Hyperactivity in Children - are Alternative Treatments Viable?

Hyperactivity in children has received a lot of attention in recent years, with many suggested causes and treatments. It’s a subject that gets much debate. Should children with hyperactive behavior be medicated? Are they simply eating the wrong food? Are we labeling “bad” behavior as a disorder, instead?

There are many different positions on the phenomenon of hyperactivity in children, and most people, while they’ve seen children with this behavior, don’t really know a lot about it. Here’s some basic information to help you understand more about it.

Hyperactivity among children is categorized by a number of symptoms, but almost all of them fall into three major categories. Children with this behavior tend to be impulsive, have difficulty paying attention, and have “hyperactivity” - more activity than usual or expected.

Much of the time, parents deal with their children’s behavior by taking them to the doctor or psychiatrist for a prescription - usually Adderall or Ritalin, but others are also available. In some children, this solves the problem, but is medication really the answer?

Many medications intended to treat hyperactivity among children also have other side effects, and are not well understood. This is why more and more people who are dealing with hyperactivity in children they care for are looking for alternative therapies.

Herbal and homeopathic remedies are very effective. In fact studies have shown that these natural remedies are every bit as effective as prescription medicines. But here is what makes them popular. Most of them come without side effects.

Behavioral modification and adjusting children’s diets and environments can go a long way toward improving their behavior and helping them learn to cope with their problem. After all, in a significant percentage of people, hyperactivity doesn’t go away with adulthood, and no one wants to deal with medication as a lifestyle. In addition, medication just doesn’t work for some children.

Different strategies are needed for coping with hyperactivity among children if you’re not going to rely on medication. For instance, it’s very important to make sure that your child sleeps well and consistently. Consistent bedtimes, meal times, and sugar intake can be very important, with a stimulating evening that would result in most children sleeping well causing ADHD kids to be up all night.

In addition, parents and teachers dealing with hyperactivity in children should take a look at overall diet. Avoid offering children with this behavior artificially colored foods, meals high in sugars or refined carbohydrates, and very sweet drinks. This is a smart idea for many kinds, but especially important for those dealing with hyperactivity problems.

Try helping these children develop better habits that will assist them with organization and attention, as well. Removing distractions and coming up with plans that work for the individual can go a long way towards helping hyperactive kids deal with their problems and have an easier time. They’ll also be less of a distraction.

Medication isn’t the only answer when dealing with hyperactivity in children. Hyperactivity among children is a growing problem that needs our attention. It’s time to pay better attention to the little factors that can influence kids’ attention spans, activity levels, and behavior and make corrections to help them.

Diana Ketchen
http://www.articlesbase.com/mental-health-articles/hyperactivity-in-children-are-alternative-treatments-viable-748245.html

Lasik Eye Procedure Recovery

Anyone who has had to wear prescription glasses during the hot humid summer months will be thrilled to know that they can enjoy the summer months prescription glass free. Lasik surgery is an easy procedure that will allow you to be free from wearing glasses on a daily basis.

In order to make sure that your recovery is fast and pain free you need to follow certain guidelines that are enforced by your doctor. Keep in mind that there will most likely be some dryness and discomfort in your eyes once the numbing eye drops have worn off.

The good thing is this discomfort should go away fairly fast. In order to prevent infections your doctor will give you antibiotics and anti-inflammatory medication to reduce any swelling. You may also be given special eye drops to keep them from becoming dry.

After the surgery is completed you are not allowed to swim in a pool, hot tub, or whirlpool for eight weeks. This is because the water can get in your eyes and damage it as well as irritate it. At night you need to shield your eyes for up to four weeks. It is possible for people to rub their eyes or roll over on them while they are sleeping. This can irritate the eyes and slow down the healing process.

For eight weeks you are also not allowed to participate in any contact sports or other strenuous activities. This can hurt anyone with normal eyes - but also with those people who are recovering from lasik surgery.

Before you begin to panic you need to make sure that it takes three to eight weeks for the personâ??s eyes to stabilize and completely recover. Because of that you might experience symptoms that can develop. These symptoms include; haloes, glare, and a difficulty in driving.

If these symptoms last longer than you should wait until the vision is fully functional. Preexisting conditions that occurred before the surgery may not be fixed after the surgery is completed.

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Seasonal Affective Disorder (sad) ? Try Light Therapy

Thousands of people every year go into a sort of depression, once fall comes. This is called SAD (seasonal affective disorder). Thousands more suffer from jet lag which is the curse of modern day travel. These two problems are closely related in that their causes are similar. There is one solution for both problems and that is the use of light therapy.

How can a light therapy lamp help in getting over jet lag or indeed in help a person to overcome SAD? As the days get shorter and shorter as winter approaches, the SAD sufferer will go into a sort of depression because s/he needs light. When there is snow, people tend to suffer less from SAD as there is so much more light.

The precise cause of seasonal affective disorder isn’t known, but genetics and your age may be factors. In fact most sufferers are women around the age of thirty but it can strike anybody in the age range 15 -55.The general recommendation for most people with seasonal affective disorder is to begin treatment with light therapy in the early fall, as soon as the earliest symptoms start. Light therapy in seasonal affective disorder is independent of time of day or circadian phase.

Sunlight and natural light are essential to our natural biological rhythms. Once there is a change in these rhythms, then our bodies have difficulty in adjusting. Shorter days and long haul flights upset our natural clocks. Table-lamps are ideal at twilight when the light begins to fade.

If your doctor suggests you try light therapy, you may use a specially made light box, or a light visor that you wear on your head like a cap. Generally, light therapy takes about 30 minutes each day throughout the fall and winter, when you’re most likely to be depressed. If light therapy helps you, you’ll continue using it until enough sunlight is available, typically in the springtime.

How many times has a holiday or a business appointment been ruined by jet lag ? It can last for days after arrival. Every time we cross a few time zones quickly, then we are likely to suffer from this condition. It can have negative effects on your judgement in a business deal and can also make you feel even more depressed when you are trying to get used to your normal routine, once back at home.

Your body clock will not be able to keep with the plane as it crosses several time zones very quickly so it will end up out of sync with the destination time. In addition changes to night and daytime come very quickly and the rhythms which normally decide our eating and sleeping routine are all out of gear. In addition, the rhythm of our body temperature will be skewed as well.

The best way to recover from jet lag and a SAD, is to invest in a sad light box or table lamp. No faddy anti-jet lag diets which you have to start way before the journey and continue afterwards. Some people take sleeping pills which can lead to fatal blood clots. Melatonin has been known to be effective. But the best, most natural way is the sad table lamp.

