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Why I love walking

Posted on April 5, 2020 by Michael Kane

Why I love walking

In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks. ~ John Muir

Why I love walking

While on the treadmill at the gym earlier today I was trying to think about what I was going to write about tonight and it hit me I’ve never actually written about walking. So tonight I want to write about something I really love, walking. As a kid, I spent a lot of time just walking in the woods alone exploring. I knew every inch of the woods near where I grew up and those woods were one of the first places I got to go on little adventures of my own making. This love of walking transitioned into a love of hiking once I got older.

Time to Contemplate

One of the things I love about walking/hiking is that you have time to contemplate. The beauty of walking is that you’re not going awfully fast and particularly in my case. The pace I walk at might be better described as meandering or sauntering instead of walking. But that’s exactly the way I like it. I love the opportunity as I’m walking slowly to be able to see things in a way you never can when you’re traveling by faster methods. When hiking you see things you never notice in a car or even on a bike. You literally have time to stop and smell the roses/flowers.

But for me, one of the best things about walking, particularly long-distance walking is the time to get into your own head. When you’re out on a trail walking for 8 hours or more a day you have lots of time with nothing else to do but think. Having that kind of mental time is a real gift and allows you to dive deep into your own mind and really contemplate things you might not otherwise make time for. There’s a really great quote that summarizes the mental process you go through on the trail.

In addition to allowing you to see things as you slow down, a slower pace of walking is a good lesson about life. A slower pace of life helps you see things you wouldn’t ordinarily see at the fast pace we all normally live at.

Health benefits of walking

In addition to allowing you to slow down and think there are a range of health benefits that come from regularly walking. Of course it can help you control your weight, have positive benefits for blood sugar and it’s a low-impact form or exercise that is easy on your joints. Regular walking is also a great way for people who don’t exercise to ease into physical activity and eventually into larger levels of hiking. Simply walking a few days of week can be the start to something that could end in much larger adventures, no matter what age you are at, recently an 82 year-old man completed all 2190 miles of the Appalachian Trail.

Oh the places you’ll go

One of the beautiful things about walking is that if you just don’t stop it’s absolutely amazing the places you can walk to. I’ve been fortunate enough to walk in the Himalayas in Nepal.

Rev Kane making friends in Nepal

To Petra, a 2000 year-old city in the Jordanian Desert

Rev Kane at Petra

For over a 1000 miles on the Appalachian Trail

Rev Kane on his first day on the Appalachian Trail

And all the way across Scotland, a walk I liked so much I’m doing an even bigger walk in Scotland in August.

Rev Kane goin native in the Scottish Highlands

So my friends if you’re not a walker, give it a try and if you are walking try going a little further or maybe even an over-nighter. I think you’ll find that walking and even hiking solo, can be a really amazing thing and bring you many happy days my friends. ~ Rev Kane

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My Covid Times Diary – Fear

Posted on April 3, 2020 by Michael Kane

My Covid Times Diary – Fear

Fear cuts deeper than swords. ~ George RR Martin

Ok, let’s all just admit it, we’re all scared as hell!

And in fact we should be, we are facing the largest pandemic since the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak. Even worse, the economic impact of these Covid Times will certainly be our next recession and possibly our next depression. But my aim tonight isn’t to scare you, you’re already there, particularly if you are obsessively reading or watching the news, if you’re watching daily press conferences or letting your mind runaway with you.

I can see the fear in the posts of my friends on Facebook. I can hear it in the voices of my family when I’m talking to them on the phone. I can feel it coming from my colleagues in the moments when they take a breath in between making decision after decision in completely new territory.

I can see the fear when I’m walking in the street on the faces of the people as I go by them. You can tell that some of them are actually holding their breath as they pass you, I notice this as I hold mine. You can see now that people are spacing themselves as they wait to go into stores and restaurants, giving each other wide berths on the street.

Fear makes people do crazy things, yesterday a train engineer tried to drive his train onto/into a navy hospital ship. He was doing so to get the media to pay attention to “what is really going on.” I’ve seen paranoid responses from my faculty and staff. Most definitively, I haven’t driven past my local gun store once in the last week without there being a line outside of it. People are scared and their buying guns to try and make themselves feel better.

