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Meditation is a practice in which an individual trains the mind or induces a mode of consciousness, either to realize some benefit or for the mind to simply acknowledge its content without becoming identified with that content,[1] or as an end in itself.[2] The term meditation refers to a broad variety of practices that includes techniques designed to promote relaxation, build internal energy or life force (qi, ki, prana, etc.) and develop compassion,[3] love, patience, generosity and forgiveness. A particularly ambitious form of meditation aims at effortlessly sustained single-pointed concentration[4] meant to enable its practitioner to enjoy an indestructible sense of well-being while engaging in any life activity. The word meditation carries different meanings in different contexts. Meditation has been practiced since antiquity as a component of numerous religious traditions and beliefs.[5] Meditation often involves an internal effort to self-regulate the mind in some way. Medi...

Pranic healing is based on two laws: the law of self-recovery; and the law of prana or life energy. These laws are quite obvious but strangely they are usually the least noticed or least remembered by most people. It is through these basic laws that rapid or miraculous healing occurs. 1. The Law of Self-Recovery In general, the body is capable of healing itself at a certain rate if a person has a wound or burn, the body shall heal itself and recover within a few days to a week. In other words, even if you do not apply antibiotics on the wound or burn, the body shall repair or heal itself. At the present moment, there is no medicine available for the treatment of viral infection. But even when a person has cough or cold due to viral infection, the body shall recover generally in one or two weeks without medication. 2. The Law of Life Energy For life to exist the body must have prana, chi or life energy. The healing process can be accelerated by increasing life energy on the affected p...

What is Pranic Healing? Each and every one of us is surrounded by an energy field called bio-plasmic body (ethereal body) or energy body or aura. Science, with the help of Kirlian photography has rediscovered the existence of energy body. ( Kirlian photography is a collection of photographic techniques used to capture the phenomenon of electrical coronal discharges. It was named after Semyon Kirlian, who in 1939 accidentally discovered that if an object is on a photographic plate is connected to a high voltage source, an image is produced on the photographic plate). This energy body keeps the physical body alive and healthy. Therefore, any disturbance in the energy body shall manifest as physical ailment. This energy body is called Pranic Body, derived from the word Prana. Pranic Healing is divided into different levels. In the first level, the students are taught how to absorb air prana or chi energy, and how to project it to the patients. They are also taught how to make their han...

A new study confirms what I’ve suspected for years: Cardio shrinks your telomeres. Even a couch potato who does no exercise at all may be better off from a telomere length standpoint than the folks who run marathons and spend hours on treadmills. Why is this important to you? Because many of today’s most widespread conditions and illnesses are associated with shorter telomeres. Telomeres are the tiny genetic “clocks” that tell your cells how old they are. Today, I’ll show you the simple alternative to cardio that can help you maintain your telomeres, so you can live stronger and longer. It’s the opposite of aerobics and other endurance exercises, which shorten your telomeres and make you more susceptible to cancer and heart disease. In one telomere study, people with the longest telomeres were the least likely to develop cancer. They were more than 10 times less likely to develop cancer than people with short telomeres.1 And when I read further into the study, I discovered tha...

Have questions about risk factors, mammograms, and more? We’ve got answers Published: September 27, 2013 | By Casey Gueren Breast cancer is a massive and scary topic, and it's normal to have a ton of questions. Here's a list of some of the most frequently asked questions we get about breast cancer. Don't see your question on the list? Let us know what you're curious about, and we'll do our best to answer it. The Questions: Is it true that one in eight women will get breast cancer? Is it necessary to do a monthly breast self-exam? Do most women die of breast cancer? When should I start having mammograms, and how often should I have them? If no one in my family has had breast cancer, can I still get it? What does breast density have to do with breast cancer? What is ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)? Is there any easy way to know my risk? Are there any foods that increase or decrease your risk of breast cancer? What enviro...

Bear Crawl Drills The Tough Workout That Will Leave You on Your Hands and Knees Make your lungs and muscles burn with these 3 crawling drills By Dan John, October 23, 2014. When it comes to improving conditioning and boosting upper-body strength, nothing beats the wrestling and football drill called the bear crawl. It’s simple: Get down on all fours and lift your knees a couple of inches off the floor. Your back should be flat. Now crawl forward like a bear. If that was all you did, you would get pretty good results. Since it's inefficient for us to move like this and breathing is difficult, you'll burn a ton of calories. It also challenges your upper-back mobility every time you move. But if you want to get amazing results, try the following three drills. FOLLOW THE LEADER Don't just move forward. Try crawling sideways and backwards, too. Both are a real challenge, and to do either pattern with grace and dignity takes a lot of physical and mental work. Have a friend...

