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- Living Foods: The Next Evolutionary Step - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesThe power of live foods for healing is being more and more supported by traditional research. On the basis of recent journal articles, a calorie-restricted diet and upgraded gene expression (which come automatically with live foods) have become keys to understanding the clinical effectiveness of ...
Views: 896 - Looking Back into the Future! - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesImagine living in a future world where people are not taught how to breathe. What if, instead of teaching citizens about this vital subject, the government ignored the matter? What if there were no schools teaching breathing as part of their health instruction? What if there were no Say Yes to ...
Views: 1598 - Love Your Body, Forgive Your Self - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesThis may sound a bit odd coming from me, but I believe that regardless of what you eat, how many times each week you exercise, or what particular diet you decide to try, if you do not have your inner life in order, it will be difficult to be at peace with yourself and your body. In discussing ...
Views: 1042 - Mind Your Brain™: Three Revolutionary, Recent Brain Research Discoveries You Can Apply to Greatly Advance Your Achievements - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesRecently, an explosion of research explaining the intricate workings of the human brain has occurred. Neuroscientists are now able, using advanced equipment, to literally “see” how the brain responds to stimuli as they’re happening. This was never before possible and has provided astounding ...
Views: 1616 - Minerals: Our Connection to Mother Earth - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesOur bodies are literally made from earth. Have you ever really thought about that? Every speck that is currently your physical body was once either water from the earth or the very ground that we walk on. What’s more, the stuff that you are made of today will one day be part of the earth again. ...
Views: 2188 - My Experience with Mercury Toxicity - by Submitted on Mar 02, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesAfter dissolving into tears of frustration, pain, and perplexity, I went to a local emergency room (ER) in March 2002. Approximately six months prior to my ER visit, I had begun feeling slowly progressing lower leg pain and discomfort that grew to searing pain on standing still for more than a ...
Views: 903 - Myths and Misconceptions That Keep Us Chained - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesIn today’s world of self-help gurus, celebrity help shows, and spiritual masters, we are inundated with all kinds of advice and preaching about how we should be in this world. We should be fearless. We should be authentic. We should be ethical. We should never be angry. We should always be ...
Views: 941 - Narconon Trois-Riveres Pledges to Create a Drug Free Québec - by Submitted on May 03, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesAs of April 16, 2009, Narconon Trois-Rivières has made a pledge to create a drug free Québec. Our plan is to eradicate the drug problem affecting the great province of Québec, and to do this it will take dedicated team players. Narconon Trois-Rivières, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre ...
Views: 770 - Network Your Way to a Better Life - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesThe word “networking” elicits a picture in the minds of most people as a business event filled with stereotypical salespeople all “working the room”; fast-walkin’, slick-talkin’, aggressively sticking their business cards into the face of everyone they meet and saying clever things like, “Hey, ...
Views: 719 - Newly Discovered Nutrients Significantly Impact Overall Health of 98 Percent - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesToday, we are living in a society riddled with disease, illness, and disorders, and many of these are a result of a malfunctioning immune system. In fact, just about everybody seems to have a condition or disease that they are being treated for, even children. This was not the case just a decade ...
Views: 1480 - Newton, Einstein, and Antiaging - by Submitted on Mar 02, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesEveryone knows the story of the man who goes up in a spacecraft and comes back to earth years later. His wife, who was in her prime when he left, is now old and decrepit. The space traveler, however, has only aged a few years. So goes aging in space. As speed of travel increases to the speed of ...
Views: 4762 - Nutrition Strategies to Turbo-Charge Your Metabolism - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesThis article is not about a new miracle pill that melts the fat off your body. The best strategy of fat loss is to earn it. Forget about any shortcuts and quick fixes—they do more damage than good. The first step in earning a lean and tight body is to consume five to six small meals per day. ...
Views: 777 - Poison: How to Avoid Negative People and Get Positive Results - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesIf you don’t want fleas, don’t sleep with the dog! We’ve all been taught that if you want to reach your goals, you need to avoid negative people. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. There is poison everywhere, like a fog permeating our lives. We live in a world where everyone has an abundant ...
