Enemies Of Success

What prevents us from success? Negativity, fear and worry. It is up to you to decide whether you will become a master or a creature of circumstances.

It depends on the direction in which we set our faces and how persistently follow the road upon which we set foot. Facing the right direction is the main thing. If, then, we have backbone and stamina and a fair degree of good cheer – which, if pursued persistently, will lead to a merry heart all along the way.

Our thought is the key, sturdy and defiant thought the look. Whichever way we look, we will find that thought is at the bottom of all progress or retrogression, of all that is desirable or unendurable in human life, it is a matter of sequence that follows the elemental law of cause and effect.

Fear Is Not Natural

Everyone has the power of determine what types of thought we entertain and live with. James Allen said:”A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. He can only remain weak and abject and miserable by refusing to live up to his thoughts…Action is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are tis fruits; thus does a man garner in the west and bitter fruitage of his won husbandry.”

There are natural emotions and thoughts follows the train only good, normal, god-intended. Among these are hope, faith, courage, good cheer, love, harmony, compassion, forgiveness, and peace, that are positive, and uplifting and bodybuilding. They act upon the life forces within so as to stimulate the circulation and the process of nutrition, or even restore and to maintain harmony, and make both for mental and physical health and strength and vigor.

Oppositely,  there are thoughts and emotions are not perversions, unnatural and abnormal, such as fear, worry, long continued grief, anger, hatred and avarice, that considered as low types of thought and emotions, can produce disturbance and generate weakness in both mind and body. They lead to retrogression rather than to growth. We will see them work through a slow, corroding, pulling down process; or quick-acting in their poisoning, destructive influences.

Fear Factor

When fear becomes sufficiently deep-seated, we invite and attract the influences and conditions we desire.  The operation of the thoughts and emotions are subtle yet powerful, so we must look for the bulk of whatever comes into our lives. A deep psychological law says:”for the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and what which I was afraid of is come unto me.”

People who have grown habitually timid in their minds and spirits and whose bodies have been reduced to a low and sluggish tone through the influences. The number of people living way below par, mentally and physically as an effect of fear and worry is simply enormous. Additionally this general lowering of practical all bodily functions and peers, in thousands of cases fear and worry focus their effects on specific ailments and disease, according to the particular weaknesses of the individual in whose life they gain a foothold. The law of correspondence is wonderfully exact in its workings.

We remain continual salves to the hosts of things that we fear come and that we ceaselessly worry about, and in reality we often find out that these things hardly ever come.

Commanding Figures Do Not Fear

We fear what is ours today may not be ours tomorrow, fear for the lost of position or possession or friends, fear of accident, fear of disease, fear of death; or fear that something will befall this one or that one near or dear to us. We fear while inside – that something may happen, though we do not know what. When out on God’s road highway we fear that the bogeyman, in whatever form he may take any particular life, will stalk across our path.

We must take ourselves out of the class of fear and afraid, the abnormal. The commanding figures in life do not fear. The others, who are giving time to fear, are allowing the neutralizing and even paralyzing power of this perverted mental force to work its havoc in other lives. They are seeing the ideal they would actualize or attain to, and then setting into activity strong, definite types of thought-force that are hourly working for them along the negative lines they are going.

Protect Your Interior Treasure

Fear and worry steal the effectiveness from human endeavor and happiness. To reach the point where we in time become free from them is a matter of self-control. You can keep your mind true to the idea and the purpose, it is simply a matter of time you will have taken yourself entirely out of the class of the fear and afraid, the get nowhere.

Habit of fear and worry will have to bear the same stigma that others who lack self-control along other lines are compelled to bear today. We habitually concern ourselves with so many things that we really need not concern ourselves with for small matters of mere detail, instead of concerning our primarily with the fundamental, and allowing the attars of detail to fall in place naturally and of their done accord.

