From Mendocity To Serenity

Perks Of Being Over 40

2011-02-13T10:15:00.000-08:00

1. Your supply of brain cells is finally down to manageable size.

2. Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can't remember them either.

3. Your joints are more accurate meteorologists than the national weather service.

4. People call at 9 PM and ask, "Did I wake you?"

5. People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.

6. There is nothing left to learn the hard way.

7. Things you buy now won't wear out.

8. You can eat dinner at 4 P.M.

9. You can live without sex but not without glasses.

10. You enjoy hearing about other peoples operations.

11. You get into heated arguments about pension plans.

12. You have a party and the neighbors don't even realize it.

13. You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.

14. You quit trying to hold your stomach in, no matter who walks into the room.

15. You sing along with elevator music.

16. Your eyes won't get much worse.

17. Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off.

18. You can't remember who sent you this list.

Every Success Has Many Failures

2011-02-13T10:01:00.000-08:00

Failure is the highway to success. Tom Watson Sr. said, "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate." If you study history, you will find that all stories of success are also stories of great failures. But people don't see the failures. They only see one side of the picture and they say that person got lucky: "He must have been at the right place at the right time."

Let me share someone's life history with you. This was a man who failed in business at the age of 21 ; was defeated in a legislative race at age 22; failed again in business at age 24; overcame the death of his sweetheart at age 26; had a nervous breakdown at age 27; lost a congressional race at age 34; lost a senatorial race at age 45; failed in an effort to become vice-president at age 47; lost a senatorial race at age 49; and was elected president of the United States at age 52.

This man was Abraham Lincoln. Would you call him a failure? He could have quit. But to Lincoln, defeat was a detour and not a dead end.

In 1913, Lee De Forest, inventor of the triodes tube, was charged by the district attorney for using fraudulent means to mislead the public into buying stocks of his company by claiming that he could transmit the human voice across the Atlantic. He was publicly humiliated. Can you imagine where we would be without his invention?

A New York Times editorial on December 10, 1903, questioned the wisdom of the Wright Brothers who were trying to invent a machine, heavier than air, that would fly. One week later, at Kitty Hawk, the Wright Brothers took their famous flight.

Colonel Sanders, at age 65, with a beat-up car and a $100 check from Social Security, realized he had to do something. He remembered his mother's recipe and went out selling. How many doors did he have to knock on before he got his first order? It is estimated that he had knocked on more than a thousand doors before he got his first order. How many of us quit after three tries, ten tries, a hundred tries, and then we say we tried as hard as we could?

As a young cartoonist, Walt Disney faced many rejections from newspaper editors, who said he had no talent. One day a minister at a church hired him to draw some cartoons. Disney was working out of a small mouse infested shed near the church. After seeing a small mouse, he was inspired. That was the start of Mickey Mouse.

Successful people don't do great things, they only do small things in a great way.

One day a partially deaf four year old kid came home with a note in his pocket from his teacher, "Your Tommy is too stupid to learn, get him out of the school." His mother read the note and answered, "My Tommy is not stupid to learn, I will teach him myself." And that Tommy grew up to be the great Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison had only three months of formal schooling and he was partially deaf.

Henry Ford forgot to put the reverse gear in the first car he made. Do you consider these people failures? They succeeded in spite of problems, not in the absence of them. But to the outside world, it appears as though they just got lucky.

All success stories are stories of great failures. The only difference is that every time they failed, they bounced back. This is called failing forward, rather than backward. You learn and move forward. Learn from your failure and keep moving.

Below are more examples of the failures of successful people:

1. Thomas Edison failed approximately 10,000 times while he was working on the light bulb.

2. Henry Ford was broke at the age of 40.

3. Lee Iacocca was fired by Henry Ford II at the age of 54.

4. Young Beethoven was told that he had no talent for music, but he gave some of the best music to the world.

Boy Without Arms

2011-02-13T09:35:00.000-08:00

Imagine not having both your hands, you can see photographs of little boy who manages to do a whole lot of things even without hands. He can do his all daily activities properly without his hands…

High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

2011-02-13T09:33:00.000-08:00

High Blood Pressure, аƖѕο called 'Hypertension', іѕ one οf tһе major cardiovascular diseases worldwide. It is also known to be the silent killer by the medical practitioners as it risks life without any warning. It can be present in all ages, from infancy to adulthood. Five percent of the childhood population has higher than normal blood pressure.

