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Linda Anderson, MA, MCC, SCAC
Featured Article: The Beautiful Thing About Choice
Getting Healthy: Get Your Vitamin D-D-D3!
You Tube - Inspiring and Amazing!: Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 2.0 - Story on TED.com
The Beautiful Thing About Choice
A client, let's call her Adele, told me the other day, "I've stopped treating exercise as a luxury." This is a woman with a very challenging career, who just moved to a new house. She is anxious about the thought of setting an actual date to get married to her beau and is still fairly new to managing her AD/HD. That's ADD with hyperactivity.
Managing means dealing with medication-which one, how much, how often, remembering to take it, and wondering if she knows more about AD/HD than her doctor and whether she might, therefore, need a new doctor. Managing also means changing bad habits like getting to work late, training that miserable dog-named anxiety-to heel, and holding up her end of responsibilities in a relationship with an equally stressed-out partner. Managing means finishing things on time, developing anti-procrastination habits, and getting up the courage to consider the really big-picture question, "Am I ready to create what I would really love doing for my career?"
Whew! You get the picture. Even if your life is very different from Adele's, it is no doubt filled with activities, responsibilities, To-Do lists, unfinished business, and lots of excuses.
The really beautiful thing about what Adele said the other day, "I've stopped treating exercise like it's a luxury," was that it was said with such simplicity and clarity. Whenever I hear a statement like that, a truth for the person speaking it, it's as if the words and the thought hang in the air, invisible, yet beautiful and clear.
Adele's realization instantly reprioritized her To Do's. She put herself at the top of her list. Her statement added something else important-the powerful element of choice. She chose to think in a whole new way about the role of exercise in her life. Choosing to think differently very often precedes accomplishing a desired change. It is usually the very first step.
I keep realizing how important the words, "I choose," can be. Try the phrase out on something you have been telling yourself that you want or need to be doing. Maybe, one of those things will move to the top of your list. Maybe, you will move to the top of your list.
Getting Healthy - Get Your Vitamin D-D-D3!
If you haven't been paying attention, it really is time that you take notice. Vitamin D has long been associated with curing rickets. Well, it does a lot more than that. Vitamin D is the only vitamin that is a hormone. It is not abundant in the food we eat, and the synthetic form of D, which is added to food, D2, is not readily absorbed. We used to get vitamin D from the sun, but the sun is no longer a reliable source for us. Weather, latitude, time of day, skin color, and all the lotions and potions we use to protect us from too much sun affects how much vitamin D we get from sunlight. Irony of ironies, sunscreens with a sun protection factor (SPF) of 8 or greater blocks UV rays that produce vitamin D. In terms of absorption, the most desirable form of the vitamin is D3. I've been paying attention to the Vitamin D discussion for more than a few years now. We are learning more and more about the role it plays in living a healthy life and in preventing disease. What we know and what we are learning about vitamin D:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2002/02/23/vitamin-d-part-five.aspx
Dr. Joseph Mercola recommends the following dosages. These are higher than the Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) standards.
Mercola Vitamin D Recommendations
Age
Dosage
Below 5 35 IU per pound per day Age 5 - 10 2,500 IU Adults 5,000 IU Pregnant Women 5,000 IU IU = International units
There is no way to know if the recommendations above are correct for you. Ideally, your blood level of 25(OH)D should be 60ng/mL. Only a blood test can verify this for you.
You Tube - Inspiring and Amazing!
~ Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 2.0
The composer-director, Eric Whitacre, shares his story on TED.com about directing the first virtual choir piece, Lux Aurumque. He then tells us about the almost completed Virtual Choir 2.0 production, Sleep. There were 2,051 people who recorded themselves singing, right in their own homes, and submitted those recordings. Whitacre created a Facebook page for this new group of singers to share their stories. Kleenex alert-one of those stories is really touching. Finally, we get a three-minute preview of Sleep!
Here's the virtual choir singing Whitacre's first piece, Lux Aurumque. For those who sing, for those who love music, for those seeking rapture here on earth.
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