Robert William Locke
http://www.articlesbase.com/mental-health-articles/seasonal-affective-disorder-sad-try-light-therapy-675383.html

The Deceptively Simple Art of Living in the Moment

Two holistic health practitioners at New York University Medical Center recently launched an innovative program to help staff and patients begin the practice of mindfulness. Mindfulness is the practice of moment-to-moment awareness. Mindfulness exercises can improve your attention span, mental clarity, memory, mood, and self-esteem. With regular practice, you can experience a reduction in anxiety, muscle tension, blood pressure, heart and respiratory rates.

Alex Tatarinov-Levin met recently with the founders of NYU’s Mindfulness program,  Jackie Levin, RN, MS, and Tara Piergrossi, a Masters candidate in Public Health at Hunter College. Jackie and Tara talk about the concept of mindfulness and how to begin your own practice in this in-depth interview.

Itâ??s All in Your Mind: an Introduction to Mindfulness

Alex Tatarinov-Levin: How did you get involved in the concept of mindfulness?

Jackie Levin: I have a masterâ??s degree in holistic nursing, and as part of that I became interested in the practice of meditation. I studied mindfulness first with Jon Kabat-Zinn [Associated Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School] and learned about his Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program, and that became a foundation of my own personal strategy for becoming centered, focused and aware.

Alex: What kind of stress are you referring to?

Jackie: All types of stress are interconnected, so while we might see emotional stress manifested physically, for example, tense shoulders, aches, pains, and the beginnings of disease - we can also experience it emotionally through anxiety, lack of focus, forgetfulness, mood swings or spiritual distress, in which you donâ??t feel a connection to others or to a spiritual being.

Alex: Is mindfulness intended to relieve stress?

Jackie: No, but it can be a byproduct. Mindfulness is the moment-to-moment awareness of what is going on around you. Itâ??s a practice of becoming more aware and awake. So many of us are spending most of our time distracted, consciously or unconsciously, thinking about memories of the past or worrying about the future, but the only moment that really exists is this one. The practice of mindfulness helps you become a better observer and non-judgmentally aware of whatâ??s going on in your environment.

Alex: Whatâ??s the importance of non-judgment to mindfulness?

Tara Piergrossi: Youâ??re not trying to change the moment, just to accept it without judging it, and without trying to hold on to it or labeling it as good or bad.

Jackie: Your judgment says, if I were to see a dog going down the street and as a child I was bit by a dog and maintained that fear my whole life, I would see that dog as threatening. So is that dog threatening? I donâ??t really know, but if I take a moment I can become a non-judgmental observer of the dog walking down the street, I can then better understand if that dog is a threat or not, and whether I should turn and run or whether I could actually stop and pet the dog.

Alex: What if Iâ??m restless or have trouble clearing my mind for five minutes?

Tara: Then youâ??re probably normal.

Jackie: Yes, very normal. Youâ??re not trying to clear the mind; youâ??re trying to wake up the mind. We think our minds are awake, but mostly theyâ??re asleep to whatâ??s going on.

Alex: So mindfulness helps you step back and assess each situation on its own merits?

Jackie: Yes, thatâ??s it. Each moment is unique. It doesnâ??t mean you donâ??t have memories and it doesnâ??t mean you donâ??t utilize those memories to make current analyses but youâ??re not letting those past memories dictate your current experience.

Alex: Is there a relationship between mindfulness and meditation?

Jackie: Mindfulness is a type of meditation practice.

Tara: You can sit in meditation position and notice your thoughts. So thoughts come in, you notice them and just go back to your point of focus, whatever it is, and you do that as many times as you need to, without judgment.

Alex: So itâ??s intended to help you make sense of your thoughts?

Jackie: Most of the time, weâ??re not aware of what weâ??re thinking. Those thoughts are just having random effects on us. So if I stop and I just sit there, I see sometimes I have a repetitive thought. Which means I can begin to attend to it and say, oh, thatâ??s a worry I didnâ??t realize I had, and what is it Iâ??d like to do about that? Is it really as big a problem as I think it is? So you can begin to discharge some of the tension through natural stress reduction and observe it. And you develop a compassion for yourselfâ??a softness. Saying, oh, I did something I wasnâ??t so happy about. Most of the time, we end up being hard on ourselves. In mindfulness youâ??d be able to say, well, ok, I can now see how I did that in a clearer way, and I have lots of options and choices now. I can go talk to that person, I can redo the situation, I can get more information.

Alex: What other benefits are there to mindfulness?

Jackie: In the mental realm, it can increase focus, memory, clarity of thought. In the emotional realm, it can improve your mood. In the relationship realm, it can improve how you connect to others. In the physical realm, it may lower your blood pressure and regulate your heart rate and respiratory rate. Relaxation enhances your metabolism, so it can help your digestive processes because itâ??s actually activating the parasympathetic system.

Alex: What is the parasympathetic system?

Jackie: There are two systems: the stress response and the relaxation response. The stress response stimulates the sympathetic system that puts me in a fight or flight mode, and that raises the blood pressure and sends your blood out into the extremities so you can run or fight as you might need. It also narrows your focus, so youâ??re only able to focus on that stress. The relaxation response is the opposite and stimulates the parasympathetic system. Itâ??s about the bodily processes that can go on when youâ??re not in a fight or flight situation. For example, you donâ??t need to digest food when youâ??re trying to fight or flee. The relaxation response reduces your blood pressure. Your heart rate is more regulated; your digestive system is working better and your body releases muscle tension. A lot of energy goes into stress-related anxiety. Stress requires a lot of energy in the body. Sort of like if youâ??re in a car and revving in the engine but not going anywhere, youâ??re wearing the engine down.

Take a Minute to be Mindful

Alex: Whatâ??s the best position for mindfulness practice and what can people do if theyâ??re not comfortable with it?

Jackie: People should find a position in which theyâ??re comfortable and not in pain, whether sitting or lying. If youâ??re sitting, your feet should be on the floor, your spine should be tall, but not rigid, and your neck should be long. Youâ??re trying to give enough room for your ribs to breathe and take tension out of your spine. Arms are in your lap so thereâ??s no tension in your shoulders. If you feel tension in your shoulders, put a pillow in your lap to reduce it. If your feet donâ??t reach the floor, put a pillow underneath them so that thereâ??s no tension in your legs. You can also sit on the floor cross-legged, if thatâ??s comfortable, with a little pillow under the buttocks so that your hips are higher than your knees.

Tara: Or lying down, but itâ??s sometimes hard not to fall asleep.

Jackie: If youâ??re lying down you may need a pillow under your knees. You can do it lying down, but the trick is not to fall asleep. Sleeping is not meditating. If youâ??re having difficulty sleeping, itâ??s sometimes helpful to meditate first. Thereâ??s also yoga meditation, anything that has a point of focus that captures your attention in which you practice not letting your mind wander off your point of focus. Walking can be a form of meditation, chanting is also a form of meditation.

Alex: What connection, if any, is there, between mindfulness and yoga? Between mindfulness and Buddhism or spirituality in general?

