For You I'd Just Be There....

For you I'd Just be there. Someone to talk to, share things with...confide in. Someone to ask you how was your day and you'd be comfortable enough to share, without fear of ridicule and disinterest. Someone to cuddle with and share intimate moments with.

We can play together, laugh together, and cry together. Know when you want to be alone and when you want someone to hold you close. Understand your limits and know where to draw the line. Know your friends male/female and accept them all as my friends.

I would trust you and be trust worthy enough for you. You will have no fears with me, live dangerously and make everyday an adventure. Live life and love it. Be alone and never be lonely.

Passion, kindness, honesty, happiness, sincerity, and respect will be everyday words. Hatred, sadness, contempt, and hypocrisy will never come about.

A million people in a room and I'll only have eyes for you. Wear your emotions on your sleeves for I will care for them as my own. Give me a smile and I will give you my whole. Be there for me,and I'll be there for you.

- -Shonari

Enjoy These Great Quotes by Haruki Murakami from his Books and Writings!

About Harukie Murakami

Haruki Murakami is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. He was born in January 12, 1949 in Kyoto, Japan. His work has been described by the Virginia Quarterly Review as "easily accessible, yet profoundly complex." Critics suggest his work draws from film noir and contains elements of magical realism. His work has been influenced by Raymond Carver, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Brautigan, Raymond Chandler, Fyodor Dostoevsky and more...

Some of his popular quotes: 

 "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."

— from Norwegian Wood

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." 

— from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

"But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives."

—from Norwegian Wood 

"I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do." 

— from Sputnik Sweetheart

"Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star.
It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything."

— from South Of The Border, West Of The Sun

"Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting." 

— Haruki Murakami

"I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling." 

— from Sputnik Sweetheart

 

"Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?"

— Haruki Murakami 

 
"Chance encounters are what keep us going."

— from Kafka on the Shore

"In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount."

— Haruki Murakami 

"Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe." 

— from Kafka on the Shore

"For both of us, it had simply been too enormous an experience. We shared it by not talking about it. Does this make any sense?" 

— from The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

"I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for."

— from The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

"I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. " 

— from Norwegian Wood

"Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendship wasn't going to last forever. We were bound to reach a dead end. That was painfully clear."

— from Sputnik Sweetheart

"A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect."

— from Kafka on the Shore

"two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes"

— from Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

"These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say something, it misses the point. Either that or I end up saying the opposite of what I mean. The more I try to get it right the more mixed up it gets. Sometimes I can't even remember what I was trying to say in the first place. It's like my body's split in two and one of me is chasing the other me around a big pillar. We're running circles around it. The other me has the right words, but I can never catch her."

— from Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

"If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark"

— Haruki Murakami

"Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive."

— from Kafka on the Shore

"In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion."

—  from Sputnik Sweetheart

Citations:

Goodreads. Author Profile: Haruki Murakami. Web. 23 May 2011. <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3354.Haruki_Murakami>.

Goodreads. Quotes: Haruki Murakami. Web. 23 May 2011. <http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3354.Haruki_Murakami>.

Yellow Wood: Two roadss diverged in a Yellow wood, and I-. Image from Blog Article: Posted March 6, 2011 by eldred55. <http://eldred55.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/haruki-murakami/>.

LAST CHILD IN THE WOODS: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv

"Business people and politicians report less emphasis on nature experiences in early childhood than do artists."

"Nature presents the young with something so much greater than they are; it offers an environment where they can easily contemplate infinity and eternity. 

"As of this writing only seven states even require elementary schools to hire certified physical education instructors. This has occurred in a country where 40 percent of five-to-eight-year-olds suffer cardiac risk factors such as obesity"

"Now for some good news. Studies suggest that nature may be useful as a therapy for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), used with or, when appropriate, even replacing medications or behavioral therapies."

"Some researchers now recommend that parents and educators make available more nature experiences - especially green places - to children with ADHD, and thereby support their attentional functioning and minimize their symptoms."

Nature Deficit Disorder: The Top 10 Reasons To Go Outside

That's me climbing a vine in Maui.

Good Article on How to Combat Nature-Deficit Disorder! It creates a good argument for everyone to Go Outside and Play!  Both Adults and Children Benefit From Outdoor Play! 

Most people I meet have Nature Deficit Disorder. That’s just a fancy way of saying they don’t get outdoors much, and are not in-tune with the natural world they live in. Frank Forencich refers to this as likened unto being aliens on our own planet. Erwan Le Corre calls it the zoo human syndrome. I’m sure various governing bodies call it the “epidemic of inactivity.” Call it whatever you want, the truth of the matter is that most people don’t get outside much. If you’re a regular reader here, then you know I’m always recommending that you get outdoors as much as possible. There are many good reasons for this, and it’s a little more than  just “good ‘ol advice.” 