We’re doing lots of things to make ourselves feel better, in my last grocery store trip I bought a chocolate cake and devoured it in two days. Good thing I’m running four days a week or I might come out of this much larger than I went in. People are binge watching TV to stay distracted, some will actually do self-destructive things as a fear reaction. I’ve talked to several people who’ve had to tell friends they can’t come over to visit, the extroverts are taking this all especially hard. I walked by a guy yesterday drunk off his ass in the middle of the afternoon mumbling about how he’d be driving his Camero if he wasn’t so drunk. I saw a guy picking up some groceries, he had six or seven attachments on his belt. He had a leatherman, a couple of knives, pepper spray and three I couldn’t identify. Fear is everywhere. But.

Fear is a liar. The image from the very top of the post is a passage from the novel Dune by Frank Herbert. It’s one of my all-time favorite quotes. I read Dune for the first time when I was around 15. It was a particularly bad time for me, I read the book not long after I had attempted suicide. I was living with a lot of anger and fear, that little ball in my stomach was constantly with me. I remember reading that quote, actually stopping, reading it again, and truly taking it to heart. I tried to let it happen, to let all of the fear I had roll over, through and past me, it worked, if only for a few minutes, the fear was gone. It was an important moment, it was a confirmation that another way was possible, that life could be different, better.

We’re all afraid right now and that’s ok, but take a moment, let it roll over, around and through you. Let it go by, take a deep breath into the safe space that’s left, even if it’s just for a minute and hold onto that feeling. You’ll feel that way again, no storm lasts forever, no matter how bad. Keep that in mind when the fear starts to bite at you. It will get better my friends, even if it gets worse and scarier first and it likely will in the next few weeks. But hang on to the fact that this reality is temporary and let go of your fear.

Happiness Quotes

Posted on April 3, 2020 by Michael Kane

Holiday Happiness: Happiness Quotes

The holidays are a very stressful time for everyone and an exceptionally hard time for some. So, until the New Year I’ll be posting a Holiday Happiness post each day to try help folks out who are struggling. As always you can reach out to me at Happinesskane@aol.com for a kind word or someone to listen. ~ Rev Kane

Tonight a collection of quotations that I think you’ll really enjoy and make you think. Have a happy day my friends ~ Rev Kane

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Happiness Images

Posted on April 2, 2020 by Michael Kane

Happiness Images

A post with no need to think or reflect but just enjoy some happy images, have a happy day my friends ~ Rev Kane

Happiness

Jumping for Joy

Happy Food

Relax and Be Happy

Storm Trooper Happiness

Buddhist Stupa in Nepal

Sunrise at Burning Man

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Appalachian Trail Happiness: Acceptance is the Way

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Michael Kane

Appalachian Trail Happiness: Acceptance is the Way

Happiness and Acceptance

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations ~ Michael J Fox

Tonight an excerpt from my book, Appalachian Trail Happiness.

When you set out to do a long-distance thru-hike on the Appalachian Trail you know a few things in advance. You know it will be hard, you know you will be dirty and wet and smelly. You know you’ll likely lose some weight. You also know that that you will go through some form of transformation, you’ll change in some way, maybe many ways. One of the things that hit me while hiking in Vermont and Massachusetts was that the trail teaches you acceptance.

You see when you are out on the trail, life is simplified to the basics, food, shelter, the weather. The simple fact is that many of the things you deal with each day are completely out of your control. On the trail you have to accept the topography, whether you will climb big hills, do sharp descents, walk over rocks and in mud, or on heavenly flat trails, you just have to walk. I’ve taken to not asking hikers I pass going the other way about the trail ahead, it doesn’t matter. I know the profile and the distances from the guide I carry, but whether it will be hard or easy is first a matter of opinion, and secondly it doesn’t matter. No matter what the trail holds, we’re going to walk it, so what’s coming really starts to not matter, it’s just another hill man. You have to accept the trail for what it is and even more importantly find happiness in not only smooth descents, but in the hard climbs and the rocky trails. If you can’t get to this point, the trail can be a very hard place indeed. And in the end this is an absolutely perfect metaphor being happy in life.

