Be Good to Yourself

Be good to yourself this holiday season and eat real food that is nutrient dense.  The list below tells us that leafy greens have the most power to feed our bodies.

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Strike a Pose to Help Colds and Congestion

The pose below is called a reclining bound angle pose.  Winter months bring sinusitis, upper respiratory infections, bronchitis, asthma and variations of basic bacterial and viral infections that affect the breathing track. We use this pose as a remedy.

Liquorice: Food for Colds & Flu

 

 

As we approach the season for catching colds and flu consider adding the herb to liquorice to your medicine chest.  Used as an ingredient in cough mixtures and throat lozenges, Glycyrrhiza glabra or liquorice has been used to treat sore throats, mouth ulcers, stomach ulcers, inflammatory stomach conditions and indigestion. It is also used to combat food poisoning in modern herbalism. Liquorice rhizomes can be chewed or made into tea, which with other anti-spasmodic herbs is often taken for menstrual cramps.

The Symphony of Sound

The sounds, words, thoughts, feelings, sensations, intentions we experience and are exposed to—affect our well-being and the wellness of those in our lives. Researchers have discovered that sounds and vibrations that fill our external environment affect our internal environment, our very cells and the more than 70% water content of our bodies. Sound can create, maintain or alter form.    (www.cymaticsource.com)

Better-Longer-Deeper

To develop lifelong satisfaction, choose your words wisely and speak them slowly.  You’ll need to generate at least five positive messages for each negative utterance you make if you want your business and your personal relationships to really flourish.  You’ll feel better, you’ll live longer, and you’ll build deeper and more trusting relationships with others—at home and at work.  (www.psychologytoday.com)

Flying High Now

Rebounding is extremely effective 'no impact' exercise - especially important for those with less mobility or undergoing rehabilitation.  People new to rebounding should start out slowly to give the body proper time to adjust. Rebounding is simple, safe and fun, it is easy to stick with, almost everyone can do it and it is found to be 68% more efficient than running on a treadmill. (www.healthmakers.co.za)

o    Lowers elevated cholesterol and triglyceride levels

o    Increases metabolism which burns more calories and reduces body fat
o    Firms your arms, benefits the shape of your legs, hips and abdomen
o    Increases energy levels, which are maintained throughout the day
o    Increases oxygen levels in the body
o    Enhances digestion, nerve impulses and muscle fiber
o    Revitalises your body when it's tired
o    Reduces blood pressure
o    Strengthens your muscles and bones without the trauma of hitting a hard surface
o    Helps with balance and co-ordination
o    Reduces stress levels, helping you to relax and sleep better
o    Tones the body's internal organs, veins and arteries, as well as  and bones, at the same time
o    Increases the performance of both the heart and the circulatory system to slow aging
o    Stimulates the flow of lymph fluid through the lymphatic system by up to 15%

 

To Click or Blink, That is the Question

Eye trackers may replace the mouse on your computer.  An eye tracker is a device that uses projection patterns and optical sensors to gather data about gaze direction or eye movements with very high accuracy. Most eye trackers are based on the fundamental principle of corneal-reflection tracking; eye presence detection, position, identification, movement, patterns; eyelid closure; pupil size and pupil dilation; gaze direction and point. (ebitesblog.wordpress.com)

Step Away From The Screen

The slow technology movement seeks to alter how humans interact with technologies including mobile devices, social media, email and other relatively recent innovations that tend to be highly addictive, or at least consume a lot of time.  The movement is intended to curb some of the damaging effects of excessive technologies in human life, primarily through promoting slower or less extreme interactions with certain technologies.   

Lean, Mean and Green

Maintenance, monitoring and material systems integrated into buildings combine ecology and cutting-edge technology in a revolutionary way to create sophisticated green solutions.

Where Joy and Sorrow Meet

Art can humanize medicine.  Art in any form, being an expression of intense human emotions, has the power to heal different kinds of acute health conditions. Hospital is a place where joy and sorrow meet. Art can create all necessary conditions for healing illness. - Dr Iva Fattorini (image:streetanatomy)

 

 

Teach Me How

We all learn information in different ways.  However, we retain and synthesize what we have learned through talk, teaching, technique and what touches us.

Windows To The Soul

Be aware of attire, hand movements and other non-verbal cues from both sides of the table during negotiations, interviews and meetings.  They are frequently a deciding factor with the person across the table as you discuss new positions, promotions and contracts.

For All The Gouda

There are 2.5 entry-level job postings for each new 4-year graduate in STEM fields compared to 1.1 postings for each new BA graduate in non-STEM fields.  STEM jobs offer a 26% salary premium of approximately $14,000 compared to non-STEM careers.  Find out more at http://www.burning-glass.com/research/stem/

Life Matters

Add value to your team from a place of strength, honor and power as you operate in your professional and personal life with a deep inner knowing of your intrinsic value fused with an awareness of the inherent value of others.

Perfecting Performance

Performing artists are athletes. Like athletes, performing artists practice and/or perform most days with little off season, play through pain, "compete" in challenging environments, and risk career-threatening injury.  There are several organizations, institutions and universities who have engaged in collaborative exchange and application of wellness, training and performance research and initiatives to integrate the science of sport and the performing arts for the mutual benefit of both.  (Photo: University of Northern Iowa)
 

Immersive Entertainment

Game changers define the strategies in the arts for 2014 such as immersive museum large-scale entertainment-art, new tech millionaire art investors, over-professionalization” of art, recession proof investment art, and emerging art economies in Brazil, Russia, India, China Indonesia, South Africa, Turkey (photo: The Museum of Modern Art)

 

 

 

You Think You're So Smart

Brace yourselves for the unprecedented growth and maturation expected in 2014 of anytime, anywhere, on-demand information, interaction and entertainment in areas such as space tourism, wearable technology, physical world networking, robotics, 3D printer, unmanned aerial vehicles, intelligent personal assistants, social gaming consoles, smart-televisions, smart watches and smart glasses.