It is impossible to keep our bodies from growing older and breaking down. Nevertheless, we do not have to give in to aging, looking older and older before we feel so. Quite the opposite, for if a person follows several basic, healthy daily routines while using a natural anti-aging cream, he or she will not only look great, but also feel great as the decades pass.
If a persons skin does not have enough collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid, it will age prematurely. Sunlight, with its ultraviolet waves, is but one of many free radicals that increase this damage every single day. Therefore, to at once aid your skin in the fight against skin aging and assist in its restoration and preservation, you must seek out an anti-aging cream that contains the correct quantities of collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid. Furthermore, while using the best quality anti-aging cream available, you should adhere to the following routines to protect your skin and your immune system from the ravages of free radicals and the aging process.
Stay out of the sun! We like to think that tans are a sign of youth, vitality, and attractiveness. The opposite, however, is true: that tan is your skin trying to recover from the damage that the suns rays have done to it. In other words, you are aging your own skin! Moreover, in addition to damaging your skin, you are putting yourself at risk for skin cancer. It is, of course, impossible to avoid sunlight completely, but at the very least you should apply a sunblock that is SPF 15 on any areas that will be exposed to the sun for a prolonged period of time. Your skin will thank you.
Believe it or not, the skin that covers your body is a living organ. Healthy routines that protect your internal immune system will therefore aid to better the look of your skin. Keep it appearing healthy and young by consuming at least eight, eight-ounce glasses of water per day. Eat healthful foods that contain large amounts of antioxidants and vitamins. Be sure to add a daily multivitamin to your diet. Engage in an aerobic activity on a regimented basis. Your heart loves aerobic activity, and so does your immune system and your skin!
Do not smoke! Cigarettes and/or cigars () are filled with carcinogens-toxins that exacerbate the aging process and wreak havoc on your heart, your immune system, and your skin. Some forms of alcohol are, however, actually good for you. Drink a glass of red wine and, as scientific examinations have demonstrated, you will imbibe a large amount of healthy antioxidants. Even so, avoid abusing alcohol.
Finally, think about having your face massaged regularly. The first thing other people notice about you is your face, and it is there that wrinkles and age-lines become the most obvious. There are hundreds of muscles on your face, and they enjoy being massaged just as much as your shoulders. When a muscle is massaged is relaxed and strengthened. Massages will thus aid in keeping your face from prematurely sagging and becoming wrinkled before its time.
In addition to these preventative measures, it is imperative that you find the best anti-aging cream available. For the best possible results, this cream should contain and increase your own bodys collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid. In addition, the anti-aging cream should have a large number of toxin destroying and immune-system boosting antioxidants.
Avoid chemical-rich anti-aging creams and look for natural, organic ones. The former are not only usually ineffective, but they are known to produce dry-skin, redness, and even inflammation of the skin. Lavish your skin to fight the aging process by applying an anti-aging cream composed of natural ingredients which diffuse throughout all seven layers of your skin. Youll find that your skin is restored, down to the cellular level, and youll look and feel younger.

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How many times have you been depressed? Would you even be able to answer that question? The fact is everyone gets depressed. Sometimes things happen in our lives that seem too much to handle. They make us feel down. They make us question ourselves and our place in society. Sometimes we feel like running away or maybe we even want to quit our job. Whatever it is that makes us feel this way, these feelings pass. They may hit us for a day or even three days. But by the end of the week, we’re usually able to bounce back so that we can look back at that occurrence and say it wasn’t that bad at all. We blew it up to proportions undeserving of the way it made us feel. And we’re back to normal. However, some people aren’t able to bounce back. They only end up feeling worse and this feeling doesn’t stop in a day or even three days. For some, these feelings end up lasting months or even years. This is called chronic clinical depression and it affects a great number of people in Canada. read more..

