Feeding your Spirit...
(An adaptation from "A Daily Dose of Sanity" by Alan Cohen)
"Sometime back, a newspaper article reported that Cuba's unusually high number of centenarians say their longevity is a result of going easy on alcohol, but indulging in coffee, cigars and sex. Of Cuba's population of 11 million, about 3,000 have lived for more than a century. Most of them are mentally alert, di
(An adaptation from "A Daily Dose of Sanity" by Alan Cohen)
"Sometime back, a newspaper article reported that Cuba's unusually high number of centenarians say their longevity is a result of going easy on alcohol, but indulging in coffee, cigars and sex. Of Cuba's population of 11 million, about 3,000 have lived for more than a century. Most of them are mentally alert, di
d manual labor in rural areas, and had parents who were also long lived.
These findings fly in the face of much of what we have been told about how to live long and well. You might not think that coffee, cigars, and sex are on the approved list for breaking the triple digit glass ceiling for age. But there is one factor that many proponents of health foods or austere, medically prescribed diets do not take into consideration: the JOY FACTOR." ~ Alan Cohen
In reading about this I remembered something a wonderful mentor of mine, Sonia Chocquette once said..."Sometimes you just gotta feed your Spirit!" And I remembered something else, about George Burns, who also lived to be a hundred, saying that first he set the intention that he was going to live to be 100 and also smoked a cigar, and indulged liquor and coffee, on a daily basis.
And the Buddha, after becoming enlightened in the flesh, had stated that once you have reached this state, you can take anything into your body and do anything to it, and it will have no effect upon it...
Because we are spiritual at the core of our being, it is the spirit in which we live that determines the quality of our lives. That is why the tenor of our spirit generally supersedes what we do physically. When you do what brings you joy, you release into your body life-giving hormones and chemicals. When you do what bores or annoys you, you generate toxic hormones and chemicals that hamper your life force and diminish your longevity.
A man went to his doctor for a checkup and asked him, "What do you think my chances are to live to be 100?"
The doctor asked the patient, "Do you smoke?"
"No," the fellow answered.
"Do you drink?"
"Never."
"Do you run around with women?"
"No, sir," the patient replied.
The doctor shook his head and asked the patient, "Then why would you want to live be 100?"
Now as a holistic practitioner, I am not suggesting that you continue with clearly unhealthy habits, or take up smoking and drinking heavily...like my mother used to always say, "All things in moderation."
But I am suggesting that it would behoove us to probably listen less to externally prescribed regimens, and listen more to our unique inner wisdom...
FEED YOUR SPIRIT AND DO THAT WHICH BRINGS YOU JOY!
The secret of living a long and happy life is to be IN it.
"When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day." ~ Marty Bucella
These findings fly in the face of much of what we have been told about how to live long and well. You might not think that coffee, cigars, and sex are on the approved list for breaking the triple digit glass ceiling for age. But there is one factor that many proponents of health foods or austere, medically prescribed diets do not take into consideration: the JOY FACTOR." ~ Alan Cohen
In reading about this I remembered something a wonderful mentor of mine, Sonia Chocquette once said..."Sometimes you just gotta feed your Spirit!" And I remembered something else, about George Burns, who also lived to be a hundred, saying that first he set the intention that he was going to live to be 100 and also smoked a cigar, and indulged liquor and coffee, on a daily basis.
And the Buddha, after becoming enlightened in the flesh, had stated that once you have reached this state, you can take anything into your body and do anything to it, and it will have no effect upon it...
Because we are spiritual at the core of our being, it is the spirit in which we live that determines the quality of our lives. That is why the tenor of our spirit generally supersedes what we do physically. When you do what brings you joy, you release into your body life-giving hormones and chemicals. When you do what bores or annoys you, you generate toxic hormones and chemicals that hamper your life force and diminish your longevity.
A man went to his doctor for a checkup and asked him, "What do you think my chances are to live to be 100?"
The doctor asked the patient, "Do you smoke?"
"No," the fellow answered.
"Do you drink?"
"Never."
"Do you run around with women?"
"No, sir," the patient replied.
The doctor shook his head and asked the patient, "Then why would you want to live be 100?"
Now as a holistic practitioner, I am not suggesting that you continue with clearly unhealthy habits, or take up smoking and drinking heavily...like my mother used to always say, "All things in moderation."
But I am suggesting that it would behoove us to probably listen less to externally prescribed regimens, and listen more to our unique inner wisdom...
FEED YOUR SPIRIT AND DO THAT WHICH BRINGS YOU JOY!
The secret of living a long and happy life is to be IN it.
"When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day." ~ Marty Bucella
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