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In the eastern tradition the thousand-petal lotus, which represents enlightenment, grows out of the muck and mire.

The Belgian physicist Ilya Prigogine won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1977. Through his work in dissipative structures, he taught us that we grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate. When your system (body/mind/spirit) is in chaos it has two choices; It either disintegrates and dies or jumps to a new level of capability and capacity - breakdown or breakthrough.

I am humbled and inspired on a daily basis by the wonderful people I meet and their stories of courage and determination. Life sometimes throws lemons in our pathway. It is up to us to make lemonade with them. We can't always control the circumstances in our life as they are now, but we can control our reaction to them. I believe that it helps us all to "keep going" if we are inspired by hearing about other ordinary people (just like you and I) who have tried and persisted and eventually succeeded. If they can do it so can I. We really do need regular doses of inspiration and motivation.

I so often hear about ordinary people achieving really extrordinary results and the way that "fate" intervenes to assist is also amazing. I don't believe in coincidence. Carl Jung, who was regarded by many as the father of the modern day approaches to phsycotherapy, termed this "synchronicity". He saw time and time again that when someone was totally committed and focused on a course of action then all sorts of "lucky breaks" would often come their way to help them succeed. Do I believe in miracles ......? You bet!! But I do believe that you have to give God (or the Universe... whatever touches your heart) something to work with. God needs to work "through you" not "for you". You have to make a start with the resources that you have, then focus and commit.

I would like to invite readers to email me your story. Don't worry that it's not special enough or good enough. If you've had some sort of success in life and it has really meant something to you, let me know so that I can share it with others. As I said, we want to hear about ordinary people and their successes. Maybe you have lost a significant amount of weight, maybe you've overcome a health issue...... if you've succeeded at something - well done!! We'd love to hear about it!

This week's Health and Fitness Tip

Dr Eric Braverman is a leading expert in antiaging medicine. He is the director of the Place for Achieving Total Health Medical Centers in New York City and Philadelphia. He has written two books, Younger You and The Edge Effect. Dr Braverman was interviewed in the Suzanne Somers book, "Breakthrough, 8 Steps to Wellness". He was asked whether he believes Diabetes is ever reversible. Dr Braverman answered,

"Type 2 is almost always reversible by weight loss, mood change, sleep improvement, diet - meaning fibre, and using our Younger You rainbow diet with all its vegetables, fruits, and spices. A big component to our diet is that we have people average three spices per meal. Meaning we have them put cayenne pepper on their brown rice, we have them put tumeric on their eggs, cinnamon in their yoghurt. We train people to get more out of their food by improving the density. Spices improve the density of nutritional foods. The more nutritious the food is, the more nutrient in it, the better. Every time you put three or four spices in a meal you have just upgraded your food. You have made it a superfood."

Ageing Gracefully and Happily. This Week's Tip

A study of 22,461 people by scientists from the University of Kuopio in Finland found that the people who were most satisfied with their lives lived longer. They defined life satisfaction as an "interest in life, happiness .... and general ease of living." Reporting in the American Journal of Epidemiology in 2000, they found that the men who were most dissatisfied with their lives were more than three times as likely to die of disease than those who were most satisfied.

It's really easy to become dissatisfied with our lives. After all, there's always someone who has a nicer home, a nicer car..... etc etc. The old saying is ...."The grass is always greener on the other side". Of course there's often hidden weeds in that green grass that a casual onlooker cannot see from a distance.

We really need to focus on watering our own grass and keeping it green and healthy and remember to be grateful for what we do have. These feelings of gratitude and satisfaction will keep us happier, healthier and more youthful.

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