Rediscovering the Benefits of Meditation

People are now going back to ancient practices because they know that the modern times have been causing them too much stress. Of all the means of relaxation out there, more and more people are looking forward to experience the benefits of meditation.

Because of its effectivity in terms of calming the mind and developing a person's level of intuition, meditation has now being performed not just a means of clearing the mind and inner reflection but also to heal various illnesses in the mind, emotions, and physical aspects.

Meditation and its benefits

One of the most celebrated benefits of meditation is that it greatly helps the person's physical state. Among the physical benefits of meditation involve the heart through a deep rest because it decreases the person's metabolic rate as well as the heart rate, which leads to the reduction of workload for the heart. Aside from that, it is also known to lower the levels of a person's cortisol as well as dissolving the chemicals that are closely associated with everyday stress.
Other physical benefits of meditation also include reduced free radicals in the body by eliminating oxygen molecules that are unstable, decreases a person's high blood pressure, develops the ability to have more resistant skin, lowering or totally dropping the person's level of cholesterol, improve air flow to the lungs to aid easy breathing, delays biological aging and increases the levels of DHEAS in older people.

When it comes to psychological factor, meditation aids in increasing the person's brain wave coherence, decreasing anxiety levels, often irritability, deep-set depression, and swing of moods, improves the person's memory as well as his or her learning ability, increases the person's ability for self-actualization, increases the person's feeling of youthfulness and rejuvenation as well as vitality, leads to positive outlook in life and joyfulness, and increases a person's emotional status and stability.

Other noted benefits of meditation for an individual and his or her community include:

- Relaxation to the person's the body, mind, and soul.

- Rejuvenation of energy to face the heavy challenges and stress ahead.

- Healing of various illnesses that are closely-associated with the mind and the body.

- Making a more stable person in terms of emotions.

- Developments of relaxed family life and instilling positive outlooks in life to younger people.

- Enhances the person's ability to make his or her mind function properly.

- Letting a person discover his or her inner self, this in turn releases the creativity in them.

- It helps people to free themselves from various vices and addictions such as alcohol and cigarettes as well as in various medications such as tranquilizers and narcotics.

- It also helps a person to gain higher self-confidence, thus, resulting to stronger power of the will.

- It can be an effective and safe way of discovering one's self instead of focusing the attention to other unhealthy practices.

- It aids in the development of the power of the mind.

The list goes on about the benefits of mediation in an individual and to his or her community. In so many cases, these are positive benefits but once mediation has not been used properly, people should be aware of the side effects. To avoid this from happening, people who are planning to get serious in meditation should always consult a professional before performing any meditation techniques.

Lip Care

Differs from part of other skin, lip doesn't contain fat gland, but lip contained melamine or pigment matter causing tends to quickly dry if it is hit direct sunshine or in cold weather. Besides weather factor, lip surface is also bases on balance of hormone estrogen. If enough estrogen hormone, hence lip becomes healthy and smooth.

But it isn't necessarily to be worry, when we still teenager and regeneration still taking place, we can maintain lip dampness by taking care of lip health.

1. Always rubbing lip balm to protect lip.
2. Does light massage at lip with lip special cream and rubs a few at lips at the night for natural protection.
3. Soaked black teabag at warm water then depress at lip during three minutes. This will increase dampness of lip skin.
4. To make lip relax, natural masker create with viscid papaya juice. Puts down in towel and rubs it slowly around lip. Lets during 10-15 minutes, washes and dabs lip balm. Papaya containing enzyme that can sloughs and can assist sloughs dead skin in lip.
5. Don't licking lip repeatedly. Saliva containing certain enzyme irritation of skin can out most of thin lip. As a result, lip exactly will drier.
6. Cleans lipstick before sleep with lip special cleaner or with baby oil and rubs lip moisturizer to sterilize lip from remaining lipstick chemistry material. This way more effectively is compared to does it is day time. Because when sleep, lip is not make any move so that moisturizer can diffuse optimal. For sensitive lip, selects moisturizer without perfume.
7. Avoids consumption snack like briny flaky. Because can cause wrinkle lip or irritation for a while. Neutralizes lip by cleaning lip, then rubbed vitamin equipped with by lip moisturizer.
8. For treatment, applies lip cosmetic containing vitellarium and C ( as antioxidant). While for a real dry lip selected product containing vitamin E.
9. When used of masker or product peeling, better don't be hit lip. The products can make lip dry or irritation. But if massaging face with message oil it is better lets this oil hit lip and dabs a few so that lip become smoother.
10. Keep tooth and mouth cleans. Because bacterium that patching at tooth can be move might possibly at lip through saliva. If there are little injury at lips, this bacterium potency generates light infection.

