July 2007 Issue
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How good marriage can be for ones spirit. The invisible bond that ties two people together. I have now entered into my second marriage. I currently am loving every minute of it. It is unbelievable how mature my new relationship is. I look back into the past and see how childish my old relationship was. My old relationship was so destructive and volatile, However I have learned many lessons from that relationship. I met a very wise man when I was going through my divorce. He said "You have to treat a relationship like a garden. You have to prepare the soil and make sure it can support the plants. Then you have to plant the seeds and give them lots of water and sunshine. You have to put in lots of hard work to keep it healthy and help it grow." That is when I realized you have to really work at a relationship with lots of give and take, caring and understanding.
A Change of Focus by Acquiredhope
Changing Focus:
Approximately 290 million people in the U.S. are coping with a chronic medical condition that results in impairments, disabilities or alters their way of living. Often, this level of disability is a result of three things; the medical condition itself, the environment or support systems and thirdly, the individual’s focus. Anyone who is coping with a medical condition has an opportunity to improve their level of function and ability. That should be their focus, as this is something they can control. In success of any kind, it is really all about focus. Often times, when an individual is coping with a disabling injury, disease or chronic illness, they are focused on the negative impact, the losses and the new disability or lack of ability to do things that they were once able to do. Anyone learn to focus on their abilities or “difabilities”, as opposed to their disabilities. This change of focus can bring about higher levels of function, advance recovery and provide them with tools to help them achieve things they did not think they could achieve.
Common Negative Thoughts:
One of the most critical steps in recovery of a chronic illness or injury is changing the chronic ways of thought. It is these chronic, negative thoughts that often are what keeps people ill. When one is preoccupied with health, when it is all one talks about and focuses on, it remains. If one explores the most common thoughts and emotions an individual has when coping with a chronic illness, injury or disease, one will see that the majority of these emotions are negative emotions. Negative emotions do not make us feel good. These negative emotions can be detrimental to a patient’s recovery if they remained focused on them. Some of the negative emotions that one can experience when coping with the loss of health or function are described below.
Powerlessness:
Chronic illnesses and accidentally injuries can often times appear uncontrollable and unpredictable. People may feel as if they have lost control over their bodies and their future. Loss of control feels like powerlessness. When people feel powerlessness, they may also feel hopeless, anger and fear.
However, if one learns how to change the feelings of powerlessness and replace them with positive thoughts, such as passion, optimism, hope and enthusiasm. They can see that they are indeed capable of many wondrous things, and that they have control and power over many aspects of their health and body. You can also take control of your health by improving your finances and finding ways of creating passive income so you have more time and flexibility to heal yourself. I recommend studying the science behind success and work at home network marketing opportunities, www.inspirednhopeful.theSGRprogram.com and www.acquiredhope.com for free resources.
Fear:
Fear plays a big part in the emotional pain of chronic illness, injury or disease. A person may become afraid of many things, including the progression of a disease, the increasing loss of control or increasing disability, the outcome, the relapses or re-injuries. A person may be afraid of their how family members, friends and co-workers feel about them, now that they have an injury or illness. They may have financial fears, fear of losing the ability to work or not sustaining a current income or position. Finding new ways to generate income or work at home opportunities can allow the individual to have more time to heal and recover and reduce any fear over finances. Free resources are available on www.inspirednhopeful.theSGRprogram.com and www.acquiredhope.com.
Additionally, they may fear not being able to support their loved ones. Fear can sneak up on them and fear can overwhelm them on a continual basis. It is important to learn how to replace feelings of fear with good emotions and to learn to focus on abilities and good health. Fear is said to be the expectation that something bad will happen, learning to replace this emotion with expectations of something great will indeed bring about abundance.
Anger:
Individuals with a disease or condition may experience anger. There may be anger against their bodies for “failing” them. There may be a sense of betrayal. There may be anger at the meaningless of their disease, injury or condition. Or they may blame themselves or others for their condition and current situation. They may express anger at life, the medicine they take and their side effects, the doctors for not curing them and their friends and family members for not understanding them or responding to them the way they would like at that exact moment. There may be anger when people make allowances for them and then when they do not.