We get so accustomed to running in ruts that we can never hope for anything other than a limited or a one-sided development, unless we do this occasionally. We remember that by fear and worry nothing is ever to be gained, but much is always to be lost. By this negative attitude of mind, we open the doors many times for the entrance of the very conditions we fear many come upon us.

Unlimited Boundary

Fear is as direct a line of relationship as love. It is not the amount w expend that counts, but the way in which we spend it. When we spend last dollar knowing, internally, that it is impossible for us to become penniless, we then get a position which will not only let that dollar go, but will bring us another over the same line of transference.

Most of people do this without knowing the laws they are setting into motion. We must know how to look behind the things created into the energy that creates, and this recognition held steadfastly brings life into relation with higher liens of attraction.

The positive and constructive use of the power of mind with a definite goal in view will invariably result in advancement, attainment and achievement. We must also learn the full use of mind, and as it applies the use of the whole mind – deeper mental fields and forces, and to understand the subconscious as well as the conscious.

What we put consume for our bodies affects everything, emotionally and physically including our sexual desire. Empty calories and fatty treats just don’t cut it in the boudoir, as poor eating contributes to an expanding waistline and crumby sheets kill the sexy mood. Saturated fats and sugar zap the body’s stores of zinc, mainly a key player in all things amorous. Zinc improves sex drive, and heightens the senses of taste and smell.

Recent years, power balance wristband has become to a popular product involving a large industry and consuming market. While a big group of critics believe it is a scam, others think it is working as function of body balance. Are these power balance claims based on proof or is it just a scam? Is it just another new age cutting edge innovation that exaggerates its usefulness besides being an accessory?

Everyday I have seen it is undeniable that power balance wristbands have gone into the American mainstream. From glance of magazines, or casually spot celebrities, we found high profile athletes just like anyone else who have already emphasize the reason to add a bit of performance advantage, wearing them day in and day out. What do you believe? I guess that we would have to judge ourselves whether its real of fake. Belief is the core culture that keeps this whole nation going.

Is This True New Age Gimmick?

We have not seen any scientifically proof for these wristbands as power balance devices even they are over-hyped marketing heat. Lots of people who bought it and use it or give away as gift because of the millions of advertisements splashing to our heads. You might hear people bad mouths this product but you have not tried, then as soon as you I put on and instantly people were asking all about it. You think this is very impressive around your wrist and is well worth it, because you believe that you just look like those athletes on TV!
How could such a wristband dramatically improve your performance by enhancing your balance? Flexibility instantly is pretty much a mystery in the eyes of scientific community.

Skeptics would argue that many anecdotes and claims of the players about the positive effect are just merely placebo effect. With sports personalities, celebrities and sports magazine going crazy over this product , there seems to be tremendous amount of hype generated along with claims over the internet with people saying that it brings tremendous benefit in their game and overall activity.

What’s It Worth?

These power balance wristbands mostly are sold from $25 to $65 each. Amazon has some incredible deals, check out the Monster Energy Bracelet Wristband which sells for $7 bucks from an original price of $35. Some critics pointed out that these bands that likely cost $1 to make. Many people demonstrated that how all the “tricks” the salesman pulled on customers worked (balance, flexibility, etc) and you will be completely stunned. People post blog on line to warn consumer to be alerted as ripoff or scam – It’s a plastic band with a holographic sticker mixed with a bit of mindful trickery and placebo.

After an Australian Competition and Consumer Commission study, the Power Balance company has admitted there is no credible scientific evidence to show that these bands do anything, and if you purchased one in Australia, you are entitled to a refund.

From the corrective advertisement statement made by the company: ”We admit that there is no credible scientific evidence that supports our claims and therefore we engaged in misleading conduct in breach of s52 of The Trade Practices Act 1974. If you feel you have been misled by our promotions, we wish to unreservedly apologize and offer a full refund.”

