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Common Myths about Yoga and the True Facts

There are a lot of myths about yoga that can often discourage people from trying it. In this article, we will separate myth from fact so you can decide whether or not yoga will help you achieve your health and life goals.

Myth 1: Yoga іѕ spiritual, not physical

Fact: While it is true that certain yogas include meditation, that is concentration and focus, yoga is intended to be a union of body, mind and spirit. A healthy body is a healthy mind.

Myth 2: Yoga is for wimps

Fact: Yoga is a whole body workout that incorporates both aerobic activity if you do flow yoga that is, yoga movements in a sequence and strength training, such as you would do with weight lifting or using resistance bands. It is quick and effective and develops long, lean muscles, balance, flexibility and stamina in a way few other workouts can. Both men and women can get a better body in only a few short weeks if they stick to their practice.

Myth 3: Yoga is for old people-it is slow and boring

Fact: While it is true that yoga is a great workout that increases flexibility and range of motion, it can be practiced by anyone at any age level and fitness level. Young and old alike enjoy the variety of the poses. Fast workouts may burn more calories, but they can often cause muscle strain and injury. Think of slow weight lifting and you will get an idea of just how powerful yoga can be in building your best body.

Myth 4 –You will never lose weight doing Kundalini Yoga

Fact: Ever see the people carrying yoga mats? Chances are that most of them are skinny. Yoga develops long, lean muscle, which boosts your metabolism and helps you burn calories more efficiently. You will also look a lot better in your clothes. Think of the difference in volume between 1 pound of cotton balls (out of shape muscles) and 1 pound of brick well-conditioned muscles and you will get an idea of just how slim and trim you can start to look even if you never lose a pound.

But since each yoga session can burn an average of 500 to 1300 calories, a Kundalini yoga session, yoga is the perfect way to get a better body.

Now that you know the facts, do a search online for my yoga videos and courses. Get started with this great exercise that is fun, interesting, and can easily be done every day no matter where you are.

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Can I Eat More If I Work Out?

Consistency and Patience

A combination of a balanced diet, a consistent exercise routine, and a stable sleep schedule is ideal when it comes to improving the current status of your health. Yet, there’s a point at which diet and exercise intertwine and make matters a bit more complicated.

You need to be patient with yourself and go one day at a time, you will find how easier it gets to just say: I will do exercise tomorrow and then next day you say the same thing and the next one.

In particular, many people wonder whether exercising more means you can eat more without negatively impacting the positive progression of your health. That’s especially the case when you consider the calories and nutrients lost through intense and frequent exercise.

Below, we’ll discuss the role that losing calories and nutrients plays in the amount of food you should be eating on days you work out.

Replacing Lost Calories

No matter what type of exercise you’re participating in, you’re burning a set number of calories based on how long and how intensely you perform the exercise.

When you burn more calories than you’re consuming throughout the average day, you’ll experience weight loss. That’s great if you’re looking to lose weight, but it’s not so great if you’re trying to build muscle and strength.

To maintain your weight on days that you exercise, you’ll need to be taking in as many calories as you’re burning through exercise.

That means eating a greater number of calories during the day!

You should try to limit the extra calories to about how many calories you burned during your workout in order to maintain your current weight. A few extra or a few less won’t make much of a difference but being a few hundred calories off can make you gain or lose weight!

Eating More Nutrients to Refuel

When you exercise, your body is using carbohydrates, fats, and proteins to provide you with the energy you need to complete your workout. Additionally, your body loses electrolytes like sodium and potassium when you exercise intensely.

After you’re done with your workout, it’s incredibly important that you replace the nutrients you lost during exercise and supply your body with the fuel it needs to continue on with your day.

Though that means eating more over the course of your day, it also means eating the right food. The “extra” food that you’re eating on days in which you work out should be nutrient-dense and help to return your body to its natural state.

The Limitations

You can eat more during the day if you’re burning calories and losing nutrients during exercise, but there are quite a few limitations.

Under no circumstances does working out enable you to consume unhealthy foods and not experience the negative health consequences associated with them. That means working out doesn’t make it okay to hit up a local fast food joint on your way home from the gym.

Coming home from the gym after a 30-minute run only to eat a cheeseburger and French fries with a large soda won’t only put you above your daily recommended calories, but it’ll also overload your body with unhealthy fats, sugars, and salt.

Rather than burning calories and improving your health, your body must now work to rid itself of the unhealthy level of these nutrients that you just consumed. It practically reverses the positive effects of your workout!

You should be replacing the number of calories that you lost and focus on replenishing the nutrients that your body craves post-workout.

Final Thoughts

In short, yes. If you’re looking to maintain your current weight, you’ll need to be consuming more calories and nutrients on the days that you’re exercising. But you need to make sure that the additional calories and nutrients you’re consuming after a workout are healthy and will support your health and fitness goals.

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Finding Optimism

Optimism…it’s a four syllable word that can be harder to find than diamonds in South Africa. But believe it or not, you too can tap into the earth of your surroundings and dig up a rich store of feel-good. Here are a few ways to do that.

