Sunday, November 11, 2012

Mono No Aware: The Essence of Japan

Mono no aware: the Japanese beauty aesthetic

Mono No Aware: The Essence of Japan

Meaning beyond doubt "a sensitivity to things," mono no aware is a concept describing the essence of Japanese culture, invented by the Japanese literary and linguistic expert expert Motoori Norinaga in the eighteenth century, and remains the central artistic imperative in Japan to this day. The phrase is derived from the word *aware*, which in Heian Japan meant sensitivity or sadness, and the word mono, meaning things, and describes beauty as an awareness of the transience of all things, and a polite sadness at their passing. It can also be translated as the "ah-ness" of things, of life, and love.

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Mono No Aware: The Essence of Japan

Mono no aware gave name to an aesthetic that already existed in Japanese art, music and poetry, the source of which can be traced directly to the introduction of Zen Buddhism in the twelfth century, a spiritual philosophy and practise which profoundly influenced all aspects of Japanese culture, but especially art and religion. The fleeting nature of beauty described by mono no aware derives from the three states of existence in Buddhist philosophy: unsatisfactoriness, impersonality, and most importantly in this context, impermanence.

Mono No Aware: The Essence of Japan

Mono No Aware: The Essence of Japan

According to mono no aware, a falling or wilting autumn flower is more beautiful than one in full bloom; a fading sound more beautiful than one clearly heard; the moon partially clouded more arresting than full. The sakura or cherry blossom tree is the epitome of this concept of beauty; the flowers of the most notable variety, somei yoshino, nearly pure white tinged with a subtle pale pink, bloom and then fall within a particular week. The branch of a thousand poems and a national icon, the cherry blossom tree embodies beauty as a transient experience.

Mono no aware states that beauty is a subjective rather than objective experience, a state of being finally internal rather than external. Based largely upon classical Greek ideals, beauty in the West is sought in the ultimate perfection of an external object: a notable painting, excellent model or intricate musical composition; a beauty that could be said to be only skin deep. The Japanese ideal sees beauty instead as an sense of the heart and soul, a feeling for and appreciation of objects or artwork--most ordinarily nature or the depiction of--in a pristine, untouched state.

An appreciation of beauty as a state which does not last and cannot be grasped is not the same as nihilism, and can great be understood in relation to Zen Buddhism's philosophy of earthly transcendence: a spiritual longing for that which is infinite and eternal--the source of all worldly beauty. As the monk Sotoba wrote in *Zenrin Kushū* (Poetry of the Zenrin Temple), Zen does not regard nothingness as a state of absence, but rather the affirmation of an unseen that exists behind empty space: "Everything exists in emptiness: flowers, the moon in the sky, beautiful scenery."

With its roots in Zen Buddhism, *mono no aware* is bears some relation to the non-dualism of Indian philosophy, as associated in the following story about Swami Vivekananda by Sri Chinmoy:

*"Beauty," says [Vivekananda], "is not external, but already in the mind." Here we are reminded of what his spiritual daughter Nivedita wrote about her Master. "It was dark when we approached Sicily, and against the sunset sky, Etna was in petite eruption. As we entered the straits of Messina, the moon rose, and I walked up and down the deck beside the Swami, while he dwelt on the fact that beauty is not external, but already in the mind. On one side frowned the dark crags of the Italian coast, on the other, the island was touched with silver light. 'Messina must thank me,' he said; 'it is I who give her all her beauty.'" Truly, in the absence of appreciation, beauty is not beauty at all. And beauty is worthy of its name only when it has been appreciated.*

The founder of *mono no aware*, Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801), was the pre-eminent expert of the Kokugakushu movement, a nationalist movement which sought to take off all exterior influences from Japanese culture. Kokugakushu was enormously influential in art, poetry, music and philosophy, and responsible for the revival while the Tokugawa period of the Shinto religion. Contradictorily, the sway of Buddhist ideas and practises upon art and even Shintoism itself was so great that, although Buddhism is technically an exterior influence, it was by this point unable to be extricated.

Meaning beyond doubt "a sensitivity to things," mono no aware is a concept describing the essence of Japanese culture, invented by the Japanese literary and linguistic expert expert Motoori Norinaga in the eighteenth century, and remains the central artistic imperative in Japan to this day. The phrase is derived from the word aware, which in Heian Japan meant sensitivity or sadness, and the word mono, meaning things, and describes beauty as an awareness of the transience of all things, and a polite sadness at their passing. It can also be translated as the "ah-ness" of things, of life, and love.

An appreciation of beauty as a state which does not last and cannot be grasped is not the same as nihilism, and can great be understood in relation to Zen Buddhism's philosophy of earthly transcendence: a spiritual longing for that which is infinite and eternal--the source of all worldly beauty. As the monk Sotoba wrote in Zenrin Kushū (Poetry of the Zenrin Temple), Zen does not regard nothingness as a state of absence, but rather the affirmation of an unseen that exists behind empty space: "Everything exists in emptiness: flowers, the moon in the sky, beautiful scenery."

With its roots in Zen Buddhism, mono no aware is bears some relation to the non-dualism of Indian philosophy, as associated in the following story about Swami Vivekananda by Sri Chinmoy:

"Beauty," says [Vivekananda], "is not external, but already in the mind." Here we are reminded of what his spiritual daughter Nivedita wrote about her Master. "It was dark when we approached Sicily, and against the sunset sky, Etna was in petite eruption. As we entered the straits of Messina, the moon rose, and I walked up and down the deck beside the Swami, while he dwelt on the fact that beauty is not external, but already in the mind. On one side frowned the dark crags of the Italian coast, on the other, the island was touched with silver light. 'Messina must thank me,' he said; 'it is I who give her all her beauty.'" Truly, in the absence of appreciation, beauty is not beauty at all. And beauty is worthy of its name only when it has been appreciated.

The founder of mono no aware, Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801), was the pre-eminent expert of the Kokugakushu movement, a nationalist movement which sought to take off all exterior influences from Japanese culture. Kokugakushu was enormously influential in art, poetry, music and philosophy, and responsible for the revival while the Tokugawa period of the Shinto religion. Contradictorily, the sway of Buddhist ideas and practises upon art and even Shintoism itself was so great that, although Buddhism is technically an exterior influence, it was by this point unable to be extricated.

Mono No Aware: The Essence of Japan

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Midlife crisis In Women

Life is a cycle of seasons, and the transitions between seasons can be worrisome. Often there may be minor disruptions in life style, which are soon resolved. But when they persist, there is a crisis. Midlife is one such period which has been recognized as a period of potential crisis.
Midlife sets in somewhere between the end of the 30s and the late 40s. It is determined from the premenopausal years that occur later. Up till the 1900s, only about 10% of women reached middle age. Their roles were well defined within the wee sphere of home and family, as wife, mother, domestic drudge. Midlife urgency was unheard of.

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The Therapeutic benefit of Poetry

Poetry Therapy and the Impact of Poetic Dialogue

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From the beginning of time, poetry has been a means for habitancy to express their deepest emotions and originate healing in ritual and ceremony. In Greek mythology, we know that Asclepius, the God of Healing, was the son of Apollo, god of poetry. Hermes served as messenger between the two worlds to recapitulate between the gods and humanity. He carried the caduceus, "the winged rod with two serpents intertwined, which has come to be a fastener of the healing profession" (Poplawski, 75). Poems have also been viewed as carriers of messages from the unconscious to the conscious mind. Wherever habitancy regain to mark a moment, they speak from heart to heart, with poetry.

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In the counseling office, possibly you have read a poem to a client that seemed to capture an issue she/he was struggling with, offering not only understanding, but hope. After the tragedy of 9/11, the airwaves and internet rang with poems of solace. When war in Iraq was imminent, a website developed where habitancy could send poems expressing their feelings: Poets Against the War. Within days, thousands of poems were posted.

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Mary Oliver, in her poem, "Wild Geese," says, "Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine." (Oliver, 110) Joy Harjo, in "Fire" says. "look at me/I am not a cut off woman/I am the continuance/ of blue sky/I am the throat of the mountains." (Harjo, 25) The fourteenth century Persian poet Lala speaks about poetry:

I didn't trust it for a moment
but I drank it anyway,
the wine of my own poetry.

It gave me the daring to take hold
of the darkness and tear it down
and cut it into itsybitsy pieces. (Barks, 11)

These are lines to carry in our hearts, because they open us to beauty, a sense of self, healing, truth, and human connection, and all this in just a few words!

