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joys, momentary pleasures and wonders.It is important to work on social skills.Optimists know that their behaviour matters. Develop strategies for coping with stress and hardship.Have perspective.Be pragmatic. "Worry and anxiety are always about the future", states Brad. " What if I'm in the water with a shark?" asks Janet. "The shark hasn't eaten you yet has it?" replies Brad.Practice acts of kindness, both random and systematic.Thank a mentor; someone that helped you through difficult times: in detail and in person.Develop personal strengths and virtues.Record personal strengths and virtues. Grace makes beauty out of ugly things. - Bono Develop your sense of humour. Laugh a lot.Allow yourself to day dream. All original thinking happens in the subconscious. This is where you will find your most creative ideas and problem - solving abilities. (conscious thinking is always related to something that you have seen or heard)Optimists know that life is hard and it can be unfair. They take courage, learn to cope and work hard to make great things happen.Optimists make their own luck.You have to be ready for luck. Develop your love of learning.Learn something new.Do the hardest thing first.Ask: What would the wise woman/man do? Be considerate. Be empathic. Learn to forgive. It allows you to move on.Engage in life. Have a sense of purpose.Optimists have a firm grasp of reality.It took me some time to learn how to smell a problem and get the hell out of dodge. - Sean Penn (he's in dodge now; I hope he has an excellent support team)Learn how to smell a problem. Build an excellent support team. If there is a problem, there most definitely is a solution. Accept responsibility.Allow yourself to dream.Dream big. Learn to love all of life and not just the good stuff.Be generous. Optimists sometimes get discouraged and feel blue, but they learn how to cope; they develop great strategies. Recognize thought patterns. Stop self-sabotage.Mistakes are O.K. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. - BeckettLearn to love people and not just humanity.Optimistic people are not always optimistic. But it's not their fixed address. It is not smooth seas that make for a skillful sailor. - African ProverbRegrets are inevitable. But you've got to move on.Take time to be alive.Life is about breathing. The rest is detail.Breathe.We learn walking by walking. So take it step by step; one step at a time. Be honest with yourself. If you want to change the world - start by changing yourself. - GhandiThere is no way to peace. Peace is the way.Be good to yourself. The goal is to be happy right here and now and not because of something. Have a massage. The best things happen when you're relaxed. Humour and Laughter; An Important Mind Game For Well BeingOur unique sense of humour relieves stress, keeps us fit and helps us to enjoy a long, happy life.Scientists are beginning to take humour seriously. Margery Hutter Silver, a Neuropsychologist at The Harvard Medical School, studied longevity and found one common factor emerged in those who live past 100 - a sense of humour.
The frontal part of the right brain becomes most active when a punchline arrives. Previously the right frontal lobe has been considered the most silent of brain areas. Now it would appear that it is the most important. The right frontal lobe is unique in the brain as an area that serves as a connecting point between different parts that might otherwise remain isolated. For example, the frontal lobe is strongly connected with the deeper inner parts linked to the experience of emotions - called the limbic system - and the parts associated with emotional expression, the temporal and frontal lobes.The part of the brain linked to problem solving is the frontal lobe itself. It was not until scientists began to study humour that the right frontal lobe's importance emerged. Humour requires a unique integration of problem solving, emotional appreciation and expressive functions, and it was here that it came into its own. Integrating emotion and cognition, as we must to laugh, can only occur because of the ability of the brain to produce consciousness.Laughter YogaDr. Madan Kataria started laughter yoga in 1995 in Mumbai to share laughter, promote health and joyful living. It involves laughing for no reason, does not use jokes or comedy or yoga poses. Laughter is used as a form of exercise combined with deep breathing plus stretching and meditation. Pretend laughter leads to real laughter (although both have the same benefits) due to eye contact and the contagious nature of laughter in a group. Their are 5000 clubs in 50 countries. What Makes People Happy?What makes you happy? Have you ever wondered why? Join us as we take an experimental approach on what makes people happier.
