Healthy Happy Loving Life: Creating the Life Qualities You Actually Want

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I want you to live the happiest, healthiest lifestyle you can, discovering The Secret Energized You more and more. I want you to begin understanding the dynamics of health and lifestyle differently, so you can begin making different choices. Using the LifeTools in this and the upcoming few articles will bring your body, heart, mind and spirit actively into the process of discovering your true joy and vitality: The Secret Energized You.

We Are At Choice

We cannot choose all of what happens in our lives, nor can we control all of it. Some of us feel like victims of stress. When we are ready to stop being Stress Victims—when a healthy, energized, fulfilled life is more attractive than subtle victimhood—only then we begin to take responsibility for our reactions. It is then that we can start choosing how to spend our energy. We become Energy Managers rather than exhausted Stress Victims. We begin to discover the secret energized self. Will you now choose to pursue The Secret Energized You?

Goals and Possibilities

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 One of the most powerful things we can do for ourselves is to be open to positive possibilities in all aspects of life. For example:

• Are you willing to allow yourself to get well?
• Are you willing to allow yourself to achieve a promotion?
• Are you willing to allow yourself a massive upswing in income?
• Are you willing to allow yourself a happy love relationship?

Have you ever noticed that there are some small or simple things you want to have in life but you don’t seem to go after them? Some of them are so easy to get, yet you don’t go get them. Why not? For example, many people complain about the chair they sit in the most. They say it just doesn’t fit them, it’s too high, it’s too deep, it’s too hard or unsupportive here or there. You have been in these conversations and heard the speeches. Some people can go on for years claiming they want a different desk chair, dining chair, or recliner. Do these people act like they want to change the chair? Or do they act like people who want to talk about the chair and keep on talking about the chair? What is actually stopping the chair owner from changing the chair?

It is completely clear when we truly want something, we go after it. A morning coffee or mid-day lunch is an absolute goal, achieved daily and without fail, for many people. In larger decisions, we all know people who are sure of what they want. When their chair is not right, they try adjusting it and adding or subtracting pillows. If that doesn’t meet the requirement, then they go to stores that sell chairs in their price range and start auditioning chairs. Soon, they show you their wonderful new chair, beaming at how pleased they are with the both the comfort and the problem solution. These people are open to successful changes. The same goes for when they want to get a different car or home.

The classic formula for achieving something is:

1. Set the goal.
2. Set the approximate time frame and budget.
3. Take action.
4. Stay focused until complete.
5. Enjoy your achievement.

So why do we so often fail to get to Step 3? I propose that there is a category of desire which is not a real desire. It’s the category of What We Want to Want (W4). If I only want-to-want my new chair, I will not take action. I am not willing to take action. Willingness is a necessary element for success. Inaction is not just a matter of laziness although it may appear so.

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Getting Ready by Implanting Your Goal

Here is a short yet powerful method for you to try, in three steps.

1. Write down your goal, such as: get comfortable chair, find someone new to date, get new job, increase income by $10K per year, get rid of scars, learn to program dreams, increase stamina 50%, lose fifteen pounds without them finding me again. Note how relatively willing you are to do anything about this. Do you want it? Or do you only wish you wanted it?
2. Write down all your reasons for achieving this goal. What payoffs will you enjoy when the goal is achieved? Again note your relative willingness to take action. It’s higher now, isn’t it? If not, figure out for whom this goal was really set. Was it for your parents, was it for appearances, or was it for someone else? Now, if this goal wasn’t really your desire, consider setting it aside! Otherwise, proceed.
3. Vividly picture yourself having achieved this goal, and feel exactly how good it is to have this item, condition, or achievement in your life.

Plan to repeat Steps 2 and 3 daily. Vision it! Check your relative willingness again. Wow! Are you ready now? Then it’s time to stop wanting and go take action! Repeat as desired. Enjoy!

Now remember:  if the ancestor of every action is a thought, what thoughts are in your mind?

                                Next time:  the Law of Attraction

As you Discover The Secret Energized You, push the possibilities. See how far the LifeTools can take you into energy, enthusiasm, and rejuvenation. You are now embarking on the most profound adventure: to Discover The Secret Energized You and redesign your life. Make the most of this adventure to make the most of your life! And that will be you, more and more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress/energy 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.   They are also available in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the Franciscan Renewal Center bookstore and at the bookstore at St. Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church. Or simply email us to order:  kebba@kebba.com .  Thank you!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Two One-Minute LifeTools to Convert Negative Stress to Energy

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So, now you know that, without changing your life’s negatives at all, you can balance them or take away their power by adding positives. Now we briefly focus on the negatives, but solely so we can discuss how to convert negative stress to energy.

Do you think you don’t have time for managing your stress and energy? Wrong. Two LifeTools will be covered in this section. Each will take only a few seconds. The first method applies neuro-linguistic programming, and the second uses physiology. You can begin using these immediately and continue lifelong. They do not wear out. They weigh nothing and take up no space.

The Problem-To-Project Switch^sm

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The first LifeTool for converting negativity is The Problem-To-Project Switch^sm. Neuro-linguistic programming is the science of the language of the nervous system. We can address (“talk to”) the nervous system, and hence the brain stem and all physiological functions, verbally, tonally, physically, emotionally, and through facial expressions and posture. We can cause the nervous system to recall its optimum state of functioning through “keys” or “anchors,” such as gestures and words. Let’s take the case of language. If we use negative, heavy, emotionally loaded or jarring words, there is a negative impact on the bodymind state.