Views: 5050 - Positive Habits: the Key to Improving Your Life - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesDid you know that habits are incredibly powerful tools for Personal Development and success? Think about the habits you have now and how they affect virtually every aspect of your life. Your weight and health are determined by your eating habits. Your relationships with people are determined ...
Views: 1011 - Postpartum Emotional Health - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesThe period surrounding the birth of a child is a joy, but for many families, it can also be a time of concern. Changing roles and physical changes can leave both mothers and fathers feeling irritable, depressed, or unable to cope. Mood changes are the most common complications of pregnancy. ...
Views: 3345 - Posture and Pain: From the Feet Up - by Submitted on Mar 02, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesThe ideal body has a framework of curves and arches that, with the joints, support and balance the body’s weight. When spinal curves or foot arches flatten or are exaggerated, our center of gravity is shifted. The result? Pain! The more self-imposed problems often come from poor ergonomics ...
Views: 1217 - Power of Now - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesDo you ever catch yourself thinking about something that happened some time ago, or even something that may or may not happen in the future? Chances are that you’re like most people, and you regularly think about something from the past, or you’re focused on something that could happen in the ...
Views: 728 - Power of Thanks - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesGracias. Danke. Merci. Thanks. Simple words with the power to bind, to build, and to behold. If you’ve ever gotten thanked or given thanks, then you know its power. Just the fact that you say it can be enough to make a difference, just as not saying it can make a difference in a negative ...
Views: 823 - Probiotic Power - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesConsider yourself a human superorganism, for inside you lives an intimate, highly organized community of microbes. These intelligent beings, including bacteria, yeasts, fungi, and so on, inhabit our digestive, respiratory, and urinary tracts as well as the surface of our skin—in the trillions! ...
Views: 2665 - Protect Your Cells with Antioxidants - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesGood health starts at the cellular level. For the body to be healthy, cells must be healthy, and to be healthy, cells need nourishment and protection. Nourishment is provided by nutrients, and protection is dependent on a variety of factors such as your immune system, the nutrients that make up ...
Views: 794 - Qualifying Natural Health - by Submitted on Mar 02, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesWhen the topic of natural health is brought up in conversation, some individuals have preconceived notions and associate it with what they know about modern medicine. Thus they consider it to be the taking of a supplement instead of a drug. Others immediately think of vegetarianism with hippie ...
Views: 861 - Referred Pain and Trigger Point Therapy - by Submitted on Mar 02, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesHuman Physiology versus Modern Living Human bodies have not changed much in the past 10,000 years; however, during the last 150 years, we have greatly changed our lifestyles. Our bodies deal with new chemicals, sleep habits, physical tasks, indoor lighting, noise, and other unnatural ...
Views: 3099 - Refilling Your Energy Cup - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesA year before I got sick, I’d accumulated 37,888 frequent flier miles, made over 6,500 phone calls, booked $8,103,900 of new business for our company, and received an 18 percent raise. I’d skied 78 hours, hiked 41,420 vertical feet, swam 792 laps, spent 28 hours on the StairMaster®, biked 347 ...
Views: 1095 - Rise Early and Catch the Golden Worm - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesEarly morning hath gold in its mouth. –Benjamin Franklin Every successful businessman that I know (or about whom I have read) gets up and gets to work early. It’s such a universal trait of accomplished individuals that I’m tempted to say it is a secret for success. “Early to bed and early to ...
Views: 1250 - Saving Kids From Drugs - by Submitted on May 03, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesDrug prevention specialists are dedicated in getting the truth about drugs known to as many children as possible. It is their purpose to save as many youth as possible from ever getting involved with drugs and alcohol. Narconon Trois-Rivieres drug prevention specialist’s Isabelle Roy and Eliane ...
