Other people’s words about … health and wellbeing

My Top 10 Tips for Health and Wellbeing

• Listen to your body
• Keep moving
• Get plenty of sleep
• Read the small print
• Eat out less; cook at home more
• Reconnect with nature
• Reduce your stress
• Appreciate the simple things
• Share the love
• Be grateful

from ‘Feel Good Good‘
by Valli Little

I am fascinated by other people’s tips for living well. I like Valli Little’s suggestions above, which are simple and practical, and come from years of experience.

My own strategies for living well vary, depending on my mood, but here are my current top ten:

1. Eat plenty of fruit and vegetables. And some cake.

2. Move — however you can, whatever your physical limitations.

Willunga hills from Kestrel Terrace

3. Step outside.

The different shades of autumn in the vineyard (Branson Road)

Kings Park: A spot of shade

4. Read books.

5. Spend time with people you love. Let them know you love them.

6. Know that happiness and sadness are like the clouds and the wind. They blow in. They blow out.

Storm approaching, Yorke Peninsula

7. Practise gratitude for how things are. Don’t fret about how they could be.

8. Enjoy solitude. Know that you can survive loneliness.

9. Cultivate humility.

10. Find things …

The silver sea …

Wildflowers in Kings Park Saturday 22 October 2016

… that make your heart sing.

Wattlebird on a wire

Surrender to the bigger things. Let them hunt you down until they find you.