Uplifting Insights & Life-Balance Tools

   

February                                                                                                                2016
  
 

Happy Valentines Day! Welcome back to Sip of Soup, my monthly eSip offering a taste of insight and lessons to help you keep caring while living a more balanced life.

 

Positively Yours,
LeAnn
Positivity Power   
 
We've heard that "Love Makes the World Go 'Round" and that "Love is A Many Splendid Thing," but did you know The Power of Love? Science has proven that love actually makes us healthier!
 
 
Lessons from LeAnn

As you're cutting valentines, wrapping chocolates, or buying roses (hint, hint) consider this research proving that love:

1. Boosts immune system - People in love are less likely to get flu and cold viruses, plus their wounds heal faster.
 
2. Reduces stress - When we're in a loving relationship, our adrenaline glands produce dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) hormone, a stress reducer.

3. Promotes mental health - The calming effect of DHEA helps restore nerve growth, which improves memory recall. (Maybe I need to love even more!)

4. Reduces pain - Love activates the pain control part of the brain.

5. Fights cancer - Cancer patients with loving relationships develop more white blood cells, which help fight cancer.

6. Lowers blood pressure - Happily married people have better blood pressures than singles or those unhappily married.

7. Reduces heart diseases - People who express feelings of affection have significantly lower cholesterol levels, lowering risk of cardiovascular diseases.

8. Increases life span - Lack of love can cause social isolation which increases the risk of early death by nearly five times. Married people live longer, have shorter hospital stays and fewer doctor's visits!

9. Keeps us young - DHEA also acts as an 'anti-aging' hormone, producing feelings of youth and vitality. Endorphins produced by a body in love increase blood flow to the skin, helping to reduce wrinkles. (Aha!)

10. Blesses our spirits - All major religions extol the importance of loving God, our neighbors, and, yes, ourselves.

So What Does Love Have to Do With It? Apparently everything! Love is good medicine! Perhaps it's true. All You Need is Love.

For all the love you give and the good you do with your loving hands and hearts, I want to thank you this Valentine's Day. For that I sincerely say,
"I Honestly Love You!"



In This Issue
Sip du Jour
A Healthy Quote:
 
"I cannot do great things, I can only do small things, with great love."
  
- Mother Teresa

To shower your nurses with love this year, give them the gift that will keep on giving: SelfCare for HealthCare.  

 

About LeAnn Thieman

Best-Selling Author, Hall of Fame Speaker, and Nurse.  

Co-Author: Chicken Soup for the Nurse's SoulChicken Soup for the Caregiver's Soul, and 10 other Chicken Soup for the Soul titles.  

 

Her book Balancing Life in Your "War Zones" shares lessons from her Vietnam Orphan Airlift adventure. Her latest book and initiative is SelfCare for HealthCare

: Your Guide to Physical, Mental & Spiritual Health.  

 

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