Going Up! 7 Pointers to Lift a Bad Mood

By Dr. Maoshing Ni - Posted on Mon, Aug 27, 2007, 10:16 pm PDT

No one can live a long and healthy life without the will to go on; sometimes mood swings can make us feel that life is too much for us.

A bad mood not only gives you a gloomy outlook, it also lowers your immune function, leading the way to illness. Here are some suggestions to lift your mood, your spirit, and your health.
1. A Laughing Matter
"Laugh Therapy," pioneered by Norman Cousins, has turned out to have real substance. Research has discovered that laughter and joy boost immune functions, especially the production of the natural killer cells that help defend the body from illness and cancer.

Laughter also increases the release of endorphins - compounds that give you a sense of well-being - in your brain. Without a doubt, joyful people liver longer and healthier lives. So read your favorite comics, watch your favorite comedies, and laugh it up!

2. Amino Acid for Restored Mindset
When an imbalance or deficiency is creating a bad mood, the Europeans use supplements of a natural compound found in human cells to regulate mood and restore a healthy mindset. SAMe (S-adenosyl-L-methionine) is produced from methionine, an amino acid that plays a role in the production of uplifting neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine.

One study indicated that SAMe worked on patients who had unsuccessful results with conventional antidepressants. To get a boost from SAMe, take a supplement combining it with vitamins B6 and B12.

3. Hands-On Healing
Human touch increases the production of endorphins, growth hormone, and DHEA, all of which lengthen your life span and lower the negative impact of stress. Studies have found that patients who are regularly touched recover faster than those who are not touched. So give someone a hug and feel both of your moods improve.

4. Boost Your "Youth Hormones"
You don't need pills to flood your body with a rejuvenating flood of growth hormones. Research has found that doing squats and leg presses will greatly increase your natural production of the "youth hormone". Increased growth hormone translates to an elevated mood, among other physical benefits. Keep it up with weight training, knee bends, push-ups, and rowing.

5. Take a Bracing Breath
Breathing correctly is important for dispelling the toxins and wastes from your body; in fact, it is estimated that we expel only about 30 percent of toxins in our bodies through the bowels and bladder-the rest is all respiratory. Breathing is also a great way to clear your mind, boost your energy, and improve your mood. Practice deep, slow, rhythmic, breathing daily with mind-body disciplines such as tai chi, yoga, qigong, and meditation.

6. Smell the Joy
Research has shown that smell has a definite impact on our bodies and minds. When you stimulate the olfactory nerves inside your nose, you activate the limbic system of your brain, which is associated with moods and memory. This concept is instrumental to aromatherapy, a natural health tradition that makes use of the healing powers of plants with strong scents.

Aromatherapy recommends treating depression with jasmine, eucalyptus for exhilaration, and grapefruit to increase alertness and joy. Just put a dab of the essential oils from these plants on your temples, back of your neck, or acupressure points. Another option? Boil the herb in water and inhale the steam through your nose.

7. Feel Fine with Flowers
There is a reason that flowers are the traditional get-well gesture. Colorful flowers have a powerful influence on moods; they can uplift a patient's mood and even combat stress. One study found that during a five-minute typing assignment, people sitting next to a flowering bouquet were more relaxed than those who sat near foliage-only plants.

I hope these tips help the good feelings flow! I invite you to visit often and share your own personal health and longevity tips with me.

May you live long, live strong, and live happy!

-Dr. Mao

http://health.yahoo.com/experts/drmao/6715/going-up-7-pointers-to-lift-a-bad-mood/

Why Do Love Fails?

by ram, Sep 23, 2007

In an early stage of a relationship, you will feel excited. When you gone too far, both of you will encounter problems. We are humans and definitely humans are not perfect. You can never acquire all attitudes of an ideal partner, but you can grow, learn and change.

Falling out of love is one reason why love fails. In some cases, people who fall out of love experienced too much pain and heartaches. In the long run , they will wake up one day to the fact that they are not anymore in love with their partner.

Another is lack of proper communication. It plays an important part of a relationship because good communication brings you closer together. If your relationship lacks communication, it may lead to misunderstanding and misunderstanding may lead to arguments and arguments may lead to break- ups.

Some people abused their partner physically and emotionally. Why? Because they feel that if they do bad things to their partner, they will still be loved, but they don't know that bad things makes their partner stronger and a strong person can easily find the right path and move on with their life without the abused partner.

Trust is one thing that makes a relationship last, but a relationship will last if both trust each other. If somehow, infidelity, lies and broken promises come into your relationship, the trust will be damaged but you can always rebuilt it. In rebuilding trust, it's hard and it takes time, but you must be patient enough to save your relationship.

A partner who is honest to himself is also honest to his partner. If both of you are honest, probably, there will be no doubts.

If you are really in love with the person no matter what he is, what kind of attitude he has, you will still love him. Nobody is perfect, love can wait, love can change you from bad to good. Love really grows, I believe on that. If your partner doesn't change his insecurities at all after so many years, I don't think it's love.

