Your Crowning Glory - Go Within – Meditation

A man goes into the Himalayan Mountains to find enlightenment. He travels for many miles to find an empty cave to live a spiritual life. He settles in to meditate, study ancient spiritual scripture and do his yoga to keep limber. For many, many years he practices all day and night, until one day – poof! – He’s enlightened.

So as the man emerges from the cave to greet the world, a bird flies over and shits on his head. He immediately becomes enraged and starts cursing at the bird.

What’s the moral of the story? It’s easy to be spiritual in a cave high atop a mountain and far away from everything that could potentially disturb your peace; the real task is to keep peace amidst the challenges we face in the world.

My original attraction to Yoga wasn’t a quest for inner peace or a desire to levitate over Manhattan; I came to Yoga purely for the physical practice. Over time I started exploring all the facets of Yoga and discovered that the physical practice was actually for the “soul” purpose of meditating more easefully and peacefully. Now that was quite an eye-opener for me because no one had explained that when I’d originally signed up. I’d been tricked into thinking I was doing something good for my body, unaware that I was simultaneously doing something good for my mind and soul.

The first few times I tried meditating I made every effort to sit quietly, yet nothing happened. Well, I shouldn’t say nothing happened. My mind ran amuck. It traveled from one thought to another, without taking a break. I felt frustrated and limited. Why couldn’t I just keep quiet for one moment? I was sure everyone else in the room had it down while I was the ONLY one still thinking. But after sharing my experience with others, I realized even the most experienced and self-actualizing people also have days when their minds run seemingly out of control.

And what was the purpose of all this quiet time anyway? After all, I hadn’t had it since kindergarten, and even then I wasn’t very good at it, having been dubbed a social butterfly by my teacher on my report card. But everything I read—spiritual, self-help and even business—talked about the benefits of meditation, so I kept exploring.

Introducing a meditation ritual takes practice; the more you practice the easier it gets. Think back to when you may have learned to ride a bike. You probably fell down a few times and skinned you knees before you got it right. When you started cooking, you probably burned a few things, including you hands. So with regular practice, mediation can get easier.

I believe the only evidence you’ll ever need to prove that mediation works is to try it yourself. Become your own scientist and experiment with different techniques, notice how you feel, draw your own conclusions and experience the results.

Starting my own ritual of meditating was not easy for me; I fell off the Yogic wagon several times. Eventually I found that the best time for me to meditate was when I woke up in the morning. When I tried earnestly to get up with the sun, inevitably I felt tired in the middle of my day. As much as I wanted to get up at the crack of dawn, by the third day I couldn’t keep it up and stopped meditating completely. I discovered that meditating when I got up, regardless of the time, was much more effective.

Upon waking, I cleanse and then meditate before doing anything else. This works best for me. I created a ritual, which became an integral part of my daily routine. If for some reason, I miss my morning meditation, it now feels like I didn’t brush my teeth. Introducing a daily ritual into your routine takes about thirty days of repetition. Find the rhythm that suits you and your life. If you’re not a morning person, meditate in the afternoon; if you are a night owl, take advantage of the stillness of the dark. Start with just five minutes every day and let it grow from there. After you have created a daily habit of meditating; sit for ten minutes, then twenty and so on. If you start your practice with the goal to meditate for an hour and then fail, you’ll get aggravated and give up.

You can create a special, sacred space for your meditations, but remember it’s not completely necessary. No matter where you are, you can always go within. If you like, find a place that is clutter-free and quiet. You can use a special pillow and any accoutrements that feel good to you. I know a woman who has seven children; she meditates in her closet. Keep in mind as you practice more meditation it will get easier for you to just go inside, even in the midst of chaos. Over time you won’t even need any special tools to provide the answers you are seeking. There is no right or wrong in meditation, no pass or fail. All you have to do is try and you will reap the benefits.

Meditation is the key to living royally. When you quiet your mind you free yourself from the chatter, enabling you to see your self-worth clearly and pave the way to a more easeful, peaceful life.

Stacey Joiner
Taken from the teachings in You Deserve The Royal Treatment – A Woman’s Guide to Living Royally.

Figs-hepatobiliary asset

Figs are also hepatobiliary asset
Another active tree


Sacred Fig Fruits

Atlantic 'Sacred Fig', also known as a decorative plant, but it also has healing effects.
The fruit trees are not due to the high sugar content only valuable food, but because of the large quantity of pectin also good effective, but mild hepatobiliary asset.
For this purpose, dry figs soaked in water. We eat them it the morning, on an empty stomach.
If soaked in milk or eat fresh, mitigating cough.


Sacred Fig Fruits

Wine and the Risk of Cancer

Scientists: Even half a glass of wine per day increases the risk of cancer


Wine and the Risk of Cancer


Scientists have found, that the risk of developing cancer increases have half a glass of wine a day. The survey, conducted by the National Institute for cancer research in Paris, showed that one unit of alcohol per day, equivalent to half the 175 ml glass of wine, increase the risk of cancer of the gut to nine percent, the risk of developing cancer of the mouth or at the throat, however, that the 168 percent.
Small amounts of alcohol are very damaging, pointed Chairman of the Institute. Nothing, even the small amount of alcohol is not good for health, he added.
Results from studies have confirmed earlier research that argued that alcohol increases the risk of certain cancers. One of the most extensive researches in this field was carried out by the Global Fund for Research on Cancer; it is found that alcohol increases the risk of developing cancer of the mouth, throat, intestines, liver and breast.


