Confidence is the most attractive thing you can put on. Being a true Diva is 25% fashion and 75% attitude. Maintaining good posture should not be a strenuous workout. If you find sitting and standing up straight difficult then you're doing it wrong. The hardest part of maintaining good posture should be remembering to do it! Here are some tips on improving posture safely and correctly.
The Benefits of Good Posture
* Good posture makes you appear taller and slimmer by up to 10 pounds immediately! * Studies show that people who are have good posture, regardless or size or demographic, appear more confident, happy and attractive. * Good posture constantly strengthens the core abdominal muscles, leading to a smaller and more attractive waistline. * Practicing good posture reduces the risk of Neck and back problems Joint pain and stress on ligaments Constricted blood vessels and nerves Fatigue Problems breathing Headaches
How to Improve Your Posture Right Now!
To help you remember, think ESHA in-Line (Ears, Shoulders, Hips, Ankles) TIP: You might want to do this in front of a mirror at first so that you're not over calculating or straining.
* Adjust your ears approximately over you shoulders * Your shoulders in-line with you hips * Then you hips should be roughly in-line with you ankles and feet. * This position should feel natural and comfortable. If you feel any discomfort doing this then you're over doing it. Double check in the mirror to see that you're in line. * Find a buddy to keep you in-line by pointing out when you're slouching, do the same for them. * Just by practicing alignment daily you can strengthen the muscles in your neck, back, shoulders, and core.
Simple and Effective Exercises for Better Posture *
A few simple non-strenuous exercises a day can improve your posture and make it a long term habit, with multiple health benefits. These are low intensity moves. It's normal to feel slight muscle burn, but if you feel any discomfort or pain you need to stop. *
The Shoulder Blade Squeeze: This very simple technique can be used virtually anywhere. And it's one of those great exercises that doesn't draw a lot of attention to yourself if you want to do it sitting at your desk at work, or standing in line at the grocery store.
* First move into ESHA alignment (if you're sitting place your feet flat on the ground so that your hips and legs are at 90 degrees) * Roll your shoulders back and gently squeeze your shoulder blades together until you feel the muscles in your back flex. This should not hurt or cause pain. If it does stop immediately! * Imagine you're squeezing a lemon with your shoulder blades. * Hold for 10 seconds and release. * Doing this a handful of times a day will strengthen your back and help you naturally and effortlessly stay in good alignment.
The Shrug: This one is as simple as it sounds and it's another great "waiting in line" technique.
* Start out in your ESHA alignment as usual. * Pull your shoulders straight up toward your ears like you're shrugging until you feel the gentle pull of the muscles that run along your shoulders and across your back. * Hold for 10 seconds and release. * You can step up this move by putting small weights in your hands.
The Covert Crunch: Strengthening the body's core is essential to good posture and also keeps your abs looking more tone and flatters your figure.
* Start out with your ESHA in alignment whether sitting or standing. * Take a deep breath in. As you do let the air fill your belly expand. * As you breathe out slowly draw your abdominal muscles in. Imagine you are drawing you belly button in toward your spine. * Hold for 10 seconds and release slowly. * You can also step up this move and do it while walking for maximum core strengthening.
*Always consult your physician or health care professional before performing any new exercise, or exercise technique, especially if you are pregnant, nursing, elderly, or if you have any chronic or recurring conditions.
Monday, July 20, 2009
How to Carry Yourself to Appear Thinner and More Confident
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Nothing wrong in being selfish
It’s probably apocryphal but the story goes that once when Abraham Lincoln— then a young lawyer riding the circuit with others of his profession — was travelling between towns he came across a pig hopelessly stuck in the mud.The more the animal struggled to get free, the more it mired itself in and was sure to die of thirst or starvation ultimately.
They say the future 16th President of the United States was wearing a new suit he hadn’t owned for very long and, as such, most thoughts of compassion or rescue were not really on the front burner of his priorities right then. However, apparently he couldn’t get the pig out of his head and after a while doubled back and helped it out.
Now honest Abe definitely doesn’t need a latter day 21st century makeover by any columnist but it’s still worth noting what he’s supposed to have reflected on about his motives for executing such compassion. At first he thought he’d rescued the pig just because he was a nice guy. With a little more deliberation, though, he came to the conclusion he’d done it out of pure selfishness. As he later is said to have told a friend, he’d gone back to free the pig to “take a pain out of his mind.”
The difference between the child beggar dirtying the door window of our car at a traffic signal which most of us ignore, wish away or forget as soon as the lights green out is that Lincoln let it linger.
Those of us — and there are many — who actually roll the glass down and deliver a couple of coins into the grubby palm would find it difficult to admit why we do so — especially if we’ve got well-fed kids in the back seat. At the same time it’s also true that, basically, the sight is a pain. Whether we deliver or not, we don’t let it last long; we don’t let it linger.
Importantly, neither did Lincoln. He didn’t dedicate the rest of his life to saving animals in distress. That’s because when he lived he had all sorts of other pains to take “out of his mind” which required the selfish motivation of somehow getting rid of them.
And he did to the best of his abilities. Those who do it “selflessly” are actually doing the same thing because they can’t bear the thought of living while they see suffering and anguish in the world. It pains them. Some are even enlightened people who turn back from a guaranteed personal salvation to help others because of selfish motives. The truth is, if one is truthful to oneself, at least a millionth of the battle is won.
Courtesy: ET (Cosmic Link)
Leia Mais…
They say the future 16th President of the United States was wearing a new suit he hadn’t owned for very long and, as such, most thoughts of compassion or rescue were not really on the front burner of his priorities right then. However, apparently he couldn’t get the pig out of his head and after a while doubled back and helped it out.