#1: Find laughter. These days, it isn’t hard to find. With Youtube and social media, there is not shortage of memes, videos, vines, and more to get you crackalackin. You could also rent a funny movie, watch stand up comedy, or hangout with funny people. Laughter will lead you to smiling, and smiling will lead you to feeling good. Which brings us to our next point…

#2: Turn the frown upside down. It’s hard to believe that something as smiling can improve your mood, but studies have linked outward acts of happiness to an internal shift. Practice by looking in the mirror and smiling, even it if feels cheesy, stupid, and inauthentic. Hold your smile for a minute, two minutes, five minutes…see how long you can go. Start the day off with a smile, and make a conscious effort to smile more.

#3: Use positive words. Studies have shown and confirmed what spiritual traditions have long held regarding the power of the tongue: words can literally shape the reality around us. If you want to build a more positive vibe, try using more positive words. Eliminate negative talk about yourself, and others as well.

#4: Find positive people. The impact of those we hang out with is enormous. Avoid negative influences and people who bring your down with complaining and criticism. Misery loves company, the old adage goes, and these people will quickly bring you into a downward spiral. Find friends who are upbeat, positive, and happy, and their resilience and optimism will pass on to you.

#5: Stay healthy. If you’re feeling tired and sick, it’s easy to get irritable and negative. By contrast, try maintaining an active lifestyle of healthy choices that can maximize your energy levels and build you up. It’s easier to be upbeat and happy when you feel good inside and out.

#6: Get spiritual and/or actualized. Most spiritual traditions promote a positive outlook on life. If you’re not so into organized religion, find something that can provide a positive outlet for you, like exercise, music, art, or reading. Just like using positive words can turn our perspective around, filling our hearts and minds with good stuff will help optimism come easier.

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5 Ways to Stay Motivated in Business

If you own your own business or are an entrepreneur, you can often be faced with challenges that strike down your motivation to go on. But here are a few ways you can reign in the troops and find the gumption to keep going.

  1. Define your core values. Core values encapsulated in a mission statement will guide your company through times good and bad by helping you find direction and bringing you through turbulent times. “Making money” is not a goal that’s sure to keep you motivated when clients aren’t coming, but “delivering sustainable sources of energy” or something similarly specific will help you stay motivated towards a goal that forms the bigger picture.
  2. Take a look at the checkpoints. There may be a gap between your desired results and the actual results of what’s happened so far because your goal is monolithic and too far into the future. Take a look at smaller components to get a more accurate picture of how things are progressing, which will also bolster your motivation to continue carrying the torch.
  3. Surround yourself with friends. The people around you play a big role in your success. When it comes to running your own business, there are a lot of naysayers out there who will throw in their two cents, but take it all with a grain of salt. Instead, seek out like-minded visionaries and entrepreneurs, both at networking events and in casual contexts. Get inspiration and motivation from those in a similar station who also have an imaginative vision for the future.
  4. Remember that the grass isn’t always greener. If you’re one of those business owners who have previous experience in the nine-to-five economy, remember what it was like to sign away your schedule and practically your soul to a corporate overlord. While running your business is tough, it sure beats being underpaid, underappreciated, and overworked by someone who can just flick you away at the drop of the hat. Do you really want to return to that kind of environment?
  5. Figure out what you want. Desire is the motivating force behind almost anything, and business is no different. If you’ve pegged your desires as shallow goals like making more cash, it can be easy to get discouraged. But if you dig a little deeper and get to some core reasons for being inspired, it’s easier to stay the course—for example, a better home, providing for your family, or enjoying life to the fullest.
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Wifi Radiation Ages You FASTER? (new research)…

Even a “healthy skeptic” like me thought this sounded completely NUTS at first.

Can a tiny household electronic device make every single cell in your body age FASTER?

“There’s NO way a simple wifi router — found in 71% of all US households (1) — can harm your health, impair your sleep, or age you prematurely”, or so I thought.

But as I started reading this brand new, doctor-acclaimed book exposing the pernicious ways electromagnetic radiation can disrupt human health, I realized the unfortunate truth…

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Wifi Routers Might Be Handy, But The Radiation They Emit Stresses Your Body On A Cellular Level…

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Wifi radiation — one of the many kinds of electromagnetic fields, or “EMFs” we’re exposed to these days — has now been confirmed to be a major stressor to the human body.

It’s not that surprising that EMF signals can disrupt your body’s ability to function normally.

After all…

– Your nervous system

– Your heart

– Cell-to-cell communication

– Your brain

– Your muscles

– Your retina

…they all run on ELECTRICITY!

If you ever fracture one of your bones, the only way they’ll ever be able to glue back together is by generating low-level electric shocks — which will trigger healing. (2)

The point is this: your body is a bio-electrical machine which can, and does get disrupted by foreign EMFs signals, like those coming off your wifi router.

Fortunately, there are easy solutions you can start applying today to protect yourself:

===> How To Clean Toxic EMFs Right Out Of Your Home

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But It Gets Worse. This Cellular Stress Induced By Wifi Radiation Can Even Break Your Very DNA.

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I’m NOT one for saying these things lightly, but…

…wifi radiation might just be aging you faster than DNA-breaking, cancer-causing X-RAYS.

