Upbeat Living: A Real Day Off

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© 2016 Kebba Buckley Button, MS, OM.  World Rights Reserved. http://www.kebba.com

If you feel stressed and tired, and you can’t remember the last time you didn’t feel that way, maybe you need a real day off.  In my natural healing practice, I often work with clients whose stress is unceasing.  Couple that with the heavy world news and the overburden of politichatter—the inevitable election cycle events and conversation—whatever family issues you have, any career decisions on the horizon, and the electrochemistry and noise of the urban environment… well, maybe you need to take a break!

Maybe you’re thinking, no way!  The cost, the time off work, the yard growing out of control and ruining my neighborhood reputation… A two-week vacation was a standard, decades ago.  Then professionals decided those caused more stress than they cured.  So people shifted to taking long weekends.  This trend was so strong that the Federal Government moved most of the federal holidays to Mondays.  That Monday Holiday Law, passed in 1968, was meant to “bring substantial benefits to both the spiritual and economic life of the Nation.”  Wow!

But then everyone was driving out of town at the end of the week and returning Monday night.  More stress.  Now many are discovering the joys of midweek 2-day timeouts or even a single midweek overnight-plus-one-day timeout.  The key is to really take a break, a genuinely refreshing change day. Or two.  Just 24 hours can give you a re-set.  And you need it!

Your thoughts and attitude can get stale without change.  Your brain can actually get channels worn in it, from reviewing the same worries all the time. So change your channel, change your scene. Find a place to go to where there is a low level of electromagnetic frequencies (EMF); possibly a cabin or bed and breakfast in a small town.  Use your computer as little as possible.  This will refresh your nervous system.  Pick a place with natural beauty where you would be very tempted to go walking.  This will repump your DHEA, the master hormone.  If you can go to a beach, that’s the highest natural-energy environment, and you will absorb a lot of energy there.  Turn off your phone and don’t think about your usual concerns.  When you think of something that you ought to do, put it on a list in the Memo section of your phone; then forget it until you’re back at your desk.  Let go of all the Usual.

Eat dark green leafy salad and have very little sugar.  This will bring your vital life force energy up very fast.  Try to get berries for breakfast.  Those will raise your antioxidant levels quickly and refresh your attitudes. Move around.  Do yoga in your room or go for walks.  Go swimming, if you have found a place with a beach or pool.  A business owner I knew used to go to a small motel in Yuma, Arizona, where no one would recognize her.  It was inexpensive, there was no traffic noise, and no one could call her.  She ate produce (her business ), walked and swam and closed out all business thoughts for 2 days at a time.  She said it was like Heaven, a real day off and then another.  She totally relaxed.

Come up with your own formula.  Give yourself the elements you need to have a real day off, to really take a break.  Savor every moment.  Then let me know what worked for you.  And that’s Upbeat Living^sm!

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• Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert and award-winning author.  She also is an ordained minister and has a natural healing practice. Among her books are:Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br),and Peace Within:  Your Peaceful Inner Core, Second Edition. Her newest book is Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  That book and Peace Within are available through her office.  Just email books@kebba.com or call the office at 480-250-1177.
• For an appointment or to book Rev. Kebba to speak for your group, email calendar@kebba.com

Upbeat Living: Freshen Your Brain— and Smile— With Paraprosdokians!

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DHEA, Humor, Kebba Buckley Button, laugh, paraproskokian, smile, stress, Stress Management

© 2016 Kebba Buckley Button, MS, OM.  World Rights Reserved.

This form of humor was my favorite, before I knew it had a name: the paraprosdokian!  Yes, that’s a real term, from the Greek, paraprosdokian (I know, same word), meaning “beyond expectations”.  This is a statement that seems to be going in one direction and then goes in another direction, surprising the listener or reader.  It’s the surprise I love.  In Upbeat Living^sm, we know that not only is humor fun, but it literally feels good and is good for you.

These one-liners will usually make people smile.  And smiling literally puts you in a good mood, because, as research shows, your facial expression can determine your mood.  If one of these paraprosdokians really cracks you up, and you chuckle, or even laugh, then you get great health benefits:  production of endorphins and the master hormone, DHEA.  These compounds will make your body run better and feel better, plus they put you in a good mood.  And then you are smiling again, in a self-renewing circuit of wonderfulness.  Plus, people will wonder why you’re smiling, and they will ask you.  So there’s some social benefit as well.

Some paraprosdokians are very familiar, such as:

He who laughs last…thinks slowest.

I could agree with you…but then we’d both be wrong.

Today a man knocked on my door and asked for a small donation towards the local swimming pool…So I gave him a glass of water.

Here are more you may enjoy.  And feel free to smile!

Take my advice…I’m not using it.

I’m great at multi-tasking…I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at once.

I was going to give him a nasty look…but he already had one.

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit…Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

I was going to wear my camouflage shirt today, but I couldn’t find it.

If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.

Artificial intelligence is no match… for natural stupidity.

Hospitality is the art of making guests feel like they’re at home…when you wish they were.

Ever stop to think…and forget to start again?

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright …until you hear them speak.

Evening news is when they start, “Good evening!”… and then proceed to tell you why it isn’t.

You’re never too old…to learn something stupid.

So keep your eye out for these refreshing one-liners and let them recharge your brain, your sense of humor, and your metabolism.  Who knows, maybe you’ll write some of your own and use them at cocktail parties.  And that’s Upbeat Living!

