Jack Canfield - Chicken Soup to Inspire the Body and Soul: Motivation and Inspiration for Living and Loving a Healthy Lifestyle

CHICKEN SOUP TO INSPIRE THE BODY AND SOUL

CHICKEN SOUP
TO INSPIRE THE
BODY AND SOUL

Motivation and Inspiration
for Living and Loving
a Healthy Lifestyle

Jack Canfield
Mark Victor Hansen
Dan Millman
Diana von Welanetz Wentworth

Backlist, LLC, a unit of

Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC

Cos Cob, CT

www.chickensoup.com

Body and soul are twins;
God only knows which is which.

Charles A. Swinburne

Contents

Perry P. Perkins

Karen Hayse

Ruth Heidrich, Ph.D.

Marcia Horn Noyes

Dan Millman

Diana von Welanetz Wentworth

Anna Quindlen

Dee Hakala

Toni Fulco

George Salpietro

Dan Millman

Patricia Lorenz

Thomas F. Crum

Adoley Odunton

Nichole Marcillac

Woody Woodburn

Catherine Monserrat, Ph.D.

Sanford Drucker

Leonard Stein

Lori Shaw-Cohen

Bobbie Probstein

Wayne Allen Levine

Joyce Stark

Sheri Borax

Jean Deeds

Sheila Ascroft

Cory Richardson

Joanne Reid Rodrigues

Diana von Welanetz Wentworth

Richard Rossiter

Genviv Martin

Emily Coleman

Joy Margrave

Robert Bishop

Bob Welch

Kimberly Thompson

JoAnn Milivojevic

Mary Desaulniers

Nancy Harless

Roberta R. Deen

Kathleen Halloran

Kimberly Ann Shope

Mark Grevelding

Susan J. Siersma

Cheryl M. Kremer

Mike Gold

Donna Beales

Rose Marie Sand

Michale Gabriel

Don Flynn

Mark Stroder

Jack McConnell, M.D.

Mary Marcia Lee Norwood

Christine Van Loo

Woody Woodburn

Gail Eynon

Leigh Hennessy

Lane Baldwin

Donna St. Jean Conti

Erica Ross-Krieger

Dane E. Smith

Kathe Campbell

Janet Buck

Joy Millman

William Wagner

Kelly L. Stone

Patricia Bragg

Lynne D. Finney, J. D., M.S.W.

K. C. Compton

Dierdre W. Honnold

Dane E. Smith

Joanne Reid Rodrigues

Luisa Gray

Riane Eisler

Staci Stallings

Michale Gabriel

Leigh B. Singh

Bobbie Probstein

Mark Rickerby

Hal Zina Bennett, Ph.D.

Susan Jeffers, Ph.D.

Theodore Roosevelt

Despite our differences in race, culture, religion, beliefs and values, we share the experience of the human body. In our physical selves we find common ground. Even our anatomical differences pale when compared to our similarities. Women and men, aborigines and members of parliament, communists and republicans, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists bleed when cut, laugh when tickledknow hunger, pleasure, pain and love.

By virtue of the human body, we are one humanity.

Our body is, in fact, the only thing we are guaranteed to keep for a lifetime; it is our only true possession, the souls only lifetime companion. We live, learn, laugh, love, teach, fail, succeed and fulfill our destinies only through the body. It deserves our care and kindness, because without a body, where would we live?

We did not make our bodies. Our mothers served as sacred harbors as our bodies developed, handcrafted by angels. From the beginning of the dance of lifeembryo growing, infant learning, toddler walking, child running, adult seekingour body changes according to our souls struggles, journeys and destinies.

Every human advance or achievement flows from action doing things with our eyes and ears, arms and legs, hands and feet, mouth and head. Physics informs us that the matter of our body is made of light, energy, spirit. How can we experience the soul except through the body? When we are uplifted, inspired, renewed or redeemedwhen we have an epiphany, a realization these are physical revelations.

Chicken Soup to Inspire the Body and Soul celebrates our body our physical life, our goals and dreams, our struggles, courage and spirit. Our challenges in the body test and teach us as we stretch the envelope in sports, work and everyday life; as we sweat and toil to get or stay in shape; as we recover after injury or illness.

For all its imperfections, all its various shapes and quirks and needs, our body remains our best friend and most staunch supporter. It can be as loyal as a dog, as supple as a catand take us to heights known only by the eagle. If we treat it with respect and care, it will serve us into our autumn years, and take us deep into the winter seasons until its time to say good-bye.

Chicken Soup to Inspire the Body and Soul celebrates our souls journey in, as and through our body. The variety of stories from sports to self-image, from weight loss to healingreflect our human heritage of struggles, challenges and dreams. It has been our privilege and pleasure to compile and edit these reminders and revelations. May these stories of body and soul remind us that we are in this together.

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YES, I CAN!

Follow your dreams, for as you dream, soshall you become.