5 Tests That Will Measure Your Strength See how you match up to these standards By Kelsey Cannon, November 19, 2014 If you’ve ever spent any time on Internet fitness forums, it’s pretty easy to feel like every guy in the world is stronger than you are. You’ll read about how “any bro who lifts” should be able to bench press more than 300 pounds and deadlift at least 500. But look around most gyms, and those definitely aren’t the norms. And if you’re not attaining those numbers, it’s certainly not an indicator that your workout isn’t working, or that you’re weak and unhealthy. Of course, it can still be helpful to have numbers to strive for. “If you never measure yourself objectively, you’ll never actually know how fit you are or how to improve,” says James Sjostrom, SFG, owner CrossFit NRG in Salt Lake City, Utah. The bonus: Making performance your goal often comes with a positive side effect of weight loss and muscle gain, says Sjostrom. That’s why we asked several top strengt...

Kindly permit us to present our proposal on the corporate massage therapy. Research over the years can testify to the killing effect of stress as it relates to this present generation.We have an understanding that your organization is not left out of the global economic recession and the desire to compete in the ever competetive market of today's economy.Like other organisations,it is of your best intention to minimize work force and maximize profit. This however,entails that workers spend more time at work,take time getting home,have little time with family and most times facing family pressure.The inevitable nature of jobs in today's economy has a harmful physical and emotional effects which occur when the requirement of the job do not match the capabilities,resources or need of the workforce. Ignorantly,stress is often confused as job challenge ,but the reality is that,they are different concepts.While job challenges could motivate and energise workers to learn new skills...

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Four Ways to Overcome Food Temptations Everyone faces food temptations. Once in a while a healthy, conscious eater will find his or herself faced with bad food choices. It happens to the best of us. Some people believe that, we fitness instructors have superhuman power that keeps us immune to food temptations. They assume we eat perfectly right 100% of the time. That assumption is far from the truth. Like everyone else, I also have times when I crave and eat foods I wouldn’t eat on a good day. Yes, there are times when I find myself in an environment, where it would take mind over matter to curb my craving, and to escape the food temptations. Living a healthy lifestyle is a journey and not a destination, we will face obstacles along the path, but we must always tell ourselves “I’m on this journey to succeed”. In this article I share with you four ways to overcome food temptations. I used these strategies, to overcome food temptations when I lost 23kg in 9 months (and I still use th...

Who doesn't want flat abs? People desperate to lose weight will willingly starve themselves, take expensive supplements or do the latest fad diet that promises to give them that flawless figure in 30 days. Thankfully, belly fat is metabolically active and easier to lose. However, if proper nutrition is not observed and the resort is made to low calorie diets, weight loss may not happen within the desired time frame. Hunger and calorie deprivation will eventually kick in and dieters confronted with that favorite food they have been avoiding will have the tendency to binge at the first opportunity. The likelihood of gaining more weight than they originally lost is not far-fetched. According to Christine Rosenbloom, a nutrition professor at Georgia State University, eating a calorie-controlled diet and 60 minutes of daily moderate exercise activity will result to weight loss and can even help with the desired weight maintenance. In fact, according to Professor Michael Jensen of the ...

Let’s talk a little bit about how headphones came to be in the first place. Headphones were developed in 1910 by Nathaniel Baldwin in Utah. According to Smithsonian magazine, he sold the first pair of headphones to the U.S. Navy, who found them to be a vast improvement over the mechanism that Naval radio operators were using. Fast forward to just after World War II: John Koss, jazz musician and the founder of Koss Corp., developed the first headphones designed specifically for music, closely mimicking the sounds of a concert-filled hall and quickly attracting music-lovers. For about 30 years, headphones looked the same until Sony came up with little earphones that fit in your ear to accompany its Walkman. They didn’t reach their peak of popularity until 2001 when Apple and Steve Jobs introduced the iPod and shipped each one with white earbuds — instantly recognizable in the ears of millions of Apple-using teens and adults today. Headphones always have been a danger to our hearing, i...

Despite the unproven effectiveness of made-for-TV stomach-flattening devices, health clubs, home gyms and exercise enthusiasts everywhere continue to try everything from ab rollers to crunch machines to chase the elusive six-pack. But do any of these contraptions actually work? Let's find out. In an article called "How to Get a Flat Stomach," I explain that the best way to get results is to include exercises that target every muscle of your midsection, including your rectus abdominis (front of your abs), the external and internal obliques (sides of your abs), the transverses abdominis (bottom of your abs) and to balance things out, also the important postural muscles of your lower back. If you can include all of these muscle groups into a single workout, then you can quickly, safely and successfully get a flat stomach or a set of six-pack abs. But here's the problem: most of these popular ab machines you see in infomercials only target one or a few of these musc...

