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Pre-emptive Well Being
lobster
Crusty Veteran
Most of us know pre-emptive well being in the form of the Eight fold path. It is the essential strengthening of the spiritual immune system. A sort of Buddhist pro-biotic. Without a doubt our major tool is the diversity of regular and irregular meditations. I recommend meditation a lot as many here do, so let us examine some of the 'other stuff':
- Humour makes us more able to cope and also examine issues that are keen to dismiss. It is healthy, stimulating our immune system. Laughing is good for us.
- Music changes, enhances and improves our mood. As lay people, we can improve our life through sound. I tend to like silence, so not my tool of choice.
- Kindness. I think most of us are or aspire to this quality, even if only to ourself or our favourite cushion.
What do you find increases your well being?
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Exercise. Nothing like a workout to keep the blues away.
Helping others. It's my job, but some of those in the Service Industry, for various reasons, do it better than others. I love it. If a person in service loves their job, they tend to do it a lot better than those who find it a chore or an ordeal...I enjoy it so much, that I actually get repeat customers who would rather come to me to be served, than go to others. In a small, local family-run shop, you'd expect such closeness between the proprietor and their customers. But in a high-turnover High-street department store, it's not bad going.
Nature. A bicycle ride in the dunes or a walk along the beach usually cheers me up.
I love nature! I'm a bit of an amateur naturist naturalist.
@SpinyNorman what is the difference between an amateur naturist and a pro?
I'm an ex-naturist. You're going to wish you'd never asked.....
One does it for fun, the other for money.
Too right.
Up two three four. Crawl to cushion. Sit upright, two three four ...
My favourite are in order of preference:
work/chores - mindful exertion
walking/cycling - my preferred transport systems
I would do prostrations but quite enjoy getting somewhere as well ...
Thanks guys
Being grateful for the little things.
Being grateful for what we have.
What they said!
Nature in our increasingly virtual world is one of my favoured places. The sky for expansion, the ground for earthing. Growing stuff in between.
Good one.
I can't remember who said this or where i heard it, but this quote comes to mind: "We don't laugh because we are happy. We are happy because we laugh."