Often we come upon information regarding Holistic health that is complex, overwhelming, or seems contradictory.
When it seems too complex, but may have a grain of something within it for us, try placing the information by your sofa....or your bed....or best of all, for many, your toilet. Or stick it in a folder in your bag to stick in your car, so when you are waiting, you can check it out.
When you check it out, don't approach it as if you need to learn it all right now, and implement it a minute ago. NO.
Check it out the way you would an interesting person or view. Relax. Peruse. Don't evaluate or plan or feel pressured. Just hang with it a bit and say hi, and then put it down.
Take a small taste. The first paragraph. Open the middle of it and check a small bit out. It will matter, if it's something that fits for you.
Give yourself a reality check. Are you in dire straights? Even if you are, rushing and pressure will make evaluating the merit of the information and ideas less possible. So back off and hang with it.
If it seems to have merit, take little notes. On your phone with SIRI. Or on paper stuck in with the materials. Or if you own it, underline or highlight or make stars. Then later, go back and review the stars, again without our culturally imagined necessity to 'accomplish' or 'master' or DO something 100%.
Many of the best ideas are one sentence in a book, or one concept or tip that really made sense to us. At 61, I know now that if I integrate one tiny bit into my lifestyle, that whole book or deal or theory or practice was worth investigating.
Lastly, I describe all day long WHY and HOW different approaches to diet, to healing, to meditating, to exercise, to anything at all...can be valid in the context of itself. Each approach is like a small universe, or an equation. In one equation, a food or habit or approach to fixing your car or running may recommend one thing and flat out tell you the other is terrible. Thing is, within the context of "The Ultrasimple DIet", bananas are great and soy is ok. In the context of "Eat Right For Your Blood Type", nope- no bananas and very specific other considerations. For blown out adrenal glands, a banana will blow your energy away for days. There are so many aspects like this that vary.
So approach things with ease and patience and wisdom. Tiny bits. Tiny tastes. Accumulate a sense of a concept. Give yourself time to consider.
When it seems too complex, but may have a grain of something within it for us, try placing the information by your sofa....or your bed....or best of all, for many, your toilet. Or stick it in a folder in your bag to stick in your car, so when you are waiting, you can check it out.
When you check it out, don't approach it as if you need to learn it all right now, and implement it a minute ago. NO.
Check it out the way you would an interesting person or view. Relax. Peruse. Don't evaluate or plan or feel pressured. Just hang with it a bit and say hi, and then put it down.
Take a small taste. The first paragraph. Open the middle of it and check a small bit out. It will matter, if it's something that fits for you.
Give yourself a reality check. Are you in dire straights? Even if you are, rushing and pressure will make evaluating the merit of the information and ideas less possible. So back off and hang with it.
If it seems to have merit, take little notes. On your phone with SIRI. Or on paper stuck in with the materials. Or if you own it, underline or highlight or make stars. Then later, go back and review the stars, again without our culturally imagined necessity to 'accomplish' or 'master' or DO something 100%.
Many of the best ideas are one sentence in a book, or one concept or tip that really made sense to us. At 61, I know now that if I integrate one tiny bit into my lifestyle, that whole book or deal or theory or practice was worth investigating.
Lastly, I describe all day long WHY and HOW different approaches to diet, to healing, to meditating, to exercise, to anything at all...can be valid in the context of itself. Each approach is like a small universe, or an equation. In one equation, a food or habit or approach to fixing your car or running may recommend one thing and flat out tell you the other is terrible. Thing is, within the context of "The Ultrasimple DIet", bananas are great and soy is ok. In the context of "Eat Right For Your Blood Type", nope- no bananas and very specific other considerations. For blown out adrenal glands, a banana will blow your energy away for days. There are so many aspects like this that vary.
So approach things with ease and patience and wisdom. Tiny bits. Tiny tastes. Accumulate a sense of a concept. Give yourself time to consider.
No building Rome in a day, right?
Really no use, any of these things, if we can't get to know them the way we do a neighbor or a love of walking or a new way of being.
Slow and steady and kindly with common sense.
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