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Nutritional Supplements: Food for the Brain Posted On 2009-04-11 , 9:02 AM How are you feeling today? How you feel is likely to be directly connected to what food and drink you ingest. Your body is your only home for this lifetime, and it will respond well to good treatment. One of these ways is to make sure that you get adequate nutrition, another is exercise, but I'll talk about that another time. Studies have shown that children's abilities at school improve with nutritional supplements ; they were literally found to be food for the brain. Now most people want the best for their children, and so they will probably make sure that they have the nutrition they need. It's similar with animals, these days there are so many 'complete' foods to choose from for your pets and animals that you care for (if you were a farmer, optimum nutrition is an important factor in your profits. Sub-standard goods won't achieve such a high price at market.) I've heard it said of a man who owned a stables: “See his horses, they're in fantastic shape, but look at him, he's a MESS.” One way is to learn about foods and their nutritional value. It's great to learn how to prepare good, simple foods of the highest quality. In the West we are highly likely to be overweight or even obese [your heart has to pump your blood another mile for every 1 lb overweight that you are], so it's better to eat less food and eat good quality food. Choose Free Range food if you're a carnivore, it's caring for the animals and for your digestive system, and organic as well for vegetables and meat/fish products. Fast, good food is possible and it can be fun. Teach your children the same, and you'll set them up for a healthy life. Now you are probably an adult, and responsible for yourself. That's a fact we can resist, and yet if a parent tells us something, we feel we're being nagged and resist being told – we can be so contrary! Another alternative is to get nutritional supplements as food for your brain and for your life. Health is about living life to the full, not waiting until you've had a diagnosis of illness. Why wait until you're ill? It's got to be more fun and easier by far to implement good nutrition into your lifestyle. Use your ability to think to get a better life for yourself and those you love. So love your loved ones enough to let them off the task of nagging you to look after yourself, and get nutritional supplements to give you food for the brain. Shop at Vitamins Direct for Great Offers on all Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements! comment
Children, Stress, and Time Management Posted On 2009-04-07 , 10:11 AM All your aims for time management become stress creators when children are involved in your life! You would think that when your kids grow up they'd be away from home and off your hands, right? Well, WRONG! As no doubt many of you find. Example: You're trying to get out the door, and your daughter phones for information from the various items now deposited in your guest room, so that she and her husband may complete their online booking information for the first leg of a six month trip. You're not ready, and the clock ticks precious seconds and minutes away while you frantically try to find what she needs. The previous weeks you've been clearing your attic and guest room, and generally making room for the contents of their apartment, now being rented while they travel. This was exhausting. You've also been filling your car with said contents over several journeys, and taken some for recycling (like the good citizen you are). So the day finally arrives, they turn up with yet more contents to find room for, and then begin re-packing and generally making themselves at home in your guest room (which still needs to be available for your son and his family, due in two weeks): this morning's attempt at online booking hasn't worked. They both shower before their day-long air journey, and leave the towels plus more washing, ironing, mending, and stain-treating clothes for you (a wonderful parting gift to remember them by) in the guest room. Your nerves are beginning to frazzle, and you're wondering how you're going to make room for everything and get everything done! Still, you manage to remain calm (deep breathing techniques and remaining in the moment), and you all go out for a final meal with his parents before taking them to the airport. The restaurant has had a power cut! The electrician is fixing it, but meanwhile their menu is drastically reduced. More stress, mainly for the staff, but you're beginning to wonder if you'll get to the airport on time. Still, the meals they could offer were OK, and it all goes down fine. After, you set off for the airport on the busiest highway around: luckily today the road was clear – this must be a first! You park and get into the airport, and now your daughter's sleeping back is slipping off her backpack. A friend rushes off to urgently purchase a strap to tie it firmly in place. Meanwhile, having gone to one desk to book in, you find they're redirected to another (it's a shared flight with two companies), so off to the other end of the building, now you MUST book-in electronically before taking the luggage to the desk, and the machine still won't recognise your booking. A member of staff starts helping, and he can't do it either! You begin to panic that they didn't get their booking done after all, and they MAY HAVE TO MOVE IN WITH YOU, but luckily, another staff member turns up, and finally booking-in is completed. Now you can have a final shared time over coffee at Starbucks before waving goodbye (about 20 times) through the departure area to flight-side. You think it's over, but no, you still have to go to their apartment, vacuum, fix the electrics and leave the place ready for tenants. Smile, it's just your children still vying for attention. The only way to deal with stress like this is to remember that if you knew all the way through that everything would be OK, you'd be less stressed as it happens. Your task is therefore to remind yourself that it's going to be OK. After all, if they had needed to come back home, you'd cope, wouldn't you? The best security you can have is to laugh at life and know you'll cope with anything life throws at you. comment
