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When was the last time you use turmeric spice in your cooking? If you have that’s great, but this little powerhouse nutrient has a host of benefits that help you stay healthy.

Native of South East Asia, the ancient spice turmeric has long been used: as a spice, in food preservative, as food colouring and also as fabric dye.

Turmeric spice was used for thousands of years as India’s traditional medicine system (Ayurveda). And now, it still is being used for its health giving properties.

However, the turmeric spice you get from the grocery store isn’t nearly as powerful as the spice you can get in a multi-nutritional supplement form. Let’s take a look at some of the turmeric spice benefits and what it can do for you.

Benefits of the Spice Turmeric

1. Cancer Fighter — this powerful antioxidant specifically inhibits colon and breast cancer development, cataracts, and lymphoma.

2. Helps Arthritis and other Inflammatory Conditions — because it’s a powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory, turmeric spice can help control plenty of diseases, many of which are partly caused by inflammation and oxidation that happens at the cellular level.

Not only is it beneficial for its antiaging properties, it’s also a potent disease fighter. In fact, it may also help prevent (or at least mitigate to some extent) diseases like arthritis and cancer.

3. Detoxifying Agent — this innocent little herb also helps one of your major organs to function better, your liver. The liver is the body’s largest organ of detoxification, and unfortunately it doesn’t get a lot of help sometimes.

It’s often under a great deal of stress because of our modern lifestyles. Turmeric spice can help give your liver the support and “distressing” it needs.

By detoxifying the body and protecting the liver at same time, the effects of damaging substances like alcohol, drugs, chemicals, and pollution are restrained.

So how can you take advantage of this herb? The most popular and easiest way is taking multi-nutritional supplements. Because, the effects of the turmeric spice are improved when combined with other nutrients.

However, you’ll need to know that when you look for a supplement look at what other ingredients are also included.

This is important, because not much of the turmeric spice makes it into the bloodstream unless it has help from other nutrients. So, look for an ingredient called piperine (from black pepper), it increases your body’s ability to absorb the curcumin.

It’s also important to make sure the spice turmeric is standardized to 95% curcumin, because it’s the curcumin that’s responsible for all the healing effects.

What’s stopping you from adding the spice turmeric into you healthy diet routine. By adding a quality multi-nutritional supplement into your regular lifestyle, what’s not to like about staying healthy … or getting healthier?

Visit my website today to learn more about the turmeric spice and how to choose a quality nutritional supplement.

Everyone talks about it. Everyone seems to want it. But, how do you get it? While green building has not yet hit its stride, there’s no question it’s a “top of mind” concept whose time has come.

We want to build efficient, earth-friendly dwellings to live in. We are striving to convert our existing homes too. The question is, what do we focus on to actually accomplish this goal when creating our dream home vision? This article will outline for you seven of the most important attributes of a highly efficient and green home. Specifically, we’ll outline the most important things to do when designing your home.

THE SEVEN ATTRIBUTES OF YOUR GREEN HOME

Look to incorporate as many of the following earth-friendly and economically sound systems in your home building or major home improvement. They’ll benefit you as well as the environment.

1) The Home’s Footprint and Orientation to Sun and Weather

By “footprint” we mean the actual amount of direct impact on the ground. Minimize the displacement of soil, the amount of ground covered, and be a careful steward of the land around your home. By “orientation” we mean that you should maximize the value of the sun’s natural warming power and minimize the effects of storms and cold by positioning and designing your house well.

2) Sustainability and Energy Efficient Climate Control

Briefly stated, sustainability is the practice of balancing your needs with the need to support the environment. One system in your home that has a big impact on this is the heating and air conditioning. Use a high efficiency system and consider using geo-thermal and other more naturally produced sources of energy where possible.

3) Properly Manufactured Building Materials

Use building materials that are produced with the least impact on the environment. This can mean that they are made of materials that are easily replaced, re-grown, and repurposed. Also, it is wise to find materials that don’t add to the earth’s pollution when they are manufactured or when they are disposed of.

