Reblogged from Not Perfect Me. Thank you.
I can't sleep…

It’s 6:45am. (Monday) I walk out the door. Cold air bursts to greet me. Mother Earth’s greeting: GOOD MONDAY MORNING Pal! My morning wake-up call. I scramble to get into the car. I turn up the heater. More frigid air in a frontal assault. I rub my hands together vigorously. And shiver. I back the car out of the driveway and get on the road. My fingers scroll the dials to find Bruce. Stop on “Radio Nowhere.” I dial it up. Way up. And set it to run a continuous loop.
↓ click for audio (Bruce Springsteen – “Radio Nowhere”)
I just want to hear some rhythm.
My car is running on mid-grade and running on Bruce – – who is now coursing through the car. And coursing through me.
The Sun, a mere 100 million miles away, finds her way through my windshield to warm my skin. (I feel more lift. She’s pulling me. Pulling me up. I’m thawing out. And my bones are telling me…It’s a good day. I’m feeling good.) Continue reading “Heal tapping with Bruce…”
“…New research this month finds that the more time someone spends sitting, the shorter and less robust his or her life may be. The findings were sobering: Every single hour of television watched after the age of 25 reduces the viewer’s life expectancy by 21.8 minutes. By comparison, smoking a single cigarette reduces life expectancy by about 11 minutes. Looking more broadly, they concluded that an adult who spends an average of six hours a day watching TV over the course of a lifetime can expect to live 4.8 years fewer than a person who does not watch TV. Those results hold true even for people who exercise regularly. It appears a person who does a lot of exercise but watches six hours of TV every night might have a similar mortality risk as someone who does not exercise and watches no TV…” Continue reading “Get Up. Get Out. Don’t Sit.”
Has your work week been like this? Guaranteed 30 seconds of smile.
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