Be Well Be Green™

Be Well.

That’s an easy one. When we say “be well”, our good intentions are for one’s well-being — physically, emotionally, spiritually, un-stressfully…ad infinitum. Overall, the intention is to wish one a good life, in its various meanings.

Be Green.

Here at The Oxygen Plan, living in the green encompasses all of the above and more. Being green is being healthy and fulfilled in all areas of your life that have caused stress. The goal of our program is to make stress manageable for you; to lessen it or teach you how to discard it, completely. That’s what we call living or being in the green!

When you think about it, this concept of stress management is a natural progression of wellness; a function and continuation of it. Think of all the positive things we associate with the color or natural condition of being green. We hate to disagree with Kermit the Frog, but there is nothing easier than being green.

Newly grown grass is beautifully moist and green, displaying the health and natural growth of the soil and land beneath it. Whether or not you like them, many iron-rich vegetables are green and fun to eat. (Broccoli is definitely more of a finger food than a fork food.) Yes, “greens” are good for you but they also look pretty on your plate. (No cheating. Salads do count as vegetables.) How hard is this, to imagine? Not at all!

An interior decorator will tell you to stick something green- colored in a blah room, to perk it up. The same color that energizes also soothes the eye and the mood. Ask a five-year-old to draw a picture of the greater outdoors and they will, invariably, horizontally dissect the paper to accommodate sky and the land below. A generously crayoned baby blue sky—with black check marks for birds—will meet at an appropriately deemed horizon, beneath which sits an equally generous expanse of green. There may even be something resembling a tree— a broomstick looking thing, brown at the base, with green leafy things on top. “Green” also describes newness and beginnings. A trainee at work, for example, is “green” and doesn’t know the scope of a new job the minute they start working. Green is hopeful.

Being green is stress reducing. It encompasses a positive and advantageous state of mind— fertile with life-fueling vitality—waiting to become a lifestyle, waiting to live in the green.