The other big thing on the trail that you have absolutely no control over is the weather. We all know that we will get rained on while we are on the trail. However, sometimes it can be a bit daunting. Starting the trail in early March it rained, sleeted or snowed 12 out of the first 14 days on the trail. It was a bit much, it almost broke me, I hadn’t quite gotten to the point of acceptance yet. During my week on the trail in Vermont we got wet and basically stayed at least damp the rest of the week. When it rains a lot, the humidity stays up, your gear stays wet, it’s unpleasant but it is what it is and you will have weeks like this on the trail so you just have to come to accept it.

Acceptance doesn’t mean you don’t take precautions, I blue blazed Albert Mountain in bad weather because of a bad knee and my poor descending skills. I’ve stayed an extra day in town or delayed returning to the trail to miss a day of bad weather. But once on the trail I accept what’s coming, this attitude has made being on the trail a much happier experience. Being wet, tired, smelly, climbing big hills and hard terrain is all part of doing a thru-hike and with that acceptance comes a level of happiness that sustains you on the trail.

The real trick in life is to find ways to take that level of acceptance and transfer it to life in the default world. Can you learn to accept that you’ll be cut off in traffic, that pipes will break, the cable will go out and that the package that you paid extra to have arrive on Friday isn’t coming until Monday. If you can, maybe, just maybe, we can be as happy in our default world lives as a thru-hiker on the Appalachian Trail. ~ Rev Kane

Happiness Resources: Improving Your Mood

Posted on March 31, 2020 by Michael Kane

Happiness Resources: Improving Your Mood

So tonight a tour around the web to find some resources to help you improve your mood. Hey, no matter where we are on the road to happiness, improving your mood is always a good thing and will always lead to a happier day my friends ~ Rev Kane

Improve your mood in 5 minutes

From Tiny Buddha, 30 Ways to Improve Your Mood

10 Simple Ways to Improve Your Mood

15 Natural Mood Lifters

Exercise and Improving Your Mood

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How to Happily Shelter in Place

Posted on March 30, 2020 by Michael Kane

How to Happily Shelter in Place

When setbacks arise – and they will from time to time – regroup, recharge, refocus and refine ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

So tonight I wanted to address something that we are all going through, sheltering in place. It’s been two weeks for me now and as I’ve written about before, life hasn’t changed all that terribly much for me. But I know that’s not the case for most of you. There are pros and cons to every situation and for those of us who live alone, we don’t have someone around to interact with, but we also get to have alone time, space to ourselves. Particularly for those of you who are at home with little kids, time alone has become a precious and rare thing.

So tonight some suggestions about staying sane at home, I hope they help you have happy days my friends. ~ Rev Kane

Relax – I know, part of the issue some of us are facing is the shelter in place order is that we’re relaxing a bit too much. And I would do my best to avoid Netflix and chill becoming your entire way of life. But mental relaxation is going to be essential because we have all been traumatized by what’s happening to some extent. We have to realize this and recognize that the stress this is causing us is real. So we have to address that stress or it will eat us up inside and we’ll take it out on who is available and those are the people we’re sheltering in place with. So this means you have to employ all of the things you know reduce stress and make you feel better.

Establish routines, mostly for the purpose of making sure you consistently do the right things. You need to eat, and eat well, don’t let this become a junk food fest. As the order came down I heard someone say, people are either going to come out of this looking fantastic, or like a dumpster fire. Chips, Cheetos, cookies and the couch lead to the dumpster fire. But eating as healthy as possible, taking time away from the news and the screens in your life, having a schedule and getting enough sleep take you to a much better place and will help you reduce your stress levels.

Self-Care – I know, it’s the cool in term right now but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong. You have to take care of yourself, even while you’re responsible for having to take care of everyone else. So that means find those spaces in the day or the evening. Perhaps that’s late at night, or early morning, perhaps it’s during nap time. If you have a partner to help, then each of you have to let the other get some time off the hook and alone. It may just be time for a cup of coffee or tea, a little time to read a book or meditate, maybe it’s 15 minutes to do a few yoga posses or take a quick walk or run, whatever your into. But you need these things for your own well-being.

