You are Your Doctor's Life Lesson

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28 Tamuz, 5775

One of the lessons in EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge is that YOU are your own best medical advocate. 

Each of us understands our bodies and health symptoms with the accuracy of personal experience. Another word for personal experience is data, factual information that can - and in your case SHOULD - be used for reference and analysis.

You, your loved ones and friends, can dramatically influence your health care. Speak up, defend your choices with factual information, and with focused behavior. 

Work with medical professionals who respect the facts in your physical and/or emotional life, and respect you.

This TEDTalk demonstrates the wisdom of Owning Your Own Data.

Here's what it all comes down to: You are Your Doctor's Life Lesson. The life is yours. Teach your medical team about the realities in your life from temperatures shifts to food, weather, environmental and drug sensitivities. Your hunch, your insight about it all, is based on experience that can help all of you.

Ready to develop your skills for defending your specific heath interests and needs? Read

Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 

Show your doctors your data.

 







Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism.

Fill your medical life with self respect.

The Gratitude Challenge: How Happiness can be Achieved!

B'SD  

12 Tishrei

Whew! The 3-weeks-long High Holiday season takes up lots of energy on the Jewish calendar and in personal lives.

I fasted easily on Yom Kipur as usual, and felt more relaxed than I have in decades. Many important personal issues and perspectives are in satisfying order. 

But I prayed hard for many soothing miracles to embrace the earth. What with the Ebola, enterovirus plus other health and safety scares in the headlines, we mortals need those blessings.

Holidays are too often filled with anxiety, anger, misery; Inner and outer pain of any sort. Sometimes the worst comes out in angry, sad or vengeful people just when you want to feel content, safe and secure.

Maybe this can help you to deal with all that:

A real life friend tagged me for The Gratitude Challenge. It's a bit of a game in which a person is asked to name 3 things for which they're grateful, several days in a row.

My Gratitude Challenge schedule is going to be briefer than most due to the High Holiday season (Sukkot begins tomorrow night). 

But some of my thoughts illustrate how, and that, I persevered past some deeply upsetting and painful episodes in my life. I'm sharing a few of thoughts below.

Perhaps they'll help you, too. Please let me know.

Yocheved Golani

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I've accepted a Gratitude Challenge (3X daily for 5 days - 2 days due to the Jewish holiday season) though I have a policy of not accepting ANY challenges. PUH-LEEZ don't challenge me with anything, fb friends. This exception to my rule is onl ybecause I have so much to be thankful for that I'm kinda bursting at the seams to let the public know about the bounty.

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  Bracha Barbara Goldman beautiful!

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  Yocheved Golani Day 2 of the Gratitude Challenge:
  
  1. I find it easy to fall asleep due to the fact that I stick to my Early to Bed, Early to Rise habit. ...See More

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  Yocheved Golani I'm supposed to nominate 3 people per day for this thing but I cringe when people pressure me in public to do something or other. So, I nominate the first 3 fb friends who choose to join me in feeling thankful. TAG! You're it! (Esther I can officially nominate you on Day 3, per your request, OK? You can begin sharing your Attitude of Gratitude after Sukot))

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  Yocheved Golani If you accept my "Your choice to share gratitude online" offer, please let me know below. TU!

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  Yocheved Golani My Gratitude Attitude, Day 3: 
  
  I'm thankful that this video confirmed a lot of my thoughts/beliefs. I've kept a happiness diary for ages. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXy__kBVq1M
  
  I'm grateful for opportunities to make things right, to understand things right, and to learn from other people that yes, what I did was "right."
  
  I'm grateful for giggles. I need outlets for my sense of happiness. Sharing a sense of relief or satisfaction makes it more fun.
  

  
  

  

  TEDxBloomington - Shawn Achor - "The Happiness Advantage: Linking Positive Brains to...

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  Yocheved Golani BTW, Shawn explains about gratitude being a Reality Check. I so agree! http://www.forbes.com/.../shawn-achor-what-you-need-to.../
  

  
  

  

  Shawn Achor: What You Need To Do Before Experiencing Happiness

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Follow the conversation (join it, please!) until tomorrow.

You can even accept the Gratitude Challenge I gave to my Facebook friends/readers.



Grow your sense of gratitude. Read "Refining Silver" in the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. It can rev up your emotional life.

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism. 

Feel happier, one step at a time. It's a process, not an immediate commodity. 


 

How to Cope with a Bad Mood FAST!

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13 Tevet, 5773

From Israel to the USA, lives have been battered and endangered by snowstorms. Property has been destroyed, lives altered in serious, lasting ways.

The news has its upbeat side, too: Several thousand Israeli homes have had electricity restored, babies were born after pregnant moms were safely evacuated to hospitals, stranded motorists received safe shelter and food, and Israel's soldiers are helping wherever they can. They've spread across the map. WOW.

While all this was going on, people faced fears, misery (cold, hunger and health matters among them) and uncertainty. 

Many of them focused on the improvements going on or about to happen. Some people indulged in delightful memories of having been helped some time ago.

The people providing necessary help did it despite their personal inconvenience.

 Here are photos of Israel's rare winter storm of note.

When pain is raw and deep, reach for decency and perspective. That strengthens you to right the wrongs of life, or to deal with them sensibly.

Need insight on how to do that? Listen in.

Need to read a book that teaches those lessons, too? 

It was written before the author had ever heard of Tal Ben-Shachar.

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 optimism; Use perspective.