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3 Ways To Overcome Hemorrhoids

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Hemorrhoids by nature are a real pain in the butt. If you suffer form these irritating painful bumps it is important for you to understand what is causing them. I do not know you so I do not know what your lifestyle is. However when conditions arise relative to the human body it is more often than not an indication that something is up.

At this point you may just want relief and do not need some jack telling you need to address your general health. So let\’s start with ways for you to get immediate relief. Warm water what ever way you can get it will help soothe the pain. The next ingredient for immediate relief is witch hazel. You can apply this to a cotton ball or you can purchase wipes with it already on it. Then gently massage it on the affected area.

Vitamin E is another powerful ingredient that you can use to get relief. Puncture a capsule and squeeze it on the affected area and gently massage it in. Do not lift heavy items when you have irritating hemorrhoids as this will only make your situation worse.

Get yourself a donut cushion as this will prevent you having to sit on the affected area directly which will help you to avoid pain.

Lecithin is another wonderful ingredient that can provide relief. Get this in liquid form and once again apply it to the affected area.

Avoid spicy food like the plague and also cut down on dairy. Eat fresh fruit and veggies and drink lots of water. Take herbal supplements to help heal your veins and reduce inflammation. As for your overall health you need to address your diet and will need to make some changes. Hemorrhoids are primarily caused by straining and something you are putting into your body is not doing very well at coming out.

So address this by making changes in your diet. When you are feeling better do some form of exercise has this will help increase your metabolic rate helping you feel better and go potty easier. So please take care of yourself and you will feel better and suffer from fewer conditions.

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Simple Ideas To Help You Get Pregnant

Sunday, March 23, 2008

If you have being trying to get pregnant for a while I can understand that you may be getting a little frustrated. At this point you may have read lots of articles which all have valuable information yet you still are not able to get pregnant.

Negative thoughts may be entering your mind and as a result you may be feeling a little down. This is understandable under the given set of circumstances however this frame of mind will do nothing to help your case and the miracle of conception may continue to elude you.

The first thing you need to do is step back from it all. Then approach this as if you were starting from scratch. Actually before you do that take a break and go do something you enjoy.

After which check out local support groups in your area for women like you who are trying to get pregnant. These support groups can be wonderful and while in conversation with others a light switch may come on. This can happen because all of sudden you realize something and this will give you a whole new lease on life.

Remember you need energy when trying to get pregnant and when you are depressed and down your body will not perform very well. In actual fact stress is not good when you are trying to get pregnant. At least when you are talking with other women you will start to see that you are not the only one who is challenged by this and will understand that good old Mother Nature is not out to get you.

I had a good friend who was an engineer and many times when trying to figure out a problem he would have to drop everything and walk away. To be honest he could be gone for days but then all of a sudden he would show up like a crazed lunatic with boundless energy frothing at the mouth like he had seen a ghost.

He had figured it out and he was so excited about it that all he wanted to do was make it happen. So give your brain a rest by taking your mind of it and simply follow the basics like eating healthy and exercising and before you know it that little miracle will be apart of you.

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How To Boost Your Happiness

Sunday, March 23, 2008

You want to be happy. I want to be happy. Everyone wants to be happy. “Happiness”, according to Aristotle, “is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” How is it, then, that the rates of depression in the U.S. are ten times higher than 50 years ago, and the average age for its onset is 14 compared to 29 in 1960? Where have we gone wrong?

The revolutionary Positive Psychology Movement has ushered in the Science of Happiness. New research helps clarify the concept. It is in our nature to pursue happiness and we can learn how to create it.

A psychology researcher, Sonja Lyubomirsky,* studied the behaviors and practices that make people happy. These are her eight “Happiness Boosters”:

1. Count your blessings. Every day write down what you are grateful for.
2. Practice acts of kindness. This makes you feel generous and capable, gives you a greater sense of connection with others, wins approval and reciprocated kindness.
3. Savor life\’s joys. Notice the momentary wonder, delight, and simple pleasures of life.
4. Express gratitude and appreciation often.
5. Learn to forgive. Let go of anger for others; forgiving frees you and allows you to move on.
6. Invest time and energy in family and friends. Close relationships seem to be the most important factor for a satisfying life.
7. Take care of your body on a regular basis. Get enough sleep, stretching, and exercising. Laughing can lift your mood and make your days more satisfying.
8. Develop strategies for coping with stress and hardships. Find beliefs and other resources that help you get through the tough times.

