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ARTArticleLose-Weight-EFT By Drinking More Water And Less Unhealthy DrinksThis is a very common question in my inbox, and it goes something like this: "I would like to drink more water. I drink soda pop, tea, and coffee, and I'm ashamed to say I put sugar in my tea and coffee. It doesn't taste the same without it. But all diets and eating regimes say to drink more water instead. And I have a big problem with drinking water. I did very well in my weight loss last time, but I have put everything back on again, because I came off the wagon and lost all self control and willpower.ARTArticleLosing Weight with EFT – Guilt and Shame About WeightEFT, short for Emotional Freedom Techniques, is a powerful combination of acupressure and releasing wording, designed to give you fast results with any goal that you want to achieve. Probably the biggest question people ask with EFT is what to say when they tap. No matter what kind of EFT you have learned, this still is the heavy EFT challenge for many. And it is the same when it comes to weight.
Weight loss has an extra complication. You see, we need to eat at least about three times a day. And every day can present new challenges.ARTArticleMassage and OilsMassage is a healing therapy involving manipulation of the body’s soft tissues. Massage can soothe muscle aches and pains, encourage relaxation, stimulate the circulation of blood and encourage the flow of lymph. Massage also has beneficial effects on the skin as well as calming and uplifting the mind.
There are numerous styles of massage but essential to most forms of massage (most but not all) is the selection of an appropriate massage oil. While used primarily for lubrication, the oil selected can also have benefits for the skin, as well as assisting the massage itself.ARTArticleMassage for Women's PainThere are a number of conditions that can affect a woman’s health. For instance, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain Syndrome are much more common in women than in men. These conditions can start a chain reaction leading to additional health issues, however, I believe that with patience, perseverance, and gentleness, their progressive nature can be reversed.
Here is an example of one composite experience --- You start off dealing with stress continuously; whether you have very high expectations of yourself, problems in your family life, or other long-term stress-causing situations.ARTArticleMaximize Your Workouts EffectivenessWhether you’re new to working-out, you’ve hit a plateau, or you’re bored with the same old routine; try these tips to get the most out of your exercise sessions.
Cardiovascular:
1) Use your arms on the treadmill or elliptical machine. If you’re holding on to the handrails of cardio equipment you’re missing out on the total number of calories you could be burning. Pumping your arms at a 90-degree angle automatically increases your speed and heart rate therefore, accelerating the number of calories burned.ARTArticleMenstrual Pain and Heaviness -- Who Needs 'Em??Menstrual pain and heaviness are not necessary!
There are so many misconceptions about a woman`s menstrual cycle and what is and is not normal.ARTArticleMexican Sweet Potato and ChickenWintertime is a great time of year to use sweet potatoes -- they have a wonderful warmth and comfort to them.
If you are trying to lose weight or tend to gain weight easily, it's important to remember that starchy vegetables like sweet potatoes are just that -- starchy. At a meal with 1/2 to 1 sweet potato per person, you don't need more carbohydrates such as pasta, riceor bread.
If you are used to eating pasta/rice/bread with each meal, this might sound startling. Almost every woman I see in my office who wants to lose weight is eating too many carbohydrates throughout the day.ARTArticleMy first boss was my best boss...My first boss was not a graduate of any business school. As a matter of fact he had to quit school when he was only 15. The Second World War was terrorizing Europe and he had to flee his homeland.ARTArticleMy True Weight-Loss StoryI thought it might be fun that I shared a part of my life with you guys. I'm 27 years old now and I have been in good shape for almost 2 years now. But that wasn't always the case! In fact, 2 years ago I was really overweight.
I was 75 pounds too heavy. Yes I know that eating fast food and not exercising enough was not a good idea. On top of that I had a knee injury that wouldn't go away.ARTArticleNatural Cleaning With Essential OilsCleaning and maintaining your home using natural ingredients including essential oils rather than using toxic chemicals is a cheaper, more environmentally friendly way and it smells SO much better!
My top 5 Essential Oils for use around the home are -
Tea tree – for its antibacterial properties which have been renowned for decades
Eucalyptus – fresh and invigorating and a boon if there are coughs and colds in the house
Lavender – relaxing but still with antibacterial properties – a most versatile oilARTArticleNatural Hair Loss Treatments For Hair Loss And How You Can Regrow Hair NaturallyNatural home remedies or natural hair loss treatments can help you avoid some of the complications of transplants and other processes. Hair loss is something that happens to most men and many women but the process can be prevented, slowed or even reversed in some cases.