At conception, we are born to the rhythm of the heart, growing in the fluid darkness until one day we stretch our way into light. With our first cry, we make our first poem, a sound that reverberates in our mother's heart, and when she cries in response, we hear our first poem. And so it continues, the voices of those who care for us transport all of the emotions we will come to know as our own, words, that if written down, would be poetry. It's that simple. Poetry is giving sound and rhythm to silence, to darkness, giving it a shape, turning it to light. When we read a poem that speaks to our experience, there is a shift, a click within. Man has understood our darkness by naming their own. We feel less alone. Therapeutically, the "I" of us gathers energy and insight. Our world expands.

The following poem illustrates the view of writing a poem to give darkness and suffering a voice. It was written by a participant in Phyllis' poetry therapy group, part of an arduous day treatment program for women addicted to alcohol and drugs. This poem states the truth of the author's taste in a haunting and beautiful way, giving the reader the opportunity to recapitulate to what it feels like to be "broken."

Today I didn't care
whether or not they stared
didn't have time to put on airs.

Yesterday was a different story
wanted to look like a morning glory
fresh and arresting couldn't tell
I was up all night.

Sometimes I can hide behind
my colored lines other times
I feel like a stained glass
window that's just been shattered
pretty pieces everywhere. (Klein, 16)

Rather than diminish the excellence of the poet's art, the poetry therapist enhances it. Poet Gregory Orr, in his book Poetry and Survival says "...the elaborative and intense patterns of poetry can...make habitancy feel safe...the great disordering power of trauma needs or demands an equally distinguished ordering to comprise it, and poetry offers such order" (Orr, 92). Poetry structures chaos.

Dr. James W. Pennebaker, one of the most widely published researchers on the benefits of writing, says in his book, opportunity Up: The healing Power of Expressing Emotions, that writing about emotional topics improves the immune system by reducing "stress, anxiety and depression, improves grades in college (and) aids habitancy in securing new jobs." (Pennebaker, 40). "Disclosing secrets beneficially reduces blood pressure, heart rate, and skin conductance." (Pennebaker, 52). Gregory Orr says that when we share secrets "we take a small step from survival to healing; a step analogous to the one a poet makes when he or she shares poems with other reader or an audience." (Orr, 88)

In a therapeutic environment, the trained facilitator addresses the healing elements of poetry: form and shape, metaphor, metamessage, the words chosen, and the sounds of the words together (alliteration and assonance). These elements, in association with each other, carry the weight of many feelings and messages at once, creating a link from the private internal world to external reality, from the unconscious to the conscious.

Because a poem has a border, a frame, or structure, as opposed to prose, the form itself is a security net. Strong emotions will not run off the page. A poetry therapist might ask his/her clients to draw a box in the center of the paper and write the words inside. Metamessage implies the capability to carry several messages in one line that "strike at deeper levels of awareness than overt messages" (Murphy, 69). Through the capacity to transport multi-messages, clients are able to taste merging as well as individuation/separation. The poem allows for a trial divorce and then a return to the therapist for merging and "refueling" Through the therapist's insight of the poem. If the therapist says he/she appreciates a single metaphor and how the words flow, the client feels loved and heard. In reading a poem aloud, the client may come to be caught up in his/her own rhythms and feel caressed.

An prominent inquire students of poetry therapy ask is how to find the right poem to bring to a group or individual. The best poems to start with are those that are understandable, with clear language, and a strong theme, as well as emotions that reflect some hope. other critical element is that the poem must resonate with the mood and/or situation of the group or individual. This is called the isoprinciple, a term also used in music therapy for the same purpose. Dr. Jack Leedy says that "the poem becomes symbolically an understanding- someone/something with whom he/she can share his/her despair" (Leedy, 82)

A woman in Perie's cancer/poetry withhold group recently published a book of her poems and writings titled, I Can Do This: Living with Cancer-Tracing a Year of Hope. This title contains the critical word hope, for that is what we need in our lives to withhold us and heal. In her poem. "The Uninvited Guest," Beverley Hyman-Fead writes:

I feel fortunate my tumors came to me
in the fall of my life...
I'm grateful for this uninvited wake-up call, ...
Would I have appreciated the beautiful
images the moon makes in the still of the night?
No, I have my tumors to thank for that. (54)

She was able to write this poem in response to a Rumi poem called "The Guest House." This poem, written so long ago, reframes the meaning of suffering saying:

This being human is a guest house,
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, A depression, a meanness....

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows...

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond. (Barks, 1995, 109)

Perie chose this poem to bring to the cancer withhold group because it might engage the concentration of the group members, possibly to think about how their illness was a "guide," and what they had learned about themselves in the struggle. other prominent response might be: "This makes me so angry! How could I ever want to invite in the darkness?" whatever the emotional reaction, the poem is a catalyst for helping the reader to access and express feelings in a supportive, safe environment. Reading a poem a second time helps the client feel even more deeply the content and emotion. Also, lines spoken easily will often form the first lines of poems.

After a poem is read, the therapist might then ask participants for lines in the poem that speak to them, or to which lines they are most drawn. This might be followed by questions for argument of an emotional nature. Considering the Rumi poem, the therapist might propose they discuss: What am I to taste in this life? What am I not arresting in? How can my place of work or home be a Guest House? How is the Guest House like your heart? Comments center colse to what the poem emotionally means to the reader, not what the poem means intellectually. Through group discussion, time to write and read what was written in the group, both members and facilitator can learn to think differently, possibly applying newly formed concepts to existing behaviors and attitudes.

For instance, if one has felt like he/she was victimized by illness, Through argument and writing of this or other pertinent poem, she/he might be enabled to begin reasoning about how to move toward acceptance. Even writing about rage toward illness is an prominent step. There is a beginning of some resolution within the poem. Rumi says to be grateful, and in her poem, Beverley, who is far along in her emotional healing process, is able to thank her illness, which gives her hope.

Another kind of healing that poems can provide is illustrated by poems written in response to the other. Here are excerpts from poems that Perie and Phyllis wrote:

Maybe angels are

mistakes
corrected,
old times resurrected, misguided love
back on procedure to lift the inner flute...
The moon is ripe with hope

but don't look there, angels hover
at elbow bend, between your toes
rows of them, wings of leaves or breeze...
Notice when they arrive
how their wings vary,
some traditional-fully feathered...
others blossomed like heather...

There are those with only goosebumps
not always on the back,
and some no wings at all,
just scratched knees trying to get off the ground.
- Perie Longo

Phyllis responded:

Maybe angels
were with me the day
my sister and husband were run down
on the road in New York, guided my
thoughts to what it would feel like to get hit
as I crossed the street in San Francisco.

Surely angels, familiar with misfortune
and urgency rooms,
watched as my sister and her husband,
almost as big as a small
bear, stepped off the curb, his size what saved them.

Accident angels hovered, caressed, willed them
to survive. Saw the ambulance come.

Did friendship angels, familiar with compassion and coincidence,
know I wouldn't be told for a week?
Did they bring me to the sangha* and the trainer who spoke
about bearing unbearable pain?

Perhaps they remember what it was like to walk,
have shoulders without wings.
Do they know when humans will enter the next life,
and when the unopened tulips
on my table will bloom, die, resurrect?

*sangha-a Buddhist congregation

Gregory Orr talks about "The Two Survivals"-survival of the poet, in that the poet struggles to engage with the disorder to write a poem, and in the act of writing, "bring order to disorder." The other survival is that of the reader, who connects with poems that "enter deeply into" him or her, prominent to "sympathetic identification of reader with writer." (Orr, 83-84) This kind of association can be heightened with direct dialogue because the reader and writer cross back and forth from one role to the other, deepening the possibility for empathy and sympathetic identification.

To elaborate this concept, we return to the two poems we wrote about angels. Perie wrote her poem when her daughter was going Through a very difficult period. For Perie, the whole poem is for her daughter whose nickname was "angel-pie." The last three lines of the poem, and some no wings at all /just scratched knees/trying to get off the ground, is a message to encourage and empower her daughter, and more broadly for whatever who is feeling discouraged, traumatized, or troubled. When Phyllis received Perie's poem, she took the theme of angels and wrote her own family story about terrible pain and hope. The poems transcend the theme of angels because there is an even deeper content here-the theme of commonplace habitancy becoming heroes, and the rebirth and reconciliation that can come from tragedy. Also, as is often the case with poetry, there is an unconscious association as both authors write about family.