If we switch to positive, light, energetic, constructive, and connective language, we produce strong positive effects on the bodymind state. We often speak of our “problems.” We say we have a “weight problem,” a “money problem,” a “sleeping problem,” or a “personnel problem.” If you chant the word “problem” to yourself for a minute, do you feel light and energetic and great? More likely, you feel weighed down and distressed. What other physiology do you feel when you focus on this common neuro-linguistic anchor, the word “problem”? If you switch to the word “challenge,” what is the difference? Try chanting “challenge” to yourself for one minute. Now the fighting energy is gone, some resistance is gone, hope and optimism and reward expectation are present.

Next, try an upgrade to a higher anchor by switching to the word “project.” Now you have “a health project,” “an employee project,” “a diplomacy project,” even “a weight project.” Now chant the word “project” to yourself for one minute. How do you feel? Try The Problem-To-Project Switch, and notice how much less resistance is present. Notice how much less energy each “project” takes. You have now changed the very nature of the negative stress by renaming it, and you have changed your neuro-linguistic program to handle it positively.

The Complete Exhale^sm

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The second LifeTool for converting negativity is The Complete Exhale^sm. Often, in your lungs, there lurks an energy blockage. And you can remove it! Do you ever feel better in fresh air than in stale air? Has it been so long since you breathed fresh air, that you can’t remember? Breathing well and completely, and inhaling fresh air rather than stale air, energizes the body completely when the lungs provide oxygen to the bloodstream through gas-exchange processes.

Yet few people use all of their lung capacity. Most take shallow breaths from the upper half or two-thirds of the lungs. Thus, stale air and city pollution byproducts rest undisturbed in the lower lungs. They take up space you could be using to generate physiological energy, which would increase your vitality directly.

Oriental medicine recognizes a strong relationship between joy and respiration; if you are depressed, an energy practitioner will check your “lung meridian” for lowered energy. In several cultures (India, China, Israel), the words for “breath” and “spirit” are the same. Complete breaths oxygenate and alkalize the body, making you less prone to histamine reactions. So, especially if you are depressed or allergic, augmented breathing methods are good techniques to check out. You can start by dumping the “old air load” from your lungs, thus allowing the reflexive inhale that will reload the lungs with fresh air, allowing oxygenation through the extra 50% of alveoli, or air sacs, that become available.

Robin Sharma has said,

To breathe properly is to live properly.

Now try The Complete Exhale, and do not start with a nice big inhalation! First, sit or stand up straight. Second, say the word “ha” on a tone and sustain it while exhaling deeply. Now picture your lungs squeezing every last bit of city air pollution out of every little air sac as you exhale. Continue until you can’t get a vocal sound any more.

Allow the reflexive inhale; let new air completely fill your lungs. Take a few good inhalations, picturing them filling every little air sac in your lungs. As always, observe the result. Now you have tingling skin and your shoulders have dropped! After one minute, there will be a rush up the back of your neck and head. This is the feeling of oxygen rushing to your brain! What other effects do you feel?

Repeat two times. Notice how your energy has improved? Your cheer quotient should also have risen. If you started with stress, notice how the body has relaxed? All your projects still exist, but now they drag on you less and are easier to manage. You have transformed them again by transforming your physiological state. You just moved far forward in your ongoing discovery of the Secret Energized You.

As you Discover The Secret Energized You, push the possibilities. See how far the LifeTools can take you into energy, enthusiasm, and rejuvenation. You are now embarking on the most profound adventure: to Discover The Secret Energized You and redesign your life. Make the most of this adventure to make the most of your life! And that will be you, more and more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress/energy 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.   They are also available in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the Franciscan Renewal Center bookstore and at the bookstore at St. Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church. Or simply email us to order:  kebba@kebba.com .  Thank you!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: What if You Could Flip a Switch and Drop Your Stress Levels?

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Really, what if you could flip a mental switch and drop your stress levels right now?  You can do it, if you switch the way you believe stress works.  Does it come at you, like a weather front?  Does it waft through you like a spirit?  Or is it a set of situations and your responses.  Hear me out, if you want to completely change your life.

Get Past Old Models of Stress Management

It is vital that we see how the “regular” ways of seeing stress and stress management actually get us deeper into stress, locked into unhelpful ways of thinking and acting. In most models of stress management, all we can do is cope with the stress or try to avoid it. Study the familiar models below, and read on to see how vital it is that we create new models for new ways of living.

The Stressmonster^sm Model

A very popular view of stress is that it is something like a phantom or an irritating ghost that comes to visit. People say, “Oh, I really have stress today!” or “Oh, stress has really gotten to me today!” In this model, the stress is outside oneself. It is something that just happens, like weather patterns. Some people even say, “What a stressful day!” as though the stress they experience is somehow due to the day. Again, the stress is perceived as something outside themselves.

In this model, people respond like warriors fighting the phantom enemy “Sir Stress”! People say, “Oh, I’m holding up as well as I can!” But this involves resistance, which is work and which produces more stress. Therefore, people “fighting” stress get tired quickly and rarely feel they have won. You may hear these people use stronger phrases that indicate they see life as a war zone and themselves as being under siege—by the unbeatable StressMonster^sm.

The Stress-O-Meter^sm Model

In this way of thinking about stress, people see stress as heat, like a climate condition. Picture a large thermometer labeled “How hot will you get today?” As in the StressMonster Model, stress seen as is coming from outside yourself and certainly as being out of your direct control.