High Blood pressure has nothing to do with tension or anxiety. It relates to the pressure of the blood within the blood vessels and arterial walls as it flows through them. There can be a variety of reason your walls constrict which causes a higher pressure, over time this can cause problems that are related to high blood pressure. A periodic check-up for blood pressure is essential to monitor the health and to prevent the worsening further. Normal blood pressure of a person is less than 120/80 mmHg and a blood pressure of 140/90 or above is considered high.

High blood pressure puts a strain on the heart causing atherosclerosis(thickenning of vessels), resulting damage to heart, coronary artery disease, kidney failure, stroke, eye damage. High blood pressure damages the arteries, increasing risk of them narrowing or hardening. This may cause loss of blood flow to the heart and consequently a heart attack.

Some of the most common reasons observed for the cause of High Blood Pressure are chain smoking, heavy consumption of alcohol, mental stress, obesity, genetic factors, consumption of contraceptive pills, pain relievers, thyroid disease, diabetes, and kidney problem etc...Obesity also causes high blood pressure because the heart has to work harder to pump blood around the body.

Some of the common symptoms of high blood pressure are throbbing headaches often at the back of the head, palpitation, weariness, sleeplessness, fast heart beat, discomfort, reddishness on face and ears, panicky, short tempered nature, giddiness, nose bleeding, dizzyness, blurred vision, and maybe shortness of breath and tightness in the chest on exertion as a result of secondary effects upon the heart.

Whether or not you are taking antihypertensive drugs, proper diet is nonetheless the crucial factor for high blood pressure. The medical community has always placed emphasis on this, in order to treat disorders occurring in key internal organs. If you have bad eating habits then it contributes significantly to unhealthily high blood pressure levels, even in middle age, when blood pressure levels typically rise as part of the aging process.

Good intake of food, vegetables, low fat dairy products and other fibre-rich food items will help your pressure level to be on the safer side. Lowering your Sodium eating habits helps in controlling you blood pressure. Cook with more herbs and spices. Heavy drinkers must reduce their alcohol intake, those who are overweight must slim down and smokers must stop smoking. Regular exercise and dietary salt restriction is recommended for everyone with High Blood Pressure .

Unfortunately many people do not know that they have High Blood Pressure until it causes problems within the body such as a stroke, or heart attack. The best bet is when you experience an unusual symptom, get it checked out by a physician as soon as possible. It may be nothing, but it also may be an indication of something serious.

Swami Vivekananda - Quotes

2011-01-29T09:13:00.000-08:00

When I Asked God for Strength

He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face

When I Asked God for Brain & Brown

He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve

When I Asked God for Happiness

He Showed Me Some Unhappy People

When I Asked God for Wealth

He Showed Me How to Work Hard

When I Asked God for Favors

He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard

When I Asked God for Peace

He Showed Me How to Help Others

God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted

He Gave Me Everything I Needed

- Swami Vivekananda

Love, Wealth and Success

2011-01-26T19:19:00.000-08:00

A woman came out of her house and saw 3 old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them. She said "I don't think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat."

"Is the man of the house home?", they asked.
"No", she replied. "He's out."
"Then we cannot come in", they replied.

In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what had happened. "Go tell them I am home and invite them in!"
The woman went out and invited the men in.

"We do not go into a House together," they replied.
"Why is that?" she asked.

One of the old men explained: "His name is Wealth," he said pointing to one of his friends, and said pointing to another one, "He is Success, and I am Love." Then he added, "Now go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home."

The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband was overjoyed. "How nice!!", he said. "Since that is the case, let us invite Wealth. Let him come and fill our home with wealth!"

His wife disagreed. "My dear, why don't we invite Success?"
Their daughter-in-law was listening from the other corner of the house. She jumped in with her own suggestion: "Would it not be better to invite Love? Our home will then be filled with love!"
"Let us heed our daughter-in-law's advice," said the husband to his wife. Go out and invite Love to be our guest."

The woman went out and asked the 3 old men, "Which one of you is Love? Please come in and be our guest". Love got up and started walking toward the house. The other 2 also got up and followed him. Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success: "I only invited Love, Why are you coming in?"

