A Little Wisdom from Your Kids
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If you have children, listen up. If you don’t have children, this may help you make sense of your childhood. The default position for parenting is to “micromanage” your child’s life—under the guise that it is for their highest good. But really, it is for our own sense of peace.
Remember, children are already masters of happiness. Observe what they do, how they live, where their choices come from. It’s kind of humorous that we (the serious adults, who mostly are much less happy than them) want to teach them our wisdom. What you can teach them is how to listen to their guidance, which will always steer them right. That would require you learning first, though.
If children learn by our example, guess what your job is? Stop doing what you think will lead to happiness, and just learn to find peace and joy no matter your circumstances right now. Your children will thank you.
Here’s something to chew on today: consider that your children, nieces and nephews were sent to teach you about joy—not the other way around. Just something to consider.
Trust yourself, and you’ll trust them more. I know you want your kids to be happy. When you were little, you wanted to be happy, too! Today, remember the resilience, playful nature, and “ability to play with the wrapping paper and still have fun without needing the toy” of a child.
All that matters is that you love ‘em. Everything else is just fine-tuning. That means you are (were, and will be) doing a great job already!
Jennifer Hough
Acts of Kindness
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Throughout my day-to-day activities, I find it interesting to people-watch when I get a few moments. I watch strangers interact with one another, and sometimes I have the pleasure of witnessing acts of kindness. Occasionally, I actually get to be a part of those acts and it really brings an ever-lasting smile to my face when I’ve helped someone out in some small way.
When you act in kindness or do a good deed, it really makes you feel like you’ve made a new friend or at least made someone’s day. It can be any number of things that don’t have to be heroic to be appreciated.
I recently went into a shoemaker to have a few holes punched into my belt when I realized I didn’t have enough change to cover the $2 bill. Just as I went to grab my debit card (and feel fully embarrassed for using it for such a small amount), a nice man (awaiting his shoes) kindly paid the difference of my bill. It was only a few cents, but it really made feel special for that brief moment to know someone was paying attention to my very minor dilemma and consciously decided to help out.
These moments, I believe, are the fruits of life. I would love to hear a story of yours, where you gave or received an act of kindness. They’re great inspiration to others for a more generous future. You can submit your story at http://creatinggoodkarma.com.
~Amanda~
Do You Know the Medical Definition of Health?
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Do you know what health is? When I ask this question, most people tell me that health is feeling good. If they have pain, they have a problem, and if they have no pain, they figure they must not have a problem.
But simply feeling good has little to do with how healthy you are. Think about someone you may have known or heard about who never had any indications of illness and simply dropped dead of a heart attack. (The number one symptom of heart disease is in fact sudden death, and not chest pain.)
Dorland’s Medical Dictionary defines health as a condition of optimal physical, social, and mental well-being—not merely the absense of diseases or infirmities. Webster’s dictionary defines health as a condition of wholeness in which the organs are functioning 100% all the time.
So what if you’re only functioning at 80%? By this definition, are you healthy? Do you think you’d know the difference? What about 60%? Maybe.
In many cases, there needs to be substantial damage or destruction—say 50%—before a problem is detectable.
Will you wait for this and be reactive, or will you be proactive with your health?
A chiropractic checkup is one of the best ways to find out your level of spinal health so you can deal with any problems before they become permanent, or more expensive, costly and time-consuming to fix.
Contact me and I’ll be happy to refer you to someone in your area.
Yours in good health,
Dr. Sidenberg
Does Your Dentist Offer Reflexology?
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We offer reflexology at our office in order to make your dental visit more comfortable.
What is reflexology?
Reflexology is the physical act of applying pressure to the feet and hands with specific thumb, finger, and hand techniques. It is based on a system of zones and reflex areas that reflect an image of the body on the feet and hands with a premise that such work effects a physical change to the body. Reflexology is a natural healing therapy based on the principle that there are reflex points in the feet and hands that correspond to every part and organ of the human body.
Dr. Dana Colson
And Baby Makes Busy
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While all couples fantasize about and glamorize the arrival of their first born, I think very few are ever really prepared for the challenges that lie ahead. I have seen many couples, even those who receive a great deal of family support, reeling a couple months after their babies’ arrival.
A big part of the challenge, especially for women, is that we expect to do it all. We set unrealistic goals that make us feel like we are not succeeding at anything and failing a lot of things. Don’t be a victim of this vicious cycle of mommy destruction. It will be devastating to your mental and physical health.
The reality is many of us are striving to live the dream and forgetting to live our lives. Be present to the very essence of what life is about. Allow motherhood to slow you down. Smell the roses instead of speeding up because you’ll miss the beauty in it all!