Jackie: Mindfulness meditation is a form of Buddhist meditation and many forms of eastern meditation practices. The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program that Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli developed put the spiritual practice into a more secular format.

Alex: Is mindfulness similar to prayer?

Jackie: For me, mindfulness is related to contemplative prayer.

Alex: Is there any conflict between mindfulness and religion?

Jackie: No. people can practice their own forms of religion and spirituality and can also explore and practice meditation.

Tara: It can actually enhance religion.

Jackie: Other practices might call it prayer, concentration, contemplation. Itâ??s a practice to give you insight into yourself. Jon Kabat-Zinn suggested in a program I took with him that we become our own scientist in our own laboratory, and just a keen observer of what goes on in that laboratory.

Alex: Do you have an example of an easy exercise that anyone can start out with?

Jackie: Start with a breath and smile. Put yourself in a comfortable position, with your feet on the ground and your neck and back long and feeling supported. Begin by bringing your awareness to your breath and letting your mind rest on your natural rhythm of breathing. Next, bring your attention to the full duration of your in-breath and the full duration of your out-breath. Wherever you notice your breath the most, at your nostrils or mouth as the air enters and leaves your body or during the rise and fall of your belly and chest.

Alex: Does that help you relax?

Jackie: It can help many people relax, but some people can become more agitated. Then you watch your agitation without judgment and observe it. We tend to run away from the difficult parts of our lives, so if agitation is a response you have to sitting quietly, just observe your experience with agitation, and then experience your mind frame. You might say, I want to get off this cushion as fast as I can, or, I just want to run away from the experience of agitation!

But what is this experience of agitation? You might feel your chest tightening or your heart racing, and observing these symptoms in your body will help you deal with them. What can often happen from there is that you can begin to relax. When we stop avoiding our problems and start gently, compassionately and non-judgmentally facing who we are in this moment, youâ??ll realize itâ??s just one moment. And this one might be different from the next. Mindfulness can lead to relaxation, but itâ??s different for everyone, there is no one way. Itâ??s only you that youâ??re observing, in an intimate way, when youâ??re sitting in formal practice of meditation.

I want to connect this to making changes. The whole point of Healthy Monday is to develop a practice of reinventing yourself and changing once a week. If youâ??re not able to stop and reflect on what are the barriers to making change, or if youâ??re not able to observe yourself non-judgmentally and with compassion, when you realize youâ??re not making the choices that are good for you, you can just sit back and reflect on that and gain greater insight. And then perhaps you can make a more lasting committed change.

Formal vs. Informal Practice

Jackie: Formal practice is saying, Iâ??m going to sit down for five to ten minutes a day and just sit with my breath and observe my thoughts and sensations that might be passing through my awareness in these ten minutes. If have the urge to get up or to avoid a thought, then thatâ??s just my experience during this meditation. Informal practice is in our day-to-day life. Taking an everyday experience and being mindful throughout that activity. If Iâ??m brushing my teeth and I let my mind wander to the 50 things Iâ??m going to be doing the rest of the morning, I just stop and for two minutes just focus on the experience of brushing my teeth.

Tara: Thatâ??s a great way to utilize mindfulness. I was telling my students, pick one activity you do every day and just be mindful of it. Maybe washing your hair. Where are you going to go? Are you thinking about washing your hair? Probably not.

Jackie: Washing the dishes, making your bed, doing laundry. All those things in daily life are an opportunity to stop and just be present to this one moment. Letâ??s say youâ??re on this incredible beach and youâ??re watching the most amazing sunset. The first few moments youâ??re actually watching the sunset, but the rest of the time youâ??re thinking about how youâ??re going tell this friend of yours about it. In reality, you left the sunset and were actually in a conversation with your friend in your mind. You missed that beautiful sunset.

Tara: Another thing is when youâ??re on vacation, youâ??re thinking ahead to, oh, thereâ??s only three days left, and youâ??re missing your whole vacation because youâ??re thinking about when you have to go back to work.

Jackie: Then as we go about our day, our formal and informal practices can be utilized spontaneously when moments of stress arise. For example, If Iâ??m standing in a very long line at the supermarket and Iâ??m running late, I may begin to experience a sense of agitation because Iâ??m in a hurry. I just take a deep breath and observe my experience of standing in line, which then helps me realize itâ??s not that big a deal. Iâ??ll be 5 minutes late, or Iâ??ll put my groceries back and get them later, but I donâ??t have to let my blood pressure go up, I donâ??t have to let my agitation take over, I donâ??t have to stamp my foot and have all those experiences we have when youâ??re feeling stressed.

Tara: The benefit of using the breath-centered approach to mindfulness is that your breath is always with you; any time of day you can always focus on your breath.

Jackie: And your breath is always changing, so itâ??s dynamic, and that relates to life. If youâ??re able to connect to this ever-present dynamic aspect of yourself, youâ??ll be able to better manage the ever-present changing dynamics that go on in your external life as well. The thing that gets us most stressed and disrupted in our lives is that when we have an expectation of something happening and it doesnâ??t. Unrequited expectations cause stress. So the more youâ??re able to accept the moment for what it is, then thereâ??s less chance of your being disappointed.

Alex: Is there a specific breathing method you recommend?

Jackie: In this form of mindfulness itâ??s just observing your breath. There are many powerful distinctive ways of breathing in meditation, but, mindfulness is just observing the breath, one breath at a time.

Jackie: So there are a hundred ways we can lose our balance - emotional balance, natural, psychological balance, physical balance â?? every moment. If youâ??re practicing mindfulness, you have a greater awareness of when you fall off balance, and you can then grab onto your practice of mindfulness to bring you back into balance. This way I donâ??t get so off-center.

Mindfulness Monday: Practice Living Each Moment

Alex: Letâ??s say Iâ??m in an angry mood because I recently got laid off. What if meditating doesnâ??t make me feel any better?

Jackie: Mindfulness is not necessarily about changing an angry person into a non-angry person, itâ??s about you becoming aware of your anger and how you experience it. So imagine youâ??re feeling anger, and you send all this rage externally. Unless youâ??re being violent to someone physically, most of the violence is done to ourselves. Only weâ??re not aware of it because weâ??re so focused on our emotional hurt. The goal is not to take away the anger, the goal is for you to become awake to the feeling that youâ??re angry and that you might have all these varieties of thought and physical and emotional experiences while being angry. When you allow yourself to be aware of your experience, the experience shifts. Say you got laid off and youâ??re angry. A lot of us would be resentful and angry towards the person who laid us off and weâ??d blame them for our problems, instead I could become more specific about the concerns of being laid off like, Iâ??ve been laid off, I donâ??t know if Iâ??m going get another job. Iâ??m scared about not paying the mortgage. What am I going to tell my family? If you can get down to that beginning level of awareness, you can begin to sort through and go on. Just breathe for the next few moments and donâ??t try to change anything at all. Then see where your thoughts can lead you. Oh, I didnâ??t like this job anyway, or, maybe I can tell the bank I was laid off, and theyâ??ll give me a month without penalty of paying my mortgage.