Wash Your Hands

Although seen simple, cleans hand can obviate us from various disease.

The importance of cleaning hand

Though have been many evidences showing usefulness to clean hand, still many people isn't do it, while it's very dangerous if we didn't clean hand. Everyday you are interaction with people, contaminated surface, food, until looking after pet. If you didn't clean hand regularly, you are infection yourself with germ to your eyes, nose, mouth and other part of your body. More than anything else you can contaminate people around you only by holding door's handle that is also is held by others.

Disease which can disseminate from habit doesn't wash hand for example cold, flu, until diarrhea. Bacteria that can contaminate for example Salmonela and E. coli which can cause indigestion. Just for info, around 76 million American are suffers from it and 5000 between it were died.

How to wash your hands properly

Wash your hands properly is with water and soap. Though there are many antibacterial soaps , ordinary soap also have been enough. Too much using antibacterial soap can make impenetrable germ and make more difficult to kill it. So, simple combination between washing hands by using soap and cleans it with water has can kill the bacterium on-hand.

Step by step washing your hands:

• Wets your hands with warm water and continued by using liquid soap or solid until it foamy.
• Rubs hands around 15 to 20 seconds.
• Range all part of hands starts from palm, back of hand, wrist , space between finger and in nail then rinses until it cleans.
• Dries hands with towel.

Now, there are more practical, that is with hand-sanitizer that sold in market. Even by using hand-sanitizer quicker kills bacterium and viral at the same time obviates hand from dryness. Better apply hand-sanitizer is containing at least 60% so that more maximum.

When should you wash your hands?

Though our hands are impossible100% free of bacterium, there is when where you really must wash you hand.

Always wash your hands:

• After using toilet
• after touching and cares animal
• after eating
• before touching face
• after closing over sneeze by hand
• after cleaning hurt or touches man who is ill or injures
• after throwing away garbage
• before using and discharges contact lens
• when using public toilet

Meditation and Brain Wave States

By: Conrad Raw
Most people know that there are different brain wave states that the brain can be in at different times. The beta state is what we are normally in when we are completely awake and focused, while the alpha state is reached through daydreaming and meditation, theta is the dream state and delta is reached in very deep sleep.

It is possible to alter your brain waves and enter the alpha state whenever you want, which is what people do when they meditate. Consciously synchronizing the brain wave patterns of both hemispheres of the brain can provide you with all sorts of benefits, such as:

*A feeling of relaxation *Diminished stress *Increased feeling of well-being *Increased confidence *Feeling better about yourself *Diminished headaches and migraines *Heightened immune system *Lower blood pressure *Less insomnia and better sleeping patterns *Improved intuition and creative visualization skills

Of course you will not see all these benefits after the first time you try meditation, but sticking with a routine of regular meditation (or consciously getting your body into the alpha brain wave state) will bring about these changes for you.

The trouble with the way most people are taught to meditate is that it is just too hard for most of us to "think of nothing." Our minds wander quickly and it is difficult to bring ourselves back to the calm place of peace and quiet we are told we're supposed to be in to meditate.

Then we feel like we're wasting our time because we're not accomplishing anything, which keeps us even farther away from that quiet place we were hoping for!

Instead of trying to clear your mind, it can help to focus on an object or the wall and slowly count backward from 100. Over time you can count back from 50, then 10, then five, and by the time you have counted you will find yourself shifting into alpha brain state, at which point you will feel your body relax, at least in the beginning.

If you have time, try to get in this state two or three times a day. This dynamic meditation is also very energizing and controllable than the kind of passive meditation we are used to hearing about, in which you can't really control the experience or know what the benefits are going to.

Just as with passive meditation, however, learning to meditate in a way that alters your brain waves can take some practice. Be gentle with yourself as you work with this technique, and soon you will see the benefits of meditation coming to fruition in your life.