Which Path Next?

I look back on my life and see the changes that have taken place and often wonder how I made it to where I am today but darn I DID make it and I look forward to the next change.  Change can sometimes be frightening,  but boredom gets old fast.

 They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.  ~Confucius

A Smile and a Dollar

What is a smile worth to you?

He dragged me out to the stores again today.  I fear the day he retires as shopping is his major past time next to camping and fishing even if he doesn’t buy anything.  I hate to shop!  I’ve offered to have a lady friend accompany him when he goes but he refuses.  It might be because she talks more then she shops.  I’m not really sure. Besides the obvious things like quality,  cleanliness,  price,  and product presentations,  I find the attitudes of sales people is what I remember most and that will draw me back to a store or repel me no matter how good the store might be.

We stopped at the  jewelers where I exchanged the chain on the locket he gave me for Christmas for a longer one.  The sales lady and I laughed and traded some doggie stories. ( my locket was to have a picture of my dog close to me now that he is gone)  Of course the sales people there are pleasant and smile,  after all just going through the door they have commission dollar signs in their eyes!

The next stop was Boscovs.  That is one store I do enjoy going to…. IF I need to shop!  The sales people are always nice and most help you with a smile.  From there we went to K Mart.  A step down from Boscov but since they have partnered with Sears I have found a big change there.  The sales clerks and cashiers are always pleasant and helpful.  They even smile!

Our last stop was the dreaded big W.  He knows how much I hate Walmarts.  As we got out of the van,  he warned me,  “Keep your mouth shut and don’t embarrass me.”  It’s hard,  really hard on me to enter that store!  Every week he finds a reason to go there.  My tongue is raw from bitting it as I try to hold back any snide remarks as I try to rush him through there.  There are many reasons I dislike Walmart which I won’t go into but the employees at the local store have to be the worse anywhere.  I know Walmart pays their employees low wages but so do all the other retail stores like Kmart and Boscov,  so why is it that Walmart has the most discourteous workers?  It is so rare to see a cashier smile or to have one that is curteous and pleasant that when I do meet one I compliment them in some way that recognizes the fact.  You know,  that positive re-enforcement thing.  Today was no exception to the social down side of Walmart.  After almost being run over by a male employee racing down an asile pushing a loaded pallet cart we got in line to cash out.  While conversing with the couple in front of us I wacthed the cashier.  She handled the items so well I thought she broke the customers eggs.  Her face was totally blank,  no emotion,  no life seemed to emit from her.   Her face seemed frozen.  Never did she say a word except to tell the total owed.  The couple in front of me was next.  The woman smiled,  said hello to the cashier and asked her how she was today.   …..hmmmmm no response.   I think that even Walmart would spring an extra buck to have a robot that at least greeted the customer,  so I figured it wasn’t a mechanical cashier.

My turn!  I flashed a smile and said,  “Geez not too busy today now that Christmas is over.”   Without looking at me she grunted,  “ya.” okayyyyyyyyyy….. My hubby gave me a look.  Sorry,  my tongue bled enough!  As she handed me my change I said to her,  “I’ll give you a buck if you smile.”  Ignoring me she started running the next customers items over the scanner.  I leaned over the counter and whispered,   ” ya know honey,   if you learned how to smile,   you might even be pretty.”   Needless to say,   hubby had plenty to say driving home!  Geez maybe I’ll be lucky and he won’t insist on me going with him next week!

What is a smile worth to you? 

From Long Winded to Short…..

I didn’t realize how long my last post was.   It seems I belted out  a month of daily quotations  all at once!   There are some good and age old words there.  Hope you enjoy regardless of the length of the post!    It’s going to take me a while to get used to WordPress.   It does seem much easier and less cumbersome then BC.   I will most likely change the theme which is very easily done here.   Some experimenting is in order!

Healthy Words of Wisdom Through the Ages

As my mind travels down different paths I have found these words of wisdom by others along the way. Man has always known the way to good health in body and mind. I hope you enjoy these and see the constant pattern from ancient times till now.

All the answers that man searches for are in nature, he has to first open his eyes, then his mind to find them.
~Mary Blu

History of Medicine and Good Health in Few Words

“…everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it,
and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.”
—Mourning Dove [Christine Quintasket] (1888-1936) Salish

“One-quarter of what you eat keeps you alive. The other three-quarters keeps your doctor
alive.”
Hieroglyph found in an ancient Egyptian tomb

“Pleasant words are a honeycomb to the soul and healing to the bones.”
Proverbs 16:24 -

” A cheerful heart is good medicine, But a downcast spirit is rottenness to the bones”
Proverbs 17:22

“At the end of times the merchants of the world will deceive the nations through their “Pharmacia” or (sorcery).
(See Rev. 18:23)

“Let food be thy medicine, and let thy medicine be food.”
Hippocrates

“And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for
our diseases”
Plato

“The work of the doctor will, in the future, be ever more that of an educator, and ever less
that of a man who treats ailments.”
Lord Horder

“All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the
challenge of science is to find it.”
Philippus Theophrastrus Bombast that of Aureolus
Paracelsus (1493-1541)

“Never, no never does Nature say one thing and wisdom another”
Johann Christolph
Frederick von Schuller
“I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still
get your money”
Moliere: “A Physician in Spite of Himself,” 1664

“Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine
will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of
men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a
special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.”
Benjamin Rush, MD.,
a signer of the Declaration of Independence and personal physician to George Washington

“The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will
cure and prevent disease with nutrition.”
Thomas Edison

“It is not… that some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them,
but the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which
the truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.”
Sir William Osler, physician,
1849-1919

“We must admit that we have never fought the homeopath on matters of principle. We
fought them because they came into our community and got the business.”
Dr. J.N. McCormack, AMA, 1903

I”t’s supposed to be a secret, but I’ll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help
and encourage the doctor within.”
Albert Schweitzer, M.D

“One of the biggest tragedies of human civilization is the precedents of chemical therapy
over nutrition. It’s a substitution of artificial therapy over nature, of poisons over food, in
which we are feeding people poisons trying to correct the reactions of starvation.”
Dr. Royal Lee, January 12, 1951

“The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task.”
Roger Williams Ph.D. (1971)

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”
Your mother

“You cannot poison your body into health with drugs, chemo or radiation. “Health” can
only be achieved with healthful living.”
T.C. Fry

“It seems that some consideration should be given to the cause of our mounting physical
disabilities, but instead of going to the root of our troubles — wrong habits of eating and
drinking — we rush to the medicine shelf and smother our uncomfortable and distressing
symptoms under an avalanche of pills, potions and palliatives.”
Brother Roloff

“Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.”
Leonard
Da Vinci

“If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would
be out of business. Joy is one of Nature’s greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A
pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal.”
Catherine
Ponder

“The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this
fluid at regular intervals, give the cells what they require for nutrition, and as far as we
know, the pulsation of life can go on forever.”
Dr. Alexis Carrell – Nobel prize winner

“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
World Health Organization, 1948

“To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”
Gautama the Budda, 563 B

“Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.”
Benjamin Franklin
“It is more important to know what kind of patient has the disease than what kind of disease the patient has.”
Sir William Osler
“Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.”
Hippocrates

“There are two great medicines: Diet and Self-Control.”
Max Bircher, 1962

“One can not think well, love well, or sleep well if one has not dined well.”
Virginia Woolf, 1929

“Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.”
Moses Maimonides (1135-1204)

“Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficiant and warning symptom on the part of Nature.”
Elbert Hubbard

“The… patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life.
Don’t take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop.”
Quentin Regestein

“A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.”
Irish Proverb

“Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;…
and not today’s pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man.”
James H. West

“I am dying with the help of too many physicians.”
Alexander the Great

“Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years’ time.”
M. Proust.

“A doctor would promise life to a corpse if it could swallow the pills.”
Napoleon

“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”
La Rochefoucauld

“To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately,
cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.”
William Londen

“A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may,
after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past”
Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Most over-the-counter and almost all prescribed drug treatments merely mask symptoms or control health problems or in some way alter the way organs or systems such as the circulatory system work. Drugs almost never deal with the reasons why these problems exist, while they frequently create new health problems as side effects of their activities.”
John R. Lee, M.D.

“As long as providers make their income and fame largely by delivering ‘rescue’ medicine, they will have less economic interest in prevention.”
Paul Mencel, Medical Costs, Moral Choices

“The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings
can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds.”
Albert Schweitzer

“The art of healing comes from nature and not from the physician. Therefore, the physician must start from nature with an open mind.”
Paracelsus

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease.”
Volaire

“Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will orgainze into an undercover dictatorship…the Constitution of this Republic should make special provisions for medical freedom as well as religious freedoms.”
Benjamin Rush, MD., Signer of the Declaration of Independence

“20% of recently-approved prescription drugs have serious, even life-threatening, side effects.”
Journal of American Medical Association, May 2002

“It’s supposed to be a secret, but I’ll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing.
We only help and encourage the doctor within.”
Albert Schweitzer, M.D.

“If we doctors threw all our medicines into the sea, it would be thatmuch better for our patients
and that much worse for the fishes.”
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendel Holmes, MD

“The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs,
but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.”
Thomas Edison

“All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature,
the challenge of science is to find it.”
Philippus Theophrastrus Bombast
that of Aureolus Paracelsus (1493-1541)

“Doctors give drugs of which they know little, into bodies, of which they know less,
for diseases of which they know nothing at all.”
Voltaire

“A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ.”
John Steinbeck

“A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all,
be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

A New Door Opens

And the Greek said, “All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.”The only limits set on thought are the limits that we set ourself and when we close our minds we shut out life and new discoveries.  We stop being.  

 I  was a bit befuddled with the changes in Blog-city when I tried to come back earlier in the year to offer my words of wisdom <cough> and when I realized that BC wanted me to pay such a price for my words of wisdom and chicanery I thought, no way!  Heck BC should be paying US for our work and devotion!   At one time I thought all that down time they gave us was their way of giving us paid vacation!   

I found that physically I was ready for early retirement, but mentally I was not.   It took a toll on me. Retiring,  having  to put my dog  to sleep in May,  along with dealing with a family member on an  alcoholic binge was about all I could handle for some time.   I closed my mind to many things and would not, or could not write.   I couldn’t open my soul and move on.   

I’ve chipped away at the shackles I placed on myself, my mind, and being and have stepped back outside the door searching for new doors to open and paths to follow. I hope some of you will join me on the journey!

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