The Hologram Effect

Hologram is the one that is embedded with power balance wristband that apparently makes it powerful. So how does hologram works in this one? Power Balance is akin to the Chinese concept of Qi. Harnessing the natural energy of the body by enhancing the positive and beneficial energy order to achieve the optimum athletic performance and well being. Since pretty much everything is vibrating with frequency some frequency does damage to your body while others tend to beneficial. Within the context of ‘Qi’ energy system, if you stimulate vital point or meridian, you also improve the flow of beneficial energy. So when you attach these hologram into your body’s energy field, the energy of the hologram contained in the disk stimulates the helpful frequency flowing through your body. The best way to balance is to practice Tai Qi.

Athletes Performance

Is the latest craze among many pro athletes because of the performance enhancing effect the feel they get when wearing this bracelet. According to the manufacturer, Power Balance uses a hologram technology that interact with your body’s frequencies that is beneficial to balance, flexibility and strength and it also has an effect on overall well being.
Power Balance is a favorite among athletes because it can boost balance, strength and flexibility:

• Improves Flexibility
• Better Balance
• Longer Muscle stamina
• Worn by many pro athletes
• Increased Core Strength

Celebrity Power Balance

There are many famous people from different field are using power balance wristband:

• Shaquille O’Neal -Basketball
• Andy Irons – Surfer
• Cristiano Ronaldo – soccer Real Madrid
• Rubens Barrichello – F1 driver
• Actor Russell Crowe
• Shannan Ponton – The Biggest Loser trainer
• David Beckham – soccer

Athletes Power Balance Experience

“Power balance gives me an edge physically, it keeps me centered and for me center and balance are the most important thing.” says Ekolu Kalama – Stand up paddle board.
“Power balance is a remarkable product. Not only does it help me and my team with our balance and endurance on the ice, it also helps my mom live and feel better in her daily routine.” says Teemu Selanne – Hockey Player
“It is amazing how I feel better, stronger and more flexible when I exercise. I especially feel a difference on the track.” says Rubens Barrichello
So after all, what do you think? We love to hear your opionon. Please drop your comment on our blog.

What causes stress to us? Change. 3 key driver of change – people, technology and information.
Mother earth produces more people from under 1 billion before 1860′s and today we are over 6 million. By the year of 2040, we will reach to 10 billion.
Count on yourself for reducing stress. Human create technology serving us as we expect the rate of change to follow the population growth. Information and knowledge reach far more people, far faster than ever before. So look out! If change and stress are connected which they are, life isn’t going to get any easier.
Neither “fight” nor “flight”- our bodies instinctive choices in response to stress-offers much promise of a lasting solution to the situation.
The secret is surrender. Surrendering to change does the most to eliminate the stress, going with change rather than against it turns its power to our advantage, its strength comes ours.
The principles of Give Up, Toughen Up and Wise Up, these simply means we surrender, tolerance and pay attention to how we are making our life more difficult for ourselves.

The following15 mistakes you must avoid to improve your skill dealing with stress:

Mistake 1. Expect Others To Reduce Your Stress

Do not count on anyone else coming along to relieve your stress. Put yourself in charge of managing the pressure. There is a good chance your are the only one in your work situation who will, or even can, do much to lighten your psychological load.

Mistake 2. Decide Not To Change

The organization is going thru changes, it must if it is to survive and prosper in the long run. Rather than banging your head against the wall of hard reality and bruising your spirit, invest your energy in making quick adjustments. Turn whenever the organization turns and practice instant alignment. Your own decisions may do more to determine your stress level than anything the organization decides to do.

Mistake 3. Act Like A Victim

Accept fate, and move on. Don’t yield to the seductive pull of self-pity, at least for any prolonged period of time. Behaving like a victim endangers your future and you’re better off if you look resilient and stay productive. Just be proud, pick up the pieces, and start getting your career back together.

Mistake 4. Play New Game By Old Rules

Study the situation intently. Figure out how the game has modified, how priorities have been reordered. Decide which aspects of your job you ought to focus on to leverage up your effectiveness the most.