In speaking about poetry, it is also prominent to identify that it can be an intimidating form of expression, carrying with it a need for perfection or a feeling like "I could never write a poem-my writing isn't good enough." In poetry therapy with groups or individuals, poems are never edited. Editing belongs in a poetry-for-craft setting. The objective of poetry therapy is to use the poem as an entry point for the writer, and it is a helpful way to work with transcendence of the inner editor, that resides in us all. To address a way to think about writing poetry, we turn to the words of our colleague, Robert Carroll, Md, who writes,

Read it aloud
pass it Through your ears
enjoy the
ride and
know
the dissimilarity between poetry and prose
is that poetry is broken
into lines-
that is all.
(Carroll, 1)

Anyone can write poetry! It is our natural right and human instinct. All we have to do is allow the words to move and inspire us. The National association for Poetry Therapy (Napt): Promoting growth and healing Through language, symbol, and story (http://www.poetrytherapy.org), has much useful information on its website together with more examples of how to use poetry therapy with clients. We, in the Association, are like-minded psychiatrists, psychologists, college professors, communal workers, marriage and family therapists, and educators-all of us are also poets, journal writers, and storytellers who have experienced healing Through the written and spoken word, and want to share it with other clinicians as a skill they might like to develop. Poetry for self-expression and healing is used with mothers, children, and adolescents; battered women, the elderly, the depressed, the suicidal; those living with terminal illness, the bereaved, those with Hiv, the mentally ill, and now hurricane victims and soldiers returning from Iraq who suffer post traumatic stress. We also change poems with each other, over the country, that have been productive in helping others heal. This change continues the healing rhythm and heart of poetry therapy.

As Jelaluddin Rumi says:

Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing there is a field. I'll meet you there. (Barks, 1995, 36 )

Let's find each other along the way.

References

Barks, C. (tr.) (1992). Naked Song. Maypop Books.
Barks, C. (tr.) with John Moyne. (1995). The critical Rumi. Ny: Castle Books.
Barks, C. (tr.) and Green, M. (1997). The Illuminated Rumi. Ny: Broadway Books.
Carroll, Robert, Md, (2005) "Finding Words to say it: The healing Power of Poetry" eCam 2005:2(2)161-172.
Harjo, Joy, (2002), How we Became Human, Ny: W.W. Norton and Company.
Hyman- Fead, B. (2004) I can do this/ Living with cancer: tracing a year of hope. Santa Barbara Cancer Center: Wellness program Publishing.
Klein, Phyllis, ed. (2001). Our Words-The Women of Lee Woodward center Speak Out, Sf: Phyllis Klein and Women and Children's Family.
Leedy, J.J. (Ed.). (1985) Poetry as healer: Mending the troubled mind. Ny: Vanguard. Orr, G. (2002) Poetry as survival. Athens, Ga: The University of Georgia Press.
Murphy, J. M. (1979). The therapeutic use of poetry in Current Psychiatric Therapies, vol. 18. Jules Masserman, ed. Ny: Grune & Stratton, Inc., pp. 65-72.
Oliver, M. (1993). Wild geese. New and excellent poems. Boston: Beacon Press.
Pennebaker, J. (1990) opportunity Up: The healing power of expressing emotions. Ny: Guilford Press.
Poplawski, T. (1994) Schizophrenia and the Soul in The Quest, August, 74-79.

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However, the 20th century has seen an startling lengthening of the life span, with women living well into their 7th or 8th decade. So, around 40 years or thereabouts, when the firm of child bearing is over, and children begin to enounce their independence, there looms before women a stretch of life that appears to be like a vacuum. Husbands may also be passing straight through their own midlife crisis, and are like irritable hedgehogs. Or in a reversal of roles, they come to be overly dependent on their wives. Women begin to feel trapped.

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Midlife crisis In Women

A woman may feel that life is passing her by. "Who am I?" she wonders. "Does my life count for anything?" An inexplicable loneliness overcomes her as though she has no real self identity. Conscious of her gradually fading charm and energy, she sinks into depression. This feeling of worthlessness is compounded if there is marital dissatisfaction. The 20th century saw revolutionary changes taking place in every aspect of life. Education, employment face the home, collapse of the joint family system, migration to the impersonal atmosphere of cities, changing sex roles, women's liberation movements, youth culture, and rapid advances in Science and technology - these have created a kind of insecurity in the former woman. As she tries to keep pace with changing times, stress becomes her portion.

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It is against this background that Midlife urgency assumes significance. Either single, married or widowed, approximately 2/3rds of women pass straight through this phase. A occupation oriented spinster high up in the supervision hierarchy suddenly decided that she cannot live alone anymore. She conjures up pictures of being incarcerated in some Home for the Aged, and the prospect alarms her. So she frantically advertises in the newspapers for a suitable spouse, and may imprudently select an undesirable mate, or enter into a live-in relationship. A sober middle aged widow may conclude to give herself a new image. She may visit a beautician to have her hair styled, her eyebrows plucked, and her wrinkles ironed out with Botox. She may even begin to use heavy make-up and dress like a teenager. She may flirt outrageously with eligible men, or have an affair with someone younger than her son. Population notice, gossip and snigger, but the woman throws propriety to the winds, and is brazen about her behavior.

A spinster with unfulfilled maternal desires may conclude to have a baby out of wedlock or offer to 'rent her womb.' Some psychologists say that Midlife urgency is just a suitable excuse for irresponsible behavior. But it can be argued that if this was the case, why wait till middle age to indulge one's self? Middle Age is merely a transitory phase, and is not something to be feared but welcomed. urgency ordinarily occurs when there is a lack of preparation. E. M. Blaicklock says "Middle Age is the time when life's fruits begin to ripen."

It must be prepared for. It is a time to take stock of one's self, and scrutinize one's life style. One needs to recognize factors that can lead to a urgency and address them individually. Is there fear of losing one's youth, sex petition and beauty? Do a few strands of grey, or sagging breasts or weight gain originate panic? One psychiatrist says, "Feeling good and looking good is related to a balance between mind and body." And Longfellow assures us that "Age is no less an occasion than youth itself, though in someone else dress."
Exercise, a balanced diet, relaxation, and a general interest in the world around, will put the brightness back into middle aged faces.

Has the marriage association come to be boring? Then one needs to put more exertion into changing it. A wee more loving, communication and caring can go a long way in setting things right. The husband may also be passing straight through midlife urgency and may be disinterested or unable to retort to her feelings. A woman must therefore enounce her needs directly and specifically, manufacture him understand that she is passing straight through a difficult phase and wants his understanding and love. A good husband will not only be emotionally supportive of his wife, but also give her the space she needs to construct her sense of self worth. If a woman is suddenly widowed in middle age, her depression may increase. Or she might rush into an affair which is not a sensible thing to do while under stress.

For a woman who has spent the best years of her life being an exemplary mother, who has found identity and fulfillment in her children, the realization that they don't need her anymore, and a wide generation gap is developing between them, makes her feel marginalized and useless. Midlife is also a time when one becomes vulnerable healthwise. Diseases like obesity, hypertension, diabetes, the need for diet restriction, medication, exercise, make her Conscious of her mortality. She begins to brood over her situation and gets bogged down in self pity. Dwindling money resources and stringencies brought on by retirement, also pose a threat to her peace of mind.
All these stress factors have a snowballing effect, which can undermine a woman's self reliance and bring about altered behavior like, depression, irritability, irrational behavior, assertiveness or abnormal sexual interest. In fact, this phase is like passing straight through a 'second emotional adolescence.'

Anticipating and establishment for middle age can make the transition smoother. Life doesn't end at that stage. Floyd and Thatcher say, "Middle Age is a time for discovery, not stagnation. It is a time ripe for fresh beginnings - a threshold to a rich stimulating future. If approached with good humour and flexibility, and an openness to change, the middle years and beyond can be the best half of life." Life has many distinct seasons. At each season a woman needs to reassess her values from distinct perspectives. Either single, married or widowed, she needs to bloom in her own identity, and not be a rubber stamp of her husband or a door mat for her children; nor should she let herself be exploited even by her own family. She too must be a decision maker and enounce herself when necessary.

