Senior Living
(Last Updated Jan. 17 )

Wellness: Happiness is healthy
fifty-five-plus.com

One way to think how we deal with ourselves and other people, is to think about giving and getting "strokes". Some strokes are positive and make us feel good; others are negative and make us feel bad. For example, we give ourselves positive strokes when we like how we look, when we feed ourselves healthy food and when we share active times with family and friends. Continued...

If you want to make a difference in your community, and reap the benefits of a win-win affair, become a volunteer. The National Survey of Giving, Volunteering, and Participating for the year 2000 reports that more than one in four Canadians (27 percent or 6.5 million) volunteered more than 1 billion hours of their time to a charitable or nonprofit organization. Continued...

Sports contribute a great deal both to an individual's life and to society as a whole. Sports offer a great way to stay active and fit; they're fun, so it's easy to keep exercising when you participate in sports. They can also help you relax and relieve stress. Continued...

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