It's heating up....

          I am spreading myself around as much as I can. A new place, so much to see, to discover.  I luxuriate in the nature on my doorstep, although it's mostly passive, a enjoyment of sight and sounds. Pure relaxation, akin to natural mediation. The middle of the day, even in the shade is now best avoided. With the heat of the sun heating up, as it's now nearly October. Soon, they tell me, it will be 'puddle time', when any movement breaks you out in a sweat. it will be as it was, when I was living in Darwin, Australia. There you definitely fit in with the climate, rising early, breakfast outside, with the birds. Get the chores done early, and try to avoid too much movement in the middle of the day, waiting until the day cools down again. Never having been here in Brasil during the hottest season before, this will be new to me. I must say I am looking forward to going through the whole season. Which is over the Christmas period. I am sure the heat will automatically organise much of ones day. I certainly have no intention of leaving the sun, to return to the Northern hemisphere and the cold. No way hosay!

  

          It starts you thinking how climate effect life styles, and health. As for me, with slight asthma, every cold goes to my chest. With this small problem of mine, the climate is already proving a boon. Yes, the cold virus went to my chest as usual, but this time there is no infection, and less than a week later it's nearly gone. Instead of hanging on for week, after week. Wonderful...a great start to the hot season. I am happy already. The germs are a little different here. I guess that's usual, every country has it's own strains of virus and infections. It's quite easy to see and feel how they effect you differently from the usual home grown ones. But I digress, I wasn't thinking of infections so much as general health and well being if being in a different climate. Because most people feel better for a bit of sun.      

Even disregarding the vitimin D and spending more time in the fresh air. Both of which are beneficial.

            I must say, all you want to do here, is shed clothes, that is why the beach is just ideal. No shocking the natives with unprecedented amounts of flesh around the town. ha ha. Or, LOL as they say now.....Although there are plenty of people wandering around there with no qualms at all. I guess it's the English in me, concerned about such things. Perhaps because in England and the Continent, there are rules and regulations governing the amount of clothes worn once off the beach. No beach clothes around town ya boo! There are no such rules here my friends, about anything much at all really.

            

             So, of course, climate effects how you dress, what you eat. After all, who can face big meals with lots of carbs? Not me! I do still love my potatoes of course, but in small quantities, occasionally. Food then, tends to be lighter, and smaller in quantities. Of course, not so the Brasilians. I watch most of them eat unprecedented amounts of food, even the women. How do they do that? If I ate half of that on a regular basis I would be the size of a small horse, or maybe even a large one.

            Perhaps I will acclimatise, my metablismn speed up or something. Although reflecting to when living in my last tropical climate, my eating habits changed for a long time. I became only a fish eater, I could not face meat, or much else. All very good for your weight and general well being of course. I became very fit and slim. Well, bring that on I say! I am considerably older this time of course, but that doesn't matter. No reason for it to be any different. You might say, like Charles Dickens, I have Great Expectations! Positive thought and all that. After all, thinking in positve ways, got me here, now it will bring the rest to me too.

             No, allow no negative events, or situations to sit in your mind. Allow only the positive to flourish within you. With the negative, of which we all have some, you take what action you are able, then forget them. Concentrate on how wonderful your location, your meal, your friends, your inner harmony, your expectations. Anything else is wasted energy and opportunity.

           Whatever climate  you find yourselves in my friends, enjoy the positives of it, downplay the negatives. It's the only way to roll.

             Happy days, and good health to you all.........