In one German study, researchers looked at how much 24 hours of cell phone radiation damages human DNA when compared to x-rays. The results were horrifying… (3)

What you’re seeing above is a renowned scientific research technique called the “Comet Assay”, which is used to identify substances or signals that are harmful to the human body because they break your very DNA.

The more something breaks your DNA, the longer the “tail” of the little comets you see above will be.

The conclusion? Researchers have found that 24 hours of cell phone exposure can damage your DNA as much as 1,600 chest x-rays.

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Is This Nothing But A Crazy Scare Tactic?

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The French government doesn’t think so.

In 2015, they passed national laws to ban the use of wifi in nurseries — over the fear that this new kind of EMF pollution would impair children’s growth. (4)

The inconvenient truth is — EMF pollution might just have become the #1 toxin you have to worry about at home… way before glyphosate, the kind of paint you put on your walls, or any other environmental contaminant.

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The Good News (finally!): Cleaning EMFs Right Out of Your Home Can Be Cheap, And Dead Simple…

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My colleague and Investigative Health Journalist Nicolas Pineault recently released this revolutionary guide where you’ll find simple and dirt-cheap solutions you can use to clean the worst sources of radiation right out of your home environment.

Inside, you’ll learn…

– How to automatically turn off your wifi at night using a device that costs less than 9 bucks on Amazon

– How to talk on the phone without increasing your risk of brain cancer, disrupting your blood-brain barrier and suffering from headaches

– How to safely use your laptop without blasting your hormone-producing organs with disruptive radiation, causing leaky gut or putting you at risk for autoimmune diseases

– Exactly where you should put your wifi router to make sure it doesn’t destroy your entire family’s sleep quality

– What to do if your home is near a cellphone tower, high-voltage power lines, or has one of those EMF-emitting “smart” utility meters installed

I understand this does sound “doom and gloom”, but the best you can do before tech companies are finally FORCED to create brand new, safer wireless devices is to take action.

Learn how to protect yourself today.

You can get started in a matter of seconds.

But I NEED you to take the first step — and learn the truth. It might just save your life:

===> Reduce Your EMF Exposure By 95% — And Experience Slower Aging, Better Sleep, And Incredible Mental Clarity

Be great!

Suzzette Tamez-Cruz from Abundanceflow

 

Sources:

  1. http://www.parksassociates.com/blog/article/pr-01102017
  2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2762251/
  3. https://www.acma.gov.au/-/media/Technical-Regulation-Development/Issue-for-comment/IFC-11-2014/EME-Instruments–Submission-Electrosensitivity-Australia-Attachment-Dr-Isaac-Jamieson-pdf.pdf?la=en
  4. https://ehtrust.org/france-new-national-law-bans-wifi-nursery-school/

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Eight Awesome Psychology Tricks

  1. If you want your kids to eat broccoli, ask them if they want 2 broccoli stalks or 5, instead of just asking them if they want broccoli. This way you’ve already made the choice for them, but they’ll feel like they’re getting a great deal by choosing the amount of broccoli they want. You can expand this trick to other situations, too.
  2. To have a little fun with words, when having a conversation with someone, pick a word they say and then each time they say the word, or words close to it, smile, nod or give some type of positive affirmation, and watch them say the word all the time.
  3. Do you have a song stuck in your head that you’d like to forget? Think of the end of the song. According to the Zeignark effect, your mind tends to think of things left unfinished, so thinking of the end of the song will close the loop and allow you to get the song out of your head.
  4. To know if someone is interested in a conversation look at their feet, if they are pointing towards you, they are. If they are pointing sideways or any other direction, they aren’t.
  5. Ever get the feeling that someone is watching you, but you’re not sure? Try yawning and then glancing at your suspected stalker. If they yawn, then you know they’ve been watching you, since yawning is contagious.
  6. If you want people to take you seriously, tell them what you say is what your father taught you. People tend to believe fatherly advice inherently.
  7. Crack a joke and observe the people who are laughing around you. People who feel close to each other will be looking at each other. This is useful for discerning out friendships and other relationships.
  8. In crowded areas, look in the direction in which you intend to go and watch the walkway just open up. In busy areas and crowded streets, people tend to watch other people’s eyes to see which direction they will go so they can go the opposite way.
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RISK, ADRENALINE AND HAPPINESS, IS THERE A RELATIONSHIP?

Researchers at the Institute for Centrifugal Research had a question in mind. What if the same thing that made you crazy also made you happy and smart. Scientists believe that spinning people around at a sufficiently high G-force will solve “even the trickiest challenges confronting mankind.”risk-taker

Crazy Video About Centrifuge and the Brain

There are some people out there that just have the taste for adrenaline:

Watch this video below about these guys who jump from cliffs like the Grand Canyon: Insane Video: Canyon Cliff Jump

Or

What about a surfing vacation… in Iceland?!

Video: Surfing in Iceland

… What all these suppose to mean?!

I think that it is pretty sad that our society has become so strict and rigid. That the political correct way of doing something is what is permeating our decisions and blinding our judgement. And that we should take risks from time to time.

“It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.”

James Williams, Philosopher.

Sources:

Youtube.

Openculture.com