A motivational and inspirational clip from the movie “Cast Away” Must see… Not to be missed…

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Cast Away… A motivational Clip

Inspirational and motivational video about how Douglas Goodey found the motivation to get out of $4.5 Million Debt and went on to make $20 million! One of the most inspiring stories ever told about one mans courage and bravery and how he went from broke to multi-millionaire back to broke and back to multi-millionaire again. Inspiring thousands around the world, Douglas’s story is the story of rags to riches that will give you the motivational kick you need to realise that anything is possible. Inspiring and inspirational for anyone at any age, young or old. Making money whether online or offline, getting out of debt, or just looking for the motivation to succeed? This video is a must watch.

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An outstanding motivational clip full of values and based on the outstanding GLADIATOR movie

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Motivation Clip from Gladiator

I found the recipe a while back on the WHO website & have recently run across it in my files. The recipe is for an electrolyte replacement beverage that could be used instead of Gatorade. This one is not neon & thus is safer. Electrolyte replacement is necessary after extreme fluid loss, such as after a bout of diarrhea or vomiting. Athletes drink Gatorade due to the electrolyte loss through perspiration. 3/4 t sea salt 1/2 t backing soda 4 t cream of tarter (or eat 2 bananas for potassium) 1T sugar 1 liter of water optional: 1T orange juice or 2t lemon juice

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Natural Gatorade (Electrolyte Replacement Drink)

A fantastic clip of how the Bear Cub survived the mighty Cougar assault… Very inspiring and believe me the end made me a bit emotional… Must see the full video… Worth sparing a few minutes…

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There once was a King who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists tried. The King looked at all the pictures, but there were only two he really liked and he had to choose between them. One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect mirror, for peaceful towering mountains were all around it. Overhead was a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. All who saw this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of peace. The other picture had mountains too. But these were rugged and bare. Above was an angry sky from which rain fell and in which lightening played. Down the side of the mountain tumbled a foaming waterfall. This did not look peaceful at all. But when the King looked, he saw behind the waterfall a tiny bush growing in a crack in the rock. In the bush a mother bird had built her nest. There, in the midst of the rush of angry water, sat the mother bird on her nest… Perfect peace. Which picture do you think won the prize? The King chose the second picture. Do you know why? “Because,” explained the King, “peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart. That is the real meaning of peace.” Aseem Kaistha It’s your attitude and not your aptitude that determines your altitude.

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Podcast Episode 45: Am I Buddhist Enough? Welcome back, this is Daily Buddhism audio show number forty-five. My name is Brian Schell, and I am the your host for the show. You can find the text as well as all links mentioned in this program and all past episodes on the website at www.dailybuddhism.com. Please send in Post from: Daily Buddhism , by Brian Schell Podcast Episode 45: Am I Buddhist Enough?

