Steve Goodier Wisdom: Health Insurance

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom about our well-being. Enjoy!

Have you noticed how health insurance is like a hospital gown: every time you turn around, you find something that isn’t covered? But health researchers are now disc overing what many people have known all along - that getting healthy is about more than medicine and treatment. It also involves a healthy outlook on life.

Various studies have validated the mind/ body connection. Cancer is often diagnosed within months of the death of one’s spouse. People who are cynical or angry have been shown to be more prone to heart attacks than those with a more positive outlook. And former “Saturday Evening Post” editor Norman Cousins has demonstrated for years how humor, laughter and hope can aid the healing process. Read more

Best of Steve Goodier: Health Insurance

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Have you noticed how health insurance is like a hospital gown: every time you turn around, you find something that isn’t covered? But health researchers are now discovering what many people have known all along - that getting healthy is about more than medicine and treatment. It also involves a healthy outlook on life.

Various studies have validated the mind/ body connection. Cancer is often diagnosed within months of the death of one’s spouse. People who are cynical or angry have been shown to be more prone to heart attacks than those with a more positive outlook. And former “Saturday Evening Post” editor Norman Cousins has demonstrated for years how humor, laughter and hope can aid the healing process. Read more

The Genius Code: How One Step Creates Everything

You may think that passionate, successful people shot up as an arrow one day — knowing exactly what they wanted to do. They drew up the perfect business plan on crisp white paper, not a grape jelly stain in sight. Got it done. They’re lying on a beach right now–near a bonfire of self-help books.

Except that’s not the way brilliance rolls.

If you talk to actual successful, inspired people they tell you, “I had no idea what I was doing.” And then they share the same ramshackle story every time. One thing led to another and another. “I fell into it.” “I stumbled into it.” “It was grace, man.” You almost get the image of them flopping around and falling into great big barrels of honey and investment portfolios. You might just think they were all lucky bozos. But there is a technology to every one of these stories that you can use. It’s the arc of their magic, or the genius code, if you will. It’s this. They took one step in the direction of their hunch or desire. That’s it.

In my career, people have thought I must be a marketing genius or opportunity magnet. But I’d say that what passes as “genius,” is really me following a sacred whisper inside. My tiniest gestures net results that others spend years and wads of money to make happen. I’m a believer in following that inner voice, the wispiest silver thread, and allowing the Mistress of Tapestry to weave together the Big Picture and the flying carpet. Read more

Steve Goodier - Health Insurance

Have you noticed how health insurance is like a hospital gown: every time you turn around, you find something that isn’t covered? But health researchers are now discovering what many people have known all along - that getting healthy is about more than medicine and treatment. It also involves a healthy outlook on life.

Various studies have validated the mind/ body connection. Cancer is often diagnosed within months of the death of one’s spouse. People who are cynical or angry have been shown to be more prone to heart attacks than those with a more positive outlook. And former “Saturday Evening Post” editor Norman Cousins has demonstrated for years how humor, laughter and hope can aid the healing process.

Not only is a healthy mental outlook necessary, but a healthy spiritual outlook seems to be equally important. Noted psychologist Carl Jung (1865-1961) made a telling observation about the connection
between one’s mental health and spiritual outlook. “During the past 30 years, people from all civilized countries of the earth have consulted me,” he said. “Among all my patients in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a (spiritual) outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he (or she) had lost that which living religions of every age have given to their followers..” Read more