UPS & DOWNS IN BODY HEALTH & HEAT WAVE & FLOWERING PLANTS AT PEAK SEASON
By OLIVENE GODFREY
We here in Georgia's high country are suffering from an August heat-wave which is also our peak season for flowering plants. Our patio plants have never been so large and pretty. Yesterday morning before the heat outside became unbearable, son Barry helped me walk out on the patio to inspect the plants. The purple plant's dainty lilac little flowers are in bloom. A delivery woman brought me a package last week and commented on the huge Christmas cactus. She said it is the largest one she's ever seen. She also asked about the asparagus fern and was surprised when I told her I started the fern 30 years ago from seed. It is a thing of beauty . The crape myrtle, the red and white and pink Impatiens are all gorgeous.
Unfortunately, the hated ragweed is also blooming, giving we allergy sufferers hay fever which is bad.
When we hear the word, "health" we generally think of a condition free from disease. But, health involves the state of the mind. If you are satisfied with life, if your mind functions accurately, and if you possess enough force, driving power to give you confidence in yourself and the ability to accomplish your work, you are considered to have good mental health. I suppose that eliminates a whole bunch of us. I've never known anyone who didn't have some kind of "hang up" and if there is such a person he'd probably be pretty dull company.
I guess there are a hundred definitions of happiness, probably everyone has their own definition. But, one definition is that happiness is a balanced flow of energy and the satisfaction of desires. And that is where many people develop "hang -ups". You are happy if you get what you want. But, many people don't know what they want.And,people differ in the things they want.
Then, the nature of any desire is conditioned by experience and knowledge. Some good advice, which few of us are always able to follow, is to cultivate certain standards of living against unexpectedly changes. Then, we won't be incurably depressed when we are disappointed.
See you next time.
By OLIVENE GODFREY
We here in Georgia's high country are suffering from an August heat-wave which is also our peak season for flowering plants. Our patio plants have never been so large and pretty. Yesterday morning before the heat outside became unbearable, son Barry helped me walk out on the patio to inspect the plants. The purple plant's dainty lilac little flowers are in bloom. A delivery woman brought me a package last week and commented on the huge Christmas cactus. She said it is the largest one she's ever seen. She also asked about the asparagus fern and was surprised when I told her I started the fern 30 years ago from seed. It is a thing of beauty . The crape myrtle, the red and white and pink Impatiens are all gorgeous.
Unfortunately, the hated ragweed is also blooming, giving we allergy sufferers hay fever which is bad.
When we hear the word, "health" we generally think of a condition free from disease. But, health involves the state of the mind. If you are satisfied with life, if your mind functions accurately, and if you possess enough force, driving power to give you confidence in yourself and the ability to accomplish your work, you are considered to have good mental health. I suppose that eliminates a whole bunch of us. I've never known anyone who didn't have some kind of "hang up" and if there is such a person he'd probably be pretty dull company.
I guess there are a hundred definitions of happiness, probably everyone has their own definition. But, one definition is that happiness is a balanced flow of energy and the satisfaction of desires. And that is where many people develop "hang -ups". You are happy if you get what you want. But, many people don't know what they want.And,people differ in the things they want.
Then, the nature of any desire is conditioned by experience and knowledge. Some good advice, which few of us are always able to follow, is to cultivate certain standards of living against unexpectedly changes. Then, we won't be incurably depressed when we are disappointed.
See you next time.
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