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Heartwings Love Note 788 - Pleasure Can Take Many Forms

Heartwings says, "Pleasure is where we find it and we can look in many places."

For a long time baking has been one of my great pleasures. For years I collected recipes; In the 80's I wrote a cookie cookbook as
well as a completely refined sugar free general cookbook with many recipes I had created. In those desserts I used only honey or
maple syrup. Now even that kind of baking, along with a lot of other recipes I enjoyed making over the years, is history.

Recently I was diagnosed with a medical condition that requires severely restricting my carbohydrate intake. This has resulted in a
major upheaval in both my eating and my cooking. In addition to sugars I have had to stop eating rice, pasta and potatoes. Thus I
have had to eliminate many favorite comfort food recipes. I can no longer eat the Chinese fried rice I specialized in, the home fried
potatoes or the shrimp scampi I enjoyed making as well as eating.

Then along came some difficult news. This caused a reaction I did not expect. I found myself in a depressed state and developed
new aches and pains. I kept asking myself why was this happening? Then I realized I had been limiting most of my pleasure to
cooking and eating. This is not to say I wasn't doing fun things or having enjoyable experiences other than with food, however, I had
concentrated principally on food related pleasure. I no longer regularly practiced other experiences I found pleasurable, like playing
my harp or coloring.

Pleasure can rebalance the body's ph and help keep us healthy. So now I am working to discover ways besides eating and cooking
to give myself pleasure. In so doing I have rediscovered hobbies from the past like embroidery and begun to watch favorite old TV
shows we have on DVD. I am spending more time with my harp, simply playing for the pleasure of it rather than working to learn
tunes. I got out my coloring books and blank paper pads and began to color and as well as to draw. As time goes by I expect to
enjoy new pleasures as well and look forward to discovering them. In the meantime I already feel better.

May you find many ways to give yourself pleasure and to make yourself happy.

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Blessings and Best Regards,
Tasha Halpert

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