A lot of people spend a lot of time and a lot of effort into getting healthy and staying healthy. They torture themselves with sweaty exercise, starvation diets and stopping smoking. This makes them unhappy. So they stop these things and go back to being unhealthy.
But we’re The Happy People and we have to be Healthy because being healthy is an important part of being Happy. Staying healthy is essential but getting healthy is a drag.
Here is a way that The Happy People have that keeps them healthy, happy and humming all day long!
MAKE LOVE!
Researchers have proved that regular sex does wonders for your health. Because making love can slow down the ageing process, boost your immune system.and increase you circulation. And this will give you a longer, healthier and happier life.
And that is what we want. Isn’t it?
Dr David Weeks, clinical neuropsychologist at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, says that he found that the most effective way to keep yourslf looking young is to have sex regularly.
Dr Weeks questioned more than 3,500 volunteers aged between 18 and 102. He found that couples who make love three times a week look between four and seven years younger than those who have less sex.
(I think he should have asked the 102 year olds what they were eating lol)
The study shows that sex is an excellent aerobic exercise because it raises the heart beat and pumps oxygen around the body which improves the immune system, boosts circulation and keeps you lean.
More soon,
Love, Peace and Happiness,
Tom
Tuesday 15 March 2011
Sunday 13 March 2011
Sex In The Morning!
Would you like to have a day full of Healthy, Happy and Positive feelings?
Of course you would. One of the ways that you can set yourself up for the day, is to make love first thing in the morning!
The scientists say that it will kick off a very strong flow of hormones.
These hormones will make you happier, healthier and upbeat.
They also give you glossier hair, clear skin and stronger nails.
And they boost your immune system and stop you getting ill.
And you might even start to enjoy it. LOL
More soon,
Love Peace and Happiness,
Tom
Of course you would. One of the ways that you can set yourself up for the day, is to make love first thing in the morning!
The scientists say that it will kick off a very strong flow of hormones.
These hormones will make you happier, healthier and upbeat.
They also give you glossier hair, clear skin and stronger nails.
And they boost your immune system and stop you getting ill.
And you might even start to enjoy it. LOL
More soon,
Love Peace and Happiness,
Tom
Brits Are Happier Being Obese!
More than Americans, at least. Although we are way down in the world list of happy people, we are happier than the Americans. In some things, anyhow.
A Harris Interactive Poll found that more obese Americans (21%) would like to lose weight than obese Brits (15%).
But more Brits (19%) wished they were young again compared to Americans (12%). In America more men (46%) wanted to be rich compared to women (38%). In the U.K, it was the other way around. More women than men wanted to be rich
A Harris Interactive Poll found that more obese Americans (21%) would like to lose weight than obese Brits (15%).
But more Brits (19%) wished they were young again compared to Americans (12%). In America more men (46%) wanted to be rich compared to women (38%). In the U.K, it was the other way around. More women than men wanted to be rich
Wednesday 9 March 2011
More Meditation, Part 5, Get Started
Posted on March 9, 2011 by happinessguru
Getting started! Please let me remind you about what I wrote in my last post :
”When I’m stuck in traffic, instead of gripping the steering wheel and getting upset, I might look through the skylight of my little car and count clouds or watch the birds flying,” he said. Already, Hresko said, his high blood pressure has fallen, and he has more energy. And does he feel mentally and emotionally better?
”Oh, my God, yes,” he said.
Remember Mr. Hresko had only been doing these simple exercises for SIX weeks. High blood pressure is called the Silent Killer. As well as causing lot of deaths, it can cause lots of of other serious health problems. The medication used to treat high blood pressure can be very nasty to take. And most people have to take them for the rest of their LIFE.
Yet here is this man, using the simplest of mental exercises, curing himself. Let’s hope he carried on and cleared his problem altogether!
PLEASE NOTE
The following exercise is a GREAT exercise to get you started. It WILL do the job for you. If you were on one of my classes, I would start you off at more powerful level. I could do this because I would be there to answer any questions that you might have.