Hobbies and new interests make life interesting. "Unlock your creativity," exhorts Ann Morrow Lindbergh. Music, reading, travel, painting are mood elevators.

Good friends are assets in difficult times. They act as confidantes or as sounding boards when one needs to get something off one's chest. They lend maintain in times of stress and depression. Groups like "Emotions Anonymous" help its members to open up and talk about their problems. They learn from each other's experiences and help each other mutually, to redefine their ideas and values. They come to be happy and confident. Artificial props like drugs and alcohol are not the answer, neither is an extra marital affair a solution. It may only lead to guilt feelings that are hard to shake off.

Husbands and children must realize that their supportive love can work magic in overcoming midlife crisis. But unless a woman verbalizes her needs and fears, they cannot know.
Finding time for introspection, refusing to condemn one's self for imaginary short comings, and an awareness of the temporary nature of such a crisis, is half way to overcoming it. Population tend to put God last when faced with a crisis. Paul's words in Philippians 3:13 are encouraging. "I am still not all I should be, but I am bringing all my energies to bear out one thing; forgetting the past, and looking to what lies ahead." Prayer surmounts many a crisis.

Midlife is the pre- autumn season of one's life. Autumn is sure to follow, and will light up one's personality with the golden hues of maturity and peace. Life will begin again with a new vision for what is left of the future.

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Upon waking up (and before breakfast), your levels should be in the middle of 80 and 120. This is considered to be a salutary range.

Before meals your levels should also be in the middle of 80 and 120.

Two hours after you eat meals, your levels should be 170 or less.

Before lunch, it should drop back down to 80-120.

Before you go to bed, it is ideal to be in the middle of 100 and 140.

At 3am (while sleeping), it is ideal to be in the middle of 70 and 110.

While fasting, it is ideal that you stay in the 70 to 100 range.

The numbers from this chart will help give you a good idea of normal blood glucose ranges; however, you may want to ask your condition care victualer where exactly your range should be at (during each of the above events). It is leading to receive frequent testing as this can reduce the risk of having complications from your diabetes.

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Repeat blooming plants are the hottest plants for gardening today - and for good reason. Either it is hydrangeas, daylilies or iris, with today's smaller gardens, the desire is for more flowers from a limited space. An ideal way to achieve this is with plants that bloom more than once per year. This week we are featuring one of the few repeat blooming deciduous shrubs and virtually the only repeat blooming viburnum - plicatum tomentosum 'Summer Snowflake.'

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Two attributes set 'Summer Snowflake' apart from other plicatum Viburnums - repeat blooms and contract growth habit. In the spring, 'Summer Snowflake' will bloom with clusters of white flowers that succeed along the horizontal stems, creating a duplicate row of blooms on each side. This bloom pattern gives 'Summer Snowflake' its tasteless name - doublefile viburnum. The spring blooms are followed by cycles of blooms throughout the summer. Because it uses so much of its energy repeatedly flowering, 'Summer Snowflake' grows more compactly than is typical for Viburnum plicatum. It matures at about six feet tall and five feet wide. Like so may repeat blooming plants, maximum bloom will be achieved if 'Summer Snowflake' is kept actively growing with ample water and fertilization.

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'Summer Snowflake' has dark green oval leaves that can reach up to five inches long. The foliage turns a rusty red to bronze in the early fall and the flowers give way to inviting red berries that are relished by the birds. 'Summer Snowflake' is easy to grow and it is rarely troubled by pests and diseases. It can be planted as a specimen, used for screening or in a spot in the foundation planting where a slowly tall deciduous shrub is called for.

To view Viburnum Summer Snowflake visit the Carroll Gardens website

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Saturday, October 6, 2012

Nopalea - Wellness From Sonoran Bloom and the Nopal Cactus Fruit!

Most of us know Nopalea or the Nopal Cactus by its coarse name, prickly pear. It is a very popular cactus plant. It has been exported to many parts of the world and you'll find it in most cactus gardens. Its scientific name is Opuntia Streptacantha and is a species of cactus native to the Sonoran Desert region of the U.S. And Mexico. The inhabitants of Mexico and the Southwest United States have used both the Nopal bloom and the pad for food and healing. Yet, this extremely nutritious food has never been plan of as food by most of us. Yet, it remains a fact that it is extremely nutritious and contains unique phytonutrients. I find the extra antioxidant known as betalains to be especially interesting.

Nopalea - Wellness From Sonoran Bloom and the Nopal Cactus Fruit!

Nopalea - Wellness From Sonoran Bloom and the Nopal Cactus Fruit!

Nopalea - Wellness From Sonoran Bloom and the Nopal Cactus Fruit!

Betalains appear to be especially useful in promoting health all the way down to the cellular level. Betalains have the potential to help fight off toxic invaders that can generate illnesses, especially those connected with inflammation which can put us at risk for continuing disease.

The Nopal cactus has been called a "superfruit," because it contains this rare class of betalain antioxidants that are extremely potent, and the Nopal cactus fruit contains one of the highest concentrations of betalains found in all of nature.

More than 100 studies show the power of betalain antioxidants, and how useful they are in protecting against an unseen war of environmental toxins. Betalains are the pigments that give the Nopal cactus fruit its vibrant pink color. But that's just the beginning. They're also natural antioxidants -- and they're only found in a few of the world's plants.

The Nopal fruit isn't just included in this small group of extra plants, it in fact leads the group by containing one of the highest amounts of betalains in all of nature.

When betalains are ingested into our system, they begin to restore vitality on a cellular level. By helping the body cut the toxins surrounding our cells and enabling valuable nutrients to reach each cell, the betalains found in the Nopal fig can cut the inflammation in the body that leads to disease.

Scientific research shows that betalains help to:
* Reduces the risk of blood clots-betalains safe the thin lining of your blood vessels; this helps cut the inflammation that makes your blood sticky and leads to clots.
* Reduces bad cholesterol-betalains strongly cut oxidized Ldl cholesterol.
* Protects cells from toxins-betalains safe many types of cells, especially brain cells, from toxins known to trigger tumors.
* Protects your liver-betalains supply valuable protection from toxins that directly influence your liver.

A new nopal wellness drink that is made from the nopal cactus fruit provides an easy way to fetch the benefits of the betalain antioxidants. Many of the benefits are not immediately observable, but I have been using the product for about a month and consideration my joints are pain free. I'd sort of forgotten how this feels, but it's a great feeling.

References:

"Antioxidant betalains from cactus pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) inhibit endothelial Icam-1 expression." C Gentile, L Tesoriere, M Allegra, M A Livrea, P D'Alessio Dipartimento Farmacochimico, Tossicologico e Biologico, Università di Palermo, Italy.

Allegra M, Tesoriere L, Livrea Ma. Free Radic Res. 2007 Mar;41(3):335-41.

Lee Mh, Kim Jy, Yoon Jh, Lim Hj, Kim Th, Jin C, Kwak Wj, Han Ck, Ryu Jh. Phytother Res. 2006 Sep;20(9):742-7.

Galati Em, Mondello Mr, Lauriano Er, Taviano Mf, Galluzzo M, Miceli N. Phytother Res. 2005 Sep;19(9):796-800. 3 - Lee Mh, Kim Jy, Yoon Jh, Lim Hj, Kim Th, Jin C, Kwak Wj, Han Ck, Ryu Jh. Phytother Res. 2006 Sep;20(9):742-7.

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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Post bloom Tulip Care - Pruning Your Flowers After They Bloom

What tulip care should you use to assert your tulip orchad after tulip petals droop and wilt? The tulip blossoming duration is gorgeous - and swift. Your orchad may show blossoms in early, mid or late Spring, from early April to late early June. Most tulip flowers bloom for about two weeks before the petals curl up and wither.

Post bloom Tulip Care - Pruning Your Flowers After They Bloom

Post bloom Tulip Care - Pruning Your Flowers After They Bloom

Post bloom Tulip Care - Pruning Your Flowers After They Bloom

Tulip bulbs are time absorbing to plant and nurture. Some exotic bulbs are costly. However, tulips can bloom again next year, if you assert them correctly. You can save extra money in the fall, as well as the time and attempt to replant a new tulip garden. If you want to regrow your tulips, the best gardening custom is to "deadhead" those wilted tulip flowers. Why is this important?