4) Creation of a Healthful Environment Inside the Home

A green home is a healthy home. Take the time to research and make certain that materials used such as carpets, paint, manufactured wood products, insulation, and other items do not emit toxins into your home. Also, make sure the home is properly ventilated.

5) The Home’s Envelope – The Walls, Windows, Insulation

The exterior of your home is your protection from the elements and is ultimately what makes your home comfortable and safe. To achieve the best “envelope” you want a good exterior wall system, good insulation, and excellent windows. You can use dual and triple pane windows but you must also study their efficiency, have proper tinting, and be aware of their sizes and locations. Wall systems can vary significantly between SIP panels, ICF (foam blocks), stick built and more.

6) Energy Efficient Appliances and Lights

Everyone knows about Energy Star appliances. This designation covers more than just appliances and can apply to your light bulbs as well. The goal is to reduce the energy needed to power your systems in the home. Thinking “energy star” might just help you think energy efficiency in all your power uses.

7) Gray Water and Water Usage

Low flow showers and toilets are common. Now, more people are thinking about the reuse of water around the home. Gray water is the term used for the “clean wastewater” in your home. Between the reuse of the gray water and the limited use of fresh water, you can limit the amount of water that flows into and out of your home.

The bottom line is achieving efficiency and low impact everywhere we can get it. It starts with your architect and the home’s design and material specifications. You must communicate these wishes to your home’s designer. You cannot reach these goals as after thoughts. Plan ahead!

Using methods described in the Sedona Method, we’ve been exploring the process of releasing ourselves from emotions that often keep us in a low energy state and interfere with our ability to manifest our true desires. The process is rather simple. You dive into an emotion and explore it, until you feel prepared to release it.

Having released ourselves from apathy, grief, fear and lust, it’s time to tackle anger. Anger tends to stir a strong level of energy and reaction within us. Sometimes it feels intense, and sometimes even explosive. Some personal development ideology suggests that we would be better served by ignoring our anger and immediately thinking about something that feels more positive. This method can be effective, however to truly release the angry feeling…try to dive into it and explore it.

When someone has done something to make us angry, it is easy to focus on the mental image or picture of what that person did, telling the story to ourselves, again and again. We cling more tightly to the emotion of anger and it becomes part of our self identity. We become our feeling.

Anger may manifest in feelings such as:

Annoyance Brooding Disgust Resentment Hostility

By using the Sedona Method, you can not only release the anger, but feel forgiveness towards other people, and even yourself.

One level of emotion up the ladder from anger is pride. Feeling pride may mean desiring to maintain the status quo. We don’t want to change or transform. Our mental images may focus on what we have, what we know. If we are aware of others, we want them to notice how special we are. But pride is often an emotion we use to camouflage our true feelings of inadequacy.

Pride can blind us to our shortcomings, and limit our desire to seek help or support from others. It can be difficult to appreciate those around us.

When we’re in pride we might experience any of the following:

Contempt Stoicism Superiority Smug Judgmental

None of our emotional states need be permanent states. We can release them and experience the freedom that comes from awareness and inner harmony. The more you practice moving through the emotional states, the easier you will find it to release them.

Reflect on when you felt angry or experienced pride. Do the exercise with both the emotions, one at a time, beginning with anger. Ask yourself:

Can I welcome this feeling? Can I let it go? Would I let it go? When?

No matter what the physical or psychological causes of sexual dysfunction, there’s a single underlying problem. Our society has become increasingly convinced everything can be perfect the first and every time. Although consistency is desirable, it’s almost impossible to guarantee every experience will always meet the same high standards. This means many people are setting themselves up to feel dissatisfied with their own or other people’s performance. Although this may not be too serious a problem in everyday living, it can become more dangerous when it comes to sex. There’s a mythology about sexual activity that often gives rise to high expectations. Our young are often led to believe the first experience will be extraordinary. Disappointment is therefore quite common. If these disappointments are repeated, it can affect libido and people can lose some or all their interest in sexual activity.

