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Unleash the power of Positive Thinking

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Be Positive

A guest post By fellow blogger Susyn Reeve, M.Ed.. If you too would like to contribute contact us here


The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.

- Unknown

Our thinking informs our experience. A positive outlook can transforms a traffic jam into an opportunity to practice patience. But a new thought is not enough. You must embody the new thought. You actually have to have a somatic experience of your positive thought to realize the potent benefit of positive thinking.

Have you ever noticed that when you commit to positive thinking you sometimes still hear the voice of doubt, fear and uncertainty running like an endless recording in your mind? You boldly create an affirmation, “I focus my attention on positive thoughts.” You commit to writing this affirmation in your journal ten times each morning for the next 30 days to keep focused on your positive intention. You may paste sticky notes in strategic locations – your bathroom mirror, your refrigerator door – you may write your affirmation on your screen saver, etc… But, whenever you write it and see it you may also hear other – negative – affirmations in your mind: “Who are you kidding you’re so judgemental? This is too hard, what’s positive about having more bills than I can pay? I just don’t know how to do this.”

Overlaying a positive thought on a belief that is at odds with the affirmation is not enough to upgrade the software of your mind. It’s like putting a bandage on a wound without first cleaning the wound and applying the appropriate medicine. You won’t see the wound directly, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exit. To truly create a new brain pathway, based on your positive thinking, you must free your heart and mind from your negative programming not merely cover it up with a new thought that you really don’t believe.

You may be wondering, Okay – how do I do this? Often installing a positive thought begins with an awareness of your negative thinking. Here’s how it works:

  • Identify something you are not happy about in your life right now (an unhappy relationship, being overweight, being unemployed, a strained relationship with a family member or friend, etc…)
  • Choose 1 item and create a positive intention statement that defines what you desire. (My relationship is a source of joy in my life. I love and honor my body, etc…)
  • Take a piece of paper and fold it in half. One the left hand-side write your positive affirmation. On the right-hand side write the thoughts – whatever thoughts – pop into your mind in reaction to your affirmation. Here’s an example:
I love, appreciate and care for my body. But I’m overweight
I love, appreciate and care for my body. I weigh too much
I love, appreciate and care for my body. I’m too lazy.
I love, appreciate and care for my body. It’s too hard.
I love, appreciate and care for my body. I don’t stick with healthy exercise and eating
I love, appreciate and care for my body. I really wish I could do this once and for all.
I love, appreciate and care for my body. I wonder if I could really do this.
I love, appreciate and care for my body. I want to.
I love, appreciate and care for my body. Okay, I’ll try.
I love, appreciate and care for my body, Yes, I Do!
  • Look for themes in the statements on the right side of the page. In the example above the themes include: a lack of confidence, concerns about this being too hard, doubt in success.
  • Take those themes and incorporate them into the positive affirmation so the positive thought becomes:
    • I am easily successful in loving, appreciating and caring for my body.
    • I am supported as I effortlessly love, appreciate and care for my body in my thoughts, words and actions.
    • My thoughts, words and behavior reflect the love, appreciation and care I give to my body.
  • To further reinforce your positive affirmation and to tap into the true potency of positive thinking, using the full resources of your imagination, create a visualization of your positive affirmation accomplished. For example:
    • I am wearing my beautiful new black dress at my birthday party. I hear my family and friends singing Happy Birthday to me. I feel confident, beautiful and healthy and know how satisfying a small piece of my strawberry shortcake birthday cake will taste.
  • Visualize the scene of your positive affirmation fully accomplished – as though it is occurring right now – and you are feeling the feelings of associated with your heart’s desire.

Remember while positive thoughts are useful for an attitude adjustment, they are a true source of empowerment when you experience them alive in your body in the present moment.

Susyn Reeve

Susyn has 35 years experience as an Organization Development Consultant, Executive Coach and Leadership Development Facilitator. She is the co-creator of Self-Esteem-Experts.com and WITHForgiveness.com; and the author of the award winning book Choose Peace and Happiness. She is currently completing a manuscript for her new book, The Inspired Mind.