When the tulip petals fall from the flower, a seed pod is left on the stem. The tulip plant will continue to feed the seed pod by extracting nutrients from the soil. Since the flower won't bloom again, the seed pod robs the tulip bulb of the energy it needs to regenerate. When the pod is removed, the plant draws energy from the environment and stores it in the tulip bulb. So, if you take off the seed pod, you give the tulip bulb the opportunity to renew itself.

Deadheading a tulip flower is easy to do. Naturally take a pair of orchad shears and snip off the seed pod about one inch below the seed pod on the tulip plant. Once you have removed the flower from the plant, leave the rest of the vegetation alone. Allow the plant dry up and turn brown naturally. Don't even water the plant. After the leaves turn yellow or brown, prune the vegetation down to the dirt.

If you keep the tulip bulbs underground, they will remain dormant until the fall months. In July, you can dig up the bulbs, shave their roots, and allow them to dry. Place the bulbs in a plastic bag and freeze them until fall planting season. Allow the tulip bulbs to warm up to room temperature and then replant them.

Despite the best care, tulip bulbs do not all the time grow back again the following year. Many bulbs will re-flower for one-to-two years. However, the tulips will be smaller and have less vibrant colors. Make sure to replenish your garden. Purchase and plant more bulbs in the fall, at a density of five bulbs for every quadrilateral foot of orchad space.

Get the best prices on tulip bulbs by pre-ordering them in late spring and summer when nurseries offer a sale on bulbs. If you want a specific tulip species, you will receive a great opportunity of getting it, if you pre-order. Many on-line orchad centers warrant your order and hold your shipment until the planting season in September. If you wait to order your bulbs in the fall months, you may pay more and the flowers you want may not be available.

Practice good tulip care. Prune and deadhead your tulip plants at the right time. You can get a jump start on next year's garden.

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Friday, August 31, 2012

How Carbon Dioxide is Formed

Some moving minds think about how carbon dioxide is formed. Carbon dioxide that is gift in the climate is a chemical compound that is composed of two oxygen atoms that are covalently bonded to a carbon atom. Carbon dioxide is a gas if at approved temperature and pressure and exists at this form in the earth's atmosphere. It is estimated that the attentiveness of the gas is at 387 ppm by volume but this estimate is about to change due to human activities.

How Carbon Dioxide is Formed

How Carbon Dioxide is Formed

How Carbon Dioxide is Formed

Also the attentiveness of this gas varies by seasons due to some factors. So the examine about how carbon dioxide is formed is just easy to answer. The attentiveness of the carbon dioxide will fall while the spring since this is the time when plants are in full bloom and these plants suck in the carbon dioxide. The attentiveness of the carbon dioxide starts to shoot up once again while fall and winter as this are the times when most plants go dormant, die and these plants decay. But the attentiveness of this gas in the earth's climate is foreseen, to rise in the next few years. Because of human activities, the attentiveness of this gas has risen in the last 150 years.

How carbon dioxide is formed and multiply? This compound increases and the formation of new carbon dioxide can be traced as well to a estimate of reasons but it is straight through human activities that this gas has formed to report levels. Based on some facts, around 22 percent of the current atmospheric carbon dioxide can be directly traced to the actions of humans. This gas is formed and produced by animals, plants, fungi and other organisms while their respiration process, and parts of these are absorbed by the plants around for photosynthesis to happen. This gas is also formed as a by-product of the combustion process of the fossil fuels in cars.

Volcanism is someone else source of this gas on earth. From such natural activity, how carbon dioxide is formed? The emissions that can be traced to volcanic operation are determined as minor in terms of global scale. someone else event that helped in the formation of the gas is the land-use change. For example, the thorough deforestation that is happening right now contributes a necessary division of the gas. It has been estimated that these changes in land use has led to the emission of at least 1.7 Pg C every year in the tropics. Stationary sources of energy can be partly blamed as well for the formation of carbon dioxide. The yield of electricity particularly the coal-burning sector contributes in the generation of the gas. Other sources that are stationary comprise the commercial sector, the emissions coming from oil extraction, the refinement and the transportation of oil and also the domestic and the commercial fossil fuel use. Aside from stationary sources that can form these gases, movable sources are great contributors as well. The transport-related yield of this gas has been growing for quite some time. These movable sources comprise road transport, air and marine transport. Industries as well those are non-energy associated helps in the formation and the creation of this gas. Examples of industries are the lime and the cement factories. And ultimately biomass burning is a contributor as well.

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Mono No Aware: The Essence of Japan

Mono no aware: the Japanese beauty aesthetic

Mono No Aware: The Essence of Japan

Mono No Aware: The Essence of Japan

Mono No Aware: The Essence of Japan

Meaning nothing else but "a sensitivity to things," mono no aware is a understanding describing the essence of Japanese culture, invented by the Japanese literary and linguistic master master Motoori Norinaga in the eighteenth century, and remains the central artistic imperative in Japan to this day. The phrase is derived from the word *aware*, which in Heian Japan meant sensitivity or sadness, and the word mono, meaning things, and describes beauty as an awareness of the transience of all things, and a diplomatic sadness at their passing. It can also be translated as the "ah-ness" of things, of life, and love.

Mono no aware gave name to an aesthetic that already existed in Japanese art, music and poetry, the source of which can be traced directly to the introduction of Zen Buddhism in the twelfth century, a spiritual doctrine and practise which profoundly influenced all aspects of Japanese culture, but especially art and religion. The fleeting nature of beauty described by mono no aware derives from the three states of existence in Buddhist philosophy: unsatisfactoriness, impersonality, and most importantly in this context, impermanence.

According to mono no aware, a falling or wilting autumn flower is more gorgeous than one in full bloom; a fading sound more gorgeous than one clearly heard; the moon partially clouded more curious than full. The sakura or cherry bloom tree is the epitome of this understanding of beauty; the flowers of the most famous variety, somei yoshino, nearly pure white tinged with a subtle pale pink, bloom and then fall within a single week. The subject of a thousand poems and a national icon, the cherry bloom tree embodies beauty as a transient experience.

Mono no aware states that beauty is a subjective rather than objective experience, a state of being finally internal rather than external. Based largely upon classical Greek ideals, beauty in the West is sought in the extreme perfection of an external object: a famous painting, perfect sculpture or intricate musical composition; a beauty that could be said to be only skin deep. The Japanese ideal sees beauty instead as an feel of the heart and soul, a feeling for and appreciation of objects or artwork--most generally nature or the depiction of--in a pristine, untouched state.

An appreciation of beauty as a state which does not last and cannot be grasped is not the same as nihilism, and can best be understood in relation to Zen Buddhism's doctrine of earthly transcendence: a spiritual longing for that which is infinite and eternal--the source of all worldly beauty. As the monk Sotoba wrote in *Zenrin Kushū* (Poetry of the Zenrin Temple), Zen does not regard nothingness as a state of absence, but rather the affirmation of an unseen that exists behind empty space: "Everything exists in emptiness: flowers, the moon in the sky, gorgeous scenery."

With its roots in Zen Buddhism, *mono no aware* is bears some relation to the non-dualism of Indian philosophy, as connected in the following story about Swami Vivekananda by Sri Chinmoy:

*"Beauty," says [Vivekananda], "is not external, but already in the mind." Here we are reminded of what his spiritual daughter Nivedita wrote about her Master. "It was dark when we approached Sicily, and against the sunset sky, Etna was in dinky eruption. As we entered the straits of Messina, the moon rose, and I walked up and down the deck beside the Swami, while he dwelt on the fact that beauty is not external, but already in the mind. On one side frowned the dark crags of the Italian coast, on the other, the island was touched with silver light. 'Messina must thank me,' he said; 'it is I who give her all her beauty.'" Truly, in the absence of appreciation, beauty is not beauty at all. And beauty is worthy of its name only when it has been appreciated.*

The founder of *mono no aware*, Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801), was the pre-eminent master of the Kokugakushu movement, a nationalist movement which sought to remove all exterior influences from Japanese culture. Kokugakushu was enormously influential in art, poetry, music and philosophy, and responsible for the revival while the Tokugawa duration of the Shinto religion. Contradictorily, the affect of Buddhist ideas and practises upon art and even Shintoism itself was so great that, although Buddhism is technically an exterior influence, it was by this point unable to be extricated.

