Vision and Well Being

As you enter this new year, you may be in the process of “visioning.” Vision creates all kinds of outcomes in our lives. Very often we consciously "envision" wealth and proserpity and goals well met in our careers and business lives.

How we envision our lives contibutes enormously to our sense of well being. Do you "see" a bright future? Do you feel yourself healthy, well balanced and vibrant? These thoughts and feelings contain the seed of your future. Whatever you see or believe today is exactly what you will project and see and receive tomorrow.

Unfortuantely, if we talk a lot about the bad economy, the lack of opportunity, and tight finances, we are going to feel very constricted, which attracts even more lack and negativity.

In this challenging world, it is increasing important to monitor your thoughts and feelings, and, when they are positive, build on them, and if they are negative, take action to shift them.

A common grounding exercise is a "vision board." Collect magazines and print media and find images and words that uplift and motivate you. Cut them out and put then in piles. On a sheet of paprer or core foam board, lay out your images in a way that pleases you. You might want to look at how these words related to your career, business, money, health, relationships and goals. Get the “picture” of what you want over this next year.

Then, keep focusing on it! What you focus on expands, so become aware of your focus.

If you find it difficult to maintain that positive focus you might like to join a community who focuses on providing support and encouragement to live passionately and prosperously. We're inernational and local at www.firedupforsuccess.com.

Get excited! Look at what inspires you. What would you love to happen…even if you have no idea how that would occur? What are you passionate about? Love, passion and enthusiasm makes for a powerful attractive force.

Build your life around these feelings and your sense of well being will translate intoi powerful results!




Welcome to 2010!

Universal Health Care

Dr. Virginia Green:

I met with Ann Connolly, expert on the economics of health care reform, this weekend while I was in New York. I totally trust her brains and experience on this issue, and she made the excellent and very clear point that it is critical that as many people as possible are involved in the health care world. Today, young healthy people are often not enrolled. This is the population that should be subsidizing the less healthy population, which is how insurance is supposed to work. If the auto insurance industry only required bad drivers to have insurance, there would not be enough money to pay claims: it is good drivers that pay claims. Might not seem fair to good drivers, but there are more of us than bad drivers, so the risk is spread over a bigger population. And car insurance protects us, too.

Both the House and Senate health care reform bills include universal health coverage, which is critical to any plan. By the way, universal health care will provide everyone with access to affordable mental health services -- one of the best guarantors of wellness.

Introducing the South Bay's newest and liveliest Wellness Connection

Please join us as we help you explore the world of healing in creative ways that take the best we know from science and interpret and personalize to your need for alternatives and extensions of traditional medicine. We are five professional women with lots of credentials: education (more diplomas from real schools!), experience (tens of thousands working with real people!), and a sincere calling to help YOU with ideas for making the changes you want to make to live a healthier, happier life. Oh, yes, that's something we have in common -- we take our work very seriously, but we believe in the pursuit of happiness, as a goal and as a process.

You will find out more about us as the weeks unfold, and we welocome your questions so we can learn more about you, too. This week's focus is on Mental Health, and your humble blogger is Dr. Virginia Green, Executive Director of Stillwater Family Therapy in Manhattan Beach, where we believe that caring for your mental health is the best thing you can do for your family, friends, and community.