Healthy Happy Loving Life: Your Point of View

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© 2021 Kebba Buckley Button, MS, OM

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Much of our reacting to any situation is based on our point of view.  We may not even realize we’re seeing reality through a filter, but that may be exactly what’s happening.  One of my teachers told a story of thinking a neighbor was hanging up dirty laundry.  But it turned out the windows were dirty.  His point of view gave him ultimately a false impression.  Has this happened to you?

Now, let’s have a little light fun with point of view.  When you saw the above image, what did you think was happening?  What did the cat seem to be thinking?  And what did the alpacas seem to be thinking?  Several weeks ago, I did a caption contest with that image, and the results were hilarious.

• Faculty meeting! –teacher
• Bow down to your king! –holistic cat lover
• Can we keep it? –fitness trainer
• Cat scan! –holistic office administrator
• I AM GOD. –author
• Gather ‘round! –retired professor
• We are not worthy! –software marketer
• Whad’ya think, guys? We s’posed to bow or sumfing?  –author
• Sermon on a mount? – retired teacher
• Are you SURE alpacas are vegetarians? –retired insurance estimator

Notice some took the point of view of the cat, and some took the point of view of the alpacas.   Which did you pick?  What did you think was being communicated?  Remember, you are always at choice about your thoughts.  Whatever view you take, in any situation, may it lead you to be ever more Healthy Happy Loving Life^sm!  Are you in?

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert, holistic healer, and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She has a longtime natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: 7 Top Tips to Wake Up Well And Make It A Great Day!

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© 2021 Kebba Buckley Button, MS, OM

How can you best wake up?

Do you ever struggle to wake up and get going?  Are you just thinking of surviving the wakeup process, let alone thriving during the day?  My father said he never really woke up before about 10 am.  It was his metabolism, his internal clock. Here are some of the best tips I use to make sure I get going so I can make it a great day.  You may want to try one, or two of these daystarters, or all of them!

1.  Wake up at 6 am or when your — um– solids move.  You’re working with the clock from Chinese medicine and will be more awake all day if you do this.
2.  Make your alarm sound pleasant.  Waking up by smartphone?  You have many choices of tones.
3.  If you feel tired or resistant, make a positive statement.  Try:  “We’re making it a great day!”  Or, if you are a Christian, try, “In Jesus’ name I pray, let’s make it a great day!”  Write your own declaration.
4. Get an alarm light that glows more and more brightly over a half hour, prior to your alarm going off. The light will stimulate your brain and help your system get moving.
5. Envision what a joy-filled, healthy, effective day you are stepping into.  Take 1 minute to do this.
6. Eat the right breakfast, for you. Some people are just not hungry when they get up; they may want to eat when they do get hungry, or have a protein drink now.  How about an ounce of almonds or cashews, a piece of fruit, and some tea?  I always wake up ready for a big breakfast with lots of protein.  Experiment with the breakfast that fits your metabolism and keeps you going for at least two hours.
7.  Drink the best breakfast beverage, for you.  Many of us love a cup or two of joe, and we feel really great after having it with breakfast.  But not all coffees are created equal, and many people feel best all morning after drinking tea, hot chocolate, lemon water, or a fruit smoothie.  Coffee is loaded with antioxidants, not just caffeine.  Green and black teas have other beneficial compounds.  There is so much research on this that we’ll have a separate article on coffee and tea soon.  The bottom line is:  what beverage works best for you, to feel your best at breakfast time, and two hours later?

Try incorporating these tips one by one, and notice how much better your days run.  And that’s you:  ever more Healthy Happy Loving Life^sm!  Are you in?

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert, holistic healer, and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She has a longtime natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Peace Poetry Day

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© 2021 Kebba Buckley Button, MS, OM

Poster © Kebba Buckley Button

We can choose to be peaceful, to have Peace Within, and to cultivate CALM.  Hopefully, the lovely poster above helps you laugh about the fact that these are choices.  We are always at choice.  As yesterday was Bad Poetry Day, it follows that today must be Peace Poetry Day.  And while I have a whole book to help you find and solidify your Peace Within— curiously called Inspirations for Peace Within— today I’m sharing two exquisite peace poems.  The first is in French, which you will really enjoy, if you speak French:

Puisses-tu avoir la paix intérieur aujourd’hui. 

Puisses-tu avoir la certitude que Dieu t’as placé exactement où tu devais être.

Puisses-tu ne pas oublier les possibilités infinies qui émanent de la foi.

Puisses-tu utiliser ces cadeaux que tu as reçu et transmettre l’amour qui t’as été donné. 

Puisses-tu être heureux de savoir que tu es un enfant de Dieu.

Laisses cette présence s’enfoncer jusqu’au fond de toi, permet à ton âme de chanter, danse, glorifie, aime. C’est là pour chacun de nous.

