Sugar Blossom

Anyone should have their own complicated issues in their lives, that include you and I. It’s alright to be upset and let yourself express all your emotional roller coaster within. You might feel anxious, agitated, and furious… but then your tears just melt. It’s OK… it would never been easy for anyone to overcome any problem they are currently facing, but after some time you will be able to realize that every problems – if you passed the test well – are there to help you be a more mature and better person.

Despite the terrible thing you are feeling within, don’t underestimate the hero existed inside you. You have to resolve the situation, if you are currently facing a bad day; go make it as a happy bad day. Take the steps that tend to make your self feel a little bit better or at least give you the satisfaction that you were surviving the bad day with your best attitude. If you don’t make your move to overcome your own sadness, nobody else could do it for you. You’ll never find your happiness anywhere in the whole universe further than inside your own heart.

You can try some varied activity to make you feel good. The impact may be different to certain people so you need to find the perfect formulation of happy-activity-combination yourself.

- Do something nice for someone else. Although you might feel tired within and felt like there are not enough energy to share, if you learn to do it sincerely, giving kindness activities are more likely would give you unexpected source of positive energy. Just try it yourself and feel the difference. Yes… “Do good, feel good” principle is behind the phrase of “One of the best ways to make your self happy is to make other people happy”. For the first minor effort for example is by sending happy gifts, e-card or e-mail or a simple smile… and wait until you get back what you’ve sent them… the feeling is awesome.

- Exercise. Exercising is a key element to stabilize your moods. It calms you down when you’re emotion rise and energizes you when you’re feeling down. It’s a productive way to help you manage your mood and give you better health overall, since your brain will give you some extra happy hormone after you done your exercise. Exercise is obviously a key to good health that gives you some worthwhile activities rather than just giving your self mourns and pity thoughts.

- Don’t over-think over your sadness. Studies show that dwelling on negative thoughts amplifies their power in your mind. In fact, some researchers suggest that a reason that more women get depression than men is that women are more likely to “over-think,” while men are better at distracting themselves from negative thoughts.

- Connect with someone important. It could be your family members and old friends or if you don’t have it yet, you can also start to make new friends by involving in online social network. A thousand friends would not be too much; who knows among those thousands you will find a special person who you can really relate to and able to share all your private thoughts.

- Do something silly and lighthearted with the one you love: your children, spouse, family or best friends. Gather as much laughter as possible from anyone near you, waking up the clown talent inside you.

- Act happy, even it’s just a fake. Research shows that although we think that we act because of the way we feel, in fact, we often feel because of the way we act. Smiling facial muscle activities – even if it’s not a sincere smile in front of a mirror – would send positive energy wave to your brain, and your brain will send you a happy hormone anyhow.

If none of the activity above make you feel better, then you all you need maybe just a good rest, a retreat, or a vacation away from your everyday routines. Just keep exploring what are the formulation to make our self happy, so when you do having that bad day again, you’ll soon recover your self faster by using your own secret formula of happiness.

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You can almost see everyday in your TV channel or other media from magazine to online ad, good visualizations of multivitamin advertisements with tantalizing promises of health improvement, which promise prevention to cancer to heart disease, as well as greater energy pack as fuel for daily activity - have lured millions of people to spend billions of dollars on the multivitamin purchases.

An article in the February 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine reported that multivitamin use did not able to protect the 161,808 postmenopausal women enrolled in the Women’s Health Initiative Study from common forms of cancer, heart attacks, or strokes. And the numbers of deaths during the 8 years of the study were the same in vitamin users as in non-users. Still, it is important to recognize that this was an observational study, not a more meaningful clinical trial. Although these findings apply only to women, other studies have also failed to show benefits of multivitamins in older men.

These results are not at all surprising to people for several reasons. No large study has shown that multivitamins can significantly benefit healthy men and women. In addition, for some years physicians prescribed folic acid and vitamins B12 and B6 in the hopes of preventing heart attacks and strokes by lowering blood levels of “homocysteine” (high blood levels of homocysteine are associated with an increased risk of coronary and other vascular diseases). A number of recent studies however have shown that: while these vitamins do lower “homocysteine” levels, they do not prevent heart attacks or strokes. Many doctors have also prescribed the antioxidants vitamin E and beta-carotene to reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Instead, new studies have proven that these supplements are not so protective and may even be harmful for the consumers.