In this model, people talk about “heating up” as they get stressed and “cooling off” as they unstress. They may say, “Boy, he really got hot under the collar at that meeting!” or “Yow, that’s a hot topic!” or “What a heated discussion we had at that board meeting!” People may advise a stressed-out person to “cool off” or “chill out” or even “calm down” meaning “come down in your stress/heat level.”

People ride up and down their personal Stress-O-Meter, the thermometer of stress, during their day. They heat up, then they cool off or chill out. What happens when someone gets so stressed out that they hit the top of their Stress-O-Meter? They “explode” or “go over the top,” just as a mercury thermometer explodes when overheated.

How much more powerful is it to see stress as a matter of perception and focus, with each of us as the manager of our personal energy budget each day?

Become an Energy Budget Manager

Right now, try stretching your ideas about how to use your week. Imagine that your energy is measurable in Energy Dollars, instead of in hours and minutes. Imagine that, for each day of the week, you have a budget of 1440 Energy Dollars. That’s one Energy Dollar for every minute of the day. Now imagine that it’s up to you to invest your Energy Dollars wisely. You lose Energy Dollars when you invest them in people and activities that exhaust you. You multiply your Energy Dollars when you sleep really well or invest in people and activities that energize you. You have seen Figure 1, Stress Sources, on page 10. Review it again now, and write down a few examples of ways you became tired or energized in the last week or two. Just for fun, give your positive and negative energy investments Energy Dollar values. Do you see any patterns? Overall, are you gaining or losing energy during your week?

Stress can come from internal or external causes. We cannot fully control anything outside our own body or mind. We can, however, control our reactions (meaning “choose effective responses”) to internal or external causes. We are most likely to choose effective responses and strategies if we are selecting proper breathing techniques, proper diet and fluids, best posture, best exercise regime, good sleep, and satisfying recreation. These will be covered in upcoming articles in this series.

You have seen the old models of stress management. Operating your life within these models can only lead to an exhausting life running on nervous energy. I call this The False Energy Range. In that range of energy, both fatigue and dis-ease, or “disease” will accumulate. To escape the False Energy Range, you need excellent rest, correct refueling, breathing clear air, drinking high quality water, and beginning refreshing re-creation, or “recreation.” Escapees from the victimhood of exhaustion and negativity can then use LifeTools to convert stress to energy and respond more effectively to situations. This restructuring of thinking, and the ways in which you respond, then leads you into what I call The Real Energy Range. Now energy and productivity start climbing up, and the person starts to recharge, re-empower, revitalize, and actually rejuvenate—become younger and more vital.

The list below, Positive Stress Sources, offers some great positives you can add to your life to start to Discover The Secret Energized You. Research and try the ones that look most interesting to you. Note how much energy you get from each activity. Some will probably power you up more quickly, or to a higher level, than others. Are there positives that are not in Figure 5, but which you might like to add for yourself?  Have fun with it!

Positive Stress Sources

 

Higher Mind/Spiritual

Prayer

Meditation

Spiritual and Religious Study

Nature Walks

Mental

Focus On The “Now” Moment

Consultations On Effective Living Skills

Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP)

Time-Management Principles

Emotional

Psychotherapy

Keeping A Journal

12-Step Programs & Rational-Emotive Programs

Physical

Diet

Supplements:  Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs

Digestive Cleansing

Rest

Extra Sleep

Exercise: Dance, Sports, Yoga, Chikung

Exhaling, Breathwork

Bodywork:  Massage Therapy, Energy Therapy

 

As you Discover The Secret Energized You, push the possibilities. See how far the LifeTools can take you into energy, enthusiasm, and rejuvenation. You are now embarking on the most profound adventure: to Discover The Secret Energized You and redesign your life. Make the most of this adventure to make the most of your life! And that will be you, more and more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress/energy 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.   They are also available in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the Franciscan Renewal Center bookstore and at the bookstore at St. Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church. Or simply email us to order:  kebba@kebba.com .  Thank you!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Wordless Wednesday Shifting Cloudscape

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This progression was so beautiful to me!  The sky changed this fast in 20 minutes.  What else is changing before your eyes?

Let wonder help you Discover The Secret Energized You, and push the possibilities. See how far the LifeTools can take you into energy, enthusiasm, and rejuvenation. You are now embarking on the most profound adventure: to Discover The Secret Energized You and redesign your life. Make the most of this adventure to make the most of your life! And that will be you, more and more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress/energy 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.   They are also available in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the Franciscan Renewal Center bookstore and at the bookstore at St. Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church. Or simply email us to order:  kebba@kebba.com .  Thank you!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Use Positive and Negative Stress to Help You Soar!

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Let Stress Create Disease…Or Wellness

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Overall, do you feel basically well or basically challenged?  Do you want to feel more zippy on every level?  In the image above, we see a man who feels “okay” on average, but sometimes he is stressed out and sometimes he feels healthy and happy.  The following figure, Effects of Increasing Negative Stress, illustrates the many potential negative health effects of stress if it is allowed to go uncontrolled for too long.

We often hear that stress can cause killer diseases such as high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity and diabetes.  The Cleveland Clinic includes these symptoms as resulting from stress:

• Aches and pains.
• Chest pain or a feeling like your heart is racing.
• Exhaustion or trouble sleeping.
• Headaches, dizziness or shaking.
• High blood pressure.
• Muscle tension or jaw clenching.
• Stomach or digestive problems.
• Trouble having sex.
• Weak immune system.

