Health: Start focusing on what you really want now.

Start focusing on what you really want now.

Written by Darryn Aldridge

What has happened to that fun, interesting and exciting life we promised ourselves, and should now be living?

We live in a world that is brimming with fantastic opportunities, yet why do we as individuals regularly fail to make repparttar most of these plentiful gifts that are available to all of us to enjoy and prosper from?

We start at an early age, inocently dreaming of repparttar 114882 things we desire, repparttar 114883 fun we want to have, repparttar 114884 dream job, repparttar 114885 travel to exotic locations..the list goes on.

What happens as we get older though, is that collectivly, we start accepting negative beliefs about our dreams and our abilities to obtain them.

We begin to believe that those dreams and desires we once held dear to us, are infact impossible dreams that are only available to others who are luckier than us.

We now have this massive empty hole in our lives that we start to fill with emotions, such as dread, envy, helplessness and self pity.

Where we were once happy and excited about life, we now started to feel depressed and unmotivated. We develop an uncomfortable nagging feeling that "something is missing in our lives" or that "life should be better than this". We start to accept our current position in life as "about as good as I can expect" , we roll over and let life pass us by. We put our lives on auto-pilot and let whatever happens just happen.

What we have now created is a situation where our main focus has turned to what we "don't have" and "what we don't want". By foccusing all our attention on these negative thoughts, we have lost sight of repparttar 114886 fact that there really is no one but ourselves standing in repparttar 114887 way of creating repparttar 114888 perfect world for us.

Focus enough on what you don't want and that is exactly what you will get. That is a fact.

So where to from here?

Luckily, repparttar 114889 transformation from "don't have" to "I have" isn't a huge leap, though it will be truely life changing. We need to remember that as humans we have this amazing ability to decide what is good or what is bad. We control what we focus on, we just have to sit up, take notice, and throw away repparttar 114890 old negative views that were once bring us down and preventing us from living life repparttar 114891 way it should be lived.

Here are some easy steps to help you get started.

1) Don't View The World As A Bad Place. We are bombarded daily with news of wars, terrorist threats, murders and unspeakable crimes. By focussing on all repparttar 114892 negative events that are going on around us, we lose sight of all repparttar 114893 great things that are happening, but not getting into repparttar 114894 news. Any news, good or bad is only so depending on how YOU interpret it. We can't, and shouldn't, ignore repparttar 114895 bad things, but we must learn to put them into perspective and decide how we will focus on them.

2)Start Dreaming Again. Grab yourself a pen and paper, find yourself a quiet corner and let your mind go wild. Really think about what you want to have and do, but do not worry yourself about how you are going to get them. Write them all down as soon as they flash into your mind and keep going until you feel you are done. When you have finshed, put them in order of importance to you, and really start to feel them taking shape. Imagine each and every one of these as being real, feel how it would feel to have them happen and feel how great that feeling is. Look at your list regulary and always imagine how great you will feel when you have accomplished repparttar 114896 goal.

Whipped Shea Butter & Its Many Uses

Written by Lisa Maliga

Shea butter, also referred to as karite, which means “life” has been used across repparttar

African continent for centuries. It hails from Central and Western Africa. It’s actually a nut fat, as it’s obtained from repparttar 114881

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kernel. Shea nuts are picked by women, then par-boiled, and sun-dried for a week in order to dehydrate repparttar 114883

nut. This increases their storage time. The next step is to crush repparttar 114884

dried fruit, in order to remove repparttar 114885

skin. When repparttar 114886

shea butter is hand crushed like this, it retains all its numerous vitamins and minerals and repparttar 114887

nutty, smoky scent is naturally preserved. The color ranges from off white to gray to golden brown to green, depending upon repparttar 114888

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nut. It’s always refined at least once, in order to remove dirt, bits of gourd, or leaves, objects that would not be fun to apply to your skin.

In Africa, shea butter is often used as a cooking oil. Shea butter can also be used as a hair conditioner, as a way to prevent sunburn pain, to soothe cracked, dry feet and hands, especially during those skin-drying winter months or for those of you who live in a dry climate. According to noted soapmaker/author Susan Miller Cavitch, in her 1995 book 'The Natural Soap Book', writes: “Shea butter is gentle enough for babies and people with sensitive skin. It soothes and softens dry chapped skin, while nourishing all skin types. I have come to rely heavily upon shea butter for its effectiveness.” She was using this wonderful substance, and including it in her homemade soaps, long before most people in North America had even heard of shea butter!

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