While transplants are the quickest way to replace lost hair, they do have some disadvantages. One is that they do not stop further hair loss.ARTArticleOne Hidden Ingredient That Could Be Sabotaging Your Weight Loss GoalsAre you having problems shedding the fat that's on your body? Do you work out hard and try to eat healthy, but the weight isn't coming off as fast as you think it should? This is a common problem that lots of people struggle with, and it may not even be your fault. You see, food companies put all sorts of unhealthy ingredients in our foods because it makes it cheap and tasty. But one of these ingredients in particular could be sabotaging your body, making it very hard to burn your body fat.
I'm sure by now you've heard of the big "trans fat" scare (and it is scary).ARTArticleOvulation Calculator: Helping Women Meet Conception GoalsOvulation is the most important aspect of fertility and conception. No matter how many changes you make to your lifestyle, diet or bedroom habits, conception will not occur if you are not ovulating. To predict ovulation women have two main options – calendar tracking and the ovulation calculator. The calendar method requires keeping tabs on body temperature, cervical mucus changes and various dates. The ovulation calculator method requires just two pieces of information – the first day of your last period and length of your average menstrual cycle.ARTArticlePermanent Weight Loss – Do I Have To Diet For The Rest Of My Life To Lose Weight For Good?When I talk about diet, most people automatically think of starvation methods, calorie restriction diets or fasting. Proper diet in order to lose weight has nothing to do with these fad, temporary methods of losing weight.
Fad diets or fasting is counter productive and can end up having a negative impact on your weight loss efforts and even your heath! Lets face it most diets and fad weight loss programs are not sustainable.ARTArticleProblems Sleeping? Would you change a Bad Habit to Sleep Better?Are you willing to abolish some bad habits – to get good sleep?
Too many of us, due to our fast paced life develop habits that end up affecting our overall health because, the things we introduce to our bodies tamper with our internal mechanisms unbalancing our body’s natural rhythm. These habits weaken our body’s natural ability to trigger sleep and waking, control hunger and satiety, affect our concentration and memory, our moods and contribute to an emotional life of ever heightening stress and tension.ARTArticleReclaim Your Youth Within Days: Smart Advice On How Facial Exercises Do Great Work For Looking YoungerWe've heard they are pretty minimal and straightforward to do. Simply by following a proper yoga facial exercises system, the entire face and neck skin can be tightened, raised and re-energized. Facial gymnastics using the fingertips are often performed to attain full non-surgical facelifts or mini facelifts. Do they work?
Do these routines work in tightening saggy face and neck skin, and for minimizing and erasing wrinkles and lines for a more youthful appearance?ARTArticleReiki Practitioner Training Follow Up FAQ 1If you are an existing or budding Reiki healer, this is one in a series of articles to help you along the way. First of all, let me congratulate you for walking this path. Reiki is a beautiful energy and way of life, and it is wonderful to help people heal, grow, and develop. Well done for having come this far, and for caring!ARTArticleSecrets of Weight Loss RevealedThe weight loss is what many people are striving for. But, people are failing to achieve the weight loss, due to the improper methods. You need to be dedicated enough to achieve the weight loss. It is necessary to take weight loss seriously and be determined to accomplish it. You need to understand the body mechanism properly before you move towards the process of weight loss. Unless you find out the reasons behind the excessive weight gain you will not be able to achieve the weight loss.ARTArticleSelf Defense Tactics for Women- Top 5 Personal Safety TechniquesDon't take your personal safety for granted. Take charge with these five easy to learn self defense tactics to help keep you safe.