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Gomukha Asana (cow face posture)
Benefits
Gomukha Asana has a corrective effect upon all the major and minor joints of the body. It exercises the finger joints, the elbows, the shoulder joints, the toes, the ankles, the knees and the hip joints very effectively. It brings flexibility in the joints, strengthens the bones, increases the measurement of the chest and enhances the strength of the lungs and heart. All the muscles and nerves of various joints are toned up, activated and normalized.
Because of activation of the muscles, blood circulation is improved, leading to removal of the waste products. It restores the joint fluid and thereby removes spasticity and pain.
Note
The position of readiness for this asana might be very difficult to make for those arthritics whose knees, ankles and toes are severely affected. Such patients are advised to sit on the floor by simply folding the legs at the knees and keeping the spine straight.
Position of Readiness
Sit on the carpeted floor in a kneeling position. Keep the knees separated from one another by about four inches. Let the ankles and toes of both the legs fall on the floor in such a way that the toes are brought close to one another but the heels are upwards, spread out.
This will make an arch-like curve with the toes, soles and the heels. Then gradually put the whole weight of the body on the curve of the soles. Put the palms on the thighs.
Keep the spine and body straight, look in front at the level of your eyes and breathe normally. Slowly bring the right hand to the back. Bend it at the right elbow and then raise the back of the palm up towards the neck. In this process the back of the palm is pressed against the spine. The fingers of the right hand face upwards. Now fold the left hand at the elbow and raise it upwards by putting the left palm on the left shoulder. Then, first try to touch the fingers of the left hand with the right hand. If there is any difficulty in touching the fingers to some individuals, they should try as much as possible and then stay there. Now make a lock by folding the fingers of both the hands. Try to raise the elbow of the left hand straight upwards (with the lock). Breathe normally. This is a Gomukha Asana. Retain this locked position for about 30 sec. You can either hold the posture while the breath is held or you can try holding the posture while breathing gently through the nostrils. If you choose to breath, then hold the posture for thirty seconds to a minute.
While releasing the posture, loosen the grip on the fingers and then unlock the fingers gradually. Then slowly bring both the hands on the thighs and rest. Now repeat the same process by using left hand first.
Daily Practice
Repeat the Gomukha asana two to three times on each side.
Vriksha Asana (The Tree Posture)
Benefits
It tones up all the muscle of the ankles, toes, knees, hip joints, shoulder joints, elbows, hands and fingers. It brings flexibility to the hands and legs and enhances the measurement of the chest. It removes all the strains activating all the joints of the body.
Note
You have to stand up on one leg for practicing this asana. In case any difficulty; take the support of a wall or a pillow.
Position of Readiness
Stand up on a carpeted floor, look straight keeping the hands hanging loose on the sides. Breathe normally.
Steps
Stand up on the left leg and fold back the right leg at the knee. Bring the right foot on the left thigh so that the outer part of the heel and sole rest on the left thigh. This will twist the right foot a little and pres its side against the left thigh. Do not press the thigh with the heel but with its sides. Balancing on the left foot, raise both hands over the head and join the palms and fingers together. Then bring the palms on the head so that the wrists rest on the head.
Now try to give a backward pull on the folded elbows in order to bring them in one line. Look straight and tighten the leg you are standing on. Breathe normally. Stay in that position for 6 to 8 seconds.
Release the pose; bring the arms and right leg back tightly to their respective sides. Now grab the toes of the folded leg, lift it slightly upwards and then keep it on the floor. Rest for a few seconds and repeat on the opposite leg.
Daily Practice
Do it three times during the first week. Slowly increase up to six times a day.
Setubandha Asana (Bridge Pose)
Benefits
The main impact of this asana is on the spine and the hip joints. It also relieves pain and corrects disorders of the shoulder joints, neck, arms and the palms. It creates flexibility in the spine, for removing gastric troubles and for correcting respiratory disorders. It mainly strengthens the lower back and abdominal muscles and opens the chest.
It reduces anxiety, fatigue, backache, headache, and insomnia. Calms the brain and helps alleviate stress and mild depression. Also, stimulates abdominal organs, lungs, and thyroid. Helps relieve the symptoms of menopause relieves menstrual discomfort.
Note
Persons suffering from Neck injury, lumbar spondylitis, spinal and hip joint pain should consult yoga expert. Otherwise, arthritics in any condition and of any age can practice it.
Position of Readiness
Lie on your back on the carpeted floor with your arms at your sides, palms facing downward. Bend your knees, bringing the soles of your feet close to your buttocks. Look straight up. Breathe normally. Lift the hip and the waist upwards while keeping the shoulders and the feet on the floor. Take the support of the palms on both sides while doing this. Let the hands help in raising the waist upwards as high as it can be raised without strain. Support the body weight on the thumbs and the index fingers and the palms on the sides. Let the shoulders, neck and the head be firmly on the floor. Breathe normally. Stay in this position for 6 to 8 seconds.
Now start lowering the hip towards the floor while still supporting the body weight on the palms, but do not let the body drop on the floor. Bring it down slowly. When the hip, the waist and the back are on the floor put your palms on the floor on both sides of the body. Stretch out the legs on the floor and rest for two to three normal breaths.
After resting for a few seconds repeat the same process as you did during the first round.
Daily Practice
Do it four times daily during the first week. Gradually increase to maximum 6 rounds.

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Well, I went back to work yesterday with some trepidation but except for the usual irritations it was ok. I say that a lot "ok"....asi asi, comme ci comme ça. Yup....I can't say "I'M GREAT"!! but I also can't say "I'M HAVING A REALLY BAD DAY" so the alternative is somewhere in the middle. There is always something going on in my life - usually financially related that is pulling me down, but I do offset that with the beauty of the moment. That cannot be taken away from me.

Fortunately or unfortunately I have NEVER been the happiest person on the planet. I've had patches of time when I felt great and things were going wonderful but they were followed by times of pain or frustration or worry. I spent years reading self help books trying to alter that. It worked for a time, but pretty much I ended up back in the middle. My spiritual journey has definitely helped. Perhaps when I was younger I didn't notice the flowers, the singing birds, the morning glories growing on the side of our building in a sea of concrete when we lived in NYC...but today I focus on these things....I focus on the things that matter despite the underlying other stuff going on.

