Healthy Happy Loving Life: My Favorite Quote Poster

16 Monday Jan 2023

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Photo and poster © Kebba Buckley Button. Wall by St. Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church, Scottsdale, AZ. Many more posters (free) at Pinterest.com/kebbabutton

And that will be you, ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

Kebba Buckley Button is a stress/energy 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: Is it Spam? How to Tell!

15 Sunday Jan 2023

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Many of us get too much email every day, and too much of it is spam. Here are some examples of what not to open, no matter how curious you are. The senders’ goals are to confirm your email, collect your data, and get your money. It’s phishing! So save yourself later misery by surveying suspicious pieces without opening them.

It’s easiest to handle spam on your smart phone, looking only at the topic and the sender’s email. On an iPhone, for example, you can block a sender and see a symbol—a red circle with a diagonal line—in the flag field. You can also use your settings to have a sender deleted as soon as you have blocked them. This also prevents these spam pieces from going through to your primary email display on your laptop or desktop.

I left these few undeleted, so I could share them with you. Feel free to laugh!

First, look for prestige words like “Harvard” and “Oxford”. You’re supposed to be impressed and click quickly to open the piece. Don’t! Also note personal body- and health words like “prostate”, “breast”, and “p-nis”. [They will spell out these words, but if I do, the system will bounce this article.] If you see these, block and delete immediately.

Harvard Prostate Study. Do you see this in your water?
Micro P-nis Cure. African priest helps white man gain 6 inches
Old Eyes. Visibly erase eye bags in 7 minutes or less
School of Squirt. Make your girlfriend ecstatic!

Not sure if the title defines it as spam? Check the email address the message comes from.

Does the Sender Name have anything to do with the sender email?

Sender: EcoWatt Pro. Topic: Innovative New Tech Slashes Your Electric Bill in Half. Sender email: info@closedarise.shop
Sender: Anna. Topic: Warning Signs of Dementia (#2 is scary). Sender email: randyallen@safetywreck.shop

Impressively, this group has already hacked or “borrowed” names or subject lines from emails of people you know. This one references a group I belonged to for many years, WISK, but which no longer operates. The topic: WISK on Monday, July 18. However, without opening it, I see it says: “Please find document attachment: Please let me know if you received the document. Best Regards,…” Don’t open these! I know several ways that this is hack spam:

WISK hasn’t sent any meeting-related emails for over 5 years
WISK was run by an attorney who never attached documents to the meeting notices
The sender’s email is unlike that of anyone I knew from the group: impresao@rhotoplas.com.br

Finally, there are those who bill you $500 or more for software packages you may already own, or you may never have owned. Look at the sender’s email address! If it’s a personal email, like name@gmail.com, it’s not from Norton or Intuit. I recently received a series of emails advising me my license for a system optimizer I like had expired. Everything looked legit in the email, except it had been only several months since I had renewed my license. So I followed my best rule: contact the company directly. They replied promptly that I had renewed my license for 2 computers in August. That was close!

One of the best ways to lower your stress is to prevent it with wise choices in advance. Don’t help the spammers, scammers, and phishers get rich! Filter them out quickly and enjoy your day. And that will be you, ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Want Energy? Mind Your EMFs!

12 Thursday Jan 2023

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Over the last several years, I have been disappointed to gradually learn the negative power of Electromagnetic Frequencies, or EMFs. I thought I was getting tired from watching our big-screen TV. I got more tired, the more bluetooth and wifi-driven devices my late husband installed. He loved machines and devices. That’s fine. But as the evidence rolls in, I realized I was right: too much EMF can make you tired or worse. A phone held next to your body can cause burns (my late husband had those) or cancer. So how can we be healthy and still enjoy our devices?

The image above illustrates a number of sources of EMF in the home. Study it carefully. Now what if each of those devices is broadcasting something that makes you tired? Here are some simple tips.

You can get any of these devices to stop pumping out EMF by turning them off.
Turn off the TV or any other EMF generator when you’re not using it. And hey! You’ll save electricity, too.
Use shielded covers for your phone that you love holding next to your body. A great brand is Safesleeve, but there are others.
Stop using your celphone as an alarm clock. Get a battery-powered alarm clock, and let the celphone sleep at least in the next room. The first night I did this, I woke up feeling like a new and awesome woman. I went straight to the office and easily knocked off an hour of work before breakfast. My body was comfortable and my mind was very clear. Wow!
Strengthen your biofield so your body doesn’t weaken as much in EMF fields. I will say more on this in a later article.