To meditate:
Pick a word or short phrase to rest your mind on. Pick one that has an emotional, positive meaning for you. Love, Peace, Happiness, Calmness (No! Don’t pick money LOL)
Sit quietly in a comfortable chair.
Close your eyes and relax all your muscles . Scalp, face, neck etc. All in turn all the way down to your feet.
Breathe slowly and naturally. Each time you breathe out, say your chosen word or phrase silently inside your head as you breathe out.
Don’t worry about how well you are doing. When your mind drifts off , and it will many, many times, do NOT get bothered or upset. Just breathe in and as you breathe out silently say your word or phrase to yourself. I know that this part will be a problem for you. Your mind WILL drift. Here is a very rough guideline. If you can do five breaths in a row without thinking about something else, you are doing O.K.
Continue doing this for 10 minutes. Work up to 20 minutes if you can.
Try to do it every day. Twice a day if you can.
KEEP at it. I will come back to this post and enlarge on it in a future post.
Keep reading the blog!
Love, Peace and Happiness,
Tom
Posted on March 9, 2011 by happinessguru
Getting started! Please let me remind you about what I wrote in my last post :
”When I’m stuck in traffic, instead of gripping the steering wheel and getting upset, I might look through the skylight of my little car and count clouds or watch the birds flying,” he said. Already, Hresko said, his high blood pressure has fallen, and he has more energy. And does he feel mentally and emotionally better?
”Oh, my God, yes,” he said.
Remember Mr. Hresko had only been doing these simple exercises for SIX weeks. High blood pressure is called the Silent Killer. As well as causing lot of deaths, it can cause lots of of other serious health problems. The medication used to treat high blood pressure can be very nasty to take. And most people have to take them for the rest of their LIFE.
Yet here is this man, using the simplest of mental exercises, curing himself. Let’s hope he carried on and cleared his problem altogether!
PLEASE NOTE
The following exercise is a GREAT exercise to get you started. It WILL do the job for you. If you were on one of my classes, I would start you off at more powerful level. I could do this because I would be there to answer any questions that you might have.
To meditate:
Pick a word or short phrase to rest your mind on. Pick one that has an emotional, positive meaning for you. Love, Peace, Happiness, Calmness (No! Don’t pick money LOL)
Sit quietly in a comfortable chair.
Close your eyes and relax all your muscles . Scalp, face, neck etc. All in turn all the way down to your feet.
Breathe slowly and naturally. Each time you breathe out, say your chosen word or phrase silently inside your head as you breathe out.
Don’t worry about how well you are doing. When your mind drifts off , and it will many, many times, do NOT get bothered or upset. Just breathe in and as you breathe out silently say your word or phrase to yourself. I know that this part will be a problem for you. Your mind WILL drift. Here is a very rough guideline. If you can do five breaths in a row without thinking about something else, you are doing O.K.
Continue doing this for 10 minutes. Work up to 20 minutes if you can.
Try to do it every day. Twice a day if you can.
KEEP at it. I will come back to this post and enlarge on it in a future post.
Keep reading the blog!
Love, Peace and Happiness,
Tom
Tuesday 8 March 2011
More Meditation......Part 4
Among the studies was one by Massachusetts General Hospital researchers. They scanned the brains of 20 people who meditated regularly. These people had four regions of cortex -- the rind of the brain, associated with higher functions like memory and decision making -- that were thicker than in people who didn't meditate. In addition, the researchers found signs that one area of the cortex seemed to show less signs of aging than it did in people who didn't meditate. The scientists are now looking at how this all improves how people behave
The findings ''prove that changes in brain structure are caused by meditation," said Sara Lazar, of Harvard University.
In other Harvard researchers reported that by using a device that can analyze every breath a person exhales, they could objectively measure the depth of relaxation a person had achieved. People who reached deeper states of relaxation exhaled more nitric oxide, a gas known to relax the smooth muscles in arteries, and aid blood flow.
