Health Tips - Control Stress in 12 Easy Steps

How to handle stress :

1. Plan your time well
Organizing your time. Make a list of things you need to do and set priority.

2. Spread out the changes in your life
Give yourself time to adjust from one change to another. For example, avoid getting married, buying a house and changing jobs all at the same time.

3. Be realistic about what you can do
Choose your work based on your own ability and interest. Do not hope for the impossible. Set achievable goals for yourself so that you do not become frustrated or discouraged.

4. Make decisions wisely
Obtain all the relevant information first – do not make major decisions blindly. Consider the good and bad points of each choice. Involve the people who will be affected by the decision in the process.

5. Think Positive
Do not let negative feelings build up. Learn to identify the cause of these feelings and deal with them constructively

6. Learn to like yourself
Do not worry too much about your appearance, height, pimples and other faults. Make the best of what you have and learn to accept what you cannot change.

7. Share your problems
Do not keep all your problems and worries to yourself. Remember you are not alone. Talk to your family members, friend, supervisor, or religious leader. They may have had similar experiences and may be able to suggest solutions to your problem.

8. Build a happy family
Be kind, loving, and polite to your family. Treat them the same way that you would treat your friends. They can provide you with love and support in times of need. Set aside some time each day to talk, play, or relax together. Make your home a happy place to come back to after a hard day's work.

9. Make friends
Just as you need a happy family, you also need friends to talk to and laugh with, to visit you and go out with you and to help you in times of need. Treat others the way you would like them to treat you. Respect their views and be patient with their faults. Try giving in to others sometimes - even when you are right.

10. Keep healthy
Keep your body healthy by exercising regularly, eating wisely and getting enough sleep. Do not turn to cigarettes or alcohol to relieve your stress. Smoking and drinking do not solve anything and will cause more problems for your health.

11. Make some time for yourself
Do something that you really enjoy. It can be a hobby like collecting coins or an exercise activity like jogging. Take a short break when you feel tense or tired. You deserve to have a little fun sometimes.

12. Learn some relaxation techniques
Deep breathing exercises, mental relaxation exercises like visual imagery and meditation, and muscle relaxation techniques are helpful in relieving stress

(Source: Health Promotion Board)

How to manage your budget in crisis

Ladies,

As a woman, no matter a housewife or a career woman, we always have responsibility on household monthly expenses. We have to pay monthly payments and also keep some of it into our savings. So, how do we manage it?

Every month, we get amount of money to be managed from salary or any other sources, and before we spend it, it would be better for you if you could do some of tips below:

1. Put your money into different posts, such as:
- Monthly payments post, is everything that have to be paid every months (electricity bill,
phone bill, mobile phone bill, credit card bill, mortgage etc)
- Back Up post, is an amount of money that might be used for emergency needs (doctors, for
example)

2. Save about 5%-10% of the total budget into the saving account that especially opened only for saving. You could not draw it as easy as you want and it is a must. It would be better if you could save it more.

3. Put the rest of it in your daily account and you could take it if only you need it


4. Avoid unnecessary spending. Don't get easily tempted by discount offering from any shopping malls or any others.


When you had extra money (after your monthly payments, saving etc) then maybe you could do some shops.

12 hugs a day, guaranteed…free of illness…!!!

“To survive we need 4 hugs per day. For health we need 8 hugs per day. To grow, ageless, happiness we need 12 hugs per day,” said Virginia Satir, family therapist.

You might be wondering, is it really works? Is hug really has such a great power that could make us health, live longer, and look young? When the last time since you hug someone or somebody had hug you? If your answer is “seldom” or even “never”, try to remember, what were you feel lately? You might be get sick often, depressed, stressed, headache, and emotional.

Many research show that hug therapy can heal physical and mental illness. It can overcome stress, depression, and others. Person who is hugged or hugging, feel a power of love around them. This power increases our body immunity.

The hug of peace
When we’re hugging, our body released the oxytocine, hormone that related to peace and love feeling. Oxytocine hormone makes our heart and mind healthier. The hormone will come out automatically from body, if the person has a health life and peaceful feeling.

Hug therapy is the same with walked therapy. Hug therapy increases our body balanced, health and reduce stress level, especially for young professional. But it doesn’t mean that you have to find spouse or lover to do it. Hug can be done with anybody in love and peaceful feeling. Of course, it has not a negative meaning moreover with a passion. This hug also is not a social hug such as, shaking hand, etc, but it is a touching hug, that really touched and binding each other. When you were hugging, you will feel so comfort and peace.

