Here's
an idea for the new year: Let's try thinking about how healthy &
thriving we are.
Let’s stop absorbing this message that we are
perpetually “sick” and we need constant "healing."
Actually,
for the most part we're not doing so badly. Are you personally sick? Are
you personally lacking in food? shelter? Didn’t you just spend a small
fortune on Christmas?
Can we acknowledge that humans
are living now to 80-90 years old routinely. In the wonderful good old
“organic” days the average life span was about 50-60.
Average
Canadian income (2 earners) $79,000. Oct 2012, Canada’s unemployment
rate was 7.4% = 92.6% of people were employed). Nowadays most women
survive childbirth, even high-risk births. Many cancers are no longer an
automatic death sentence. Our literacy rate in Canada is 99% (male;
female; combined). So why
have we been hearing for 40 years how “sick” we are and how much we
need healing all the time. You’re sick, take yoga. You’re sick,
meditate. You’re sick, you need a trip. You’re sick, take this
supplement. You’re sick, go to a spa.
What about if we
start thinking about our incredible *wellness* for a change? And focus
on that. It doesn’t mean we can’t act to right wrongs, help less
fortunate others. But maybe we could shed that yoke that we’re “sick”
for a while and see what happens.
Latch onto the
affirmative.
Listen to Louis Armstrongaying it out from the Club
Zanzibar, New Year’s Eve 1945.