Tara: Mindfulness helps you not to cling to that past experience. If youâ??re in the present, you know, that happened, Iâ??m here now, not looking forward, not looking ahead, just being here for a moment.

Alex: How can mindfulness help you stay away from extreme behavior while encouraging acceptance of it?

Jackie: The beauty of mindfulness, like life, is that it is full of paradoxes. On the one hand, mindfulness helps you not get so angry, but then you say but mindfulness is not asking you not to be so angry, so both are true. Itâ??s a paradox. Human beings want things defined, without confusion. But what mindfulness teaches is that if weâ??re being present fully in the moment, we become aware of the multidimensionality of our existence. So there is no absolute. So when I practice mindfulness long enough, I become more aware of what takes me, personally, out of balance, so that I am much more sensitive and alert to those situations - and when they start to happen, I go into my practice which is to be present to my own responses. However, if Iâ??m observing my anger, Iâ??m not necessarily acting my anger out. So you could say something to me that makes me angrier than Iâ??ve ever been, and you might never know.

Tips for Starting Your Own Practice

Alex: Who are your Monday Mindfulness Memos intended for?
Jackie: This is on the NYU Medical Center intranet, available for any employee of the NYU Medical Center right now.
Tara: But eventually weâ??d like to house them on our website, which is being created. We already have one for our preparatory surgery program, but weâ??re creating one for the Mind Body Patient Care program, and weâ??ll put these on there - so theyâ??ll be available to anyone. We want to do one memo a month and then supplement that memo with weekly Monday tips on how to use mindfulness and apply it to your daily life. So every Monday you start fresh â?? you use mindfulness and incorporate it into your life.

Alex: Are the tips cumulative? Or can anyone start fresh?

Jackie: Anyone can start fresh. Weâ??re going to have links and an archive for monthly memos so people can click on that and then utilize those tips.

Tara: The first one is basically, what is mindfulness? and that will always be on the intranet in case you come into this later and you donâ??t already know what mindfulness is. Later on we are going to write memos on mindful communication, mindful eatingâ?¦ all sorts of ways to use mindfulness in your everyday life.

Alex: What are you trying to communicate with these memos and tips?

Jackie: Basically itâ??s utilizing the principles of compassion and non-judgmentalness when we listen and speak with each other. The more skillful we are at listening deeply to what another is trying to communicate to us, the more we are able to understand the intent of the speaker.

Tara: Itâ??s an ideal way of communicating. Also, when youâ??re talking to someone, instead of thinking of what youâ??re going to say next â??youâ??re actually listening, mindfully listening, and then responding.

Alex: Sounds brilliant - and common sense.

Jackie: The practice of meditation is essentially common sense. But in order to implement it on a regular basis you have to practice. Itâ??s difficult to always remember to be mindful when somebody says something that I want to react to. It also helps me remember that the other person has a frame of reference too, and I want to understand it. Thatâ??s where the compassion comes in and the non-judgmental attitude. If you say something to me, I first try to understand your motivation, your reason for saying that, then I can honestly assess what kind of response I should give.

Alex: How does Monday fit in?

Jackie: I think the Monday idea is great. Change doesnâ??t happen overnight, and it takes practice and commitment. Using Monday helps you realize, without judgment, that changes will eventually occur if you stick with it. And on the days that you donâ??t, youâ??re not harsh on yourself. Be kind to yourself. If itâ??s Thursday, you can decide to meditate or skip meat or whatever else youâ??re trying to do on that day, but you also know that every Monday is another day when you can begin seeing yourself fresh and anew. In mindfulness, every moment gives you that opportunity â?? but I think itâ??s very clever to connect it to a day of the week. The whole point of Healthy Monday is to develop a practice of reinventing yourself and working on changing once a week. If youâ??re not able to stop and reflect on what are the barriers to making change, or if youâ??re not able to observe yourself non-judgmentally and with compassion, when you realize youâ??re not making the choices that are good for you, you can just sit back and reflect on that and gain greater insight. And then perhaps you can make a more lasting committed change.

Tara: I think it really supports being compassionate to yourself. I know in my life, if I donâ??t go to the gym, Iâ??ll be like forget it. But with Monday, you have a weekly opportunity to start over. It helps you not get discouraged with quitting or having a setback.

Jackie: Mindfulness has really helped with my greater sense of patience. When weâ??re taking on a big change, like quitting smoking â?? which is huge â?? you commit to Monday, you commit to being mindful of every time you have an urge to smoke, and you accept that urge, but in this moment, I can resist that urge because next moment that urge might go away. I know that if I can wait 30 seconds, that urge will be gone. That urge may come back later in the day, and then you sit with it. You can quit cold turkey, but it doesnâ??t mean you wonâ??t have other desires for cigarettes.

Tara: When you have the urge to smoke, you supplement it for something else, unless you really feel the reason why youâ??re smoking.

Tara: You donâ??t practice mindfulness to make yourself a better person or to relax or make changes in yourself, but to help you tune in to whatâ??s going on. All those things could happen as a result, but it is really easy to think I need to practice mindfulness to be better, to do more.

Alex: How has mindfulness changed your lives or perspectives?

Tara: Well I found mindfulness through yoga, and from the process of yoga I started teaching it. I just started doing yoga and it really changed my perspective on my life, and I didnâ??t know why. I wanted to figure out why and then help teach that to other people. I spent so much of my younger years looking forward, thinking Iâ??ll be happy when Iâ??m in college or Iâ??ll be happy when Iâ??m doing this. You can keep saying youâ??ll be happy when you get somewhere else, but this is your life right now. So that really helped me to live now and be happy.

Tara: My brother is a mindfulness meditation instructor. He did a workshop with people, and he had a little cup with sunflower seeds. We were sitting and observing our thoughts, and every time you had a thought, youâ??re supposed to drop a sunflower into the cup. So you could hear when everyone else had a thought, and it was like a rainstorm, and it was just a wonderful to hear everybodyâ??s thoughts. Youâ??re always giving off thoughts, and thereâ??s nothing wrong with having them, just remember to come back.

Jackie: Mindfulness has helped me take things less seriously, be more playful. I can deal with things that are serious and hard, but also have an accompanying lightness to that experience. The people that I know who practice mindfulness on a regular basis smile a lot more, laugh a lot more, enjoy life a lot more.

Tara: Since youâ??re observing your thoughts, and if you notice your thoughts, itâ??s like, oh, thatâ??s interesting. Where did that come from? Itâ??s much more playful.

Alex: Howâ??s this for a headline? Mindfulness: live for the moment.

Jackie: Itâ??s more, be present in each moment, really.