The old men replied together: "If you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would've stayed out, but since you invited Love, wherever He goes, we go with him.

Wherever there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success!!!!!!

Tips To Increase Your Self Confidence

2011-01-24T17:19:00.000-08:00

Self confidence is a sign of your presence of mind and how strong is your mind to face any obstacles in your life to become successful at the workplace, business or even in personal life. When one's self confidence is high, you feel successful and capable of accomplishing anything.

Your level of self confidence will be reflected in many ways, like the way you talk, decision making, behaviour, body language etc.etc.. Although many of the factors affecting self confidence are beyond your control, there are a number of things you can consciously do to build self confidence.

1. Recognize Your Insecurities

What makes you ashamed of yourself? This could be anything from acne, regrets, emotional abuse (past or present) from a loved ones or friends. Talk about it with friends and loved ones. Get to the root of the problem, focus on it and understand that you need to resolve each issue before you can move on. Remember that nobody is perfect. Even the most confident people have insecurities. At some point in any of our lives, we may feel that we lack of something. That is reality. Learn that life is full of bumps down the road.

2. Love Yourself
It will help if you understand that self confidence comes from self awareness. It’s really very important to love yourself, and to know who you really are. Look at yourself in the mirror and smile. Admire your beauty and be happy for what you are. Talking to yourself in the mirror can build self confidence because many people are too embarrassed to compliment themselves.

3. Always Think Positive
Avoid self pity and sympathy of others. There's no reason to consider yourself inferior to others and never allow others to criticize you. Always speak positively about yourself, about your future, and about your progress. You cannot please everyone all the time, and some of these people may deter you to advance. Surround yourself with people who will support and make you happier.

4. Pay Attention To Your Physical Appearence
One of the most common things that holds people back from being confident is their physical appearance. It is very important and when you take the time to make sure that you are well groomed and dressed nicely. It just feels good when you are wearing your best clothes, well groomed, and surrounded by a clean environment.

5. Take Care of Your Health
Exercise and eat healthy food. This will help you have a better body image. You can also try taking a martial arts or fitness classes. These will help you to relax your muscles, increase your strength and energize your brain.If you’re out of shape, you’ll feel insecure, unattractive, and less energetic. By working out, you improve your physcial appearance, energize yourself, and accomplish something positive. Having the discipline to work out not only makes you feel better, it increases your self confidence.

6. Good Postures
Don't underestimate the power of having good, upright posture. Your posture says a lot about you as a person. If someone is feeling insecure or without self confidence it is very easy to notice by the slumping of their shoulders and the way they drop their chin and eye lines. Walk with your shoulders back, your head up and walk quickly. It does not only improve your appearance but also lightens your movements, improves your health, and lifts your mood. Perfect posture creates an air of self confidence that can create success on many levels.

7. Boost Yourself
Read more and try to gain more knowledge from sources like motivational books, blogs and websites. The more you learn, the more you gain your self confidence. Try to attend good motivating courses which you may feel will improve your self confidence and lead you to the steps of success.

8. Wear A Smile On Your Face
Smiles are contagious. When you smile at others, they tend to return the favor. A smile can have a positive impact on someone who is having a bad day. By smiling, you'll attract other smiling positive people the kind of people who will help you fulfill your dreams.

9. Set Out Your Goals
Know what you want. And, it is very important to set goals that goes high enough to get you where you want in life, but at the same time it should be realistic too. When you lose focus just remind yourself that you have achieved many times before and you can do so now. Identify your successes and give yourself credits for your successes.

10. Help Others
Help other people, this might seem strange for you, but it really will increase your self confidence. If you help other people achieve their goals, they will feel gratitude to you and will see you as someone they can trust, this will increase your self esteem and you will feel much better about your self image.

11. Speak up
Build up your communications and public speaking skills. When you talk in a large group meetings, talk loudly and clearly. Speak confidently and do not mumble. You have to be comfortable with yourself , but you also need to be considerate and allow others to be comfortable with you. Do what you believe to be right, even if others mock or criticize you for it. This will develop your self confidence that will make you the wise, inspiring and successful leader you want to be. With this self confidence, you attract the people and things into your life that you want and need. And you also inspire self confidence in others.