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Patients periodically ask me about whether I include vitamin therapy in my practice. I do not, for a couple of reasons: I feel that if one is eating an organic, well balanced diet that includes lots of fresh fruits and vegetables s/he will naturally get her/his basic nutritional needs met, and therefore supplementing is unnecessary. On this point, however, mention must be made to the importance of eating an organic diet, which studies have shown are much higher in vitamins and minerals than their conventionally grown counter parts. I remember well a study done by Rutger’s University in the early ’90’s which set out to prove that organic produce is no higher in vitamin content than conventionally grown produce. However, the researchers were quite surprised to discover that the opposite is true: organically grown produce is significantly higher in vitamins and minerals than conventionally grown produce. Also, eating a well rounded diet is important here. If food groups are eliminated (contrary to what you may be thinking, chocolate is not a food group) or if the diet is based on fast food or junk food, then taking a general multi-vitamin may be needed to make up for vitamins and minerals lacking in the diet. Many of the vitamins end up in the bottom of the septic tank. When I was studying in acupuncture college, one of my fellow students previously worked for a vitamin company in NJ. He told us a couple of astounding facts. First, he said that if you talk to the workers who clean out the septic tanks you’ll find a cache of vitamin pills at the bottom with their names still imprinted. They were never broken down by the digestive system and integrated into the body. So it makes me wonder how many of these vitamins that are being swallowed are actually being assimilated. He also said that most of the vitamins made in the US were all being manufactured by the same company he worked at in NJ, regardless of brand and price. The company might use different binders, but there is not a whole lot of difference between the vitamins being sold over the counter (OTC) in the various drug, health food, and vitamin stores,regardless of the price charged, excepting packaging. For this reason, I have a couple of brands that I order from for patients using nutritional therapy that are only available to health care practitioners, and are not sold OTC. I am assured of the high quality and assimilation of these products. The vitamin industry is a multi-billion dollar, sales driven industry. I am suspicious that motive for profit outweighs any true health benefits of these products. The New York Times reported this week in the Science Times that “In the past few years, several high-quality studies have failed to show that extra vitamins, at least in pill form, help prevent chronic disease or prolong life.” Here is the article for your perusal. KB This copy is for your pe rs onal, noncommercial use only. You can order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers here or use the “Reprints” tool that appears next to any article. Visit www.nytreprints.com for samples and additional information. Order a reprint of this article now. February 17, 2009 Well Vitamin Pills: A False Hope? By TARA PARKER-POPE Ever since the Nobel Prize -winning biochemist Linus Pauling first promoted “megadoses” of essential nutrients 40 years ago, Americans have been devoted to their vitamins . Today about half of all adults use some form of dietary supplement , at a cost of $23 billion a year. But are vitamins worth it? In the past few years, several high-quality studies have failed to show that extra vitamins, at least in pill form, help prevent chronic disease or prolong life. The latest news came last week after researchers in the Women’s Health Initiative study tracked eight years of multivitamin use among more than 161,000 older women . Despite earlier findings suggesting that multivitamins might lower the risk for heart disease and certain cancers, the study, published in The Archives of Internal Medicine, found no such benefit. Last year, a study that tracked almost 15,000 male physicians for a decade reported no differences in cancer or heart disease rates among those using vitamins E and C compared with those taking a placebo. And in October, a study of 35,000 men dashed hopes that high doses of vitamin E and selenium could lower the risk of prostate cancer . Of course, consumers are regularly subjected to conflicting reports and claims about the benefits of vitamins, and they seem undeterred by the news — to the dismay of some experts. “I’m puzzled why the public in general ignores the results of well-done trials,” said Dr. Eric Klein, national study coordinator for the prostate cancer trial and chairman of the Cleveland Clinic’s Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute. “The public’s belief in the benefits of vitamins and nutrients is not supported by the available scientific data.” Everyone needs vitamins, which are essential nutrients that the body can’t produce on its own. Inadequate vitamin C leads to scurvy, for instance, and a lack of vitamin D can cause rickets . But a balanced diet typically provides an adequate level of these nutrients, and today many popular foods are fortified with extra vitamins and minerals. As a result, diseases caused by nutrient deficiency are rare in the United States. In any event, most major vitamin studies in recent years have focused not on deficiencies but on whether high doses of vitamins can prevent or treat a host of chronic illnesses. While people who eat lots of nutrient-rich fruits and vegetables have long been known to have lower rates of heart disease and cancer, it hasn’t been clear whether ingesting high doses of those same nutrients in pill form results in a similar benefit. In January, an editorial in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute noted that most trials had shown no cancer benefits from vitamins — with a few exceptions, like a finding that calcium appeared to lower the recurrence of precancerous colon polyps by 15 percent. But some vitamin studies have also shown unexpected harm, like higher lung cancer rates in two studies of beta carotene use. Another study suggested a higher risk of precancerous polyps among users of folic acid compared with those in a placebo group. In 2007, The Journal of the American Medical Association reviewed mortality rates in randomized trials of antioxidant supplements . In 47 trials of 181,000 participants, the rate was 5 percent higher among the antioxidant users. The main culprits were vitamin A, beta carotene and vitamin E; vitamin C and selenium seemed to have no meaningful effect. “We call them essential nutrients because they are,” said Marian L. Neuhouser, an associate member in cancer prevention at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. “But there has been a leap into thinking that vitamins and minerals can prevent anything from fatigue to cancer to Alzheimer’s . That’s where the science didn’t pan out.” Everyone is struggling to make sense of the conflicting data, said Andrew Shao, vice president for scientific and regulatory affairs at the Council for Responsible Nutrition, a vitamin industry trade group. Consumers and researchers need to “redefine our expectations for these nutrients,” he said. “They aren’t magic bullets.” Part of the problem, he said, may stem from an inherent flaw in the way vitamins are studied. With drugs, the gold standard for research is a randomized clinical trial in which some patients take a drug and others a placebo. But vitamins are essential nutrients that people ingest in their daily diets; there is no way to withhold them altogether from research subjects. Vitamins given in high doses may also have effects that science is only beginning to understand. In a test tube, cancer cells gobble up vitamin C, and studies have shown far higher levels of vitamin C in tumor cells than are found in normal tissue. The selling point of antioxidant vitamins is that they mop up free radicals, the damaging molecular fragments linked to aging and disease. But some free radicals are essential to proper immune function, and wiping them out may inadvertently cause harm. In a study at the University of North Carolina , mice with brain cancer were given both normal and vitamin-depleted diets . The ones who were deprived of antioxidants had smaller tumors , and 20 percent of the tumor cells were undergoing a type of cell death called apoptosis, which is fueled by free radicals. In the fully nourished mice, only 3 percent of tumor cells were dying. “Most antioxidants are also pro-oxidants,” said Dr. Peter H. Gann, professor and director of research in the department of pathology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. “In the right context and the right dose, they may be able to cause problems rather than prevent them.” Scientists suspect that the benefits of a healthful diet come from eating the whole fruit or vegetable, not just the individual vitamins found in it. “There may not be a single component of broccoli or green leafy vegetables that is responsible for the health benefits,” Dr. Gann said. “Why are we taking a reductionist approach and plucking out one or two chemicals given in isolation?” Even so, some individual vitamin research is continuing. Scientists are beginning to study whether high doses of whole-food extracts can replicate the benefits of a vegetable-rich diet. And Harvard researchers are planning to study whether higher doses of vitamin D in 20,000 men and women can lower risk for cancer and other chronic diseases. “Vitamin D looks really promising,” said Dr. JoAnn E. Manson, the chief of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an investigator on several Harvard vitamin studies. “But we need to learn the lessons from the past. We should wait for large-scale clinical trials before jumping on the vitamin bandwagon and taking high doses.” Home Health

