Reading about construction of temples in Exodus reminds me of another powerful health strategy: plugging into the right group. Go to a place with a band and dancing, there’s a good chance…
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Wk1.Day6.Fight
Week 1: Day 6 Fight __Read Genesis 36 – 41_____ __Walk 3 miles: actual miles walked _____ __Eat 5 fruits or vegetables_____ __Virtue: Temperance: eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation….
January 4 Mistake Three: Not keeping records (and how to keep better health records)
January 4 Mistake Three: Not keeping records (and how to keep better health records) Most of the business gurus seem to stress setting measurable goals. Without a measurable goal, how do you…
Week 1. Day 3. Baby Steps
Baby Steps After choosing a new healthful habit to replace a harmful one, people sometimes make another mistake in the quest for better health–attempting too much too quickly. For example, trying to…
Daily Rituals
Highly recommended companion book to these 365 Health Strategies… Gives the daily habits of diet, walking, and mind/spirit development of artists, scientists, and philosophers who changed the world…
Jan 2. Crowd Out Harmful with Health-full
Crowd Out Harmful With Health-full Around January 1, I see people try to begin or end a habit as part of a New Year’s resolution. Correctly thinking that habits greatly change their…
Fall from a house, get up smiling.
“Whosoever of you will be chiefest shall be servant of all.” While working the emergency room, I once cared for a woman who fell from her house while repairing the roof. She…
Shout at a Wall
“Be not disturbed.” That’s what Ben Franklin determined to do. But, he didn’t really decide to “do”. He determined to “not do”–to “not be disturbed.” The healthy people that I’ve studied focused…
1-3-5 Plan for Optimal Health
Most of my patients have heard me discuss my 1,3,5 plan for superior physical, mental, and spiritual health. Here it is… 1) Fast (or very low calorie day) for ONE day per…
Have 1 Plumb
As a child, 50 years ago, I remember watching my grandfather use a plumb line to measure (he worked as a carpenter at a steel mill in Birmingham but would spend…