The Laws of Wellness

Today, I want to share with you some powerful and life affirming quotations from Greg Anderson's book titled: The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness. These quotations will make a difference in your life. Mr. Anderson's book is available through Amazon.Com or at your local book store. - Frederick Zappone

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• Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

• Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!

• You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time...The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.

• The concept of total wellness recognizes that our every thought, word, and behavior affects our greater health and well-being. And we, in turn, are affected not only emotionally but also physically and spiritually.

• When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

• When we blame, we give away our power.

• The supply of misery, pain, and suffering is unlimited. But so is the supply of pleasure, contentment, and fulfillment. It is we who do the rationing. Ration no more! Capture wellness this instant! This instant is all there is. Live it!

• Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

• Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

• Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.

• Think "impossible" and dreams get discarded, projects get abandoned , and hope for wellness is torpedoed. But let someone yell the words "It's possible," and resources we hadn't been aware of come rushing in to assist us in our quest. I believe we are all potentially brilliant and creative--but only if we believe it, only if we have an attitude of positive expectancy toward our ideas, and only if we act on them.

• Our lives can be powerfully shaped by what we long to become. I believe the dream of what might be is more important than the record of what has been. We must, however, be serious about that vision.

• When we serve with depth and sincerity, we get a glimpse of the essential quality of who we really can become.