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Your thoughts create your life. Everything that you do or create, is a thought first. Everything that was ever invented was created first in someone’s mind.

Your thoughts influence your moods, your feelings and even how your body functions. (Think about biting hard into a lemon, and notice that you are salivating.)

So, tend your thoughts well. Think happy thoughts. Have an attitude of gratitude. When something goes wrong, think about what you can learn from the experience.

As John Kehoe suggests in his book, Mind Power Into the 21st Century, imagine how closely you would tend the garden of the mind if a dollar were given to you for every positive thought, and a dollar were taken away for every negative thought.

Imagine this were true, because as you think, so goes your life. If you dwell on your lack of money or love, you will have a lack of money or love. If you think thoughts of gratitude for all you have in your life, the floodgates of abundance will open up to you.

There are many books written on this topic, some of which are at www.wellnesstips.ca/think.htm. Bob Proctor also has a number of audio and video programs on how to think in order to change your circumstance.

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Yes, there is truth to this old saying by Benjamin Franklin. We were meant to get up with the light of dawn and to go to sleep at nightfall, our hormone levels adjusting to the rise and fall of daylight around us. Now, in our modern world we can fool our hormonal system with artificial light, which has a big impact on our health. Staying up late with bright lights shining in our eyes keeps our stress hormone cortisol high when it should be diminishing, and suppresses our sleep hormone melatonin, when it should be rising, which has an impact on our ability to deal with stress, lose weight, physically and psychologically repair our tissues, feel rested and be ready for the new day. So, try to get to sleep in a very dark room by 10pm, and marvel at how much better you feel! For more information on how artificial light affects our health, read Lights Out! by Formby & Wiley.

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Eat whole foods as nature intended – fresh organic vegetables, fruit, pasture fed meat, free range organic poultry and eggs, raw dairy, wild fish, organic legumes, nuts and seeds, unrefined organic whole grains. If the food did not exist in pre-industrial times, it probably is not healthy to eat. Shop on the perimeter of the supermarket and there you will find the healthiest foods. Notice that most whole foods actually go bad if you keep them too long. A packaged food that has a long shelf life has either had its nutrition stripped away so there is little left to go bad, or it is full of chemical preservatives, food additives, artificial colourings and flavourings, or both. As Paul Chek says in his excellent online article You Are What You Eat – Processed Foods, read the labels on the foods you buy, and if there is anything on the label that you do not recognize, do not eat it. If you eat organic whole foods and avoid all refined and processed foods, you will make big strides in improving your health. To read more about making healthy food choices refer to chapter four of Paul Chek’s book How to Eat, Move, and Be Healthy!

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