laboratories. It worked. By subjective report, this grizzled group of senior scientists called it the best intellectual experience of their lives, and the junior fellows concurred. By objective deliverables, it was enormously productive."(Seligman, M. (2008). APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY: AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW. Applied Psychology, (57), 3-18. doi: 10.111/j.1464-0597.2008.00351.x. pg. 13)Conclusion: Positive Health is more than freedom from physical infirmities. A Positive Mental attitude about life, social relationships, self worth, and a persons own personal meaning and history play an important role in their overall positive health. Studies have indicated that an individual with a positive outlook generally lives seven and a half years longer than those who are more pessimistic about the same subject matter. As Martin Seligman stated concerning Functional Main Effect,("The personenvironment fitthe optimal state of adaptation between ones bodily function and the positive physical requirements and demands of ones chosen lifestyle: work, love, and play given that persons choice of lifestyleis central to measuring how well a person functions.") (Seligman, M. (2008). APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY: AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW. Applied Psychology, (57), 3-18. doi: 10.111/j.1464-0597.2008.00351.x. pg. 15) A positive mental attitude seems to be a predictor of longevity, satisfaction, (feel good), improved cardiovascular health, and overall health in general.Martin Seligman's report "Positive Health"
Disease in a BottleThese days, it is common to substitute mothers milk with cow milk or baby formulas. Human breast milk is rich in lactose that creates an environment that is favorable for the development of friendly bacteria in the babys large intestine.Cows milk contains certain types of proteins and antibodies, not possible for a baby to digest. These substances, instead of regular fermentation, undergo rotting in the babys intestine, when the baby is fed with cows milk or other substitutes. This causes autotoxication, imbalance in the microflora, and leads to the degeneration of the babys intestine.Substitutes do not have the biological information contained in mothers milk, and that causes the baby to constantly feel hungry and require frequent feeding. Because of that, starch and meat products are usually sooner included in the diet. The babys digestive system is not fully formed; therefore it is not ready to digest and absorb these products. Certain necessary enzymes are not present in it. We can notice that many children, two to five years old, constantly have a mucous substance under their noses. It is caused by too much protein and starch in their diet. Artificial diet eventually destroys our childrens immune system. They become vulnerable to all kinds of infections, such as frequent colds, runny nose, flu and pneumonia. Babies fed this way are, in most cases, allergy sufferers. We cannot predict all possible health problems caused by the absence of breast milk in our babies diet.Every future mother ought to know that nothing can substitute mothers breast milk; it is the natural food for her babies. No formula contains information about love, sensitivity, tenderness, or ways to avoid disasters and diseases. All this information comes from the mother and is encoded in her breast milk.If a pregnant womans diet consists mainly of sweets, white flour products, deli products, cow milk, coffee, fried or baked meat and other refined products, her child is going to suffer serious health consequences. It is even worse when she smokes cigarettes.Posted by JanComments: 0View comments Friday, January 30, 2009The Art of Staying YoungThere is now a new generation of artificial hormones that are believed to cause no side effects. They can be put in our body; however, the practice shows that the new hormones are only able to slow down the aging process and in some cases they do not bring the expected results at all. On the other hand, according to scientists, we use only 10% of our brains potential. This means that we have a large reserve of mental abilities that can be put to work.Memory is a wonderful gift of nature. Our memories engage emotions and emotions in turn, especially the positive ones, put hormones (such as endorphins - the happiness hormones) to work and along with hormones they put cell receptors to work in our entire body.This means that our positive thoughts and emotions act as the elixir of youth. Regardless of our age, we can always use such thoughts and emotions to move back the arms of our biological clock.To make good use
of our memory, we can pick the memories of our youth, our first affection, and other most happy times of our life from its stores. For a human being (especially female) there is no greater remedy against disease than love.In the old days, a woman kept her wedding dress and took it out from time to time to admire or even to put it on. It helps to regularly watch the photos from our youth and reunite with our school friends. All these activities serve as the elixir of youth for our mind and body. Constant orientation towards youth and health not only delays aging - it can even bring back our youth.Ancient wisdom contains many adages about staying young and healthy. I selected the most effective ones hoping that they can serve you well. Use them to extend your youth, enjoy good health, and delay the old age as much as possible. Here they are:1. Love yourself the way you are.2. Do not envy anybody.3. If you do not like yourself, make changes in your life.4. Anger, insults, and criticism of yourself and others are very harmful to your health.5. If you make a decision, act on it.6. Joyfully help the poor, ill, and elderly.7. Never think about diseases, old age, or death.8. Love is the best remedy against illness and aging.9. Gluttony, greed, and inability to overcome your weaknesses are your enemies.10. Worrying causes you to leave this world.11. Fear and corruption are the worst sins.12. The best day of your life is today.13. The best town is where you feel fortunate.14. The best occupation is the one you enjoy.15. Losing hope is the worst mistake.16. The greatest gift you can give or receive is love.17. Health is your most valuable possession.To live long and be healthy, we have to be more joyful in our daily life. It is not a skill that anybody can teach us. We have to learn it on our own.Posted byJanComments: 0View comments Tuesday, November 18, 2008Our