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Upbeat Living: Worry Less About Your Health

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DHEA, Feeling energized, Kebba Buckley Button, stress, The life you want, UpBeat Living, worry, worry stress

© 2016 Kebba Buckley Button, MS, OM.  World Rights Reserved.

With the virtual tsunami of health advice splashing into our email, magazines, and TV news, people have started feeling overwhelmed by information and advice:  even as a holistic stress/energy expert, I say, “Worry less about your health!”  There is a lot of conflicting information out there.  There are also a lot of early results from unqualified studies, which doesn’t make those results valid.  And many results are reported as if they apply to everyone, not the specific group the study was testing (i.e., forgetful diabetics with freckles and psoriasis).

So yes!  Maybe it’s time we lightened up a bit.  What if we  took generally good care of ourselves and laughed more?  That would put us firmly in the range of Upbeat Living^sm. 

And how do we get there?  Let’s look at stress differently.  A general effect of stress is the lowered production of DHEA, dehydroepiandrosterone, the master hormone.  That makes you tired and flat-brained.  However, your own body makes DHEA whenever you are in a bliss state.  Then you feel less stressed!  I have previously written about how you can increase your own DHEA (http://wp.me/pw4HM-oc ).  One of those ways is lightening up and even laughing.

Advice from an unknown author, often quoted in emails is:

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Chardonnay in one hand, chocolate in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming ‘WOO-HOO, what a ride!!’

 

That writer is talking about ramping up your joyful, adventuring side, which will net you very high serum (in your blood, measured with a blood test) DHEA!

Now here is an amusing piece that circulates the Internet.  It’s funny, it’s thought-provoking, and I’ll give you the correct information after you quit laughing:

For those of you who watch what you eat, here’s the final word on nutrition and health. It’s a relief to know the truth after all those conflicting nutritional studies.

1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

3. The Chinese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

4. The Italians drink a lot of red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans…

5. The Germans drink a lot of beer and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

CONCLUSION:  Eat and drink what you like.  Speaking English is apparently what kills you!

 

Wasn’t that fun?  Now here are the actual rankings of those countries, in coronary heart disease deaths per 100,000:  China 99, Mexico 80, US 77, Germany 63, Italy 48, Japan 30, France 30.

This shows us a few things, primarily that we shouldn’t get our health care information from cute emails circulating the Internet.  You have a right to the best life you can put together.  So laugh, read the article on DHEA, and pump up your pzazz with laughter and bliss.  And worry less about your health!  And that’s Upbeat Living!

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• Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert.  She also has a natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. She is the author of the award-winning book, Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), plus the 2013 book, Peace Within:  Your Peaceful Inner Core, Second Edition(http://tinyurl.com/mqg3uvc ). Her newest book is Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine, available through her office.  Just email SacredMeditation@kebba.com. 
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Fatigue Stress Secret: Jazz Up Your Joy Juice

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DHEA, fatigue, Fatigue Stress, Feeling energized, In-joy-meant, Kebba Buckley Button, meditation, stress, Stress Management, Trade stress for energy, UpBeat Living

© 2015  Kebba Buckley Button, MS, OM.  World Rights Reserved.

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A lot of people have Fatigue Stress: their fatigue is keeping them from doing what they want or as much as they want.  This is the biggest challenge my clients deal with.  I teach a system of re-energizing, helping people develop Upbeat Living, for increasingly responding differently  to stress and actually building a whole new level of energy.

Today I’m focusing on the biggest secret to fighting fatigue: you can pump up your own master hormone, dehydroepiandrosterone, usually known simply as DHEA.  If you have heard that you can buy DHEA as a sports supplement, STOP!  Unless your doctor has prescribed it, taking DHEA as a supplement will cause your body to stop making it!  So the supplement as shortcut gives you no benefit.  Here’s why you want more DHEA and how to get it.

Why you want more DHEA.  This is the master hormone, the precursor to estrogen, androgens, and basically all the hormone-related production in your body.  It’s in your bloodstream and can be measured in nanograms per decaliter.  But you don’t need to measure it to get your body to make more.  DHEA gives you more strength, more vitality, less sensitivity to pain (weaker people are more sensitive to pain), more zeal, and basically more pzazz.  You’ll be able to golf more holes and take longer hikes, even spend more and better tango time with your beloved.  DHEA optimizes everything in your physical body!

How to get more DHEA free and fast.  Again, nix the supplement route!  DHEA is naturally made by your body, quickly, when you are in contact with nature and when you do things that feel great and pull up your passion.  Could it be this easy?  Yes!  Let’s just call it your Joy Juice.  Your DHEA zooms in 20 minutes when you:

• Do things outside.
• Walk barefoot on natural surfaces. Concrete counts, being chopped pressed stone.
• Exercise.
• Meditate.
• Pray or participate in a religious service, if you are a spiritual person.
• Sing.
• Make love with your beloved.
• Laugh.
• Do anything that thrills you or gives you joy, even watching comedy performances.

 

We are truly in-joy-meant!  So get out there and enjoy your life!  Sing in the shower, dance like no one is watching, and spend a lot of time with your honey.  Notice your zip and zeal zooming, and everything getting easier and more enjoyable. Soon you’ll beat your Fatigue Stress for good, by trading in your stress for energy.  Now that’s Upbeat Living!

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Want to know more?  Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert and award-winning author.  She also is an ordained minister and has a natural healing practice. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br),and Peace Within:  Your Peaceful Inner Core, Second Edition(http://tinyurl.com/mqg3uvc ). Her newest book is Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  Both Sacred Meditation and Peace Within are available through her office.  Just email SacredMeditation@kebba.com.