Love is priceless. Love can make you strong. Love can make you weak. Always remember that Love is a gift. Don't withhold it because it will come unexpectedly.

reference:

http://www.socyberty.com/Relationships/Why-Do-Love-Fails---.47722

Two speeches that made Barack Obama

By Randy David
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 02:37:00 10/18/2008
Filed Under: US elections, Social Issues, Politics

MANILA, Philippines—No one who has watched Barack Obama’s meteoric rise in American politics in the last four years can fail to be intrigued by what he represents. More than his charismatic presence and eloquence, I think it is Obama’s deep understanding of the major themes of American culture that has given him an intimate connection to the American people. He has grasped these themes well, weaving them methodically into nearly every speech he has made.

Before July 27, 2004, few outside the state of Illinois knew who Barack Obama was. He had been a state senator in Illinois for more than seven years when he decided to run for the US Senate. The Democratic Party chose him to deliver the keynote at the convention that would proclaim John Kerry as the party’s presidential bet against George W. Bush.

That day, all of America took notice — not of Kerry, but of the unknown young man from Illinois. Obama’s speech eclipsed everyone else’s. He spoke about John Kerry and why he should be the next president of the United States. But above all he spoke about himself and how his improbable presence in US politics affirmed the authenticity of the American dream — the dream that in this land of promise, everyone can boldly hope to become what he sets out to be.

“I stand here today, grateful for the diversity of my heritage, aware that my parents’ dreams live on in my two precious daughters. I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that, in no other country on earth, is my story even possible. Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation — not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy.

“Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. That among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’

“That is the true genius of America—a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles.”

I think the true genius of America lies in its ability to create a social order based on the plurality of races and cultures. Yet race remains an explosive issue. Instead of eliding it as others often do, Obama tackles the issue head-on, almost unmindful of the minefield that surrounds it. He does not ignore the residues of racial prejudice that still divide the American nation, but he chooses to harp on the unity that was meant by the nation’s founders to emerge from the diversity of its people.

“‘E pluribus unum.’ Out of many, one…. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there’s the United States of America.... We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the Stars and Stripes, all of us defending the United States of America…. I’m not talking about blind optimism here…. I’m talking about something more substantial. It’s the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs. The hope of immigrants setting out for distant shores…. The hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too. Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.”

This brings us to the other speech that launched Obama’s political star. Apart from its multiracial character, what Obama knows about America is its religiosity — an astonishing irony in a society that projects itself as a beacon of secular democracy. On June 28, 2006, two years after he won a seat in the US Senate, he was invited to keynote a gathering of religious leaders, a perfect occasion to claim space on an issue that had been the turf of Republicans — religion in the public square. Before joining politics, Obama had been a professor of constitutional law. He was expected to articulate a robust secularism against the rising tide of religious fundamentalism. Instead, he expressed a nuanced view of the vital role of religion in society.

“[S]ecularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, William Jennings Bryan, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King — indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history — were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause…. Their summoning of a higher truth helped inspire what had seemed impossible, and move the nation to embrace a common destiny.”

Obama doesn’t leave the issue there however. “Democracy dreemands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason. I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God’s will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all.”

Beside John McCain, who personifies an exhausted empire, the younger Barack Obama symbolizes an American nation that is conscious of its most basic strengths — faith in a time of despair, audacity in a time of uncertainty. America is lucky to have him as its next president.

reference:
http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20081018-167082/Two-speeches-that-made-Barack-Obama

The Essence of Women

Introduction

Essence is defined as the individual, real or ultimate nature of a thing and all the elements that make up it's basic nature. The Essence of Women takes in all the attributes that make up the individual woman: spirit, sexuality, body, emotions and intelligence.

Do you know how and why you think and feel the way you do? After reading this book you will. You will know what role hormones play in intelligence, ability and emotions. You will know the truth from the myths.

A woman's body is very complex, yet every woman has the ability to recognize when something is wrong. I am constantly amazed at how much women don't know about their own bodies. Not even the basics. I will give you those: how your body is made and works, and how to know when it isn't working properly. After gaining this knowledge, it's only fair that you know what can be done to repair it. Not only will you learn the "traditional Western Medicine" standard of care, but also the Alternatives to that.

The sexuality of women starts with the basics of your body and it's response to erotic stimuli. Most women don't have a clue why something gets them aroused and another thing doesn't. And then on a different day just the opposite is true. After that, I will tell you how to achieve greater erotic pleasure, make love to your partner, spice up your love life, and what the reality of alternative sexual practice is and a decision-making guide to whether it's for you.

The last essential ingredient, and the first one I have started this book with, is probably the most important: Spirituality. How to recognize it, achieve a different level of understanding and why it's important. will give the you answers and the power to have control over your body, mind and emotions.

As we approach the new millennium, we're finding that 'Everything Old is New Again". People are seeking the alternative to "Modern Medicine" which discarded thousands of years of healing with "alternative means" in favor of drugs and methods that can sometimes harm more than the illness. We know that our Spirituality can and does heal, that we energize and re-energize ourselves daily with that Spirituality. Before many people believed in this however, it took a Harvard study to prove it scientifically. Many of us knew and believed it before Harvard told us.

