Do CPR the right way: 5 things everyone needs to know - Healthy Living on Shine

Do CPR the right way: 5 things everyone needs to know - Healthy Living on Shine

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You get what you look for

If we get what we look for, what are you seeking?
Do you wake up each day and some of the first questions or thoughts that come to your mind is "What crap will I see today" "What bullshit will my coworkers or employees or employers pull today?" What Fucked up shit is happening around the world?"

Is this how you approach your day when you turn on the tv, look on line, pick up the paper or head to work?

Or do you think or say: "I wonder what blessings I will experience today." "I wonder what joy I can bring to another today." I wonder what good deeds have been done today." "Today I'm experiencing joy." "Today, I am doing something wonderful."

Change your mind and change your day.... change your mind and change your life.

When you seek to shift how you are you find a way to shift. When you shift the way you see the world the world you see will shift.
When you decide to create a better life for you and take action towards it, you in turn affect others around you.

When your life condition is raised your become more proactive in life and less reactive to life and you feel more joy and allow others to experience more joy.

What are you doing each day to raise your life condition?
Chanting
Affirmative prayers
Meditation
Visualisation
Yoga
Tai Chi
Receiving Massage or Reiki
Giving Massage or Reiki
Creating art
Committing acts of kindness freely
Listening to another intently and compassionately
Forgiving
ETC...

If you want peace be peace
If you want joy be joy
If you want hope be hope
If you want prosperity be prosperous

If you dont' know how, seek out how... learn, what it is.... it is so much easier than you realize.

One love

Robert Kiyosaki about Pre Paid Legal

Gratitude kept me alive and helped me walk again

I went dancing tonight!

I was told for several months doctors weren't sure I'd live. After being crushed in an accident, t-boned by a Ford F-150 in my drivers door most of my bones shattered and organs punctured etc... supposedly I lost more blood than any surviving human and survived more crushed bones as well.

"Will I walk again?" "Yes, were pretty sure, after a few years of therapy but we just aren't sure how much and how often..."

The accident was May 2007 today I can walk. Maybe I am not able yet to walk more than a block so but ya know, I can walk.

Tonight I DANCED! 2 hours!!!

And there were people watching me and men coming up to me calling me out so to speak... some male bonding shit... lol. I'm not a guy but what ever makes 'em feel good.

I can't stomp de yard or break dance or drop it low or none of dat...  but gurl gots some skills let me tell ya.

I'm feeling so happy I can't even tell you how happy. Plus I am so freaking tired and I'm not sure I'll walk tomorrow but it was so worth it. The dance floor was my spot!!! And to have this moment where I just let loose, DRUG AND ALCOHOL FREE!!! GRATITUDE EASES PAIN!!!!

Pleasure wins out. If I died while on that floor tonight my life would have been complete... still is.

Snoop Dogg, Lil' Wayne, Rhianna... Al Green, Michael Jackson, Prince... DJ mixed it up! 90's up to date it was off the hook!

I am so exhausted I'm not sure I'm spelling right or making much sense but how could I keep this joy to my self... My life is in existence and my abilities too all because I take every chance I can to appreciate.

So what if my bones hurt and half my muscles but there a few bones and half my muscles that feel great and even better my soul is in Ecstasy!

A beautiful black woman asked me to dance right when I got in the club. I love all women but to be honest dark is so damn lovely.

So here I am in heaven... I had so many blessings tonight. I praise Jah, God, Universe for all!!!

Please my dear friends, your life can be better than you imagined possible.... step into gratitude and you WILL see.   :)


One love

Joel Burns tells gay teens "it gets better"

Write your own life story and live it!

I’m realizing it’s time to rewrite my life. I have lived the story that others have written for me and just realized that I have not fully re-written my own.

So often we live according to the life that others of our past wrote for us when we were young, acting in a play that someone else wrote for us and complain that it isn’t the life we want. If you don’t like the story line or the script you’re living right now, then re-write your story!

