BodyBags full of water, clay, bugs, forming "Your Vessel" alive thanks to your Filament, the "Light Within".
How to you increase the brightness, the power, the health of your life except by grounding, focusing, fulfilling your dreams of what you came to create & do?
When I was a kid the advertising of food pyramid diets by big corporations successful in selling cereal, milk, cheese, beef, ever-refining all things to cook faster, easier into Betty Crocker Boxes or other ways to make homemaking easier. At 66 years old, having been a sugar addict and tested many other unhealthy habits in life, I understand the cost to the health of America that took a few decades to become apparent. It only takes a few pictures from Life Magazine in the 1960s to see what happened for the dramatic difference between the average girth of citizens’ waistlines was dramatically thinner than today, less than 60 years later. As I enter my late 60’s and view my society, the other industrialized countries that share similar excess due to ready access to sugar, refined flours, rices, and fats mixed with chemicals, artificial sweeteners, preservatives, artificial colors, as well as the packaging chemicals to keep things crunchy until you open the bag.
As I grew up, Jack Lalane was the amazing little older guy who could do incredible things, like pull train cars or ships, the roman chair, and his leg lifts inspiring my pursuit in getting stronger as I aged. That was important to have examples of aging well given my family was prone to dying overweight, out of shape, and not notably brilliant at the end compared to Alzheimer’s sorts of cognizance after 75 years old. Now I know we can do better, feel younger than imaginable after our mid-60s, have adventures, make love, and keep living well into our 90s with a great lust for living, creating, and savoring with gratitude the gift of life we have been gifted with during this chance at life.
What are you doing with this incredibly miraculous experience on Earth? Are you giving your body an hour of exercise a day a few days of a week, watch what you put into your mouth that changes your body in positive or negative ways each day. Simple willpower is all it takes to make the world a better place for you and those who love who want to see you be your best, thus inspiring them to follow the path of healthy intentional living that proves what is possible for the littlest of kids as they look to us for answers. Is there any perfect food, meal, or diet or is moderation the best path, striving to do great 80% of the time, and perhaps indulge 20% of the time?
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