Archive for May, 2010
Positive Thinking – Can it Improve Your Health?
It is now official: the staff at the Mayo clinic posted an article on its website extolling the benefits of positive thinking — so there must be some concrete scientific evidence to back this up!
“Success-perts” have been playing up this concept for many years now, encouraging us to think positive thoughts in order to pave the way toward happiness, abundance, prosperity, and improved well-being. However, the Mayo Clinic writing an article about this lends more scientific credence to the concept.
The basics of positive thinking as well as positive self-talk are important to consider. Self-talk is that stream of conversation that is ongoing in our own heads. When most of your self-talk is in a negative orientation, then you are most likely a pessimist and your views on life and the world may be quite dismal. If your thoughts are the opposite — upbeat, joyful and positive — then you are an optimist. The outlook of the optimist is much brighter and happier and carries the potential of some remarkable benefits.
These health benefits have been the subject of scientific studies and more research is ongoing. However, it is currently believed that one of the main advantages of positive thinking may be an increased life span — perhaps we can literally think ourselves into living to a ripe old age!
Other possible benefits may include: lower rates of depression, improved resistance to illness, increased overall physical well-being, and reduced risk of death from cardiovascular causes.
The essential first step is to identify your negative thinking streams and reduce and remove this kind of head-talk from your repertoire! Once you are more aware of your habits, you can then consciously work to put a positive spin on your way of thinking. Here are some suggestions:
Infuse your life with a sense of humor. Being able to laugh away the negativity is a great tactic. It is perfectly okay to laugh at yourself in a good-feeling way. Exercise regularly. Besides improving your physical and cardiac shape, this can bring up your endorphin levels to a better-feeling mood fairly instantaneously (I think it is nearly impossible to feel sad while trucking along on the treadmill!) Follow a Healthy Eating Lifestyle — Improve your diet! Learn techniques to minimize (or eliminate) stress in your every day life. Some suggestions are relaxation breathing and meditation. Spend quality time with close, understanding, upbeat friends. This will help boost your happiness level. Volunteer for a charitable organization, if you have the time and inclination. Helping others and doing a “good deed” almost always makes us feel better about ourselves. Overall, be kind to yourself and use positive affirmations to focus on the great things about YOU. Anything that makes you feel good about yourself generally helps you stay healthy. Combining these positive living techniques may help us maintain optimistic thoughts as our predominant flow of self-talk. This will certainly improve the quality of our lives now, and perhaps improve the length of our lives as well!
Here are three affirmations for health:
I focus my thoughts, emotions and actions toward the most healthy outcome.
My inner wisdom guides me in the direction of vibrantly healthy life choices.
Vital life energy flows through my body creating perfect health.
By: Sheryl Schlameuss Berger
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Bracing For Commonwealth Games 2010
The first Commonwealth Games were held in the year 1930 in Hamilton, Canada in which 400 athletes from 11 countries participated. The Commonwealth Games is a sports event, which takes place after every four years, and all the Commonwealth nations participate in the event. The Commonwealth Games 2010 which are going to be held in Delhi, India are likely to be just the right mix of sports and entertainment where all member nations driven by a common ideology would pursue their common objectives and interests.
As is expected, the government of Delhi is going all out to make sure that Delhi proves to be the perfect host in terms of infrastructure, sophistication and safety. This event is likely to provide the much-needed boost to the tourists on India tours both directly and indirectly. While the foreign exchange earnings of the country are likely to reach a new high, the influx of tourists on India tours is also expected to reach record levels. The government of Delhi is working expeditiously on all the infrastructure projects to improve entertainment, security, accommodation and transportation in the city so that India tour packages can be made more attractive in the global markets.
The tourism ministry has entered into a public partnership with various state governments, Archaeological Survey of India and nodal private companies to conduct program called “Explore India in CWG 2010″. To promote this program, the tourism ministry organized several road shows in countries like South Africa, Singapore, Australia, Canada and UK. Other advertising and marketing activities are also being organized so that different attractive tourist destinations of India can be projected at the world stage. Attempts are also being made to attract tourists to other northern states such as Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan.
The tour and travel operators of India are ready for this golden opportunity in everyway and have designed India tours packages based on International tourists requirements and demands. Most of these India Tour packages cover ayurvedic therapies, Yoga, sightseeing and accommodation. Those traveling on a budget on their India tour are also likely to find suitable India tour packages.
The Commonwealth Games 2010 has been declared as the biggest Indian multi sport event. While the event is being organized for the first time in India, it is only the second time that an Asian country has been given the honor to host the event. The total budget for Commonwealth Game 2010 is likely to exceed US $1.6 billion. One interesting aspect of organization of Commonwealth Game 2010 is the introduction of “Tourist Police”, which will be entrusted with the task of solely dealing with security issues of tourist, especially women.
India has been most popular country due to tourist place and also included Commonwealth Games 2010. India is cheaply, secure and non-violence country. You can go there from one place to another easily. Indian South area and North area wrapped natural beauty. Indian is a spiritual country also many rivers like Ganga, Gomti, Saryu, Yamuna etc. make a beauty country.
By: Jenny Franklin
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