullible, superstitious adults?

Consider the counter argument put forward by another acquaintance, also a paragon of free thought, namely editor Dale McGowan. Dale takes the position that the opposite is more likely - that discovering that Santa was a preposterous myth probably inclines children to reject religious dogmas in later life.

Which is it?

So, Is It True That Wellness Is Where You Find It?

Let us examine this great question using the example of our president, the stable genius.

Our Fearless Leader seems to have found a wellness lifestyle in the wrong places, that is, in a high risk lifestyle. At least that's the impression I get from findings his annual physical at the Walter Reed National Medical Center. The examining doctor gave Trump a glowing report indicating no concern about his physical or mental health status. Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank, however, did express concern, not about Trump's health but rather about his doctor, Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson. How could a physician describe an exercise-averse, cheeseburger-addicted, borderline obese 71-year-old man with significant plaque in his coronary arteries and high cholesterol as the very picture of health? At a White House press briefing, Dr. Jackson termed the Dear Leader's health to be excellent - and repeated that word - excellent, eight times! Reference was also made to Trump's incredible cardiac fitness, incredible genes - all totally amazing, surpassingly marvelous, superbly stupendous and extremely awesome.

Wait - there's more. His genes are great, too - a gift from God.

How, you might wonder, can a ghastly lifestyle associated with a junk food diet, little or no exercise, significant arterial plaque, high cholesterol and borderline obesity square with such a glowing health report? Based upon Dr. Jackson's findings, nobody is healthier than the president. Surely the president, and probably Dr. Jackson, would guarantee it.

Trump's medical report suggests reality is in the eye of the beholder. Do we really want to view wellness in this fashion?

Where has Trump found wellness? Clearly in low level worseness or, what medical science describes as a terrible lifestyle. Who knew to look there? I hope you will look elsewhere.

How Can One Know Where to Find Wellness?

Well, one could ask readers of my newsletter - they could point the way, I'm sure. In addition, I could suggest about a dozen books starting with High Level Wellness: An Alternative to Doctors, Drugs and Disease or, a more recent opus, Wellness Orgasms: The Fun Way to Live Well and Die Healthy. But, I'm too modest to recommend such a course.

Maybe wellness is not to be found in any particular newsletter, book, conference, location, creed or faith system at all, but rather in a way of thinking that promotes happiness and other qualities of exuberance - even if one's appearance suggests less than stellar health status, even if age graded.

The Usual Suspects Where Wellness Might Be Found

Ideally, from a REAL wellness perspective, wellness is most likely to be found in the course of daily thought and action guided by four theoretical conditions:

Having an appreciation of reason and a willingness to use it.

Recognizing the value of exuberance - in the experience of joy, meaning, common decencies, love, etc.

Embracing athleticism, that is, sound nutrition and regular exercise.

Reverence for and insistence upon liberty or freedom, for oneself personally and others.

Auguste Comte's Law of Positive Philosophy introduced the idea that our leading conceptions, theories or movements (such as REAL wellness) pass successively through three different theoretical conditions:

The theological or fictitious.

The metaphysical or abstract.

The scientific or positive.

Advocates of REAL wellness like to think that the movement is or at least should be found only in the scientific mode. Perhaps someday, that will be so. However, current practice of traditional wellness, where most seem to find it, is rooted in the metaphysical and antediluvian remnants of theological and metaphysical persuasions.

Alas, the Flynn rule applies even here: for those so inclined, wellness, like Trump's version of excellent health, is wherever one cares to find it. Bottom line: choose wisely and go lookin' for wellness in all the places science and reason indicate are the likeliest locations.

Summary

Wellness, at least the REAL kind of wellness that is pursued for the positive returns it enables besides good health, is not to be found anywhere in particular, but is rather a never-ending process throughout a lifetime of fine- tuning ideas and actions that embellish our existence. We don't so much find it, as if it were something fixed and settled, as we hone in on a set of directions, wherever we are, that enable us to make the best of our changing situations.

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raifuujin · 7 years

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Rules: You must answer these 85 statements and tag 20 people

Tagged by: @detectiveaesthetic

Tagging: I thought about it, but after actually doing it, decided it’s much better left up to ‘do it if you want’.