In his book Authentic Happiness, Dr. Martin Seligman discusses the Three Roads to a Happy, Satisfied Life:

• Pleasure
• Engagement - depth of involvement, and
• Meaning - using personal strengths to serve a larger end.

Even though many Americans build their lives around the pursuit of pleasure, it is actually the least consequential. The other two - engagement and meaning - are much more important for happiness.

How you define the word is crucial. When the word “happy” is defined too broadly, it can be a set-up for misery, i.e. “happily ever after” is a myth. When it is too narrowly defined it will also lead to misery, i.e. “I\’ll be happy if he buys me emerald earrings for my birthday”. When your definition is “just right”, you can find happiness everyday, everywhere, in the momentary wonder, delight and simple pleasures of life. They\’re there. Don\’t miss them! Then savor the good feelings.

Charlie Brown had it all figured out. Here\’s his wisdom from the finale of “You\’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown”:

• Happiness is learning to whistle.
• Happiness is walking hand in hand.
• Happiness is climbing a tree.
• Happiness is having a sister, and getting along.
• Happiness is anyone and anything at all that\’s loved by you.

These three diverse authorities point to what\’s most important: close relationships with caring people, and knowing how to get along. This is Social Intelligence. Lucky kids learn these skills early on in their families. The rest of us - myself included - learn from our mistakes, and from other people\’s mistakes, and from reading books and taking classes.

The problem is, many of us were taught the wrong things! Like having to be perfect. Like always looking for faults and weaknesses - and missing the good stuff. Like having to win - at another\’s expense. Like comparing ourselves with everyone else, usually unfavorably. Like disrespecting ourselves and other people. As a result we suffer from low self-esteem and unhappiness.
Without knowing it, we have all downloaded bad information. But now we are smarter. We can examine the “glitches” and “bugs” in our “programming” - and make necessary corrections. Learning new ideas and new skills can help us be happier. As we grow, our self-esteem and relationships improve, and we\’ll notice that we are smiling more often.

Happiness includes contentment, satisfaction, well-being, joy, pleasure, gratitude, and appreciation. The secret to lasting fulfillment, according to the book, Happier, by Tal Ben-Shahar: 1) goals that bring us meaning and direction in life, and 2) playing and having fun on a daily basis. Following these prescriptions and guidelines, we can create happiness ever after - one day at a time.

© 2008 Dr. Louise Hart, Community Psychologist, international speaker, parent educator, and author of The Winning Family: Increasing Self-Esteem in Your Children and Yourself, and On the Wings of Self-Esteem. Her emphasis is on prevention, Positive Psychology, and emotional wellness in children. Located in Oakland, CA, her email address is hart2heartprograms@sbcglobal.net. For more information on her books, workshops, and teleclasses, please go to: http://www.louisehart.info

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Parenting Your Child Who is Bullying at School

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Your 3 1/2 year old daughter is bullying her classmates at preschool. You are mortified to see her pushing, hitting and being mean to her little friends! You\’ve tried to reason with her and she nods in agreement and then goes right back to it! What can you do?

Start by having a good cry over how terrible you feel about this, really try to get in touch with your feelings of powerlessness and fear that your daughter will be this way forever (she won\’t).

Now look at any other issues you have that may be getting triggered by the situation. I recently heard a mom comment, “When my child hits, I feel like I\’m the one doing the hitting and when my child gets hit I feel like I am the one who has been hit.”

Yes, we are so connected it is hard to keep everything straight. Once you move through your stuff though you\’ll clear the path for solutions.

Next, take a deep breath and get set to go to work.

Examine your relationship with your husband, parents and in-laws. Children learn their social behavior from how we adults treat each other, not how we treat them or their siblings.

Since kids always have their radar on and pick up on the most subtle things, your daughter might be acting out some unspoken stress that\’s going on between you and ____.

Children express what we repress. And if you can\’t find the time to spring clean your mental and emotional attic for yourself, fine, do it for your kids instead.

Get some counseling, take a class, join a 12 step program, get a self help book, DO SOMETHING to move through your relationship issues with yourself, your spouse and your parents.

Otherwise you\’ll keep repeating your patterns and attracting the same type of people into your life while your children continue to bring the issues to the table by acting out your stuff until you finally give up and deal with it. There is certainly something to be said for getting so fed up that we finally throw in the towel and get the help we need!

Once you work on your issues, your child\’ issues will be resolved, as if by magic!

Now, here\’s what you do in the meantime while you\’re wading through your personal stuff.

