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Getting a Good Night’s Sleep

By admin • Feb 25th, 2009 • Category: Body

A great way to get in the habit of a restful sleep is to quietly talk to yourself before falling asleep. You are really talking directly to the subconscious mind. The instructions that you are giving the subconscious reinforces the idea of getting a good night’s sleep, and a refreshed feeling when you awake. Positive [...]



You Control Your Emotions

By admin • Feb 15th, 2009 • Category: Mind

There is cause and effect. You decide to be either with many things, including your emotions. If an angry person talks to you, you can decide to talk back angrily or not. In this way you can have the emotion you want.
If you force yourself to smile, you’ll soon stop frowning.
If you force [...]



Calculate Your Body Mass Index

By admin • Feb 12th, 2009 • Category: Body

Even better than knowing the ideal weight for your height is to calculate your body mass index (BMI). Body Mass Index is a measurement of fat based on your height and your weight. The body mass index is a reliable indicator of total body fat. The BMI score is valid for both men and women. [...]



Heart Rate Training Zone

By admin • Feb 12th, 2009 • Category: Body

The best way to know that you are exercising fat burning and metabolism boosting intensity is to measure your pulse while you exercise. If it is within your training heart rate zone for 15 minutes or more then your exercise is having a fat burning effect.
To find your training heart rate zone, you need to [...]



Improve Your Eyesight Naturally

By admin • Feb 10th, 2009 • Category: Body

Natural therapies are not usually the first thing that you think of when you want to improve your eyesight. It is usually whether you should choose glasses or contact lenses. Thousands of people all over the world have better vision without glasses or laser surgery by using a combination of exercise and relaxation techniques.
These exercises [...]



Reducing Puffy Eyes

By admin • Feb 5th, 2009 • Category: Body

Eye puffiness is a type of fluid build-up (edema) in the tissues around your eyes, looking like the eyes are “puffed up”. It is also refered to as “having bags under your eyes”. It is rarely a serious problem, but it does affect the look of the face and eyes giving it a tired, [...]



Improve Short Sightedness

By admin • Feb 3rd, 2009 • Category: Body

During a course of many years a teacher observed that quite a few of her students became short sighted (myopic) towards the end of term, so much that they could hardly see the blackboard. She implemented the bates method of eye exercise using a standard eye exam chart on the wall. By the end of [...]



Improve your memory

By admin • Dec 27th, 2008 • Category: Mind

Your mind and memory is only as good as the use you make of it. It has been shown by Professor Mark Rosensweig in California that if we were fed 10 new pieces of information every second for a whole lifetime to a human brain, that it would only be considerably less than half full.
The [...]



Boost self esteem and confidence

By admin • Dec 26th, 2008 • Category: Mind

The basic formula of living is having and following a basic purpose. Without goals, hopes, ambitions or dreams, the attainment of pleasure is nearly impossible. What we are going to do is reignite your own true goals. No man is happy without a goal, and no-one can be happy without faith in his own ability [...]



Running 5K to 10K

By admin • Dec 26th, 2008 • Category: Body

Running is one of the best and cheapest forms of exercises. You have no expensive gym fees and you can do it any time of the day. This is all well and good, but for a lot of people beginning to run they don’t see results fast enough and they are prone to injuries. Why [...]