The last

· 1. Drink: Sweet tea

· 2. Phone call: Probably mom or dad. I don’t really do phone calls, so...

· 3. Text message: "I’m at 7 hearts now.” - Received on July 26th from my cousin. My own sent message is a bit long, but we were talking about BOTW, since she’d just gotten it and wanted to know if she should get hearts or stamina. · 4. Song you listened to: ...Specifically listening to a song: Road’s song from D. Gray Man. Though most recent song heard and hummed to would be Super Sonic Racing from a video I watched.

· 5. Time you cried: Hmm... maybe a couple of months ago? I rarely cry for myself, but thinking about plots to do with my muses tends to set tears off at random.

· 6. Dated someone: Never in the context this means. · 7. Kissed someone and regretted it: Again, in this context, never kissed, so...

· 8. Been cheated on: -aroace uninterested yawning-

· 9. Lost someone special: The only ‘special’ someone I’ve lost would be my cat that I’d grown up with, and that was... four years ago now.

· 10. Been depressed: Ongoing. Lowkey and mostly in the meaning of ‘no energy, motivation, or real focus’, not anything severe, but continuous.

· 11. Gotten drunk and thrown up: Never drink alcohol.

3 Favourite colours

· 12. Cerulean

· 13. Emerald

· 14. Teal

In the last year have you

· 15. Made new friends: Maybe. (On rp blogs, it’s sorta nebulous)

· 16. Fallen out of love: No.

· 17. Laughed until you cried: Not a thing I normally do, so no.

· 18. Found out someone was talking about you: Ye.

· 19. Met someone who changed you: Not really.

· 20. Found out who your friends are: I tend to know that, not really find out, so.

· 21. Kissed someone on your Facebook list: No Facebook ;p

General

· 22. How many of your Facebook friends do you know in real life: Have not gotten a Facebook in the last two seconds.

· 23. Do you have any pets: More cats. All the cats. (2 right now.)

· 24. Do you want to change your name: Not really.

· 25. What did you do for your last birthday: Probably just get presents. We go out to eat for everyone’s birthday, but not usually on the date.

· 26. What time did you wake up: 1 pm. ...And stayed in bed for 45 minutes because I had not reason to get up and was comfortable.

· 27. What were you doing at midnight last night: Same thing I’m doing now. Youtube (watching Completionist reviews), and either editing pictures or doing nonograms.

· 28. Name something you can’t wait for: ( ;p ) Hm. When I get my life more together again. /shot I’d say for Gosho to write more MK, but after the last chapters... I’m not sure.

· 29. When was the last time you saw your mom: Ten minutes ago.

· 31. What are you listening to right now: Youtube. Currently Jirard, though at the end of this playlist, I’ll go back to lps with StephenPlays.

· 32. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom: Not that I recall, but probably at some point in my life. There’d have to be some random Tom.

· 33. Something that is getting on your nerves: A lot.

· 34. Most visited website: Tumblr is always open, but Youtube is probably what I use the most. · 35. Hair colour: Brown. I guess light brown. Lightest in my family, at least. The type that used to be blonde and then got darker. V:

· 36. Long or short hair: It’s usually long, but I chop it off when summer kicks in, so right now, it’s in-between.

· 37. Do you have a crush on someone: Nah

· 38. What do you like about yourself: My patience

· 39. Piercings: Nope.

· 40. Blood type: I think A. I don’t really know, but vaguely think that.

· 41. Nickname: Rai. Because internet :V

· 42. Relationship status: Uninterested.

· 43. Zodiac: Scorpio/Rooster

· 44. Pronouns: She/her (I don’t really care if people somehow wants to use anything else, though. I found no need to correct people on a chat I was in years ago, and was mostly amused when they debated if I was a guy or a girl a bit before asking. I’d be confused in real life because it’s not the norm (aside from cosplay maybe), but overall still don’t care much.)

· 45. Favourite tv show: Does the usual anime count? If so, I’m pretty blatant from my blog, but if it has to be an actual show I could see on TV here... I haven’t really watched TV in a while. Maybe Psych. · 46. Tattoos: Nah.

