Silly Easy Health

Being healthy isn't hard to do. Eat fresh foods, don't over-do anything, move about lots and seek peace. Simple. It doesn't need rushing to stores or gyms that push products supposedly to make you healthier, lose weight miraculously and fix all of your complaints. It's a waste of time and money and yes, effort, to listen to such tripe. We have weekend markets with wonderful selections of fresh and delicious goods, thousands of lovely walking areas and relaxing places to do some meditating of the normal, natural kind. Shutting off the electronics and just listening to bird song, the wind in the trees and enjoying the greenery around you, are ways of getting your bones in order. When was the last time you took an avocado, diced sweet onion, tomatoes and peppers and mushed it all up with some salsa and mayo? Try it. Put a couple of slices of bread into the toaster and when they're done, quarter them to use as "chips".  No butter. Dip them into or spread on the mix and you will be having a treat and a treatment in goodness. There are so many ways to use fresh vegetables straight from the bins at the market. Adding fruit in season, as dessert, caps the whole experience that is easy on the digestive system and completely usable other than what's left for the composting. Meats that are inexpensive products such as ground pork, beef and poultry, used sparsely, puts the protein into your body that needs it to build muscle and there you have the magic formula. You have the perfectly balanced diet. And it is not costly. The kids can have fun making their own versions of the dips or spreads and using bread "chips" instead of oily or greasy crackers or crisps. You will be eating in the right direction. Where? Toward a more healthful and less wasteful world. The main ingredient to long life, is less stress. When you have the pressures of constantly having to use that cell phone or ear buds pounding music into your brain, there cannot be a method of relaxing. If you think so, you are not thinking. At least, try the other way for a while. Normal isn't doing what everyone else in the crowd is doing; normal and right, is doing what is the hidden inside of you. It's finding the real you without the barrage of requirements dictated by your group. Sure, your people or your group are part of your happiness but you are the main event in happiness. Are you truly happy? What makes you happy? Taking time out away from the stresses that are all around, is part of the journey in re-locating balance and being close again to that being who is you. A new lease in eating all that is really good and pure, a break from pleasing everyone but yourself, is finding a way back to the peace that is YOU.