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B'SD 25 Kislev, 5779 Last night was the start to the festive Hanuka holiday. Instead of sharing information oriented to physical health today, I simply want to share the joy of this time in order to lift your mood. Bask in the warmth of life-saving miracles, especially now. Music enlivens our hearts with a sense of happiness, and that's good for anyone's health!
PS- Remember that GOD doesn't always "shout." Sometimes S/He "whispers."
B'SD 20 Kislev, 5779 Hanuka happens in a week, and it's so exciting! A holiday for everyone to respect, it's about stopping bullies in their tracks. There's more to the Hanuka happening, but too much to explain here. Psych yourself up to improve your muscles with increased strength. I shared some ideas about affordable holiday gifts the other day, and all of them can be used to improve your overall health, let alone your muscular health. Here's some more information that might benefit you:
When you first start strength training, almost any weight you lift will bring some results. But also use this time to learn proper form, the American College of Sports Medicine... Read more ...
Do those repetitions before you dine on anything, and you'll be burning calories before you begin to eat! Do the exercises daily (until you feel tired!) and you can reset your metabolism to burn calories more than you do now. Okay, now you know how to burn off the extra calories that you're likely to swallow during the hectic holiday season. Minimize the overindulgence temptation by eating proper meals before you go to parties. You'll be less hungry when you're feeling full. Sip water instead of sugary drinks overloaded with calories. You'll be trimmer for the effort. Losing weight is good for lowering blood pressure and other health risks.
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Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.
Fill your plate with good sense.
B'SD 19 Kislev, 5779 Nobody can guarantee that you'll heal physically. but it's a widely known wisdom that laughter promotes emotional healing. Anger, despair, jealousy, sadness, name the mood and mentality. Laughter often eases inner and outer pain. One of my friends is going through a very difficult time. I shared with him my "Never fails for me!" solution to leaving negativity behind. It's a 3-part comedy video series, the 2000-Year Old Man by Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks.
Be sure to watch all 3 videos. They might leave you smiling, too.
Hanuka is almost here and some people wish they knew
how to make the jelly donuts so popular at this time.
Here's a simple recipe that's so much fun that you can share it with children! Let them do the mixing and mooshing as you, the adult in charge, do the more dangerous frying.
2 1/4 TSP yeast
3 TBL Sugar
1 TBL Brandy
1 lemon's worth of zest
1 1/2 TBL Oil
1 egg
1 cup warm water
3 CUPS flour
Moosh-mix in a sealed plastic bag, immerse in VERY warm water 1 hour
Roll out dough on floured board
Cut out donuts with a glass
Let batter rise under a fabric kitchen towel for 30 minutes!
Fry in about 2 inches of oil 1 minute per side
Remove donuts, rest them on a paper-towel covered plate atop the counter. The paper will absorb excess oil. INSERT KETCHUP CONTAINER/squeeze bottle FILLED WITH JELLY INTO DONUTS, Then SQUEEZE IN THE JELLY.
B'SD 24 Kislev, 5778 The fun and highly significant holiday of Hanuka aka Chanuka (and all the other possible spellings!) begins tonight. Because the holiday commemorates pro-active behavior, I've hunted around for a heart-warming, pro-active story to share with you. I hope that you'll enjoy the story below.
B'SD 2 Tevet, 5776 Today's the last day of Hanuka 5776, and I'm basking in the glow of many wonderful warm memories of the party I threw this week. Over 50 celebrants shared the light of a wonderful holiday with me. Here are a few of the many photos I took, a fond look at life, loved ones, and the future before me.
I am grateful for the blessing of marvelous friends of many nationalities and outlooks, and the ability to be a hostess. It's been a long, hard effort to reach this reality. It came with focused effort, spiritual growth, and a refusal to surrender to pain, dismissive medical mindsets and other setbacks. I hope that I have helped other people to see better realities along the way.
Find out what you can accomplish when you walk the walk and talk the talk advocated in
Learn how to make progress as you read the book. Share it with loved ones and/or your medical team. Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.
Fill your life with can-do statements and realities.
B'SD 25 Kislev, 5776 Today is the first day of Hanuka (the first candle was lit last night). It's sometimes spelled Chanuka, Chanukah or in other ways. But the source of the word is the same: Dedication. In brief, Chanuka is about being dedicated to the moral ideals given to humanity by The One Above. We Jews have been repeatedly forced out of Israel by many groups of people, or allowed to remain in our country but pressured to abandon our way of life. That's a morally troubling problem on many levels. At one point in history, a small group of Jewish men called Maccabeesrededicated the holy Jewish Temple that had been defiled by yet another entity struggling to separate Jews from their moral imperatives. Those Maccabean efforts led to the holiday of Hanuka.
Click the colorful pictures below
to learn a bit more about this Festival of Lights, and how Jews have responded to terrorism throughout our history. Perhaps you'll find the information soothing in today's nerve-jangled times.
And if the children in your life need a bit of help to sort out the appalling headlines in newspapers, television and online media sites, share Dr Manny's thoughts, How to Explain Terrorism to a Child. Mental health is a gift good any time of the year. Help little ones, and older kids, to develop socially upbeat points of view.
B'SD 1 Tevet, 5775 Before I go further with this blogpost, I want to thank the people who've expressed their sympathy and support to me for contending with that recent "There's another meningioma, and the MRI technician thought it was harming me?" shock to my system. Your outreach and reaction to the situation is remarkable, the sort of goodness we pray to find in the world.
I want to underscore that it was a mistaken diagnosis.
Humans are humans.
GOD blessed me with competent clarification
from the new neurosurgeon on my medical team:
Nothing is amiss.
Together we blessed me with the
ability to deal with an alarming announcement
in a calm, rational manner.