Mistake 5. Shoot For A Low-stress Work Setting

Do not fall into the trap of believing there is such a thing as low-stress organization that’s on track to survive. Serve your best interests by aligning without outfit that is got the guts to endure the pains of change.

Mistake 6. Control The Uncontrollable

Ask yourself if you are in the position to control. Sometime the most mature, most dignified, and most sensible move is to nobly accept what we cannot change.

Mistake 7. Choose Your Own Pace Of Change

Keep in step with the organization’s intended rate of change, march to the cadence that is being called by the people in charge. Do not lag behind. There is little chance a lull will come along and give you a chance to play catch-up.

Mistake 8. Fail To Abandon The Expendable

Re-engineer your job. Eliminate unnecessary steps, get rid of busywork, and unload activities that don’t contribute enough to the organization’s current goals. Focus your efforts on doing The Right Things, and ditch those duties that don’t count much, even if you can do them magnificently right.

Mistake 9. Slow Down

Speed up. Cover more ground, put your faith in action and maximize your personal productivity.

Mistake 10. Be Afraid Of Future

Control your mind. Do not worry about bad things that might happen, and get busy trying to create the kind of future you want. The best insurance policy for tomorrow is to make the most productive use of today.

Mistake 11. Pick The Wong Battle

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

Mistake 12. Psychologically Unplug Fro Your Job

Fall in love with your job and keep the romance alive. Don’t let the stress of change drive a wedge between you and your work. High job commitment is a gift your should give to yourself.

Mistake 13. Avoid New Assignment

Stretch yourself today, so you will be in better shape tomorrow. Reach for new assignments that broaden your skill base. One of the best techniques for stress prevention is to keep updating your skills so you are highly employable.

Mistake 14. Try To Eliminate Uncertainty And Instability

Develop a great tolerance for constant changes in the game plan, allow a little confusion in your life. Think your job as having movable walls – flex to fit the immediate demands of the situation, instead of struggling to make the job adapt to you.

Mistake 15. Assume Caring Management Should Keep Your Comfortable

Be careful in what you use as evidence to evaluate how much the organization cars about people. High stress and heavy pressure may provide the best proof that management’s heart is in the right place. Keeping you comfortable could be the most cold-blooded management move of all.

There are a few surprises lurking inside your bones, and youthful habits can even affect bones in old age. Read on to find out more about this living—yes, they’re alive!—tissue.
A group of osteoblasts cells are constantly churning out new bone, while a second set destroys bone by gobbling it up like Pac-Man. This constant tug of war between creation and destruction is called bone remodeling. It’s the reason bones regenerate after a break, grow rapidly during youth, and, unfortunately, decline later in life when the balance tips toward destruction.

Invest Active Life Style

Playing sports, lifting weights, running, and almost any activity that moves muscle will trigger your bones to lay down more minerals and get stronger and more dense. Since bone density peaks around age 30 and then starts to slip away, the more you build in youth, the more you’ll have to “spend” later. When you have more money in the bank prior to bone loss, you won’t reach a level of deficiency that sets you up for fracture.

Watch Your Regular Hormone

Young women who stop having a regular period get a steep hormone drop that mimics menopause, which leads to bone loss. Anorexia in particular can harm bones by halting menstruation. If women don’t menstruate or under-menstruate, it’s like going through menopause in their 20s or 30s instead of their 50s, and the associated drop in estrogen causes the bone remodeling process to speed up and become imbalanced.

Control Your Alcohol and Smoke

Too much alcohol hurts your liver, brain, and other parts of your body, and also a big problem for bones. Heavy drinkers tend to lose bone density, and when these levels gets low enough, it’s called osteopenia. This is a milder condition than osteoporosis, but alcoholism or habitual heavy drinking over time can cause calcium deficiency and the more severe bone thinning known as osteoporosis. Smoking is also a risk factor for osteoporosis.