This question deserves to be addressed because many such questions have come in lately seeking to understand why we speak of The Grail Message. Also many legends and poetic writings exist about the Grail Castle, the Holy Grail, Grail Knights and similar descriptions which were attempts by man to put into earthly form something that is completely un-earthly. The answer given here is only an attempt to awaken a deeper urge to seek, for each person must exert the God-given power of his spirit to understand Creation, through which The Creator constantly speaks to us. Grail is a living fulfilment of the manifestation of the great Love of The Almighty Creator, Our God, towards all creatures. It is the point of anchorage at the summit of the whole of Creation which, through the activity and radiations of The Holy Spirit, constitutes the starting point of the entire Creation. It is called the Holy Grail because it lies on the outermost border adjacent to the Divine Sphere, acting like a poi...

Being successful as a personal trainer can be defined a lot of ways. I don’t define it as having a lot of client sessions; rather, I define it as training in such a way that you make yourself unnecessary, which has the paradoxical effect of causing your clients to want more of you. I also define it as training to best serve the people who need our help the most. And meeting the needs of currently underserved markets undoubtedly will result in a steady stream of clients for the next several decades. Here are five keys to being a successful trainer: 1. Lead—Don’t Cheerlead A successful trainer develops a client’s desire for, and ability to pursue, fitness independently of the trainer. It’s not about giving someone a killer workout and saying “good job” even if it isn’t. Leading someone to fitness means using what they care about to foster an internal drive to move in the direction of better fitness. It’s really about teaching, not training. Make yourself unnecessary and a funny thin...

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When workouts backfire By Linda Melone, CSCS Exercise's anti-gravity effect on your body provides more than enough incentive to hit the gym (hello, perky posterior!). But it only works if you do it correctly-too much of one thing and not enough of another can actually add years to your body. We talked to the pros to single out the most common exercise habits that age you, and what to do instead. Mistake: You never take a break If you're tired all the time and feel achy and sore, you may not be allowing your body enough time to heal between workouts, which can age you, says John Higgins, MD, associate professor of medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and director of exercise physiology at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center. "In your teens and 20s, it took approximately 18 hours to repair muscle fibers affected by a workout, but this increases to 36 hours in your 40s or older," he says. Using those same muscles before they'r...

FOODS THAT RAISE THE ENERGY LEVEL OF THE BODY. 1. Fresh fruits e.g. orange, grape, papaya, water melon, apples, banana, pear, cherries, et cetera. 2. Fresh vegetables e.g. carrots, cucumber, garden eggs, cabbage, lettuce, broccoli, et cetera. 3. Root tubers e.g. irish potato, sweet potato, yam, coco yam. 4. Beans, lean/white meat, fish with scales, eggs, honey, olive oil, brown rice, ofada ice, garri, yam powder, wheat meal, wheat bread, unripe plantain, local soups, onion, tomato, ginger, locust bean, garlic. (never mix garlic with ginger). 5. Cook, roast, steam, and grill your foods. 6. Eat only when hungry. 7. Eat fruits on an empty stomach or first thing in the morning. 8. Eat one fruit at a time. 9. Consume your major calories in the morning and afternoon. 10.Raw vegetables are best eaten last for for/with supper/dinner. 11.Avoid late night bingeing (excessive eating or drinking). 12.Constantly maintain a positive attitude! FOODS THAT DROP THE ENERGY LEVEL OF THE BODY. 1. White...

MONDAY. 1. 30 Deep Breaths. Skipping (with jump ropes) 1000 repetitions. 3. Upper & Lower Body Standing Stretches (standing-slight back-bend, side-bend, left & right trunk tilt hold, forward trunk bend or head to knee, deep closed legs squat hold, deep wide legs squat hold, glutes stretch, quads stretch). Hold each stretch for 3 sets of 8 repetitions, that is 24 counts. TUESDAY. 1.30 Deep Breaths. 2. Push-Ups 16 repetitions. 3. Squats 16 repetitions. 4. Deeps (use a strong chair) 16 repetitions. 5. Bulgarian Squats 16 repetitions. 6. Leg Rows (in push-up position) 16 repetitions. 7. Forward Leg Lunges 16 repetitions. (Repeat exercise 2. to 7. 4 times, that is 5 sets). 8. Floor Stretches (Lay face down- upward trunk lift hold, ankle hold heels pulled to buttocks chin-up hold, ankle hold trunk lift heels pulled away from the buttocks, hands held up above the head chin up knees locked double leg raise hold, Lay face up- double knees hugs, spine stretch (both knees kept close to ...

Knowledge speaks everywhere you go, it wearies and burdens. Only Truth and its application sets free! Just strive to perceive good, think good, speak good and do good-it is the best thing.