Healthy Spirit
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In order to stay healthy one must eat proper foods, exercise, and
reduce stress. Additionally, it is important to fill your mind with
positive thoughts and surround yourself with positive people. This
is not easy when stress levels increase due to factors that are out of
your control. This page is intended to feed you positive information
that will support your efforts toward developing and sustaining a
positive outlook. We are still in the process of gathering inspiring
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The Chemistry of Calm Healing Grief Through Art
BY HENRY EMMONS, M.D. BY GABRIELLA WEST
http://www.amazon.com/The-Chemistry-Calm-Powerful-Drug-Free/dp/1439129061 "You must make sense of the senseless. You must accept your
unacceptable." -Page Hodel
"Breaking the Cycle of Painful Emotions"- It is inevitable that we will In this culture, it is uncommon for people in their 40's or 50's
experience emotions such as anger, fear, sadness, hurt, frustration, to lose their partners to cancer or heart attacks- but there is
embarrassment, shame, guilt, and impatience. And they will typically not much space in our society for people to grieve
occasionallybe strong, even overpowering. If we lose our bearings or even be comforted by a community on a long-term basis
during such a time, the suffering mind creates a state of emotional when these tragedies happen.
confusion. Then we are not only unable to find a way out of the
situation but also at risk of making it worse....When the mind is highly Bay Area DJ Page Hodel became well known in the gay
reactive...this can quickly cascade into unhealthy beliefs such as community in the 1980s as a pioneering DJ. Now Hodel is
I am unworthy and unlovable. This emotional reactivity is one of the becoming better known for her art, specifically for the
primary causes of relapse of anxiety or depression. Having the courage beautiful hearts that she has made and photographed since her
to remain present in the face of such powerful emotions gives you lover, librarian Madalene Rodriguez, died of ovarian cancer in
leverage over them. 2006, only four months after being diagnosed with the disease.