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27 May 2010 Your Health Depends On How You Handle Stress
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Sick Nite on FlickrDoes this sound a little drastic? How you handle stress determines the state of your health!

Consider this:
Harvard study reports those who cope poorly with stress become ill more often than those who cope well with it. (Source Lynn Smith on Facebook)

Most medical researchers and practitioners today agree that stress does play a big role in your health. However, it is really not so much the stress that affects your body, but how you and I handle that stress.

Stress is very much a part of life, especially in this modern world in which we live. It is unavoidable, BUT you and I CAN avoid allowing these pressures to control our lives and our bodies.

How you handle stress depends on your mindset.
With a strong mindset of faith, it will always be easier to face life’s difficulties with a positive attitude. Your mind will then be clearer to look for solutions rather than dwelling on the problem and the stress.

When your mind is clear, alert and focused on seeking solutions and instead of focusing on the problem, then your mind is operating as a gatekeeper to your emotions and your body.

It is very interesting to note that in the book of Proverbs in the Bible we find a verse that says:
For as he thinks in his hearth so is he. (Proverbs 23:7)

If you look into the Hebrew word that is translated as “thinks” you will find that this word comes from a root word which means “to act as a gate keeper”. Very interesting right?

Yes your mind is the gatekeeper!

Your mind is created to protect your emotions and your body.

Conclusion? YOU decide how much stress will affect your emotions and your body. It all depends on:

Your focus –
Focus on looking for solutions and it will be easier to think clearer and positively.
Focus on the problem and your mind will sink into depression which means the “gatekeeper” goes off duty and your emotions and body can be touched by the stress.

  • Mindset is a result of what you focus on.
  • Focus is a result of decision (your will should always be in control).

JillHow active is your gatekeeper to protect your emotions and your body today?

If you have extreme stress, use it – don’t let it use you. Tony Robbins.

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26 May 2010 A Great Comedian – Art Linkbetter Dies Today
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Art Linkbetter was a comedian back when comedy was clean, clever and truly funny. It is always good to laugh. Laughter has a lot of healing qualities.

Proverbs 17:22 in the Bible tells us: “A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones.”

I found this tribute compiled by Bill Cosby to a great comedian, Art Linkbetter.

Art Linkletter interviews some of the children, in his series that was known as “Kids Say The Darndest Things.

JillMay we never forget what good clean fun really is like!

Art Linkletter, TV Host, Dies at 97 on NY Times.

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