Lots of smiles today when J. Life can often present us with challenging situations and people that can test our ability to remain positive, peaceful and healthy. Our Positive Living classes teach helpful tools for coping with these challenges, and gently encourage us to do our best to rise above these situations.
In the process we learn to feel better not only about ourselves, but to also feel better about the very situations and people that once seemed insurmountable. Each class is 1 hour long. Visit our Services for Caregivers page. The benefits of sharing our lives with animals are endless.
They provide steadfast and dependable companionship. They provide us with opportunities to stay in the present moment — listening to a cat purr or feeling a dog lick our hand makes it easy to forget our troubles. The fact that they depend on us for their health and happiness helps us feel loved and needed. And the health benefits of animal relationships are many: decreased blood pressure, better resistance to stress, less asthma and allergies, increased exercise and outdoor activities, more opportunities for socialization, andless likelihood of depression and loneliness.
But most of all they provide a beautiful example of unconditional love and accept us for who we are, without judgment. Like all forms of art, music moves each of us in distinctly individual ways. Music is an integral accompaniment to all eras of our lives, past and present. Hearing a song from our past carries us back to that place in time, and reminds us of the sentiments and memories that we associate with it.
And listening to a new piece of music stimulates our emotions and inspires our opinions in ways that define who we are and what we believe in. Music is therefore not only a critical component of our history, but also has the power to affect and define our present. Massage helps to remove toxins from the tissues in the body. It helps to move the lymphatic fluid through the lymphatic system and circulate blood back to the heart.
