I suggest this can easily done when we put our minds to it. Quite simply, in 2013 my intention is to do all I can to save lives and I reckon we can all save at least one. So lets go “Out on a Limb” and consider how each one of us can save a life or two, or three, or ??? But first
Thought for the Day
Yesterday I was clever
So I wanted to change the world
Today I am wise
So I am changing myself
Rumi
So the first life to save is our own. This is a project worth putting effort into!
What I am talking about is helping people to avoid developing a disease that will kill them before their time – like cancer. What I am also talking about is helping more people to recover from cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.
Here are some suggestions.
To save your own life
1. Eat a plant based, wholefood diet
Six of the ten major diseases that kill people are powerfully related to poor nutrition – eating crap basically. The new version of You Can Conquer Cancer explains what is wrong with the average Western diet so many of us have been used to, and how we can easily remedy the problems and enjoy eating well.
The Wellness Diet as spelled out in the new book is highly anti-inflammatory, highly regenerative. Provides new levels of energy, you feel great and will look good. Eating well is the basis of a healthy, happy life.
2. Exercise for 30 minutes daily
If you miss a day or two in the week, this amount of exercise is still pretty well guaranteed to make most things in your life better, from your physical health to your state of mind.
3. Set up a vegetable garden
Great exercise, get in touch with the rhythms and moods of nature, appreciate your food more, enjoy the organic taste sensations and know where your food has come from and what has happened to it. Also terrific for the environment; maybe one of the best things we can do personally to help our planet to survive.
4. Forgive someone, and practice gratitude
Resentment eats at the heart, gratitude builds delight! Simple recipe. If all else fails, imagine you are on your deathbed and check out how it would feel to be dying in a bitter, resentful state of mind. Yuck! That cannot be good! Why wait? Forgive now and enjoy the interim. You may live for ages; all the more time to enjoy a peaceful, happy heart!
5. Meditate daily
Meditate and everything gets better. Clear mind, peaceful heart. Good decision making, the natural enthusiasm to look after yourself and to care for others. Meditation is at the core of a long, healthy and happy life - what we would wish for everyone.
To save someone else’s life
1. The easy option
Give them a book like You Can Conquer Cancer or Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis by George Jelinek. That might do it for thirty dollars or so. Now there is a bargain! And as easy as.
2. A little more demanding
Offer to walk with someone regularly
Offer to help someone set up their new veggie garden
Take them to a workshop or offer to accompany them on a retreat
3. Getting risky
Take time to talk with someone about real stuff, like who have you forgiven recently, what are you doing about being overweight, drinking too much, stressing out too much???
4. Full on
Become a wellness advocate; write to the local paper, the local MPs, speak to schools or service groups; find ways to share the positive reality that a healthy lifestyle prevents illness, generates good health and wellbeing, and accelerates healing.
Remember, those who have been through it become the most powerful advocates. I have had cancer. I do not want others to develop it; but those who do, like me, I want them to recover. If you have a personal story to share, when the time is right, when you feel ready, do consider how you can use that experience to good advantage – and help to save someone else’s life.
Speaking personally
This year I will be more diligent. I eat well but could exercise more. I meditate regularly but this year will do more.
This year my public speaking will focus on A New Way of Living. I intend to spread the good news regarding how we can best prevent cancer and recover from it as far and wide as possible.
I hope you too can get excited about saving a life in 2013; or maybe two, or three, or ???
Where will you start?
Love to hear suggestions, plans, accomplishments on the comment section. I am very happy to communicate personally on this matter, especially with anyone interested in, or needing help to speak in public: info@insighthealth.com.au
Please share this with a friend. Lets all aim to save a life in 2013!
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NEWS
1. My old friend and colleague, Peter Roberts, who has accompanied me on several of my meditation CDs and who will play his harp at the upcoming Surviving Cancer night in Melbourne in March, is organizing a major new conference that is easy to recommend highly:THE INSTITUTE OF MUSIC IN MEDICINE INVITES YOU TO
‘Therapeutic Music: Let the love of beauty be what we do’
22 – 24TH MARCH 2013, GEELONG CONFERENCE CENTRE,
The Institute of Music in Medicine is pleased to announce our inaugural event
‘Therapeutic Music: Let the love of beauty be what we do’ which will be held
from Friday 22nd March to Sunday 24th March 2013.
Using music and ritual to create a peaceful, nurturing environment for personal
reflection and shared conversation with your peers, join us as we contemplate
our roles as helpers, carers and healers: those who assist others through their
words, their actions, their music or their presence.
FEATURED PRESENTERS
Peter Roberts, Lawrence Duncan. USA, and Mary Werner. USA, music‐thanatologists, Emeritus Professor Helen Cox, director of the Institute of Music in Medicine. She and Peter have recently coauthored the newly released book The Harp and the Ferryman which will be on sale at the venue.
EVENT REGISTRATION
To register for this event click here
Presented by: The Institute of Music in Medicine PO Box 1480, Geelong 3220 www.imim.com.au
2. Pt Stephens workshop is on soon - Tuesday, January 15th, title is Health, Healing and Wellbeing, the focus on the principles and techniques that generate and sustain good health and happiness. Great way to start the year with a new way of living!
Details, click here.
3. Meditation in the Forest: Yarra Junction; March 22nd - 28th, 2013
Ready to join Ruth and myself, take some time out and experience deep natural peace - amidst the majestic forests of the Upper Yarra Valley.
This retreat will take you deep into the essence of meditation - the direct experience. As well as being restful and regenerative, in this retreat I will be introducing and guiding a structured series of breathing exercises that enhance concentration, deepen meditation and facilitate healing and wellbeing.
For details and to book, click here
RESOURCES
You Can Conquer Cancer – fully rewritten and recently released, intended to help with cancer prevention as well as recovery.
Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis - by George jelinek - one of the best self help books there is. read it and give it to a friend.