Take care of yourself and your family in this way, and you will notice a big uptick in wellness and pleasantness. And that will be you and yours, ever 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: Working Around Your Disabilities

10 Tuesday Jan 2023

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As a first-grader, I did not realize I had characteristics that looked like disabilities to others. For example, my mind went very deep into anything that interested it, to the exclusion of hearing regular classroom announcements. I could be engrossed in reading an assignment and literally not hear the teacher call my reading group. She thought I was playing games. No. Today, I celebrate my ability to go into very deep concentration. I set timers to be sure I get to the next task on time. And I am a Life Member of Mensa, the High-IQ organization that has a large population of deep concentrators. So was that really a disability? Too many brilliant people have been mistaken for idiots, because their actual abilities were not obvious to others.

I did not have the same social reflexes as other children and was puzzled by their choices. I didn’t enjoy groups. In school, I preferred independent assignments. Today we would say I had low social skills. I wanted to solve that, and eventually I overshot my goals. Over the decades, I have worked to understand others, and I am now the one with the best social skills in most rooms. People compete to get me to join their groups now, and people jockey to stand *behind* me and try to get me to take the leader position. So did I really have a social disability? Or did I simply have different social reflexes?

Thirty years ago, I was in a business networking group with a wise former police officer who had been shot in the neck. That had put him in a wheelchair, and he was now a disabilities expert and consultant. We all brainstormed about what to call his company, without using the term disabilities. Bill’s view was that he was differently abled, or simply different from the majority. Finally, Bill settled on “Abilities 360.” Today, the Ability360 (ability360.org) organization has a number of health-and-fitness locations, with wheelchair pickleball courts and multiple other sports. They offer home modification services, independent living skills instruction, and employment services, to name a few. An 80-something friend of mine, with spinal damage, now has a sports wheelchair and goes to one of these centers to happily rip around the pickleball court. His wife found an SUV that easily holds the sports wheelchair. She says her husband has come alive again after discovering Ability360.

Now consider: what if you were a kitten born with no sight? This 4 1/2 minute video charmingly illustrates the answer: using your other senses, you figure it out. You’re not DISabled, you’re differently abled.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dbUlzMXHD8

Are there characteristics you have that you wish were quite different? Are they really disabilities, or are they different abilities? What workarounds have you used to deal with those? The more you develop your end runs, the more you will be ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Haiku Poems for Peace

09 Monday Jan 2023

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Today, after a ridiculous Sunday, I really needed to go deep in my Peace Within, and I was moved to try reading haiku. In addition to my usual quotes, prayers, and meditation/s, I had the urge to listen to the idiosyncratic rhythm of the haiku. Traditionally, these brief poems are nonrhyming and have 3 lines each. Five syllables for the first line, 7 for the second, and 5 for the third. Yes, I know there are modern variations, but I wasn’t going there today. I wanted poems that evoke peace, in that traditional rhythm.

I found these. Try reading them and see if they add to your personal peace:

When you’ve just had an upsetting experience, read this series a few times. Or write your own haiku? And that will be you, deepening your Peace Within, feeling much better, ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: When Your Day is a Disaster, Go to Your Peace Within

08 Sunday Jan 2023

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Today went not-according-to-plan, and I seriously needed to touch in with my Peace Within. My Sunday morning was wonderful, as always, with prayer outside, breakfast inside, and church on TV. I cleaned the kitchen and ran the dishwasher, planning my article for today’s Blog Challenge. After lunch, I rested awhile. Then I went to visit friends, to synch up software and equipment for taking payments at an upcoming event. We accomplished the synching– yay!

Then they asked if I could help with a laptop issue. What I thought would be a 5-minute thing turned into a 90-minute thing. The laptop was totally drained, its mouse was lost/found/paired up/totally drained, and all passwords were forgotten or lost. When I wrapped that up, the laptop was charged up, the mouse was located and working, the email was working on the laptop, and my friends knew what to do to pull off a zoom telemedicine visit with their doctor. Honestly, I was a bit fried from 3 hours of concentrating, and I was worried about writing my article and completing some other needed work. But my friends wanted to buy me dinner, to thank me. We thought we would swing by a favorite place and have a lovely meal.

At the restaurant, everything went wrong that could, and it became an unpleasant disaster. Service was inexplicably slow. My first glass of wine tasted like water had been added. My friend’s Tito’s-and-sevenup was not. My ribs were so dry they were inedible; I sent them back, but the manager said “we all tasted them, and they were fine, so no discount will be given.” That’s a $40 dish. So I got no substitute, no dinner, and the manager wanted my friends to pay for the dish. There were several other things very wrong, and the manager simply said well, she was “sorry everything was horrible for you guys, but no discounts will be given, so that’s it.” At one point, my friends said, “wrong answer, Lady!” My friends told me to go on, while they waited for the police. Thank God, no one was waving a gun.

As I left, I began praying for peace over the whole situation. Number one, after praying, in horribly tense situations is to go within and be in touch with your personal peace, your Peace Within. Only from that base can you decide what to do. Once home, I literally opened a copy of my book, Inspirations for Peace Within, and flipped to this quote by the late monk Thich Nhat Hanh:

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We only need to be awake, alive in the present moment.

