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My mum cuts articles out of the newspaper for my brother and I and gives us quite a stack of reading most weeks. She is, as my brother says "spot on"; she knows exactly what will be of interest to us and she saves both of us trawling through papers in search of what is relevant. She does, however, also include items which she thinks we should be aware of.

The latter items tend to focus upon the community in terms of what is wrong in the world today. I don’t think my mum feels differently from the majority of those of her generation (or younger). You hear phrases such as "what is the world coming to?" or "your father always said that this would happen". These articles centre around how the National Health Service in the UK just cannot survive for much longer or how a single mum who has five children costs the British tax payer £7,000 every month. You get the picture.

I have to admit that I don’t like to read these articles. I have this feeling that I don’t want to know and this is because I feel helpless. What can I do to make it any better? I also have a sense that the more thought energy you put into how "bad" things are, the worse they will become. I prefer to distract myself and try to focus on things that I can help with, and try to emit thought energy which has a "feel good" factor.

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Wellness incorporates much more than food and exercise. Just as some people are overly focused on a career to the detriment of family, so are others singularly centered on an eating plan or workout regime to the point of exclusion of other aspects of life. Often times, there has been so much talk, time, energy, and money given to losing weight and getting in shape, that a person may not even remember what it is like to dream again about other parts of life. A coach gives hope and inspires dreaming.

Wellness implies a balance in life that includes peace, stability, and personal growth, even when faced with difficulty and painful circumstances. Wellness gives the ability to bounce back from setbacks and disappointments. It comes from building patterns that lead to endurance, strength, and optimal performance. But we are not machines. There is more to life than that.

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John looks out the window mournfully. Outside, he sees his neighbor giving his wife a loving peck on the forehead while she tends to the garden. Their kids are kicking around boisterously, screaming for daddy to come join in the game. And daddy does as with all perfect little daddies do.

John can feel the slow-boiling emotion of envy, jealousy and the creeping frustration about life being unfair to him and being so kind to his neighbor and his family members. They have everything they ever want out of life and he has nothing. He got to a point whereby he is fed-up about not being able to find a perfect life like the one that his neighbor has. Life gave him a terrible hand.

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"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase, if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it."
-C. P. Snow

Almost everyone has heard the saying, "you can’t buy happiness." So how do we find something which can’t be purchased or won? The term finding happiness seems somewhat like a paradox. It’s hard to find something if you never even realized you’ve lost it. True lasting happiness comes from within our hearts and souls and is a by-product of a life lived which is inline with our morals and values.

Many times in life we may find that we’re compromising our highest values and morals, the result is often unhappiness. Moreover, even if we’re living true to ourselves, we may still find that we’re unhappy. In such cases, maybe we should look at what sources we’re depending on for our happiness.

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