Physical and psychological causes of erectile dysfunction

Some causes of erectile dysfunction are purely physical. This can be an injury affecting the spine or lower part of the body, there may be damage to the nervous system because of diabetes or similar diseases, or it may be a symptom of cardiovascular disease. The most common cause is too high a level of carbohydrates in the bloodstream. This produces a deposit of platelets on the walls on the arteries and slowly restricts the flow. If the penile artery is affected, erections fail. Dysfunction can also be a side-effect of some common drugs.

The psychological causes are fairly easy to list. Libido may be lost because of a trauma, e.g. abuse or coercion, or a deep depression, i.e. any disastrous social event may have long-lasting consequences or a man may become so depressed he loses interest in all aspects of life. Performance anxiety is slight less serious where fear of failure becomes dominant and the man stops trying. In younger men, there can also be sexual confusion as to orientation. If the man is actually gay, there may be no consistent sexual response to a female.

The proper treatment and Viagra’s help

Physical causes can be treated by more conventional treatments for the underlying cause and the use of Viagra to give a boost to performance.

Psychological causes have to be resolved by counseling and therapy before sexual activity can be resumed. The problem is that, unless the mind finds the situation sexually stimulating, there will be no erection. This means treatment with antidepressants or other drugs to reduce anxiety alongside behavioral therapy. The plan is to reduce the level of depression and then work on relieving any performance anxiety. This means talking through attitudes toward sex and changing expectations. Some teaching to improve social skills will also help. Once the talking has done its work, Viagra and the creation of non-demanding sexual situations can build confidence.

Importance of mutual understanding bettween partners

The aim is to improve sexual behavior, get a better response from the partner and so build responsiveness. The better the relationship between the parties, the better the sex is likely to become. This means both parties have to improve the way they communicate with each other. Only if they both understand what the other wants, what fantasies the other has, and what gives the most pleasure, can the sexual relationship become genuinely successful.

Feng shui subscribes to a number of practices that includes arranging objects and using colors to obtain the best positive energy. This consists of where to place objects in the home, geographic location of the home, and the interior and exterior design of a building or home.

Five Elements are implemented and represented by one, two or three of the following colors:

Wood – Green
Fire – Red
Water – Black or blue
Earth – Brown or Yellow
Metal – White, Gold, or Silver

A fundamental principle of feng shui is integrating the five elements into an area so they work collectively to bring harmony. The key is to add elements in rooms where positive energy is needed the most. This includes entryways, bedrooms, kitchens, and bathrooms.

More positive energy is needed where people spend the most time. Depending on the room, items and colors should emanate good health, happiness, love, and serenity. For the office, the key is to use items, colors, and images that make you feel happy, creative, appreciated, successful, and emanates prosperity.

Salt Crystal Lamps are used in feng shui as a way of purifying objects, the environment, and the body. The salt draws negative energies (sha chi) from objects and environment allowing them to receive positive energy. Salt lamps come in a variety of colors with a specific purpose:

Orange – Assists with feelings of security and is helpful to our nervous system and mind as wells as activating the kidneys and bladder.
Yellow – Promotes intellectual understanding and activates the pancreas, liver and gall bladder.
Red – Strengthens the heart and circulation.
Pink – Supports the sense of companionship and love
White – Has a cleansing and detoxifying effect.
Brown – Helps to find ones own sense of balance.
Purple- The color of the highest charka and a spiritual aid

Feng Shui involves balancing the life forces. (Chi) This revolves around the Yin (female) and Yang (male) forces. It is believed that the “Yin” is known to be the more restful force of the two. The bedroom should be set up to have more “Yin” to support a sense of serenity and have better sleep. Solay Purple Persian Salt Lamps have been known as a more effective aid for insomnia and purple in the money corner brings abundance.

A healthy flow of feng shui energy in key areas of your home will create a happier, healthier, and more energetic family. Incorporating the principles of feng shui will help reduce poor behavior, poor attitudes, as well as decrease the incidents of low energy and sickness. Feng shui is an ancient art. Consulting a feng shui specialist is recommended but you can do it yourself.