When you’ve just had an upsetting experience, fill your moments, not with thoughts of the experience, but thoughts of peace, joy, and serenity. It’s an advanced practice, but it’s worth trying and trying again. Do this when needed, and you will be ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Full Moon Facts

07 Saturday Jan 2023

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Yesterday, you may have noticed an incredibly bright Full Moon. Because of the movements of the Earth and Moon, there is what we call a “Full Moon” every 4 weeks. The Wolf Full Moon occurs in January. Tradition has it that the Wolf Full Moon gets its name from the fact that wolves are typically hungry in January, and they may howl because they are hungry. So wolves and the Full Moon are culturally connected.

But what is a Full Moon? It’s the time of the month–actually about every 27 days–when the Earth is completely out of the way of the Sun’s rays reaching the Moon. So the most possible sunlight is reflected back to the Earth. And we see the Moon as a big fat disc of light.

The time of the Full Moon has a reputation for making people act crazy. Since we are naturally stimulated by light, and this is the time when the most possible light is projected or reflected back to the Earth, why would we not act stimulated? Maybe you might have more energy or not need as much sleep. One 2021 study found that people sleep less, and they sleep less deeply, during a Full Moon. There are no definitive studies linking mental health to Moon phases.

Daytime Full Moon. © Kebba Buckley Button

But perhaps you have your own observations. One day, I was at a business meeting, and I was commenting on having an unusual day. A number of clients had called the office and wanted to change their appointments. A dentist in the group said, whenever there is a Full Moon, “everybody” calls his office to change their appointments. Does that greater Moon energy cause humans to be restless? What do you think? I wonder if pet owners notice any changes in their pets’ behavior or mood, around the Full Moon?

It seems this is a mystery that will not be definitively solved any time soon. Meanwhile, ask yourself if you feel more restless or more energetic during the Full Moon. Do you notice any mood changes for yourself? In these days of electric lighting, which we turn on and off as desired, regardless of time of day, the Moonlight effects may not be what they were back in Biblical David’s shepherd days. So I’ll just keep admiring that stunning orb and trying to get good photos of it, even in the daytime.

Enjoy the mysteries of the skies and feel the peace of joy and wonder. And that will be you, ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: When God Sends You Help

06 Friday Jan 2023

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Today, I was reminded of a recent incident of God sending me help I did not know I needed. As you read this, think of times this may have happened to you. It’s normal to sometimes know you need help and to ask or pray for it. But sometimes we don’t realize we are about to need help, and it appears.

Before Thanksgiving, at a favorite Trader Joe’s market, I had to park 200 yards away because of the crowds. I recently came off a year of chemo, and I thought I was feeling well enough to walk into Trader Joe’s and get the 3 things I really wanted. I thought I was over having occasional “gray waves”– waves of weakness and faintness together. Walking along a parking row, I looked up just in time to dodge a huge, beautifully clean SUV that was backing out. I cut along the passenger side to be sure the driver could now back out. However, she popped out of the car, and repeatedly asked me if I was OK. I said, oh yes! She pressed, asking if I needed any help. I said, no, I’m fine, but I began to realize I was having a wave of weakness. I quickly debated if I had the energy to go as far as the store door at all, let alone to go in and get my 3 items. But it would really help my holiday, if I could get into the store and get those items. I was determined to press on. My new friend insisted on walking with me.

I said, “you don’t know who you’re helping. I just came off chemo and I’m feeling weak right now.” As if she were not surprised, she took me on into the store and treated me expertly, like she was my paid medical assistant. We quickly spun around the store and got a few things, until I was too weak and just needed to check out. I knew God must have sent her. We traded names– she is “JJ”– and I gave her my card.

After checkout, JJ took me and the cart back to my car and loaded the groceries in. She kept asking me if I was OK to go on. Once in my car, I was strong enough to drive. I drove home chanting “Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!” and went to sleep right after I got into the house. Who was this woman? Was she a physical therapist or surgeon? I didn’t know I needed help, yet she sprang to my rescue. I pray gratitude for what happened and I pray blessings for JJ.

When Life/God/Heaven sends you help, receive it and give thanks. And pass it on when you can. And that will be you, ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: How to Say Goodbye to a Spirit

05 Thursday Jan 2023

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Saying goodbye is not usually my favorite thing. I always sense I will see the person again, and I don’t like permanent goodbyes. There are so many ways to say goodbye.

However, when we deal with those who are in Spirit, it may not be so obvious how to say goodbye. In fact, most people I know wish they could converse more fluently with those who they knew in physical life, but are now in the nonphysical world. So, what if you have a spirit who likes to hang around you and chat, but you feel done with that relationship? Someone I love was exhausted by her husband in Life, and after he died, he immediately showed up as a spirit, telling her what to do and how, just as he did in life. She did not want to continue that relationship. Her situation came to mind today, and I thought I would share some general helps on saying goodbye to a spirit.