Meaning nothing else but "a sensitivity to things," mono no aware is a understanding describing the essence of Japanese culture, invented by the Japanese literary and linguistic master master Motoori Norinaga in the eighteenth century, and remains the central artistic imperative in Japan to this day. The phrase is derived from the word aware, which in Heian Japan meant sensitivity or sadness, and the word mono, meaning things, and describes beauty as an awareness of the transience of all things, and a diplomatic sadness at their passing. It can also be translated as the "ah-ness" of things, of life, and love.

Mono no aware gave name to an aesthetic that already existed in Japanese art, music and poetry, the source of which can be traced directly to the introduction of Zen Buddhism in the twelfth century, a spiritual doctrine and practise which profoundly influenced all aspects of Japanese culture, but especially art and religion. The fleeting nature of beauty described by mono no aware derives from the three states of existence in Buddhist philosophy: unsatisfactoriness, impersonality, and most importantly in this context, impermanence.

Mono no aware states that beauty is a subjective rather than objective experience, a state of being finally internal rather than external. Based largely upon classical Greek ideals, beauty in the West is sought in the extreme perfection of an external object: a famous painting, perfect sculpture or intricate musical composition; a beauty that could be said to be only skin deep. The Japanese ideal sees beauty instead as an feel of the heart and soul, a feeling for and appreciation of objects or artwork--most generally nature or the depiction of--in a pristine, untouched state.

An appreciation of beauty as a state which does not last and cannot be grasped is not the same as nihilism, and can best be understood in relation to Zen Buddhism's doctrine of earthly transcendence: a spiritual longing for that which is infinite and eternal--the source of all worldly beauty. As the monk Sotoba wrote in Zenrin Kushū (Poetry of the Zenrin Temple), Zen does not regard nothingness as a state of absence, but rather the affirmation of an unseen that exists behind empty space: "Everything exists in emptiness: flowers, the moon in the sky, gorgeous scenery."

With its roots in Zen Buddhism, mono no aware is bears some relation to the non-dualism of Indian philosophy, as connected in the following story about Swami Vivekananda by Sri Chinmoy:

"Beauty," says [Vivekananda], "is not external, but already in the mind." Here we are reminded of what his spiritual daughter Nivedita wrote about her Master. "It was dark when we approached Sicily, and against the sunset sky, Etna was in dinky eruption. As we entered the straits of Messina, the moon rose, and I walked up and down the deck beside the Swami, while he dwelt on the fact that beauty is not external, but already in the mind. On one side frowned the dark crags of the Italian coast, on the other, the island was touched with silver light. 'Messina must thank me,' he said; 'it is I who give her all her beauty.'" Truly, in the absence of appreciation, beauty is not beauty at all. And beauty is worthy of its name only when it has been appreciated.

The founder of mono no aware, Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801), was the pre-eminent master of the Kokugakushu movement, a nationalist movement which sought to remove all exterior influences from Japanese culture. Kokugakushu was enormously influential in art, poetry, music and philosophy, and responsible for the revival while the Tokugawa duration of the Shinto religion. Contradictorily, the affect of Buddhist ideas and practises upon art and even Shintoism itself was so great that, although Buddhism is technically an exterior influence, it was by this point unable to be extricated.

Mono No Aware: The Essence of Japan

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Orchid Care - 7 vital Tips to guarantee Your Orchids Continue to Bloom

Orchids are famous because of their flowers. With so many varieties of colorful and fragrant flowers, no wonder they are a gardener's favorite. These plants can even produce blooms over and over for many years. To help you continue having anticipated flowers year after year, here are 7 tips you can follow:

Orchid Care - 7 vital Tips to guarantee Your Orchids Continue to Bloom

Orchid Care - 7 vital Tips to guarantee Your Orchids Continue to Bloom

Orchid Care - 7 vital Tips to guarantee Your Orchids Continue to Bloom

Making the right cut. Orchids can bloom from any weeks to months when cared for properly. But no matter what you do, the time will come that the flowers will show signs of wilting and drying. When this happens, the immediate and correct thing to do is to cut the flower stalks off. Some may think that this is a weird tip or even a waste of good flowers. But this is exactly what your orchids need and most orchid care resources you'll find right now will tell you the same thing.

You see, flowering takes out a lot of energy from an orchid. Cutting the flower stalk early on before the blooms totally wilt will save energy and make sure the plant stays healthy. One requirement for orchids to continue to bloom is exactly this. They must be in a excellent and salutary condition.

Be sure that when you cut them use scissors or knives that are sterilized to avoid infection. The location where to cut depends on the size of your plant. A small plant may be cut an inch from its base. If it's a large orchid, cut it above its node. Then to sterilize it completely, try to put a dab of rubbing alcohol on the cut stem.

Time to propagate. One mistake that most orchid growers make that interrupts the flowering cycle of a plant is when propagating. Remember to only divide and repot new buds when you are sure that your plant can take it. Its age will tell you that. So divide only mature plants. What you have to know is that only ripened pseudobulbs produce flowers. Department interrupts the flowering cycle of an orchid.

Because producing blooms takes a lot of energy, it cannot do both. If you wish to successfully have new blooms the succeeding season then wait for the right time to propagate.

The correct temperature. Orchids need a specific temperature to bloom. Most orchids wish a 10 to 20 degree drop of temperature at night to successfully produce flowers. Learn to provide the temperature your orchid needs. Daytime temperature also matters. Too high of a temperature can instantly produce blooms but won't last as long. Too low of a temperature will cause you the flowering buds - they will frost and die.

Research and find out the best temperature for your orchid. Distinct species of orchids have varying temperature needs. Providing the correct temperature will successfully produce blooms for the next flowering season.

Provide sufficient moisture. In order for buds to produce flowers, they need to be watered regularly. Orchids when budding tend to lose a lot of moisture and although buds are made up of mostly water, it will not be sufficient for the whole plant. Monitor the moisture article of your plant. If they lose too much water the buds may die and fall off. But be sure not to over-water them because this too will kill a plant instantly.

Providing the correct number of water all year round will also ensure you having blooms for the next year. A good rule to effect is to provide extra moisture when the weather is hot and less when it colder. Wait for the medium or compost to dry out before watering again.

Adequate sunlight. another valuable orchid care tip for re-blooming orchids is providing them sufficient light. Any plant needs good amounts of lights in order for it to flower properly. One sure way to make sure they are receiving the correct number of light is by checking their leaves. Yellowish leaves mean they need more sunlight and dark green to even reddish leaves mean they need less. An uber-healthy plant that can produce great flowers has yellow-green leaves.

The permissible fertilizer. Orchids are at their weakest state after blooming. While this time feed your plants the best fertilizer you can find. Experts do not always say what kind of fertilizer this is, so it's best to check by asking pro growers and propagators. A good plan to effect is fertilizing them once a month. Remember not to fertilize them excessively or you'll damage or even kill the plant.

Proper food straight through fertilizers will ensure your plants are salutary sufficient for the next season of flowering. Take time to investigate what type is best for your orchids.

Study the flowering cycle. One of the best ways to make your orchids bloom again is to study their flowering cycle. Some orchids can flower only once a year, some any times a year. Learn the best orchid care you can provide based on their cycle, and sure sufficient you will have long continuing plants that can produce blooms when the right time comes.

No matter what happens, make sure that your orchids are always healthy. This and only this can make sure that your plants will have regular blooms. There is no specific orchid care recipe for every particular species of orchid but if you effect these straightforward tips, you will have salutary plants ready for their next flowering cycle. Happy blooming!

Orchid Care - 7 vital Tips to guarantee Your Orchids Continue to Bloom

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Monday, July 23, 2012

energy Solutions for Your Home

Going green is an prominent part of our daily lives. We can save money from less energy consumption as well as do good for the environment. Knowing the steps you can take to ensure that your home is running efficiently is going to save on your bill and make you feel good about your energy use. There are many energy solutions that can help you obtain these goals.

energy Solutions for Your Home

energy Solutions for Your Home

energy Solutions for Your Home

In the winter you can expend a lot of energy straight through gas use. One of the first steps you can take is to switch from your Utility business to a energy aid company. They can furnish gas at a lower price than your Utilities, recovery you a percentage on your bill. It is all the time good to shop around and see where you can get the best deal with a natural gas supplier.

You can also use electronic thermostats to control how often you heat the house. You can set a timer for the heat to only turn on at clear points of the day so that you aren't wasting energy while you aren't home. You can also set a climatic characteristic for the house to be heated too before the boiler automatically shuts off. Keep it as a fairly low climatic characteristic that will still be comfortable. The high 60s is ordinarily a good place to set it.