Some quick feng shui tips:

Salt has been an ancient remedy to free up stuck energy, to begin, cleanse your house by sprinkling salt water in the corners of the room where bad energy can collect. Then place beautiful objects in the corners, plants, stones, vases are helpful. Place a Solay salt lamp in every room to help the energy flow and radiate beautiful healing light.

The direction of your house also determines the positioning of furniture. Never face your back to the door (offices, bedrooms, living spaces)

Keep bathroom doors closed and toilet seats down as that represents a waste of money (flushing money down the toilet)

Money trees are helpful in offices and should be cared for if sick or dying and replaced as soon as possible.

Set an intention and love yourself and your surrounding by using beautiful objects.

Tantra uses sexual energy to expand awareness and experience ecstasy. It teaches people how to move their sexual energy from their genitals, up to the top of their head, and everywhere in between, allowing the entire physical and energetic body to become ecstatic. When the sexual energy reaches the crown it can expand a persons awareness of the mystical realms, allowing them to recognize they are Divine Consciousness in human form.

A full body orgasm is the experience of feeling your whole body vibrating with orgasmic energy. This can be done outside of a sexual context as well as while making love. Anyone can learn how to have a full body orgasm by following the steps below.

7 steps for Opening the Inner Flute:

1) Stand with your knees hip width apart and slightly bent.

2) Breathe through your mouth and deep into the belly, allowing it to expand begin activating your sexual energy.

3) Once you have master the belly breath you can increase the intensity by inhaling as if you are sipping through straw. Exhale with an open mouth and release a deep sound from the belly. Sound also intensifies the expansion of energy.

4) Now, allow your pelvis to begin rocking. Keeping the knees bent, let your pelvis rotate freely. As you inhale rock the hips back, arching the small of the back. As you exhale, tuck the tail bone under, flattening the small of the back. Breath, sound and movement are the 3 Keys of Sky Dancing Tantra.

5) Next, add the PC pump. As you inhale squeeze the pelvic floor muscles pulling them upwards and as you exhale let them relax back down. It feels a bit like you are trying to stop and start a stream of urine. These are sometimes called Kegel exercises.

6) Put all the steps together. As you inhale imagine you are breathing the energy up from your root to your heart. Practice this until you feel the energy pulsing from your root to your heart. You can play with speeding up and slowing down your respiratory rate.

7) Once you have mastered connecting root and heart move the energy up to the crown. Practice until you can feel the energy flowing from your root to your crown. See yourself as a rainbow bridge of light connecting Earth and Sky.

This is a wonderful way to get your energy flowing. Once the Inner Flute is open you are ready to learn how to expand the energy and experience Full Body Orgasm. There are 3 steps to this process:

1) The Streaming Reflex helps you recognize that your body is made of ecstatic energy which you can stimulate and expand whenever you want to. You learn to experience orgasmic energy outside of a sexual context and discover that you can awaken your own pleasure body with out genital contact. The practice-You begin by standing with your feet hip width apart and knees bent. Allow your thighs to begin to vibrate side to side. Allow the vibration the spread up and down the body until your whole body is vibrating. It is helpful to do this with music, I recommend Osho’s Kundalini Meditation CD.

2) The Ecstatic Response is the process of being relaxed in high states of arousal. You learn to become a bigger container for ecstatic energy and to relax fully letting the energy naturally expand. The effect is one of sexual excitement and deep peace. When you master the ecstatic response you move beyond the genital orgasm and discover the full body orgasm. The practice- After several minutes of your whole body streaming lay down on the floor with your knees bent and your feet close together. Let your knees gently fall apart like a butterflies wings opening. Allow your body to relax fully and continue to open and close your knees. This process allows the ecstatic energy to spread throughout the body. This is best done listening to gentle, relaxing music.

3) Once you mastered Opening the Inner Flute and the Full Body Orgasm outside a sexual context you can introduce these practices into your love making and experience them within a sexual context. Sex becomes an alchemical experience that transforms the physical body into the Bliss Body.