Attitudes and AgingDeath is not as terrifying as old ageThroughout ages, people dreamed about being immortal and searched for the legendary elixir of youth. Many scientists in the world look for ways to extend the human life.There are many who believe that we should not try to resist the aging process. They say that it is as pointless as trying to revive an old dying tree or renovate an old wooden house whose walls are falling apart. According to this view, all we can do is to influence the process of aging in a limited way by reducing the symptoms and preventing extreme suffering as the nature takes its course.Then, why does the body age? One of the reasons is our own attitude that conditions the body to speed up the process. We fear illness, immobility, and helplessness that come with the old age. Our aging process begins when we start dwelling on such thoughts and fears.The way our aging process progresses greatly depends on our psychological attitude towards aging and death.Unlike all other living organisms, we are
able to influence all life processes in our body by using our mind. There are countless examples of people who became ill with a disease as a result of being preoccupied with fearful thoughts about it. There are just as many examples of individuals who conquered terminal diseases by maintaining a positive mental attitude.Our thoughts have the power to make us healthy or ill; they can also make us younger or older.Aging is the matter of attitudeWhen we start reflecting on our age, we usually think in terms of different milestones and stages of life: getting married, bringing up children, menopause for women, retirement, and so on. When we are strongly convinced that there is nothing we can do about the natural progression of the aging process, we program ourselves for premature aging. As soon as we notice our first wrinkles, the thinning of our hair, or pain in our joints, we pronounce the diagnosis: I am getting old.We think that it creates the necessity to become less active, conserve energy, and lead a restful life. It does not occur to us that we brought these signs of aging on ourselves by incorrect diet, laziness, and lack of youthful enthusiasm for life. We shorten our life ourselves by incorrectly using our psychological powers. Our aging process gets under way because we subconsciously anticipate it.The crucial period is the age between 40 and 50. During that period, we should pay particular attention to our hygiene and the condition of our skin, hair, hands, feet, and nails, to the flexibility and strength of our joints and muscles and to the overall shape of our body. Easy movements, straight posture, flexibility, flat abdomen, clear and bright eyes are the physical qualities of people who are not affected by aging. It is a mistake, especially for women, to avoid their image in the mirror as soon as they notice the first wrinkles on their face or fatty folds on their skin. Even though they try not to look in the mirror, they are subconsciously troubled by questions such as: Is this really me? Has life worn me out so much? Do I look awful? Am I already getting old?Such concerns take away our enthusiasm for life and our interest in the way we look. When a woman stops admiring her own body and even accepting the way it looks, she allows the aging process to set in.The mechanism of agingThe mechanism of aging is not completely known. There are several theories. One of them (hormonal theory) proposes that aging results from imbalance between old and new cells. This is caused by two related factors: our hormones age and the contact between the hormones and our cells becomes weak. Hormones are the means our brain uses to communicate with our cells.Each cell has receptors that receive the hormonal signals. When the receptors do not react to hormones anymore, the cell undergoes aging and eventually dies. To use a simplistic analogy, our body is like a TV set, our brain like a remote control able to turn it
on or off and switch channels, hormones are like the remote controls batteries and finally the receptors are like the contacts connecting the batteries with the remote control.When the batteries get old, they still work for a while but cause oxidation on the contacts surfaces. Even though there is nothing wrong with the TV set or the remote control, the system starts working erratically and eventually quits working at all. If the batteries are replaced and the contacts cleaned, everything starts working again. Something similar takes place in our body but the process is more complicated. This, however, is only one of the theories. Our body works according to a blueprint provided by nature; nevertheless the number of years we live on this planet depends largely on our daily attitude towards our bodys maintenance. INABILITY TO LIVE A BLISSFUL LIFEIt is important to understand that each disorder in our body has not only physical but also psychological causes.Our way of thinking influences what happens to us and determines good and bad aspects of our life. Listen to your own words. If you notice that you express the same thought repeatedly, a few days in a row, it has become your mental template. We all live by our thoughts they direct our actions. If our thoughts are full of anger, fear, pain, sadness, and vengeance, what kinds of actions can they result in? If our thoughts are positive, we can usually expect all the best in our life but negative thinking can only bring difficulties and failure.It appears that our way of thinking not only determines our lifes successes and failures but also has a vital influence on our health. For example, many people suffer from headaches, neck pains, and back pains. What could be the cause of these pains? Our neck can be mentally associated with flexibility. In our thoughts and actions, flexibility means the ability to approach a problem from different points of view and creativity in finding a solution.People who are stubborn, unable to compromise, and cannot see the problem from their opponents point of view will suffer from headaches, neck pains and back pains until they learn to treat somebody elses opinion with greater compassion and understanding. If we habitually criticize everybody and everything, our joints and muscles start hurting. When anger and hatred dominate our thoughts, our body burns out and is susceptible to infections. If we keep dwelling on some injustice we suffered long time ago, it consumes our body and eventually leads to the creation of cancerous cells and then cancers.We should work on eliminating negative thoughts and stereotypes as early as possible to achieve not only psychological but also physical health. It is a very difficult art to learn, and we all have to learn it on our own. Large intestine cleansingSome symptoms of an unclean large intestine: constipation, bloating, skin eczemas, pimples, allergies, black stains on the teeth, gray coating on the tongue, unpleasant skin smell and sweating.Useful advice:Limit your consumption of meat, chocolate, sweets, sugar, cow milk, eggs, and white bread.Drink one cup