The Heartmath Institute has found that the heart and brain actually influence each other’s functioning in 4 ongoing ways: neurologically, biochemically, biophysically, and electromagnetically.  So we need to take care of our minds to take care of our hearts, literally.  If we want to be well and stay well, it is vital that we learn to see things differently and respond differently, and learn to discharge strong negative feelings. An upcoming article will cover a number of simple techniques that can be used for discharge.  You may be surprised at how enjoyable these methods can be.

Converse to the idea that the damage of stress is supposedly unstoppable, many severe health conditions have been completely reversed by reversing stress. The Figure, Effects of Increasing Positive Stress, illustrates the general accumulative effects of adding positives to one’s lifestyle.

A great example of this renewal process comes from hospices in the United Kingdom. There, the emphasis is on relaxation, complete pain relief, joyful fun, and companionship. And a study showed one-fifth of UK hospice patients got completely well and went home instead of dying. Research on the body’s master hormone may partially explain this phenomenon. The hormone, DHEA, is “dehydroepiandrosterone.”  The following section explains the amazing role of DHEA and how you can learn to increase your body’s own production of it, increasing your own vitality.  [If this section gets too sciencey, skip to the last 2 paragraphs of the article.]

Court Your Master Hormone for Vitality and Youth

Remember how your mother told you to go out and get some fresh air, sunshine, and exercise? It has now been medically proven that she was right! The master hormone, DHEA, is produced by the body when stimulated by fresh air, sunshine, exercise, and some other simple things. You will literally be stronger, feel better, and have greater health if you do these things.

DHEA is produced from cholesterol, as is progesterone. However, DHEA is used to make estrogen and testosterone. And because of hormone production feedback loops, DHEA is a major regulator for all other hormones, including the thyroid and pituitary functions. Ideal DHEA levels should be at least 750 ng/dL (nanograms per deciliter of blood) in men and at least 550 ng/dL in women.

Even if you have no formal background in life sciences, you are an expert on one area of wellness: yours! Only you know exactly how well you feel. Do you wake up stretching for joy and embracing how good you feel? Or do you wake up cursing the alarm clock and wishing you could smash it? Perhaps you have a medical diagnosis but you would love to feel five years younger. Your DHEA levels may be the key factor in how good you feel.

One year, I attended a medical conference on the latest in pain-treatment research. One of the doctors there was the famous neurosurgeon, C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Shealy is known as a pioneer in the field of pain research. He developed the TENS unit, which substitutes its electrical impulses for your body’s pain messages, greatly speeding recovery from surgeries. Dr. Shealy is especially known for his multimodal pain management philosophy and for founding the first biofeedback-based pain management program in the 1970s.

What surprised and impressed me the most about Dr. Shealy’s work was his emphasis on the role of general wellness in chronic pain management. A new paradigm of hormonal wellness has become integral to overall well-being, following a sharp rise in research on DHEA since the mid-1980s. Basic to hormonal balance is personal balance, which we can greatly affect for ourselves, free of charge. And for those without pain or chronic pain, the rules are the same for optimizing wellness through achieving a balance of DHEA and other, possibly more familiar, hormones.

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DHEA is both an antidepressant and a cognition enhancer in patients with major depression. Dr. Shealy says that patients with every major disease have low levels of DHEA. He includes such conditions as diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, cancer, immune deficiencies, autoimmune disorders, and coronary artery disease. Stress, whether physical, mental, chemical, or electromagnetic (e.g. computers, televisions, fluorescent lights), can deplete your DHEA rapidly. Depleted DHEA can then put you on the path to major disease conditions.

In health food stores, you’ll see DHEA supplements in the sports supplements section.  But don’t rush out to buy it yet! When you take DHEA as a supplement, your body absorbs that and stops making its own!  So first, get your doctor to order a serum DHEA test from a lab s/he recommends. Due to uneven results from many labs, you may want to get a lab list from the American Holistic Medical Association. If your DHEA is indeed below ideal, consider some of the research findings and Dr. Shealy’s tips for self-help. These include:

1. Learn meditation and do it thirty minutes per day. Meditators have higher serum DHEA.
2. Apply natural progesterone, such as the cream or roll-on type derived from wild yams (dioscorea), to the skin to raise DHEA levels. Synthetic progesterone does not provide the full spectrum of natural progesterone’s biological activity, and it may have negative side effects.
3. Exercise and spend an hour a day outside or in natural light.
4. Make love more.
5. Eat a diet low in fat, very low in sugar, and with a minimum of caffeine and alcohol.
6. Don’t smoke anything.
7. Keep a positive attitude.
8. Get your DHEA retested in several months.

Basically, do anything that causes you BLISS, and this will raise your DHEA!  And don’t you feel better now, in every way?  Doesn’t this sound easy and interesting?  Try these changes for even a week, and see how your vitality and happiness improve. Take two happy activities and call me in the morning.

As you Discover The Secret Energized You, push the possibilities. See how far the LifeTools can take you into energy, enthusiasm, and rejuvenation. You are now embarking on the most profound adventure: to Discover The Secret Energized You and redesign your life. Make the most of this adventure to make the most of your life! And that will be you, more and more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress/energy 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.   They are also available in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the Franciscan Renewal Center bookstore and at the bookstore at St. Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church. Or simply email us to order:  kebba@kebba.com .  Thank you!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Manage Your Energy, Not Your Stress!

