Last weekend my husband and I went to Denver Colorado. Unfortunately we didn't go hiking or skiing but I attended some classes at the Hay House Publisher's Conference and enjoyed it immensely. I saw Cheryl Richardson, who wrote Extreme Self-Care, Christiane Northrup, the rightly esteemed OBS-GYN who has promoted holistic health for 30 years(her latest book, Goddesses Never Age, will not let you get away without eating your vegetables, which is not unlike Michelle Obama("It's so frustrating!", Barack Obama joked at the White House Correspondents' Dinner(WHCD) that night).
The next day I saw Tom Dooley(The Ten Things Dead People Want to Tell You), who was a CPA before he felt called to write about living for today for tomorrow we die. And then Caroline Myss (Entering the Castle, Defying Gravity), the experienced medical intuitive and spiritual director, who tells us that authenticity promotes health. Congruence of thought, word and deed. She was very funny about people going to the gym, promising themselves to exercise and all health conventions of today:
"Ordinary people have been doing it for thousands of years! It's called walking!"
Both Christine and Caroline think that not moving enough can cause disease and obviously Tim Cook, the Apple CEO promoting Apple's Watch, thinks sitting is the leading cause of cancer. But is the iWatch really all that safe?
Yes, I guess it's safe but it just adds to all the technology and baloney we carry around, it's not waterproof or glow-in-the-dark, and it's one more thing you have to charge. ftw(watch). It is an exciting and salivatory ad campaign. But what is the point if you have to turn it on to boot it up? I'm mystified(and can just look at my watch for the freaking time of day). Also is the watch a watcher? Update: Actually, now that the Watch 2 is waterproof I feel that as long as you don’t buy the one(3) with WiFi/modem you are safe. It’s a better trave watch than FitBit because I don’t think FitBit automatically corrects to your current time-zone(if it does, correct me) and if your rental GPS breaks and you have to use Apple maps, Watch 2 can be a valuable assistant!
Louise Hay, who founded the Hay House Publisher's conference(or retreat, if you will) that I attended, said we should not be saying "Yes" to the things which ads make us think that we want; more rather we must say yes to what resonates within our more authentic selves.
If we can figure that out.
A religious anthropologist told me that these days, when an academic writes 4 or 5 books, it's a big deal. Look how, in the old days, Carl Jung wrote 20 volumes on all sorts of dream symbolism and case histories. Not even mentioning The Red Book that was released in the last several years.