What’s a body to do?

In this article I’ve outline a few different ideas that I’ve found to really work. Ideas I continue to come back to again and again. Whether you need to lose a few pounds or are looking for a healthy lifestyle change, these 4 solutions will help get you started.

Solution #1: Use Creative Visualization

Creative visualization a great way to bring about lifestyle change. “Seeing” yourself thinner is one of most successful ways to decrease your body size and improve body image. Guided imagery works by training your mind to stimulate changes within your body.

This can be accomplished using a few of my favorite tools:

Affirmations: Using affirmations will train your mind by stating or affirming your intentions. It will retrain your thinking toward positive thoughts.

When I use affirmations, I like to use positive statements such as these:

MY BODY IS BEAUTIFUL! I LOVE MY BODY!

To increase their effectiveness, I write these messages to myself on an index card or piece of paper and carry them with me. I review them several times throughout day.

Tapes: If you are an auditory person, you will love guided imagery and weight loss tapes available from Health Journeys ( http://www.healthjourneys.com ). Their positive learning tapes will walk you through thought process of building a stronger, leaner body.

Books: One of my favorite positive affirmation books is Love Your Body! By Louise L. Hay. Inside this book, Louise has created affirmations for you. If you read through them each day you are sure to reap rewards of loving your body.

Solution #2 Try An Herbal Wrap

If you need to lose a few extra pounds, you may want to try an herbal wrap. Herbal wraps help body lose water and inches. You can get a wrap from your favorite salon however, they tend to be expensive. It’s just as easy to give yourself a spa treatment at home. Herbal wrap products are everywhere. If you’d like to get a wrap but prefer privacy of your own home, check out: http://www.slenderwrap.com

One of most asked questions by adults and children is origin of toothbrush. There are several schools of thought on when real toothbrush was created, but you need to look far into past for first evidences of oral hygiene.

The Chinese were believed to create first real toothbrush, or a device that was used to clean teeth, but it was much different than ones that we are used to today. These first toothbrushes, crafted in 1400s, did not use nylon for bristles, or plastic for handles. They were crafted from bamboo, one of most common plants from that area. The bamboo formed handle for people to hold on to. Attached to this handle was a set of bristles, which were crafted from tough hair of Siberian wild boar. The hairs used came from back of neck of this animal. This is toothbrush associated with having been ancestor of one that we use today.

However, there is evidence that there was another form of toothbrush dating up to 3000 years before birth of Christ. Due to this, history of toothbrush proves that this device is one of oldest still used by man, only truly outdated by wheel. This form of toothbrush was found within pyramids of Egyptians. These toothbrushes were crafted from a stick. Unlike Chinese version of toothbrush, end of stick was flayed so that fibers of wood were more soft. This stick was then rubbed against teeth to serve as a form of oral hygiene. This form of toothbrush did not become far spread as Chinese version.

The Chinese version of toothbrush spread to Europe, where Siberian wild boar took brunt of growing popularity of invention. The only downside to hairs of Siberian wild boar was fact that it was very rough on gums. On account of this, some people began to use hairs found on backs of horses to craft bristles on their brushes, as this was much easier on their gums and teeth. Despite added softness of horse hair bristles, boar hairs were more commonly used, as horses were too valuable to Europeans during this period of time.

The boar hair toothbrush continued to be used until early 1900s. In 1937, nylon was created in Du Pont laboratories by Wallace H. Carothers. This invention forever changed history of toothbrush, as well as every other device that required a fibrous material, including ropes. In 1938, Nylon became sign of modernization, from creation of nylon stockings to Dr. West's first nylon toothbrush. This brush was called Dr. West's Miracle Toothbrush. Even with this breakthrough in toothbrush, it wasn't until World War II that Americans began to take oral hygiene more seriously. This was a direct result of war. This influence spurred on development of better toothbrushes.

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