It is important to understand that anger is a very powerful negative emotion. If a person does not harness this emotion, the negativity may turn into self-destruction. However, if a person can learn to harness and control it and turn it into positive energy, such as determination, passion, optimism and hope, the rewards can be staggering. It is really all about a change of focus.
Jealousy:
Envy, resentment and jealousy are emotional reactions that are hard to separate from one another and are difficult to eliminate from our thought patterns. To be envious, is to wish you had something that someone else had. To be resentful, is to be angry and bitter because you do not have something that someone else has. For those with a chronic illness, injury or disease the thing that they want and do not think that they have, is health and full function. Because our culture is competitive in nature and there is such an emphasis on perfection and images that reflect the “perfect” person in magazines and in movies, when a patient is coping with an illness or condition, these feelings and emotions can be a monumental influence on their lives. A patient will need to learn to stop comparing themselves to what others have and what they look like and take themselves out of the competitive plane and focus on the abilities and strengths that they do have.
Grief:
When coping with the onset of a chronic illness, injury or disease, grief can be one of the stages a patient may go through as they progress towards acceptance. There are typically three phases of grief: 1) Denial, 2) Emotional pain, 3) Acceptance.
Change can involve loss. Grieving involves focusing and feeling sad for our losses. Grief becomes a debilitating emotion when one cannot get through all the phases to the acceptance phase, but rather adopts a chronically negative way of thinking instead.
There is a blessing in the grieving process. As one goes through the three phases, one feels pain and agony and then finally the peace of acceptance. To go through the entire process, gives us a deeply rooted faith that all bad things do pass, that there is some way to deal with everything, no matter how hard or how bad it is, and that we will come out in the light. We are left ready and fully prepared to start over and rebuild.
The chronic injury or illness experience can be a good thing. In David Letterman fashion, I have created my own top ten list of the positives of the chronic injury or illness experience:
10) Your pharmacist knows you by name.
9)Otherwise complete strangers are your instant friends, as they now share a common bond of the injury or illness experience.
8) You find an inner strength and sense of empowerment that you never knew existed.
7) You grow closer to those who love and support you.
6) You find out who your true friends are.
5) You have an opportunity to re-invent your self.
4)You explore and create new work skills and talents, that otherwise may have been left undiscovered.
3) You simplify your life.
2) You slow down and start to focus on the things that are really important to you.
1) You have an opportunity to explore and expand your current balance of the mind, body and spirit. You can become more resilient.
When seeking better health or self improvement, a change of focus is often required in order to live fuller. Changing focus can be easy, once you learn the process of acquiring hope. To learn how to change your focus and attract good health, please visit www.acquiredhope.com for free resources and read “Acquired Hope: A Journey of Advanced Recovery and Empowerment”.
Ref:
“Acquired Hope: A Journey of Advanced Recovery and Empowerment” book and www.acquiredhope.com
The Secret to Getting Rich: http://www.inspirednhopeful.theSGRprogram.com
Nicole Matoushek, MPH, PT has 15 years of experience in clinical managed care and disability management. She is founder of www.ErgoRehabinc.com. Nicole has broken the disability cycle herself while battling Myasthenia Gravis and several other autoimmune diseases.
She has authored two books "Acquired Hope: A Journey of Advanced Recovery and Empowerment" and "365 Days of Abundant Hope" both available on http://www.acquiredhope.com.
Nicole lives each day in hope and is passionately dedicated to helping others succeed in obtaining abundant health, wealth and a fuller life! visit http://www.inspirednhopeful.theSGRprogram.com
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Breathing Exercises for Healthy Life | Pranayama | Deep Breathing Exercise by Alien Sheng
Breathing Exercises for a Peaceful and Healthy Lifestyle
Yoga is well known as it merges the mental meditation, physical yoga practices, and breathing exercises in order to strengthen the muscles and reduce the stress. The Physical yoga practice comprises of gentle movements, long stretches, and a deep relaxation of body and mind.
Yoga and meditation are increasing their popularity due to the stress filled and health conscious among the people all over the world. When you are thinking of starting yoga routine then you need to know that yoga incorporates poses, meditation, and breathing exercises.