Set some boundaries:

Establish a zero tolerance policy. Once aggression emerges the show is over. Have the preschool call. Leave the school, play group, park, play date, whatever, IMMEDIATELY.

No reminders, no nagging, no negotiations!!!

Tell your child what you will do, NOT what you will make her do! Tell her ahead of time, “When you do ____, I will control your body and we will leave. I will not be available to speak with you until we get home and have doe something to help ourselves feel better.”

Once you arrive home do something together until you feel better. Read a book. Rock in your rocker while holding each other. Dig holes in the garden. Weed. Drum…..

Once calm have a friendly chat. Share your feelings. Look for solutions together.

Take time for training. Play games about how to deal with social situations out in the world. Role Play. Give her the words she needs to use instead of her body and practice them over and over. Make it fun. Make it short. Leave her wanting more.

Call the parents of the children she\’s bullied and apologize. Agree on how you can work on these issues together.

Write the children she\’s harmed or been disrespectful to an apology note:

“Dear _____\’ I apologize for_____. Next time I will do ______instead. To make it up to you I would like to do _____for/with you.”

Present a unit on “Bullying” at the preschool. Ask for the teacher\’s help. They are as eager as you to resolve it .

Get books from the library on “Bullying” and explore together how the characters have solved their issues.

Have family meetings to discuss situations and find solutions.

Use affirmations:

- You now are using your words to get what you want and need.

- It is getting easier and easier for you to solve your problems with other children by talking it through.

- You now are kind and gentle to everyone.

- You have all the tools you need to be successful with other children.

Follow the rules for affirmations:

- Use the present tense: “You now are___. You now have____.”

- Say it as if it were happening now.

- Say each affirmation at least three times.

Consider making a tape or CD of you saying the affirmations (three times each with soothing music in the background, using your mellow voice) and let your child go to sleep with it on.

Remember that from 3 to 6 years your daughter is learning her social behavior. Part of that learning will occur in the form of experimentation.

Help her learn what is appropriate behavior. When she tries a behavior that is inappropriate take her aside and let her know, kindly, how to act and what to say.

For example, “When we want to play with someone we ask first like this, May I play with you?” Treat her and speak to her as you would a dear friend and she will become one.

Children are our greatest gifts. They hold up the mirrors we need to examine our own behavior. They model the willingness to try new ways. They tell the truth about what is happening for them. They celebrate their emotions. And they always show great courage as they travel through life. May we follow their lead.

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Dreams Are The Beginning First Steps When Traveling the Road to Success

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Dr. Martin Luther King\’s famous speech I Have a Dream is well known by many. Yet, from my experience as an executive coach, many adults have lost the ability to dream. They have become so entangled with the day to day aspects of life, not to mention all the negative conditioning associated with dreaming, that they truly no longer know how to dream. And this is a terrific disadvantage when traveling the road to success.

Dreams are the fodder for our future accomplishments. From the I want to be President to I want to travel the world all began as dreams. Not holding onto those past dreams and not creating new dreams to replace the ones achieved is simply a big mistake.

I was once read a quote attributed to Louis Armstrong who said: Dreams are goals with endings. For the desire to achieve this or that, did start as an intangible thought or what we call a dream.

Take a moment right now to write down at least 5 dreams. Then as you find new dreams or remember old dreams commit those to writing as well. Revisit this list and see how you can turn those dreams into an accomplished goals.

You may need a goal setting process along with a tool to help you achieve those goals. Of course all of these goals should be aligned to your business growth action plan and personal action plan.

So as you are drinking your morning beverage, take some quiet time to begin to start recording your dreams as part of your overall plan to master success.

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3 Ways To Stop Excessive Sweating

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Excessive sweating can be a major problem for a lot of people around the world. The least bit of exertion can make an individual sweat excessively even in cold temperatures. Some of these folks report sweating even while asleep.

One of the treatments touted to help prevent profuse sweating is botox injections. Yesterday the FDA issued a warning on the use of botox. The danger they sighted was that if the toxins go beyond the injected site it can cause problems elsewhere in the body.

They refer mainly to the use of botox as an anti wrinkle treatment. So if you decide you want to look into botox as a treatment consult you doctor first.

One of the ways to treat profuse sweating is to use aluminum chloride. This you can get in antiperspirants. It needs to have a high concentration of aluminum chloride so regular off the shelf antiperspirants will not work.

Another way you can tackle this problem is to use talcum powder along with the antiperspirant. This will help keep you dry and at the same time work towards preventing sweating.

