At Home With Family/Chad E. Briggs
Health Tips Your Congress Won’t Tell You: Family And Friends.
Catch up with your family and friends. Make new friends, begin new relationships. Say hello to someone and smile! This health tip will add years to your life. Quit coughing…
I know all about it, been there, done that. “I don’t want to, I don’t get along with them, nobody understands me, it’s too far, I don’t have any friends, all I do is work, I’m too busy”, I can’t stand my brother-in-law, my mother-in-law” and on.
People First
People are our health, people must be first and people have to be our priority. You are a people, aren’t you?
Quit procrastinating
How many times have we avoided a phone call, we didn’t make a call, canceled or postponed a get together? We thought about it, but never quite got around to it. How many times did we not smile and say hello to someone as they passed by or said thank you to like we meant it? How many times has someone died, and we didn’t give ourselves the opportunity to see them while they were living? Was it a family member, friend, co-worker, acquaintance, the person we always see in the supermarket?
Be Compassion
Have you walked into a nursing home to visit someone, and seen people sitting in the lobby staring into nothingness, slumped over in their wheel chair, hair pressed to one side of their head. Or lying in a bed with plastic tubes everywhere? No doubt they have a health care plan of some sort, or else they wouldn’t be there to experience the benefits of their golden years.
I witnessed my grandfather go through this over thirty years ago, for the last year and a half of his life. A series a debilitating strokes, late life Diabetes and Parkinson’s disease put him there. My grandmother was wonderful, she was there everyday with him. One of our family members would come by every evening, pick her up and return her the next day. Many people are not that fortunate. Check out this link-
“Social isolation can be as harmful to your health as smoking or a sedentary lifestyle.” smlxtralarge.com/…/human-nature-and-the-need-for-social-connection/ – Cached – Similar –
Stay and get connected
There is great value, worth and living when we connect socially with others, by doing this we become the great benefactor as well as the gift. It is in our giving, connecting, staying in touch, getting caught up with people again, making that phone call that restores and renews.
Seeing your mother-in-law, opening the door for a ‘stranger’ and saying hello to someone while standing in line at the checkout counter, visiting a senior care center, visiting your family and friends that heals. It is this very thing bringing wonderment and magic back to our lives.
On top of it all you can live a healthier, longer life, significantly lessen depression and anxiety, save your heart, create a sense of worthiness, provide purpose to your life and give purpose to the lives of others. I Googled the “health benefits of social connections.” Look at the information on the first page: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=gm&sourceid=gmail&q=health+benefits+of+social+connections&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi= Thanks.
You matter, Chad.
P.S. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
9. October 2009 at 5:34 am
Chad: I felt your story in my heart. There are so many ways to connect with people that is so important. Just a smile can make someone’s day. In the past, families were connected and that meant everyone helped each other. Several generations often lived jn the same home or neighborhood and sometimes, YIKES, next door. When elders grew weary and weak, the younger ones helped out, even if it was to listen to the same old yarns over and over.
That’s how history is pasted down and we grow from those who have struggled and gone before us, giving us wisdom and hope for a better day.