I was sitting in the surgical waiting area at the hospital waiting for word of my wife's operation. The small room was filled with other families and friends who were 1waiting to hear how their loved ones were doing.

    There was a young boy sitting quietly in the 2. He held a small box of crayons in one hand and a tablet (写字板) in the other. Every so often he'd place the tablet on his lap and draw something. As the hours passed I began to see the room almost 3. And there was a strange silence.

    "Daddy, when is Mommy going home?" asked the young boy. "Tomorrow," his father replied.

    I 4 him as he moved his feet back and forth, looking up at the ceiling and then toward the sunshine-filled window. "When's 5, Daddy?" he asked. His father 6 him over to sit by him. 7 his things, the little boy walked slowly to his father's side from the corner.

    The man 8 out and held his son by his shoulders. "There are three days in life. Yesterday, today and tomorrow. One is over and done, one we live in, the other we 9. We can't live in yesterday, but if we are happy enough today, we will be even happier tomorrow," he said in an attempt to 10 the boy.

    The little boy looked at him for a moment and said, "If Mommy is going home tomorrow, I'll be11. So, I want it to be tomorrow already, Daddy." Now hanging on every word of this conversation, I leaned forward to hear his response. It was 12. "Son, the one great thing about today is once it 13, it is already almost tomorrow."

    I thought about how 14 it was. Even in my adult life, I still live waiting for what tomorrow may15. Now I know that it is already "almost tomorrow".

    Whenever my dog, Barney, comes into the house after having been for a ride in the car, he runs to the pen (围栏) we have set up for him by the back door. It's not something we intentionally trained him to do. The habit came simply because my husband tended to put him in his pen whenever they came in. After doing it a few times, Barney just figures that's what you do when you come inside after a car ride.

It's the same with your thinking. You get into the habit of thinking a certain way and then you'll rarely question it after that.

    This is especially true when you were growing up. You developed habits that just made things easier for you. You probably didn't even think about them. That's just the way it was and that's what you did. Just like Barney thinks he has to go into his pen, you do things automatically as well.

    For example, when you were a kid, you may have been told not to "talk back" and to just keep quiet about things that were bothering you. These are habits that might have worked to keep you safe and out of trouble when you were young.

    Now that you're grown up, you may be finding that these previous strategies are actually causing you problems. In a relationship, not communicating isn't going to work as your partner can't read your mind. What works when you're a child may not work when you become an adult.

    When you decide you need to change your thoughts, your brain may at first feel that it's not a safe thing to do. Lots of practice and years of experience says it's not. Also, you don't know to question the thought. It's a truth for you. The trick is to look at your results and see if your thoughts are the cause. Be willing to question your thinking and ask yourself if there are thoughts that are hindering (妨碍) you. As you are now in a different phase of your life, different strategies may be needed.

If you're in a hard time, a tiny thing may be the greatest help for you. That's touch. Touch is one of the most important of our five senses. It is one of the first senses we develop. One of the most commonly accepted forms of touch among people is also one of the first experiences we have in the world—A hug!

    There is no better way to understand the importance of hugs than to lose them. For those who have experienced the loss of hugs, you will know how important they are to share.

    A recent research has shown that when people hug, the brain releases the chemical which increases our willingness to trust and reduces fear. It has also shown that hugs are great for your heart.

    In 1995, a pair of newly born twins was being cared for in hospital. While one of the twins seemed quite healthy, her sister was not. After trying different medical treatments, the nurse on duty, Gayle Kasparian, placed the twins in bed together. The twins immediately snuggled (依偎) up to each other. As one placed her arm around the other, the weak baby became better gradually. How great the power of a hug is!

    The need for hugs doesn't disappear as we grow older, though it seems we are less willing to give them. Research on people of all ages has proven that a hug is necessary for physical and emotional health.

    Without hugs we can become sad. A hug provides safety and gentleness. A hug provides us with social contact, a sense of health and a feeling of importance and belonging.

    We desire to believe that we can get fit without effort. We invent chocolate-chip cookie diets to make us thin while eating fat. We wish to get fit from doing absolutely nothing. We wish to lie in bed, think about going to the gym and then, get the body a Greek god.

    A new study from Brian Clark at Ohio University shows that sitting still, while just thinking about exercise, might make us stronger. Clark and colleagues recruited 29 volunteers and wrapped their wrists in surgical casts for an entire month. During this month, half of the volunteers thought about exercising their immobilized wrists. For 11 minutes a day, 5 days a week, they sat completely still and focused their entire mental effort on pretending to flex their muscles. When the casts were removed, the volunteers that did mental exercises had wrist muscles that were two times stronger than those who had done nothing at all.

    The idea behind the research is not a new concept—just a concept that's often neglected in the field of neuroscience our bodies and our brains develop together. Even though we treat our mind and bodies as two separate things, they are finally and closely connected.

    Indeed, even before Brian Clark published his study, other researched had explained links between the brain and the muscles. The years ago, Buang Yue at the Cleveland Clinic reported that imaginary exercise increases the strength of finger muscles by up to 35%. Just five years ago, Kai Miller at the University of Washington, showed that imaginary exercise activates the same brain areas that are activated during real exercise. Brain Clark's research adds to this body of knowledge and provides compelling evidence about the role of neuromuscular pathways in strength training.

    The other day while        (drive) along a busy north London roadway I spotted a shopping cart full of someone's goods.        I saw next broke my heart; on the ground was a man, motionless,       (lie) beside his "house". I was far away and couldn't get near. "Is this man okay, is he just sleeping or has he overdosed        (accidental)?" I was unable to handle a moving vehicle and do some kind of physical assessment of the man.      , I did pray that someone would stop and help this person.

    I        (check) my side view mirror and noticed that a woman, dressed in black, was moving toward the man. My heart-felt burden turned to peace. I witnessed a random act of        (kind). I don't know the outcome of their experience but hoped that he might find a home. This led me to reach out to Unity Project,       is a shelter helping homeless young people. I met Sylvia, a woman on a mission to assist the        (home). They provide emergency shelter and transitional housing for youth and adults eighteen and        (old). To the woman who did stop to help this man, I say thank you from my heart. I made my donation, and though not much, I hoped it helped in some way.

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