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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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In Georgia, you get 5$ off to be a donor when you renew your driver's license so most people in Georgia are donors including all of my family.
<br><br><br><br><br>JK, Google it, you may find a source nearby. If you are interested, you can <br>also Google 'pressure points in the foot' and learn more about how beneficial a <br>foot massage is.<br> <br><br>
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1 Reaction<br><br><br><br><br>OOPs! I meant to say that diabetes probably 'would NOT inhibit' using <br>donor skin.<br> <br><br>
<br><br><br><br><br>It amazes me that only $5.00 would tip that scale. But, what a bargain for <br>recipiants!<br> <br><br>
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1 Reaction@Gray Thanks for that interesting piece of information. What a great incentive. I wonder how many other states have an incentive program like that. Teresa
I was wondering why there are so many places to register as donor. I was wondering why there's registerme website when I can register for Minnesota on drivers license. Why would I want my organs to leave Minnesota when I live here. Is it because people might move? If I move couldn't I put donor on new license?
@ihatediabetes, This is an excellent question!
All of the places to sign-up are part of the national organ donor registry. So no matter where you are living, they all go to the same national directory of potential donors.
In my state of Kentucky, we used to sign our drivers licenses. But that was completely ineffective because people do not always have a drivers license with them. Now we can register when we apply for driver license, or we can register thru any of the sources that you refer to.
One important thing that I was trained to ask potential donor at registry events is: Please discuss this with your family. Let them know of your decision. That way, at the time of your death, they will know of your wishes.
Rosemary
@hopeful33250 When I was young and working for Blue Cross in Boston, they had the best incentives. You got the afternoon off to go across town to the Red Cross to donate blood, and then they also gave you an extra half day of vacation! I gave blood every two months, the most you could donate, so got there extra vacation days a year!
I must admit, being young, at that time my incentives were not entirely altruistic.
JK
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1 Reaction@gailb @hopeful33250 Obviously I hope my husband never has to deal with a serious, long term condition but if that day does come I will certainly be more than happy to repay him for all he has done. He is amazing though, he looks at least 10 years younger than he is and is on no medications at all at 81! I kid him that I married him for his longevity genes.
JK
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1 ReactionAt Mayo blood donor program you have to wait 84 days to donate. It's like 4 weeks longer than red cross. I'm actually glad about that because they say they don't want to adverse affect health of donors.
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