Jackie: The more mindful I am the more precise I am. Not in an exhausting way; but, because Iâ??m trying to actually capture everything as it is. Iâ??ve become less satisfied with a lazy approach to understanding what others are trying to say or do. Itâ??s a very precise practice.

Tara: Weâ??re also much more curious about ourselves, and the world around us.

On Mindful Eating

Alex: Can you tell our readers a little bit about mindful eating?

Tara: If youâ??re mindful of your body, you will be swallowing and chewing when you need to, and you will stop way before you have gorged yourself. To be full, sometimes we throw food in our mouths, but youâ??ll enjoy and taste the food more if you practice mindful eating. You can extend it to the mindfulness of purchasing and preparing the food, and it will also connect you to the food though awareness of who grew the food, who harvested it, packaged and delivered it, if weâ??re not in a rural community and growing it ourselves.

Alex: Why is it important to have a connection with our food?

Jackie: I think itâ??s important to have a connection with everything thatâ??s around us, and that I think good food is important, and the more weâ??re aware of how our food came to us, the more likely we are to make healthier choices.

Tara: If youâ??re mindful that youâ??re hungry, youâ??ll eat when youâ??re hungry, and you might make better choices if youâ??re mindful of your bodyâ??s hunger. So if right now Iâ??m hungry, I know that I would probably go eat that whole counter, but if Iâ??m aware of that it will help restrict me.

Jackie: When you connect to where your food is grown and the environment itâ??s grown in, we have a global awareness, and global awareness will help eventually bring peace.

Tara: It shows that weâ??re all connectedâ??

Jackie: â??and we should appreciate the people who grow our food.

Jackie Levin, RN, MS, and Tara Piergrossi, a Masters candidate in Public Health at Hunter College, are the founders of the NYU Mindfulness program.

Alex Levin
http://www.articlesbase.com/mental-health-articles/the-deceptively-simple-art-of-living-in-the-moment-715865.html

Culture Shock or Depression?

Is your Au Pair Experiencing Culture Shock or Depression?

Culture Shock is a phenomenon that occurs when a foreigner enters a new culture and experiences unpleasant adjustment symptoms that can range from problems sleeping, mental fatigue, a delay or refusal to speak the new cultureâ??s language, a desire to return home and feelings of hopelessness.  Au pairs experience culture shock in varying degrees when they arrive.  Most of them adjust quickly and are excited to meet the challenges of her new culture and all that is has to offer. A significant number of au pairs never adjust and they usually return home soon after their arrival due to a number of reasons.

Recognizing cultural shock and the symptoms will help reduce the problems that may arise between your au pair and your family.  If you understand how difficult it is for these young girls to adjust to a new country and a strange and different culture, you can be proactive in minimizing the disruption it can have on your family and for your au pair. Be patient and give her the time to adjust. Talk to her about culture shock â?? bring it out in the open for discussion. Ask your counselor what she plans to do for your au pair in getting her connected to other au pairs in the area, thus creating a social network and support group that greatly assists with difficulty assimilating to American culture.  In a few weeks, your au pair should be adjusting well within normal parameters.

 

However, many au pairs have significant difficulties adjusting to their new surroundings and may react with frustration, confusion and intense homesickness.  These difficulties may present as minor physical complaints: stomach aches, headaches, minor colds and eating problems (either overeating as a way to comfort themselves or a lack of appetite and refusal to eat new and different foods).  Other symptoms include anxiety and feelings of disorientation, uncertainty and intense loneliness, which can often lead to depression. These sypmtoms can often be combined with an intense dislike with certain aspects of the new culture. Your au pair may complain to others about your family, her room, the food, your the children and about the United States in general.  She may call her parents multiple times a day to complain and feel them out about coming home.  Culture shock normally occurs several weeks after the au pair arrives, but it may develop in the first week, when the initial excitement wears off and she realizes she will have to deal with a new environment for a long time.

You have a problem if your au pair finds it impossible to accept her new culture. She may isolate herself from you, the entire family, her counselor and other au pairs.  She may refuse to sign up for school and announce she plans to stay in her room for the entire year during her free time.  Au pairs that reject their new culture may start to feel the only way out is to return home.  People who have extreme difficulty adjusting to cultural shock are called Rejectors â?? a person who never integrates into the new environment and once home, they often have reverse culture shock, where they have difficult readjusting to familiar surroundings. Approximately 60% of all expatriates evidence these behaviors.

Difficulties in assimilating can be disruptive and troubling for both you and your au pair.  You may feel surprised that your bubbly and gregarious au pair is now hostile, silent and refuses to come to the dinner table.  You may find she is hoarding food in her room and she is experiencing sudden weight changes or becomes lethargic. If your au pair continues to show signs of extreme cultural shock, you need to call your agency and the local counselor.  Many times inexperienced counselors or managers will tell you to wait, that these symptoms are normal and that in a month or two everything should be just fine.  Waiting for 2-3 months for your unhappy, and possibly depressed, au pair to recover may be a recipe for disaster.

How do you know when the culture shock your au pair is experiencing is serious enough for a professional intervention?  First, look for signs of depression accompanied by feelings of hopelessness â?? when these two elements are presented together your au pair may need professional help.  Studies have shown that when feelings of depression are accompanied by feelings of hopelessness the incidence of suicidal thinking increases.

If her biological parents are telling her she has to stay and finish out the program, and you and the counselor are telling her the same thing, and there is no relief of her symptoms, she very well may develop a depressive disorder.  Some of the symptoms of depression are: a lack of interest in things that once were pleasurable; sleep problems; unusual eating patterns; sadness, crying, physical and mental fatigue and the inability to concentrate and function normally at work or in social situations.  If you recognize these symptoms in your au pair you should call your agency at once for assistance. 

Note: if your au pair agency takes a â??wait and seeâ? attitude but you feel your au pairâ??s ability to function is undermined by the symptoms of culture shock that may have worsened into a depression, do not hesitate to call and discuss your au pairâ??s adjustment difficulties with your physician. If the agency and/or counselor will not do anything, bring your au pair to the doctor yourself.  Au pairs have medical insurance and this visit should be covered.  It is important to get your au pair help if you think she is suffering from depression and not just cultural shock but the only person who can make an accurate diagnosis is a medical doctor or a psychiatrist.  Donâ??t try to play therapist, instead, have her evaluated for your peace of mind and for the safety of your children and for the au pair herself.  She may be unable to express her feelings and she may need help and not be able to ask for it.  She is in your care, so make sure you treat her the way you would your own daughter. 

Edina Stone
http://www.articlesbase.com/parenting-articles/culture-shock-or-depression-709975.html

Primary Signs Of Bipolar Depression - Treatment At The Right Time…

Bipolar disorder causes dramatic mood swingsâ??from overly “high” and/or irritable to sad and hopeless, and then back again, often with periods of normal mood in between. Severe changes in energy and behaviour go along with these changes in mood. The periods of highs and lows are called episodes of mania and depression.

