Thursday 26 July 2012

SIMPLIFY ..... Decoded !!


SIMPLIFY......... Decoded !! 

 " In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness." ~Henry David Thoreau




The tendency of life in our society is to become more complicated: Internet, television, shopping, work, family commitments, possessions, eating, debt … these things pile on top of each other endlessly.

This is a rather bad formula, as our days have a limited capacity, and so do we as humans. We can only do so much, only handle so many tasks and possessions and social commitments, and filling ourselves to those limits means we stress our breaking points.

It takes a bit of conscious effort to simplify, but it’s one of the greatest things.

Simplify everything !!!  
That might sound hard, but with practice it’s actually fairly easy, and leads to a quiet, content, lovely life full of space, with only the things in it that matter to most of us : my family, my laptop, my writing, with some reading and workouts thrown in.

So how do you simplify? As simply as possible.

Here are a few ways:
  1. Block off some disconnected time. The Internet is amazing, but always being connected means you’re always pulled in a thousand directions at once. It’s hard to focus, hard to connect with others, hard to get out into nature and be active. So schedule some time every day for disconnection: maybe a block in the morning where you get your best work done, and a block in the afternoon when you get out and active, or connect with friends or family.
  2. Start eliminating commitments. List your commitments, and pick one to eliminate today. It’s a simple matter of making a call or sending an email explaining that you can’t do the commitment. Trust me, they’ll find a way to live without you. You’ll start to free up time for what’s more important to you.
  3. Start purging possessions. Every day, find 5 things to donate or give to friends. Or clear an entire shelf or counter top, leaving only the things you actually use, getting rid of the rest. Slowly your possessions will be simplified to just the essentials.
  4. Ban shopping for 30 days. You can do this. Don’t buy anything except the essentials (food, toiletries, basic supplies).  If you think you really need it, put it on a list to be evaluated after the 30 days.... and by this we don's mean ban Online Shopping on www.televantage.in !!!! LOL 
  5. Wash your bowl. When you’re done eating, mindfully wash your bowl. When you’re done with anything, get in the habit of pausing before moving onto the next thing, and cleaning up after yourself. Put your food away. Put your clothes where they belong. Put your keys in one spot. Clean the sink before you leave it. This simple habit will keep you mindful while saving you lots of cleanup later
  6. Schedule time for what’s important. What’s most important to you? Your spouse or kids? Creating? Reading novels? Cooking, gardening, crafts, carpentry? Make the time for it.
  7. Get outdoors once a day. Too often we are stuck at a desk or on the couch. Get outside, take a walk, enjoy the fresh air and sunshine. Go for a hike or a run with a friend. Play some sports. Run around and play tag with your kids. These simple activities will change your life.
  8. Eat some plants. Learn some simple recipes that incorporate super healthy foods you might not be eating: kale, spinach, broccoli, quinoa, berries, flax seeds, lentils, avocados, black beans, squash, raw almonds and walnuts, garlic, turmeric, cayenne, cinnamon. 
  9. Drink tea. Green tea brewed from relatively fresh whole tea leaves is calming, healthy, and wonderful. A daily tea ritual keeps you grounded and mindful.

Tuesday 24 July 2012

Breast Cancer ALERT !!!


Breast Cancer ALERT !!! 



All Women MUST read This: 

* Wearing a wired bra over 12 hours daily dramatically increases breast cancer incidence.

* Bra-free women have about the same incidence of breast cancer as men.

* Those who wear a wired bra 18-24 hours daily have over 100 times greater incidence of breast cancer than do wirebra-free women. This link is 3-4 times greater than that between cigarettes and lung cancer!

(Source: Dressed To Kill: The Link Between Breast Cancer and Bras by Sydney Ross Singer and Soma Grismaijer, Medical Anthropologists)


How exactly is it that bras can cause breast cancer?

