Nurture Your Own

Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone. ~Susan Mitchell and Catherine Christie, I’d Kill for a Cookie

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace. ~Milan Kundera

Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply? ~Carrie Latet

Always, we talk about living a healthy life. Healthy lifestyles, eating right and exercise. But there is one topic that many people do not like to talk about – Life Insurance.

This is one topic that many feel to be taboo. But the reality is, life insurance is just another one of those things that you need to do. If you are serious about nurturing your life, you need to also nurture those whom you love and care about.

Most of us know an insurance agent or two. But sometimes, we feel embarassed to talk about such a personal issue. The solution is really quite simple: lifeinsurancequotes.com is fully online and affordable.

So, while we strive to nurture our lives, we should also ensure that we can continue to nurture those we love even when we move on.

Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way. ~Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I’d Like to Give to You

According to Lori, many of us are eating yeast-rich food which is damaging to our health. She said

Yeast makes a number of chemical compounds which the body picks up and absorbs. To most folks, they may not feel much effect. However, other people may have more of a sensitivity which shows up through vaginal yeast infections, diarrhea/constipation and headaches. And then there are the rest of us, whose bodies have a difficult time handling these compounds and toxins. We feel sick, but we can’t figure out why.

Penicillin is one of the earliest discovered and widely used antibiotic agents, derived from the Penicillium mold. Antibiotics are natural substances that are released by bacteria and fungi into their environment, as a means of inhibiting other organisms – it is chemical warfare on a microscopic scale.

Many of the chemicals that yeast (mold, fungi) produce are also made to kill bacteria. If you continue to eat a diet rich in yeast, or foods that yeast have produced, you are taking in a low level of antibacterial chemicals, or antibiotics, all the time.

Antibiotics kill bacteria. The problem is that they don’t know the difference between good bacteria and bad.

Each of us has a certain amount of good bacteria and yeast in our intestines. When we consume antibiotics, whether in the form of prescription drugs, or chemicals and toxins produced from our yeast rich diets, we are killing the good bacteria in the gut.

When this happens, a space has been provided for the yeast to grow. This creates an imbalance between the good bacteria, or flora, and the yeast. If we continue to eat our yeasty, highly refined, sugary diet, we provide just the food that the yeast needs to grow at rapid speed.

Check out Lori’s full article explain why it is better to focus on yeast free cooking and eating.

Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering. ~Pooh’s Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne

Better Self Resources, LLC, a registered company in the state of Texas has a website where you can download instantly a Skin Lightening Report which contains step-by-step instructions for battling melasma, freckles, hyperpigmentation, dark underarms, dark circles, lightening hard-to-lighten areas on your body and more.  On the site, there’s  two “before” and “after” photo which showed a big difference in the skin condition. See if this is something you like to find out more

Common food items found in your pantry or refrigerator can have healing and rejuvenating properties for your skin. For example:
1) Honey is a natural moisturizer and defoliant and is found in many homemade skin care. Honey has been used throughout ancient times for beautiful skin, especially by the Greeks.Dairy products, especially milk and yogurt have enzymes that naturally exfoliate dead skin cells. Milk has been used for centuries for beauty skin. In fact, Cleopatra’s favorite secret beauty tip was to soak in a milk bath to keep her skin soft.

2) Vinegar has anti-itch/burn properties

3) Olive oil is a natural moisturizer and skin softener

4) Egg whites make an excellent mask and pore reducer

5) Lemon juice cleans pores and reduces excess skin oil and is good for acne prone skin

For more wonders on common food items like honey, garlic and vinegar, read Ray Collins’  The Honey Garlic and Vinegar Miracle.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. ~Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind

Avoid giving your baby Hydrocortisone or any other form of steroid creams even they might give temporarily relieve.

They seem harmless or that’s what you think. On the contrary, they are potentially dangerous.

The issue with using creams like Hydrocortisone is that it contains steroids. If it is constantly used on a baby’s skin,it can have damaging effects on the baby’s skin. Baby’s skin is too soft and too fragile for a strong cream. In fact, dermatologists also do not recommend long term usage for adults. For this reason, steroid cream shouldn’t be used constantly, and continually for a long period of time to treat dry skin or eczema for babies and young children.

If Your Baby Is Suffering From rashes, eczema or dry skin, you might like to eliminate whether the cause could be the baby products, check out Maggie Schulz’s Organic Baby.

There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. ~Peter Drucker

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. ~Will Rogers, Autobiography, 1949

EranKatz, the Guinness Book of Record Holder for Best Memory said we might not remember everything, however, we can remember everything we chose to remember.

People forgets – not because they are getting old and senile – it is more likely that they did not use, and train, their brains enough to retain all the information.

Eran Katz got himself into the Israeli Guinness Book of Record because he could recite a string of 500 numbers from front to back and then back to front!

Until today, this memory stunt record has not been beaten. We might not be able to see how he did that 500-number stunt, however, you can check out his memory stunt demonstration at the Brain Education Conference at the United Nations.

If you like to strengthen your brain power and pick up a few useful memory techniques to improve the quality of your life – from healthier and happier relationship with folks around you to remembering procedures and processes, faces and names to improve work life and possibly your salary – check out his coming seminars in Singapore.  The Super Memory Power Seminar and The Nobel Prize Brain Workshop will be great for you while the The Super Student Success Seminar will be better for your young ones. Go  enjoy your summer holiday in Singapore and learn something that helps you get healthier, happier and possibly richer seems like a good deal.