Advice for Living the Good Life
The Good Life
SIMPLICITY
Once one knows what really matters, one ceases to be voluble.
And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing,
doing and thinking - and these are the sum of all wisdom...Both
must move ever onward in life, to and fro, like breathing in and
breathing out. Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought,
thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his
way back to the right road.
Reverse Your Biological Age by:
1. Changing your perceptions.
2. Deep rest, restful awareness, and restful sleep.
3. Lovingly nurturing you body through healthy food.
4. Using nutritional complements wisely.
5. Mind/body exercises for enhancing integration.
6. Exercise: strength and aerobic conditioning.
7. Eliminating toxins from you life.
8. Cultivating flexibility and creativity in consciousness.
9. Love and loving relationships.
10. Maintaining a youthful mind.
This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals,
despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the
stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate
tyrants, argue not concerning God…
Fitness and Well Being
Recipe for Staying Young
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctor worry about them.
That is why you pay him/her.
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle.
"An idle mind is the devil's workshop," the devil's name is Alzheimer's.
4. Enjoy the simple things. When the children are young, that is all you can afford. When they are in college,
that is all you can afford. When you are on retirement, that is all you can afford.
5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. Laugh so much that you can be tracked
in the store by your distinctive laughter.
6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is
ourselves. Be alive while you are alive, don't put out a mailbox on the highway of death and just wait
in residence for your mail.
7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it is family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies,
whatever. Your home is your refuge.
8. Cherish your health. If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can
improve, get help.
9. Don't take guilt trips. Go to the mall, the next county, a foreign country, but not to guilt country.
Spirituality
Basically, there can only be two answers. One is to overcome separateness
and find unity by regression to the state of unity which existed before
awareness ever arose, that is, before man was born. The other answer is
to be fully born, to develop one’s awareness, one’s reason, one’s capacity
to love to such a point that one transcends one’s own egocentric involvement,
and arrives at a new harmony, at a new oneness with the world.
The Principles of Integrative Medicine:
1. A partnership between patient and practitioner in the healing process.
2. Appropriate use of conventional and alternative methods to facilitate the body�s innate
healing response.
3. Consideration of all factors that influence health, wellness and disease, including mind,
spirit and community as well as body. A philosophy that neither rejects conventional medicine
nor accepts alternative therapies uncritically.
4. Recognition that good medicine should be based in good science, be inquiry driven, and be
open to new paradigms.
5. Use of natural, effective, less-invasive interventions whenever possible.
6. Use of the broader concepts of promotion of health and the prevention of illness as well
as the treatment of disease.
7. Training of practitioners to be models of health and healing, committed to the process
of self-exploration and self-development.
