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Breathe
Deeply Daily: by Tracey Stranger!
Mindfulness
is the Key. We normally don't stop to think to breathe.
However, to be mindful of breathing deeply, fully filling
our lungs, truly oxygenating every cell in our body,
what an amazing difference we can make to our day, every
day. It's often the simple things that make a huge difference.
Oxygen also helps alkalize and detox the body.
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To prepare yourself for a Healthy New Year here are
9 Simple Steps:
1. Accept yourself as you are - no judgment, no criticism,
love yourself
2. Breathe Deeply often - as often as you can be Mindful
to breathe deeply
3. Change your Perception - and be grateful for everything
in your life
4. Smile Genuinely - to a stranger or a friend, brighten
up your day and theirs
5. Go for a Walk or a Workout at the gym - move some
energy
6. Keep focused on one task at a time - prioritise and
plan
7. Take Time out to have a healthy meal - breakfast,
lunch and dinner
8. Plan a healthy 8 hour deep sleep to rest and replenish
- even when it's party time
9. When you go to bed at night take 3 deep breaths and
be grateful for what you have achieved today and be
grateful for the good in your life. Love yourself. Love
life.
Start creating a new and richer life for yourself; begin
step by step; one day at a time. Choose to live from
Love and Abundance rather than scarcity and fear. Most
of all enjoy the choices you make. Remember you can
change your world. I know you can. Do you?
Tracey Stranger. Author, Inspirational Speaker, Workshops.
www.traceystranger.com
High
Heels - Damaging Your Feet and Back: by Dr Lisa Brennan!
With
the festive season upon us, it is time to consider not
only how our poor waist lines and livers are holding
up, but also our lower backs and feet. The latter two
seem to be the forgotten heroes of the season, putting
up with the many hours of high heel wearing that one
has to partake in to get through this time of year.
High heels may look glamorous however your improved
image may come at a cost.
As you are standing contemplating the canapés, there
is a chance that your calves are shortening, the arches
in your feet are flattening and you are placing pressure
on areas of your feet that are not designed to take
such weight. This pain is a sign that your feet are
not happy jammed into your beautiful yet impractical
shoes.
That twinge you feel in your lower back as you reach
over the bar to get another glass of Sav Blanc is your
body's way of rejecting your lovely heels too. They
place your low back into an extended position, making
it vulnerable to injury and locking up.
These postural changes may be fine for those that have
perfect body mechanics however, for most of us, we have
areas of weakness. The introduction of 2 inch heels
may just push us over the edge. I am not saying that
you should stop wearing heels, but take precautions.
Wear lower heels if you are not used to wearing them,
walk tall and be posture conscious, take some time out
and sit whilst wearing them and most importantly, manage
your known troublesome areas correctly.
Osteopathic treatment aims to restore function within
the body and can benefit all of us who have poor body
mechanics. Often your troublesome areas are the first
to fail with the introduction of imbalances, like your
high heels. Disaster can be avoided by correctly managing
your year long niggles, and all that may be required
is the occasional osteopathic maintenance treatment.
If you would like to make an appointment with Dr Lisa
Brennan to help you manage your Christmas (and year-long)
back pains, call her now on 3846 3037.
12
Norfolk Rd West End
http://www.westendosteopathy.com.au
IPL Can Burn Skin: by The Medical Spa!
If
you've ever considered getting 'laser hair removal'
you could be forgiven for getting confused about the
equipment that is used for this process. Most beauty
salons, and many cosmetic medicine practices, offer
'laser hair removal' but are in fact using IPL (Intense
Pulsed Light) machines, which are not laser machines.
Some variants of IPL technology, such as SPL (Square
Pulsed Intense Pulsed Light) are also not laser machines
either.
So what's the difference? Without getting into too much
technical details, a laser beam is a narrow ray of light
at a specific wave length, whereas a IPL or SPL is a
very bright flash of light across a broader spectrum
of wavelengths. For most people with lighter coloured
skin and dark hair, IPL can be an effective machine
for hair removal and for skin rejuvenation. But for
people with darker coloured skin IPL (and SPL) can result
in burns. .