Keep Your Bally Lean

Research suggests that premenopausal women who carry extra fat in their midsection are at increased risk for osteoporosis. Abdominal fat is really bad fat and very metabolically active, that produces all kinds of hormones that can increase inflammation in the body, and the end result of inflammation is increased bone dissolution.

Evaluate Your Medication Regularly

Bone is a major storage pool for calcium and phosphate, and it stores substances like heavy metals in low levels for long periods of time. There are many bone-strengthening medications on the market. But they’re not for everyone
Bisphosphonate drugs (Fosamax, Boniva, Actonel, Reclast) reduce fractures, but they can be tough on the stomach and have been linked in rare cases to fractures and serious jaw problems. Getting reevaluated after three to five years to make sure you still need the medication. Changing drugs or dosages are options. Low-risk patients can even stop the regimen, but they have to be monitored very closely.

Visit Your Dentist

One loss can strike anywhere in the body, and the jaw is not immune. If the jawbone deteriorates or loses density, the result may be loose (or lost) teeth, receding gums, or ill-fitting dentures.
Dentists can pick up on osteoporosis by checking your regular dental X-rays and watching for related health problems, according to the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.

Eat Calcium-rich Food

Getting calcium from your diet rather than supplements. The pills have been linked to kidney stones and studies suggest that heart attack risk is higher in older adults who take calcium than in those who do not. A 2010 Institute of Medicine report suggested that most people in the U.S. are getting enough vitamin D and calcium in their diet without supplements.
Calcium-rich food is great for your bones. Yogurt and cheese, fortified foods, and calcium-rich foods like almonds and green veggies.
Even fruits or vegetables without that much calcium can benefit bones. Fruits and veggies might help buffer acids in the body, and high acid content isn’t good for bones.

Protect Yourself From Injure

Breaking hip is most common in people older than 65, that can be a potentially life-changing or even life-threatening event, and may require surgery and long recovery times. Some never fully recover from a broken hip and have to use a walker or wheelchair.
When a bone breaks, it doesn’t end up any stronger than before the trauma, but that’s not to say a broken wristbone won’t be back to fighting shape after recovery.
Project yourself from falling, breaking bone is the best preventive maintenance for your bone and health after all.

Back exercises is the best treatment and prevention of back pain, and with these exercises you protect your back and eliminate pain forever.

Back exercises work wonders! With good back exercises you can fight back pain and tension. You’d be amazed to see just how many small muscles are connected intimately with the ribs, deeply hidden, the vertebrae in the solder and guaranteed for all support functions also have a sensational mobility for turning, bending and flexing.

Two muscle groups each form a unit, they work against each other depending on the movement, but do so optimally only in a harmonious balance. However, if the stabilizing, holding and supporting abdominal muscles severely weakens – which for most people due to lack of back exercises is the case – to compensate then the back of this deficit and thereby takes damage. And in a world that is designed as ergonomically as never before. Mattresses, office chairs, car seats, countertops, everything back-friendly. Nevertheless, the pain continues to increase, even among young people, the numbers of a study of the health insurance funds (BKK).

In 1998, 53 percent of respondents complained of temporary back-aching, in 2004 there were already 68 percent. However, each institution collects so their numbers. Scientists estimate the potential economic costs of different one – between 20 and 80 billion euros. “We have 10 to 30 billion euros consider realistic,” says Dr. Patricia Hänel from the Institute for Health and Social Research (IGES), “but of course everyone can extrapolate the costs until the last day.” lament of broken cross also questionable whether, to sing the dirge of the broken cross, and always to rely solely on medical treatment, says the neurologist Innsbruck, University lecturer and back specialist Dr. Gerhard Vogl. “Back pain is a part of life as well as stomach or headaches , usually they come and go again, there must not be equal to the physician should be consulted. “But what happens often, because most of the yellow slips are doctors because of back problems. Just visit the doctor makes the situation any better. Nearly 80 percent of the cases is the devastating diagnosis. There is no beginning And the odyssey of the patients. Patricia Hänel “. An English study showed that patients suffer more from the complaints, if their physician is the explanation for the problem of guilt” Then follows the consultation of other medical specialists, and if it is stupid, the pain does eventually independently – the cross with the cross. But in the future everything will be different. The IGES, together with the German Society for the Study of Pain and the pharmaceutical company Grünenthal the disease management program initiated back pain. It structured patient education, including training of GPs and choice and control of a back-activating physiotherapy – runs the test phase.