  • As an Organization Development Consultant her clients have included: American Express, Exxon, New York University, Mount Sinai Medical Center (NY), Continental Airlines, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Young Presidents Organization (YPO).
  • As a Self Esteem Expert she provides information, exercises, Daily Inspiration messages and coaching to boost self esteem and build confidence.
  • As a Calling in The “One” Coach she works with clients to free their hearts and minds from blocks to unprecedented love in their lives.
  • As an ordained InterFaith Minister, she offers Spiritual Guidance to people facing life challenges and has created ceremonies to mark life’s passages.

Susyn has been a delegate to the UN Commission on the Status of Women (2007 – 2009). She is a Board Member of Folk Arts Rajasthan and in the Fall of 2010 she will serve as an Advisory Board Member of the National Association for Self Esteem.

Toxins and Obesity

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I guest post from fellow health blogger, Roger. If you to would like to contribute then click here.

If you have a difficult time losing weight, it may be a result of the toxins that are constantly being introduced into your bloodstream. The more fat your body has, the more toxins it will retain, and as you lose weight those fat cells will release toxins into the bloodstream. Once the toxins are in the bloodstream, they can cause harm to the body.

Detoxification is the process of binding up these toxins and releasing them from the body.

Although the study of detoxification and its impact on obesity is relatively new, researchers do understand some of the mechanisms involved with how toxins impact weight gain. In particular, toxins can impact your ability to lose weight in three significant ways:

• Toxins slow your metabolism

• Toxins decrease your ability to burn fat

• Toxins slow down the satiety response time (the time it takes you to feel full)

Toxins Slow Your Metabolism

In the past it was thought that your resting metabolic rate (RMR) declined with weight loss primarily because of the decrease in caloric intake or changes in the ratio of muscle to fat. But clinical studies are now showing just how toxic internal toxins can be to our weight loss efforts.

One of the first things toxins do when released into the bloodstream is slow down your RMR. So, as you begin to lose weight, those surfacing toxins begin to inhibit your ability to lose weight. However, if you can eliminate those toxins from the body quickly enough during or before a period of weight loss, you may be able to reduce the decline in your metabolism.

Toxins Decrease Your Ability to Burn Fat

The last thing you want to hear is that something in your blood is preventing your body from burning fat, but that is just what toxins can do. In 1971, for example, a study at the University of Nevada Division of Biochemistry determined that chemical toxins weakened by 20 percent the co-enzyme necessary to burn fat in the body. In 2002, researchers concluded that toxins released during weight loss had the capacity to damage the fat-burning mitochondria.1

The damage was significant enough to negatively impact the body’s ability to burn calories and, in effect, fat.

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Benefits of fruits for your health

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Fruits should be an important part of our daily diet. They play a vital role to one’s health. Fruits benefit you in controlling your body weight and keep you energetic. Most of the fruits are laxatives naturally as they give you a lot of fibre that keeps your body’s digestive system healthy by removing many wastes from the body. The high amount of fibre in fruits is very useful to the patients of constipation and diarrhoea. Also it helps in lowering the cholesterol levels of the body thus maintaining the overall weight. It is also studied that a balanced and rich in fruits diets can be the best acne treatment.

The strawberries

This, in turn, indirectly saves you from many heart problems such as strokes and high blood pressure. Fruits also contain vitamins, and vitamins too are necessary for your body along with other nutrients. These vitamins help your skin stay fresh, protect your body’s cells from wear and tear, stabilize your eyesight etc. Vitamins A, C, E is also known as antioxidants that protect your body from the damage. Antioxidants are also powerful for the body against cancer.