Views: 1002 - Seven Emotional Blocks to “Eating Right” - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesIf you’re like me, you’d sooner write a nutrition book than follow one! If you’ve read at least one nutrition or diet book in your lifetime (or perhaps dozens), then you know what to eat. You may even have it down to a science: a cup of this, four ounces of that, two tablespoons of this, and so ...
Views: 557 - Seven Simple Steps to Beat Your Depression and Take Back Control of Your Life - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesDepression affects many of us at various stages of our lives. If it hasn’t affected us personally, we know someone who has been affected by it. We can feel sad and depressed for a variety of reasons such as relationship difficulties or being rejected by a lover, losing a job, divorce, workplace ...
Views: 1485 - Seven Ways & Seven Days to Renew Your Life - by Submitted on May 01, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesTo renew and reinvent our lives, WE NEED A PLAN! Here it is: a seven-day process to work with over and over. This plan incorporates physical, mental and spiritual work. Use the whole seven-day process, or choose any one of the days to work with as you create the life you want. DAY 1: ...
Views: 1291 - Seven Ways I Fought My Daughter’s Arthritis and Won - by Submitted on Mar 02, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesAt the tender age of seven years old, my daughter Cassandra was given the devastating news that she was suffering from a severe case of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. I was shocked and unaware that arthritis afflicts 300,000 American children. Following more than a year of medical doctors, ...
Views: 1848 - Shopping for a Coach - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesImagine a best friend who wants nothing more than your complete success, who always listens with interest to what you have to say, and who gives you the feedback you need to make tough choices and changes. This is the essential job of a personal coach. Coaches believe that you already have the ...
Views: 754 - Simple Solutions for Recovering Your Health and Extending Your Life Span - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesFood is perhaps the most important cornerstone of health recovery and longevity, with an amazing power to nourish, protect, and heal your body. Improper nutrition, however, will promote the acceleration of disease and aging in many ways, including calcification, acidosis, oxidation, insulin ...
Views: 937 - Simple Solutions to Healthy Habits . . . for Life! - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesIt seems for so many of us that life gets reprioritized, and our health is rarely at the forefront of our to-do lists. By the time I meet with clients, they are usually at a point where they have tried four or five diets, hoping for a quick and motivating change. Unfortunately, they were looking ...
Views: 1124 - Simplify to Simplicity - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesIn a world where shoulds, coulds, and expectations have become the norm, life can become a complicated juggling game. “Simplify your life” is a catch phrase many coaches use with clients who are wound too tight—they have tremendous personal and professional responsibilities and stressors (some ...
Views: 548 - Six Characteristics for Achieving Peak Performance - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesWe hear a lot today about being your best, taking care of business, achieving success, and performing at your peak. What we don’t always hear is what it takes to sustain peak performance. Peak performance is a commitment to your physical, mental, and spiritual being and to your Personal ...
Views: 4371 - Sleep On It - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesOld enough to have my own problems, yet young enough to believe my father’s word without question, as a child, I spent countless evenings seeking his advice. At 6 p.m., I’d sit at the kitchen table, facing the back door. I wanted to be first to present my concerns to him. It was always a short ...
Views: 598 - Speleotherapy and Halotherapy for Healing Lungs and Skin - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesAs we are increasingly exposed to pollutants in the air that we breathe and the water that we bathe in, it makes sense that respiratory and skin problems are on the rise. These health issues take the form of asthma, seasonal allergies, breathing difficulties, skin rashes, and countless other ...
Views: 4272 - Stress...Big Deal! Ten Thoughts about Your Stress - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesStress is a normal reaction to life. In fact, we all need a certain amount of stress to be healthy. What is not healthy for us is the small day in, day out stresses that accumulate over time. These cause our body to deplete the stores of vital chemicals and energy necessary for health. Stress ...
Views: 1056 - Success through Volunteering - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesWhen we focus on improving our lives, our first thoughts tend to center around what we can do for ourselves. We create a vision, set goals, read books, and take classes. We take action by implementing what we have learned to fulfill our goals and make our vision a reality. These steps are ...