The obvious symptoms of bipolar depression or manic depression comprises of the following:
-Increased energy, activity, and restlessness
-Excessively “high,” overly good, euphoric mood
-Extreme irritability
-Racing thoughts and talking very fast, jumping from one idea to another
-Distractibility, can’t concentrate well
-Little sleep needed
-Unrealistic beliefs in one’s abilities and powers
-Poor judgment
-Spending sprees
-A lasting period of behaviour that is different from usual
-Increased sexual drive
-Abuse of drugs, particularly cocaine, alcohol, and sleeping medications
-Provocative, intrusive, or aggressive behaviour.
-Denial that anything is wrong

A manic episode is diagnosed if elevated mood occurs with three or more of the other symptoms most of the day, nearly every day, for 1 week or longer. If the mood is irritable, four additional symptoms must be present.

On the other hand, a depressive episode is characterised by the symptoms mentioned below:
-Lasting sad, anxious, or empty mood
-Feelings of hopelessness or pessimism
-Feelings of guilt, worthlessness, or helplessness
-Loss of interest or pleasure in activities once enjoyed, including sex
-Decreased energy, a feeling of fatigue or of being “slowed down”
-Difficulty concentrating, remembering, making decisions
-Restlessness or irritability
-Sleeping too much, or can’t sleep
-Change in appetite and/or unintended weight loss or gain
-Chronic pain or other persistent bodily symptoms that are not caused by physical illness or injury
-Thoughts of death or suicide, or suicide attempts

A depressive episode is diagnosed if five or more of these symptoms last most of the day, nearly every day, for a period of 2 weeks or longer.

A mild to moderate level of mania is called hypomania. Hypomania may feel good to the person who experiences it and may even be associated with good functioning and enhanced productivity. Thus even when family and friends learn to recognize the mood swings as possible bipolar disorder, the person may deny that anything is wrong. Without proper treatment, however, hypomania can become severe mania in some people or can switch into depression.

Sometimes, severe episodes of mania or depression include symptoms of psychosis (or psychotic symptoms). Common psychotic symptoms are hallucinations (hearing, seeing, or otherwise sensing the presence of things not actually there) and delusions (false, strongly held beliefs not influenced by logical reasoning or explained by a person’s usual cultural concepts). Psychotic symptoms in bipolar disorder tend to reflect the extreme mood state at the time. For example, delusions of grandiosity, such as believing one is the President or has special powers or wealth, may occur during mania; delusions of guilt or worthlessness, such as believing that one is ruined and penniless or has committed some terrible crime, may appear during depression. People with bipolar disorder who have these symptoms are sometimes incorrectly diagnosed as having schizophrenia, another severe mental illness.

It may be helpful to think of the various mood states in bipolar disorder as a spectrum or continuous range. At one end is severe depression, above which is moderate depression and then mild low mood, which many people call “the blues” when it is short-lived but is termed “dysthymia” when it is chronic. Then there is normal or balanced mood, above which comes hypomania (mild to moderate mania), and then severe mania.

In some people, however, symptoms of mania and depression may occur together in what is called a mixed bipolar state. Symptoms of a mixed state often include agitation, trouble sleeping and significant change in appetite, psychosis, and suicidal thinking. A person may have a very sad, hopeless mood while at the same time feeling extremely energized.

All these symptoms can be cured only with the help of a qualified physician. So, do not let your affected loved ones suffer. Take the necessary steps before it gets too late.

Abhishek Agarwal
http://www.articlesbase.com/mental-health-articles/primary-signs-of-bipolar-depression-treatment-at-the-right-time-739508.html

Sleep Well - Stay Healthy

Sleep Well - Stay Healthy!

As we retire to sleep first thing we ought to experience is the darkness and the quite atmosphere. But when we try to sleep, suddenly we think of the credit bills, appointments and pending files. A lot of thoughts come to our mind and it goes on. And after lying awake for a few hours we drift off to seep; and soon you hear the alarm ringing!

Most of us have some kind of trouble in sleeping occasionally; for some it is a chronic problem. Sleep deprivation is due to the high-paced lifestyle causing the lack of time to get the sleep we need. When we do not get the amount of sleep we need we accumulate a sleep debt. But, taking sleeping pills is not the solution. This sleep debt has to be paid back or else sleepiness will continue to worsen. Many people try to pay back the debt on the weekends resulting in the disruptions of their circadian rhythm. Most doctors would agree that a lifestyle change can do the trick and that there is no reason for pharmaceutical solutions.

Hence, in the interest of avoiding sleeping pills, let us look at some smart tips on how to fall asleep:

Establish consistent waking times

Our sleep-wake cycle is regulated by a â??circadian clockâ? in our brain. The body needs to balance both sleep time and wake time. A regular waking time in the morning strengthens the circadian function and can help with sleep onset at night.

Keep a regular bedtime and wake-up time.

It is important to keep a regular bedtime and wake-time, even on the weekends when there is the temptation to sleep more. Stick to it, even on weekends. This will help your body know when to feel alert and when to feel sleepy.

Use a comfortable mattress and cushion

Make sure your mattress is comfortable and supportive. Use comfortable pillows and a good cushion that holds your head in the same relationship to your shoulders and spine as when you are standing upright.

Eat at least 2 hours before you go to bed

Eating or drinking too much may make you less comfortable when setting down for bed. It is best to avoid a heavy meal too close to bedtime. Also, spicy foods may cause heartburn, which leads to difficulty falling asleep and discomfort during the night. Try to restrict fluids close to bedtime to go to the bathroom.

 Make the bedroom a sleep-only zone

Remove most toys, games, televisions, computers, and radios if your child has trouble falling asleep or is frequently up at nigh. These items can be powerful cues for wakefulness.

Establish a regular, relaxing bedtime routine

Avoid worrying and thinking before bedtime like working, paying pills, engaging in competitive games or family problem-solving. If you are unable to avoid tension and stress, it may be helpful to learn relaxation therapy from a trained professional. Finally, avoid exposure to bright light before bedtime because it signals the neurons that help control the sleep-wake cycle that it is time to awaken, not to sleep.

Avoid caffeine (e.g. coffee, tea, soft drinks, chocolate), nicotine (e.g. cigarettes, tobacco products), alcohol close to bedtime

Caffeine is a stimulant, which means it can produce an alerting effect. Caffeine products such as coffee, tea, colas and chocolate remains in the body on an average from 3 to 5 hours. But they can affect some people up to 12 hours later. Even if you do not think caffeine affects you, it may be disrupt and change the quality of your sleep. Avoiding caffeine within 4 hours of going to bed can help improve sleep quality.