Every day the news is filled with horror stories involving women as victims of violent crime. We worry about ourselves and female friends and relatives. While no one can guarantee your personal safety, even in your own home, these self defense tactics can help reduce your chances of becoming a victim of violent crime.ARTArticleSelf-Confidence By Thinking Happy Thoughts About OthersHow do you improve your self-confidence? In NLP, there us a very simple answer. NLP is short for Neuro Linguistic Programming. It works by seeing what it is that successful people do and say, and then mimicking that. In other words, if you say what a successfully confident person says, others will see you as confident. And when others see you as confident, people will treat you with respect as that confident person. And that will give you more self-confidence.ARTArticleSelf-Confidence Stance With EFT Booster!EFT is great for improving self-confidence. You really want a mind that is controlled by you, not those negative and self-critical thoughts that creep in. Well, in EFT, short for Emotional Freedom Techniques, those negative thoughts are said to be kept active by energy. This is like a way-too-bright light that keeps you awake all night, being kept on by an electric current. Of course, we can turn off that harsh or too bright a light and get some nice sleep, right? All we have to do is turn off the switch. Failing that, we can take out the plug at the mains.ARTArticleSelf-Love in Small StepsIn classical EFT, tappers often use the Setup statement of "Even though I have this [problem], I deeply love myself". Some tappers cannot say "I deeply love myself" or even "I love myself". This is a sign that self-love can do with a boost.ARTArticleSix Ways You Can Help Your Overweight Child and Solve The Obesity EpidemicI was the fattest kid in school all my school life. It’s a miserable way to spend a childhood, or any time, for that matter. To look at me today no one would guess it. I’ve been at my ideal body weight for over twenty years. I’m a mental health counselor. Some assume I have no idea what it’s like to be fat. But I know too well. I was obese and morbidly obese for 25 years, and I thought I was a hopeless case for a long time. But I discovered how to solve the problem 20 years ago, lost 140 pounds, and I’ve been helping others since. I know how to solve the obesity problem.ARTArticleSkin Firming and Anti-Aging - Hope Beyond the HypeWith all of the skin firming and anti-aging solutions on the market, you would think that no one would be walking around with wrinkles or age spots. There are probably some people that just don’t care, others that have tried ineffective products until they are sure that nothing really works and still others that feel the costs won’t fit into their budget.
Surprisingly, recent US statistics indicate that injections and other cosmetic procedures for improving firmness and reducing wrinkles are on the rise, despite the state of the economy.ARTArticleSleep - how much is Normal and When should you Worry!The amount of sleep we get changes as we grow and is not fixed until we are adults. So 8 hours sleep is not "normal" for everyone. But if you know what to expect then you can identify problems and deal with them before they become chronic.
This flu season it is especially important that we and our children get enough sleep so that our immune systems stay strong. Along with dialing down stress, eating healthy, taking extra vitami
C and D and getting the flu shot (when appropriate), being well rested allows all these extra measures to have their desired effect.ARTArticleSleep Problems? Look to the past for a modern day natural solution!If you are having problems falling asleep or staying asleep as millions of people in this fast paced society are, today there is an alte
ative to taking drugs that is 50 year old science, has an unblemished safety record and works with your body’s natural electrical component to gently and easily, and without any side effects, help you to destress and reprogram your body so that you can fall asleep easily and naturally, stay asleep longer and wake up feeling refreshed, without introducing drugs to your system.
The technology is called CES, cranial electrotherapy stimulation, which was liARTArticleSleeping well is key to managing your weightOur body is our own personal drug store, regulated by many internal systems to give us what we need over the course of the day, in order to function as it should and help us fight off threats to our health. Being in good physical shape, and maintaining the proper weight are the two best ways to protect our overall good health and ensure that we don't need to disturb this natural balance with exte
al chemical drugs.
All this activity in our bodies is coordinated by the efficiency of our internal biological clocks which run on a circadian rhythm (a 24 hour cycle just like the earth’s).ARTArticleStay Motivated! Keep Your Exercise Resolutions!Every New Year the gym is packed full of eager exercisers ready to achieve results. A month or two passes, resolutions go awry, and people give up. Don’t fall victim to this cycle! Exercise is a lifetime commitment for your own personal health and well-being. Here are some tips to help you stay motivated to exercise.
1) Partner Up! Exercise is so much more fun when you do it with a friend. Plus, you and your buddy will keep each other accountable. On days you don’t feel like working out your partner will be your motivator and vice versa.
2) Try Something New!ARTArticleStop Smoking With The Easy Way - EFT TappingStopping smoking is not normally an easy task for most of us mere mortals. And I am sure Superman does not smoke and has therefore never had the disappointment of trying then starting again. Think about it this way, though; most smokers stop every day, when they are asleep. So it is possible.
If you are thinking of quitting, have a look at these tips, and see how you feel.
Smoking itself is not because of lack of willpower. You have the willpower to read this article. So you have the willpower to try different ways of quitting until you stop smoking for good.ARTArticleStop that Aching Head!Anyone who has experienced a migraine knows how devastating it can be. Sometimes they go beyond just a headache and can cause other neurologic symptoms such as dizziness, decrease in vision, neck pain or sinus issues. In fact, many of the patients I see for sinus and allergy issues have migraines as well.