I remember my mother telling me to go play outside when I was a kid. It was supposed to be good for me, but I didn’t understand that then, and I would have much rather played video games or watch TV. Mom was right though, and there’s a lot of wisdom contained in that simple phrase, “go play outside.”

Top 10 Reasons to go Outside

1) Get “away” from it all - Going outside gives you an opportunity to forget about the phone, TV, internet, and to-do lists. We tend to carry our hectic schedule wherever we go, and getting outdoors is one good way to relax and recharge our body and mind.

2) Get moving! – Going outdoors will inspire you to move. You can stretch your legs, or use them over a variety of terrain. This creates a greater development of coordination and the muscles which stabilize the body. Soft and smooth surfaces adorn almost every floor of civilized society, so much so that we’ve literally lost touch with the natural environment around us. Try going barefoot, and you’ll see what I mean about being insensitive to your natural surroundings.

The world is always in movement.   – V. S. Naipaul

3) Get some sunshine that is packed full of vitamin D – Getting enough vitamin D is super-important for maintaining a healthy immune system. This vitamin has been proven to help prevent osteoporosis, cancer, and Alzheimer disease. It also may help in the prevention of Diabetes, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and heart disease. You know just as well as I do that supplements don’t really cut it, go for the natural source in the sun.

4) Get an opportunity to take chances, and develop independence – Going outdoors is a little more risky than staying in the safety of the confined indoors. This is an opportunity to try new things, to develop new skills, and test yourself in unique ways such as climbing a tree.

5) It’s good for your eyes – In our mostly seated culture, we tend to focus our eyes directly in front of us when looking at a computer screen or paperwork. There is no overstimulating TV or computer to stare at when you step out into mother nature. Your pupils contract, similar to muscles, when looking at various distances. Simply by walking around outdoors, your eyes have a chance to both focus on the ground in front of you and the landscape around you, which is great exercise for TV and monitor over-stimulated eyes.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.    -Henry David Thoreau

6) Get in better touch with nature – There is so much to be experienced out in nature, it’s almost silly to try to classify it in a blogpost. Listen to birds, smell the trees, feel the wind and the heat of the sun. Watch an animal going about its daily routine. Enough said.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.       – Helen Keller

7) Get some fresh air – Depending on where you live, going outside involves breathing fresh air. There are no toxic chemicals in the great outdoors – no cleaners, detergents, plastics, building materials to touch or breathe in.

Fresh air makes me throw up. I can’t handle it. I’d rather be around three Denobili cigars blowing in my face all night.    -Frank Sinatra

8) Better mental clarity, longer attention span – Researchers Marc Berman, John Jonides and Stephen Kaplan found memory performance and attention spans improved by 20 percent after people spent an hour interacting with nature. They also believe the findings could have broader impact on helping people who may be suffering from mental fatigue. ya think? (study here)

9) Boost energy levels – Going outdoors has unseen therapeutic effects that actually increase your energy levels, and no one can argue with that!

When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.    -Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener’s own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.    -Wendell Berry

10) A new, tangible community – When you step outside your doors, you have a chance to enter a whole new environment – not just physically, but relationally too.  By visiting a park, climbing a mountain, or sailing a lake you can make new connections with people that would have never been possible. You will learn more about someone from one hour of playing outside than you will in a year of working with them.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.     – Anne Frank (one of my favorite authors)

 

The Bottom Line

It’s funny how we know something is right, even good for us, and yet we still need reminders constantly.  Do we really need a top 10 list of reasons why going outside is good for us? I mean, come on – we all know that going outdoors is good medicine, just like we know that getting regular exercise is good for us. I think the problem we are facing is not a lack of useful information, but a lack of compliance and sustainability. Most people either don’t enjoy going outdoors, or they reserve it only for special, infrequent occasions.

That’s the root of the problem right there.

Many health and fitness programs recommend spending time outdoors, listing a selection of benefits similar to the ones above. Sometimes, these programs produce good short-term results, but mostly they teach people to focus on the wrong thing: the benefits (or the consequences of NOT following the program).

I’d like to offer you a different approach to health and fitness. I want you to seek after experiences that are rewarding in and of themselves, activities that you will do for their own sake. Going outside is fun, even liberating for some people. It can change your entire perspective if you’ll allow it.