of kefir every morning and evening.Chew your food thoroughly (each bite 35-50 times).Do not drink during meals.Drink less coffee and tea.You can test the functioning of your large intestine the following way: Drink two tablespoons of freshly squeezed beet juice. If after four hours your urine becomes red, your large intestine is not functioning properly.EnemaI would like to treat the subject of enema (intestinal irrigation) in more detail because enema is one of the most effective procedures you can do at home to clean toxins from your body.Some specialists warn that large intestine irrigation destroys the healthy microflora. I do not agree with that. It is almost impossible to find a person with a healthy microflora because of our diet, lack of exercise, and the amount of medications (especially antibiotics) we take. I would guess that about 90% of people have a degenerated digestive tract and a damaged microflora. Dr. Norman Walker, an American physician known around the world (he lived for 106 years) used enema for 50 years to treat different diseases. He regarded enema to be the simplest and most effective method to clean internal filth from the body. He used to say that people who do not believe in enemas effectiveness need it most.Practice shows that many people are not ready to use the large intestine irrigation routine because it seems repulsive to them. They should realize that it is the only way to remove layers of stagnant fecal matter accumulated in their intestine. Stagnant matter looks much more repulsive, and its smell is worse than the worst sewage system smell you can imagine. Other people find the position inconvenient or do not have enough space at home to perform the procedure. There are many excuses. But the threat of an operation or death provides an instant motivation to try putting their large intestine in order. The most reasonable behavior is to start using the procedure before we are faced with any serious health threats. Look after your health as carefully and tenderly as you look after your car.We hear from our childhood about external body hygiene, but we know little about internal hygiene. However, the condition of our internal organs determines much of our external appearance.Each owner keeps his car clean inside and outside. Best quality oil and fuel are used. Why dont we care for our health with an equal sense of responsibility? If we dont clean the inside of our car for a year, there will be plenty of dirt and dust. Most people never clean the inside of their bodies. Usually around the age of forty, their body is so tired of poisons, harmful deposits, and unfriendly bacteria that it becomes susceptible to disease.The evolution began from a simple single-cell organism with two openings: one for taking food in and one for discharging waste. All life processes happen between those two openings. If the process of waste discharge malfunctions, the cell dies. It is a simple but perfect model. Our body contains billions of cells but the general principle is still the same: a malfunctioning
waste discharge system causes diseases and death.Seven cleaning systems in our bodyThere are seven systems responsible for cleaning mucus, tars, and other filth out of our body. These systems are:1. The large intestine2. The liver3. The kidneys4. Fat tissue5. Muscles and tendons6. Nose, ears, and eyes7. Lungs and skinWhen one of our internal cleaning systems is not able to do its job, the next system is turned on. For example, if the large intestine and liver cannot complete the cleaning tasks, the systems connected with the nose, eyes, skin, and lungs take over. The result is rashes, eczema, allergies, runny nose, phlegm coughed up from the lungs from time to time, and secretion from the eyes.If we closely examined our internal cleaning systems, we would find out that in most cases they are in a terrible condition: The large intestine is so contaminated that our blood absorbs more filth than useful substances from it. The liver or gallbladder are so plugged with stones, cholesterol, and dark-green bile that the process of filtering toxins out of blood is suppressed. The kidneys are not able to do their function because they are stuffed with sand and stones. Salty deposits on the bones and joints cause pain with every movement of the neck, arms, or knees. The joints produce a crunching sound when they return to their resting position.How can we expect to feel healthy with so much internal contamination in our body? We are what we eatFrom what kind of food should we get our life energy? The kind that grows in the sunlight is the best source of energy for us. The sun is the universal energy source for every living organism. Nature gave plants the ability to absorb and accumulate sun energy that is later available for our use.Diet based only on the calorie count is wrong from the physiological point of view. It is not the initial calorie content of the food that matters, but how much energy we actually obtain from it when it is digested.Even though plant-based foods represent lower calorie content, net energy our body receives after their digestion is still higher. This is why a bowl of buckwheat makes us feel light and ready to do some work. In contrast, eating a portion of meat makes us feel like having a cup of coffee and going to sleep. Many people associate meat consumption with strength and energy. In reality, meat only stimulates our nervous system in a similar way narcotics do.It is a scientific fact that there is one vegetarian for 1,000 meat eaters in the age group under sixty; in the seventy-and-over group, the proportion is 100 to 1,000; over the age of eighty, there are 600 vegetarians for 1,000 meat-eaters.The important thing in our food is the balance of ingredients: proteins, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, vitamins, and microelements. If their amounts are properly balanced (as they are in natural foods), our body uses only small amounts of energy for digestion. Most energy can be used for cleaning up toxins and making repairs. All artificial foods lack