You can also cause your own illness, in many cases, with the negative energy you have and put out. By learning how to attain the positive energy needed to be truly whole and well, and not do this, you can and will keep yourself healthy. As you will learn, you have more control over your body and what it manifests in the way of illness, wellness and the healing of itself than you believe now. As a group, we are learning more about how to control our bodies, healing them, and the interaction of our energy with others than at any other time in the past. This new Millennium is bringing more changes than just a calendar for us. It is bringing a new way of being.

After you know the ingredients of anatomy; how the body, mind and emotions work; how to fix the problems; how to stay healthy; and know about your spirituality, then what? What do you do with it all? Do you just put this book on the shelf and pull it out when something isn't working right or you want to check a fact? How do you put it all together so that it makes a difference in your life? Well, just like saving the best part of the meal, dessert, until the end, that is what I have done. I have saved that until the end of the book because it is the quintessential part of this book. How to do it - how to put it all together to be a Completely Healthy Woman. REFERENCE: http://www.mjbovo.com/Writer/Essence2.htm

A crisis that need not have happened

This problem could have been averted (in theory) as people had been pointing to these issues for decades. Yet, of course, during periods of boom no-one (let alone the financial institutions and their supporting ideologues and politicians largely believed to be responsible for the bulk of the problems) would want to hear of caution and even thoughts of the kind of regulation that many are now advocating. To suggest anything would be anti-capitalism or socialism or some other label that could effectively shut up even the most prominent of economists raising concerns.

Of course, the irony that those same institutions would now themselves agree that those “anti-capitalist” regulations are required is of course barely noted. Such options now being considered are not anti-capitalist. However, they could be described as more regulatory or managed rather than completely free or laissez faire capitalism, which critics of regulation have often preferred. But a regulatory capitalist economy is very different to a state-based command economy, the style of which the Soviet Union was known for. The points is that there are various forms of capitalism, not just the black-and-white capitalism and communism. And at the same time, the most extreme forms of capitalism can also lead to the bigger bubbles and the bigger busts.

Quoting Stiglitz again, he captures the sentiments of a number of people:

We had become accustomed to the hypocrisy. The banks reject any suggestion they should face regulation, rebuff any move towards anti-trust measures — yet when trouble strikes, all of a sudden they demand state intervention: they must be bailed out; they are too big, too important to be allowed to fail.

…

America’s financial system failed in its two crucial responsibilities: managing risk and allocating capital. The industry as a whole has not been doing what it should be doing … and it must now face change in its regulatory structures. Regrettably, many of the worst elements of the US financial system … were exported to the rest of the world.

— Joseph Stiglitz, The fruit of hypocrisy; Dishonesty in the finance sector dragged us here, and Washington looks ill-equipped to guide us out, The Guardian, September 16, 2008

references:

http://www.globalissues.org/article/768/global-financial-crisis#Poornationswillgetlessfinancingfordevelopment

How to Plan a Perfect Valentine's Date

Step1:

Location. Weeks prior to Valentine's Day, look for the perfect venue for that perfect date. Restaurants or 5-star hotels are traditional places to celebrate a special day. Different people with different personalities, however, may have a different point of view on what a romantic place is. For those who are adventurous or nature lovers, they may prefer dating in the woods, like renting a log cabin for Valentine's Day to be their perfect location. Wherever it is, make sure it is a place both of you would enjoy being in. Check the Internet or find out from friends what places they could recommend. You can also ask your partner for his input if the date will not be a surprise.
Step2:

Reservations. Make sure to make arrangements ahead of time. Restaurants, 5-star hotels, log cabins or yachts are just a few places for a romantic Valentine's date. Popular places to eat may have limited available tables so getting the confirmation weeks, sometimes months, in advanced is the best way to ensure you have a place. Do not just walk in and expect to get a table on Valentine's Day. You will just ruin that night if you cannot have a table until hours later.
Step3:

:Add Ambiance. A romantic date should exude an ambiance of love. No matter how perfect the location seem to be, without the ambiance, it is like eating bland or half-cooked meat. Add candles and flowers. If you are in a restaurant, you can request the host or hostess to add these items on the table setting. Have music playing if a budget is not an issue. You can even hire musicians to play love songs to serenade as you enjoy dinner or time together.
Step4:

Gift. A Valentine's date is not complete without a gift. Buying your partner that perfect gift to go with the perfect Valentine's date is like an icing on a cake. Guys, don't forget to buy roses and a card to go with your gift. Gals, buy a gift to reciprocate.
Step5:

Budget. Make sure you have the money to spend if you want to make that Valentine's date perfect. If you are using a credit card, make sure you have enough money available. It would be very embarrassing for you and, most especially, your date if you cannot pay the tab after your dinner. Checking if you have enough cash or credit available on your card prior to going to the location will save you a lot of headache and embarrassment. If you are on a tight budget, you do not really have to go to expensive places to celebrate that special day with your partner. You can be creative by decorating your place and creating a romantic atmosphere. Sometimes spending quality time together and simply enjoying each other's company is the perfect way to celebrate Valentine's Day.

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