In health,
Andrea Page
Mamas Too Tired for Exercise?
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This is something I hear all the time. It’s a fact: Moms don’t get much sleep. For those who don’t love exercise, this is just the excuse they need to not be active.
Heck, I’ve been there. When pregnant with my first child almost nine years ago, I used my constant exhaustion (and the myth that pregnancy and exercise don’t mix) as the justification for lying around. The problem is this leads to a vicious cycle of low energy and sleeplessness, and moms begin to feel trapped.
When working with moms, I often talk about how sleep deprivation is real. Small changes can lead to big changes. For example, a little bit of exercise can help you sleep better, which means you will have more energy for life and your next workout.
If sleeplessness is an issue for you, here are three baby steps to take:
• Three nights a week, go to bed earlier. The best choice would be the nights before you plan to work out.
• If you’re tired, do shorter and more frequent workouts to start. This way you don’t have to feel it is a daunting one-hour task that will surely take the desire out of doing it.
• Eat breakfast always. If you do nothing else, set yourself up for a day of energy by fuelling your body in the a.m. If you don’t eat breakfast, your whole day will be sluggish, and then at night you will be restless.
For more tips to get you working out, go to www.newmom101.com and check out our e-book FITNEWMOM101.
Take great care,
Andrea Page
Adrenal Stress: Part One
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Stressed out? Chronically tired? Burnt out? Allergies getting worse instead of better? Catching one infection after the next despite a good diet? Premature menopause? If you are coping with some or all of these health problems, chances are high that you are suffering from varying degrees of adrenal insufficiency.
How do the adrenals weaken? Most commonly, different types of stress are involved. While
some of these stresses are beyond our immediate control (nasty bosses, postal worker strikes, stock market crashes, unfriendly in-laws, hurricanes, etc.), many stresses weakening the adrenals are dependent on our diet and lifestyle choices. For example, a high intake of caffeine and refined carbohydrates, cigarette smoking, heavy alcohol consumption, and drugs too numerous to list all stress the adrenals by causing a greater than normal secretion of adrenal hormones, leading to eventual depletion of stress hormone reserves.
Working long hours under fluorescent lights at a sedentary job and getting little to no exercise also weakens adrenal function. So does long hours of watching television, reading newspapers filled with bad news, and staring at computer screens.
Menopause is one major life event strongly connected to adrenal glandular function. In the healthy female, once the ovaries stop producing estrogen and progesterone, the adrenal glands take over production to maintain a comfortable balance. If this transition period does not occur smoothly, women entering the menopause will experience severe and often debilitating hot flashes, vaginal dryness, depression, loss of libido, accelerating osteoporosis, memory disturbances, and blood sugar control problems (hypoglycemia).
Adrenal insufficiency can cause exaggerated or early menopausal symptoms that create the
illusion that prescription hormone replacement therapy is needed. The ability to deal effectively with physical, chemical, emotional, and other environmental stressors such as viruses, ionizing radiation and prolonged physical exertion depends largely on the health of your adrenal response.
The adrenals are a pair of glands (shaped like Napoleon’s hat) that lie just above the kidneys. They secrete more than three dozen hormones derived from cholesterol directly into the bloodstream. Each gland, about one to two inches in length and weighing only a fraction of an ounce each, is composed of two distinct parts: the inner adrenal medulla and the outer adrenal cortex.
The outer region of the adrenal glands secretes hormones known as corticosteroids, of which there are three types: mineralocorticoids, glucocorticoids, and the 17-ketosteroids (sex hormones). Adrenal cortical hormones are controlled by ACTH, a pituitary hormone.
The inner adrenal medulla secretes epinephrine (adrenalin) and norepinephrine (noradrenaline), the hormones that mediate the “flight-or-flight” alarm response to stress. Adrenal medullary hormones are controlled by the sympathetic nervous system.
The glucocorticoids (cortisol, corticosterone, cortisone) cause blood sugar levels to go higher, reduce inflammation, and dampen the allergic response. Abnormal levels of glucocorticoids could be partially responsible for hypoglycemia or diabetes, an exaggerated pain response, and poorly controlled allergies.
The mineralocorticoids, the most important of which is aldosterone, cause the body to retain sodium while increasing potassium excretion. Abnormal aldosterone levels can therefore create imbalances between sodium and potassium and, consequently, fluid levels in the body. The major sex hormone produced by the adrenal cortex is the androgen, DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) which is then converted into other sex hormones (testosterone, estrogens, progesterone).
