A Healthy Quote

Happy week 22 of 2012 everyone. Here’s a quote to celebrate!

If I had my way I’d make health catching instead of disease.  ~Robert Ingersoll

AH-CHOOOO

Kleenex, a photo by The Happy Grinch on Flickr.

I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life’s sensational pleasures. ~Robert Benchley, “Hiccoughing Makes Us Fat,” No Poems: or around the world backwards and sideways, 1932

Giving Thanks

Harvest, a photo by bigbrowneyez on Flickr.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
~ William Arthur Ward

And boy oh boy,  is expressing gratitude an excellent tonic for your health.

Happy Thanksgiving to all
-Wendy

A Quick Study Of Good Health

Happy Manga face on green wood, a photo by eddiemalone on Flickr.

Not practicing preventative health care (not just office visits!) is like showing up to take the most important test of your life but not studying for it. How can you expect the result of A+ health if you don’t prepare for it?

Quote Of The Day

Seascape, a photo by Sverrir Thorolfsson on Flickr.

“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”

(Hermann Hesse)

A nice little quote I borrowed from this blog-

Under The Apricot Tree

that has a nice little message.

Check it out!

Bacon

Bacon and Eggs, a photo by stephk on Flickr.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ~Doug Larson

Health

meditation, a photo by sudjuanda on Flickr.

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. ~World Health Organization, 1948

As Sayings Go…

Apothecary Bottles, a photo by jcbwalsh on Flickr.

Since this week seems to be about sayings, here is one of the cornerstone ideas of traditional Chinese medicine:
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
The idea behind TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) is to keep the body in balance in the first place so that problems don’t have a chance to get started or to grow from inconsequential things into negative influences to our health. Which makes me think also:
A stitch in time saves nine.

Have anything unraveling about your health?

The Path

The Path, a photo by Darren Larson on Flickr.

Health is a journey not a destination.

To Quote the Bulgarians…

“Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians.”

Bulgarian Proverb