Even though setting specific goals is an essential part of training, long-term lifestyle transformation  can only be sustained when you’re enjoying the process itself. So, I want you to try things that you just love to do outside. Play games or sports, make it a priority to have fun, and dare something worthy. Health benefits and consequences are distractions that take us away from the task at hand. Instead, focus on the journey, that is your new lifestyle.

If you don’t know where to start, just try taking your current fitness program outdoors. I hike, climb, swim, swing clubbells, practice Prasara Yoga, and explore bodyweight exercise outside almost year round.

To your health and success,

Fitness Professional

Article from Physical Living and address the problem of Nature-Deficit Disorder. Article can be found at: http://physicalliving.com/nature-deficit-disorder-the-top-10-reasons-to-go-outside/ 

LAST CHILD IN THE WOODS: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv

Richard Louv has a copy of a book named "Shelters, Shacks and Shanties" written by Daniel C. Beard in 1915. In his book Daniel C. Beard writes how he "epitomizes a time when a young person's experience of nature was inseparable from the romantic view of the American Frontier." But what really defined Beards' books, and the age they represented, is the unquestionable belief that being in nature was about doing something, about the experience -- and about not being a spectator.

"Most housing tracts, condos, and planned communities constructed in the past two to three decades are controlled by strict covenants that discourage or ban the kind of outdoor play many of us enjoyed as children."  

"The Scripps Ranch Community Association chased kids away from a little pond near the public library, where children had fished for bluegills since Scripps Ranch had been a working cattle spread many decades earlier. In response to the tightened regulations, families erected basketball hoops. Young people moved their skateboard ramps to the foot of their driveways. But the community association reminded the residence that such activity violated the covenants they had signed when they bought their houses. Down came the ramps and poles; and indoors went the kids. Game Boy and Sega became their imagination. Parents became alarmed. Their kids were getting fat."
 

LAST CHILD IN THE WOODS: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv

"Unlike television, nature can not steal your time; it amplifies it. Nature offers healing for a child living in a destructive family or neighborhood. It serves as a blank slate upon which a child draws and reinterprets the culture's fantasies. Nature inspires creativity in a child by demanding visualization and the full use of the senses."




"Many members of my generation grew into adulthood taking nature's gifts for granted; we assumed that generations to come would also receive these gifts. But something has changed. Now we see the emergence of what I have come to call nature-deficit disorder. This term is by no means a medical diagnosis, but it does offer a way to think about the problem and the possibilities - for children, and for the rest of us as well."




"I think often of a wonderfully honest comment made by Paul, a fourth-grader in San Diego: " I like to play indoors better, 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are."

-Richard Louv

LAST CHILD IN THE WOODS: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv

"Within the space of a few decades, the way children understand and experience nature has changed radically. The polarity of the relationship has reversed. Today, kids are aware of the global threats to the environment - but their physical contact, their intimacy with nature, is fading."

"A kid today can likely tell you about the Amazon rain forest - but not the last time he or she explored the woods in solitude, or lay in a field listening to the wind and watching the clouds move."

"Yet, the very moment that the bond is breaking between the young and the natural world, a growing body of research links our mental, physical, and spiritual health directly to our association with nature - in positive ways. Several of these studies suggest that thoughtful exposure of youngsters to nature can even be a powerful form of therapy for attention-deficit disorders and other maladies. As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature."

Quotes from: "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne

"...the condition of being over weight was created through your thought to it  To put it in the most basic terms, if someone is overweight, it came from thinking "fat thoughts", whether that person was aware of it or not. A person can not think "thin thoughts" and be fat. It completely defies the law of attraction."

"Let go of those limiting thoughts. Food cannot cause you to put on weight, unless you think it can."

Quotes from: "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne

"We've got a thousand different diagnoses and diseases out there. They're just the weak link. They're all the result of one thing: stress. If you put enough stress on the chain and you put enough stress on the system, then one of the links breaks."

~Dr. Ben Johnson

Physician, Author, 7 Leader in Energy Healing

"All stress begins with one negative thought. One thought that went unchecked, and then more thoughts came and more, until stress manifested. The effect is stress, but the cause was negative thinking, and it all began with one little negative thought. No matter what you might have manifested, you can change it with one small positive thought and then another."

~Rhonda Byrne

"Happier thoughts lead to essentially a happier biochemistry. A happier, healthier body. Negative thoughts and stress have been shown to seriously degrade the body and the functioning of the brain, because it's our thoughts and emotions that are continuously reassembling, reorganizing, recreating our body."

~Dr. John Hagelin

"I always say, when the voice and the vision on the inside become more profound, clear, and loud than the opinions on the outside, you've mastered your life!"