''Our results provide evidence of how meditation and other mind/body approaches might lower blood pressure," said Jeffery A. Dusek, the study's lead author. ''In the near future, it may even be possible to use our new technique to determine an effective 'dose' of meditation for a given person, or to identify how individuals can get the most benefits from meditation."
Another new study, from the University of Kentucky, found that meditation could offset the effects of sleep deprivation better than a nap. Researchers tested volunteers on a button-pressing speed task, and found that even new meditators improved their performance more after 40 minutes of meditation than after a 40-minute nap. Meditation helped even after a full night of sleep deprivation, the study found.
And Buddhist monks have demonstrated yet again that meditation can give them extraordinary powers of mind, according to work by Olivia Carter, also of Harvard.
Her team tested the powers of concentration of 76 Tibetan monks, by showing them different images in each eye. Normally, people's brains flip between the two images every 2.5 seconds. But the monks averaged about four seconds per eye, and one monk reported focusing on one of the images for 723 seconds
Scientists want to understand the experiences of Philip Hresko, a 63-year-old Boston architect who began meditating six weeks ago at the Mind/Body Medical Institute out of concern for his heart health. Along with more prolonged techniques, he said, he has been learning to meditate when he gets any spare time.
''When I'm stuck in traffic, instead of gripping the steering wheel and getting upset, I might look through the skylight of my little car and count clouds or watch the birds flying," he said. Already, Hresko said, his high blood pressure has fallen, and he has more energy. And does he feel mentally and emotionally better?
''Oh, my God, yes," he said.
More soon about easy, simple basic exercises that you, just like Philip Hresko (see above) can do to get some of these benefits.
Love, Peace and Happiness.
Tom
The findings ''prove that changes in brain structure are caused by meditation," said Sara Lazar, of Harvard University.
In other Harvard researchers reported that by using a device that can analyze every breath a person exhales, they could objectively measure the depth of relaxation a person had achieved. People who reached deeper states of relaxation exhaled more nitric oxide, a gas known to relax the smooth muscles in arteries, and aid blood flow.
''Our results provide evidence of how meditation and other mind/body approaches might lower blood pressure," said Jeffery A. Dusek, the study's lead author. ''In the near future, it may even be possible to use our new technique to determine an effective 'dose' of meditation for a given person, or to identify how individuals can get the most benefits from meditation."
Another new study, from the University of Kentucky, found that meditation could offset the effects of sleep deprivation better than a nap. Researchers tested volunteers on a button-pressing speed task, and found that even new meditators improved their performance more after 40 minutes of meditation than after a 40-minute nap. Meditation helped even after a full night of sleep deprivation, the study found.
And Buddhist monks have demonstrated yet again that meditation can give them extraordinary powers of mind, according to work by Olivia Carter, also of Harvard.
Her team tested the powers of concentration of 76 Tibetan monks, by showing them different images in each eye. Normally, people's brains flip between the two images every 2.5 seconds. But the monks averaged about four seconds per eye, and one monk reported focusing on one of the images for 723 seconds
Scientists want to understand the experiences of Philip Hresko, a 63-year-old Boston architect who began meditating six weeks ago at the Mind/Body Medical Institute out of concern for his heart health. Along with more prolonged techniques, he said, he has been learning to meditate when he gets any spare time.
''When I'm stuck in traffic, instead of gripping the steering wheel and getting upset, I might look through the skylight of my little car and count clouds or watch the birds flying," he said. Already, Hresko said, his high blood pressure has fallen, and he has more energy. And does he feel mentally and emotionally better?
''Oh, my God, yes," he said.
More soon about easy, simple basic exercises that you, just like Philip Hresko (see above) can do to get some of these benefits.
Love, Peace and Happiness.
Tom
Monday 7 March 2011
More Meditation......Part 3
As the power of meditation was being studied during the 1970s and 1980s, researchers were looking mainly for physical effects, such as blood pressure and heart benefits.