The Significance of Breathing Exercises in Yoga Practice
Basically, breathing is important for the human body in two ways: It helps in providing the required amount of oxygen to all parts of the body and also acts as a means of eliminating the waste products and toxins from the body.
The Sanskrit word for the breathing exercises of yoga is pranayama. It is one of the five principles of yoga, which provides good breathing. Just practicing good breathing can provide an instantaneous enhancement in your health and life.
Practicing good breathing is treated as an exercise without using energy and total relaxation without stress or pressure. In a yogic viewpoint, a good breathing is to provide more oxygen to the blood and to the brain, and also to control the essential life energy.
Breathing is the sustenance of our body and a connection between the universe and deeper resources within us. Beating those resources enhances the alertness of our mind and provides a fresh new way of life.
Today, in our busy lives, breathing is a way to renovate the balance of our body, nourish our minds, and relate us to our inner source. Deep breathing is used to aid control panic, anxiety attacks, and mental stress. It is been found that there is a relationship between breathing and mental health.
So, just take some time to sit and practice breathing exercises regularly. It is best to take the time to practice deep breathing exercises, as it is the only thing that takes a little time to practice for our wellbeing.
In these days, breathing in short bursts; fast and shallow is very common. Our breathing is too shallow and too quick because we are not taking in sufficient or required amount of oxygen and are not eliminating sufficient carbon dioxide.
Today, people are in a hurry most of the time and there will be a stress of just living in today’s world. So, easily we are getting emotional, anxious, and angry towards simple things. That in turn causes to breathe shallow.
As we expend most of our time outdoors there is an increased exposure of our bodies to pollution and automatically our body breathes shallower in order to protect itself from pollution. Also, with our lack of physical activities there is an increased need for our body to take deep breaths.
Effects of Shallow Breathing
The effects of shallow breathing are several. Oxygen is the most important nutrient for our bodies and the production of energy in our body. It is essential for the integrity of our body parts. So, lack of oxygen will lead to a disability to resist diseases, as it is very essential to the health of our body cells.
The shallow breathing also have an effect on developing more and more diseases, catch more colds, and a big factor in cancer, heart disease, and strokes. So it is better to practice just a few breathing exercises to make your mind more alert when you don’t have sufficient time for a full yoga routine.
Benefits of Deep Breathing Exercises
Deep breathing exercises will provide the total relaxation of the body and mind. It also decreases the heart attack rate and the muscles get relax and regulates the brain function. That in turn, lessens the anxiety and stress.
An important part of the meditation process of yoga is Pranayama. In order to meditate well, you need to practice breathing exercise to help focus on the life force of your body.
Regularly practicing breathing exercises of yoga will make your mind prepared to enjoy the peacefulness and the presence of god or godliness. So, breathe deeply and practice breathing exercises in your way to have a more peaceful and healthy lifestyle.
Alien writes for pregnancy yoga. He also writes for yoga class and arthritis pain
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My Top 10 Health Recommendations by Dan Brown
These 10 health recommendations will help secure your health, and help you to live your life abundantly!
1. The most important thing that you can do to keep from getting sick is to wash your hands...
By frequently washing your hands you wash away germs that you have picked up from other people, from contaminated surfaces, or from animals. We pick up germs everywhere on a regular basis, so if you do not wash your hands frequently you will infect yourself when you touch your eyes, your nose, or your mouth.
One of the most common ways people catch colds is by rubbing their nose or their eyes after their hands have been contaminated with the cold virus.
Wash your hands frequently! Introduce the rule of every family member washing their hands when they get home. It is a quick and easy way to reduce the spreading of germs.
2. Put meals in a crock pot before you leave in the morning...
When you come home from a long day from where ever, the last thing you probably feel like doing is cooking dinner. So, we just throw together something quick and simple, therefore sacrificing our nutritional needs.
The real beauty of slow cooking is that a healthy, complete meal can be tossed in the crock in the morning and then ignored until dinnertime. This is a real plus for working families but also convenient for stay-at-home parents who may have enough to do without stirring and stewing over a more complex dish throughout the day.