My past practice with and dedication to
behaving sensibly, no matter what, paid off well.
My new neurosurgeon and I have a terrifically pleasant rapport. He and I agreed to do another photo-op same time, next year, to monitor things. He responded pleasantly and thoroughly to all my questions, treating me and the friend who'd escorted me to the appointment with total respect and a sense of humor. I consider the whole phenomenon a gift from GOD.
I didn't post an update yesterday due to being down with a severe cold. The bug felled lots of people in my community. I'm happy to be feeling better today and want to share some important information.
One of the issues that this blog and the
book deal with is mental and emotional health (yes, they're individual realities).
I found an online article that highlights a point I make in my personal life and in my self-help coaching plus public speaking efforts: ASK the person with a problem what YOU can do to help them. Don't assume anything, not even that you understand the scope of the situation. Prophecy and mind-reading are not part of your picture, OK?
Here's the article I suggest that you read and share widely:
Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challengefor yourself, a friend or a loved one. Improve someone's holiday season TODAY! Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism. Find your inner hero or heroine and live up to him or her. It makes life much more pleasant. Psst:EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challengeshows you how to do that!
Remember the lessons in that Super-Better game? That Boo-Boo Barbie healing stunt that I pulled one Purim? Tomorrow I'll share insight into how some life lessons helped me to deal with a shock to my medical file - and to me - this past month. Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism. Face fear with a strategy to fight it down.
B'SD 16 Kislev, 5775 As promised, here's another in this week's lineup of endorsements for
"I received EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge one week after [suffering] my own medical crisis and found it very helpful. [It] will be of great benefit both in dealing with the fragile emotional health of sick patients and the stressful situation of the patient's caregiver… [with] very practical comprehensive information for dealing with a health-related crisis that is so seldom available to someone who is ill and preoccupied with their own troubles. "Ill people are often compromised and often don't know where to look for guidance. Putting so much useful information at their fingertips will help them navigate the difficulties of a confusing medical system. Combined with [the author's] encouragement to never give up hope, the book will be of great aid to anyone with a sudden serious medical emergency." - Daniel Eisenberg, MD, Department of Radiology at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA; Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Imaging at Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine; Medical Ethicist www.danieleisenberg.com
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Face Your Future with Optimism. Find, then use, the information you need.
Less than 2 weeks to go until Hanuka. Kawanzaa and Xmas are coming up, too.
Here's something that several people recommend for the people on your gift list who need medical miracles and soothing ways to deal with relevant needs:
I'll be sharing endorsements for the book (including the updated edition) this week. Here's the first one...
January 3, 2007 - My dear Yochi,
Girl, you and I are kindred spirits.
I just
finished reading your wonderful manuscript, and I stand in awe of
you.
Fifteen and a half years ago I was the recipient of a heart
transplant. I know what you mean about being wheeled into surgery, taking one
last long lingering look at the people I loved and who loved me as those big
doors closed behind me...
You are Jewish and I am
Christian, but the importance of the spirituality you described was incredibly
accurate. After I had been accepted as a candidate for a transplant, some ladies
from my church visited me. One of them chirped, "We are praying that they will
find a heart for you."
I was appalled. "Don't do that," I said. "You are
praying for something bad to happen to somebody else. Pray as I do - that God
will heal me, and leave the means up to Him and the doctors...
OK, God, I
thought. You know what's best for me. Here I am. I'm yours...
Your workbook is great...
Your book should make crises easier to face for
most people. You did a great job with it. Anyone who gets past self-pity long
enough to pick that book up and get into it should have an easier time of
it.
A crisis is a crisis, and your book doesn't change that. What it does
is provide people with some practical advice on how to deal with a crisis.
Great stuff, Yochi!
After reading your book, I feel like hugging
you...
Love, Carl P.S. "A MUST READ for anyone facing a life-threatening or physically crippling
illness" -- Carl Phillips, ASTA Certified Hospital Consultant and lay
minister.
Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism. Fill your mind and heart with faith that you can do so.
4 Kislev, 5775 Sorry for the delay, folks. I've been trying to post footage of the new Bnai Akiva naming ceremony. Send me a link of the action if you can.
Canadians and Americans near and far are marking the "Thanksgiving" holiday weekend with in-laws, outlaws, illnesses, debt, too much food, and overspending onBlack Fridaydespite previous declarations of "thank yous" to GOD for their bounty. I suspect that they are trying to soothe inner agony that increases with the social pressure to appear cheerful, despite negative circumstances, at the holiday season. Some of the participants bemoan their fates and sufferings verbally or inwardly, wondering why anyone else sees life with a cheerful perspective.
That misery will increase as Xmas, Kwanzaa
and Hanuka
come closer on the calendar because of:
Family time marred by symbolic victories by warring ex-spouses leave offspring and everybody wondering how to achieve happiness.
Over-exerting yourself somehow.
Medical and mental health/emotional problems seeming to be insurmountable as the whole wide world smiles despite your pain.
A sense of "need" or social obligation to dine on seasonal foods bad for your body leaves you suffering on and off the toilet, perhaps in medical offices.
Want to prevent or minimize the suffering?
Get your grin back as you learn how to lower your medical debts with assistance from charitable foundations worldwide. Read laugh-out-loud stories that validate your point of view, the improve on it. Learn about air transport options for people in fragile health. Fill your need for medical equipment from modest hospital gowns to free wheelchairs, and all the stuff in between
Read
You'll find funny stories to cheer you up,
solutions to boredom, emotional roller coasters,
medical needs and more.
That will leave you feeling thankful.
Do you have a question about the book or your medical situation? Share you question in the "Comments" section or send me an E-mail. I just might have a satisfying answer for you.