Diet and Lifestyle, avoid caffeinated drinks - caffeine can lead to anxiety and anxiety is one of the known causes of secondary hyperhydrosis. Exercise, this will help get your body in shape and as result it will perform better helping you to tackle this condition.

Eat lots of fruit - one of the good fruits to eat is grapes. Lastly drinks lots of water this will help flush your system and keep your skin hydrated and in good health.

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All You Need To Know About Website Metrics

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Ten years ago you could include a hit counter on your website and announce proudly that your site was doing “very well” as soon as the number reached 100,000. The current process is not nearly as simple or straightforward. The internet works in complicated ways that have evolved to solve a number of small problems. Consequently, concrete statistics are often difficult to obtain. If you believe the number of online visitors is a reliable indicator to gauge the popularity of your site or the potential sales of your product, you should consider the following:

1. Hit - Every time a user requests a file on your site (a page, not a picture or link to another site) it counts as a hit.

2. File - When a file or page is actually sent to the user, it counts as a file.
Files normally outnumber hits, but neither is very useful in measuring traffic. Any IP can request all of the files on your page several times in one hour without any actual involvement from the user.

3. Impressions - This is a concept that has existed in advertising for many decades. For example, a 2-page magazine advertisement counts as one “showing of a creative concept”. This equates to one impression every time a reader sees it. If your web page contains five small banners, you could have 10,000 page views, but 50,000 impressions.

4. Page Views - Almost everyone believe this is the most important traffic statistic. This term simply refers to the number of times any particular page has been viewed. This metric can be useful. However, values can often be over-inflated and should always be considered in conjunction with unique visits.

5. Visits & Unique Visits - A visit is simply logged every time a remote IP requests one of your pages for the first time in a timeout period. A unique visit is usually defined as “one visit per IP per day”, regardless of timeouts.

The above are all very important metrics, but understanding them properly is key. The best way to decide how your site\’s traffic is performing is by creating a formula. If you know what you are doing, you can develop your own formula. However, there are plenty of effective formulas currently available. A basic idea of how to evaluate your traffic involves reviewing monthly averages, unique visits and page views. This will give you an idea regarding how many individuals visit your site, how many pages they view, and how long they remain.

A basic formula from MarketingExperiments.com would be:

C = 4M + 3V + 2(I-F) - 2A

This formula shows that conversions are a product of motivation (M), value (V) and then the friction (F) elements minus the incentives (I). This will help you determine how many customers are likely to purchase your product. However, you need all the values first! You can purchase online analytic tools or download them for an upfront or monthly fee. All of them can return useful data to a webmaster.

If you are not an expert webmaster, or you do not understand many of the technical intricacies of web traffic, you should download Google Analytics. This is one of Google\’s new free products, and all you require is a GMail account and a web site. The program provides easy to read analytic data in a web-based form for your website. This can make it easy to determine which metrics would be most useful for analyzing your online traffic.

Michael Ehlert
RevUpYourWebBusiness.com

Michael Ehlert, Creator of the Rev Up Your Web Business system, is an industry leader in showing you how to generate more profits from your website. Get 50+ Ways to Promote Your Business and Generate Quality Traffic here: http://www.RevUpYourWebBusiness.com

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Never Buy A Canon PowerShot Pro Series S5 Digital Camera

Friday, March 21, 2008

You may think you\’ve found the perfect digital camera with the Canon Powershot Pro Series S5. Especially if your looking for something more than a basic point and shoot, but something less than a complicated and expense digital SLR. But there\’s a good chance your wrong. Canon generally makes some pretty nice digital cameras, but for some reason they\’ve experienced some serious design miscues with the PowerShot Pro Series S5.

Image noise is a serious minus in the Pro Series S5 camera. Afraid of bucking a growing consumer trend towards more megapixels, Canon has unfortunately built the S5 with more megapixels than the image sensor can handle. A number of years ago, megapixels was a valid yardstick for measuring value in digital cameras. That time however has passed. Unless your planning on blowing your photographs up to poster size, anything over 5 or 6 megapixels is redundant. Or worse, as in this case, a serious detractor in image quality with the introduction of much too much image noise for a camera in this price range.

Red eye problems should really be a thing of the past in any camera over $200 these days. It seems, that the S5 digital camera, doesn\’t employ even the most basic red eye preventative tactics (pre-flash) in the red eye battle. The S5 does come with red eye reduction software built it, but it\’s less than stellar. Depending on the viewing angle of your subject, it may or may not remove the red eye artifact successfully.

