Today is Tuesday, November 12, 2013. My stats today: 10 minutes of yoga, 10 minutes on the ball and 45 minutes of walking = 2.5 miles for a November total of 23.7 miles. My weight was 166.4 pounds.
QUOTE for today from changemakrs.com: "We feel comfortable with where we are in the world when we are comfortable with who we are."
My THOUGHTS today are on this book I'm reading. The name of the book is - 29 gifts; HOW a MONTH of GIVING CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE. I first learned about this book in October of 2009 when I was watching the TODAY show and a San Francisco lady named Cami Walker was being interviewed by Meredith Veiera. Cami told how she had married in her early 30s in 2006 and within two months she was diagnosed with MS. MS is a chronic, progressive disease of the central nervous system (the brain, optic nerves, and spinal cord). It's an autoimmune disease, which means the body's immune system attacks healthy cells in the body. Some of the many symptoms of MS are: fatigue, numbness, mobility, balance, and coordination problems, bladder and bowel dysfunction, vision loss, depression, vertigo, sexual dysfunction, slurred speech, swallowing problems, headaches, hearing loss, seizures, and breathing problems.
That's quite a daunting list, but different people exhibit different symptoms. It doesn't look like there is much to live for. Cami had many of the symptoms and was treated by many doctors - they filled her full of pills. When living in the Oakland/San Francisco area she had gotten acquainted with her next door neighbor, a lady named Toni. Toni had been born in South Africa but had moved to England when she was three because of apartheid. She ended up in Oakland where she worked for The Institute for Health and Healing at California Pacific Hospital. Toni had helped guide and shape the programs at the institute, where they marry Western medicine with various forms of alternative medicine. Toni took a trip to South Africa to visit relatives and came back with the new name of "Mbali, pronounced em-BALL-ee. When the treatments and pills didn't work Cami called Mbali and talked to her about her MS. Mbali told Cami she was falling deeper and deeper into a black hole by focusing all her time and energy on her pain. You're making it worse by putting all of your attention there. Mbali said, "I'm going to give you a tool to help you dig yourself out. I have a prescription for you. I want to give you away 29 gifts in 29 days."
After much apprehension Cami decided to give it a try. She said, "I have nothing to lose." So the book is the story, written by Cami, on how the 29 day giving challenge changed her life and improved her health. I'm not done reading it yet but it is an inspiring story with lots of life lessons for all of us. I'm anxious to read the rest of it. I'll write more on Cami and the 29 gifts in 29 days in the days ahead.
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