Sure, I have stepped out of the story line that was placed for me for the most part but there are still patterns that make it absolutely obvious that I am not the author of my play. I want to be the writer, the actor and the director. It’s time to step up.

How about you? Have you noticed patterns in your life that you don’t like? Have you noticed that certain things keep happening over and over and you can seem to make sense of it? Well, maybe it’s time for you to re-write your story line. It really is up to you. Do you want to do what so many others have told you to do (and most did it so carelessly, without any real intention to write or direct your life).

What can you do to re-write your life?

First, you can actually write it. Set down and write the story line of exactly how you want things to play out.

And then, start to take the actions to live that life.

Just because we can look into the mirror and see we are a success in our lives, we can still see room for improvement, room for growth and patterns that no longer serve us to achieve our dreams.

Keep it simple.

It's just one step at a time.

Keep it simple.

It's just one step at a time.

CPR / First Aid. Why I teach

CPR/FA (health & Safety)

I thought I was healthy at age 21. I was thin, athletic and I ate very healthy foods. I exercised and was a nutrition major at community college. I was running track one day and waved at someone and then the next thing I knew I was laying there with my top cut open and men staring at me. I had a heart defect that caused my heart to stop. I landed on the ground and lucky for me others were around that knew CPR (cardiac pulmonary resuscitation). The Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT’s) came and used the automatic external defibrillator (AED) to bring me back. You can imagine my shock to be there at the college in front of a lot of students with my shirt open and men leaning over me when last I knew I was running. I tried to get up but they asked me to stay down. Someone yelled for people to get back and give me some privacy. That was over 21 years ago.

I was a single mom of a 3 year old little girl at the time. Because people were able to do CPR and later the EMT’s were properly trained to use the AED I was able to be in my daughter’s life to see her go through school and later to become a mom.

Again 29 when I had two more daughters at home I was saved by well trained medical staff during a cardiac episode I had right after having surgery. The nurses at the hospital were trained in CPR and were able to resuscitate me.

Also at age 39 when my two grandsons were very small I had another cardiac arrest and was saved by the EMT’s that came to my rescue. I am still here over 3 years later and able to enjoy my life as well as get to participate in the lives of those I love so very dearly.

My grandfather had 6 heart attacks before the 7^th one took his life. I was so blessed to have him in my life until I was almost 25 because each time he had the first 6 heart attacks someone was nearby that knew CPR and acted quickly. 

Many people can tell of stories they have of getting to live longer or getting to have a loved one remain longer in their life because of proper emergency services being provided.

I chose to teach CPR because I want to give back to so many that have given to me. I also want to give others the chance to live longer and enjoy their lives as much as possible. Although we cannot have immortality, we can do what we can to live as long as possible and to enjoy quality lives.

I also encourage people to stop smoking and to take actions towards healthier lives. I have lost many people in my life due to smoking and I was a smoker when I was young which caused some of the issues I had later in life. Please if you haven’t started smoking, don’t. And if you are a smoker for the love of yourself, others you care about, and of the planet, please stop smoking.

While others are learning medical skills and technology is advancing to save lives, please do your part to assist the process of a healthier life for yourself, others and to improve the condition of the planet.

If you need to learn CPR, First Aid, or Basic Life Support for a career or because someone you know is at risk please contact me to set up a private class or get you into an existing class.

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Why I appreciate Pre Paid Legal

Of course I have a lot of stories of how I saved a lot of time, money and heart ache by using Pre Paid Legal Serves (PPL), most people do, that’s a big part of what makes it so great. Smile! But what I most want to share with you is why I am choosing to introduce people to Pre Paid Legal Services, and why I want to help others become Pre Paid Legal Associates.

Why does this service mean so much to me?

When I was 39 my life was in the midst of a big shift. I was with a partner that was not so honest with me and was not very good to me and my children. We had Pre Paid Legal Services at the time but as she was handling the bills she told me we could no longer pay for our Pre Paid Legal Services and she informed me it was cancelled.

