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What are some healthy choices you make?

They may be scientifically justified or not. It could even be the placebo effect. Whatever they may be, what are some choices you make that you believe will make you healthy in the short and long run?

For me, they are:

- be happy and positive all the time
- eating a varied diet, mostly home-cooked
- drink plenty of liquids (especially water in the morning)
- exercise
- go out as much as possible (it may be just going out to buy groceries), and enjoy that time
- make contact with people (otherwise I might become insane, especially during times of heavy studying in a confined area)

I haven't done the following for a while now:

- converse with friends
- play with friends (not sex, guys, stop imagining things)
- play music
- read varied literature
- play chess

@platorepublic,

Hi Plato,

You seem to have a good grasp on what it takes to sustain a healthy lifestyle.

1) Always look on the bright side, there is always a bright side.
2) Desire nothing more than what you need, It is always enough.
3) Don't gamble, take risks, lust, covet or get angry.
4) Forgive transgressors.
5) Do all things moderately.
6) Never have anything on credit.
7) Eat to live, not live to eat.
8) Confront your pride and vanquish it, along with vanity and self-interest.
9) Trust everyone (according to their nature)
10) Get out and share time with Nature.
11) Find a happy-medium and sustain it.
12) Treat others respectfully.
13) Laugh as often as you can, but never at someone else's expense.
14) Always smile and be pleasant.
15) Switch off occassionally.
16) Use your imagination, don't abuse it.
17) Value your friends to the fullest degree.
And a million other things.

I can't always apply these factors, but I do try my best.
I miss chess too.

Thank you plato, live long, sir.

Mark...

@mark noble,

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3) Don't gamble, take risks, lust, covet or get angry.
5) Do all things moderately.
14) Always smile and be pleasant.

Mark, your number three and five are inconsistent. If emotions are to be taken moderately, then none are to be oppressed. Unless you don't get angry. It's healthy to be angry; It's not healthy bottle anger up. How anger is used is important.
Also, number fourteen is not possible. Going to sleep smiling would make your jaw hurt in the morning.

Healthy things I do are: exercise, sleep, read, and other things...What does it mean to be healthy?

@mister kitten,

mister kitten;165052 wrote:

Mark, your number three and five are inconsistent. If emotions are to be taken moderately, then none are to be oppressed. Unless you don't get angry. It's healthy to be angry; It's not healthy bottle anger up. How anger is used is important.
Also, number fourteen is not possible. Going to sleep smiling would make your jaw hurt in the morning.

Healthy things I do are: exercise, sleep, read, and other things...What does it mean to be healthy?

Hi mister kitten,

Nice to meet you.
I don't get angry, I read negativity very well. I do get frustrated, upset and dissappointed, but not angry.
I grew up angry, my friend, and it led me into the pit of despair. Once crawled out of, never returned to.

"While I'm asleep"? I left myself wide open to that one, didn't I? But anyone with such a sense of humour to use it against me, I welcome in with open arms.

I may appear to be somewhat open - There's a lot of information here. But I've got nothing to hide.

Thank you, and journey superbly, in moderation, of course.

Mark...

@mark noble,

mark noble;165059 wrote:

Hi mister kitten,

Nice to meet you.
I don't get angry, I read negativity very well. I do get frustrated, upset and dissappointed, but not angry.
I grew up angry, my friend, and it led me into the pit of despair. Once crawled out of, never returned to.

"While I'm asleep"? I left myself wide open to that one, didn't I? But anyone with such a sense of humour to use it against me, I welcome in with open arms.

I may appear to be somewhat open - There's a lot of information here. But I've got nothing to hide.

Thank you, and journey superbly, in moderation, of course.

Mark...

Hey Mark, the pleasure is all mine...
I was half-joking when I posted.
How do you not become angry?

@mister kitten,

mister kitten;165099 wrote:

Hey Mark, the pleasure is all mine...
I was half-joking when I posted.
How do you not become angry?

Hi Mister Kitten,

"That which I do not control...Controls me."
And I cannot be a prisoner to my own emotions.

Patience is a virtue, along with temperance, quality, excellence, morality, righteousness, fortitude, dilligence, chastity, justice, honesty and prudence.

I guess, ultimately, you have to crawl through hell to perceive this plane as heavenly, if you can do that, and survive, the anger remains in hell, where it belongs.

I know it's laced in metaphor, But I'm a poet, and I love stuff like that.
Oh, and I truly am in paradise.

Thank you for joining me, if but for a while.
Journey brilliantly.

Mark...

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