In this modern world, not only women but men too are very concerned about their skin freshness and overall ageing process. Especially women are worried about their beauty too. Fruits help them by slowing the wrinkling process. Fruits contain great amount of water. This water present in the fruits along with the vitamins present in them keeps your skin healthy. Getting known of all the benefits of fruits, this should also be kept in mind that no single fruit provide all the useful things or beneficiaries. Variety of fruits in your diet is also necessary. For staying healthy, fresh fruits are considered. Many canned fruits are also available, but they can harm you instead. The best way to consume fruit is raw, but fruit juice is as healthy as eating it in raw form.

Spring Clean Your Body

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Here is a interesting article written by fellow blogger: Christopher Govender. Would you like to see your article here? Write for us.

Are you in to spring – cleaning?

For centuries, health experts have lauded the value of spring – cleaning the body. In much the same way as you need a holiday or time – out from your work, your body also needs time – out from its work. One of the traditional methods of cleansing the body is fasting. The fact that many people report feeling so much more energized after fasting is a testimony to the fact that making energy is as much a result of improving the body’s ability to detoxify as it is about eating the correct foods.

However, not everybody feels more energized because of fasting and not always right away. Once the body begins to eliminate toxins, if the liver is not up to the job, symptoms of intoxication can occur. So modern day detox regimes tend to use modified fasts in which the person follows a low toxin diet with plenty of the key nutrients needed to speed up the body’s ability to detoxify.

Prevention is better than cure, so if you are relatively healthy and want to promote or maintain the highest liver function, then you must cut down on your intake of toxic substances, eat an optimal diet and follow a balanced nutritional supplement program. If you are in athlete, bodybuilder or serious fitness enthusiast, you should detox at least once a year for a week to make a major difference in your energy levels.

However, before you undertake spring – cleaning your body, you have to do a little homework first:

Step 1

Complete this questionnaire to discover whether you need to improve your detox potential.

  • Do you often suffer from headaches or migraine?
  • Do you suffer from itchy or watery eyes or swollen, red or sticky eyelids?
  • Do you have big dark circles under your eyes?
  • Do you often have a stuffy nose or sinus problems?
  • Do you suffer from acne or skin rashes?
  • Do you sweat a lot and have a strong bad body odor?
  • Do you experience joint and muscle aches?
  • Do you have a sluggish metabolism and find it difficult to lose weight, or are you underweight and find it difficult to gain weight?
  • Do you have to pee frequently and urgently?
  • Do you suffer from nausea or vomiting?
  • Do you regularly have a bitter taste in your mouth or a furry tongue?
  • Are you regularly bloated?

If you answer ‘yes’ to six or more questions you need to improve your detox potential.

If you answer ‘yes’ to between three and six questions you are beginning to show signs of poor detoxification and need to improve your detox potential.

If you answer ‘yes’ to fewer than three questions, you are unlikely to have a problem with detoxification.

Step 2

Plan your detox regime. It is best to start at the weekend or during a time when you do not have much going on or during a holiday. Most people never complete a detox regime because they start it at the most inappropriate times.

My seven – day detox plan

1. Walk at least an hour every day.

2. Drink at least 2.5 liters of water a day (distilled, filtered, purified or bottled). You can also drink herbal teas, which contain milk thistle, sarsparilla root, dandelion root, Echinacea and red clover – they stimulate the liver to improve its toxin-removing functionality.

3. Drink about 500ml of fruit or vegetable juice a day. Combine 200ml of carrot juice and 200ml of apple juice with 100ml of water and grated ginger. Alternatively, you can blend the flesh and seeds of half a watermelon in an electric blender. The husks will sink to the bottom, leaving the seeds at the top, which are high in vitamin E and antioxidant minerals zinc and selenium.

4. Eat plenty of fresh fruit. Apricots, berries, oranges, kiwi, papaya, peaches, mango, melons and red grapes have the highest detox potential.

5. Eat plenty of raw vegetables, such as peppers, cauliflower, broccoli, red cabbage, carrots, cucumber, tomato and seed sprouts.

6. Eat the following foods in moderation:

Grains, such as brown rice, corn millet and quinoa: not more than twice a day.

Fish, like salmon, mackerel and tuna: not more than once a day.

Eat only a handful of nuts and seeds a day.