· 47. Right or left handed: Right

· 48. Surgery: Not really. I’ve had tubes put in my ears (twice), but those were as a kid and definitely not too major. Apparently I had a lot of ear infections back then.

· 50. Sport: Softball

· 51. Last vacation: Full vacation? Universal Orlando studios a few years ago. General ‘get away from home’ trip would be a week and a half ago to visit the half of that family that lives in Tennessee.

· 52. Pair of trainers: I think three... One that I actually wear, a backup pair for when those wear out, and an older white one that I wear when dressed at Kid. I have a decent amount of shoes, but all are at least a year or two old. My last ones literally started getting holes worn into them.

MORE GENERAL

· 53. Eating: Goldfish

· 54. Drinking: It’s night rn, so chocolate milk.

· 55. I’m about to: “Post this” :p And do edit ideas that have been sitting around for a long time.

· 56. Waiting for: Me to get back into a rhythm.

· 57. Want: Stability. Preferably useful stability.

· 58. Get married: Eh

· 59. Career: Anything that won’t kill me with stress at this point.

WHICH IS BETTER (Aroace apathetic sighs and going far more generic.)

· 60. Hugs or kisses: Usually hugs

· 61. Lips or eyes: Eyes

· 62. Shorter or taller: Taller

· 63. Older or younger: Older

· 64. Nice arms or nice stomach: Do not care

· 65. Hook up or relationship: If it ever happens, relationship

· 66. Troublemaker or hesitant: About me or someone else? I assume someone else, so... at least a troublemaker is more likely to try initiating things.

HAVE YOU EVER:

· 67. Kissed a stranger: Nope

· 68. Drank hard liquor: Nope again

· 69. Lost glasses/contact lenses: I don’t think so. Not permanently, anyway.

· 70. Turned someone down: Yes

· 71. Sex on the first date: This is very biased towards people with at least an active dating life, I’ve noticed.

· 72. Broken someone’s heart: I assume no, but wouldn’t know if I have.

· 73. Had your heart broken: I’d say yes, but that was third grade, so. Probably not truly, no.

· 74. Been arrested: Nope, though some friends and I did not-so-casually chat with a cop. Silly pre-teen stuff, teepee plans that I backed out of anyway, nothing actually happened aside from small cop stopping to ask us where we were going scare.

· 75. Cried when someone died: Not in real life.

· 76. Fallen for a friend: No.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:

· 77. Yourself: Maybe

· 78. Miracles: Sure

· 79. Love at first sight: Not really

· 80. Santa claus: No

· 81. Kiss on the first date: If you and they want to, sure.

· 82. Angels: -shrugs-

OTHER:

· 84. Eye colour: Blue, slight green sometimes.

· 85. Favourite movie: Nothing came to mind, so I don’t think I have one. But I do like falling back on The Cat Returns. And anything Miyazaki or Disney.

#personal #about rai

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mysteryshelf · 7 years

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BLOG TOUR -The Discombobulated Decipherers

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The Discombobulated Decipherers by Julie Seedorf

The Discombobulated Decipherers: A Brilliant, Minnesota Mystery Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series Self Published (November 21, 2017) Print Length: 195 pages ASIN: B076Z3YFYQ

It’s Christmas in Brilliant, Minnesota, and Brilliant is known for its glitzy Christmas traditions. A world-renowned Christmas pageant, the town square decked out with Santa’s Village and a live nativity scene bring visitors to Brilliant each year. Just as the tourists arrive, Jezabelle Jingle and her mystery writer friend, Miranda, find the body of Ernest the elf dead and wrapped in a bundle of Christmas lights in the town square. Is Ernest part of a new holiday puzzle the Discombobulated Decipherers need to solve? Or is dead Ernest part of a bigger plot? Will Jezabelle decipher the clues so Brilliant can celebrate Christmas in peace? Or will Jezabelle be the next gift-wrapped box under the village tree?

Interview With the Author

What initially got you interested in writing?