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Do you wish you had no stress? “The Mother of Holistic Medicine”, Dr. Gladys T. McGarey (M.D., M.D.H.), has said, “Stress is probably ultimately the underlying cause of all disease.”  Do you ever feel you’re pushing your stress load up a hill?  Popular concepts of what stress is, how it works, and what can be done are leaving people exhausted. It is vital to start understanding how we can dismiss damaging outmoded ideas and use stress to our benefit. Stress, as we conventionally think of it, is destructive to health, wellness, and happiness. Instead of fighting stress or managing stress, it’s time for a new paradigm. It’s time to eliminate resistance and use stress as our partner in energy management. It’s time to stop managing stress and start managing our energy!

The following figure, Stress Sources, shows a range of common causes of negative stress. Are you experiencing any of these? Have you experienced these in the past?

Understand Stress vs. Energy

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Do you want to enjoy your life more? Of course you do!  Would you enjoy things more if you had more energy? Of course you would!  Life today is filled with stress that most of us cannot avoid. Many people are very tired or sick from constant “stress,” and they know it! Others have stress they may not recognize but which is the beginning of high blood pressure, heart disease, ulcers, cancer, diabetes, and other expensive health problems. Energy, wellness, and stress are intimately connected. For a life of less stress and more energy and wellness, read on!

Here is a trick question: do you think you would get more out of life if you had less stress? Most would say yes. But not all stress is the same. There is negative stress and there is positive stress. Negative stress is sometimes known as distress, and positive stress has been called eustress. It’s the negative stress that steals your energy! Webster’s New World Dictionary says stress is “strain; specifically force that strains or deforms; mental or physical tension; urgency, pressure, etc., causing this.” Does that sound too familiar? It is the frustration, disappointment, and resistance that wear us down and help us feel bad: the too-long task list, the difficult people, the bad breaks, the information we get that is different than what we want. We call the latter “bad news.”

In contrast, positive stress gives you energy, good feelings, and health.  Does positive stress sound like an oxymoron? It’s also known as “stimulus,” “fun,” “creativity,” “excitement,” and even “adventure.” This is the set of positive forces that work, or that we operate, in our lives to shape desired outcomes in ourselves, our days, our careers, our relationships.

Imagine comparing the winning Lotto numbers with the ticket in your hand and finding that the numbers match! Your heart rate picks up and races, just as in negative-stress reactions! Your underarms and hands may sweat. Maybe you feel lightheaded or your stomach feels strange. Guess what? These are the same symptoms as when you got that audit announcement with a $5000 tax bill from IRS! Only this time, with positive stress, you have endorphins, compounds your brain releases that reduce pain and make you feel wonderful. Your sense of well-being goes up sharply. Now you have the chemistry of happiness supporting the factual good news. You have just experienced an extreme dose of positive stress.

Now here is the super news: you can deliberately add positive stress to your life to counter negative stress. Get vigorous exercise. Set up rewards for yourself for meeting goals. Join fun competitions like playing softball or board games or Nintendo. Each of these requires commitment and effort and therefore is a stressor, but a positive one with great rewards. Tired of fighting the monster called Stress? Take a break from the concept of monster fighting. Save that resistance effort and add positive stress to your day and your life. The negative stress will seem—and be—much less potent. You’ll have more energy, feel better, and have a new investment in wellness. Start now!

Use the Word “Stress” for Focus

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When people talk about “having stress,” sometimes they mean causes and sometimes they mean effects. Some people are telling you about situations that could cause stress, and some people are describing the symptoms in their bodies. I want you to change the way you use this word “stress” now! Think of what you want to “stress,” or “focus on,” in your life. How do you want your life to be? Do you want to spend your life responding to annoyances? To discover The Secret Energized You, it is vital that you become an Energy Manager in your life instead of managing the stress around you.

As you Discover The Secret Energized You, push the possibilities. See how far the LifeTools can take you into energy, enthusiasm, and rejuvenation. You are now embarking on the most profound adventure: to Discover The Secret Energized You and redesign your life. Make the most of this adventure to make the most of your life! And that will be you, more and more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress/energy 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.   They are also available in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the Franciscan Renewal Center bookstore and at the bookstore at St. Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church. Or simply email us to order:  kebba@kebba.com .  Thank you!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Exactly How Stressed Are You?

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Measure Your Stress

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You feel stressed, and exactly how stressed are you?  How do you feel right now? Here is a simple way to observe what fatigue and stress you have brought in with you. Get out your pen, or the NOTES section of your smartphone, now.  And start making notes as you observe yourself.

First, place a hand next to your neck, palm down. Now drop the hand to your shoulder top. You should now be at the bend that joins your neck and shoulder top. This is the first place stress lodges in the body for many people, and tightness here can control your fatigue.

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How tight or loose are your shoulder muscles? Do they feel more like pudding or concrete? Privately note your stress level and assign it a score on a scale of zero (“slug” or “sandbag”) to five (“totally tight, tired and exhausted” or “poster person for espresso extreme”). Check both sides and note your score. Many of you will notice that one shoulder-top is noticeably tighter than the other. What you are measuring, at a general level, is hypermyotonia, the excessive tightness of muscle tissue due to stress. Congratulations! You have just conducted a Stress Self-Assessment!  Make a note of the score you gave each shoulder and how many years old you feel. No cheating! This Stress Self-Assessment is only for you.

Gently lean your head down toward your left shoulder, then slowly raise it. Repeat to the right. Normal range-of-motion is more than halfway. Some people can stretch their head all the way to their shoulder-top. If you can’t go at least halfway without straining, you have neck muscle stiffness or were possibly in an accident in the past. Make a note of how far you can lean toward each shoulder.  Halfway to the shoulder top is about 45 degrees, and all the way is 90 degrees.