12. Master More Skills
You gain self confidence by mastering new skills on education or job skills that help you meet your needs. Believe in your talents and capabilities regardless of what everyone else thinks. No one knows you better, and no one understands you more. It’s all in you, the ability to transform yourself into a skillful person and implement them more effectively.

13. Meditate Always
Meditation is so powerful that reduces anxiety, depression, moodiness, irritability and brings greater emotional stability. It helps to develop the willpower, boosts the level of self confidence and helps foster a positive attitude.

How Do You Control Your Anger...?

2011-01-10T22:14:00.000-08:00

Anger is such a powerful, negative emotion. Uncontrolled anger can make both you and other people feel lousy. Anger is not just a mental state of mind. It triggers an increase in heart rate, blood pressure and levels of adrenaline and noradrenaline.

Anger may additionally end in various emotional swings like emotions of maximum guilt, hopelessness, anxiousness and in acute instances, even suicide.

Anger arises resulting from health problems, alcohol or drug intake, household issues, financial problems, stress or social issues. You can not at all times manage these situations; however you can llearn to manage your anger and calm your thoughts by following a few anger mangement tips.

Anger management is a procedure of acquiring the skills to recognize signs that you are becoming angry, and taking action to deal with the situation in a positive way. Anger management takes effort and commitment.

If we have problems with anger we need to decide that we want to do something about it, and then get on a program to manage our anger. Depending on the causes of our anger and on how long we have been having anger problems, we might see results sooner or it may take longer.

Here are some suggestions to help you manage your anger more successfully.

1. Take a couple of deep breaths. Count to 10 before responding to the other person; this had been a proven method for anger management for years.

2. Get some space. Take a break from the person you're angry with until your frustrations subside a bit.

3. Exercise regularly. Exercise moves our blood and our energy, it vitalizes our organs, feeds our brain, and releases stress. Anger management problems are exacerbated by stuck energy, and exercise is a superlative means of moving our energy.

4. Think carefully before you say anything. Otherwise, you're likely to say something you'll regret. It can be helpful to write down what you want to say so that you can stick to the issues. When you're angry, it's easy to get sidetracked.

5. Practice being kind to others. When we are angry it is partly due to being too oriented on our selves and not concerned with the welfare of other people. Practicing kindness and compassion helps us to turn the light of our awareness outwards, which softens up our angry shell, and also brings more joy into our life.

6. Practice meditation. Meditation helps you to take the focus from your external surroundings and focus internally. Once you take your focus off the trigger of your irritation, it loses its power over you. You cannot be made angry by something or someone unless it has your attention. Learn to pull your attention away and focus where you feel the anger and the anger trigger will pass.

7. Attending Yoga classes will bring your mental, physical, and spiritual well-being into focus. You will also become much more aware of being short of breath, chest pains, feeling over anxious, heart palpitations, and any other unhealthy side effects that can be associated with fits of anger.

Tips for Night Driving

2011-01-05T18:24:00.000-08:00

Traffic death rates are three times greater at night than during the day, yet many of us are unaware of night driving's special hazards or don't know effective ways to deal with them.

Driving at night is more dangerous than during the day. One of the obvious reasons is darkness. Ninety percent of a driver's reaction depends on vision, and vision is severely limited at night. Depth perception, color recognition and peripheral vision are compromised after sundown.

Fatigue also adds to the danger of night driving. Drowsiness makes driving more difficult by dulling concentration and slowing reaction time.

Alcohol is the single most significant factor in fatal traffic crashes, playing a part in more than half of all motor vehicle-related deaths. That makes weekend nights more dangerous. More fatal crashes take place on Friday and Saturday nights than at any other time in the week.

Effective measures to minimize these after-dark dangers can be taken by preparing your car and following special guidelines while you drive:

Prepare your car for night driving: Clean headlights, taillights, signal lights and windows once a week, more often if necessary.

Aim your headlights properly.
Misaimed headlights blind other drivers and reduce your ability to see the road.
Keep windscreen clean. It would be a good idea to activate the wiper well before night driving especially on speedways. This would avoid having annoying glare on the eyes from headlights of oncoming cars. Dirty windscreens refract light and you have myriads of those due to dirty windscreens.