In Indonesia, and also some of others countries, hug only done by couple, relatives, parents to children. In America, there is a foundation that coordinated and do some campaign of “free hugs” on street. So, don’t be surprised if one day when you were visiting America or Europe, we could see some people with big plank on chest, with Free Hug sign. They are volunteers that give hug therapy to every single person who need it.

Healthier children
“But remember, although it’s only a shake hand or touched cheek to cheek, this could be a benefit as well. There is warmth when we shake hand. But if, it’s more than that, plus a real hug, it will have an extra benefit, since it gives more thru therapy element”, said Dr. Bhagat, one of doctors in India that researching an effect of hug. Hopefully, the community will know the benefit of hug, so as a couple they will hug more and also to their children.

The whole part of our skin, from tiptoe till head is very sensitive. Even when baby still in pregnancy, and protected by amniotic water, he/she really likes to be touched by parents. If he/she is often touched, then he/she will grow in healthy and have a nice growth. Psychically, the baby will grow healthier and become a loving person.

Children that often to be touched, caressed and hugged by parents will grow as a healthy child. They will feel comfort and have a good self confidence. Then, their growth and health is better than a child who never touched and hugged.

Even for adult and parents, touched and hugged is very important. Moreover, when they were in depression or stressed. By hugged, adults feel loved and needed.

Transformation of comfort
A master reiki in Mumbai, India , says,"hug is one of tool to transform. Hug makes one person closer to others. If your relationship with someone in problems, hug will make it better. If your marriage is in trouble, hug your couple 20 times a day. I am sure there will be no divorce. In the other hand, your life both will be happier, healthy, and ageless. And you will be free of stress and depression".

Dr. Harold Voth, senior psychiatrist in Kansas, United States has conducted research with some hundred people. The result, those who is hug each other can dissipate depression, improve body immunity, ageless, sleep well more, and healthier. If baby or child is sick and fussy, don't let them alone, just hug them, and they will feel comfortable. Until their body immune feel better, and their health even also will much better. You as parent also get effect either from this hug therapy. You will be healthier, young, and freed from depression.

Hug can heal physical and mental illness. Touch that produced by hug help to lessen the pain. Some of hard disease frequently make its patient feels frustration, angry, unlikely its disease can’t be healed. With hug, patient that felt frustration will feel comfortable. Hug gives positive energy to patient’s emotion. Hug transforms negative emotion into positive emotion. Moreover, if patient gets hug from the one he/she loved very much. Isn't it true that love is the most powerful strength, and hug is one of to show it.

So, what are you waiting for….???

DoN't MaRry iF........

1. DON'T MARRY, IF BECAUSE OF WEALTH

Life without love is useless. Wealth and property can come and go all the times. A momentary "LOVE" can come anytime, but 'TRUE LOVE" can not buy by any wealth or money.

2. DON'T MARRY, IF BECAUSE OF ANY LOVE

Feel interested, sympathy, and appraise are always interpreted as LOVE. But, actually it is not a LOVE. That kind of LOVE can be changed anytime by wealth, look, and any other circumstances. It will not last. "LOVE" must be tested in sorrow and happines. "TRUE LOVE" will endure in any condition.

3. Don't MARRY, IF BECAUSE OF FORM

Look beautiful is great, but it can be faded when you're getting older. Inner beauty is more important than your appeareance.

4. Don't MARRY, IF BECAUSE OF PITIES

Feel pity and sympathy is good and a must, but, it may not become a reason to marry someone. That feeling will be gone as the time by, but "LOVE" won't. Marry because of LOVE not a pity.

5. Don't MARRY, IF BECAUSE OF SEX

Yes, sex is important in marriage, but it may not be your reason of marry someone too. Sex is a part of marriage. People who only think about sex satisfaction will be dissaponted and trapped by adversity by themselves someday and won't be happy.

6. Don't MARRY, IF BECAUSE OF FAMILY CONSTRAINT

A child must devotes to family. But, may not be given up in marry someone if you think you're right. Pray and explain to your parent, don't give up. It is your life.

7. Don't MARRY, IF BECAUSE OF AGE PRESSURE

If age has became your problem, and your friends have already coupled, people will start to worry about his/her self, especially women. Many people, finally get married just to having their own couple. Please, don't do it. You're hurting yourself and your spouse. Just be patient dan convinced yourself that GOD has provided the best for you. Wait for your moment.

8. Don't MARRY, IF BECAUSE OF RECOMPENSATION

Someone who has did a kindness must be reciprocated, but don't be with nuptials.