Views: 668 - Synergizing Your Hormones for Weight Loss - by Submitted on Mar 02, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesThe world of fitness and weight loss can be extremely confusing and frustrating. Who are you to believe? Low fat. Low carb. High protein. High fat. Zone, Atkins, South Beach. The list seems to go on and on. Then there are the workouts: Pilates, Curves, Cuts, cross-training, cardio, weight ...
Views: 971 - Take Advantage of the Internet - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesWe live in a glorious time. The world’s entire body of knowledge is easily accessible and readily available to anyone who cares. A mere 100 years ago, the information now available at your fingertips was reserved only for kings and scholars, for the rich and the titled. One generation ago, ...
Views: 564 - Take Charge of Your Life: Align with and Strengthen Your Internal Support System - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesUnderstanding self-direction and taking responsibility for your life is vital to your personal success. How you handle adversity, face challenges, and make everyday decisions will shape the course of your future. In the absence of self-direction you may one day discover that you are on a ...
Views: 3203 - The Alchemy of Commitment: How to Turn Lead into Gold - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesHave you ever had the experience of making promises to yourself that you just didn’t keep? Most folks have, and most of us recognize the heaviness, the leaden quality, of the things we say we will do but don’t. Some commitments feel like lead. Something in us simply doesn’t believe we can (or ...
Views: 1756 - The Anger Diet: How to Be Calm, Balanced, and Positive, No Matter What’s Going On - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesEveryone wants to be beautiful, young, healthy, and fit. Available diets and workouts have no end. Yet, the most important diet has been overlooked—this is a diet that releases stress, lets you sleep soundly at night, reduces cravings, makes you feel young, and brings wonderful possibilities ...
Views: 2353 - The Cause of Unhappiness - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesIs something disturbing, bothering, irritating, or annoying you? If so, what is troubling you? Is it a boss that is too demanding, a coworker that is too careless, or your children that are too noisy? Does the lack of civility, the increase in crime, or the apathy of young people upset you? ...
Views: 1031 - The Company We Keep - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesAt 8 a.m. the phone rings, right on schedule. The call is not an appointment I’ve made, but I’m expecting it all the same. Owing to being known as the Millionaire Mentor, I receive calls daily from people around the world, all with the same question: “What is the one thing I could do right ...
Views: 959 - The Doer’s Guide to Being - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com Articles“Nothing is working—what should I do?” Have you ever had this unsettling thought? What happens when you wake up and nothing seems to be working in your life? There is no immediate crisis, but you feel “out of step.” Because you are a doer, you will begin to take a mental inventory of your ...
Views: 784 - The Fairest One of All: Breaking the Bonds of Female Competition - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesIt happens between mothers and daughters, female coworkers, sisters and gal pals—women constantly comparing themselves to others. Whether consciously or unconsciously, most women question who is more beautiful, more successful, or has the most possessions. At the root of a woman’s misguided ...
Views: 1356 - The Hard Facts on Drugs - Alcohol - by Submitted on May 03, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesAlcohol is the most commonly recognized drug worldwide, and is accepted anywhere and everywhere. Alcohol abuse and or addiction will lead to very serious life threatening problems, both physically and psychologically. Of course a major problem of alcohol abuse is drunk driving. According to ...
Views: 1136 - The Hard Facts On Drugs - Crack/Cocaine - by Submitted on May 03, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesThe devils drug; as it is known by most users; crack/cocaine is one of the most addictive and destructive drugs ever created. A former user quoted, “I would never wish this upon my worst enemy.” This drug will create an overwhelming desire to experience the feeling of the first high over and ...
Views: 3103 - The Hard Facts On Drugs - Heroin (Diacetylmorphine) - by Submitted on May 03, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesHeroin or Diacetylmorphine is a direct descendent of the opium poppy; first cultivated in 3400 BC, and is used today as a painkiller and a recreational drug. Heroin was first produced in 1874 in the United Kingdom, and is a semi-synthetic opiate synthesized from morphine. It was first marketed ...
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