The musculo-skeletal apparatus of the body is a system of interlocking components: First, the smooth interaction of all parts of complex processes makes it possible – and sports and back everyday. With muscle training you can reach a targeted strengthened abdominal and back muscles. Other training systems geared more toward movements that you make in everyday life more often, for example, you pick up something on the ground below from left to right and put it up on the shelf. Or a two-handed forehand smash cross over the net. Complex processes are therefore also part of programs such as Pilates, Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis – and can just post in people with joint and back problems, good results.

The Kieser Training in contrast, continues to rely on pure strength training. The exercises are performed on specialized equipment.

Pilates

Around eighty years ago that Joseph Hubertus Pilates, his first studio in New York opened. He developed a workout system to improve his poor physical condition. He created the “Universal Reformer”, a traction device that also plays today in the Pilates clubs play a central role. Meanwhile, Pilates exercise has become a cult: actresses and pop icons such as Jodie Foster, Annie Lennox, Madonna and Uma Thurman swear by the benefits of the workout, just as Barbara Becker, with its program, Barbara Becker Pilates . The program now includes more than five hundred exercises. Pilates on the Reformer is so far offered little in fitness clubs. But it is also a version that does not require expensive equipment.

Matwork training

It is widely used in studios as well as for rehabilitation. The basic principle: The muscles, especially in the back and belly, is using specific breathing rhythms simultaneously stretched and strengthened. Especially among dancers and athletes, Pilates is already longer than tip: to prevent or heal injuries. The moves also support the reduction of stress, act as a “slimming”.

Kieser Training

Werner Kieser, a Swiss has now opened some 130 studios. The clubs offer a specific low back pain afflicted “Medical therapy” (MKT). Because of intervertebral disc surgeries, injections, physical therapy and back exercises keeps Kieser not much. What people need above all to the upright life, Kieser, whether muscle strength. His philosophy is based on – among experts still controversial – finding that 80 percent of chronic back pain are due to a single cause: the neglect of the low back extensors muscles, the “erector spinae” group, the fuselage or spinae called. Kieser touts a high success rate for the MKT: At 80 percent of its customers by dsa pain is back training away or greatly reduced.

Gyrotonic

Inventor Juliu Horvath, a former professional dancers, swimmers and gymnasts. His dance career came to a spinal injury due to an abrupt end. The resulting pain caused him to deal extensively with the body. From his experience with sport, yoga, acupuncture and Chinese medicine, he developed the Gyrotonic Expansion System. The spine is the pivotal point of the workouts on specialized machines such as the “Pulley Tower Combination Unit” (PTCU, see photos at right) or the “Jumping Stretching Board”. The training combines Far Eastern knowledge of the body’s energy flow, and modern kinesiology: Gyrotonic incorporates elements of dance, yoga, swimming, gymnastics and tai chi . The devices provide three-dimensional, circular and spiral movements. The muscles are guided through the resistance at the same time stretched, energized and relaxed. Strength, coordination and agility will be developed simultaneously. Through the three-dimensional movements also blockages in the spine – it is flexible and elastic back.

You are on an airplane, traveling through just a couple of time zone can leave you sleepy, fuzzy-headed, and disoriented. After you get to your destination, you are tired, you feel body pain, you cannot sleep due to time zone. You are up all night long, and the second day you are in a meeting, you cannot focus you mind to what people say or do. You lost your energy.