One thing that you have to remember, and the most important thing is DON'T MARRY without UNDERSTANDING and PREPARATION of the real life. MARRY because of GOD's plan. It will be better for you to wait, intstead of in hurry and finally you get suffered, if it's not confirmed by GOD. GOD has already created us in coupled. Without GOD's, it's very impossible that people can be together as one!

Source: Various

BE WARE WHEN YOU'RE GOING ALONE!!!

LET THIS TRUE STORY SERVE AS A WARNING

To the women : remember this!

To the men : warn your loved ones!

About a month ago there was a woman st andi ng by the Mega Mall entrance passing out flyers to all the women going in. The woman had written the flyer herself to tell about an experience she had, so that she might warn other women. The previous day, this woman had finished shopping, went out to her car and discovered that she had a flat. She got the jack out of the trunk and began to change the flat. A nice man dressed in business suit and carrying a briefcase walked up to her and said, 'I notice you're changing a flat tire. Would you like me to take care of it for you?'

The woman was grateful for his offer and accepted his help. They chatted amiably while the man changed the flat, and then put the flat tire and the jack in the trunk, shut it and dusted his hands off.

The woman thanked him profusely, and as she was about to get in her car, the man told her that he left his car around on the other side of the mall, and asked if she would mind giving him a lift to his car. She was a little surprised and asked him why his car was on the other side. He explained that he had met an old friend in the mall whom he hadn't seen for some time and they had a bite to eat and visited for a while; he got turned around in the mall and left through the wrong exit, and now he was running late and his car was clear around on the other side of the mall.

The woman hated to tell him 'no' because he had just rescued her from having to change her flat tire all by herself, but she felt uneasy. Then she remembered seeing the man put his briefcase in her trunk before shutting it and before he asked her for the ride to his car.

She told him that she'd be happy to drive him to his car, but she just remembered one last thing she needed to buy. She said she would only be a few minutes; he could sit down in her car and wait for her; she would be as quick as she could be. She hurried into the mall, and told a security guard what had happened; the guard came out to her car with her, but the man had left..

They opened the trunk, took out his locked briefcase and took it down to the police station. The police opened it (ostensibly to look for ID so they could return it to the man).

What they found was rope, duct tape and knives.When the police checked her 'flat' tire, there was nothing wrong with it; the air had simply been let out. It was obvious what the man's motive was, and obvious that he had carefully thought it out in advance. The woman was blessed to have escaped harm.

How much worse it would have been had she waited in the car while the man fixed the tire, or if she had a baby strapped into a car seat. Or if she'd gone against her judgment and given him a lift.

Source: Various

DEADLY HANDBAGS

scary thoughts, but excellent info for the ladies......

This is quite shocking, and really worth the read. I never really gave it much thought

THIS IS A REAL EYE-OPENER!!

Handbags
I never gave it a thought. Who would have thought? Have you ever noticed gals who sit their handbags on public toilet floors then go directly to their dining tables and set it on the table? Happens a lot!

It's not always the 'restaurant food' that causes stomach distress. Sometimes 'what you don't know 'will' hurt you'!

Read on...
Mom got so upset when guests came in the door and plopped their handbags down on the counter where she was cooking or setting up food. She always said that handbags are really dirty, because of where they have been. Smart Mom!!!

It's something just about every woman carries with them. While we may know what's inside our handbags, do you have any idea what's on the outside?

Women carry handbags everywhere; from the office to public toilets to the floor of the car. Most women won't be caught without their handbags, but did you ever stop to think about where your handbag goes during the day. 'I drive a school bus, so my handbag has been on the floor of the bus a lot, says one woman. 'On the floor of my car, and in toilets.' 'I put my hand bag in grocery shopping carts, on the floor of the toilet,' says another woman and of course in my home which should be clean..'

We decided to find out if handbags harbour a lot of bacteria. We learned how to test them at Nelson Laboratories in Salt Lake , and then we set out to test the average woman's handbag.

Most women told us they didn't stop to think about what was on the bottom of their handbag. Most said at home they usually set their handbags on top of kitchen tables and counters where food is prepared. Most of the ladies we talked to told us they wouldn't be surprised if their handbags were at least a little bit dirty.. It turns out handbags are so surprisingly dirty, even the microbiologist who tested them was shocked.

