http://www.agilityfit.com/blog Health is a gift for which we must work every day. Thu, 18 Aug 2011 03:25:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.agilityfit.com/blog/?p=143#comment-69 Bertha Santini Thu, 18 Aug 2011 03:25:40 +0000 http://www.agilityfit.com/blog/?p=143#comment-69 Good job on the articles. Hopefully people will read your article and follow your advice so they can live a healthy and happy life for a long time. I read them all, but only am answering on this one for all of them. Good job on the articles. Hopefully people will read your article and follow your advice so they can live a healthy and happy life for a long time. I read them all, but only am answering on this one for all of them.

]]> http://www.agilityfit.com/blog/?p=191#comment-64 Jeff Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:21:36 +0000 http://www.agilityfit.com/blog/?p=191#comment-64 We absolutely create our own suffering!! We create it by making our satisfaction, contentment, or happiness, whatever you want to call it, conditional upon life meeting our expectations. We set up our thought patterns to register negative emotions whenever something is not going the way we want it. We stub our toe, we burn our toast, we lose $5, we gain 5 pounds, he/she didn't respond they I wanted, he/she NEVER responds the way I want... we get so habitual with our unhappy emotional responses, that we begin to see the negative side of every situation. Rather than relief and gratitude for not being hit by an errant motorist, it is "that Idiot almost hit me!" And then we string all of these negative emotions together and we begin to hate life because it is just one huge downer. Yes, we definitely cause our own suffering. We absolutely create our own suffering!! We create it by making our satisfaction, contentment, or happiness, whatever you want to call it, conditional upon life meeting our expectations. We set up our thought patterns to register negative emotions whenever something is not going the way we want it. We stub our toe, we burn our toast, we lose $5, we gain 5 pounds, he/she didn’t respond they I wanted, he/she NEVER responds the way I want… we get so habitual with our unhappy emotional responses, that we begin to see the negative side of every situation. Rather than relief and gratitude for not being hit by an errant motorist, it is “that Idiot almost hit me!” And then we string all of these negative emotions together and we begin to hate life because it is just one huge downer. Yes, we definitely cause our own suffering.

]]> http://www.agilityfit.com/blog/?p=191#comment-63 AJ Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:24:59 +0000 http://www.agilityfit.com/blog/?p=191#comment-63 Yes indeed; I absolutely believe that we as individuals often create our own suffering. For me, this most often occurs when I don't take time to nurture my emotional well-being which inevitably leads to living a life filled with anxiety and fear. Thank you Karen, for the reminder that we are responsible for creating our own happiness :) Yes indeed; I absolutely believe that we as individuals often create our own suffering. For me, this most often occurs when I don’t take time to nurture my emotional well-being which inevitably leads to living a life filled with anxiety and fear. Thank you Karen, for the reminder that we are responsible for creating our own happiness

]]> http://www.agilityfit.com/blog/?p=159#comment-20 Carrie Garry Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:47:58 +0000 http://www.agilityfit.com/blog/?p=159#comment-20 Hi Karen, Hey, I met you while you were running today. You sure have lots to share and thanks for all the good advice and knowledge. Hope to see you again on the trail. Hi Karen,
Hey, I met you while you were running today. You sure have lots to share and thanks for all the good advice and knowledge. Hope to see you again on the trail.

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