Look Great, Feel Great

I've been dealing with very bad asthma for about 5 years on and off. Prior to that, I was a severe asthmatic as a child. I also have severe allergies and sinusitis. Add to that fibromyalgia and I'm a mess. My New Year's resolution is to get healthier. To start that I'm reading several Christian self health books/positivity books. The first book I read was Joyce Meyer's Look Great, Feel Great. I like her style of preaching and often watch her show during the week. I like the idea that I, with God, can have control over my health. In Look Great, Feel Great, she outlines 12 Keys for healthy living. She recommends taking time to add each key rather than jumping into all 12 at once. So for this week I'm focusing on Key #1: Let God Do the Heavy Lifting. Joyce recommends 5 ways to trust God with your burdens: 1. Ask 2. Attend church 3. Attend a support group 4. Begin each day with an affirmation 5. Pray in moments of doubt. My action that I'm focusing on this week is to begin each day with an affirmation. At this time I'm using the one in the book, but you can write your own as well. I also try to remember to say "This is the day that The Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it." Today was day 2 and I'm seeing a difference already. I would often go to bed feeling great, but wake up feeling horrible with swollen sinuses and allergies and wheezing and pain. I'm praying that by focusing on the positive I will be able to wake up feeling great each morning and ready to start the day. Blessings upon you, Jennifer

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Prayers for Japan

Image
Dear Readers, There is so much to pray for in Japan that it is overwhelming, but these seem to be the things that are sticking out:      Pray for the 50 workers at the nuclear plant.  They are there risking their lives. Pray for the women and children who are spending the night outside in 20 degree weather with little to protect them from the elements. Pray that it isn't true that the 4th reactor has no water...this can make a bad situation even worse. Pray for the missing and those who have missing friends and relatives that they are found safe and sound. Pray that the weather clears up so the relief helicopters can get into Sendai to give the people much needed supplies and food. Blessings upon you, Jenn
Read more

Beginning of Unlikely Disciple

I'm going to be writing a book about my husband Nick, called Unlikely Disciple. This is the start of this book: It was around noon on December 2, 2015. I was in the middle of reading a book about rocks to my second grade class when I must’ve felt the vibration from my pocket. I took out my phone and saw a message that there had been a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California near Waterman Ave and that there had been at least 2 causalties. As soon as I saw the message, from a local tv station, I knew that my husband, Nicholas Thalasinos had been killed. After I finished the chapter I was reading I gave them a math assignment they could do on their own. I began trying to reach my husband first by text on his iphone and then by text on his work phone. I kept waiting for the asterisks indicating he was responding to my message, but nothing. It was silent. I tried calling both phones as well with no answer. In the middle of this more information was coming in both by KT
Read more

Winding Down the Summer

Well I go back to work on Momday. Yesterday I spent several hours rearranging stuff and unpacking. My honey put up my bulletin boards even with being sick with bronchitis...poor honey. I've got a polka dot theme going...maybe I should call it polka dot Afro! Tonight I started downloading all the ieps so I can give them to the teachers on Monday. Sometime this weekend I have to make my vegan blueberry muffins for the staff breakfast. Today I got stuff for lunches...that's when it really hit that school is starting next week. Not that I mind. I wish we still had 3 months on, 1 month off...two months off makes me far more lazy than I should be and I'm ready to go back by about the 6th week!
Read more