Breathe – And yes, this means exactly what it sounds like, remember to breathe. The techniques in the link are all very simple. And you don’t need to find a special place or have a meditation pillow or even, if you are in a house with little kids, necessarily even find a quiet place. But a few times a day it’s really good for you just to stop, and do a little deep breathing. It’s such a small thing but it really can relieve a good deal of stress and make you feel better.

Distraction – At some level we will all need to be distracted from the reality of our situation. It’s bad folks, we all know that, that’s where the trauma comes from. If the worst estimates come true for the epidemic, we will all in some way, likely be touched by illness and death from Covid19. Even if the better estimates play out, we have all been impacted by the shelter in place rules, we will all see effects from the impact to the economy as a result of the pandemic.

So yeah, distract yourself, stream some TV and movies, read a good book, play music, draw, paint, play video games and do whatever you need to in order to forget yourself for awhile. Hell, that includes taking naps, sitting in the sun or just doing nothing at all for a time. A few days ago I did a post where I listed a huge list of online ways to distract yourself. Have some fun folks.

Find something new – This is a great time to find something new to learn. That could mean doing like I am and working on a new language. Duolingo is a free online language learning site that’s somewhat gamified to make it fun. Pull that guitar out of the closet that you haven’t played in five years. Order a penny whistle off of Amazon and take up playing it. I’ve also been doing some crossword puzzles online as a form of entertainment and of course I’ve been writing. So try something new, heck create a fun research project to do online or even take an online course.

Stay connected to others – The fact is, that although it’s called social distancing, it’s really about physical distancing. It doesn’t mean you have to isolate yourself from the people you care about in your life. So reach out to friends and family, especially those folks you’ve lost touch with. Just don’t hang out with them in person do it with technology. Heck if possible, even give someone a call, yes an actual phone call. This weekend I taught my 78 year-old mother how to video chat on Facebook. We’re also planning to put together a family Zoom call next weekend. So reach out and say hi to those people you care about.

Develop routines – I think it’s important to keep some routines while working at home and sheltering in place. Try and go to sleep and get up at the same time everyday. Establish some daily exercise routines, eat at the same times, basically keep yourself scheduled. But also don’t be afraid to schedule some time to do fun things or even a time to do absolutely nothing.

Get outside – I don’t care if it’s to walk, or run or just sit in the sun, but get outside. The sun helps your body produce vitamin D that’s been indicated to help you fight off disease. The fresh air, the sun, the chirping birds, blue sky and the blooming flowers will all make you feel just a little bit better about everything, trust me.

Keep it all in perspective – Yes, it’s bad. Yes, there are tough times ahead for all of us. I think it’s important that we’re not delusional. This situation is going to last for a time, I think June 1st is the optimistic date, September 1st for the pessimists among us. But regardless of which timeline it is, I can tell you this, our shelter in place reality will end. A time will come in the next months where we will start to get out of our houses more. When we will be going physically back to work, when children will be returning to school. Life likely won’t start feeling normal again until the fall, but it will happen. None of us will ever be the same again, but we will get past this and find a new normal.

So there’s certainly things to look forward to, and start developing those plans in your heads, a little positive daydreaming might go a long way right now. Be safe and well my friends. ~ Rev Kane

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My Covid Times Diary, March 28th

Posted on March 29, 2020 by Michael Kane

My Covid Times Diary, March 28th

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ~ Albert Einstein

Although we are on a shelter in place order, and under orders to do social distancing, which really should be called physical distancing, I need to walk or run every day. I need to for a number of reasons. First off, for health reasons, I have to do cardio to keep my blood pressure and heart condition under control, it also helps with my blood sugar regulation. It also helps my sanity, although I might be an introvert, I’m also and outdoors person, so I need to leave the apartment at least once a day and stretch my legs. I often do this downtown where I live, I have a little two mile route worked out that I run or walk most days. At least once a week I drive over to the coast (3 miles) to take a walk by the ocean.

