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Thought Bullets
for
August 2004 

Randy Weigel, Human Development Specialist for the University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service, recently shared a website with me from the University of Kentucky. Trust me, you need to visit this website! Of all the possible tasks you could accomplish in the next three minutes, I hope you find as I did this is an amazing way to invest just three minutes of time. http://www.ca.uky.edu/fcs/possibilities/flash_present.htm. Click on the flash presentation for Accepting and Loving Your Body. The website also has a power point presentation you can download as well as quotations on the subjects of size diversity and healthy lifestyles (click on the Health and the Body icon on the quotations page). I was completely enthralled by the beauty and wisdom of this website. Listed below are a few of my favorite insights from the website.

• The sun shines not on us, but in us. John Muir
• Walk your dog every day, whether you have a dog or not. Paul Dudley White
• The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor. Martha Graham
• If we could loosen the grip we have on the mechanical view of our own bodies and . . . the world, many other possibilities . . . come to light. We could exercise the nose, the ear, and the skin, not only the muscles. We might listen to the music of wind in the trees . . . and nature’s teeming musical silence. Thomas Moore
• We have all absorbed media messages that repeatedly tell us our bodies are flawed. Body images projected by the media almost always promote a very narrowly defined standard of beauty. These narrow standards cause wide-spread body dissatisfaction. It is time we start thinking of our bodies in a more positive, healthy way.
• If you treat your body as a true friend, it is much easier to eat and be physically active in balanced and healthy ways.
• Our mental and emotional diets determine our overall . . . health and well-being to a far greater extent than most people realize. Every thought and feeling, no matter how big or small, impacts our inner energy level. Doc Childre and Howard Martin

Source:
Website of the Cooperative Extension Service, University of Kentucky, College of Agriculture, Family and Consumer Sciences: http://www.ca.uky.edu/fcs/possibilities/   Accessed July 12, 2004.

Compiled by Betty Holmes, MS, RD

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