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I was reviewing some notes this evening about the treatment of pain in Chinese medicine from a seminar taught by Jeffery Yuen . Jeffrey Yuen comes from two Daoist lineages – 88 th generation of the Yu Qing Huang Lao Pai (Jade Purity School, Yellow Emperor/Lao Tzu Sect) and 26 th generation of the Quan Zhen Long Men Pai (Complete Reality School, Dragon Gate Sect). As a Taoist priest, he has some interesting perspectives on healing and Chinese medicine. With regards to treating pain, Jeffery discusses the spiritual implications of pain. In Chinese medicine there is an oft repeated adage: tong zi bu tong, zi tong, bu tong. Tong means pain, and the adage translates thus: where there is pain there is stagnation [or lack of free flow - of qi and blood] where there is stagnation there is pain. In other words, when qi and blood do not move freely, pain results. ( Qi broadly refers to life energy.) In Chinese medicine, the practitioner then must determine where the stagnation is located in the body (this would usually refer to the site of pain: one must determine which acupuncture meridians or channels are involved) and what has caused the qi and blood to stagnate. Generally we are looking for a physical cause of the stagnation, although emotions can also cause stagnation. As a Daoist priest, Jeffery interprets pain as indicating that a person is emotionally, mentally or spiritually stuck. This mental/emotional/spiritual stoppage causes a physical stagnation in the body, manifesting as somatic pain. Here we are referring more to a long-term or chronic pain, rather than an acute injury. So those suffering from chronic pain might want to look at their inner life and well being to find blockages. This could be marital strife, job dissatisfaction, inability to reach one’s life goals: any number of life issues where one is not moving forward in the desired direction. Jeffery notes that the more one focuses on the pain, the more one enhances the illness: one focused on the terrible receives the terrible. This is the law of attraction: like attracts like. He further observes that it is painful to change our lives, and that it is painful to surrender. He says pain likes to spread. Pain likes misery. Pain likes to refer (to other areas, such as sciatic pain that shoots down the leg or pain from a heart attack that presents as an achy sensation in the left arm). He says that pain does not like to be alone: it wants family to resolve the problem for you. He asks, ” Can one resolve the pain [or the emotional/spiritual source of the pain] themselves?” He discusses the significance of different qualities of pain: Rigidity: Indicates withdrawal from life, moving away from life or the enthusiasm. Cold (pain that is worse in cold weather, feels better with a hot pad, shower or bath): indicates retreat, apathy. He goes on to say that healing requires hope and perseverance to bring meaning into one’s life. He says that it is not up to the practitioner to command change, but rather to be a catalyst to help the patient change. You may have noticed the red Chinese character by my blog title: “Kath’s Musings on Health, Chinese Medicine & Spirituality”. This character is ying , which means guide. I chose it as a symbol of a couple of ideas that are relevant here: In Chinese medicine we use the term guide, as in guide out stagnation, or guide out phlegm fluids. By this we mean that we are helping the stagnation or phlegm to move out, showing the way, in a physical sense. In a more spiritual sense, the practitioner is guiding the patient on a course of healing, lighting the path out of the darkness. These two ideas express how I see my role as a practitioner; both in treating the physical body and as an agent for emotional/spiritual growth, where ultimately all healing takes place. But it is not up to me to force it, my role is to point the way so that the body, mind and spirit can find it’s course. KB