Don't drink and drive. Not only does alcohol severely impair your driving ability, but it also acts as a depressant. Just one drink can induce fatigue.

Avoid smoking when you drive. Smoke's nicotine and carbon monoxide hamper night vision.

Turn your headlights on if there are any doubts. Lights will not help you see better in early twilight, but they'll make it easier for other drivers to see you. Being seen is as important as seeing.

Don't overdrive your headlights. You should be able to stop inside the illuminated area. If you're not, you are creating a blind crash area in front of your vehicle.

Keep your headlights on low beams when following another vehicle so you don't blind the driver ahead of you.

If an oncoming vehicle doesn't lower beams from high to low, avoid glare by watching the right edge of the road and using it as a steering guide.

Reduce your speed and increase your following distances. It is more difficult to judge other vehicle's speeds and distances at night.

Make frequent stops for light snacks and exercise. If you're too tired to drive, stop and get rest.

If you have car trouble, pull off the road as far as possible. Warn approaching traffic at once by setting up flares or reflecting triangles near your vehicle and 300 feet behind it. Turn on flashers and the dome light.

Observe night driving safety as soon as the sun goes down. As your eyes are adapting to the constant change in amount of light, twilight is one of the most difficult times to drive.

How To Earn Money On Web...

2011-01-05T18:16:00.000-08:00

Day by day many are dreaming to become rich and earn money in the comfort of their own homes with the power of internet. These are among the most successful and undeniably fastest ways to earn money online.

1. Join a network marketing opportunity. This is a great way to quickly earn money because you can retail products and make commissions on all of your sales.

2. Start you own website/blogs. You can sell affiliate products on your website/blogs which is a fastest way to make money.

3. You can also join the Google Adsense program and get paid when people click on the ads provided by Google.

4. Built blogs and website for others. You don't need to be an expert in web design or PHP script writing to start your own blog or website. There are many ready made scripts available to do websites. For blogs, just follow the simple step-by-step instructions and install. You can earn good money from these.

5. There are many themes to be made to match every web master’s needs. If you are good at web designing, you can simply earn a lot from just designing web themes and templates yourself.

6. Design Banners and advertisements for others and get paid for them.

7. If you have imaginative mind and enjoy creating arts and crafts, you can market them online and make more money.

8. Design and submit projects for publication in books and magazines.

9. Many make a decent living out of freelance writing; with either ghost written pieces, topic related articles, short stories, or even technical specification documents. There are number of places on the Internet where you can go and sign up as a freelance writer.There are millions of websites/blogs that need content right now and the owners would pay you to write for them.

10. Doing internet research for corporations, law firms and other small businesses. Also provide administrative and business support to other business owners and small businesses.

11. There are also opportunities to provide tax assistance, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll and inventory services.

12. Buy and Sell properties online. Real estate investment is a smart and valuable addition to anybody’s expenditure portfolio..

13. Start Your Own Automatic Affiliate Program. Forget advertising your own website, let other people market your blog advertising site for you!

14. Get paid for sharing your opinions and ideas in online surveys. Win money in monthly drawings just for being a member. Win money in drawings when you fill out a a short questionnaire. Earn cash each time you complete a survey (a longer questionnaire).

15. Blog commenting can be quite useful in a website’s growth and hence many webmasters also look for ways to outsource this. You can usually put up a thread telling about your services and charge reasonable fees.

16. Participate in contests and win money. Check out for contests which are always running around the web. You can earn around $100 to $500 for these contests.

17. If you have some expertise in any subject like how to successfully monetize a site or tips to earn big income online or whatever, you can earn from it just by offering coaching lessons that people can attend to for a small fee. The better your teachings, the more reputable you will become and the more you will earn.

18. Join the Forex market online. Although it may sound risky, you can do some research by joining forums which discusses about forex and money investments and tips about the market.

19. Buying and selling antiques is a hobby for some, and it is also an interesting way to make extra money on the Internet. The Internet provides a forum, a marketplace to sell things that might seem worthless to most. You may come across an object that may not have a lot of local appeal in an antique store, put it online on a site like eBay, and all of a sudden millions of people from all over the world can find and bid on your antique. One man's trash, is another man's treasure!

