Healthy Happy Loving Life: Sunrise Saturday Shifting Skyscape

15 Saturday Apr 2023

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This progression at the break of dawn was so beautiful to me! The cloud steps in Image 1 softened in Image 2, and were resolved in Image 3 as the sun rose. The sky changed this fast in 30 minutes. What else is changing before your eyes? Can you let wonder fill your consciousness for 30 minutes or more?

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!

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 Sun and Sun and Moon

11 Tuesday Apr 2023

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Today I share a bright Sun among bright clouds, a full Sun behind wispy clouds, and a Moonset, hiding behind a thin cloud veil. View them on the biggest screen you have. Enjoy!

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

06 Thursday Apr 2023

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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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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Wordless Wednesday Shifting Cloudscape

05 Wednesday Apr 2023

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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?

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

04 Tuesday Apr 2023

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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.

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:

Learn meditation and do it thirty minutes per day. Meditators have higher serum DHEA.
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.
Exercise and spend an hour a day outside or in natural light.
Make love more.
Eat a diet low in fat, very low in sugar, and with a minimum of caffeine and alcohol.
Don’t smoke anything.
Keep a positive attitude.
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.

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: When Have You Had A Real Day Off?

27 Friday Aug 2021

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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!

Now, 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. 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 walking will be irresistable. 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.

For the fastest recharge, eat dark green leafy salad–organic, if possible– 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 consider repeating! After all, you have a formula now. And that would be you, more and more Healthy Happy Loving Life^sm!

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: Change Your Channel to Recharge

09 Friday Oct 2020

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Stress builds up, and so does boredom. Stress lodges in your body in many ways, creating discomforts, and boredom impairs your brain functions. Sometimes a person needs to recharge their batteries. And a quick way to do this is to change your channel. Remember old-fashioned TVs, with a knob that turned from number to number? With each different number, you got tuned in to a different channel. If you don’t remember seeing such a TV set in your real life, here’s a photo of one, above.

The beauty of this machine was that you were very aware of choosing what channel you tuned to. If you were bored, you walked up to the knob and turned it, then found you were tuned in to something else. The knob made a loud “clunk” sound when you turned it.

Today, I recommend you learn one of the most powerful stress management and recharge tools you could ever find: change your channel.

If you are having bad thoughts about a recent argument, change your channel firmly to recall pleasant conversations; your brain and body will shift. If you are dwelling on a neighbor situation you can do nothing about, change your channel firmly to focus vividly on the new baby in your family or another joyful thought; your brain and body will shift. When you deliberately put a new program in your mind, your brain must let go of the annoying program, at least for a time. If your mental program change is vivid and joyful enough, your brain will produce more DHEA, the master hormone, literally making you more well, strong, and generally recharged.

Many people use travel to change their channel. Pushing all other thoughts aside, they plan, plan, plan for a trip. Their inner TV screen gets filled with vivid thoughts of cities or countryside or beaches. Their inner TV screen shows places where they can stay, how they will travel there, and when exactly they will go. When they actually take that trip, their mind and body are refreshed by new sights, sounds, and thoughts, and it’s impossible to remain in the old humdrum or stressed state of mind.

A friend of mine is a fund manager. His entire stress management plan is, “Oh, I just go to London!”

Oliver Wendell Holmes said:

A mind that is stretched by travel can never go back to its old dimensions.

Maybe travel is for you. Maybe novels or movies are for you. Maybe guided meditation is for you, taking you to streams and valleys and chapels in the woods that you would never have seen in your mind’s eye otherwise.

Whatever way works for you, it’s crucial to change your channel from time to time and refresh your brain and body chemistry. And now you’re in the realm of Healthy Happy Loving Life^sm!

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert and award-winning author who celebrates life. 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), 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: A Real Day Off

06 Tuesday Oct 2020

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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. Anne Lamott has said:

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes. Including you.

Eat dark green, organic, 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 prominent 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. Now you’re in the realm of Healthy Happy Loving Life^sm!

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Upbeat Living: A Real Day Off

28 Wednesday Sep 2016

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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.

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Energy – Peace – Meditation

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!

17 Wednesday Aug 2016

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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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Energy – Peace – Meditation

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.
For an appointment or to ask Kebba to speak for your group: calendar@kebba.com .

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Get Past Old Models of Stress Management

The Stressmonstersm Model

The Stress-O-Metersm Model

Become an Energy Budget Manager

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

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Let Stress Create Disease…Or Wellness

Court Your Master Hormone for Vitality and Youth

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The Stressmonster^sm Model

The Stress-O-Meter^sm Model