Fast Fitness - Quick Refreshed Perspective Every Day

Here is Fast Friday Fitness - strengthen appreciation. Appreciation increases happiness, lowers blood pressure and stress chemicals, and reduces resentment, an unhealthy state of mind:

1. When you turn on a water faucet, notice that you get water. This is more than several millions of people have. Real people, as deserving as everyone else, walk miles and pay criminally inflated prices for water that is sometimes too dirty to drink.
   


2. When you turn on an electric light, notice that you get light and have electricity. In every room. At all hours. In many part of the world, even in major cities, they do not have electricity more than a few hours and sometimes, none in non-public areas.


3. If you are reading this, you may have a computer or other electronics. Even if it is in a library and you waited in line, you have these luxuries to browse for life enhancing ideas.
   

Right now, there are people carrying loads and walking miles just to dig for food and water, or carrying all their belongings on their back and living in tent refuge cities to escape persecution, sieges, physical attacks and worse, and have been for years. Not complaining doesn't mean to not change things. Do something about it:

It is fantastic bounty to have water and electricity. Try to notice it, and be happy for it.
It is also true that Western water is full of unnecessary chemicals, and destructive pharmaceuticals. We can reduce polluting and taking unnecessary drugs.
Don't pollute and litter without thought.
Work to change the lives of all the many without basic rights and privileges.
Show children that you appreciate, and don't destroy. Lead by example.

Related:
Fast Fitness - Open Your Eyes and World View
Fast Fitness - Recycling and the Movie "Garbage Dreams"
Green Water
Junk Food Through Your Skin?
Healthier Heart

Labels: blood pressure, fast fitness, green fitness, mind, spirit

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