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Happiness: A One Week Journey
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As you have all posted in Mayo Connect's Mental Health Group, I wanted to invite you to join in a program by Dr. Amit Sood, entitled Happiness a One Week Journey. Probably many of you are familiar with Dr. Amit Sood, a psychiatrist at Mayo. This is a free online program that addresses the issue of happiness. Here is what Dr. Sood says about this program.
Dear friends,
You and I face one common enemy – suffering. Pain, physical or emotional, when it becomes unbearable, is experienced as suffering. Pain is unavoidable, but suffering is optional. My goal is to help you find a path so you can bypass suffering in this life. One reward of traversing that journey is finding greater happiness.
Happiness is a habit. Some of us are innately happy. But most others have to choose. We often, however, don’t realize we have that choice. We also don’t know how to exercise that choice. As a result, we push happiness away. Let that not happen to you.
Join me, if you wish, to spend the next week of your life, choosing greater happiness. Each day, you’ll be guided to a practice that can make you happier. To enroll, you’ll need to register with your name and email address to connect with us for the next week. Select ‘Happiness: A One Week Journey,’ below for more information.
Take care.
Amit
Here is the website where you can sign up and join me on this journey: http://stressfree.org/happiness/
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@contentandwell Good things happened with incentives and that is what's important. It is too bad that more incentives aren't offered today for blood donors and organ donors. Teresa
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1 Reaction@contentandwell. You are lucky. Our friends that we met during our month in Panama, were in a similar situation. Anne was in her early 70s and had just gotten home from the hospital after nearly dying. Her husband, Ken was 82 and did everything since she was confined to a wheelchair. He was the picture of health and looked and acted much younger than his age. We returned from Panama last September. We learned 1 month ago that Ken passed away suddenly 2 weeks after surgery to put a stent in his heart.
Make sure you let your husband know how much he means to you. Everyone thought Ken would outlive Anne. Sadly that wasn't true. I know you let your husband know he's wonderful which is great.
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1 Reaction@windwalker
Foot massage sounds like torture! I don't want anyone to touch my feet, thanks to peripheral neuropathy, but I hope that when I get the spinal cord stimulator implant, all of that will change.
Jim
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2 Reactions@ihatediabetes That is a good plan. Thanks for sharing Mayo's time line for blood donation. Teresa
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1 Reaction<br><br><br><br><br>I hope that procedure helps you. I have a friend that has that for her <br>severe back pain. She swears by it.<br> <br><br>
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1 Reaction@jimhd and @windwalker Yes, i have several friends as well who have been helped by the implant. Jim, we are all hoping you get positive results as well. Teresa
@gailb Poor Anne, this must have been such a shock for her. Heart problems do not seem to run in my husband's family thankfully, most live to be quite old, but in my family I have already outlived the ages my parents and most of my aunts and uncles died at, all from heart problems. Thankfully the battery of tests I have been through show my heart as doing well.
JK
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1 Reaction@hopeful33250 @windwalker I googled, there are some very close by. I think though I still would prefer a full body massage, so relaxing. I have a G/C for one at a place I like, the G/C is a couple of years old because I was sort of afraid to go when I was in the condition I was prior to transplant, mainly due to the lactulose.
JK
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1 Reaction<br><br><br><br><br>All forms of massage are great for your health in many ways. Even light <br>touch promotes lymphatic flow. Hope you get one and that it feels terrific! <br>Terri M.<br> <br><br>
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1 Reaction@contentandwell I'm glad that you posted about massage and transplants. What does your doctor say about the advisability of massages? I'm wondering if there is a specific "wait-period" before a transplant patient should get massages? Rosemary, @rosemarya,what do you know about this? Teresa