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Many elderly are prescribed antihypertensive medication despite already having low blood pressure *** Are we giving up on cardiac arrest patients too soon? *** UTSA researcher develops new, non-invasive method to wipe out cancerous tumors *** … [Read more...] about Good Stuff To Know August 2016
Ivanka Trump, speaking at the Republican convention about her father Donald Trump, said he always told her that since she would be thinking anyway, she may as well "think big". It looks like that advice works for him. The saying, "thinking makes it so" is more profound than we realize. I truly believe we become what we consistently think about ourselves, and say out loud … [Read more...] about I Am AWE-SOME (And So Are You)
What do mental attitude, beliefs, and faith have as a common denominator? Self-talk—that great self-saboteur. Ready to take your conscious and subconscious self-talk to a whole new level? Often, the topics of mental attitude, beliefs, and faith can feel like something outside of us. Let’s place these firmly within us, where they belong, and as the power generators they are … [Read more...] about Mental Attitude, Beliefs, and Faith: A Foolproof Way to Shift What You Believe in Your Favor
Geisinger Medical Center in central northeast Pennsylvania will no longer allow its nurses to wear casual clothing to work after a patient survey revealed a decline in the professional appearance of its nursing staff. The 505-bed hospital decided to reconsider its dress code after patients said they weren't sure how to identify different levels of nurses and nursing staff. … [Read more...] about The Resurrection of Dress Standards?
Listen to Lura sing "Thank Heaven For You" with her husband who wrote the song.
Too many are hung up on ‘age’. When the subject of age comes up in a conversation, some visibly (almost) shudder. Others leave the group. Some act as if ‘getting older’ is a fatal disease that must be avoided. Many see this as a juvenile attitude and the … [Read more...] about Happy With My Age !!!Ginnie Siena Bivona and Larry Upshaw, chief visionaries at AgelessAuthors.com Photo: Dallas Morning News
When Ginnie Siena Bivona turned 42, she decided she was tired of "living under protective custody" tied to her wifely duties, raising five kids and playing bridge. She started writing poetry … [Read more...] about Dallas’ Ginnie Siena Bivona to older authors: Now’s your time to be an open bookArthritis - The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me... (Healing The Pain Of Psoriatic And Rheumatoid Arthritis And How Autoimmunity Can Heal Your Body And Soul) is about reversing inflammatory arthritis, even when doctors say it's impossible. Author Phil Escott posits that comprehensive changes in diet, along with correcting many other disconnects from our genetic … [Read more...] about New Book About Psoriatic Arthritis
You and your life will never be more than what you think about yourself and life. So, what will you choose to think? You assess, measure, and treat others and life according to the way you think, including how you think about yourself, which includes truths and untruths. You can think on purpose. You can think truths on purpose. You can choose to choose your own … [Read more...] about Do You Believe Untruths You Tell Yourself?
As I move through the journey of my own grief, I have observed that a culture shift has occurred in what is expected of mourners. In years gone by, mourning was something of a rite of passage and definitely a formal outward acknowledgment of the loss of a loved one. In Victorian times, black crepe hung around front doors of grieving families. Gentlemen sported black … [Read more...] about Mourning Takes on a New Shape
At age 85 as the youngest of eight, I can look back and see many changes in the family structure, some good and some not so good. No, we didn't have the technology that we have today but we managed to keep in touch. We either wrote letters or for those who had a car, we visited family members - or they visited us. A 'visit' might be a day or several days. It … [Read more...] about Family Time and Simple Pleasures: The Good Life That Used to Be
