The Bluebird Patch

Gwinnett County Parks and Recreation and Live Healthy Gwinnett are celebrating National Public Health Week with a festival April 10. Spring Break Out Family Wellness Festival, set to be held at Rhodes Jordan Park in Lawrenceville, is a free event starting at 5 p.m. and intended to encourage positive health habits. Participants will experience health and wellness exhibitors, fitness demos, educational performances and park-wide family activities. The event also includes the GLOW 3k Fun Walk/Run at 8:00 p.m., which costs $12 total per person, and a free movie on the lawn afterwards. Registration for the 3k ends April 2. Rhodes Jordan Park is located at 100 East Crogan St. For more information, visit www.gwinnettparks.com or call 770-822-8869.

Get Heart Smart. This free event will offer a complimentary heart-healthy breakfast, free educational and fitness classes, discounted screenings, a heart-healthy cooking contest with local firefighters and GMC associates, giveaways to inspire a heart healthy lifestyle including iPods, local gym memberships and much more! TO REGISTER, PLEASE CALL: 678-312-5000

An original animated film by Edward Monkton. Watching it is likely to make you a happier person. Sharing it with your friends is likely to make them happier too. So spread the love & press play.

  1. Happiness Enhances Health: Recent research suggest that people who are happy, lively, calm or exhibit other positive emotions are less likely to become ill when they are exposed to a cold virus than those who report few of these emotions.  2. Processed Foods: If you are suffering from anxiety related disorders and sleeplessness, it might be be due to your consumption of overly processed food. Heavily processed foods are laden with sodium, which adds to depression. Therefore, canned food, fast food, and pre-packaged dehydrated food should be consumed with caution and in controlled amounts. 3. Lack of exposure to sunlight: Sunlight exposure is the only reliable way to generate vitamin D in your own body. Did you know that healing rays of natural sunlight (that generate vitamin D in your skin) cannot penetrate glass; therefore, you cannot generate vitamin D when sitting in your car or home.  4. Lack of pets: There are many therapeutic benefits from being a...

Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our "experiencing selves" and our "remembering selves" perceive happiness differently. This new insight has profound implications for economics, public policy -- and our own self-awareness.

What are Bluebird People? Bluebird People are learning to embrace the beauty, love, and happiness that live within themselves. In mythology a bluebird is a guardian of all passages and transitions that we make or are about to make. Bluebirds are considered a sign of spring and a symbol of love, happiness, prosperity, and good health. Bluebirds have life long partners and are therefore one of the few animals that have relationships. The legend says that when a bluebird shows up, we are about to see a change in the climate. Darkness will soon fade and more sunshine will arrive. Bluebirds hold the energy of gentleness. They are not aggressive and will avoid confrontation whenever possible. They are patient and observant birds and choose to spend their time enjoying life, however, if a bluebird is provoked it will stand its ground and defend itself.