However, exercising sporadically or right before going to bed will make falling asleep more difficult. In addition to making us more alert, our body temperature rises during exercise and takes as much as six hours to begin to drop. A cooler body temperature is associated with sleep onset. Hence finish your exercise at least 3 hours before bedtime. Late afternoon exercise is the perfect way to help you fall asleep at night

Keep your bedroom peaceful

Create a room thatâ??s ideal for sleeping. Adjust the lighting, temperature and humidity level to your preferences. Make sure your room is well- ventilated and the temperature consistent.

Sitham
http://www.articlesbase.com/sleep-articles/sleep-well-stay-healthy-694531.html

LEADERSHIP

WAYNE FIELDS â??â??The best six doctors anywhere and no one can deny it are sunshine, water, rest, and air Exercise and diet. These six will gladly you attend If only you are willing your mind they’ll ease your will they’ll mend and charge you not a shilling.â?

WB YEATS â??â??The best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are Jull of passionate intensity.â?

WC FIELDS â??â??Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.â?

WCLEMENT STONE â??â??There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.â?

WELSH PROVERB â??â??Three things give hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food.â?

WEMHER VON BRAUN â??â??Research is what Iâ??m doing when I donâ??t know what Iâ??m doing.â?

WEN JLABAO â??â??Please just hold on, people are going to get you out of here.â?

WENDELL BERRY â??â??Energy is superhuman in the sense that humans cannot create it. They can only refine or convert it. And they are bound to it by one of the paradoxes of religion: they cannot have it except by losing it; they cannot use it except by destroying it…â?

WENDELL BERRY â??â??Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way; the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents.â?

WENDELL BERRY â??â??We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.â?

WENDELL PHILIPS â??â??Difference religion breeds more quarrels than difference of polities.â?

WENDELL PHILLIPS- â??Difference of religion breads more quarrels than difference of politics.â?

WENDELL PHILUPS â??â??Low is nothing unless close behind it Stands a warm living public opinion.â?

WENDY MARSTON â??â??Once you have the chance to be anything you want, you face the really tough question: What do you want?â?

WERICK THE GREAT â??â??All religions must be tolerated. Every man must get to heaven in his own way.â?

WERNER VON BRAUN â??â??Use the word “impossible” with the greatest caution.â?

WERNHER VAN BRAUN â??â??Don’t tell me that man doesn’t belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to goâ?? and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.â?

WES NISKER â??â??if you don’t like the news, go out and make some of your own.â?

WH AUDEN â??â??A poet is a person who is passionately in love with language.â?

WH AUDEN â??â??No human being can make another one happy.â?

WH AUDEN â??â??No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.â?

WH AUDEN â??â??We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for; I don’t know.â?

WH AUDEN â??â??We must love one another or die.â?

WHITE â??â??In antiquity, every tree, every spring, every stream, every hill had its own genius loci, its guardian spirit… Before one cut a tree, mined a mountain, or a brook, it was important to placate the spirit in charge of that particular situation, and to keep it placated. By destroying animism, we have only ended up exploiting nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural objects.â?

WHITE HOUSE â??â??The sound of the Shafer heralds the beginning of a new year and a time of remembrance and renewal for the Jewish people. During these holy days, men and women are called to reflect on their faith and to honour the blessings of creation.â?

WHITMAN â??â??The untold want, by life and land ne’er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.â?

WHITNEY HOUSTON â??â??It’s about believinâ?? when you ain’t got anything to believe in.â?

WHITTIER â??â??The smile of God is victory.â?

WHOOPI GOLDBERG â??â??It never occurs to me that there are things I can’t do.â?

WIKIPAEDIA â??â??Researchers reason that all living humans descend from Africans, some of whom migrated out of Africa and populated the rest of the world. If the mitochondrial analysis is correct, then because mitochondrial Eve represents the root of the mitochondrial family tree, she must have predated the exodus and lived in Africa. Therefore many researchers take the mitochondrial evidence as support for the “single-origin” or Out-of-Africa model.â?

WIKIPAEDIA â??â??As Mahalakshmi, the supreme Goddess of Love and Delight, she lends grace and charms everything divine or human. As Mahasaraswati, the Goddess of Divine skill and Knowledge, she is the firefighter and trouble-shooter for the entire universe.â?

WIKIPAEDIA â??â??Hypertextuality is the interconnectedness of all literary works and their interpretation. A woven fabric of cultural consciousness is imitated and, in fact, investigated.â?

WIKIPAEDIA â??â??Primordial Parashakti is the ultimate dynamic energy of transcendental Brahmn… Brahmn is attributeless whereas Parashakti has many attributes. While, Brahmn has only to be cognised, Parashakti can be worshipped with name and form. She is Divine Will personified. She isconscious power beyond everything. She is the invisible and constant presence that sustains the world, linking form and name, holding them in interdependence. There is nothing impossible for Her She is the Universal Goddess. She is all knowledge, all strength, all triumph and all victory she is the Goddess Supreme, Maheshvari, who brings to us the total state of illumination.â?

WIKIPAEDIA â??Shakti is Mother of the universe. She creates, preserves, dissolves. She is the sat and so creates. She is chit, so she is life. She is ananda or bliss. He is also possessor and controller of opposite qualities: Destruction, death and terror as Mahakali, Goddess of Supreme Strength.â?

WIKIPAEDIA â??â??Space-time entails a new concept of distance. Whereas distances are always positive in Euclidean spaces, the distance between any two events in space-time â?? called an “interval” â?? may be real, zero, or even imaginary.â?

WIKIPAEDIA â??â??The real purpose of the Paryushan is to purify our soul by staying closer to our own soul, to look at our faults, to ask for forgiveness for the mistakes we have committed, and take vows to minimise our faults. We try to forget about the needs of our body and our business so that we can concentrate on our-self. Swetambers celebrate eight days of Paryushan and the last day is called Samvastsari. In these eight days most of Jains keep fast in many ways and all Jains keep fast on Last day of Paryushan. The process of shedding our KARMAS really begins by asking for forgiveness with true feelings and to vow not to repeat mistakes. The quality of the forgiveness requires humility and suppression of anger.â?

WILCOX AND MUMFORD â??â??â??I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.â?

WILFRED B L TROTTER â??â??The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folklore; states even approaching them cannot be reached without a moral and emotional effort most of us cannot or will not make.â?

WILFRED PETERSON â??â??The best leaders are very often the best listeners. They have an open mind. They are not interested in having their own way but in finding the best way.â?

WILILAM JAMES â??â??There is only one thing a philosopher can be truly relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.â?

WILL AND ARIEL DURANT â??â??The future never just happened. It was created.â?

WILL DURANT- â??Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.â?

WILL DURANT â??â??In my youth, I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.â?

WILL DURANT â??â??The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.â?

WILL DURANT â??â??The trouble with most people is that they Think with their hopes or fears or, wishes rather than with their minds.â?

WILL ROGERS â??â??An onion can make people cry but there’s never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.â?