But as we all know, our world is changing and changing quickly. Walking by lots of stores and restaurants there are all manner of new signs on the windows and doors. Some them are handwritten, some nicely typed, all talk about the new normal.

It’s hard walking the streets of any city right now and not to see the changes that are occurring. At your feet the litter is even different, more and more now on the street and in the parking lots the litter includes surgical gloves, masks and Clorox wipes. People are obviously afraid to have these in their car after they have been out and about and decide instead just to throw them on the ground, a really sad statement on our species.

You can see social distancing at work, and not so at work, not just in the signs on stores. But also as you see people spaced several feet apart as they are waiting for takeout food or to go into a small shop. Hell at Trader Joes they actually have tape marks several feet apart to make sure the distancing stays in effect in the line. At the farmers market this weekend, you could actively see some people keeping distance while others would just pushed right up next to you to get the “right” pepper. Some of the vendors are very careful about the way they handle items, others handle everything three times. I have noticed that amazingly, everything now is rounded to the nearest dollar so that handling change has been reduced to a minimum.

On Friday, after a very long and stressful week, I decided to take an extra long walk. My two-mile loop doubled by walking up and around the local mall and post office before coming back to my normal route. Getting to the mall was a real eye opener, there were few things open, a restaurant and a Target. But after passing around the parking garage I came up the stairs to a scene from a dystopian film.

Everything was closed up, a lonely trailer was sitting in the loading bay of JC Penneys. The parking lot had a single van sitting in it and although it couldn’t have been long, it felt like it had been there for years. As I walked around the corner of the mall where a Sears had been closed down and boarded up, there was nothing in the parking lots, but oddly, a forklift just sitting in a lot like the driver had just stopped, got off, and walked away. It was eerie has hell, sound echoed off of the parking garages and empty buildings. Crows soared on the thermals between the buildings. It was like the whole world had ended and I was the only person left.

Of course the world hasn’t ended, it still moves along. There is traffic on the road, a lot of restaurants and of course the supermarkets are open. We take our precautions, we take care and so far, we keep moving forward. ~ Rev Kane

Worry the enemy of happiness

Posted on March 28, 2020 by Michael Kane

Worry the enemy of happiness

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will ~ Epictetus

I seem to know an awful lot of people who worry a great deal. I’m constantly being told things like be safe, call me when you get there, and grilled from top to bottom about my next trip. Now, maybe it’s just because they care about me and I happen to go on adventures that most people deem, well, a little nutty.

It does seem though that their worry extends beyond my occasional nuttiness. It also may have something to do with the fact that in my life I’m surrounded by women. According to a really interesting article of Gallup Poll results women are significantly more likely to worry than men. So great, people are going to worry and given we live in a world with disease, war, poverty and lawyers it makes a bit of sense. Heck biologically worry is actually a good thing, it forces us to prepare for potential dangers it’s when worry is overboard that we have an issue.

So what are the issues and what can we do:

Be realistic, don’t worry about an asteroid hitting earth, first the odds are incredibly low and you can’t do anything about it. Also, don’t be overly concerned with crime, the violent crime rate in America has been declining for the last twenty years and is about that same as it was in the old days, the mid-70’s, this trend exists for almost every type of crime we just hear about them more because of the 24 hour cable news cycle. The message, it’s ok to worry but worry about something worth worrying about.

Is the problem solvable, really, why are you worrying, is it something that you have no control over? If so, than great, stop worrying just to worry and start thinking about how you can solve the problem. If not, then really try to stop worrying because you can’t do anything about it.

Make the choice for happiness, and I know that’s not easy, no one snaps their fingers and stops worrying but work on worrying less, work on being happier. Of course you’re reading this and it’s a good start, take the advice we put forth here to heart, it can help you be happier and that emotion is more powerful than worry.

Remember worry is contagious, this is significant in a couple of ways, first stay away from other worriers or people who feed your fears. Secondly, be aware of the fact that your worrying can impact your children and others around you. Don’t spread your worrying.