What Causes Phobias? Posted On 2009-03-30 , 3:29 PM In your search for what causes phobias, you may well be tempted to look at something directly connected to the phobia, that's logical. Unfortunately, what causes phobias is completely irrational. The interesting thing is that often you don't deal with your phobia until it becomes really painful and you HAVE to deal with it. Like the man who had a fear of heights and, having a change of partner, was travelling to many cities which have a high point of interest to visit. It turned out to have its roots, as is often the case, in an unresolved incident from childhood, hardly remembered at all. His father lifted him up to look over a parapet, and his older brother was mercilessly taunting him, as siblings will. A woman with fear of flying - the root was being shut in a cupboard by her brother when she was small! The first example has the father lifting the boy up, so the link to fear of heights is fairly obvious, but the second has little connection to the associated fear, except in her mind. There is a common thread here, though. In both cases they were angry in the causal situation, and had no ability to control the outcome. Using The Sedona Method, you can learn how to deal with feelings of apathy, grief, fear, lust, anger, and pride, as well as wanting control, wanting approval, and wanting to feel secure. These common emotions strongly influence our experience of the world. So perhaps the answer to 'what causes phobias?' is an unresolved angry incident when you were a child (usually - occasionally as an adult), or feelings of being unable to control something that happened to you. Unresolved feelings influence our lives so greatly, it behoves every one of us to unearth them and deal with them. Don't wait! All phobias are irrational and DO NOT protect you, quite the reverse as 'fear and it will appear' - Lester Levenson. Deal with them NOW! comment
How to Kill a Frog Posted On 2009-03-27 , 10:09 AM Please be reassured that no frogs were hurt as a result of this blog on How to Kill a Frog, as it's just a metaphor! So, to kill a frog, you don't try to drop it into boiling water, it would jump away. Instead you put it into cool water and then put the heat on underneath. The frog will adjust to the temperature again and again, until it's too late to get out, and that's how to kill a frog. So why should that interest you? Well, the truth is our uncomfortable situations have grown up on us slowly like that heat, and we don't notice how bad it is. Sometimes someone else will say something, and it brings it to your attention, but generally we get comfortable in our suffering and can't imagine that we could have a life without it. So relax your reactions when someone tells you something about yourself. Maybe it was you subtly speaking to yourself via someone else's conversation. Also, letting go has to be done by you, but it may not be easy, or even possible, to do on your own - so get help! If you can, take a step back and look at your life objectively. Is the pain and discomfort that's there something you're just accustomed to? Could anyone else live with that particular discomfort or would they have to take action to end it? How well do you stand up for yourself in that particular situation? When you begin to really see it for what it is, you can work out how to kill that frog in your life and set yourself free. There are two ways between A and B, one is to take the bus or train, the other is to take a cab! How fast you go is up to you - use a registered therapist, or buy an appropriate hypnosis CD or book. Start Living the Life You Deserve with Brian Tracy's The Ultimate Goal Achieving Package. Learn How Today! comment
Motivation for Safer Driving Posted On 2009-03-24 , 3:17 PM You decide to set motivation for safer driving as your goal. So, you're driving along, stuck in a traffic jam, the traffic in the next lane is going faster than your lane, but you know that further up, that lane has to turn off in a set direction, so you don't jump lanes. A snail would beat you, you're going so slowly! Then you come to the traffic lights and find that road-works are blocking the OTHER lane, and all the cars in that lane were getting in before you, and that snail beat you to the traffic lights! So, as you have your motivation for safer driving, what can you do? Well, in order to be bored, you have to filter out loads of stimuli around you. Use your senses, what can you see, hear, feel, smell? What's the weather like? Is there a good view around? In your quest for motivation for safer driving, you determine to stay calm no matter what. You use breathing and relaxation techniques. You look out at any focal point, and then relax your eyesight to peripheral vision and feel connected to things and people around you. Don't take yourself into hypnosis now! Adding stress to the situation does not help. It was once said the place for drama is on stage. Remain calm and breathing deeply. Behave as if it's a film and the delay is staged and will come to an end as soon as this scene is done. Keep breathing calmly and noticing what is going on around you. Nothing you can do will make it go any quicker, and instead of driving frazzled and arriving tired and stressed, just keep your cool. Can you phone ahead (using your blue tooth of course) and warn someone you'll be late. Staying cool, calm, and collected is vital in your motivation for safer driving. Don't slip into thinking of the past, the future, or being elsewhere, that's giving your power away to the traffic jam. You are on a motivation for safer driving initiative. Keep yourself and your breathing calm to bring your attention back to when and where you are. You will remain in your power. comment
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