Now try leaning your head slowly forward, back, “northwest,” “northeast,” “southwest,” and “southeast.” Are you as flexible as you expected to be?  Resist the temptation to do neck circles, with the neck bent!  This could cause damage!

Does any part of your body hurt? Does it hurt regularly? Does any part of your body not work as well as it once did, other than due to injury? Does your intuition suggest that deep stress may be responsible? Or has your doctor told you directly that stress has played a role in your discomforts?

You may want to write out a list of what you observe and consider setting goals to relax your muscles, to get back flexibility, and to investigate possible health improvements. Outline what you think your greatest health can be like.  Would you be willing to be pleasantly surprised?  Outline what your maximum fabulous health and happiness could be like.

Unshoulder Your Burdens

 

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Below is a 3-step LifeTool that can take you straight to the Secret Energized You. It takes about two minutes for each step. To begin, touch the top of each of your shoulders as in the previous section, and note your score on the same scale of zero to five.

Everyone knows that stress can register in the body and make many physical areas tight, tired, or painful. You can even get sick from stress. But few know this secret:  the shoulders take the biggest squeeze from stress and can be your secret weapon to unlock that stress.

We have many phrases that suggest the shoulders are a hub for stress storage in the body. We talk about “shouldering a burden” and “squaring our shoulders” to prepare for a challenge. We speak of “shouldering forward” to make progress in a competition or a thick crowd. We say, “The responsibility landed square on his shoulders.”

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Feel your shoulder tops again. Are they at the same index or even tighter following the discussion of what can tighten them? How old do you feel now?

We talk about “taking on the yoke of responsibility” for a long-term role or job, suggesting that “the weight of responsibility” is to be supported on the shoulders in the way that an ox or a team of oxen “shoulder the yoke” to plow forward with their work. Different kinds of thoughts lodge in different parts of our anatomy. According to Chinese medicine, the question “How am I going to solve it?” is understood to lodge in the shoulder tops, in the cross-fibers of the trapezius muscle group, and in several sets of connected neck muscles. When these muscles are tight, they squeeze on the nerves that pass through them.

Great shoulder stress then means you will have tight facial muscles. This leads, eventually, to age lines in your face. Also, ear discomfort and ringing, head pain, loss of concentration, and tooth pain can all be caused by shoulder stress. When tight shoulder-top muscles squeeze the brachial plexus nerve group, which serves the arms, this stress can cause arm fatigue and impairment of your fingers, sometimes with pain, numbness, or electric-shock sensation. General shoulder-level muscle tightness, especially over a period of time, impairs circulation to the remainder of the body and can cause great fatigue. All this will make you feel old!

So what can you do? The good news is, you can “unshoulder your burdens” to a great degree, quickly and at no cost. Unshouldering is actually easy, and you will relieve your pain, fatigue, and premature facial aging. Take 6 minutes and try this LifeTool now:

1. Run in place for two minutes. Check your shoulder-top scores, left and right. They should be down a bit. Record how old you feel.
2. Take two minutes and stretch your shoulders gently in every direction you can think of. Make it a silly game, as if you were a child getting up from one of those cramped little school desks, stretching your arms and winding them around everywhere. Feel how this movement stretches out your shoulders and how glorious that new circulation feels in your upper torso, head, and face. Check your shoulder-top scores again, left and right. They should be down one or two points. Record how old you feel.
3. For two minutes, think of anything that makes you smile and laugh, such as that goofy look your pet gives you when you run in place and stretch about strangely in your living room. Check your shoulder-top scores once more. At this point, most people’s Stress Self-Assessment scores are down at least four points from their starting scores; they feel younger and healthier, and their hands are more flexible. They may feel a pleasant warmth or tingling in the feet.  Record how old you feel.

Look at your initial scores and the age you said you felt six minutes ago. How young do you feel now? Turn this shoulder-loosening experiment into a twice-daily habit. Add your own variations, and soon you’ll be discovering more of your secret energy and beating stress’s biggest squeeze.

As you Discover The Secret Energized You, push the possibilities. See how far the LifeTools can take you into energy, enthusiasm, and rejuvenation. You are now embarking on the most profound adventure: to Discover The Secret Energized You and redesign your life. Make the most of this adventure to make the most of your life! And that will be you, more and more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress/energy 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.   They are also available in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the Franciscan Renewal Center bookstore and at the bookstore at St. Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church. Or simply email us to order:  kebba@kebba.com .  Thank you!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: You Can Be Done With Stress and Fatigue!

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Stress everywhere is making people tired, and they are tired of being tired!  But what if you could change your own fatigue into energy?  If you’re ready to change, you can actually trade in your fatigue for energy.  This is the first of a series of articles that will bring you easy realizations plus new habits you can adopt, so you can discover your true level of energy, of zip, and of zest! 

The truth is that most people are doing exactly the right things to get more tired.  However, this can change, and you are the one to change it!  If situations or relationships tire you out, you can use new strategies to stop getting tired and worn. If you feel tired after eating or drinking, you can switch to taking in food and drink that is energizing for you. Through understanding and changing your choices, you can truly stop fueling your own fatigue.

