A happy body is a healthy body.

William Michael Forbes


A body must be loved inside out, in order to maximize its expression and experience of pleasure. wmf

A Well known fact: Even the automatic functions of the body can be regulated by the conscious interaction of the individual through developed concentration.

I remember some of the hot summer days of my childhood back in Don Mills, Ontario. The Beatles, Creedance Clearwater Revival, The Three Dog Night were always playing on our portable, quartz radio. On a few of those days we’d hike through Brookbanks forest, cross under the Don Valley Parkway via a large drainage ditch, cut through another forest bordering the Donalda Golf course and find, then follow, the once swimmable Don River, to the Tarzan Swing, where we’d spend hours swinging splashing and eating wild apples off the branches of the trees. There were no thoughts of death, age or time; as long as you were not the youngest in the group you had some authority…

We addressed adults as Sir and Miss…we rarely swore and only when we were making a very serious point well out of adult earshot. Bell bottoms and Tie die made you cool and although we didn’t know why, they magically kept us away from the reach of the establishment. Peace was a word of reverence and mystical powers…a ticket to a world that would have only love as its expression between humans regardless of race, colour or creed. They were great times that brought forth great men like John F. Kennedy, Martin Luthor King and many others. I passed through that time and went through many changes until now…and while changes continue in my life to this day I remember when I first began to feel the effects of my immortal youth upon my mortal body and realized that I had to change how I was treating my body or it would cease to function within normal, healthy parameters, which brings us to today’s lesson on how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.

If your body isn’t being treated correctly it will let you know by mechanisms called discomfort, pain and dis-ease. Today’s foods aren’t like those natural apples I used to eat off the trees with my buds…much of the stuff that we eat today is junk that over stimulates our taste and smell receptors and tricks our body into thinking it’s getting something good…when in fact it is usually getting gobbledygook which gunks up the nerves, glands, organs and eliminative systems with stuff that the body in its natural state would avoid. So today…go buy a three pound bag of organic carrots and celery stalks, cut them into finger-sized pieces and for one minute each hour (longer if you want to) eat a carrot or celery stick and feel what your body feels when you eat it…avoid thinking about the taste…just feel how your body responds to these live foods. If you have any allergies to carrots or celery, pick one or two other organic veggies and follow the suggested idea and…


Have a great day!

William Michael Forbes
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