How to Clean Your House

My Yenta --

You are such a gift to us all.  It's amazing our Yenta was related to someone who worked on interpreting Occam's Razor more recently. Thank you, SO MUCH, Yenta.  Things I believe in are often so simple they are overlooked -- such as how 'we're all connected'.   With many grabbing an oar on Lumigrate, it will be 'many hands, light work', to get quality, progressive information to people --- and most of all, have some FUN too. This will streamline / simplify the process for people who want information about how to "right their ship" related to wellness/illness.  

I like the exercise you gave people about the 'activity analysis' -- it's similar to what I do with people and organizations/groups I work with. Mine's best done on the computer and is intended to be a daily sheet that keeps people 'on track' with what all the things they ideally want to do each/that day.  In general itgoes like like this:

Time of Day                           Activity                                                       Check when completed and NOTES 

put ideal                              Examples of Activities:                                   Examples of Notes:

times you'd                         Take medication upon arising; hydrate            Re-order medication 

do things each day               Eat breakfast, meditate                                  Ate this and that; envisioned ______

beginning at the                  Take supplements                                           Need ____ from health food store

top of your day                    Go for a walk                                                  Walked ____, saw ____ (etc.)                 .

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and going to the end           Write in gratitude journal, share with (loved ones)  Remember tomorrow is _____  

This might seem very simple, but when you look at the amount of time people spend developing awareness and education about things for self-improvement versus MAKING the changes, it is often to do with simply changing your habits. And if people have been exposing themselves to foods and other things which cause the brain to not be working optimally, you're in a catch-22. A great example from a patient I worked with who had a stroke and wanted to replace his afternoon cola drink with a juice he'd learned was beneficial for wellness. In filling out his 'ideal daily game plan' sheet, we were able to discuss that one change he wanted to make and he followed through, ultimately deciding to keep the soda but have the juice in the morning. It's more difficult to add totally new steps to a person's routine; this is a handy tool. Modify the process to make it 'yours'... it can't hurt!                          

"All things being equal, the simplest explanation is usually the correct one" fits PERFECTLY here!

"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree", Yenta.  Thank you for sharing your family stories and history with us! You'd make an excellent occupational therapy assistant, by the way (or occupational therapist but that's six years of education ... NOT that you're 'old', just sayin'...... .) 

~~ Mardy

Mardy dawlink!  I'm finally caught up.  I have to tell you, this jet lag think is no joke! No?  I had read your response the day you posted it and when I realized it didn't make sense to me I knew I needed to hit the hay, so to speak.  According to Moishe, I was a bit meshugener (crazy) what with the wanting to clean and then staring into space.  Thank G-d Lumigrate had gotten the last good bits of my brain before it took flight on me.

Now being the hippie that I am, I could fall back on the "cosmic connection" we all have and use that to my advantage in the explanation of how "I knew" to write about Occam's Razor.  This is where things get patshkin zikh mit (messy).  I believe, bubelehs, that we have spirit guildes and they direct us.  Not that they tell us what to do, but point us in the direction of where to go... erekh (round about).  Having free will, the choice is ours to follow that or not.  Unless you are conscious of your guide, you won't know your choice is in front of you.

As a thinking group, we tend to put too much thought into things, we always have.  Occam's Razor is a simplified means of "breathing" through our lives.  It's not revolutionary, it's not new and shiny, it's not another pill to take; it's a simple way of be-ing; lightening and enlightening your soul.  Now THAT would be part of the cosmic connection. 

If you lighten your "load", or stress, it will actually affect everyone you come in contact with.  Then you have the Trickle Down Theory. Oy vey, I'm getting such a headache!

If you don't know that one, you've probably heard that "stones roll down hill"?  (I've actually heard another word instead of 'stones' but for our purposes 'stones' will do just as well.)  That's the "Trickle Down Theory".  If you're relaxed, simplified, and unstressed, the person or persons you work with, live with, meet with, will be as well.  AND if you explain how this happened to you... well, you get the idea. 

So now you have Occam's Razor and the Trickle Down Theory, and G-d knows how many other things we can label in there all at once, when all it really is, in it's simplist form, is YOU!

See?  We think too much bubelehs.  Before I went on my excursion to see my sister in law, I mentioned cleaning out closets.  Now, we're cleaning "house".  Who knows what could be next?  Maybe we'll build a car. Hey, it couldn't hurt!