Archive for February, 2012
Healthy Lifestyle – 10 Useful Tips
The way you carry on your daily life constitutes your lifestyle. Your lifestyle habits can be beneficial or detrimental to your health.
Adopt the following healthy lifestyle habits:
1. The habit of exercise: Choose a physical activity that you enjoy and stick to it. For me I like jogging around the field about three times a week. It is not only physically beneficial but it improves my mental health and helps avoid depression.
2. A satisfying and motivating job: It is fulfilling to keep yourself busy doing something challenging: You enjoy doing it and it’s good for your brain. Keep on learning to up-date yourself.
3. Family Life: Family always comes first. A happy family life is a healthy life.
4. Be in the company of friends: Don’t live in isolation. When you are connected you are able to express you feelings freely. When you keep thing inside you heart you are more likely to die from heart disease.
5. Relax: Find a way to unwind and relax. Practice yoga or play Tai Chi to calm your mind and reduce pressure.
6. Spiritual well-being: Pray to God or meditate to give you peace of mind. You will live longer.
7. Count your blessings: Don’t hold a grudge against anyone. Be happy with what you have. Just think they are many more people in this world who are in very much worse conditions.
8. Eating habit: Adopt a balanced diet and avoid junk food. Drink plenty of water. Give up smoking and drinking. Avoid coffee and food processed in salt.
9. Sleep Well: Go to sleep and wake up at the same time for around 8 hours. A good night’s sleep refreshes your mind and rejuvenates your body.
10. Live within you means: It gives you peace of mind and reduces your stress when you know that you can be independent financially.
When you make changes for the better be patient with yourself, old habits die hard, do it a step at a time.
Is Yoga Safe For Your Body?
Before you spread out your yoga mat, take a moment to think. It would not be surprising if you have some unrealistic expectations of yourself. Yoga has recently gotten a misleadingly glamorous reputation. It’s borrowed some of Hollywood’s luster without losing its mystical allure.
But please do not make decisions based upon your curiosity. Too many students are anxious to contort their bodies into aching, injured human pretzels-because they assume advanced, unnatural poses are the most beneficial ones. Most of us will benefit from some kind of yoga practice-but it’s important to be cautious. Know how to avoid injury, and practice only what is safe for you.
Many yoga-related injuries can be prevented by keeping both your mind and your body flexible. Your competitive spirit–that unstoppable drive to do more, go faster, and stretch farther is invaluable, except during yoga class! It might seem like more is better, but overstretching will actually slow you down. Muscles have to be both flexible and strong to properly support major joints like the knees. Keep them in top shape by balancing gentle stretches with strength-building exercise.
Yoga also involves the bearing of extra weight upon joints. It’s easy to put too much pressure your wrists, ankles, hips, or shoulders. But there is no added benefit to straining any of your joints. If you have any pain, numbness, or a sensation of pins and needles, stop.
Yoga practice should not strain your hips, your lower back, or your neck, either. Not everyone begins with strong core muscles, so even basic poses can cause some students to have hip pain. Be especially careful not to overextend when you stretch spinal muscles. Quick movements or strenuous practice can nudge your vertebrae painfully out of alignment.
But when it comes to safe yoga, your muscles and bones don’t get all the attention. Your yoga exercise also affects your circulation. Be very watchful if you try an inverted pose-one in which your head is above your heart. Blood pressure rises when you take this unnatural position. And advanced, inverted poses have been linked to a rare but serious kind of stroke.
In 2001, actress Sharon Stone put a memorable face on the condition, called “arterial inversion.” Physicians reported that the strain and abrupt head movements of strenuous yoga practice were to blame.
Now that you are more aware of the dangers of these not-so-gentle kinds of yoga practice, you’re ready for more relaxing and safer practice. Leave your superhero cape at home, and forget about those pretzels!
The great news is, almost anyone can benefit from practicing a gentler kind of yoga. Don’t worry that advancing age, a chronic health condition, pain, or disability will stop you. Try yoga! Be gentle with yourself, and be safe.
5 Competencies of Emotional Intelligence
What is emotional intelligence? Simply put, it is the capacity of a person to interpret and actualize upon human emotions, both outwardly and inwardly. An “emotionally intelligent” person is able to know and to control the emotions of themselves, of other people and of entire groups of people. Within the field of study of emotional intelligence, there are five basic “competencies” that are learned skills and capabilities that allow a person to utilize their emotional intelligence processes to affect themselves and others.
