DAY 70 - Jeans for Christmas: or Genes?

Our lives are changing so fast! 

It seems like it was just yesterday that we were buying our son, jeans for Christmas. And while we may, again this year, be buying him jeans (photo left), just this evening we placed a gift order for his genes (photo right).

The company is called 23andMe. It’s a genetic testing service that provides information and tools to understand your DNA. With a simple saliva sample they'll help him gain insight into his traits, from baldness to muscle performance. Discover risk factors for 92 diseases. Know his predicted response to drugs, from blood thinners to coffee. And uncover his ancestral origins.

Holly cow; this is hardly a traditional gift!

DAY 59 - Simple Understandings Can Set You Free

Periodically, through this book, during the next 10 months, I will share some simple understandings that have changed the way I see the world, and see myself. These understandings have improved my life and my health. I hope, and humbly believe, they can be of great value to you.

It would be foolish to think that any one of the ideas that I share, will turn your life around. But, it is reasonable that the combination of a number of these insights, along with your being on a path of growth and change, will result in a beneficial synergistic effect on your life and health.

Simple Understandings #1 – Change is not difficult

Talk about dangerous beliefs! Everywhere I go I hear well-meaning, intelligent people saying “change is difficult”, and “no one likes change.”

Comparatively speaking, change is not difficult. What is difficult is enduring suffering, with no way out.

The fact of the matter is that lots of us actually love change. Change can be exciting, and is often relieving and fulfilling.

Change can, and often does involve some difficulty or discomfort, but it certainly beats the repetitive pain of maintaining the causative status quo.

If you believe change is difficult, can you change that?