Now honest Abe definitely doesn’t need a latter day 21st century makeover by any columnist but it’s still worth noting what he’s supposed to have reflected on about his motives for executing such compassion. At first he thought he’d rescued the pig just because he was a nice guy. With a little more deliberation, though, he came to the conclusion he’d done it out of pure selfishness. As he later is said to have told a friend, he’d gone back to free the pig to “take a pain out of his mind.”
The difference between the child beggar dirtying the door window of our car at a traffic signal which most of us ignore, wish away or forget as soon as the lights green out is that Lincoln let it linger.
Those of us — and there are many — who actually roll the glass down and deliver a couple of coins into the grubby palm would find it difficult to admit why we do so — especially if we’ve got well-fed kids in the back seat. At the same time it’s also true that, basically, the sight is a pain. Whether we deliver or not, we don’t let it last long; we don’t let it linger.
Importantly, neither did Lincoln. He didn’t dedicate the rest of his life to saving animals in distress. That’s because when he lived he had all sorts of other pains to take “out of his mind” which required the selfish motivation of somehow getting rid of them.
And he did to the best of his abilities. Those who do it “selflessly” are actually doing the same thing because they can’t bear the thought of living while they see suffering and anguish in the world. It pains them. Some are even enlightened people who turn back from a guaranteed personal salvation to help others because of selfish motives. The truth is, if one is truthful to oneself, at least a millionth of the battle is won.
Courtesy: ET (Cosmic Link)
Opportunity and right timing
A great lesson for life is contained in the story of a sculptor, who had in his studio, the statues of many gods. Pointing to one of them, a
visitor asked “What is the name of this god?” The sculptor replied, “Opportunity”. On being asked why its face was concealed by hair and why it had wings on its feet, the sculptor replied, “It is because men seldom recognise this god when he comes to them. He flies away soon and once gone, never comes back”.
The same message is contained in the great lines of Shakespeare (Julius Caesar - IV, 3), “There is a tide in the affairs of men,/ Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune./ Omitted, all the voyage of their life/ Is bound in shallows and in miseries”.
An extension of this message is the concept that weak men wait for opportunities, while resourceful persons make them. Indeed, opportunity often knocks just once. Like an idea, this too has to be welcomed, entertained, nurtured and fashioned into a rewarding destiny.
This also is the concept of knowing and seizing the moment and doing the right thing at the right time and in the right manner, whereby one is able to make the best of the available resources. Even timely anger, when channelled well and rightly, could serve to galvanise a working force or the human resources, where gentle persuasion may fail.
Of course, anger with oneself, attended with a steely determination to make up, could be highly rewarding!
This urge within to make up for lost time, verily, is also the spirit of Adi Shankaracharya’s observation (Bhaja Govindam) that childhood is spent in play, youth in sensual pleasures and old age in repentance.
The wish power and will power within, also rooted in effective and right timing, could, regardless of delayed efforts, be resorted to for substantial fulfilment, instead of resorting to passive repentance or regrets over a dead past.
Doing or talking the right thing at the right time also could involve often not doing anything or keeping silent too. Tactful inaction or silence, in certain situations, could prove more powerful than reacting or responding.
The Bible elaborates on this concept of right timing with regard to various aspects of life in Ecclesiastes (verses 3: 1 to 8), commencing with, “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven”.
Doubtless, one who comprehends and applies the art of right timing, also seizing the opportunities, as they come, is also the one who divines that supreme art of life and living!
Courtesy: ET (Cosmic Link)
Leia Mais…
visitor asked “What is the name of this god?” The sculptor replied, “Opportunity”. On being asked why its face was concealed by hair and why it had wings on its feet, the sculptor replied, “It is because men seldom recognise this god when he comes to them. He flies away soon and once gone, never comes back”.
The same message is contained in the great lines of Shakespeare (Julius Caesar - IV, 3), “There is a tide in the affairs of men,/ Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune./ Omitted, all the voyage of their life/ Is bound in shallows and in miseries”.
An extension of this message is the concept that weak men wait for opportunities, while resourceful persons make them. Indeed, opportunity often knocks just once. Like an idea, this too has to be welcomed, entertained, nurtured and fashioned into a rewarding destiny.
This also is the concept of knowing and seizing the moment and doing the right thing at the right time and in the right manner, whereby one is able to make the best of the available resources. Even timely anger, when channelled well and rightly, could serve to galvanise a working force or the human resources, where gentle persuasion may fail.
Of course, anger with oneself, attended with a steely determination to make up, could be highly rewarding!
This urge within to make up for lost time, verily, is also the spirit of Adi Shankaracharya’s observation (Bhaja Govindam) that childhood is spent in play, youth in sensual pleasures and old age in repentance.
The wish power and will power within, also rooted in effective and right timing, could, regardless of delayed efforts, be resorted to for substantial fulfilment, instead of resorting to passive repentance or regrets over a dead past.
Doing or talking the right thing at the right time also could involve often not doing anything or keeping silent too. Tactful inaction or silence, in certain situations, could prove more powerful than reacting or responding.
The Bible elaborates on this concept of right timing with regard to various aspects of life in Ecclesiastes (verses 3: 1 to 8), commencing with, “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven”.
Doubtless, one who comprehends and applies the art of right timing, also seizing the opportunities, as they come, is also the one who divines that supreme art of life and living!
Courtesy: ET (Cosmic Link)
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