Cheaper point and shoots, and even some more expensive point and shoots often have a problem with blurred or soft corners on their photographs. I wouldn\’t expect to find that in a Pro Series Digital series camera, but there it is. If your main subject is generally framed in the center of the photo, this shouldn\’t be a problem. If however you like to shoot a lot of landscape and big scenery photos, you won\’t be happy with the results.

A few other issues with the Powershot S5 include:

- conspicuously absent auto focus assist

- no RAW or TIFF mode for the after photo editing fans

- gobbles up four double AA batteries at a time

- an old fashioned lens cap (sure to be lost, or left on)

Not to worry, from here things just get better. There\’s an abundance of nicer cameras competing for your dollars in this category. Including the SX100IS, and Pro Series S3 . . . both from Canon. Canon generally make great cameras, just not this time.

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Ancient Greek Poetry

Friday, March 21, 2008

There may have been a time when, besides the epic and the two species of poetry Hesiod represented, the Greeks had only folk songs with refrains. Following this mythopoeic, religious, seasonal, and festival art, the lyric arose as a spontaneous creation, not like the poetry of Occidental nations that at the very least had Latin church hymns as models. The elegy may well have appeared as a great innovation, even as a kind of debasement.

Modern lyric poetry contrasts most sharply with the Greek, recognizing hardly any set limits or laws and seeking to escape discipline for pleasure. Greek lyric poetry on the other hand was, by its connection with singing and conviviality, with dancing and instrumental music, bound to detailed standards of composition and performance, being thereby protected against sublimation into nothingness.

Our discussion of Greek poetry does not claim to be a clearly arranged literary survey; we shall deal with poesy only as a free expression of life and as a cultural force in the nation. The individual states and social castes took part in many ways, now here, now there, now stressing this aspect, now that. Beginning with the epic bards, poetry fell into all sorts of hands but remained a high art nonetheless, its forms commanding the utmost respect.

It was a long time before the old poetry gave way to new forms, this event occurring only after all imaginable contents had been poured into the old forms. Greek poetry grew slowly and consistently, each order giving way when its season of fruition was over. No foreign literature, no religion with foreign imagery, interrupted this development; hence we shall proceed in accordance with the development of the various forms.

A large number of poets enjoyed renown from the outset, and though their works were topical and involved in contemporary affairs, their names endured. Complete collections of their works were made early, and it is a misfortune that apart from Pindar and the tragedians so little has survived. Later Greeks possessed these works intact and consciously treasured them as significant cultural developments.

Poetry accorded with the life of the individual as well as with that of the nation; it was not faced with a division into the educated and the uneducated, being accessible to every freeborn Greek. Its original source was the body of myths known to rich and poor alike, as were the rites of worship; yet it remained a sublime art.

Ancient Greece is always an interesting topic for those who aren\’t Greeks along with everything ancient such as Ancient Greek Jewels or even the Greek Gods of Mount Olympus.

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Mexican Silver Coins

Friday, March 21, 2008

There is nothing quite like finding the perfect coin to complete a set, whether you are just starting out with a hobby of coin collecting or you have been doing it for ages. Many people collect past and current coins from all over the world. If you are after a particularly handsome addition to your own personal set you will not do better than becoming the proud owner of a Mexican silver dollar coin, which if in perfect condition will always be a sight to behold. There are several of them about, so have a good look around and see what you can find.

One Mexican silver coin which fits the bill well and is quite easy to locate if you are looking in the right places is the Mexican Silver Libertad. It is a one ounce silver bullion coin first placed in circulation during the late nineteen forties. It was discontinued in some years after but during the late seventies production of the coin started up again. This coin comes in several forms each with different patterns so there is plenty to go at if you decide to start a collection of these. The design on the coin is themed around the famous eight ton gold statue, the Angel of Independence, which towers over Mexico City. It captures the struggle of Mexico\’s history, thus making it an important coin for anyone to have as part of their coin collection.

There is no other coin to touch or even come close to the elegance and good looks of the Silver Libertad and since 2002 the Bank of Mexico (Banco de Mexico) has created a limited edition of only one thousand one hundred coins which have been kept out of circulation. As this Mexican silver coin was unavailable in the United States of America, it is sure to have become serious collector\’s items. There were also 2003 Libertads produced in a limited run of 3000 coins, weighing in at a grand total of one kilo.

For anyone coin collector who has an interest in the history and culture of Mexico, the Silver Libertad plays a valuable role in their collection of coins. When you get one you will know you have a Mexican silver coin to be proud.

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