Being healthy, obtaining optimum health and staying healthy involves more than just taking care of what you eat. You really have to take a holistic approach to your life and take care of all the components that make you the complete person you are or should be. Most of us, are not complete. We are not connected with ourselves - the me, myself and I. We are also not sufficiently connected with our soul and our spirit, with our dreams and our desires, with our emotions and emotional health. We do not live balanced lives. To obtain optimum health we have to make completing our individual life circles part of the process along with caring for our bodies through nutrition and exercise.
Many of us have lost is the ability to connect with, or feel the connect between ourselves and others, and ourselves and the natural world. My cousin had an awful year, he nursed his father and dutifully sat vigil for months until my uncle's recent passing. And yet, despite his grief, my cousin was able to send me this beautiful new year's wish, demonstrating his ability to connect with me, with the natural world and his high degree of emotional well being. He passed it to me and I pass it to you - May you all be the best you can be in 2011
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| May Te Spirit of the Whale be With You |
about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of
crab traps and lines.
She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to
struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped
around her body, her tail, her torso and a line tugging in her mouth. A fisherman spotted her
just east of the Farallon Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed an
environmental group for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined
that she was so bad off; the only way to save her was to dive in and
untangle her.
They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her. When she
was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles.
She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them,
pushed them gently around as she was thanking them.
Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives.
The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth said her eyes were following him
the whole time, and he will never be the same.
May you, and all those you love, be so blessed and fortunate to be
surrounded by people who will help you get untangled from the things that
are binding you.
And may you always know the joy of giving and receiving gratitude.
I pass this on to you in the same spirit.
Best wishes for a wonderful New Year filled with love, laughter, and
gratitude. I hope that 2011 finds you well and in the company of good
people, doing great things.
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