20. If you have special skills or knowledge, have you ever thought about becoming a Consultant? Everywhere you look these days, there are consultants for this and that. Consultants for organizing a home, birthday parties, wedding parties, creating a baby’s room, baby showers and the list goes on.

21. If you're a software developer, develop your special softwares and sell online. Also try in some freelance websites where they take software projects in bidding.

Something important to remember is that the market is always changing. To be successful you must be prepared to constantly test and try new ideas. Never take anything for granted and always look for improvement. One thing is very clear. Unless you proactively promote yourself and your product, your business will die.

Types of Teas And Its Goodness..

2011-01-05T17:33:00.000-08:00

The homeland of tea is China, where it has been grown for over five thousand years. Next Japanese, Koreans and people from South-east Asia began growing it.

Just a thousand years ago Arabic merchants were successful at taking away dried tea leaves to Middle East. Tea reached Europe in the middle of the 16th century thanks Venetians, who were keeping lively contacts with Arabs and Turks.

But until 1610 its deliveries were occasional, and dried pressed leaves were treated as an expensive medicine. Only regular deliveries from Japan by Dutchmen gave the beginning of career of this stimulant in Europe, one can divided teas into five kinds: white, green , yellow, red and black.

White tea
It is mostly produced in China. It is made only of leaf buds. Leaf drooping is headed the action of steam. It is aimed to gradual loss of natural moisture from the leaves. There is no fermentation at all. Leaves after passing through the stage of drying have silver shade, delicate hair are visible. These are highly valued "gourmet stuff" on tea market. Infusion of white tea has light straw color and characterizes itself with delicate taste of fine aroma. It contains most theine what makes it have remarkably refreshing and stimulating properties.

Green tea
It is produced in China and Japan. This tea is labeled as not-fermented because it does not go through oxidation process, its leaves keep green color. Collected leaves - after water vaporizing are rolled and dried at high temperature. Green tea contains theine, ethereal essences, amino acids, vitamins: C, K and B group, and also mineral ingredients. It has stimulating action, adjusts blood pressure, and furthermore it is said to possess bactericidal action, and because of this it has very good influence for digestive system and even anticancer features. It exhibits much bigger influence for human's organism than black tea. It works against calculi in liver, kidneys and bladder, lowers blood pressure, brings down bad cholesterol level. It has redemptional impact on urinary system preventing many dysfunctions. It results from its bactericidal properties. It also eases troubles connected with rheumatism in significant way and protects organism against its occurrence. Green tea has also action defending against arteriosclerosis.

Yellow tea
It is produced in China and Taiwan. To its composition belong young leaves of tea shrub with not-bloomed buds. Technological process of leaf processing places yellow tea between green and half-fermented red ones, because of 13% of leaf oxidation process. Very delicate amber infusion distinguishes itself with the flavor harmony. Huge precision assisting leaf collection is tied with adequately high quality of yellow tea. It rarely occurs on European markets.

Red tea
To this kind belong half-fermented teas. They come from China and Taiwan. Processing commences with the stage of leaf drooping. After loss of moisture leas are placed in rush baskets and from time to time shaken. It is to lead to rub edges of leaf plates. In consequence it simplifies proceeding of fermentation. Chemical compounds contained in leaf enter reaction with oxygen. After several hours this process is stopped by leaf drying. Special attention among red teas is paid to very slowly fermented Chinese Pu-Erh, which decreases level of cholesterol in blood, supports liver running, purifies organism and effectively fights overweight. In that way tea reaches unrepeatable health properties. The longer tea ages the stronger these properties are. It is combined with formation of special compounds - flavonoids. Red tea should not, as well as green one, be served with sugar which neutralizes the majority of its features.

Black tea
Black teas are treated long process of production, which includes stages of leaf drooping, rolling, fermentation and drying. It causes that black tea has stimulating properties. About flavor qualities of these teas decide such factors as: country of origin, plantation, crop period or rate of leaf rolling. The best-species tea shrubs grow in high-mountain plantations in India (Darjeeling, Assam). It is associated with climatic conditions which are optimum there. To valued black teas we can class Chinese teas of exceptionally rich taste and interesting aroma. To exceptional teas Kenya Marinyn is classed - this representative of African plantations is famous of its delicate citrus aroma. For gourmets of strong essence infusions worth recommending are teas from Sri Lanka.