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I’m excited to announce The Power of Less New Year’s Challenge — it’s free, and it’ll help you form a new habit in 30 days, in just 10 minutes a day. It’s a great way to start the New Year, and to make 2009 a great year. Forming a new habit is better than making a resolution, because if you use the effective habit-change principles in The Power of Less, the habit will stick with you much longer than the resolution. How It Works Here’s how The Power of Less New Year’s Challenge works: SIGN UP for the Challenge by joining THE POWER OF LESS Challenge forum … it’s free and easy to sign up. Read the FAQ for the forum when you sign up for more info on how to use the forum. PUBLICLY COMMIT . Once you’ve joined the forum, go to the section that asks you to post your new habit. Start a new topic, introduce yourself and tell everyone what your habit will be for the 30 days. This is a public commitment that will hold you accountable and motivate you. FOCUS on the new habit for just 10 minutes a day, EVERY DAY. No exceptions. No excuses. Everyone has 10 minutes a day. You might need to plan your schedule to ensure you’ve set aside the 10 minutes for the day, but do not make exceptions ! Read more: 9 Rules to Form a Habit (pdf format) . REPORT your progress each day on THE POWER OF LESS Challenge forum. It’s simple and takes 2 minutes: log in to the forum, go to the daily progress thread (there’s a new one each day) and That’s it. Just four simple steps: sign up, publicly commit, focus on the goal for just 10 minutes a day, and take 2 minutes each day to report your progress. In 30 days, you’ll have a new habit! See 9 Rules to Form a Habit (pdf format) for strategies that will ensure your success in the Challenge! Go to The Power of Less New Year’s Challenge for more! My New Year’s Challenge: To Become More Present To get things started, I’ll report my New Year’s Challenge: For January I’d like to practice mindfulness — being more present as much as possible. To start small, I’m going to create the new habit of doing Zen meditation for 10 minutes every morning . I actually want to be more present in everything I do — from washing dishes to showering to walking to driving to talking to people — and I’ve been practicing this more and more the last few weeks. But as always, I will start small — if I start with 10 minutes of zazen (sitting meditation) then I can use the progress there and carry it to other parts of my life. My trigger : first thing in the morning, after I have my cup of coffee, before I go on my morning run. To increase accountability : I’m going to tell my friends and family about this and of course post about it here on Zen Habits. I’ll post about it in a couple weeks to let you guys know how things are going, or check out the Challenge to see my daily progress. Wish me luck! And best of luck to everyone participating in the Challenge! Leo

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