According to Daniel Goleman’s model, the competencies of emotional intelligence break down into “intra-personal” and “inter-personal”, the first category dealing with a person’s own emotions and the latter dealing with emotional interaction between two or more people. Here are the five competencies of emotional intelligence.
SELF-AWARENESS
Self-awareness is the ability to focus attention on your own emotional state in any situation, and being able to effectively process this state and use what you know to better inform your future actions. Say you are angry. A self-aware person will not only know they are angry, but the cause of the anger, and will use this knowledge to decide his or her next step.
SELF-REGULATION
Self-regulation allows you to select the particular emotion you wish to experience at a given moment, in a particular situation. This process takes a lot of practice and a considerable amount of self-control, but mastering it will allow you to take ownership of your emotions, and free you from being anyone else’s emotional victim because you and you along will manage your emotional reaction. It needs to be noted, however, that self-regulation is more than merely “stuffing” or ignoring negative emotions. It is an active process that takes considerable training and focus to accomplish.
SELF-MOTIVATION
Self-motivation allows you to use your emotions to affect positive change in your life through dedicated pursuit of your goals, no matter the obstacles in your way. This process requires you to employ your emotions toward near-complete positivity, optimism, confidence and persistence. It is essential that you release the negative emotional reactions to achieve self-motivation.
EMPATHY
The empathy competency of emotional intelligence is the ability to feel what another person is feeling, and to see and feel life from their perspective. This allows you to rationally and effectively consider their emotional state and how best to guide them to a state of positivity and optimism.
NURTURING RELATIONSHIPS
Nurturing relationships requires you to sincerely demonstrate an emotional interest and compassion for others. Your actions and words must reflect a proper respect for the effort of others with the goal of compromise and teamwork at the heart of the endeavor.
Fear And Emotions
Over time I have come to realize that a trader success is really based on a firm grasp of trading strategies and a total control of the trader emotional involvement in their trading. A losing trader might sometimes have a lack of knowledge or skill, but it is more likely that he also has an inability to separate his emotions from the market. There are three overriding emotions within traders and the market. They are fear, greed, and pride. Any of these will confuse any rational decision making.
For most of us, the money that we take to the market is not easily gained. By working hard or by being frugal we finally pull together some start-up capital. We may have witnessed first hand the success of others or we have heard media reports of market success. Wanting to participate in this cash machine, we venture boldly into the market. We do all the right things by studying, taking classes and learning trading strategies and techniques. We practice for a while, not using real money, so that we can observe real-world conditions. But nothing really can prepare us for the emotions that hit us when the market behaves in its usual unpredictable manner.
The market is not a static place. it is always in flux and changing. It moves up and down on the news of earnings, economic reports, world political conditions, and other factors. If a new trader does not fully understand the implications of these factors and how they impact stocks, they can be blindsided by their effects. When this happens the trader begins to feel fear. Once fear takes hold, it often translates into the trader not taking any action. The answer is to train yourself to realize that to just sit and not take action when the market behaves in an unexpected way is insane. It is how many lose money. The simple answer is of course stop losses. Traders who can overcome fear and follow through with stop losses are well on their way to becoming good traders.
In the scenario that I have described, those who become good traders come to a point early on where they realize that the reality of losing money overcomes any fear of losing money. Not matter how much you fear losing money, once the market has surprised you and the money is lost, it is still lost. To sum up again the three most important things to remember, they are stop loss, stop loss, and stop loss. That is the key that the best traders have discovered.
The Importance of Good Clinical Practice Training
Good Clinical Practice is an international quality standard provided by the International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (or ICH). The latter is an international body, whose defined standards can be used by governments to transpose into regulations for clinical trials, involving human subjects.
Since 1995, ICH-GCP guidelines have become a global factor in c. research and have solidified their impact in traditional trial hubs, such as Japan, North America, and The EU. At the same time, their importance is growing perennially in developing regions.
Good Clinical Practice Guidelines include standards on how c. trials to be conducted, define the roles and responsibilities of trial sponsors, cresearch investigators, and monitors (also known as CRA).
On the practical side, they are to be followed universally, in order to globally improve safety, efficiency, and communication between all parties involved within research and trials, i.e., to benefit all of humanity. Therefore, GCP guidelines include details, such as protection of human rights as a subject in clinical trials. They also provide assurance of the safety and efficacy of the newly developed compounds.