I decided that I wanted to break up with her and was really concerned with this decision that not having Pre Paid Legal Services would be an issue. I had used PPL in the past and it helped save me an amazing amount during a divorce. So I was considering this break up and decided that regardless of what legal help I had or not it was over. The day that I was going to tell her I had a near fatal auto accident. When I saw the truck coming at me I knew that I was leaving my family unprotected. I knew that I didn’t do the will that I could have done with PPL and I knew I had not made any legal arrangements that I could have done with PPL. I was leaving my children in a horrible situation. I screamed out “I’m sorry”. It’s not that I thought they could hear me but it was the last message I tried to send to them.

I was sent to Portland Oregon in a life flight helicopter and then spent several months in the hospital, most of which was in ICU. My partner of the time continued to be cruel to my children. As soon as I could, 7 months after this accident I left her. According to the doctors they said I had some of the worse injuries of a surviving person to date. My life was a miracle and I had a long way to go for my healing. To add on to all of that, I was too injured to do much for myself and without PPL or any legal assistance the woman I was with was able to take us for a lot.

I found out later that she had attorneys. She actually got Pre Paid Legal in her name while I was in the hospital. She was protected and I had no one or nothing and she won everything I had from before I met her.

So why would I want PPL for me or for others after that? It is exactly because of that. After seeing someone that was so undeserving win so much for so little, I wanted to help others that are very deserving, win so much for so little. It all makes sense to me. I want to see people protected!

Legal Aid services or the DA’s office couldn’t do anything for me. Without big money or in this case, without Pre Paid Legal Services I was at a loss, a victim to a system that is set up to give to those that have representation. I never want to see anyone unprotected. I want to help people have the coverage they need, their wills written up and all the protection possible at a very affordable price!

After being an associate and seeing how I can earn really good money working part time even with my disabilities I want this opportunity for everyone. Besides, the more associates out there, the more people are protected and this makes me feel like I am contributing to the safety and well being of families.

Now for a couple of other stories or bits of stories I have to share with you.

1.         The very first time I had PPL I had it only 6 days when I was being evicted from my home. My landlord made it clear that “because I had too many non-whites in my home” he didn’t want me in his neighborhood. He gave me a 72 hour notice and expected me to move. I was very angry and very upset. I had 3 children, I was a single mom and I had just enough money for my basic bills so I had no money to move. My friend said “hey, why do you use that Pre Paid Legal Service thing you just got”. I smiled and dialed right away. Within a couple of hours I had an attorney on the phone and they told me what to write in a letter. Not only did I not have to move right away, but the landlord had to give me free rent and pay for me to move! All together I save or earned (depending on how you look at it) about $1300! It could have been more but when my landlord researched what I had written, and the law firm that was representing me; he quickly became compliant and stayed out of our way. He also became very friendly and helpful whereas before he was quite the opposite. That paid for my PPL membership for years! So, as I saw it, I was protected, I was aware of my rights, I had power, and I earned money from having Pre Paid Legal, and as far as I could see, my service paid for itself.

I have other stories like this but this is one of my favorite because it was only 6 days after having the service that I received such great benefit from it. I used prepaid legal in my divorce that was drawn out for 3 years. It only cost me about $26 a month but my ex was paying full attorney fees to fight me. In the end, I won everything I asked for in the first place including full custody of my 3 children.

There were many other times I called PPL and didn’t follow their legal advice because I was stubborn, lazy or I simply forgot and I lost a lot of money. I learned quickly to call PPL and get advice on everything! Plus I learned to keep a file and document what I was told so that I would have something to access incase I forgot. Of course I have called them back to ask them what it was I was told and they happily refreshed my memory.

I have learned over the last 7 years that my life goes far smoother with Pre Paid Legal Services and with actually following their advice then without it.

The price of PPL is so small in compared to the value. If you can save literally $1000’s each year simple by asking questions that you would never have asked about before it is worth it! Not to mention all the money, time and heart ache you will save when big things come up and trust me, they do come up and there is no way around it.

