Healthy Happy Loving Life: Is it Time for a Break? 6 Top Tips!

11 Thursday Nov 2021

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We all know what “a break” would be, but do we all know when it’s high time to schedule one for ourselves? The man in the above image has multiple tasks going at once. Laptop open, he is also reading from a hardcover book, and he has a pen next to his mug. So he is taking some form of notes on paper as well. His eyes are tired, and his glasses are off, set aside while he rubs his eyes. He is so tired that he has brought an open cup of coffee (or tea) to his desk, forgetting that one spill can ruin his hard drive– yes– ask me about The Great Hot Chocolate Incident of 2009! This man is also clearly on deadline, as an hourglass is pouring sand enthusiastically, silently ticking down the man’s minutes to meet his deadline or fail. Don’t you feel tired, just studying him? I hope someone is bringing him dinner soon.

So, eyes tired, brain stale, back and backside weary: this man needs a break! What should he do, after he meets his deadline? I have 6 top tips:

Plan 24-48 hours of real time off, not taking any business calls, and with an out-of-office message on your voicemail. Stash the children with relatives who don’t feed them sugar.
Choose a vacation from guilt! Promise yourself you will not think about your normal worries. Guilt shifts your nervous system, and what you need is a break from pressure on your nervous system.
Change your channel. Find a place where they won’t find you. Leave for the nearest hotel with pools and gardens. Decide if you may want to go there regularly.
Get some physical relaxation. Schedule a massage. Take their yoga or tai chi class. If you enjoy swimming or lounging in the jacuzzi, do that. Practice stretching across the bed or couch. It’s great for your back muscles and circulation generally.
Eat berries for breakfast and dark green organic leafies– salad or stir-fry– for other meals. The high antioxidant levels in these foods will recharge you within hours.
Consider adding a day. I once did this in San Francisco, where I had gone for business. Then I had free time, and I walked miles every day, exploring the city. I felt so great on the third day that I asked the hotel if I could stay another day. They readily agreed, as did the airline. Yes, this was back when you phoned and made arrangements with a real person. The real persons were charmed that I was just having a good time and wanted to stay longer.

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So, here is a measure of your success at creating a refreshing break: what age did you feel when you left for your day/s off? Notice you feel much younger at the close of your break? Now your eyes and brain and heart and back and backside are all refreshed. Everything will seem clearer and easier. You may find yourself smiling more and enjoying everything more. And that’s you: more and more Healthy Happy and 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: Do You Need a News Fast? Or Different News?

28 Saturday Aug 2021

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In my holistic healing practice, I often recommend effective living strategies. I see people who have clearly been taking in too much regular news, their bodies are tense and tight, and they could really use a news fast. Much of the major news is designed to hook you by fear, so you become addicted to seeing what comes next. You are more likely to tune in again. This fear is very hard on your nervous system, adrenal glands and overall health. Harvard-educated Dr. Andrew Weil, MD, is regarded by many as the Father of Holistic Medicine. He says:

A news fast simply means opting out of watching the news on television, listening to it on the radio, reading newspapers, or following the news on the Internet for a few days or even a week at a time. I believe that taking periodic breaks from the news can promote mental calm and help renew your spirits. In this way, the anxiety and overstimulation catalyzed by the media may be minimized, and your body will function better.

Great advice. Try it and let me know what you notice.

But wait! What if you could take in positive news? I have a few sources for you, and there are more:

Reasons to be Cheerful. A newsletter filled with positive news, especially of people solving the World’s problems in positive ways. Subscribe online.
Undark Magazine. A non-profit magazine “exploring the intersection of science and society”. Subscribe online.
Nautilus. Big-picture science magazine, usually positive. Subscribe online (fee for full edition).
Positive News. Celebrating changemakers and cultivating social change milestones. Subscribe online.
Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation. TV with 7 seasons of positive innovation news, available on several channels. Aimed for youth but fascinating for curious adults who want positive news.) Meet people who are sucking trash out of the oceans and building homes out of other trash.
Lucky Dog (original with Brandon McMillan). TV, 183 episodes available on several channels. Trainer McMillan takes lonely dogs from shelters and turns them into happy family pets through specialty training. Establishing a basis of communication with “loser” dogs, McMillan reveals their intelligence, love, and unusual skills.
Pet Vet Dream Team. TV, Aussie show available on CBS and other sources. Pet veterinarians save a wide array of pets and the worry of their owners. It’s wonderful just spending 30 minutes with loving, competent, positive people.

So consider the source and nature of what you’re feeding your brain and heart. Cut back on watching the news about disastrous storms and fires, wars, climate change, and any brutality. Now add positive and encouraging reporting, and notice your attitude and optimism rising. At the same time, your nervous system will be calming and restoring, and you will literally be healthier.

And that’s you: more and more Healthy Happy Loving Life^sm!

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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!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: What’s On Your Mind?

10 Saturday Oct 2020

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What’s on your mind?

What are the first three things that come to you, when you hear, “so what’s on your mind?” Are you thinking of:

relationship conflicts?
physical pains, headaches, back pains, stomach doesn’t work well?
too much to do?
fatigue?
lateness?
getting more done?
drank too much caffeine and feel twitchy now?
the best nutrition for your needs?
can’t concentrate?
sleeping too little or too much?
how grateful you are?