It is helpful if you can take it as priority and make effort to overcome your let lag. You may simply try these following tips to minimize it:

Rest Up

Before a trip you are probably busy preparing and maybe working late, but try to keep to your regular sleep schedule. You don’t want to leave home with a sleep debt.

Fly Right

• On the plane, stay hydrated, walk around, and refrain from alcohol.
• Consider yore final destination: If you are on an international flight, naps might be the way to go; on a shorter trip that arrives in the evening, skip the snoozing so you will be ready to crawl into bed when you arrive.
• Meditation will relax your body and mind.

Go Easy On Email

The metal buzz and light from computer screen caused by sending emails until you head hits the pillow can make it harder to fall asleep. Knocking off any communications about an hour before bed. Instead, read or listen to soothing music.

Exercise

During your trip, take some time for exercise. Go for walk for 30 minutes, or hit a gym; if there is not gym in your hotel, practice yoga in your room. This will circulate your blood and energize your body.

Let There Be Light

Getting light at the right time of day can help reset the body’s circadian rhythm to the current time zone. If you are traveling from west to east, get an hour light (outside of in the hotel lobby) in the morning. Traveling east to west? Light it up in the evening.

Both men and women are not only challenged by stress and pressure from work, family and society, as well as physically we go through different periods and cycles with sexual hormones, menopause or simply just period. Experts provides some natural ways to remedy hormones simply by diet.

Get your mood up with whole grains

Whole grains are packed with the B vitamins, minerals and complex carbs that your brain needs to fire up production of mood-lifting hormones, such as dopamine, endorphins and oxytocin. So slogging along on a low-carb plan means that when your moods start, your brain can’t produce the hormones it needs to chase away the blues and help you feel upbeat. Enjoy three servings of 100 percent whole grain breads or other carbs daily, and you could cut your risk of blue moods by as much as half.

Ease irritability with baked potatoes

Period-triggered hormone surges wreak havoc on the functioning of brain cells, dampening their ability to produce the mood-boosting hormone serotonin — and that can double your risk of irritability and anxiety at a time when what you’re craving is some zen-like calm! One medium baked potato daily during your high-risk time will soothe your jangled nerves within 10 minutes –and help you feel calmer for up to six hours straight. These experts credit the compund tryptophan, found natually in potatoes. This amino acid is the key building block needed to produce serotonin in the brain.

Beat bloating with nuts

Bloating affects about 60 percent of women every month. Blame a troublesome group of hormones called inflammatory prostaglandins. For female,  monthly ups and downs in estrogen fire up the immune system’s production of these compounds, which then circulate all through your body, signaling your tissues to soak up excess fluids instead of excreting them, take half a cup of nuts like almond, walnuts, cashew nuts, pecan daily, and you could cut your bloating by as much as half.  Nuts are packed with alpha-linolenic acid and vitamin E, potent, natural, anti-inflammatories that dial down the formation of prostaglandins, keeping fluid retention low.

Maintain skin beauty with fortified cereal

Many young people, including 1/4 women battle unsightly acne breakouts during their periods, cyclical surges in testosterone, a hormone that ramps up oil production and fosters bacterial growth deep in pores. To prevent this problem, try switching to a fortified cereal like Total Raisin Bran or Total Corn Flakes, instead. Each serving contains 15 milligrams of zinc, a mineral that speeds the growth of healthy new skin cells, kills bacteria and helps normalize testosterone production. In fact, adding zinc-fortified foods to your daily diet can help heal breakouts, prevent future flare-ups, clearing skin in as little as three months.

Yogurt Cure Cramps

Calcium acts as a powerful muscle soother, keeping pelvic muscles relaxed. The average woman gets roughly 750 milligrams of calcium in her daily diet — yet bumping that up to 1,200 milligrams daily could cut the intensity of cramps in half within three months, inflammatory prostaglandins, the troublemakers that cause menstrual bloating, trigger these painful uterine spasms. When prostaglandins are at their monthly peak, a heaping cup of yogurt each day can make up for any shortfall, packed with 450 milligrams of this essential mineral.