Another one of the most used energy solutions is to take it upon yourself in insulate your windows and doors. This can be as easy as cover the windows with saran wrap to help keep cold drafts from arrival in. You can also use towels or even buy cushions that are made to be slipped under a door to block the bottom and keep cold air out. Make sure all your windows are locked as even the locks being open can cause the window to not be as air tight, creating more of a draft.

Winter is not the only time that energy solutions are handy. Your air conditioners use a lot of electricity in the summer. Instead of wasting it and seeing your electricity bill is sky rocketing, you can do uncomplicated things to ensure you pay less and waste less. Close doors in any rooms that have an air conditioner turned on. An open door will let the cold air out, causing the Ac to work harder to keep the room cool, which in turn wastes electricity.

Keep the Ac in the minimum setting if possible. While we all love blasting it when we first get home from a hot day, it takes a lot of energy to keep that going. Keep it low, close the door, and before you know it the room will be more than comfortable. Remember, you just need the room to be at a decent temperature, not frozen cold.

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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Thick Blood - What to Do About It

Have you been diagnosed with thick blood by your doctor? Has he suggested you consider a designate drug like Warfarin or Heparin? Maybe she's even suggested a daily baby aspirin. Well there are alternative treatments for thick blood that don't involve precious prescriptions. Especially since both Heparin and Warfarin come with their own unique side effects.

Thick Blood - What to Do About It

Thick Blood - What to Do About It

Thick Blood - What to Do About It

The reason thick blood is a problem is because it slows the body from releasing toxins (that's the word for cellular waste) and it slows the body's quality to get the good stuff to the cells. That's two unique problems that are affecting your everyday life.

To help quell both problems immediately, exercise that makes you sweat helps speed the blood up. By forcing the heart to work harder, you physically pump the thick blood to all the cells. This process helps remove the toxins and delivers the good stuff. It also gets the lymphatic law going (that's the part where you sweat) and allows toxins to leave your body through the skin. That's the immediate, yet daily, fix.

Diet is other issue you could start to improve. Don't search for "think blood diet" because you won't find anyone more than this: stay away from white flour, sugar, corn syrup and high fats. (That's the diet that solves everything, isn't it?) Just getting rid of those isn't the fix. By getting rid of those things, you're forced to look for other, healthier options when you're hungry. That's why that diet plan works. When you take those things out, you basically start eating healthy. There's no miracle there.

However, if you want a miracle - add an antioxidant nutritional supplement to your diet. Not just any one - but one that contains proanthocyanidins. These are antioxidants like Opc's, resveratrol and pine bark extract (Pycnogenol as one firm calls it). The one antioxidant supplement that of course focuses on solving the thick blood problem is Opc Factor, by Cell Essentials. Opc Factor contains all the proanthocyanidins involved with the fix of vein and artery walls as well as blood clean agents.

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Rose Color Meaning - Symbolism

There are so many dissimilar kinds of roses and colors. There is a roses color meaning for each dissimilar color. Automatically everybody can see the symbolism of love with all kinds of roses, but the true symbolism comes from the color of the bloom. Here is a list of most colors.

Rose Color Meaning - Symbolism

Rose Color Meaning - Symbolism

Rose Color Meaning - Symbolism

The Red Rose: This rose is the most popular of all roses. This is rose symbolizes love, the deepest love, passion and romance. They can also symbolize courage, perfection, and beauty. The darker, burgundy roses can symbolize something gorgeous that is not recognized.

The Lavender Rose: A gorgeous rose with a symbolism for elegance, royalty, and enchantment. Romantic expressions are often used to symbolize romance. It can be used to mean love at first sight. Of all the roses, this is the best way to show appreciation.

The Pink Rose: For a gentler affect, the pink rose out does the red. Light pink symbolizes happiness, elegance, grace, admiration, fun, and sweetness. Darker pink roses mean you want to show appreciation or gratitude.

The Blue Rose: A emblem of great mystery. This rose symbolizes a true desire that can't be obtained. This rose is like a difficulty that cannot be solved. Blue roses cannot be grown without being colored by the grower.

The Coral Rose: These roses can mean you have great passion for something. It can also be a emblem of excitement and desire. This rose is good to give, to show appreciation for someone else's accomplishments. These are the roses of good luck.

The White Rose: White roses are the symbols of innocence, purity, spirituality, and secrecy. White roses can be given to show great respect. The pedals are often linked with new beginnings and weddings. They are also used for remembrance with funerals.

The Yellow Rose: These pretty flowers are the symbols of new relationships. They can be given to show that you are willing to give someone a second chance. Other meanings are to show friendship, delitght, joy, and happiness. These are most given to graduates, new mothers, and newly weds. Excellent ways ro express kindness.

The Orange Rose: Orange roses are some of the most unique. They have a meaning of energy, enthusiasm, desire, and passion. They are given to help show that someone is ready to move past the "just friends" stage in a relationship. The Excellent way of showing you have desires for romance.

The Peach Rose: The meaning of peach roses are not very clear. They can mean gratitude, but at the same time sympathy. Modesty is an additional one characteristic of this singular rose because of the natural gentleness. Often, the peach rose is given to close a deal.

Rose Color Meaning - Symbolism

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Saturday, April 7, 2012

Colors: Their Connotations and Perceived Meanings

Throughout the ages, colors have been used to evoke inescapable emotions, and an exam of the history of color offers spellbinding insights into the human condition, as well as showing how distinct cultures have developed distinct attitudes about color. Here are a few examples of what assorted colors have come to laid out over the years:

Colors: Their Connotations and Perceived Meanings

Colors: Their Connotations and Perceived Meanings

Colors: Their Connotations and Perceived Meanings

Red

Red has traditionally been connected with courage and love in Western culture, but in China, red is the color of happiness and good fortune. In fact, white has traditionally been the color most beloved for wedding dresses in America, but the Chinese prefer to dress their brides in red.

Orange

Orange is carefully a warm color, maybe because it has evoked the feeling of fire, all the way back to mankind's earliest beginnings. Painting walls a subtle orange, leaning toward a warm brown, stimulates the appetite and can cut tension. However, as the orange color becomes brighter, it begins to take on a high energy feel and can lead to anxiety.

Brown

Brown is someone else warm and comforting color, stimulating the appetite and assuredly production food taste better. That makes coffee brown, in all intensities, with or without the cream, an ideal candidate for dining rooms.

Yellow

Since it's all the time been connected with the sun, yellow has traditionally been carefully a cheerful color. Yellow is also the first color most people see in early spring, when the daffodils begin to bloom. However, there seems to be an East/West cultural divergence when it comes to yellow. The Chinese revere yellow enough to have carefully it the imperial color since the 10th century, yet any Western studies have shown that yellow is many people's least favorite color.

Green

Green is someone else color that has both an up and down side. It's connected with the new increase of spring, prosperity, and clean, fresh air, yet it can also carry a negative connotation, in terms of mold, nausea, and jealousy. Throughout the ages, green has most often been carefully to laid out fertility, and while the 15th century, green was the most favorite selection of for the wedding gowns of European brides.

Blue

Because it's connected with the color of the sea and the sky, blue has come to symbolize serenity and infinity. That's especially true of the more greenish shades of blue, such as aqua and teal. On the other hand, cooler shades of blue can have a tendency to cause feelings of sadness.

Purple

Over the millennia, purple has been connected with royalty in Western civilizations, due to the strangeness and expense complex in producing purple dye, which was made from a particular species of mollusk shell. Even today, when purple can be produced just as inexpensively as any other color, the use of purple is still carefully to laid out elegance and sophistication.

There are stories and connotations for every color, and distinct cultures assign distinct meanings to colors. For instance, American brides commonly prefer white wedding dresses, while many Asian cultures dress their brides in black, reserving white for funerals. But regardless of what culture on is from, one thing is certain: colors will all the time have effects on human beings and should be carefully carefully when decorating a home.

Colors: Their Connotations and Perceived Meanings

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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Compatibility and Numerology- looking the Right Partner for a association

Are you in a great relationship? Do you find that things tend to go smoothly with wee exertion on your part, or do you well have to work to keep things going well? Numerology can tell us if two people are compatible with each other based on their Life Path numbers.