Microbiologist Amy Karen of Nelson Labs says nearly all of the handbags tested were not only high in bacteria, but high in harmful kinds of bacteria. Psudomonas can cause eye infections, staphylococcus aurous can cause serious skin infections, and salmonella and e-coli found on the handbags could make people very sick. In one sampling, four of five handbags tested positive for salmonella, and that's not the worst of it. 'There is fecal contamination on the handbags,' says Amy. Leather or vinyl handbags tended to be cleaner than cloth handbags and lifestyle seemed to play a role. People with kids tended to have dirtier handbags than those without, with one exception. The handbag of one single woman who frequented nightclubs had one of the worst contaminations of all. 'Some type of feces, or possibly vomit' says Amy.

So the moral of this story - your handbag won't kill you, but it does have the potential to make you very sick if you keep it on places where you eat. Use hooks to hang your handbag at home and in toilets, and don't put it on your desk, a restaurant table, or on your kitchen countertop.
Experts say you should think of your handbag the same way you would a pair of shoes.. 'If you think about putting a pair of shoes onto your countertops, that's the same thing you're doing when you put your handbag on the countertops' - your handbag has gone where individuals before you have sneezed, coughed, spat, urinated, emptied bowels, etc!

Do you really want to bring that home with you? The microbiologists at Nelson also said cleaning a handbag will help.

Wash cloth handbags and use leather cleaner to clean the bottom of leather handbags.

THIS IS WORTH SHARING!!!
AND MEN PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO YOUR WIVES, GIRLFRIENDS OR DAUGHTERS!

Source: anywhere

Manage your time and money wisely

All of us want success in our lives, yet a lot of us can’t stop wondering why we haven’t reached the level of success we truly desire. Achieving success is really about managing resources toward the direction you want so that you can accomplish your goals in life.

With a little planning and taking the right actions, success is assured. Success is nothing more than having our goals. Therefore, if we believe we haven’t reached the success we desire, we should ask ourselves – what are our goals in life, what resources that we need to achieve the goals, how long will it take to reach the goals? With no clear direction in mind, failure is assured. To be able to achieve our goals, we have to be SMART. We have to set goals that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and with a clear Time Frame. Are you SMART enough?

Time and money are two most valuable resources you can have simply because you can have no more than 24 hours a day while money becomes the most acceptable measurement of success. Manage your time and money wisely and success is all yours. The following are three major pitfalls in managing time and money. They are simple acts, applicable for both managing time and money, but can put you in serious trouble if you are not careful enough.

1. Procrastination
Your Procrastination when you keep delaying paying your bills or doing the things in your to do list. Being late in paying bills can end up in hefty charges, on top of the interest, often times well exceeding the principal amount you are supposed to pay. When you keep delaying actions, you will need much longer time to complete a task. In business, extended time means extended cost– it is important to keep everything short.

2. Unnecessary spending
Self indulgence is important since we want to give appreciation to the person closest to us – ourselves. Yet sometimes we underestimate the long run accumulation of unnecessary spending of time and money. It is important to allocate time and money for enjoyment as much as to allocate time and money for serious businesses. Therefore, you can make sure that one doesn’t go at the expense of the other. You can definitely have the luxury of eating out or traveling to exotic places, just make sure that you have the budget and that you also put some money into your saving. You can definitely spend time for chatting on the internet or playing computer games, just make sure that you have allocated the time and you do it within the allocated time.

3. Taking risk
Being prepared for contingencies is a must because during emergency all priorities will be messed up, taking away resources from our most desired goals. In business, risk can jeopardize profits. We can’t afford risk, especially if we can take precautionary steps. In terms of money, taking risk may include excessive credit card use, which seems convenient when you are in need. Until someday you realize that the minimum pay eats up a big chunk of your salary and you start working for credit card companies instead of working toward your future goals. Success calls for long term consistent actions, little and simple steps probably all what it takes. The above steps seem easy enough to handle but it requires self discipline. After all self discipline separates the winners from the losers.

source: various

To keep you Flash Disk durable

To keep your Flash Disk durable, you have to treat it carefully. Check out the tips below:

1. Keep it away from strong magnetic stuffs such as televison or cell phone.
2. Keep it away from water or any liquid form. Even, some brands claim that it is waterproof.
3. Virus scan periodically.
4. Always do ejecting process before pull it out from USB port. This may help you to avoid any
USB or data damages.
5. Keep it away from any collision with another hard stuff. It will make your USB undetected
by computers.
6. Keep it away from heat. Especially, sunbeam.
7. Keep it clean from any dust and dirt. It makes your USB can not be read.
8. USB can last about 10.000 - 100.000 rewrite process. Don't do it too often if you want it durable.

And,don't do any data editing directly in USB. Copy it first to your PC.

Just try it. Hope it works for you.
Good luck.