I always kept a diary even when I was very young. From there I would write poetry about my experiences especially in high school. Then we had a creative writing class one quarter in school and I got A’s, an. I found I loved to spin tales with my imagination and I was hooked.

What genres do you write in?

So far I have been writing in the Cozy Mystery Genre and some kid’s books but I have a serious book in the works for the future. I hope to branch out into more genres.

What drew you to writing these specific genres?

I actually didn’t know what a cozy mystery was when I wrote it. I wrote the book and then I was reading a book I thought sounded like mine and found Cozy Cat Press was the publisher so I sent my book in. I learned a lot cozies since then.

How did you break into the field?

I call it God and a whisper from him. I was reading a book by Cozy Cat Press. On a whim I sent a query letter and they answered with wanting my manuscript. My manuscript was too short but they offered advice on fixing it and then said they might consider me for a contract. I did what they said and they accepted me into their publishing company authors.

What do you want readers to take away from reading your works?

I want to take my readers away from the real world for a while and make them laugh and forget about their troubles. As I build my series I add more background and I hope feeling to my characters, bringing out characteristics which I hope we can all connect to. As both my series progress you will find what makes my characters behave the way they do. All of us are products of our past.

What do you find most rewarding about writing?

My readers and the author friends I have made. Writing has opened up my world from small town Minnesota to even other countries by the people I have met and what I learn from them.

What do you find most challenging about writing?

Editing, I am comma challenged and though I do ok with my manuscript I need someone to take a fresh look and fix my flaws. I want to write and not worry about whether I am correct. When the flow is going I can’t always control what comes out and taking the time to edit seems excruciating when I could be writing.

What advice would you give to people wanting to enter the field?

Believe in yourself. Be able to take constructive criticism when others look at your piece with fresh eyes, but hold true to what you feel is right for you. You don’t need to write like your favorite author. Individuality is what makes each author’s books unique.

What type of books do you enjoy reading?

Well, of course I love cozy mysteries but I also love thrillers. And I read self-help books and devotionals too. I love to read and if a book is interesting it doesn’t always have to be a certain genre for me to pick it up. I get tingly in bookstores because I want to buy all the books.

Is there anything else besides writing you think people would find interesting about you?

At the age of 55 I learned to repair computers and worked in the field, eventually owning my own computer repair business which I retired from three years ago. I love technology, graphic programs and I can fix my own computers. You are never too old to learn. You just have to believe you can do it.

What are the best ways to connect with you, or find out more about your work?

Readers can visit my website at http://julieseedorf.com, my facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/julie.seedorf.author, my sprinklednotes blog at http://sprinklednotes.com, twitter: http://twitter.com/julieseedorf, or they can email me at [email protected]. I also write a column and they can find it each Monday at the Albert Lea Tribune. It is called Something About Nothing.

About the Author

As human beings, we are always a work in progress. From birth to death we live, hurt, laugh, cry, feel, and with all of those emotions we grow as people, as family members, and as friends. I am a dreamer and feel blessed to have the opportunity in my writing to pass those dreams on to others. I believe you are never too old to dream and to turn those dreams into a creative endeavor. I live in rural Minnesota and I am a wife, mother, and grandmother.

I have worn many hats throughout my lifetime such as working as a waitress, nursing home activities, office manager and finally computer repair person eventually owning my own computer repair business. I never forgot my love of writing and quit my computer business in 2012 after signing a contract with Cozy Cat Press for Granny Hooks A Crook, the first book in my Fuchsia, Minnesota Series.

Adding four more books to the Fuchsia Series, adding a new Brilliant, Minnesota Series and writing a column for local newspapers feeds my writing creativity.

I also dabble a bit in watercolor painting and hope to eventually add pictures to my children’s book series, Granny’s In Trouble.

Oh, and did I tell you I like to be a little bit silly.

Author Links:

Website: http://julieseedorf.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/julie.seedorf.author

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/julieseedorf

Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/julie_seedorf

Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/julieseedorf

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/author/julieseedorf

Sprinkled Notes Blog: http://sprinklednotes.com

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/JulieSeedorf

Merchandise from my books: https://www.zazzle.com/hermiony

Purchase Link – Amazon

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