Shades of Imperfection
Conventional medicine categorizes adrenal function as either normal, low (adrenal insufficiency, a.k.a. Addison’s disease), or high (Cushing’s Syndrome, a rare disorder caused by an overactive adrenal cortex). Most individuals affected by suboptimal adrenal function fall between these two extremes and are left without any medical solution to their health problems.
Adrenal weakness is at the bottom of poorly controlled stress conditions ranging from anxiety, allergies, and recurrent infections to hypoglycemia, depression, autoimmune disease, and chronic fatigue of unknown cause. If the initial screening tests fail to show either low or high levels of various steroids, reductionistic medical thinking, regardless of patient signs and symptoms, is that adrenal function is normal. Studies, however, show that adrenal function can be compromised long before abnormalities start appearing in such laboratory tests and that the use of adrenal glandular support reverses signs and symptoms and replenishes depleted organ reserves.
Dr. Zoltan Rona
How to Get More from Green Tea
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A recent study by Purdue University researchers, published in the November 2007 issue of Molecular Nutrition and Food Research, has proven that adding 20–50% citrus juice to green tea beverages makes the antioxidant catechins in green tea more bioavailable. What a yummy way to help your body benefit from green tea! The study seemed to focus on using citrus juice or ascorbic acid in commercial green tea preparations, but why not make it fresh and still get the most out of it?
Make your favorite green tea by steeping a few bags in boiling water. Steep it strong (a few more minutes than usual), squeeze and remove the tea bags (or, if you prefer bulk tea leaves, strain the leaves off), and let it cool to room temperature.
In a nice glass pitcher, mix in up to twice as much fresh-squeezed citrus juice (orange, grapefruit, lemon, or lime), and sweeten if desired.
Agave nectar makes a great sweetener. It is all-natural and has a low glycemic index.
Keep the pitcher in the fridge and enjoy some refreshing anti-cancer catechins whenever you like!
Rebecca
Playing the Human Game: Part One
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My life seems to work better when I think of it as a game: the Human Game of Being. I have also discovered that my clients’ legal problems tend to get resolved more easily—with better results and less stress—when they agree to play the Human Game with me. Here is how we play.
I start out by asking them a question:
Do you believe that you can change the past?
Then I sit back and wait for a response. So far, 100% of my clients have answered this question with some variation of “No. I don’t believe that I can change the past.” That’s when I ask them if they would like to play the Human Game with me. The game has three basic rules:
Rule Number One: Choose to believe that the past is perfect.
There are lots of sayings that extol the wisdom of not being upset about the past, like “there’s no sense in crying over spilt milk,” or “that’s water over the dam,” or “that’s water under the bridge.” What I am talking about in this game is more than that.
In order for the game to be successful, the players need to choose to believe that the past is not only not worth getting upset about; they need to believe that it’s actually perfect. Here’s why: If the player believes that the past is anything less than perfect, the player will spend the player’s energy ruminating over “should have” or “could have” scenarios, detracting from the purpose of the game, which is to transform the player’s legal problems into opportunities for personal growth and positive change.
For those players who question the wisdom of such a rule, I go on to explain that if they chose to believe that the past were not perfect, they would then want to change the past so that it would be perfect. Since they have already acknowledged that they cannot do that, then their wanting to make the past perfect would be wanting to do something that they know they cannot do. That would just make them frustrated, angry, and resentful, and produce a decidedly less-than-perfect result. In other words, it would be crazy-making. It just doesn’t make sense to go down that path. It doesn’t work!
Rule Number Two: TUNE IN NEXT WEEK TO FIND OUT!
Philip J. Daunt, Esq.
Why Do You Not Always Get What You Asked For?
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Law of Attraction takes effort. Becoming who you are is inevitable and effortless. You will manifest according to who you are, not necessarily according to what you ask for.
I thought I might take you beyond Law of Attraction today.
Why learn Law of Attraction if there is more? You see, my friend, Law of Attraction says that what you put your attention on comes to you—and Law of Allowing says that what you believe you can receive, and what you can line yourself up with will come to you.
If you can simply become more of who you are every day, and therefore experience miracles consistent with that becoming every day, then why worry about attracting and allowing? Well, we would never believe in energy, or the power of our thoughts to create, if we did not first learn about Law of Attraction.
Now that you know what is possible, let’s see how effortless life can get simply by being the observer of your unfolding life—instead of being a person who works so hard at getting it right.
Trust me: the Universe has your back. Open up to that possibility today!
If you have not yet collected evidence for miracles today, now’s the time to start. In order to go to the next level of effortlessness, you have to absolutely know without a doubt that you are the one that is creating your life. So, start with 20 things that you know are miracles, cosmic coincidences, or astounding blessings.
Jennifer Hough
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