Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah!
Hello Everyone,
We have Nuns and Priests in our family. Even though we can not make it to the Church we make sure our donation gets there. We just sent a donation to our Church, St. Ann, for Christmas.
Dr. Andrew Weil writes the benefits of massage in his book (page123): “The researchers found that a single session of massage caused positive biological changes. Those who received deep-tissue massage showed significant drops in levels of cortisol in their blood and saliva as well as drops in arginine vasopressin, a hormone that can boost cortisol. They also generated more white blood cells, evidence of increased health of the immune system. The light massage yielded advantages, too. Volunteers who received it showed bigger decreases in ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone, secreted by the pituitary), which stimulates the adrenal glands to release cortisol, and they had greater increases in oxytocin, another pituitary hormone associated with contentment, than did those who received the deep-tissue massage.”
Book: “Spontaneous Happiness,” by Andrew Weil, MD, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author, Little, Brown, and Company, New York, 2011.
“Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.”
(Lillian Dickson, American missionary, 1901-1983)
Best Regards,
Sushil (Sue) Hennessy, Dec. 2017
You don’t need money, just a little time to give mental support and be kind to all. Check on the elderly, bring their Newspaper to their door in bad weather, say hello to your neighbors when you see them, wish them happy holidays and birthdays etc. Call your parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles; talk to them to make sure they are not lonely, thank the soldiers when you see them for keeping us safe; thank priests, police officers, teachers, postal workers, newspaper persons, trash collectors for their services. Write notes to a lonely and unknown person and make his or her day. These acts of kindness have a trickle-down effect.
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