3. Get unhealthy junk food out of the house...
You are most likely going to eat some regular junk food outside of your house, like at grandma's, or at some party somewhere. Given that fact, why keep junk food in your house? You can't eat what is not there, so set yourself up to succeed. Store healthy snacks instead.
Since we often eat without hunger (purely out of boredom or other emotional reason), we should have some healthy snacks in the house instead. You can go to any health food store and buy snacks that are made with natural ingredients, and that are low in fat and sugar.
4. Make exercise motivating by choosing an activity you enjoy....
Physical activity is a cornerstone of a healthy lifestyle. Not only does physical activity make you look and feel better, but it is also critical for improving your health and extending your life. Being active significantly lowers your chances of developing potentially fatal illnesses, including heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
In addition, remaining active throughout your life can help you stay healthy and disability-free as you age.
The real key is finding a physical activity that you enjoy and that you can do at least 3-4 times per week. If you are exercising out of necessity it will be short lived. Don't fake yourself out. The best form of exercise is one that you will stick with.
The ideal exercise regimen should suit your lifestyle, schedule, and present fitness level. Think about what forms of exercise you enjoy. You may love biking but hate swimming, for example. Also consider other factors. For example, do you prefer to exercise indoors or outdoors? Do you prefer exercising by yourself, or do you find that exercising with others is more motivating? Make it fun!
5. Use natural vitamin and mineral supplements...
Like the names imply, natural vitamins are in a form that occurs in nature while synthetic vitamins are manufactured in a laboratory. The only benefit of synthetic vitamins is that they are cheaper to make, therefore less expensive for the consumer. Natural vitamins are worth the few extra dollars they command.
Vitamins in nature occur within a family of micro-nutrients, trace elements, enzymes, co-factors and other unknown factors, that help them absorb into the human body and function to their full potential.
Natural vitamin supplements extracted from whole food sources maintain this delicate balance of complementary co-nutrients and are more biologically active.
Synthetic vitamins are usually isolated into that one pure chemical, thereby missing out on some of the additional benefits that nature intended. These man-made vitamin formulas often contain fillers, stabilizers and/or salts that decrease the content of what you want to ingest, may inhibit absorption and can actually deplete the body of other nutrients. Dollar for dollar, you may be absorbing more vitamins and getting more benefits from a natural supplement than the seemingly cheaper synthetic version.
Read supplement labels carefully to distinguish the natural from the synthetic. Some products marketed as "natural" only contain 10% natural ingredients. You're best bet is to look for food sources on the labels - things like citrus, yeast, fish or vegetable names. If there is a chemical-sounding name or no source listed, it is most likely a synthetic vitamin.
6 Drink plenty of water...
Water is excellent and necessary for the body and overall good health. Every part of your body needs water to work properly, and it needs a lot of water, so give in to it.
If you give yourself more water you will generally feel healthier and more fit because it flushes out toxins and other unwanted things lingering in your body. Water also replenishes fluids that help lubricate the internal components of your body, keeps you hydrated, reduces hunger (which helps with weight loss), helps to make skin look smooth and young, plus a load of many other benefits, probably even some yet to be discovered.
If you are not used to drinking water, it may seem hard at first. But, very quickly, you will enjoy the clean, refreshing way it makes you feel!
7. Get your hormones checked...
Low thyroid, low progesterone, and low testosterone are all very common and usually result in excessive weight gain, low energy, low libido, fatigue, muscle weakness, headaches, irritability, and a host of other symptoms.
Getting your hormones tested is very simple... All you need to do is order a saliva test kit, spit into a tube, send your tube to a doctor who understands bio-identical hormones, have him/her write you a prescription, and then have your prescription filled at a compound pharmacy.
I recommend everyone have their hormone levels checked once every year, especially if you are over 30 years old!
If you have any of the above listed symptoms, your hormone levels could have dropped off considerably over the years leaving you feeling like your half dead. I know, I've been there. It's worth doing!
8. Get regular physical check ups...
This includes the regular medical routine all men and women should have, plus regular dental cleanings, eye exams, and chiropractic adjustments. Don't wait until your sick. An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure.