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Be in the mystery!

This week’s observations: Relationships

I’m writing this way after bedtime so bare with me… lol. Which means… no grammar police. Smile! Feedback on the other hand... is very welcome. :)

I noticed that many relationships do not have clearly defined boundaries. So many people complain about their relationships to others yet they don’t sit down with their partners to set clear boundaries about finances, chores, child and or pet care. They run their relationships from an emotional place. Yet, the romantic relationship of those that live together whether married or not is one of many roles. There is the romance role, the lover role, the friendship role, the business role (bills, finances, chores, etc), the parent or pet owner role etc… To keep a truly healthy and happy relationship going there are very important steps to take.

Many relationships end because people fight over money, who has more responsibility, who has more freedoms and less responsibilities and things that were said or done that were hurtful (trust issues), so why does it seem so many people do not cover the basis of these things from the beginning and keep the communication flowing in these areas regularly? If you really value your relationship and the happiness of yourself and of your partner, please consider stepping into a more productive proactive role in a collaborative manor with your partner.

So many people are afraid to step into the business role in the relationship from fear of losing the romance, fear of hurting the other, fear of taking or losing control and more. But the truth is, when you have clearly defined boundaries, guidelines and agreements then you are free to love each other, romance each other and have fun without worrying if you have done something wrong or if they have or will. The collaborative clearly defined relationship allows each to feel secure and to function on a much higher level both in the relationship and as individuals.
Here are a few tips and suggestions to help you with your relationships (these can help with spouses, child/parent/ and other forms of relationships as well).

Get into the flow and stay in the flow.

1. Be clear who pays what when. This will help avoid arguments, resentments, and financial problems and will create an environment that feels healthy and safe for all in the relationship.
2. Be clear if you will have separate accounts or a joint one for your bills. If you do anything jointly, talk to an attorney about ways you can both be protected.
3. What about buying big ticket items together? Consider all the details and again, the advice of an attorney keeps you both feeling safe and doing what’s best for both of you. Put things in writing and have a will or living will. Pre Paid Legal is a low cost option for this service. You never want to be left with nothing or leave people you love with nothing, especially after you have each contributed to the cost of the things you own together.
4. Be clear about how you will divide bills and chores when one has more or less money than the other and / or when one has more or less physical time or ability than the other.