Omega-3 Banishes severe PMS

Eating eight ounces of fish three times weekly reduces even debilitating monthly mood swings and pain flare-ups (the kind caused by the most severe form of PMS, premenstrual dysphoric disorder) for up to 68 percent of women, it can also cut the risk of menopause-triggered depression in half. The credit goes to fish’s omega-3 fatty acids. These anti-inflammatory fats dampen production of pain-triggering compounds called prostaglandins, plus they increase your brain levels of antidepressant hormones, so you can weather monthly hormone fluxes symptom-free, taking 2,000 milligrams of fish oil daily can provide the same symptom-soothing effect.

Soy bean prevents spotting

1 of 10 women experience regular spotting between periods,  and it can make each month feel like an unending period. Taking one ounce of soy nuts (or 1/2 cup edamame) daily can give four more period-free days every month. The credit goes to soy’s isoflavones. These gentle plant estrogens not only help control the temperature-regulating center in the brain, they also latch onto cells in the reproductive tract, nourishing the uterine lining and keeping it intact until your period begins.

Cool off with flax

Eating 1/4 cup of ground flax daily significantly reduced hot flashes and night sweats for men and women. It helps female with easing vaginal dryness within three months, and it can cut your risk of mood swings and depression in half. Flax’s secret is rich in mild, natural plant estrogens that fill in when a woman’s hormone levels dip too low. You may find flaxseeds are available whole or pre-ground in health food stores. Just sprinkle them on cereal, yogurt, soups and salads, or add to your favorite smoothie or bread recipes.

Blood flow with banana bread

The estrogen shortfalls that strike after menopause — can stall blood flow to the genitals, leading to disappointing lulls in arousal and vaginal lubrication. But studies show smelling banana bread increases pelvic blood flow as much as 40 percent in 10 minutes (whether or not you eat the bread!). This enticing smell actually switches on the arousal center in the brain.

Beef help with your lost iron

Experts suggest that 4 ounces of iron-rich beef, pork or chicken daily will help you with iron as it flushes away with your period. If you are vegetarian, you may choose breads and other grains with acidic foods, like citrus or berries. The iron found in grains is tougher to absorb, but Tufts researchers say ramping up the acidity in your tummy will double your ability to soak up this type of iron.

Drink mineral water

Additionally, experts suggest to drink mineral water to prevent pelvic pain, and eating lots of vegetables to increase your immune system.

The road is long, muscles get sore and your mind is drifting off into illusions and dreams. Your are physically uncomfortable, tired, maybe even sleepy and can use a break from the long drive.

Time to think about how to best utilize the next rest stop and get some oxygen into the brain and lossen up those stiff, tired muscles. What can you do to be beneficial from the break and recharge your body and energy again?

Walk, jog, run or step up and down

as few as five minutes of heart rate-increasing activity will enhance focus and release muscle tension

Triceps dips and push-up

Have you ever noticed that park benches are perfect for triceps and push-ups? or head to a wall to do a few standing push-ups. Put your hands against the wall and your fee about 18 inches back.

Stretch your hips

When you drive too long, the front of your hips can get tight while you are sitting. So turn your back to that picnic table, stand as far from the bench as your leg will reach, and tuck the top of one foot onto it. Lift our chest. You will get a nice stretch for those tight hip flexors.

Detour around the vending machines

Literally and figuratively avoid the vending machine area, walk the long way to and from bathrooms and avoid being tempted by high-calories, low nutrition snack and soda., and to work in extra steps. Heck, detour around the entire perimeter.

Yoga pose

Lots of sitting can make the lower back ache. You can practice yoga pose for stretch. Slide your hands down the back of your legs and lift your chest to the sky to counteract all that forward rounding.