 

Get Ready for Change

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Welcome to your personal course in discovering your true self, The Secret Energized You^sm! You’ll notice that I use words differently, or use new words, to get people to take a fresh look at how life works. I present ideas and methods called “LifeTools^sm”, throughout this series. These are not just nice ideas. They are techniques and processes for you to use to rework areas of your life where you want to discover more energy, vitality, success, joy, and transcendence. You can use LifeTools^sm to solve negative conditions and to create positive energy. Life is an experiment! The Universe is your laboratory. What you get in life is the result of the way you have been experimenting and the tools you have been using. What tools will you use in your experiment? You must change your choices to change your results. 

There is a cultural idea in modern life that you can talk about a problem until you are exhausted, or your counseling budget is, and the problem will somehow go away. Actually, talking endlessly about a challenge will often magnify it. Some say, “What you resist persists”. You may even overwork the problem mentally and get “paralysis by analysis”. You may say, “I just want to survive this difficult time!” But I want much more for you. I want you to understand problems differently and then do things differently. I want you to thrive, not just survive. I want new results for you. I want you to fully discover The Secret Energized You.

In live presentations, I often say, “I don’t want much from you today—I just want to completely change your life!” If you read this series and use the LifeTools, you will find profound changes in your energy and the joyful dynamism of your life. Welcome to your fresh new approach to creating and living the life you want!

 

Push the Possibilities

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I believe that everyone can discover their secret energized self—if they want to. Using the LifeTools can take hours or as little as eleven seconds, so anyone has time to experiment with them. The paradigms shared in this book are based on timeless wisdom and the latest medical, neuro-linguistic, and psychoneuroimmunology research. 

Many people are exhausted, but they don’t have to be. In this quantum-paced world, do you sometimes feel overwhelmed and under the power curve? Do you feel that life is moving much faster than you are? Do you think you get sick more often, or stay sick longer, because you are “stressed out”? You are probably right. Stress affects our energy and our health in many ways. And the effects of stress can be profound and expensive. The rampant rate of autoimmune disease in this country and others is one outstanding result of the prevalence of stress. Allergies, skin irritations, fibromyalgia, fatigue, and chronic fatigue syndrome can all result from adrenal depletion and autoimmune dysfunction. Increased anger and violence in the workplace and elsewhere can also be related to unresolved stress.

In the days of cave dwellers, we needed fear to help us speed up and run away from dangers such as large predator animals. We needed anger to help us breathe deeply and feel powerful enough to run toward an enemy and fight. Warrior cultures in every age have practiced gearing up this attack chemistry so as to be brave, strong, and effective. War dances cause endocrine chemistry to flow freely, and artful war cries activate more hormone production. The aerobic exercise of running after enemies or fighting hand-to-hand burns off extra hormones and other stress chemistry.

In today’s society, we are often overstimulated, responsible for too much, financially pressed, frustrated, and exhausted. Most often, we express and resolve any conflicts through words. This leaves us with a lot of unresolved stress chemistry running through our metabolisms and stored in our tissues. Thus, individuals may have stored anger chemistry from one interaction and then may appear to overreact to the next situation that “makes them angry.” This has happened enough in the U.S. Postal Service that we have a modern expression, “going postal”. The phrase means “losing control and becoming violent,” often in response to a small stimulus. This is due to stored stress. In the U.S., health factors like high blood pressure, migraine headaches, and weight gain are at record levels. Many people have stress-caused neuromuscular pain and chiropractic issues caused by muscles in spasm. People spend billions of dollars every year on remedies for pain and exhaustion, yet most are still wondering where their energy went.

The Good News About Stress and Energy

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The good news is that now there are answers to these issues. There has never been a more complete toolkit available. Global knowledge of health care, personal self-maintenance, and issue management has now begun to merge. We now can take the best of all the international well-being toolkits and translate these many techniques into easy-to-use tools for everyone who wants them. East has met West, and meditation has met medicine. Many of these tools are included in this series as LifeTools.

So many people have been tired on a continuing basis for so long that they now think this level of fatigue may just be normal. They think it may just be something that comes with aging. Their real potential is unrevealed. It is a secret to them!

But imagine: what if your body-mind-heart-spirit system could feel energetic, renewed, and enthusiastic? What if you felt optimistic, happy, and excited about new opportunities in life? What if you were meant to live this way? As you will learn, happiness, excitement, and energy lead to more production of body compounds that lead to…happiness, excitement, and energy! Imagine how energized and young you can feel and how deep your in-joy-meant^sm can be.

As you Discover The Secret Energized You, push the possibilities. See how far the LifeTools can take you into energy, enthusiasm, and rejuvenation. You are now embarking on the most profound adventure: to Discover The Secret Energized You and redesign your life. Make the most of this adventure to make the most of your life! And that will be you, more and more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress/energy 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.   They are also available in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the Franciscan Renewal Center bookstore and at the bookstore at St. Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church. Or simply email us to order:  kebba@kebba.com .  Thank you!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Backstory to My Holistic Practice

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I’ve been invited to share the backstory of my holistic coaching and healing practice.  Before I was known for holistic pain management and teaching effective living skills, I was actually a well-known hydrologist.  For a few years, I worked for the Army Corps of Engineers, on the Tucson (AZ) Urban Study.  We were evaluating the possibilities for Federal participation for major projects in Tucson.

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Unfortunately, during my hydrology/engineering days, at age 26, I was suddenly stricken with an intense burning condition, from head to toe.  There was a great stiffness with it, and I began to lose flexibility in my hands.  I went to the “finest arthritis doctor in the Southwest”, and he had no answers for me.  (Thanks a lot!)  Left to my own devices, I began talking with all the arthritics I could find, about what helped them.  They said diet and exercise were the important things– two factors no one was discussing at that time, other than for figure control.  It took me 8 years, but at age 33, using diet, exercise, and Oriental energy therapy, I noticed the condition was gone.  By then, I was so interested in natural pain relief, that I could not imagine staying in engineering.  So I took some therapy courses, gave 2 weeks notice, and left engineering.