My holistic healing practice evolved from seeking solutions to physical pain issues I had. As a Masters’ Degree scientist, I was very systematic in learning as much as possible about natural pain release and relief. A major principle I learned is that if you have issues (emotional agenda items) in your tissues (pain and dysfunction in the body), your tissues will in turn create issues. So issues and tissues are intimately related. We can use the body to relieve mental/emotional distress (energy therapy, nutrition, homeopathic drops), and we can use spiritual, mental, and emotional methods to relieve physical distress.

For example, a person who is angry a lot may have liver stress or liver meridian stress. Think of a person who goes to a bar, drinks, and gets into fights. Classic, right? This person is easily ticked off, too. Balance the liver energy in the body and you will see much less anger. Or the end of anger. We would use energy therapy and possibly certain holistic or homeopathic drops.

In Chinese medicine, it’s understood that the issues lodge in the tissues of the body. It is also understood that certain issues impact specific parts of the body. When my father was told something needed to be solved, he used to exclaim, “OH MY ACHING BACK.” And, in fact, his back hurt, exactly where Chinese medicine would have predicted, for foundation issues.

My practice has now greatly evolved to helping people understand the issues side of the equation. In fact, I have Zoom sessions now, with people who only want to discuss their social/mental/emotional/spiritual issues and solutions. They don’t need me to use energy healing to clear their body’s discomforts. Rather, we talk, and I help them find perspectives, as well as specific approaches and even phrases to use.

Fatigue has been the biggest issue people talk about, by far. I answered the same client questions about fatigue so many times over the years, that I finally wrote a book about trading in your stress for energy. This one is called, Discover The Secret Energized You. In it, I invite people to take 4 steps (with multiple options in each step) to become vital and energized instead of tired:

Quit feeding your fatigue
Manage your energy, not your stress
Discover the secret energized you and
Rise higher.

A wise meme (author unknown) circulating is:

The people in your life should be a source of reducing stress, not causing it. If not, let go.

I have hundreds of article online, using about 100 keywords. May I have your help? Would you please glance through the keywords on this page, and tell me what you would most like me to write about in upcoming articles? Or name anything else to do with pain, stress, energy, joy, and happiness?

If you are healthy, then you will be happy. If you are happy, you will be healthy! Then you can reach the ultimate state of living in The Flow, loving your life. This is what I call the realm of Healthy Happy Loving Life^sm! Are you in? Got any questions? I would love to help.

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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: 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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Healthy Happy Loving Life: TP Becomes a Cultural Icon

07 Wednesday Oct 2020

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Precious Gift During the Great TP Crisis of 2020

Since I was a kid, the status of toilet paper has reversed. Then, it was barely polite to whisper “toilet paper”, and now people joke about finding some, if you can. Some used to say “bathroom tissue” when they meant the hate-to-mention-it private paper thing. Now really, for something humans have always needed, should we have been so prim? And early in 2020, the supply chain broke, making it very difficult to find toilet paper at all. The angst and the jokes began! A florist made a toilet paper bouquet as a joke, and the idea was off and running.

But wait–what about when there was no toilet paper in the past? How did they survive? We’ve all heard of people in rural settings using pages from the Sears Catalog. And corn cobs. In Biblical times, stones were used to wipe and then dropped into the latrine. Random fabric bits and even wood chips were also used (ouch). The Romans commonly used a sponge on a long stick, rinsed in salt water. Toilet paper of sorts was widely used in China, by the 6th Century CE, and became standardized in size by the Emperor, in 1391. Commercial toilet paper became available in Britain by 1857. Hurray! Out on the range, and in logging areas, a few broadleaf plants were used, and these still can be nature’s wipes: wooly mullein, corn lily, thimbleberry, large leaf aster, and wooly lambs ear.

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic days, Phoenix virtually ran out of toilet paper. Awkward! Of course, I turned to Amazon, and I also studied the idea of installing bidets. The soonest I could get toilet paper from Amazon was six weeks! And $45 for an 8-pack. Things had calmed down with the supply chain by the time this interesting soft package arrived. Inside were these cute little 3 1/2 inch (really!) rolls, bent from travel. This one, I fluffed for the photo. The paper itself is stretchy and scratchy, and although the label doesn’t say, I think it’s made from bamboo. And if you read the label, it looks like it was meant for sale in the Philippines.

Chinese Toilet Paper

A popular meme has become:

Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.

Now, one more toilet paper adventure: bamboo products are flooding onto the market. This is very cool, because, really, why turn trees into waste when bamboo grows virtually overnight? I actually found this product in a large supermarket this week. The paper is soft.

Bamboo toilet paper

And guess where it’s made? You got it: China. Well, good for them, leading sustainability. Has the Great Toilet Paper Crisis of 2020 taught us anything? Yes: to be innovative, to lighten up, and to joke more! Life should be enjoyed. Savor every moment, and chuckle when you can. And now you’re in the realm of Healthy Happy Loving Life^sm!

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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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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

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