~Dr. John Demartini

Quotes from: "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne

"Inside relationships it's important to first understand who's coming into the relationship, and not just your partner. You need to understand yourself first."

~Lisa Nichols

"Undoubtedly to some, the idea of giving so much love to self will seem very cold, hard and unmerciful. Still this matter may be seen in a different light, when we find that 'looking out for Number One,' as directed by the Infinite, is really looking out for Number Two and is indeed the only way to permanently benefit Number Two."

~Prentice Mulford

"Oftentimes you give others the opportunity to create your happiness, and many times they fail to create it the way you want it. Why? Because only one person can be in charge of your joy, of your bliss, and that's you. So even your parent, your child, your spouse - they do not have the control to create your happiness. They simply have the opportunity to share in your happiness. Your joy lies within you." 

~Lisa Nichols

Quotes from: "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne

"Knowing the law of attraction, I wanted to really put it to use and to see what would happen. In 1995 I started to create something called a Vision Board, where I take something that I want to attract, like a car or a watch or the soul mate of my dreams, and I put a picture of what I want up on this board. Every day I would sit in my office and would look up at this board and I would start to visualize. I would really get into the state of having already acquired it." 

~John Assaraf

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." 

         ~Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Quotes from: "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne

This book has a lot of positive information but I am skeptical about their claim that:

"The greatest teachers who have ever lived have told us that the law of attraction is the most powerful law in the Universe."

It can be said that positive thinking will attract positive outcomes but just really wanting something or wishing something  doesn't make it so. With that said, enjoy the book with a skeptical eye! 

"Our job as humans is to hold on to the thoughts of what we want, make it absolutely clear in our minds what we want and from that we start to invoke one of the greatest laws in the Universe, and that's the law of attraction. You become what you think about most, but you also attract what you think about most."  

~  John Assaraf

"And that principal can be summed up in three simple words. Thoughts become things!

~Mike Dooley

Author & International Speaker

 

"The law of attraction doesn't care whether you perceive something to be good or bad, or whether you don't want it or whether you do want it. It's responding to your thoughts. So if you're looking at a mountain of debt, feeling terrible about it, that's the signal you're putting out into the Universe.'I feel really bad because of all this debt I've got.' You're just affirming it to yourself. You felt it on every level of your being. That's what you're going to get more of.

~Bob Doyle

Quote from: "Diet Myths That Keep Us Fat" by Nancy L. Snyderman, M.D.

"Losing a few pounds can make a big difference to your health. Some people think they will never lose enough weight to improve their health. Not true. For example, for every 2 pounds of excess weight you lose, your blood cholesterol drops by an average of 3 points. That's nothing to scoff at. Losing weight can help you r blood pressure, too. In one study, after losing as few as a 9 pounds, people were able to bring their high blood pressure down to normal. Some people even went off medication with their doctor's approval."

Quote from: "Diet Myths That Keep Us Fat" by Nancy L. Snyderman, M.D.

"Perimeter Shopping is Healthy Shopping: Shop "the outside borders of the grocery store. That's where you find the freshest fruits & vegetables , meats, fish, poultry, and low-fat dairy foods. It is in the inner aisles of the store where you'll encounter most processed, canned, and frozen foods. So stick mostly to the outside aisles and you'll find foods with higher nutritional value."

Quote from: "Diet Myths That Keep Us Fat" by Nancy L. Snyderman, M.D.

Quote from: "Diet Myths That Keep Us Fat" by Nancy L. Snyderman, M.D.

"Nothing sabotages a diet like hunger. When we eat less, however, we may feel hungry, and most of us cannot resist hunger for too long. That's why the average weight-loss diet lasts for less then three weeks. But if you're not hungry it is easier to stick with your eating plan."

"Enter olive oil and other healthy unsaturated fats. They contain a fatty acid that helps keep the body satisfied and makes it possible to prolong the time between meals. Consuming a small amount of foods rich in these oils activates an appetite control switch in the brain. Because these oils are so effective in turning off your appetite, you only need a small amount (less than a tablespoon) to keep your appetite under control."

Quote from: "Diet Myths That Keep Us Fat" by Nancy L. Snyderman, M.D.

Amazon.com: Diet Myths That Keep Us Fat: And the 101 Truths That Will Save Your Waistline--and Maybe Even Your Life (9780307406156): Nancy L. Snyderman M.D.: Books

Very good book. Lots of useful information.

From Diet Myths That Keep Us Fat - "Hunger Pangs might simply mean you need water, not food. Your body often confuses sensations of thirst with hunger. If you've eaten within the last two hours but still feel hungry, try a glass of water rather than a snack. It just might tame your hunger."