I already had 2.8 degrees in sciences from well-known universities.  Over the years, I became an expert in energy therapies, especially Jin Shin Jyutsu.  That art looks like accupressure (with two c’s for accurate, not acu, meaning needle) and feels like your pain and stiffness are “melting”.  I began writing articles (now over 600, free, and online) and books.  I now give workshops on:

• energy therapies, meditation
• trading in your stress for energy
• dealing with difficult people and situations
• using words to create the life you want
• finding your Peace Within.
• A class at the Franciscan Renewal Center (retreat center in Scottsdale, AZ) even included a practicum in Walking Labyrinth Meditation.  Today, in the wake of the pandemic, I coach/counsel some clients through Zoom, and I give energy healing sessions in my office.  Classes are mainly on Zoom.  Pain, stiffness, depression, frustration– people bring those to my office and leave them there.

In 2022, I renamed my practice “Healthy Happy Loving Life”, rather than “Healing Therapeutics.”  When you feel healthy, you can be happier, and when you are happier, you can feel gratitude more easily.  And when you have those qualities, you can really put your arms around your life and truly love it.

Today, my favorite studies are in neurobiology, the role of the vagus nerve in our health, and the role of EMFs (Electromagnetic Frequencies) in our ill health.  Perhaps this month, I will write about some of that.  Meanwhile, do you have any questions about holistic answers for pain and illness?

Try my recommendations, and that will be you, more and more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress/energy 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.   They are also available in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the Franciscan Renewal Center bookstore and at the bookstore at St. Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church. Or simply email us to order:  kebba@kebba.com .  Thank you!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Beat Stress With Laughs

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One of the funniest and most endearing videos rippling around the Internet currently is a tiny movie about the tiniest black pig (“Kingsford the Piglet Goes for a Swim”).  The piglet is smaller than a woman’s foot, jet black, eager, and passionate to be included with his humans.  Watch this video once, and you’ll feel so charmed, you’ll have to watch it again.  The piglet’s antics make you laugh.  Another video is YouTube’s “Dancing Bulldog”, in which a small bulldog is evidently boogeying to some fun music.  Of all the videos I have seen in recent months, I laughed the hardest at “Silent Monks Hallelujah Chorus”, in which cards are held up to encourage the audience to sing along.  Impish variations surprise and make you laugh.  What videos or movies have made you laugh?

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Laughter feels good!  It makes you relax, from your muscles to your skin to your attitude. Laughing very hard can cause you to clutch your spasming abdomen, gasp for breath, drool a bit, and wipe your teary eyes.  A good, hearty laugh can make you feel refreshed, even totally rested.  And there are medical benefits: higher DHEA, improved immune function (fewer allergies and illnesses with regular laughter) and better blood vessel function leading to better blood pressure than when you are stressed.  However, researchers say the medical benefits are hard to measure.  Rather, it is easier to observe the social benefits of laughter: it is both symptomatic of happy relationships and contagious, creating more social connection and happiness (Robert Provine, Laughter:  A Scientific Investigation, Penguin Books, 2001).  Women laugh about a quarter more than men.  Those who say they laugh a lot also tend to be in good health.  Laughter therapy is used for cancer patients, who find it helps their quality of life.  Laughter can increase the release of endorphins, the anti-stress brain chemicals that can lessen pain and stiffness.

Laughter is a part of our makeup.  Babies start laughing when they are as young as 10 weeks.  And adults are immediately drawn in, trying to see what they can do to get the baby to laugh again.  Watch a normally calm parent of a 3-month-old, making faces and tickling the baby, producing any noise or gesture that will make the little one laugh.  The urge to get a laugh is right up there with the urge to laugh.

Yet there can be a poignant edge to humor—a place where discomfort can be portrayed in a way that makes us laugh and discharge that discomfort.  A popular expression is, “You have to laugh to keep from crying!” Folk wisdom advises us to shrug off or laugh off our troubles.  Comedienne Ellen Degeneres made her early career describing uncomfortable events from everyday life, in a comical way, with a mournful look.  She delivered her vignettes in ways that made people laugh, and laugh, and laugh.  In recent years, she has had a top-rated television show, Ellen, many endorsements and guest host opportunities, and an estimated income of $45 million per year.  People can relate to her humor.  She makes them laugh, and this has built her success.  People need to laugh at their troubles.

Not long ago, Dr. Phil McGraw ran a show about comedians who transformed terrible personal pain into comedy.  The episode of Dr. Phil highlighted two comedians, Darrell Hammond and Chris Titus.  Each overcame horrific backgrounds to become well-known and successful in comedy.  Darrell Hammond is now the author of a book, God, If You’re Not Up There, I’m F***ed.  His humor has helped many to laugh at their troubles and take a lighter view.   Chris Titus knows humor can literally be lifesaving:  a fan who was about to kill himself accidentally sat on his TV controller, and the TV popped on to a Chris Titus performance.  The fan began to laugh and changed his mind about killing himself.

What makes you laugh until you cry?  Do that more! And that will be you, ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress/energy 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.   They are also available in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the Franciscan Renewal Center bookstore and at the bookstore at St. Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church. Or simply email us to order:  kebba@kebba.com .  Thank you!

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