It's hard to believe that what you are about to read by Aldous Huxley was written 50 years ago. It describes the state and condition of far too many people in society today.
"It's curious that although man has protected himself against plagues, we see that in their place he has called up a formidable array of degenerative diseases hardly known among the lower animals.Most of these degenerative diseases are due to the fact that civilized human beings do not, on any level of their being, live in harmony with a natural life. They love to intensify their selfhood through gluttony, therefore eat the wrong food and too much of it; they inflict upon themselves chronic anxiety over money and, because they crave excitement, chronic over-stimulation; they suffer, during their working hours, from the chronic boredom and frustration imposed by the sort of jobs that have to be done in order to satisfy the artificially stimulated demand for the fruits of fully mechanized mass production. Among the consequences of these wrong uses of the psycho-social organism are degenerative changes in particular organs, such as the heart, kidneys, pancreas, intestines and arteries."
Keep it simple--don't get sucked into the 'you must have things' and be constantly doing things to be happy.
A lazy day--45 minute walk with stretching after--lifted weights for 20 minutes.
How was your day?
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