Finally, as with everything, relax, breathe, take time to let things go and focus on the good, hug your kids, spend time with your lover, surround yourself with positive helpful people and have a happy day my friends ~ Rev Kane

My Covid Times Diary – Anxiety

Posted on March 27, 2020 by Michael Kane

My Covid Times Diary – Anxiety (March 26th)

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. ~ Rev Kane

So my original intention was to write this diary once a week, I’d fill it in, in bits and tie it up in a nice bow on Tuesday nights and send it out. That’s still the plan, but after yesterday I realized that at least for this week, I needed to write one a bit earlier.

Anxiety

I’m not an anxious person, not a worrier, I have a tendency to attack issues that are bothering me and if they can’t be addressed, I’m pretty good at letting them go. I have a lot of worriers in my life, you know who you are. I’ve been making a point as the whole Covid19 issue has been growing, to reach out and try and talk them down a bit. As I mentioned in my last post, overall, my biggest worries with all of this are for members of my family and I’m doing what I can to help with those situations.

You can see the anxiety all around us as the pandemic first entered, and now has firmly taken hold in America. You can see worried posts online, you can see it as people write about their new situations, their struggles juggling work, home schooling and sheltering in place. You can even see it in the way people are even attacking each other, you can see that their anger is really just their anxiety manifesting itself onto someone else.

I’m generally fairly immune to most of this, but I guess no one is completely immune at the moment as I learned yesterday. Work has fully transitioned to a remote clone of it’s in person self. Yesterday was one of those typical days where every conversation seemed to turn into a knife fight. Innocent emails were interpreted as nefarious acts spawning conspiracy theories, outbursts and anger. Now I get it, I know a lot of it is just people currently existing in uncertain situations filled with change and anxiety. So they aren’t on their best game, yet it never feels good to be dealing with angry and anxious people acting out especially when they direct it at you.

One of the things you realize when you’re stressed, and have no doubt anxiety is just another form of stress, is that what falls away from you first is your emotional reserves. That emotional cushion that allows you to take some hits to your psyche, not react and bounce back. I realized last night that I was in that state, that the day had gotten to me a little more than it should have. There is a feeling that I hate more than anything in the world, it’s the feeling I would have, that knot in my stomach I would get as a kid when my father was drunk and on a rampage, screaming at my mother. I found myself with a minor bit of that feeling last night, that was the big tip off for me of where I was.

So I did what I do, I did a little writing, listened to a little music and laid down and meditated awhile watching my psychedelic lights. I nodded off watching a television show I like. I slept restlessly last night but woke up feeling a bit better. Today helped a lot, we got some great news for a couple of our programs. I watched my Cosmetology faculty and staff in a less than two hours completely revamp their program to deal with our new reality. It was an amazing demonstration of collaborative work, out of the box thinking and truly caring about students and what’s best for them. I was massively impressed and in awe of them all. Then a bit later a faculty member shared a really uplifting note she got from one of her students. Those reminders of why we do what we do really helped today.

What’s Coming

For all of us, that anxiety we’re feeling is likely to really ramp up over the next few weeks. A couple of things are about to happen, testing is expanding across the country so we are going to see a lot more positive cases. Second, the infection is going to continue spreading, today the US registered a higher number of cases than any other country on earth. So those numbers are going to get really scary, the news headlines will get ugly. The amount of stress and anxiety people have will expand. You also may see tighter restrictions on people, more shelter in place orders, schools are out until May and likely for the year. As all of this starts to settle in, people are going to get very anxious.

So get ready, people will get snippy, shorter with you, blow ups will be far more frequent on you social media platforms. But I have some great advice for you, unplug. You know what you need to know at this point. You know you have to social distance, you know going out to anyplace with people is a bad idea. The only thing you’re learning from the news and your social media is the equivalent of the details of a car crash. You don’t need that, it’s not good for you. So, listen to more music, watch more videos, read more books, in a socially responsible way get out of the house and walk, run, but most of all enjoy having the sun on your face. Be kinder than normal, be patient.

I know it sounds biblical as hell, but this too shall pass. We will come out the other side, but it’s going to be a hell of a ride the next two weeks, make sure you protect your psyche and take care of yourself. As always, you can reach out to me if you need to Happinesskane@aol.com helping someone else always make me, and likely you, feel a little bit better. ~ Michael “Rev” Kane

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