Why does IPL, or SPL, burn dark skin? The burning happens
because IPL works by targeting the Melanin from the
epidermis down through the skin layer to the melanin
in the hair follicle. If there is too much melanin on
the outer layer of the skin, IPL will target this first
before penetrating to select the melanin in the hair
follicle. Because dark skin contains so much more melanin
there is a high risk that the IPL "flash" can burn the
outer layer of dark skin before it reaches the melanin
in the hair follicle; So the IPL (or SPL) device needs
to be turned down to reduce the risk of burning the
skin, thereby decreasing its effectiveness for a long
term result with hair removal. Equally as important
is the fact that there is no government requirement
for operators of IPL or SPL devices to be licensed by
Queensland Health, so you should also ask serious questions
about the operator's training and experience. .
However, the Yag laser's 1064Nm wavelength (which is
the measurement of depth penetration) is safe to use
on ALL skin types, including dark and black skin. This
is a true laser device that also targets melanin but
in doing so the hair bulb is reached and the wavelength
bypasses the top skin layer (epidermis) thereby offering
protection to the outer skin making it safe to use on
the darker skin type. In Queensland it is a requirement
that all owners and operators of a Class IV laser device
(such as the Cutera 1064Mn laser) are fully licensed
by Queensland Health. .
Always be wary of Blogs and research that you may read
that do provide independent or medical advice, particularly
if it is only someone's opinion - that someone could
really be a sales rep for a particular brand of IPL,
SPL or laser device. .
Medical Spa is Cutera's leading specialist laser clinic
in Brisbane and fully licensed by Queensland Health.
Located in Albert Street, City their 1064Nm laser has
been cleared by governing bodies to permanently reduce
hair in patients of all skin types, tanned patients,
and patients who suffer from Folliculitis. This machine
is also effective for treating Polycystic hair. For
more information visit www.medicalspa.com.au
or call 3211 8100.
Suite
10, First Floor 245 Albert Street (Cnr Adelaide St)
Mismatched
Libidos : by Clayfield Counselling!
In a perfect world, couples would have perfectly matched
libidos, but as we all know, sometimes, that it simply
not possible. You meet someone and during the initial
stage, the sex is great, then a few years later you
are still having sex, but less often, then one day you
stop and think to yourself "When was the last time I
had sex".
Since everyone one is different, this means that we
each have differing wants and needs within our sexual
relationships. Whether it is too much, not enough or
none at all: it is simply a case that some people who
meet and fall in love have mismatched libidos.
What really matters when it comes to dealing with the
sexual problems you and your partner are struggling
is to:
Identify what is happening now
Understand
the current issues
Explore
strategies that might help
Be
honest about what you are prepared to do to address
the distress you are feeling about your relationship.
One of the common complaints about differing libidos
is that often one person has a higher libido than the
other, some possible reasons can include:
Medications: many prescription and over the counter
drugs can most often affect a person libido, including
antidepressant, medication for hypertension, sedatives,
and even birth control pills.
Stress: When stressful events take over, they suck the
sexual energy right out of you.
Lifestyle changes can affect a person's sex drive, situations
that may affect your libido are; recently getting married,
changing jobs or moving. These all can affect your physical
and emotional wellbeing.
Increased stress from home and work commitments
Illness: when you have a cold, and your nose is running,
it is not unusual for all thoughts of sex to go out
the window, but sometimes serious illnesses can affect
your enjoyment of life; such as diabetes,
cancer heart and lung disorders.
Aging: hormonal imbalances in perimenopausal and menopausal
women can lead to a diminished sex drive.
Relationship blues: If there's tension or unhappiness
in your relationship, it will eventually show up in
your sex life
Body image ; If you feel uncomfortable with your physical
self, you may hide your body from your partner, which
can lead to a slowdown in sexual activity
Drugs and Alcohol can have an adverse reaction on your
libido in the long term.