Wine and the Risk of Cancer

Harmful Fast Food

How harmful is fast food?
That fast food is harmful, we all know, but why is it then so difficult to resist? Is it all lies in the taste, or become dependent on it? Learn how harmful it is fast food!
Filled only for a short time
It does not matter how old you are, the effect of fast food on the body is the same. This in itself means a diet is detrimental to health, but most often is composed of fats, sugars, salt and food additives, healthy nutrients, however, it is often only for the sample. While it contains many calories, this food does not provide sufficient energy to our body, it is still such a great meal often filled only for a short time.
Golden Cave of cholesterol
Those who enjoy fast food regularly, often have problems with increased cholesterol, heart failure, liver; unhealthy diet is often the culprit for the fatigue.


Harmful Fast Food

Fast food must be prohibited for children
Although the biggest fans of fast food are children, and consumption of such food, is particular threat to their health. Not only in America, even in other countries are more and more overweight children and adolescents, but the cause behind it in the diet - fat, sugars and salt is a substance which the body does not use and do not need, but it accumulates in the fat pads. More and more children and adolescents suffer as a result of diabetes and high blood pressure (mainly due to increased levels of sodium). Scientists have linked the consumption of fast food even with the occurrence of asthma. It was found that children who at least once a week eat a hamburger, have breathing problems and the 75 percent the incidence of asthma.
Prohibited is sweeter
As always, there is also prohibited sweeter. Ice cream, milk chocolate, hamburgers, fries, pizza, sweet carbonated drinks and ready sheik is what attracts us most, but is also a threat to our health. In addition to the physical health of such foods have negative consequences on our mental well-being - those who love fast food often suffer from mood swings and depression.


Harmful Fast Food


The rapid effect
Harmfulness of fast food wanted to prove the Swedish scientists, who have focused primarily on how fast the implications on body have food in fast food restaurants. The study included 18 healthy student volunteers, who have one month at least twice a day eating in the fast-food restaurants, but they gave up the exercise. And the results? Students were obtained from five to 15 percent of their body weight - on average they were more difficult to seven kilograms, the volume of the abdomen was increased by five centimeters, the proportion of body fat grows by 3.7 percent.

Diet Food- Therapeutic Effect on Cancer

Diet Food- Therapeutic Effect on Cancer



Diet Food- Therapeutic Effect on Cancer



Therapeutic Effect on Cancer


I completely agree with the opinion, that the diet is one of the important factors for the prevention and treatment of cancer. Soy is one of the foods, which inhibits the formation of cancer, but it also includes many useful things. There is a lot foods, having them attributed to the therapeutic effect on cancer very much, probably even too much, to decide in this flood of information, what consuming. Market is a whole range of allowances, which would have been almost miraculously anticancer operation (from the various oils, juices, ground mushrooms etc.). I guess the vast majority to a greater or lesser extent in fact has beneficial to health and the development of cancer diseases, as on the other hand is impossible to enjoy everything, however, more difficult is to be smart and decide which would be worth for consuming. Probably the smartest way is to draws up a basic menu, because eventually the diet for different cancers varies, especially the difference in the preventive operation of food and nutrition in patients who already have cancer illness, or are under rehab. At least the proper diet is part of the whole spectrum, which affects the development of cancer can play a role at least equivalent to the way of life (stress) exposure to various chemicals etc. Some findings, which now apply, can be already dropped a few years later (if you remember a couple of years ago apply to the tomato pathogen cancer, the opposite is true today), so that it sometimes may be better to listen to oneself and to find a diet that meets us personally (even chocolate), and possibly also the extent possible a healthy and enjoying balanced food. If you enjoy at eating, positive effect is probably greater than the possible negative effects, depending on what is currently "IN" research.

Useful milk products with less fat

Useful milk products



Useful milk products with less fat!

To prevent excessive blood pressure!


Useful milk products

Dairy products with lower fat content have a favorable effect on blood pressure in elderly people, showed the survey of British scientists.
It involved 2,290 volunteers with a high risk of occurrence of cardiovascular disease, of which 1,845 had high blood pressure. First they have to fill out a questionnaire about their eating habits, and then the group of doctors for a year monitors their health status.
Results showed that those, who consume more products with low fat content (average 631 g per day), far less Diastolic and Systolic pressure,so than compared with those who daily consumed at least of such products (average 3.1 g per day). Scientists have therefore concluded that dairy products with low-fat play an important role in preventing hypertension.

Nutrition Dinner- Salmon Tartar

Ingredients for 4 people: 2 young onions, 2 celery, 1 avocados 200 g smoked salmon, 4 spoons medium burning mustard, 4 spoons of sunflower oil, 2 spoons lemon juice, 1 tablespoon honey, salt, pepper, 2 tomatoes, 8 slices crispy bread with cumin (Wasabi).
Preparation:
Onions, celery and avocados wash, clean, if necessary, Peel and remove pit. Like salmon dice.
Mix mustard with olive oil, lemon juice, and honey. Vegetables with salmon then 15minut marinade. Wash tomatoes, cut into strips. Place slices of crispy rolls and put Salmon Tatar on them. If you want, serve on the green salad, if desired, you can decorate with the lemon.


Salmon Tartar

In person: about 130 kcal
Preparation: about 15 minutes.