Compatibility and Numerology- looking the Right Partner for a association

Compatibility and Numerology- looking the Right Partner for a association

Compatibility and Numerology- looking the Right Partner for a association

This doesn't mean that relationships can't work in the middle of people with less compatible Life Paths; it just means that these relationships take more work than others.

Life Path Calculation

Your Life Path is your original amount in Numerology; equivalent to your Sun sign in Astrology. It's calculated by adding together all the digits of your full date of birth, and then reducing the sum by fadic addition. We sell out all numbers to a singular digit except the specialist numbers (11) and (22) which we will reconsider as detach Life Path values.

For example, actor Orlando Bloom was born on January 13th, 1977, so his Life Path is a (2) as shown below.

01-13-1977 = (1 + 13 + 1977) = (1991) = (20) = (2)

Determining Compatibility

To resolve if you are compatible with another person. fancy your Life Path value, and then their Life Path value. Then look at the entries below to resolve if you are a compatible match.

Life Path (1)

If your partner's Life path value is (4), (5), or (7) you are very compatible with each other. If your partner's Life path value is (1) or (8) you are slowly compatible with each other.

Life Path (2)

If your partner's Life path value is (4), (6), or (22) you are very compatible with each other. If your partner's Life path value is (2), (3), (7), (9) or (11) you are slowly compatible with each other.

Life Path (3)

If your partner's Life path value is (3), (6), or (9) you are very compatible with each other. If your partner's Life path value is (2) or (22) you are slowly compatible with each other.

Life Path (4)

If your partner's Life path value is (1), (2), (7), or (8) you are very compatible with each other. If your partner's Life path value is (4), (6), or (22) you are slowly compatible with each other.

Life Path (5)

If your partner's Life path value is (1) you are very compatible with each other. If your partner's Life path value is (5), (9), or (11) you are slowly compatible with each other.

Life Path (6)

If your partner's Life path value is (2), (3), (6), or (9) you are very compatible with each other. If your partner's Life path value is (4) or (11) you are slowly compatible with each other.

Life Path (7)

If your partner's Life path value is (1), (4), or (22) you are very compatible with each other. If your partner's Life path value is (2), (7), or (11) you are slowly compatible with each other.

Life Path (8)

If your partner's Life path value is (4) or (22) you are very compatible with each other. If your partner's Life path value is (1) or (11) you are slowly compatible with each other.

Life Path (9)

If your partner's Life path value is (3), (6), or (9) you are very compatible with each other. If your partner's Life path value is (2), (5), (11), or (22) you are slowly compatible with each other.

Life Path (11)

If your partner's Life path value is (22) you are very compatible with each other. If your partner's Life path value is (2), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), or (11) you are slowly compatible with each other.

Life Path (22)

If your partner's Life path value is (2), (7), (8), or (11) you are very compatible with each other. If your partner's Life Path value is (3), (4), (9), or (22) you are slowly compatible with each other.

Compatibility and Numerology- looking the Right Partner for a association

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Friday, March 2, 2012

Bio-Feedback Technology Offers spellbinding Breakthrough to medical corporeal and Emotional Dysfunctions

Some days are more exciting than others. A few days ago, I met with a jobber of an spectacular, feedback tool that has changed the way we look at natural healing methods.

Bio-Feedback Technology Offers spellbinding Breakthrough to medical corporeal and Emotional Dysfunctions

Bio-Feedback Technology Offers spellbinding Breakthrough to medical corporeal and Emotional Dysfunctions

Bio-Feedback Technology Offers spellbinding Breakthrough to medical corporeal and Emotional Dysfunctions

The Qxci/Scio bio-feedback machine runs a scan through your whole body, looking for viruses, fungi and other problems from A to Z--a total of 92,000 areas are checked in a matter of minutes. Using quantum physics, the basis of the Qxci/Scio technology is the transmission of 65 million tiny electron-magnetic signals into the body, many times per second. These pulses map the body and its organs and quote abnormalities. The signals feed back to the Qxci/Scio machine and without the person even being aware of any ensue or any sensation, the machine calculates a mathematical model based on the voltage, amperage and resistance of the body.

Like other bio-feedback machines, connectors are strapped to your body and the computer runs the scan. After my scan, the machine came up with several issues, not unknown to me, but I was surprised they showed up. The machine came up with three isolate readings for thyroid and recommendations for treatment. I opinion I had those issues well treated--but the machine said more work needed to be done. One issue I had not thinkable, to have reported was a mouth sore--I didn't have one, so I thought, and the cynic in me left feeling slightly triumphant. The next morning, sure enough, a mouth sore was in my right cheek--just as the machine had indicated. Wow! I was shocked. How could this machine detect something that hadn't appeared?

Detection is based on quantum physics (energy). The energy in one's body changes, whenever, something is 'brewing' or in full bloom. The mouth sore was 'brewing' but had not erupted yet. Unfortunately, although forewarned, I didn't forearm. The machine suggests and tests for the suitability of homeopathic remedies. It also works with the person's unconscious and subconscious. How can that be, you might exclaim. quantum physics (energy) is the answer. Your unconscious/subconscious thoughts are energy and the machine can detect the energy of anger, sadness, panic, anxiety, etc.

The machine reveals if your hydration is sufficient. Mine is not and I know that--and the machine detected that my hydration is low. The machine also detects the presence of worms, viruses, bacteria, toxins, and fungi.

The machine can treat the issue through energy impulses radiating into the area. My left hip rotates slightly due to an injury sustained when I was 10-years-old. I faithfully work with a chiropractor to keep the hip in the permissible position, but the muscle in the hip and lower back area is sensitive to exciting from sitting to standing. After a few minutes of rehabilitation the sensitivity disappeared. With that I was a believer and advocate. I am such an advocate, I bought a machine and I am taking training and will add the Qxci/Scio machine to my 'bag of professional tricks,' along with hypnosis and regression productive May 1, 2006. To date there are 18,000 machines in use worldwide.

After twenty years of research, Professor William Nelson invented the Qxci/Scio machine. It is the first of its kind to use a double Blind approach. By dealing on a subconscious level, only the theory is aware of the thousands of items being tested. Neither the operator nor the person being tested can influence the scan. In less than five minutes, this non-invasive scanning process can screen the following.

o Food Sensitivities

o Nutritional Deficiencies

o Spinal/Cranial Sacral

o Dental/Tmj

o Adrenal Function

o Environmental Factors

o Hormone Levels

o Mental Energy

o Organ Function

o Hydration/Oxygenation

o Acid/Alkaline Balance

o Toxicities--exposure to excess chemicals, heavy metals, mercury

o Trauma (damage)--includes physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual

o Pathogens--bacteria, fungi, viruses, parasites

o Homeopathic Therapy

o Allergy Testing & Desensitization

o Meridian Therapy/Electro-Acupuncture

o Chakra Balancing

o Weight-Loss Remedy

o Risk Profile Analysis

o Anti-Aging Remedy

o Emotional Release

o Auto-Frequency Remedy

o Color Remedy

o Electrodermal Screening

Born in the U.S. And currently living in Budapest, Hungry, Professor William Nelson, is a world renowned scientist and previous Apollo task engineer. In 1970, when Apollo experienced sailing problems, he had the vision and skills to suspect the mathematics to reprogram the gyros and Apollo landed safely. His expertise includes: quantum Biology, Energetic Medicine, Homeopathy, Holistic healing and Naturopathy.

Bio-Feedback Technology Offers spellbinding Breakthrough to medical corporeal and Emotional Dysfunctions

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Saturday, October 6, 2012

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Thursday, October 4, 2012

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Friday, August 31, 2012

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

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Orchid Care - 7 vital Tips to guarantee Your Orchids Continue to Bloom

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Monday, July 23, 2012

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Sunday, June 17, 2012

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Saturday, April 7, 2012

Colors: Their Connotations and Perceived Meanings

Colors: Their Connotations and Perceived Meanings

Colors: Their Connotations and Perceived Meanings

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Compatibility and Numerology- looking the Right Partner for a association

Compatibility and Numerology- looking the Right Partner for a association

Compatibility and Numerology- looking the Right Partner for a association

Friday, March 2, 2012

Bio-Feedback Technology Offers spellbinding Breakthrough to medical corporeal and Emotional Dysfunctions

Bio-Feedback Technology Offers spellbinding Breakthrough to medical corporeal and Emotional Dysfunctions

Bio-Feedback Technology Offers spellbinding Breakthrough to medical corporeal and Emotional Dysfunctions