07
3862 6622 699-713 Sandgate Rd http://www.clayfieldcounselling.com.au
Why Smokers Put off Quitting Until The New Year:
By Jonathan Wills!
As a smoker for 33 years, I must admit I never usually
thought about quitting before Christmas. Why? because
in the back of my mind, I knew I would have a miserable
Christmas if I tried. All that drinking, those parties,
the social outings, the stress of it all. How could
I get through that without my cigarettes? Of course
using willpower there was no way I could do it. And
here's a curious fact. The government, the pharmaceutical
companies, the media and most doctors believe you need
willpower to stop smoking. But using willpower is almost
impossible. Research shows that only 3% of smokers using
willpower manage to stayed stopped for 12 months. That's
a 97% failure rate. I'm not surprised, and here's the
reason why - using willpower creates internal conflict.
There are so many problems with the willpower approach
to quitting smoking, but the biggest is that it reinforces
the idea that you're giving something up. That you're
sacrificing something by stopping smoking. Let's pretend
I'm a smoker - let me illustrate, and this in my hand
is my final cigarette. I'm about to quit smoking using
will power OK? So I'm smoking away, smoking away, I
put it out, I am now a non-smoker using willpower OK?
The problem is that when I was a smoker, I felt that
the cigarette gave me something. Now I'm a non-smoker,
I still believe it gives me something. But now I'm depriving
myself of that something - and as long as I feel deprived,
I'm going to feel miserable and vulnerable. And the
first time I'm in a so called "trigger" situation, a
situation that I associate with smoking, I'm going to
have a desire to smoke and I'm going to have to use
willpower to overcome that desire. This creates conflict.
Part of you wants to smoke, but part of you wants to
quit. And it's this conflict that creates the symptoms
of fear, and panic and anxiety and irritability that
so many smokers associate with quitting. But it's not
physical withdrawal from nicotine that creates these
symptoms, it's the conflict that creates these symptoms.
Using Allen Carr's Easy Way the conflict is removed.
And when you remove the conflict, you also remove the
symptoms that are created by that conflict, and so quitting
becomes easy!
As a smoker before I discovered Allen Carr's Easy Way
I put off quitting time and time again. That's why I
smoked for so many years. Why did I put it off? Because
I thought I needed a bucket load of willpower and it
was going to be traumatic and the "hardest thing I'd
ever do". Does that ring a bell? That's the slogan for
the current government anti-smoking campaign. When I
finally quit using the Allen Carr method, after 33 years
as a smoker, it was the EASIEST thing I ever did!
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Short
and Sweet:Asian Inspired Chicken Salad!
Serves
4
4 cups water 1 brown onion, halved 2 single chicken
breast fillets, skinned & fat removed 1 carrot, peeled,
cut into strips 150g snow peas, trimmed, thinly sliced
1 red capsicum, deseeded, thinly sliced 1/2 Chinese
cabbage, hard core removed, finely shredded 1 cup of
bean sprouts (washed) 3 green shallots, thinly sliced
1/2 cup fresh coriander leaves 2 tbs fresh lime juice
1 tbs fish sauce 1 tsp brown sugar 1 fresh red chilli,
deseeded, chopped
Place
water, onion and chicken in a saucepan over medium heat.
Bring to the boil. Reduce heat to low and cook, covered,
for 10 minutes or until cooked. Drain chicken and discard
onion. Place carrot and snow peas in a bowl. Cover with
boiling water. Set aside for 1 minute or until bright
green and tender crisp. Refresh under cold running water.
Shred chicken. Place chicken, carrot, snow peas, bean
sprouts, capsicum, cabbage, shallot and coriander in
a bowl. Combine lime juice, fish sauce, sugar and chilli
in a jar. Pour over salad and combine.
Laughter
is the best medicine!
why
does the baked potato leave it's mobile phone on...
incase the onion rings
.Quote
of the week!
"If your actions create a legacy that
inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and
become more, then you are an excellent leader." --
Dolly Parton, Singer
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