Use cold pressed seed oils, like pumpkin seed or sesame seed, for dressings.

7. Make sure you include the following supplements: 2g daily of vitamin C, 2g daily of MSM (methyl sulfonyl methane), two servings of an antioxidant complex and a serving of aloe vera juice.

8. Avoid red meat, dairy and wheat products. Also, avoid eggs, salt, artificial sweeteners, fried foods, spices and dried fruit.

My parting note

Do not be surprised if you feel worse for a couple of days before you feel better. This is highly likely if you are eliminating foods to which you are allergic or upon which you are dependent.

Do you spring – clean your body regularly? If not, follow the steps in this article and experience a new surge of energy and vitality.

Yours in health and peak performance,

Christopher Govender (Diet and Nutrition TV) http://dietandnutritiontv.com/

Hatha Yoga- The relaxing exercise

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Here is a guest post provide you by  Jesse Dictor. If you too are interested in providing content for living the healthy way you may certainly apply here.

Hatha Yoga for a Healthier Life Yoga has had a way of staying out of major medical news even though it is known to provide great health benefits. It really is just more then most homeopathy- if you’ve been bogged down at work and feeling stressed lately, you might want to give yoga a try. Yoga is a centuries-old Indian meditation practice that focuses on purifying the mind, body, and spirit. The name is derived from the Hindi words œha and œtha, which mean sun and œmoon respectively, but when placed together mean forceful. Hatha represents the journey to balance the body in every possible way. Yoga is beneficial health-wise because it encourages relaxation, flexibility, and meditation. Hatha yoga is an umbrella term under which many different types of yoga sit, but you’ll recognize it as basic yoga. In this form of yoga, you will learn deep breathing, stretching, and seated meditation. It is the most gentle and slow-paced of the yoga methods and it is ideal for beginners. Another popular form of yoga is Asana, which is actually the only type in India that uses poses. You might recognize the terms downward dog or sun salutation.

These are the two most commonly known positions. Asana promotes flexibility, strength, balance and poise, as well as relaxation. Depending on the instructor, Asana can be more strenuous than basic yoga, so you should consider easing into it. If you’re looking to combine relaxation with vigorous exercise, you have two choices: regular Vinyasa or Bikram yoga.

Vinyasa translates to breath-synchronized movement and focuses on switching poses in one inhalation or exhalation. Vinyasa is very movement-oriented and dance-like because of how quickly and seamlessly you must change poses. Vinyasa can be taught fast or slow and with or without chanting, it just depends on the instructor. Bikram yoga was brought to the West by yoga master Bikram Choudhury. It involves Vinyasa yoga, but in a room that is 95-100 degrees Fahrenheit. Because your muscles get so warm, it allows for added flexibility and a body cleanse through sweat. Bikram instructors and classes must be certified, so your local class may instead be called Hot Yoga. Make sure to bring your own mat if you decide on Bikram because you will sweat profusely and probably do not want to sit on a mat that someone else has also sweated on. Pregnant women should stay away from Bikram yoga because it raises core body temperature.

Yoga, Hatha and otherwise, has a number of health benefits, even more than exercise. Regular exercise can be boring and taxing, but yoga offers limitless possibilities and has a low risk of injury to muscles and ligaments. If done on a regular basis, some of the benefits it can have are: normalized weight; increased respiratory efficiency; improved depth perception and reaction time; decreased anxiety and depression; improved concentration and memory; increased Vitamin C; and decreased Triglycerides (constituent associated with vegetable oil and animal fats), sodium and cholesterol. These are just several among many, so you owe it to yourself and your well-being to give yoga a try. You never know, it may change your whole outlook on life!

Namaste.

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Three Ways to Beat Panic Attacks and Anxiety Without Medication

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A guest post by
Jill Green who is a recovering anxious person who writes an
anxiety self help blog

Many people who suffer from anxiety and panic attacks are reluctant to take medications, fearing possible side effects and
the real risk of becoming dependent on them. Fortunately, there are effective ways to manage anxiety and panic attacks that
do not involve taking prescription medication. Here are three of them:

1. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). 