16 Feng Shui Bedroom Tips

2011-01-02T09:59:00.001-08:00

Here are 16 Feng Shui bedroom tips. Make this all-important room a sanctuary:

* Ideally, the bedroom should be as far away as possible from the front door, mirroring the practice of our prehistoric ancestors who did not sleep in the mouth of their cave.

* On entering your bedroom, note where the windows are located. Chi tends to travel between the door and any windows, so avoid positioning your bed in line with this ‘draught’ of chi.

* Position your bed so that you can see the door from where you sleep. This gives you a deep sense of inner security.

* If it is feasible, position your bed as far away from the door as possible.

* Avoid sleeping with your head close to a window as your chi will dissipate through the window and make you feel more tired on awakening.

* If you have a bathroom, toilet or shower leading off your bedroom, make sure that the toilet door is always shut while you are asleep.

* To help you protect your own chi while you are asleep, to internalize it and recharge it, make sure you have a strong, stable headboard. Chi energy enters and exits the body through the feet, hands and the top of the skull, Having a solid ‘mountain’ behind you while you sleep is far more beneficial than a cold, blank wall or worse, the cutting chi of an ornate brass bedstead.

* If you sleep with another person, note the position of your bed relative to the wall that it is up against. Is it equidistant--in the middle of the wall? This is vital in a relationship as it gives both individuals who share the bed equality in the relationship. A shared bed crammed into the corner of a room, is giving more freedom of chi to the individual on the open side whereas the partner will literally and symbolically feel up against a wall.

* Make sure all bedside tables have rounded edges and not square to prevent cutting chi being focused towards the occupants. If two sleep in the bed, ensure matching beside tables on either side for added stability and protection in the relationship.

* Ceiling beams above the bed are a Feng Shui nightmare. They can be a source of cutting chi and the beams carry a tremendous load, and this pressure is focused into the beams generating chi which continues downwards, placing direct pressure on you while you sleep. Some tips:
Paint the beams; drape fabric over the beams; hang bamboo flutes 2-3 inches below the beam to soften the load (the flutes are hung at a 45 degree angle to the beam with the mouthpiece downwards).

* If you sleep with another, make sure your bed is symbolic of this relationship. Beds that are rickety or likely to fall part speak volumes about the state of the relationship.

* Given that the bedroom is a more yin environment, the lighting that you choose needs to reflect this. Soft lighting is ideal. Avoid having ceiling lamps right directly over your bed.

* Pastel colors are ideal.

* Avoid sleeping with your image visible in a mirror. the worst scenario of all is a mirror at the foot of your bed.

* Place something beautiful that inspires you where you first look in the morning.

* Pay attention to what is under your bed. Keep the space clear and get rid of any unwanted items there.

The Difference Between Men & Women Talking

2010-11-29T08:44:00.000-08:00

TWO WOMEN TALKING:

Woman 1: Oh! You got a haircut! That's so cute!

Woman 2: Do you think so? I wasn't sure when she gave me the mirror. I
mean, you don't think it's too fluffy looking?

Woman 1: No, it's perfect. I'd love to get my hair cut like that, but I think my face is too wide. I'm pretty much stuck with this stuff I think.

Woman 2: Are you serious? I think your face is adorable. And you could easily get one of those layer cuts - that would look so cute I think. I was actually going to do that except that I was afraid it would accent my long neck.

Woman 1: Oh - that's funny! I would love to have your neck! Anything to
take attention away from these football player shoulders of mine.

Woman 2: Are you kidding? I know girls that would love to have your shoulders. Everything drapes so well on you. I mean, look at my arms, see how short they are? If I had your shoulders I could get clothes to fit me so much easier.
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NOW TWO MEN TALKING

Man 1: Haircut?
Man 2: Yeah.

Funny Pictures For You...

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Water bridge ... Over a river...!

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Even after you see it, it is still hard to believe!

Water Bridge in Germany .... What a feat!

Six years, 500 million euros, 918 meters long.......now this is engineering!

This is a channel-bridge over the River Elbe and joins the former East and
West Germany , as part of the unification project. It is located in the city
Of Magdeburg, near Berlin ..
The photo was taken on the day of inauguration.

