The Healthy Management of Reality - Stanford University
The Healthy Management of Reality - Stanford University
The Healthy Management of Reality - Stanford University
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Exercise. Exercise is helpful in weight control, but it also has many otherbenefits: It increases cardiovascular fitness, muscle strength, agility, flexibility,and even has positive effects on mood. It is one <strong>of</strong> the best habits to get into.Three half hours is the usually recommended lower level <strong>of</strong> scheduled exercise perweek. Walking is a good alternative. Keeping your body strong enough to do thethings you want to do is one <strong>of</strong> the best ways to manage your reality.TimeIn teaching how to manage external reality, it is helpful on focusing on eachday, each 24-hour period. In a sense, our life is made up <strong>of</strong> some unknown number<strong>of</strong> days, and thus, molding the shape <strong>of</strong> each <strong>of</strong> these days will result in moldingthe shape <strong>of</strong> our lives.If you are feeling overwhelmed with commitments, the task is to build insome “white space” into your days. “White space” is an image that our familydeveloped during a period in which all <strong>of</strong> our days seemed to be scheduled, and wehad little time to just be together. <strong>The</strong> image is that <strong>of</strong> writing on a piece <strong>of</strong> paper,and using up all the space available, including the margins. We felt we needed toleave some white space somewhere on the page, in order to feel a sense <strong>of</strong> controlover our own lives. <strong>The</strong> phrase stuck, and we have used it successfully torecognize it when we achieve it, and to ask each other for some when our schooland work lives seem to get out <strong>of</strong> hand.HMOR.July2005.Muñoz.doc 87