 This is a type of therapy where a patient works with a qualified therapist to learn to
 identify and understand the their distorted anxious thoughts and feelings that influence their behaviours and reactions. 

The goal of CBT is to teach patients how to control the ways they interpret and deal with situations in their life. Cognitive
behavioural therapy is generally short term and is therefore a more cost effective solution that traditional talk therapy. It is
widely recognized by therapists and the medical community to be the therapy of choice for anxiety disorders and panic
attacks.

2. Yoga. 

Yoga is an ancient practice that is popular today which incorporates the use of breathing techniques with various
postures to create physical and emotional balance. Pranayama is the practice of using deep breathing to create a balance
of ‘prana’ (vital energy of the universe) in the body. A lack of prana in the body can lead to feelings of constriction
and restlessness. Anxiety is a bi product of prana imbalance, and deep yoga breathing is designed to bring more prana into
the body. Yoga is easy to do, feels wonderful, and helps create a new habit of deeper, healthier breathing. This is helpful for
anxiety relief and good for overall health too.Medical studies have shown that regularly practising yoga is effective at lowering
 levels of anxiety. Yoga has been studied and found to help with anxiety in women, patients at psychiatric hospitals, and even war
veterans suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD. 

3. Panic Away

This is a best selling online training program based on the CBT model that teaches how to stop panic attacks
and recover from generalized anxiety. It includes an online training manual, videos, and email follow up support.
The Panic Away program is divided into three stages:

Stage One is the application of the One Move technique to stop panic attacks.  Stage Two includes a variety of useful
exercises that calm the mind and the body, including breathing, diet, distraction, and more.  Stage Three helps deal
with setbacks and seal your recovery permanently.

Panic Away has been available online for over 7 years and has helped thousands of people recover from anxiety and
panic attacks. For more information, read my Panic Away review.In closing, When deciding on a natural, drug-free
 anxiety treatment program, consider the options above and see what best suits you and your lifestyle. Remember, the
road to recovery from anxiety and panic attacks is available to everyone and does not have to include prescription
 medications.

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Caring for your skin

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A guest post by Kim Hutson

The skin is our largest organ and also our most exposed organ too, unfortunately it also has to take more abuse than so many of our other organs; drinking may harm our liver, smoking harms our lungs and excessive eating damages out heart but our skin is exposed to constant dangers all day every day, from simple bumps and scrapes, getting too close to the oven or even intentional damage like tattoos and sun tans. Luckily most these ‘accidents’ won’t cause permanent and irreparable damage and the skin is pretty good at healing itself.

Unfortunately, one of the most common damages we do to our skin can be permanent and potentially deadly, and it’s something that so many of us do intentionally. A golden sun kissed glow is seen as desirable, fashionable and even healthy and whether we go out of our way to get one most of us will tan over the summer months. So if you do want a golden glow you need to do it as safely as possible. There are a whole host of skin care products available on the market today and some mean you don’t even have to expose yourself to the sun to get a tan. A suitable fake tan will give you the golden glow you’re after without the risks of exposing yourself to harmful UV rays. When you tan you are damaging the skin, the darker pigmentation is a result of the melanin which your body produces to try and protect your skin rushing to the surface, this melanin is dark and as it speeds towards the surface of the skin it creates that darker tan. If you’re adamant you want to tan always use sun screen, you will still tan but you’ll tan slower and give your body more of a chance to defend itself from harmful UV rays.

Exposing yourself to excessive UV rays you’ll be drying not just your skin but your whole body so always drink lots of water, drinking around two litres a day is essential for healthy looking skin and even more important if you’re going to be dehydrating your body. If you do want your tan to last as long as possible swap your exfoliator for a moisturiser to keep your skin hydrated and fresh. Exfoliators are great at helping remove dead skin cells but if you want your pigmentation to last as long as possible your want to moisturise instead.

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