Be Healthy

Are you happy enough?

Read through Bro Bo's How to be Truly Truly Happy and I'm sure you will be.

I hope you are happy now.

But certainly you wont be 100% happy if you're not healthy.

Being healthy is not a matter of weight , muscles, or absence of ailment.

Being happy is a state of mind while being healthy is a state of "body". Our physical self.

There are many ways of keeping ourselves healthy. You are healthy because it's in your genes, or because you have a healthy lifestyle. You are healthy because of your physical activities.

In this blog, I would like to just focus on the connection between being happy and being healthy.

Many researchers have made connections between worrying, stress in life and sickness. Worriers are definitely are one of the unhappiest people as they miss the fun for they focus on their worries affecting their physical well being in the process.

Those who are subjected to stresses due to work loads, relationship issues, and peer pressures age faster and like anything under stress breaks earlier.

How do we avoid these worrying and stresses in life? My formula is simply "Put God in everything you do, and He will do the rest for you". This is aligned with the very first commandment of loving God with all your mind, with all your heart and all your soul.

No matter what the situation is, He will surely be there.

In this times of economic trials, it is but natural to find a lot of people worrying for their future as well as their children's future.

Instead of worrying, we must focus on what we can do , and must be doing to secure our future and theirs. Trust in the Lord . He will surely bless us.

What complicates the situation is conflict between husband and wife. The whole family suffers, the whole family worries about what will happen in their lives. Thus, it is of paramount importance that the husband and wife has good relationship. This will make sure that no matter what the situation is, the family will be able to survive. And when there is love, assurance and hope there will be no worries, everybody happy , everyone healthy.

Got the connection now?

I Hope you do.

Till next blog.

Are you Happy... let's continue

Hi there again, dear friends and family.

Being present in the present is a key element in enjoying the moment.

You cannot enjoy an event you were not actually present in, thus it is very important that you are focused on what you are doing all the time.

However, we know the challenges of being human. We oftentimes find ourselves wandering about something while doing another thing. We are physically present but our minds are not.

Another cause of not enjoying everything is our desire to do many things at the same time.

Imagine this, eating dinner while watching Paquiao fight Hatton. Suppose your dinner is a the best "Kobe Beef" with a big tag price and is really delicious. What do you think you will enjoy... of course not the beef right?

Okay, let's leave that and go for another secret to happiness. Being grateful. Happy People= Grateful People. Check your feelings. If somebody gives you something and you feel that you do not need or deserve what was given, how do you feel? Now, let's change the scenario. Say you receive the same thing , you know you don't need it nor deserve it but you see the effort or the desire of the giver of the gift to make you happy . How will you feel?

Being grateful and finding God in everything , and staying positive are all parallel. If you find something good or positive on any event , then you find God in it, then you will definitely be thankful.

Stay Happy by being present in the present and thank the Lord all the time!!

Till next time...

Be HHWH Happy Healthy Wealthy and HOLY

Hi There once again.

I talked about being Happy in my last entry and will still stick to it.

You want to know another secret of those who are happy all the time?

It's enjoying every moment.

It's much like finding God in everything every time. Enjoying the moment by moment of our life will make us happy.

Let me ask you a question. If you recall the happy moments of your life, what feelings does it evoke? ..Of course HAPPINESS! Correct? So how do you build up memories of happiness? Definitely by having moments of happiness. So, if we enjoy each moment and not miss any of it, we will have tons and tons of happy moments to go back to. Effect, we become happier.

Agree?

Pls comment. Send me your reaction...

Be HHWH- Happy Healthy Wealthy and Holy

Day 1

Hi There!

I believe all are in search for true happiness, correct?

Almost all of those who are past 40 seeks also to be healthy, right?

And we all want to be wealthy as well, correct again?

Can we be all of these three plus be Holy as well?

Yes indeed we can be. Do you agree with me?

You may react on this now....

Actually, these state of one's mind and being are inter-connected.

For it is useless to be wealthy if you are not happy.

Your happiness will be incomplete if you are not healthy.

All the first three are physical and material, while the fourth focus on the soul.

Will tackle this more detailed day by day.

I hope to see your comments and reactions.

Day 2

Holistic approach to life therefore is to be Happy Healthy Wealthy and Holy.

Each one poses a challenge for indeed life is full of challenges.

I was born poor. My father is a policeman and my mother did not have any business or work to support the meager income of my tatay. We are twelve and I'm the fifth among the dozen.

But, was I happy then ? Of course I am. Through life's challenges, the days when we have so much hardship and less in life , we have more than enough love to go by with. Nanay loves us all very much and so did our tatay.

Happiness therefore is not a factor directly linked to wealth. When my brothers and sisters talk about our youth when we were still all together as one family, we do remember the difficulties, but more so the fun and happiness we had. Bottom-line, the happiness we have are extracted from our relationships with one another. A loving relationship. A "nurturing relationship".

Bro Bo in his "Feasts" which happens every Sunday at Valle Verde talked about "Unlocking the Secrets to Extreme Happiness". He has this loving relationship or "Nurture Connections" as one of the main factor. You may want to request the March 15 to May 10 , 2009 issue of the Feast Weekly Bulletin at email: feastbulletin@gmail.com.

Another factor to achieve happiness is to always stay positive. Look around you and you will certainly find people who complains a lot, gripes a lot on so many or anything at all. Compare him or her with someone who finds something good in everything that happens. Who do you think is happy?

I read about a German billionaire who lost a lot of money in his stocks investments and was left with just a little over a billion dollars in his estate. You know what he did? He committed suicide by jumping off a rail track to be hit by a speeding commuter train. Why do you think he did that? He focused on what he lost (the negative) rather than be thankful for what remained with him. 1 Billion over $$$ is a lot of money and he did not see it!

We were poor , but we were blessed with good brains. We studied hard and most of us got scholarships that enabled us to finish college. I for one maintained my State Scholarship Grant and completed a degree in Mechanical Engineering. I did not focus on what we did not have, I capitalize on the blessing I posses.

You want to be HAPPY.. those two are enough...but, we will tackle more .. I promise you.

God bless.