Set a time with yourself when you can really commit to sit and communicate with the spirit. This might be a time of day when s/he has been regularly visiting you.
Call a meeting, journal and pen in hand. Light one or more candles, if you like.
Thank them for all the good of your friendship/relationship. Tell them what you have enjoyed and what you have learned. Listen, speak freely, and jot down key points that come up.
Tell them you want closure on the Earthly relationship and would like them to go visit others. [Remember, there are billions of souls they can visit with.]
When you are bored, you are done.
Thank them and close the meeting: “Thank you for our time together and for this conversation. I wish you all the best.”
Now journal until you are bored (done), then stand up and go for a walk or a shower. Or both.
Do your best to put them out of your mind immediately, when you think of them.
You can do this for a living person, also, but don’t do that in your own space.

Do this when needed, and you will be ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: 3 Gifts of Chemotherapy

03 Tuesday Jan 2023

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When I was diagnosed with a rare cancer in Summer 2021, I considered various options to beat it. Cancers are wily forms of wrong cell growth, often very aggressive. And there are over 100 types of cancer. Mine was aggressive. My doctor is friends with a cancer surgeon at Mayo Clinic, and I was offered a swift backdoor into the Mayo system. Although I approach every other illness and malady and imbalance from a holistic view, I just knew it was right to say yes to the Mayo system. Two weeks later I was on the surgeon’s table, and that month, I began chemotherapy. I am still completely happy with my decisions.

So, if you have heard that chemo is horrible, well, it does make you feel lousy. However, I am now 6 months past the end of my chemo year, getting my energy back, and I have realized there have been several big gifts. I will name 3 today.

Gift 1: It did fix the cancer situation! I get scanned and blood-tested frequently, and there is no indication the cancer is still with me or has spread. Buh bye, cancer! Mayo is VERY serious about beating cancer.

Gift 2: It made me weak, so I was forced to learn to ask for help. I am accustomed, all my life, to being independent and strong. I’m the one who helps others. But now, I needed rides to appointments. I needed a friend to hang out with me through all the steps of the hospital day. I needed people to push me in wheelchairs around the hospital: lab, doctor, chemo unit, lobby, catch my ride. I needed the chemo nurses to help me up from the treatment recliner. I learned to say, “Sorry, I’m weak and just need to sit down. Now, continue what you were saying?” I needed to be taken to lunch after appointments; I was drained by the end of each cycle and needed real food. No way I could fix an extra meal at home.

Almost 6 months after I completed treatment, I needed to give a professional talk. I was (am) still weak, and I had to ask someone to find me a tall chair I could sit on, to give my presentation; magically, the chair appeared. No one ever said no or showed me any disrespect! And by the way, Mayo has an absolute army of wheelchairs all over the campus. When you leave for the day, you can leave yours by your parking space, if you need to, and the wheelchair squad will simply retrieve it and repark it. They understand. Everyone has different abilities and needs, and those may change from day to day.

Gift 3: It made me so weak, I had to discern what was important on every level. Did I really need a wheelchair to get down to the lobby? My friend Paula took me to most of my appointments at Mayo, and she would park herself in the Cafe’ and do accounting. Paula said this profound thing: If you are wondering if you need the wheelchair, you need the wheelchair. Don’t use your precious energy to walk. At home, did I really need to go to the bathroom, or could I wait? Did I really need a snack, or could I save that walking trip (20 feet) and just wait? Getting groceries and dinners delivered was a no-brainer, because we were deep in the Pandemic. In Phoenix, delivery systems have become superb.

Today, I still retain the habits of Gifts 2 and 3, engraved in my brain: If I need help, I will ask for it; people are kind. If I’m considering doing a thing, I ask myself if it will it be worth the energy it will take. I’m still not making any time-consuming meals, as I still get very tired, standing. But the dizziness and faintness are mainly gone. I’m able to meet friends for dinner and even allow that to energize me. My energy picks up every week.

So that’s me, my own best client/patient, ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Tag Archives: stress

Healthy Happy Loving Life: My Favorite Quote Poster

Healthy Happy Loving Life: Is it Spam? How to Tell!

Healthy Happy Loving Life: Want Energy? Mind Your EMFs!

Healthy Happy Loving Life: Working Around Your Disabilities

Healthy Happy Loving Life: Haiku Poems for Peace

Healthy Happy Loving Life: When Your Day is a Disaster, Go to Your Peace Within

Healthy Happy Loving Life: Full Moon Facts

Healthy Happy Loving Life: When God Sends You Help

Healthy Happy Loving Life: How to Say Goodbye to a Spirit

Healthy Happy Loving Life: 3 Gifts of Chemotherapy

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