To those who appreciate engineering projects, here's a puzzle for you
Armchair engineers and physicists.

Did that bridge have to be designed to withstand the additional weight
Of ship and barge traffic, or just the weight of the water?

Why we should read Bhagavad Gita?

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An illustrative Story…….

An old farmer lived on a farm in the mountains with his young grandson. Each morning the old man was up early sitting at the kitchen table reading his Bhagavad Gita. His grandson wanted to be just like his grandfather and tried to imitate him in every way he could.

One day the grandson asked, "Dada! I try to read the Bhagavad Gita just like you but I don't understand it, and what I do understand I forget as soon as I close the book. What good does reading the Bhagavad Gita do?"

The Grandfather quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and replied, "Take this coal basket down to the river and bring me back a basket of water."

The boy did as he was told, but all the water leaked out before he got back to the house. The grandfather laughed and said, "You'll have to move a little faster next time," and sent him back to the river with the basket to try again.

This time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was empty before he returned home. Out of breath, he told his grandfather that it was impossible to carry water in a basket, and he went to get a bucket instead. The old man said, "I don't want a bucket of water; I want a basket of water. You're just not trying hard enough," and he went to the door to watch the boy try again.

At this point, the boy knew it was impossible, but he wanted to show his grandfather that even if he ran as fast as he could, the water would leak out before he got back to the house.

The boy again dipped the basket into river and ran hard, but when he reached his grandfather the basket was again empty.
Out of breath, he said, "See Dada, it's useless!"
"So you think it is useless?" The old man said, "Look at the basket."

The boy looked at the basket and for the first time he realized that the basket was different. It had been transformed from a dirty old coal basket and was now clean, inside and out...

"Son, that's what, happens when you read the Bhagavad Gita... You might not understand or remember everything, but when you read it, you will be changed, inside and out. That is the work of Lord Krishna in our lives."

Amazing Coincidences !!

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A computer error gave two women in America called Patricia the same social security number. When the two women were brought together in an office to rectify the blunder they discovered that

* They had both been born with the names Patricia Ann Campbell
* Both of their fathers were called Robert Campbell
* Their birthdays were on 13th March 1941
* They had both married military men in the year 1959 (within eleven days of each other)
* They each had two children aged 19 and 21
* They both had an interest in oil painting
* Both had studied cosmetics
* Both had worked as book-keepers

In 1893, Henry Ziegland ended a relationship with his girlfriend. Tragically, his girlfriend took the news very badly, became distraught and took her own life. Her distressed brother blamed his sister's death upon Henry, he went round to Henry's house, saw him out in the garden and tried to shoot him.

Luckily, the bullet only grazed Henry's face and embedded itself in a nearby tree. In 1913, twenty years after this incident, Henry decided to use dynamite to uproot a tree in his garden. The explosion propelled the embedded bullet from the tree straight into Henry Ziegland's head - killing him immediately.

A fifteen year old pupil at Argoed High School in North Wales was to sit his GCSE examinations in 1990.His name was James Bond - his examination paper reference was 007.

British cavalry officer Major Summerford was fighting in the fields of Flanders in the last year of WW1, a flash of lightning knocked him off his horse and paralysed him from his waist down.

He moved to Vancouver, Canada, six years later, whilst out fishing, Major Summerfield was struck by lightning again and the right side of his body became paralysed.After two years of recovery, it was a summers day and he was out in a local park, a summer storm blew up and Major Summerfield was struck by lightning again - permanently paralysing him. He died two years after this incident.
However, four years after his death, his stone tomb was destroyed - it was struck by lightning!

On December 5th 1660, a ship sank in the straights of Dover - the only survivor was noted to be Hugh Williams.

On 5th December 1767, another ship sank in the same waters - 127 lost their lives, the only survivor was noted to be Hugh Williams

On 8th August 1820, a picnic boat capsized on the Thames - there was one survivor - Hugh Williams.

On 10th July 1940, a British trawler was destroyed by a German mine - only two men survived, one man and his nephew - they were both called Hugh Williams.

Interesting Videos

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Mysore Palace

Difference between European & Middle Eastern Couple

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Difference between European & Middle Eastern couple…

Real difference between European & Middle Eastern couple…After few years

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Famous Quotes

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