OK, that was not my plan to go there. I feel like crying this morning and I do not know why. This happens sometimes...oh what is the date?? Tomorrow is July 1st. That explains it! I'm almost due for my monthly period. That always happens near the beginning of the month and I, like so many other women, get melancholy. Phew now I can move on.

Last night the baby question came up. Madeleine asked me how a baby comes to be in a Mom's tummy. The daughter of the woman that watches Madeleine is pregnant and she is quite young and not married. I think this is where the curiosity comes from. Fortunately, we have new baby lab pups on the property and she has already learned which is a boy and which is a girl. She knows that boys have penises and girls have vaginas. So I explained the whole thing very matter of factly. Penis, vagina, sperm, egg, etc. I asked her if she understood. She shook her head no and got very quiet and laid down. 5 minutes later she jumps up and says "oh I get it - the boy puts his penis in the girls vagina, squirts something in there and the girl gets a baby from it" And voila! We finished our conversation about the birds and the bees!! She did me afterward if Claudio (she refers to her father by his name) put his penis in my vagina and I just said yes. She giggled and said oh and that was the end of it.

You see, when I was a child no one explained ANYTHING to me. The one and only conversation I had with my parents about babies or sex was when I was in 5th grade and going to one of those movies about having your period and my mother explaining what will happen when I have my period...basically reiterating what the movie already told me. I found out everything I knew from my friends, actions, or experience. My point being I'm not going to mince words with my daughter...I'm going to tell her everything like it is. I'll wait for her to ask the questions, but I'm going to tell her the truth because I believe that children can understand more than we think they can understand.

Hold on Madeleine wants to brush my hair and I certainly cannot forego that ..cause if I had my druthers I'd have someone brush my hair and touch my head for the majority of every day. She wants to play beauty parlor. :0) Am I lucky or what?

We're done and now, well it's time to get ready for our day....again.

How are you (or might you if you had children) dealing with the Birds and the Bees.

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Robert: living through kidney cancer
I live in Yuba City, California, which is a small town about an hour north of Sacramento in the north part of the state, which I refer to as Gods country. I am now 53 years old, I have been married for almost 30 years, and I have two beautiful daughters, both of whom are in college in the east. So I am very poor, paying college tuition. My story begins, I think this is my third year in November. I had two previous instances in which cancer I thought affected me, but in the end didnt. About ten years ago I was told I had tumor on my neck and when I had an operation, they discovered it wasnt a malignancy but something else. Then about five years ago as a result of my routine physical examination, my doctor called me up and said I think you have lymphoma. And after spending two or three days before a biopsy and being told it wasnt lymphoma but was another disease called sacroid I had two instances in which I had been told that I had cancer, and didnt.
The symptoms
So three years ago when I went in for my routine physical examination, I had been very tired. Im an avid golfer and I play a lot of golf, and I do exercise, and I had been noticeably a little more fatigued, and also, my back had been bothering me. And those of us who have back pain know that sometimes you have pain down your leg, and I had pains down my leg but in addition Id had some numbness in my toe. And I just assumed that it was part of my back problem. So really its a result of numbness in my toe, I decided it was time to see my physician for another routine physical examination. I had missed the previous year, but I went and visited him. I have a great doctor that I know personally, so I went through my whole battery of different kinds of things, and everything appeared to be normal. I told him about my tiredness and about my toe and we laughed because he assumed also that it was my back that was perhaps giving me problems with the tow. Anyway, you know I spent my day at routine physical examinations and went home. And the very next day, in the afternoon, at five oclock, which I knew when he called was obviously some problem. My physician called and said, Robert, I think you should come back in, we need to do some more blood work. And I said, s the matter? And he said, Why dont you come over right now?
Well, when your physician tells you to come over at 5:15 on a Friday afternoon, you obviously think, you know, whats wrong. So I go back and the first thing he does is sit me down and they take so many vials of blood out of my arm that I was beginning to wonder, and basically he said to me, he said, Robert, your hormonal levels are a little bit off. He said you had absolutely no testostricin and he says, Is everything okay at home? And I said, Well, yes, everything is okay as far as I understand it. But he said, you had absolutely none.

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“It’s important for cancer survivors to get strong,” says Starr Cleary, cancer exercise specialist, Pilates instructor, and Cinco Vidas expert, “but strong progressively. We don’t want to see them regress or have setbacks.”
Starr has been teaching her own special form of Pilates to cancer survivors for the last ten years. Called the “Starr Power Pilates Program,” it helps survivors regain strength and mobility in a progressive, gentle way.
“Most people have a tendency to move very quickly when they’re exercising. Pilates is about moving slowly, with control and precision. It places more emphasis on quality movements rather than quantity. If you perform three controlled arm/leg lifts beautifully, that’s going to get you stronger than moving the arm up and down really fast.

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