"SYNERGICITY" as the ALTERNATIVE MINDSET to INDEPENDENCE

Due to Halloween, grandkids, and travel, the Eyres didn't record this week and asked us to pick a favorite re-run...which we did. Richard and Linda will be back live next week with the latest in their How To Live series. "Casting from Las Vegas today, the Eyres finish a discussion they started last episode about the 3-letter lesson ALM referring to the acts of mercy and compassion that Jesus called alms. An act of service or lifting is called an "almdeed" in the New Testament. They then juxtaposition that word with the 3-letter lesson WIN which is a blessing when we make it a win-win, and a curse when we make it a win-lose."

Today the Eyres suggest that "Independence" is a mindset for the first half of life which proves, in the second half and in the spiritual and emotional and social sense to be a lie. We are dependent on God and interdependent on strangers, as well as on those we love. An alternative mindset called "Synergicity" is suggested and metaphors and examples are given.

The Eyres are devoting their October podcasts to How to Live the Second Half of life MENTALLY, and this episode contrasts the "Ownership mindset" with the "Stewardship mindset. The former leads to comparing and competing on many levels and promotes win-lose attitudes and grows branches of envy, jealousy, superiority and condescension. The latter is about win-win and sprouts cooperation, empathy, and peace.

The Eyres advocate a paradigm-shift in the second half of life that moves away from the desire for control and instead adopts the mindset of Serendipity, defined as being able, through sensitivity, awareness and spiritual guidance, to frequently find something better than that which we were seeking. They tell their serendipity-discovering journey through Sri Lanka and the British Museum and challenge us to join the quest.

In this episode, the Eyres transition from second-half living PHYSICALLY to second-half living MENTALLY which will be the podcast's focus for October. They point out that the fear of mental decline is greater in most people than physical worries, and frame the focus not only on our minds but on our mind-sets, and on getting away from the first-half notions of control, ownership and independence.

Today the Eyres conclude their September theme of "How to Live the Second Half of Life PHYSICALLY" with an episode on how much the PLACES where we spend our time impact our physical health and well-being. Sub-themes are travel, beauty, awareness, perspective, and mother earth. They conclude the show by introducing the October theme of Living life's Second Half MENTALLY.

September is the Eyres month on How to Live the Second Half of Life PHYSICALLY, and in this episode they discuss the management of medical care, taking charge of your own health and using doctors as your consultants, getting the tests that will save you from a catastrophic health surprise, and finding a doctor you can communicate with as a friend. It all ties into https://valuesparenting.com/how-to-live/.

Linda says, "We talked last week about how putting higher quality lower quantity food into your body makes it work better. But you've still got to make your body work! In other words, to be healthier, we need to improve the input and also the output." The Eyres give physical advice connected to https://valuesparenting.com/how-to-live/ and to Instagram.com/HTLsecondhalf.

In this episode, Richard and Linda share their own journey from "gulp, guzzle and gorge" to "sip, savor, and smell" and talk about how we can change our fundamental relationship with food and bridle and train our appetites so that they begin to demand more quality and less quantity in what we eat.

In this episode, the Eyres discuss the diet book that Richard wrote nine years ago, and the theory that if we can control the quantity of food we eat, our bodies (our appetites) will start to demand quality rather than quantity, and we will begin to crave healthy foods and be repelled by junk food. Like putting a bridle on a horse, when we limit our intake, we train our appetite to work for us rather than against us.