5. Be clear about what matters to you. Don’t allow each other to do or say things that are hurtful just because it may seem like it’s no big deal to the other person. Asking for a little compromise/boundary is ok and it is very healthy. Although the two (or three or however many) of you are in a relationship, you are still individuals. You bring some baggage and some back story to the relationship no matter how much you’d like to think you don’t. As well, it is ok and important to be who you are. They fell in love with you for who you are exactly how you are. Change can be good when it is in the form of growth, but losing yourself is not so good. Compromise and stay whole at the same time, is possible.
6. Be clear that when you are in a relationship you are now in partnership with another person. By using clear, open and honest communication on a daily basis is the adult way to live. It does not mean you are asking permission or being told what to do. However, setting clear boundaries so you both feel safe and appreciated is the responsible loving adult way. As well, talking out decisions in a collaborative manor is a way of valuing each other, your life and your home.
7. Are your actions and words matching? What you say means little if your actions do not match. I see so many people saying how much they love and value their partner but then their actions show they know little about their partner, they do not include their partner in much and / or they talk badly about or to their partners.
8. Are your actions matching their definition? The other things I’ve seen are people saying they love someone but showing it their own way and the other person cannot see it because it is not being shown in a way they understand. For example: John loves red roses. He is in a relationship with Tom. Tom doesn’t like roses. He especially doesn’t like store bought roses. But John thinks roses represent romance and love and even though he knows that Toms favorite flowers are lilies he always buys roses. Each month John goes out and buys red roses and sets them on the dining table for dinner with his heart filled with love that he made the table so beautiful with romantic flowers truly wanting to bring romance and love to the relationship with the intention of showing Tom his deep felt love. Toms comes home and is hurt because he really feels John has not listened to him. He feels that John cares more about himself since he keeps buying is favorite flowers and doesn’t bother to think of Tom. While John is so please with his efforts Tom sits with his feelings hurt that there are store bought roses on the table each month. John knowing that Tom loves lilies could buy lilies to show Tom he is thinking of him. Tom, instead of feeling hurt can ask John about the flowers. He can learn the intentions behind them and appreciate the effort and then ask if John would please buy lilies more often than roses when his intentions are to show Tom love and affection. John would show good listening skills and that he valued what Tom has asked by showing affection in the way that Tom could see.
9. Do for each other out of responsibility: you are an adult, those are your shoes so put them away. You were the last to make a mess in the bathroom so please clean it up. The house is lived in by both of you so truly the responsibility for the cleaning, bills, etc belongs to both of you (unless you both agree and want it another way, then do what works for you not what others think is best).
10. Do for each other out of love: Do not do for the other in your relationship because you have to (if it is your responsibility, it is about you, not them). Doing things as a responsibility is just part of life. But be careful not to resent others for what you do. When your heart is full of joy and you have no expectations of the other person, do something nice for them, something extra outside of regular responsibilities. Do it from love and the joy of seeing your partner receive and you will not feel resentment even if they don’t notice or don’t give back.
11. Don’t talk about your partner or to your partner as if they were your child or parent: When you partner has a big dinner party and ask you to clean up your messes and do a little extra to get ready, don’t talk to your friends and say; “I have to go home and clean because Sharon says I have to”. “If I don’t get my chores done, I will be in trouble”. What are you 8? And don’t say; “Janet, hasn’t done her chores all week. I’m going to have to give her consequences for not following thru”. These statements make you each look bad, and feel bad about each other and about yourselves. You are adults and respect is very important. Collaborative problem solving and consistent communication with consistent follow through sets you each up to respect each other as well as yourselves and it makes you a lot more fun to be around (friends will respect it when they see their friends having adult relationships).
12. Remember to flirt! Talk sexy in their ear, put on romantic music, remind them of a night that you both were swept away by each other, wink, do whatever you do as flirting and do it often. Keep the sparks flying as often as possible. Sex and sexual energy is so important in relationships. Even if you are unable to actually have sex for whatever reasons, keeping the energy there helps you each to feel valued and keeps the chemistry active.

Love, peace, and joy

Today

Today I wondered why I have not been on here in a while and I realized it was the perfectionist hat I have been wearing. You know the one that makes your mind go in the opposite direction of your goals and dreams. The one that says, "If I can't do it all, or if I can't do it very well then I might as well not do it". Hmmmm.

Perfection, procrastination, distractions, avoidance, limits, excuses, etc... Don't these all come from the same place? Fundamental darkness doesn't always have to come out in big ways to be present. The simple things we do or don't do can and do have an impact in our lives regardless if it comes from fundamental darkness or our innate light.

I tried to convince myself that I would have to write a certain way. Write about certain things and the truth is I don't. The truth is I am free to do what I wish. I am liberated! We are as bound as we feel/believe we are or as liberated.

I asked today: What is your vision? What legacy do you wish to leave here on earth and in the lives of the ones you love? What actions do you take daily to be the change you wish to see in the world? And that brought me here.

I wish to be an active participant in this world. To be a part of the changes I wish to see. I desire to leave a place where people feel changed somehow for the better.

My vision is to inspire, to challenge, to awaken that beauty that lies within each person I meet.
I hope to make you laugh, make you think and inspire you to accept your greatness.

The only way I can live my vision and leave my legacy is by showing up and by participation. The same goes for you. Don't die with your music still in you because somehow you don't have time or energy to do it "right" or "great" or completely... put out as much effort as you can and give it your best. And your best is good enough. The more you love and accept yourself exactly as you are, the more you leave room for yourself to improve and to grow. So... get out there and start to do what you love and have fun!

In love and light.
Have a very glorious night.

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