How Do You Handle Your Anger?

I wanted to share with you a great article I found on Bitterness. This sure caught my attention and I can unfortunately relate all to well. I found it very helpful and definitely is something to read often to remind myself that its okay to let things go and move on. It's unhealthy to hold grudges for sure.

Bitterness

It is natural to feel resentment or anger when life does not unfold as expected. We consciously or unconsciously anticipated one experience, and we grieve for the loss of it when the universe puts something else in our path. Most of the time, we work through these feelings and they pass. Occasionally, our anger and resentment do not fade and are instead transformed into bitterness. Bitter feelings allow us to become perfect victims in that we no longer feel obliged to work toward healing and choose instead to identify with our pain. Yet as unwholesome as bitterness can be, it is also a natural element of our emotional palette. When we acknowledge that it is okay to feel bitter, we reconnect with our hurt in a constructive way and can begin the process of working through it.

The nature of bitterness is rooted in the fact that the pain we feel provides us with a rationale. We may feel that we deserve to embrace our bitterness to its full extent. And to be bitter is, in essence, to cut ourselves off from all that is positive, hardening our hearts and vowing never to let go of our hurt. But just as bitter feelings can be self-defeating, so too can the release of bitterness be life-affirming in a way that few other emotional experiences are. When we decide that we no longer want to be bitter, we are reborn into a world filled with delight and fulfillment unlike any we knew while in the clutches of bitterness. The veil it cast over our lives is lifted, letting light and warmth touch our souls.

Divesting yourself of bitter feelings can be as simple as truly forgiving and moving on. Even when your bitterness has no concrete object, you can forgive situations too. Healing pain can be challenging but may be easier if you remind yourself that you are the only entity truly affected by your emotional state. In time, you will discover that letting go of your bitterness frees you to initiate the healing process and allows you to once again celebrate the possibility of the more wonderful life you deserve.

I hope you found this helpful because I sure did.
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Take Care,
Roger & Lisa Booth
Good Living Products

Lose Weight Naturally and Enjoy Life.

The news is quick to circulate how millions of people are obese and even more are overweight. The chances of carrying too much body weight on one frame are also big news. What is frequently forgotten, however, is the solution to lose weight easy and safe. With constant pressure from doctors and manufacturers to slip a pill into the mouth and swallow your weight issues away, natural weight loss plans are growing rare.

Prescription and easily available slimming products are not safe. The prescription medications have a laundry list of potential side effects and many are worse on the body than obesity. These medications often work while they are being taken daily with rebound weight gain happening once the prescriptions are stopped.  I have personally tried these and found the side effects unbearable.

Natural supplements to reduce weight can be very dangerous. Supplement products are not approved by the FDA, that means the ingredients are not checked for safety and the claims of weight loss are just claims, yet not proven. Many “natural” fat loss supplements include large amounts of caffeine, which can lead to nausea, vomiting, jitters and heart problems.  None of the supplements from Good Living Products contain caffeine or the "natural" caffeines" like ephedra or ma huang!!  All are natural, organic and contain no fillers.

Natural Weight Loss, Without Drugs

Natural weight loss promotes the inclusion of healthy foods that fit within the food pyramid. These foods need to be carefully chosen to ensure the correct number of fruits, vegetables, grains and proteins are eaten with each meal. Many western diets are rich in simple carbohydrates like potatoes, pasta and bread but contain very little complex carbohydrates which offer extended energy and high fiber content to promote good health and help to lose weight naturally.

In addition to choosing the right foods, the right portions for weight loss need to also be relearned. Over the past few decades, portion sizes have grown dramatically. The increase in portion size is almost parallel to the increase in the number of people suffering from being overweight or obese. While there are many different portion size tricks, the easiest is the deck of cards. One portion of food should be the size of a deck of cards in both thickness and area. Moving portion sizes can often trigger natural weight loss.

Exercise is the golden child of natural weight loss, but this necessity also falls into the most hated part of losing weight. Exercising takes time and dedication, which most people have more than enough of. But, the pain and embarrassment associated with gym time often leaves people feeling like they are being stared at or too sore to walk the next day.

Weight Loss From the Inside Out
A diet rich in processed, fatty foods can lead to two ends – probiotic levels will fall and the colon will be sluggish and there will be no weight loss. The most beneficial way to commence a natural weight loss program is to begin by cleansing the inside of your body and restoring good bacteria levels. Colon Cleansing is getting very popular nowadays in the weight loss circle and for good reason. When the colon isn’t working right, the body will ignore good, natural weight loss to occur. The body is one unit and all-over body health is important to a natural weight loss process.

Good Living Products carry both colon cleanse products and probiotics.  Our products are all natural and contain no magneseum starate or other artificial fillers.  Many are also certified Organically Grown.

Let's make 2010 the year that we make the commitment to live healthy!!

Be Well,
Roger & Lisa Booth of Good Living Products, LLC

New Year Quotations

Here are a few Quotes I found to be interesting. I think you'll enjoy them too.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!

• Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. ~Bill Vaughn
• An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan
• Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown
• A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~Author Unknown
• Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin
• No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam. ~Charles Lamb
• Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty. ~John Selden
• Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland

• New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie
• The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to. ~P.J. O'Rourke
• New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~Mark Twain
• For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.And to make an end is to make a beginning.~T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"
  
  

• Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever. ~Mark Twain
• People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas. ~Author Unknown
•  Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey

Happy New Year
Roger & Lisa Booth
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