~ Sainte Thérèse de Lisieux (original version)

And this, actually the more familiar English translation of the same poem:

May today there be peace within.

May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities

that are born of faith in yourself and others.

May you use the gifts that you have received,

and pass on the love that has been given to you.

May you be content with yourself just the way you are.

Let this knowledge settle into your bones,

and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love.

It is there for each and every one of us.

~ St. Thérèse of Lisieux

Go ahead– post that on a mirror where you will read it to yourself at least every morning.  In a week, tell me how your life has shifted.  And that would be you– ever more Healthy Happy Loving Life^sm!  Are you in?

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert, holistic healer, and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She has a longtime natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: 3 Top Questions People Ask Me About Stress and Healing

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© 2021 Kebba Buckley Button, MS, OM

Logo by Jin Shin Jyutsu, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

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When I first meet people at a business event, there are 3 top questions I am frequently asked about my holistic healing practice. These are some common ways people ask these things, plus a sampling of my answers.

Q:  You do what now?

A:  I help busy professionals with stress.  If their stress is only causing tension or fatigue, I have a system of strategies for helping people respond differently to stressful situations.  If their stress is causing body pains and tightness that keeps areas from working, I use energy therapies to unwind those symptoms.  My therapies include Jin Shin Jyutsu, Healing Touch, Reiki, and even massotherapy.  I love sharing self-help  methods, both as un-stressing strategies and as pain release methods.  Bring your stress, pain, and fatigue to my office and leave it there!  Also, I offer trainings to help people trade in their stress for energy, learn energy therapy self-help, learn meditation practice, and even learn active use of labyrinths.  I work with some people on their spiritual path, as well.  I have hundreds of free articles (like this one), and books on Amazon.

Q:  How did you develop this practice?

A:  As a busy engineering manager, years ago, I developed a horrible, crippling pain, all over my body, that was never diagnosed by doctors.  Over an 8-year period, I beat it, using energy therapies, exercise, and a diet system I worked out.  At that point, I was much more interested in natural pain solutions than in engineering, so I had to start my own holistic office.  I continue my holistic- and energy medicine training on an ongoing basis.

Q:  So, my shoulder tops are so tight they’re killing me!  This happens when I’m tense.  Anything I can do about this?

A:  Yes!  In Oriental medicine, it’s understood that different thoughts and emotions lodge in different parts of the body.  The shoulder tops reflect the question: “How am I going to solve it?”  So, briefly, you can:

• Let go of the issue. Change your focus, “change your channel”
• Take hot showers with the water pounding gloriously on your shoulder tops
• Wear a shoulder-wrap heating pad for 20 minutes at a time
• Gently shrug your shoulders, in a stretching way, in every possible direction
• Hold a massage wand downward on the tight muscles and let it vibrate for 5-10 minutes
• Using Jin Shin Jyutsu, hold the shoulder top and same side hip hinge for at least 5 minutes.  Watch a video or listen to music, to keep yourself in the chair
• Do, or watch, anything that makes you laugh
• Call a holistic healer for professional help

Any of the areas covered in my books can also be covered in individual sessions or trainings.  Try some of the ideas on the list above, and you’ll be even more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Kebba Buckley Button, MS, OM, is an energy transformation expert, holistic healer and guide, and award-winning author who celebrates life. She has a longtime energy healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: We Are On Our Perfect Path

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© 2021 Kebba Buckley Button, MS, OM

Artwork by Carolyn Joy Adams

I am at a special time in my life journey– more in upcoming posts– and I feel intensely that I am exactly where I am supposed to be.  This beautiful poster by Carolyn Joy Adams has hung in my holistic healing office for many years.  Like Carolyn, whom I have met, I believe very deeply that each of us has our personal path in this lifetime.  Our job is not to be Moses, or Jesus, or an Olympic path-walker, but each of us is to be our Self.  A Judaic midrash says that, when we get to Heaven, God will not ask us, “why were you not Moses?”  Rather, he will ask Roy, “why were you not Roy?”, and he will ask Paul, “why were you not Paul?” And so on.  So you may as well be true to yourself.

So, the text of this stunning calligraphic expression is this:  Your Life is a sacred journey.  And it is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul, learning to see clearly and deeply, listening to your intuition, taking courageous risks, embracing challenges at every step along the way.  You are on the path, exactly where you are meant to be right now.  And from here, you can only go forward, shaping your life story into a magnificent tale of triumph, of healing, of courage, beauty, wisdom, power, dignity, & love.

To learn more about Carolyn:  www.carolynjoyadams.com

Affirm and flow with your personal, unique path.  Nobody else has the job of being you.  Do your best, and don’t stress.  And now you’ll be even more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Kebba Buckley Button, MS, OM, is an energy transformation expert, holistic healer and guide, and award-winning author who celebrates life. She has a longtime energy healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

Books by Kebba Buckley Button