9. Search for natural remedies to what ails you...
Most people will let their doctor tell them what they need, or do not need. If you have a great amount of faith in your doctor, then that's good. But, most people will go along with whatever the doctor tells them without researching the facts on their own. It's your body and your health on the line.
Be open minded! There are a lot of natural products that can alleviate a lot of specific symptoms that you may be taking medications for. Medications can be very helpful in some cases but they are extremely toxic to the body. If you can find a natural replacement, or better yet, a natural cure for your health situation instead of a drug, then you'll be better off. Be proactive! It's your health and no one should care more about that than you.
10. Keep the stress away as much as possible...
It has been found that most illness is related to unrelieved stress. If you are experiencing stress symptoms, you have gone beyond your optimal stress level! You need to reduce the stress in your life and/or improve your ability to manage it.
First of all, determine what events distress you and determine how your body is responding to the stress.
Second, see if you can change your stressors by avoiding or eliminating them completely. Is there any way you can shorten your exposure?
And third, reduce the intensity of your emotional reactions. This is simply attitude. 10% of life is what happens to you, and 90% is how you react to it.
Some additional tips to help combat stress include; Exercise three to four times a week, eat well-balanced meals, maintain your ideal weight, avoid nicotine and excessive caffeine, mix leisure with work, take breaks and get away when you can, get enough sleep and be as consistent with your sleep schedule as possible.
Again, these 10 health recommendations will help secure your health, and help you to live your life abundantly!
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Online travel extras that save time and money by Andy Burrows
When booking a holiday, most people focus on the big decisions first while hoping that the little things like travel insurance and even airport parking fall into place. Some don’t even bother considering either.
But after sorting out the destination, flights and accommodation, it pays to get these little extras arranged before you travel to make sure the holiday goes smoothly. Besides, those little extras can quickly turn into big extras, price-wise, if left unattended. This is especially true of travel insurance.
By visiting travel-insurance-discounts it is possible to get competitive quotes on travel insurance packages that will keep you covered in just a matter of minutes. By filling in the necessary details in the search engine on the homepage, you will soon be presented with a list of coverage options, from Standard to Essential Plus. For single trips of up to a month to destinations in Europe, for example, travel insurance begins at less than £12.
The advantage here is that you can see all the details of the various coverage plans on screen, make a selection and pay by credit card without having to leave home. If the worst does come to the worst while you’re away, you’ll get full travel insurance coverage and therefore minimise possible hassles and costs.
The Essential Plus travel insurance package, for instance, covers against passport loss or theft, muggings, delayed departures and even airplane hijackings. In fact, it just about covers any possible scenario that could otherwise derail your travel plans at great expense.
Your personal safety and that of your friends and family is of utmost importance while travelling, but there are also other little extras that you can sort out before heading to the airport that can make your travels smoother and save you money farther down the line.
It is now even possible to sort out airport parking online prior to departure. Visit save-on-parking to confirm a parking space beforehand and you could save up to 45 per cent on what can be a considerable expense when added to your holiday. Almost as significant is the added convenience; instead of rummaging around for the necessary change to pay for your parking space at the airport, you can sort your airport parking out beforehand by credit card.
Much like purchasing travel insurance online, purchasing airport parking requires just a minute or two to enter the necessary details including the airport you will be flying from and the dates you will be away. You will then be presented with a surprising choice of different options which many travellers are often unaware of. These are mostly determined by the length of stay.
Another parking option is a meet and greet service. This is the ultimate in convenience; simply drive to the terminal and a representative will meet you to take your car to a long stay car park. You will be met outside Arrivals with your car upon your return.
By booking beforehand online, you will be able to get airport parking services for less than a standard parking space outside the terminal were you to leave all the necessary arrangements until your arrival at the airport. In the case of a number of different products and services, the internet has made things less expensive and more convenient, a fact that is increasingly also being translated into savings on extras like travel insurance and car parking for your next holiday.
Journalist Andy Burrows extensively travels around the world and he saves some time and money by booking his travel insurance and airport parking online, he advises:
Save on UK airport parking
Cheapestonline travel insurance booking
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