CONTROLLING YOUR EMOTIONS

Even though life can sometimes have a way of piling on one issue after another all within a short time frame doesn’t mean we should dwell on our issues and live in sadness, frustration, and anger.  There is a difference between acknowledging negative emotions and...

CONNECTIVE TISSUE AND AGING

What Is Connective Tissue? Connective tissue is a type of tissue that can be found all over the body which connects and protects other types of tissue, organs, ligaments, blood vessels, and bones as well as providing structural integrity to the body as a whole. It is...

COMPASSION

Compassion   To gain purpose, we need to go deeper than just achieving personal goals by reaching out to others and showing compassion and kindness.   “Compassion is the emotion one experiences when feeling concern for another’s suffering and desiring to enhance...

COMMUNITY SUPPORT

When we are stressed out, our best line of defense is to positively connect with other individuals. They act as a buffer against life’s difficulties and surprises in the form of emotional support, humor, a partner for fun activities. Sometimes, just having people...

CERTAINTY AND CONTROL

There are always going to be things that we can’t control, such as genetics, serious accidents, certain medical conditions, etc., but it doesn’t mean that we have to become a slave to our circumstances. Accepting one’s lot in life should not be about focusing on the...

CERTAINTY – A GIFT AFFORDED TO THE IGNORANT

As we get older, we gain more and more knowledge and create a clear-cut idea of how the world is and what it should be like.  All of this is well and good, but once we start to assume, we know everything, we become stagnant, rarely venture outside of the familiar. As...