As prescribed by the international standards and requirements, a basic understanding of GCP is pre-requisite for anyone carrying out, or involved with, c. research and c. trials. The training is therefore relevant to:
- Investigators from NHS organizations, university hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and research institutes
- Research Nurses
- R&D staff involved with approving and monitoring trials
- Members of ethics committees
- CRO staff
Infonetica, the online ICH-GCP training provider, has recently updated its ICH-GCP online training, which delivers an up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the basic principles of ICH-Good Clinical Practice and covers all the new changes/amendments proposed in the EU Directive 2005/28/EC. Written by Dr Isaac John, Assistant Director of Research and Development at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust, the course is endorsed by Royal Holloway, University of London, and delivers 9 Continual Professional Development points.
Infonetica’s online GCP training is suitable for both first-timers, as well as those looking for a refresher course to update previous GCP training.
Emotions and the Law of Attraction – The Two Factors
Many people fail to attract what they want, because they stop at the stage of a visualization of their mind desires. But this is not enough. Visualizing something without a strong feeling of emotion will not do the law of attraction work fully for you. Here are some tips of how emotions will enhance your visualization and transform your reality into what you want.
The Proper Visualization
There is something called by Neville when visualizing your mind desires, your dreams, your goals. He suggested to add all sensory feel of the projected goal, as if you were already where you want to be, in the goal environment; You “see” your projected goal, your mind desire, then imagine you already “hear,” then you “smell” as if you were there, and you feel the wind, the temperature, and so on of the goal. In other words, you live your goal in advance.
The Catalyze: Insert Emotions
The Visualization is incomplete if you do not insert emotions. Why? Because emotions are like a catalyzing effect, a booster factor for the prompt realization of your dreams. Emotions are a crucial factor in the realization of your mind desire. They are a major pillar in the law of attraction.
Set Your mind to attract even more
When you feel good, happy, you attract more of what you want. You are in the “zone.” Practice being focused on the positive in your life experience, so your mind is receptive to positive emotions such as love, happy feeling, caring feeling, and all the feel good emotions. Try to avoid falling in the negative feelings such as, being upset, fear, anger, frustration, anxiety, and other emotions in the feel no good property. The negative feelings are the result of a bad habit. Look at the unhappy people: they are constantly talking about negative things, judge others, and focus their mind on the negative events. They do not see objectively life, but subjectively and negatively their day to day life.
Tips to change your general feelings and emotions
You have to dress you mind in order to feel good, feel successful. Here are some tips you want to use to get to the high energy mind set.
Dress as a successful person, act as a successful person.
Be the change you want to see in your world.
Think positively, so your inner reality is building already your coming outer reality.
Love yourself and love your life. in the present, in the Here and the Now.
Do not worry. Be confident. Believe. Yes, Believe.
Keep practicing the positive emotions, and all you want will magically appear in your life.
For example: If you are looking for the love of your life. Believe, know that someone is out there looking for you. you can attract him, so attract him by seeing him! For example affirm: “I am attracting the Love of my live: the love of my life is attracting me.”
Believe!
Belief is can be good and can be bad. Your general perception of the world as you know it is based of belief. It is based on a belief system that started right in your family with your parents and relatives, then in preschool, at school, at high school with your school mates and friends, at work, with your co-workers and your boss, at church or temple with the religious leader, and in general with the people you see often, your friends. All what they say make you feel good or bad, and form, sculpt, model your belief system through emotion.
The Two Basic Emotions and Your Mind
Believe it or not, all emotions stem from two basic primal emotions: Love, and Fear. Let me elaborate this for you in the world of entertainment. If you could group all movies and books into two categories, you could sort them all into Love and Fear. Love: romantic comedies, comedies; Fear: all the rest Horror, War, Epic movies, Spy, Thrillers, Speed, scary situations. When we go to the movies, or watch a movie at home, it is in search of one of these strong emotions.
Under Love: friendship, good leadership, accomplishment for humanity, self accomplishment, true stories of success over poverty, health issue, etc.
Under Fear: Horror stories, Thrillers, True stories that end up in a bad ending, Spy movies, war stories, Epic stories, and all kinds of stories telling you have no control of your life.
Conclusion:
Since you know now that emotions is a critical factor in the realization of your dreams, mind desires, and goals, try now to visualize not only with all your sensory perception of your goal, but boosting it with strong emotions (positive of course), and a strong belief that you can attract that goal, that dream of your you so cherish. Feel good, see life with a positive mind, and miracles after miracles will show up in your life. When I say believe, believe there is someone around helping you and arranging your life for you. You are not alone.
Love, Happiness, Abundance to You!