Dr. Singer and Grismaijer explain:
“Our theory explaining these findings is that the bra, a wired elastic garment designed to alter breast shape, applies constant pressure to the soft breast tissue, compressing and constricting lymphatic vessels. 
Evidence of this constriction are the red marks and indentations in the skin left behind by the bra. 
Since the role of the lymphatics is to flush out toxins and debris from the tissues, impairment of lymphatic flow can lead to the toxification of the breast tissue. These toxins include endogenous toxins resulting from the consequent tissue hypoxia, as well as the exogenous toxins that contaminate our food, water and air in our petrochemically polluted world. Many of these toxins are carcinogenic. 
The bra concentrates these in the breast by preventing the lymphatics from flushing them away.
Of course, this means that the cause of breast cancer is not the bra, per se, but the toxins that the bra concentrates in the breast tissue due to lymphatic impairment. 
Interestingly, when you look at the worldwide statistics on breast cancer, it is clear that it is only a problem in cultures where bras are worn. No bras, and men and women have about the same low incidence of breast cancer. And the bra link also explains various breast cancer risk factors, as we discuss in Dressed To Kill. 
While more research is clearly needed to further study this link, we believe it is prudent medicine to recommend women abstain from bra wearing as a precaution. There is no reason for wearing a bra, apart from fashion. The human body was not designed with a flaw that requires modern lingerie for correction. Like the absurd and destructive fashion of foot binding in China, women in the West bind their breasts. “
When this research first came out back in 1995, I immediately stopped wearing a wired bra. After this research, I wore undershirts and camisoles instead.

Then as the years wore on, I started to wonder: Why am I ashamed of my nipples? Who decreed that even the outline of a nipple should never be shown?? So then I began eschewing the undershirts and just wearing a normal thin sports bra like camisole – ahhh, the comfort and freedom of it.

I must admit, it’s easy for me to go bra-free because I have small breasts. If I had large, heavy breasts, that hung to my belly button when bra-free, I imagine it would be much more difficult. But, I would still do it, except on special occasions. Because there’s another benefit to going bra-free, as Dr. Singer and Grismaijer relate:
“Then something happened that we had not foreseen. Some courageous women who had heard our message tried going wire bra-free and reported their experiences to us. Within weeks, if not days, most of these women experienced a profound change in their breast health. Breast pain and tenderness virtually ended. Cysts that had needed regular aspirations disappeared. We began to realize that fibrocystic breast disease, common in bra-wearing cultures, should be called “tight bra syndrome.
It all made perfect sense, of course. The wired bra was causing secondary lymphedema of the breasts due to constriction of the lymphatics. The accumulated fluid caused increased tissue pressure with associated pain and tenderness, and eventually developed into cysts. While the fibrous tissue that develops in long standing cysts takes more time to resolve, relieving the pressure by eliminating the bra allowed the cysts to drain, alleviating the pressure and discomfort.  
(This also explained why many women have breast myalgia near the time of their menstrual period. Estrogen levels are elevated at this time, increasing overall body fluid retention and increasing breast size. However, women typically wear the same size bra all month long, making it particularly tight at these times, increasing breat pain. Once under wire bra-free, this syndrome usually stops.) 
The results are fast, impressive and transformative. It was this link with fibrocystic breast disease that helped keep our bra-cancer theory alive. While it didn't prove the cancer connection, it did show that the wired bra was damaging the breasts, adding support to our claims. 
We then did a follow-up study to our first US study. This time we went to Fiji, where half the population is bra-free. We approached the Health Ministry and asked for their assistance. Once we told them our theory, they exclaimed, “That explains why our working women are now getting breast cancer! They are the ones who wear bras!” Over the next few months we went from village to village and obtained over 20 case histories of breast cancer. All were in women who wore bras. We found that, given women from the same village (genetically related), with the same diet, the ones who developed breast cancer were the ones who wore bras.”


fiji-woman
Bra-Free Woman In Fiji

Since doctors Singer and Grismaijer published their research, there have been three Japanese studies confirming their findings. Why has the Japanese medical establishment picked up on Singer/Grismaijer’s research and furthered it, while the U.S. has ignored it? Follow the money, honey.

Until recently, Japan has been largely a non-bra wearing culture. However in the U.S., the bra industry is a multi-billion dollar enterprise. And how many billions of dollars a year are spent on breast cancer research and treatment? it seems like every other month there’s some pink-ribbon run to raise funds for breast cancer in my town.
Is it hard to go bra-free? Heck yes! You don’t realize how screwed-up our culture is about breasts until you step outside the box. Take breastfeeding as one example: On the one hand you have every fashion magazine and most women walking around with their breasts pushed up, plumped out and on display as much as possible. 