Now they are looking at the effects on the brain. And they are looking at the important effects that meditation has on the way you think AND how you can use it to bring more benefits into your life. I will write about some of these benefits in my next post. Then I will set out some basic, simple and easy to do instructions for you to try if you want these benefits.
More soon,
Love, Peace and Happiness.
Tom
Now they are looking at the effects on the brain. And they are looking at the important effects that meditation has on the way you think AND how you can use it to bring more benefits into your life. I will write about some of these benefits in my next post. Then I will set out some basic, simple and easy to do instructions for you to try if you want these benefits.
More soon,
Love, Peace and Happiness.
Tom
Sunday 6 March 2011
More Meditation......Part 2
Over 60 percent of people going to the doctor are suffering from problems that are caused by stress.
Neuroscientists and psychologists at Universities and research centres all over the world are working to come up with answers to these problems.
While some of the most amazing studies have used monks who were experts at meditation, the new research also proves that ordinary people can get great results by using small levels of meditation in every day life.
Serious research on meditation now includes hundreds of studies examining its possible benefits. Three of five researchers on a panel about meditation at a Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington, D.C., were from world famous American university Harvard.
In recent years, academic researchers are seeking to find hard facts. They have found that meditation will provide a lot of benefits. Meditation will lift depression, it will relieve pain and it will help to fight flu. And these are only some of the things that it will do.
Researchers say that that their aim to improve the quality of the research, using new tools and better methods, to prove the power that meditation has to help people to really improve their lives.
More soon,
Love Peace and Happiness
Tom
Neuroscientists and psychologists at Universities and research centres all over the world are working to come up with answers to these problems.
While some of the most amazing studies have used monks who were experts at meditation, the new research also proves that ordinary people can get great results by using small levels of meditation in every day life.
Serious research on meditation now includes hundreds of studies examining its possible benefits. Three of five researchers on a panel about meditation at a Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington, D.C., were from world famous American university Harvard.
In recent years, academic researchers are seeking to find hard facts. They have found that meditation will provide a lot of benefits. Meditation will lift depression, it will relieve pain and it will help to fight flu. And these are only some of the things that it will do.
Researchers say that that their aim to improve the quality of the research, using new tools and better methods, to prove the power that meditation has to help people to really improve their lives.
More soon,
Love Peace and Happiness
Tom
Thursday 3 March 2011
More Meditation will improve YOUR Life!
Neuroscientists are finding more and more ways to build up the power of the brain. To give you more control over it. Of course the more control you have the better you can use it to bring you the things that you want in your life.
Things like Health, Wealth and Happiness.
Neuroscientists' research shows that Meditation is the most powerful tool or skill to have, if you want to develop your mental control over your life. Meditation has been shown to increase your concentration, it gives you more control over your emotions and it even builds up important parts of your brain.
Neuroscientists presenting their latest research at a convention of 34,000 colleagues recently recommended meditation to help stopping the way the brain deteriorates as it gets older.
Their work fits into a growing body of data that brings modern science and age-old methods to control the mind. They are touting the health benefits of meditative practices.
Now, using the latest high-tech tools of neuroscience and biochemistry, they are finding out how those benefits work. And increasingly, they are focusing on how meditation may help not only the body but the brain.
More about this soon.
Love, Peace and Happiness
Tom
Things like Health, Wealth and Happiness.
Neuroscientists' research shows that Meditation is the most powerful tool or skill to have, if you want to develop your mental control over your life. Meditation has been shown to increase your concentration, it gives you more control over your emotions and it even builds up important parts of your brain.
Neuroscientists presenting their latest research at a convention of 34,000 colleagues recently recommended meditation to help stopping the way the brain deteriorates as it gets older.
Their work fits into a growing body of data that brings modern science and age-old methods to control the mind. They are touting the health benefits of meditative practices.
Now, using the latest high-tech tools of neuroscience and biochemistry, they are finding out how those benefits work. And increasingly, they are focusing on how meditation may help not only the body but the brain.
More about this soon.
Love, Peace and Happiness
Tom
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