Healthy Lifestyle - Live well, laugh often, love much!
Living a healthy lifestyle isn’t only about good health, eating right, exercising, or being productive people. Living a healthy lifestyle also includes having a good attitude. Let’s get a better perspective on life! Living a healthy lifestyle means we re-learn the art of laughing at ourselves, and at out circumstances. Ever wonder why a child can cry over a scraped knee one minute, and then within seconds be running around you laughing? That is the key to living a healthy lifestyle. Kids live each day to its fullest; there is not enough time in the day to spend making mountains out of molehills. Children have an uncanny ability to see the funny side of life. Many of us have gotten so wrapped up in the stress of today; we forget there is a new day tomorrow. Laughter can restore a sense of balance regardless of what you are going through, start in the privacy of your home by laughing out loud at something you read. Actions create reactions. The emotional benefits are just too good to not give it away. This is a pain-free step to take towards living a healthy lifestyle. (When you laugh a lot, all your wrinkles will be in the right places!)
Here’s information a lot of us forget for living a healthy lifestyle. God has a sense of humor!! Look around you; discover the little things He did to make you laugh. Did you ever find yourself asking, “What on earth was God thinking when He was making the duck-billed platypus?” Think about it. This creature has been baffling people for centuries. It has a two-foot-long body covered with grey-brown hair. Could it be a mammal? Then, look at its tail; this is flat like a beavers. Ok, to further confuse us, (or to simply help us to laugh,) God gave this creature webbed feet, and a wide rubbery bill. Is it a duck? Now scientists tell us that this bizarre animal can lay eggs, growl like a dog, and secrete poison from their ankles, live most of their lives in the water, but are capable of climbing trees! God knew that we needed laughter in order to be living a healthy lifestyle.
Did you know that there are fish that can suck in air and then hiccup? These hiccups can be heard by other fish up to a mile away. Wonder why He did that? …….
Kids frequently share with others on how living a healthy lifestyle is beneficial, listen to what these voices of children have to say:
• “Who draws the lines around the countries?”
• “Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don’t we keep the ones we have?”
• “In school we learned that Thomas Edison made light. But in Sunday school they said God did it.”
• In a cafeteria, a teacher placed a bowl of fresh apples. Beside it was a note that read, “Take only one. Remember, God is watching.” At the other end of the table, beside a bowl of warm chocolate chip cookies a child wrote a note that read, “Take all you want, God’s watching the apples.”
Lighten up, in order to begin living a healthy lifestyle, laugh often.