Then you have a woman who tries to feed her child and she is barred from airplane flights, kicked out of restaurants and asked to leave stores (yes, these incidences have really happened).

So what can you do to make the transition to bra-free easier?
  • Start doing push-ups (do them against the wall to start with, then move to on the ground when you’re able) to build your pectoral muscles which support your breasts. These are “nature’s bra”. Even after breastfeeding 3 children, my breasts don’t sag very much because the musculature underneath and above the breast tissue is strong (okay, and because they’re not heavy).
  • Wear silk or elasten(nylon) or cotton camisoles, or tank tops (undershirts) instead of a bra. 
  • If you just can’t get your head round going bra-free in public, then go bra-free the second you walk in the door to your home, and only wear a bra when you go out. If this means you have to change in and out of your bra several times a day, do it.
  • Show the research to your husband, boyfriend and enlist his help and support in your endeavor.
  • Check out this link :   http://www.televantage.in/ProductDetails/SlimNLift/Home




Friday 20 July 2012

The Benefits Of Steam Cleaning


What are the benefits of steam cleaning?
  • Steam is a natural source using just clean water to create a powerful cleaning force.
  • The abscene of potentially harmful and expensive chemicals make it an extremely easy, safe and cost effective way to clean round your home.
  • Steam leaves no toxic residues on surfaces and won't stain clothing.
  • Steam kills well known bacteria such as e-coli, listeria, and salmonella.
  • Using only water means it's environmentally friendly as well.
  • Steam cleaner are not one application appliances they can be used virtually anywhere for a wide variety of tasks. They are more versatile than a vacuum cleaner.


How does steam clean?

It's very simple really!
Dirt and grime have adhesive qualities that enable them to stick onto all types of surfaces. The heat of the steam melts the adhesive and the dampness of the steam dilutes the adhesive. A wipe with a cloth quickly clears the dirt or grime away.
How does a Steam Cleaner work?
  • Clean water is poured into a container which uses a heating element to boil the water, and steam is created.
  • The steam is transferred through a hose or nozzle which has a cleaning tool attached to it.
  • Steam can continue to be produced until the water container has exhausted it's supply
What can I steam clean?

Steam Cleaners have many uses around the home, garden, car, utility vehicle and mobile homes on all types of surfaces including cleaning:



Bedroom/Lounge
  • Windows & window frames
  • Mirrors
  • Curtains, drapes, blinds *(not draylon or velvet)
  • Flooring & Carpets Upholstery *(not draylon or velvet)
  • Fire Surrounds (non electric)
  • Hearths
  • Painted surfaces
  • Great for removing pet from carpets and upholstery
Kitchen
  • Stubbon fats and grease from cookers, oven tops and grills or barbecues.
  • Tiled floors and walls
  • Getting rid of the "black spots" from grouting
  • Taps
  • Disinfect work surfaces
  • Fridges & Freezers
  • Defrost freezers in a fraction of the time
Bathroom
  • Around taps and shower heads
  • Disinfecting toilet bowls
  • Tiled floors and walls
  • Shower screens or curtains
  • Getting rid of the "black spots" from grouting
  • Porcelain or chrome
In the Garden
  • Outdoor plastic furniture or fibreglass
  • Garden tools such as lawnmowers
  • Disinfecting soil
  • Killing weeds in patios
  • Cleans away algae from swimming pools
In the Car/mobile home/SUV/Boats
  • Fabric, leather or vinyl seats
  • Dashboards
  • Storage Wells
  • Carpets
  • Great for removing pet hair from seats
On clothing
  • Remove wrinkles from clothing in seconds
  • Refresh the appearance of a garment
  • Helps removes odours from clothing
Other home uses
  • Jewellery
  • Shoes and boots
  • High Chairs and eating surfaces
Other odd ball uses
  • Disinfecting beehives
  • Disinfecting hay
  • Flattens out knitwear off a knitting machine