Everybody would agree that an adequate intake of vitamins is essential to human’s health; but however, the best source of vitamins should only be obtained from eating enough healthy foods rather than from swallowing instant vitamin supplements. What about vitamins being a great source of energy? Some multivitamin ads do indeed claim that their supplements boost energy; and some professional athletes gobble handfuls of vitamin pills to increase their energy and strength. But scientists and researchers have learned and proved from long time ago that the real energy comes from calories, never from vitamins (vitamins only helps the body to help higher productivity of cellular functions). The bias understanding also applied on the highly touted cholesterol-lowering effects of substances added to some multivitamin supplements which are also still unproven scientifically.

All this is not to say that specific vitamins supplements are never desirable. Multivitamins are only beneficial for some groups of people: with a very-low-calorie weight-loss diet; strict vegetarians; heavy alcohol drinkers; and individuals who are not getting an adequate diet because they are too sick or too poor and are unable to prepare proper meals for themselves. Vitamins can also be valuable in certain health situations:
- Folic acid supplements in women who are pregnant or plan to become pregnant can help to prevent serious neural-tube defects that affect the baby’s brain and spine.
- Supplements that contain more vitamin D and calcium than is present in regular multivitamin pills can help older women (and men) to avoid osteoporosis and bone fractures.
- Supplements of vitamins C and E, beta-carotene, zinc, and copper might able to slow down the progression of vision loss in people with early macular degeneration.

While the acceptance of good cultivated variety of plants would need minimal range of a decade to be proven worthy; an 8-year follow-up period are not long enough to show that multivitamins really protect people against cancers that take many years to develop. The results of the studies on vitamins so far point to one conclusion: Healthy people who eat enough calories from a varied diet do not benefit from multivitamin supplements.

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Aromatherapy which plays as a therapy using oil based aromatic sources actually had been used since 1500 BC by the Egyptian. Currently there are more than 188 kinds of Essential Oil for any kind of treatments. The Natural Oils Research Association made the list / index for the essential oil distillation, and it was proven through laboratory testing that essential oils can eventually kill bacteria right away.

There are so many great function of aromatherapy, the most common covers: 1) the Lavender Chamomile Essential Oil is known to be far more powerful antiseptic as soon as it is brushed to the infected wounds, compared to Phenol (man-made disinfectant medicine); 2) Menthol as the distillation product from peppermint plants and is intensive being used in the pharmaceutical industry for manufacturing flu, fever and digestion relieves.

We can find essential oils as a Massage Oil, Bath Oil, Cream and others usage. Essential oil affectivity can be absorbed directly through the skin pores as well as through the inhaled aroma. Although mostly used in regular massage techniques, but it has other multiple purposes according to the specific goals.

Essential Oil Methods of Usage:
You can pamper yourself using the essential oil in many ways, according what result you may reach: achieving relaxation state of mind or to rejuvenate your body. You can combine all kinds of methods (your favorite scents - in the same range of ingredients and formula) to acquire maximal impacts.

1. Massage - is the most common method for using Aroma Therapy and the use of more effective for mixing with the Essential Oil. Besides the influence of massage, aroma generated by the Essential Oil can help the course of the blood in the body; besides using Scrubs or body massage after the process is complete.

2. Bathing – You can use manually blend Essential Oil directly into the bath tub or bath with a ratio of 1 liter of water can be added by 3 cc of pure Essential Oil; or by using Aroma Therapy Bath Oil. In Bath Oil consumption ± 40 cc in a one-time use.

3. Evaporation - This method is very good for use in relieving congestion, nasal obstruction to relieve respiratory and thinning mucus in the nose.

4. Room fragrances - This method is very helpful to stimulate to the brain through your smelling senses. This method is preferably used in a closed place.

5. Fragrance - Created by Essential Oil mixed with certain materials to produce a perfume that can be used for body lotion, perfume or body splash.

6. Bathroom Shower - Aroma Therapy Soap and rub the whole body, but avoid the face and eyes.

7. Footbath

8. Body Lotion - Using Body Lotion Aroma Therapy and its use as regular lotion.

9. Scrubs - This method is usually being used after the massage treatment to clean up dead-skin exfoliations.

In anyway you like it, just go ahead and pamper yourself gaining the comfortable feeling you deserve to prepare yourself having a fresh start undergoing your everyday activity.

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Before taking up Plato’s reaction to (what he presents as) Gorgias’
view, I must mention that the view that well-being consists in getting
what you want reappears in various forms throughout the history of
happiness.
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As so often, Plato made the first move. In his Gorgias and Republic he
took his start from the recognition that we have plural and conflicting
desires, aims, impulses, etc., and that somehow we have to deal with
that fact. He can hardly have been the first to notice the fact of plurality and conflict, but he was the first to react to it systematically.
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