WILL ROGERS â??â??Even youâ??re on the right track, you wonâ??t get anywhere if youâ??re standing still.â?

WILL ROGERS â??â??Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.â?

WILL ROGERS â??â??If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.â?

WILL ROGERS â??â??One revolution is just like one cocktail, it just gets you organized or the next.â?

WILL ROGERS â??â??Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.â?

WILL ROGERS â??â??There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.â?

WILL ROGERS â??â??We don’t give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give them plenty of publicity.â?

WILL ROGERS â??â??We don’t know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.â?

WILL ROGERS â??â??You canâ??t say civilisation isnâ??t advancing, in every war they kill you in a new way.â?

WILL SCHUTZ â??â??Man’s self-concept is enhanced when he takes responsibility for himself.â?

WILLA CATHER â??â??That is happiness; to be dissolved into something completely great.â?

WILLA CATHER â??â??There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.â?

WILLA CATHER â??â??Where there is the greatest love, there are always miracles.â?

WILLA GATHER â??â??I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.â?

WILLA GATHER â??â??Where there is great love, there are always miracles.â?

WILLA GATHER â??â??Where there is great love, there are always wishes.â?

WILLARD MARRIOTT â??â??Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the tree.â?

WILLIAM A WARD â??â??Another fresh new year is here…/ Another year to live!/To banish worry, doubt, and fear, to love and laugh and I give!/ This bright New Year is given me/to live each day with zest…/To daily grow and try to be/my highest and my best! I have the opportunity/ once more to right some wrongs,/ to pray for peace, to plant a tree,/ and sing more joyful songs.â?

WILLIAM A WARD â??â??Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.â?

WILLIAM A WART â??â??Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.â?

WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD â??â??If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.â?

WILLIAM ASHWORTH â??â??Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.â?

WILLIAM BENNETT- â??There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.â?

WILLIAM BLACK- â??A truth thatâ??s told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent.â?

WILLIAM BLAKE â??â??A dog starv’d at the master’s gate/ Predicts the ruin of the State./ A horse misus’d upon the road/ Calls to heaven for human blood./ Each outcry of the hunted hare/ A fibre from the brain does tear,/ A skylark wounded on the wing,/ A cherubim does cease to sing.â?

WILLIAM BLAKE â??â??Ancient poets animated all sensible objects with gods or geniuses… choosing forms of worship from poetic tales. And at length they pronounced that the gods had ordered such things. Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.â?

WILLIAM BLAKE â??â??Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.â?

WILLIAM BLAKE â??â??He who binds himself to a joy Doth the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in Eternity’s sun rise.â?

WILLIAM BLAKE â??â??I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care/ Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness,/And put on intellect… Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy.â?

WILLIAM BLAKE â??â??I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I’ve a wife that I love and that loves me; have all but riches bodily.â?

WILLIAM BLAKE â??â??I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.â?

WILLIAM BLAKE â??â??I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe I told it not, my wrath did grow.â?

WILLIAM BLAKE â??â??In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.â?

WILLIAM BLAKE â??â??It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.â?

WILLIAM BLAKE â??â??Man’s Desires are limited by his Perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.â?

WILLIAM BLAKE â??â??No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.â?

WILLIAM BLAKE â??â??Scientists, in trying to decipher that which should remain indecipherable, would turn that which is soul and life into a mill or machine.â?

WILLIAM BLAKE â??â??The strongest poison ever known/ Came from Caesar’s laurel crown.â?

WILLIAM BLAKE â??â??The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.â?

William borah- â??The marvel of the history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.â?

WILLIAM BRAMWELL â??â??There is too much meat and drink, too little fasting and self-denial, too much taking part in the world… and too little self-examination and prayer.â?

WILLIAM BUTLERYEATS â??â??Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.â?

WILLIAM CHANNING â??â??To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.â?

WILLIAM CLAYTON â??â??The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they’re going to be when you kill them.â?

WILLIAM COFFIN â??â??Only reverence can restrain violence â?? reverence for human life and the environment.â?

WILLIAM COWPER - â??Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.â?

WILLIAM COWPER â??â??But warâ??s a game, which, were their subject wise,/ Kings would not play at.â?

WILLIAM COWPER â??â??God made the country, and man made the town.â?

WILLIAM COWPER â??â??The bud may have a bitter taste,/But sweet will be the flower.â?

WILLIAM COWPER:- â??Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.â?

WILLIAM DRUMMOND â??â??A man who cannot reason is a fool, a man who will not reason is a bigot, and a man who dare not reason is a slave.â?

WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING â??â??Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.â?

WILLIAM FAULKNER â??â??Donâ??t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.â?

WILLIAM FAULKNER- â??Facts and truth really donâ??t have much to do with each other.â?

WILLIAM FEATHER â??â??A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.â?

WILLIAM FEATHER â??â??Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.â?

WILLIAM FEATHER â??â??Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.â?

WILLIAM FEATHER â??â??We always admire the other person more after we’ve tried to do his job.â?

WILLIAM FREDERICK HALSEY â??â??There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.â?

WILLIAM GARTNER â??â??What separates the entrepreneur from others is that entrepreneurs act on what they see.â?

WILLIAM GLADSTONE â??â??Duty is a power that arises with us in the morning, and goes to rest with us in the night. It is co-extensive with the action of our intelligence. It is the shadow that cleaves to us, go where we will.â?

WILLIAM GLADSTONE- â??Justice delayed is justice denied.â?

WILLIAM HAVARD- â??Our country welfare is our first concern, and who promotes that best, best proves his duty.â?

WILLIAM HAZLITT â??â??Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.â?

WILLIAM HAZLITT â??â??Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.â?

WILLIAM HAZLITT â??â??Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.â?

WILLIAM HAZLITT â??â??Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.â?

WILLIAM HAZLITT â??â??The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.â?

WILLIAM HAZLITT â??â??There is heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.â?

WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING - â??Error is the discipline through which we advance.â?

WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING â??â??Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.â?

WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING â??â??To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.â?

WILLIAM HOCKING â??â??Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.â?

WILLIAM HOMADY â??â??What I am inside determines the issue in the battle of life.â?

WILLIAM J. BENNETT:- â??There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.â?

WILLIAM JAMES â??â??Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.â?

WILLIAM JAMES â??â??Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.â?

WILLIAM JAMES â??â??Believe life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.â?

WILLIAM JAMES â??â??If you care enough for the result, you will almost always attain it.â?

WILLIAM JAMES â??â??The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.â?

WILLIAM JAMES â??â??The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.â?

WILLIAM JAMES â??â??Then you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.â?

WILLIAM JAMES â??â??These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact.â?

WILLIAM JAMES â??â??This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.â?

WILLIAM JAMES â??â??This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.â?

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN â??â??Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for it is a thing to be achieved.â?

WILLIAM JONES â??â??Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.â?

WILLIAM L GARRISON â??â??Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?â?

WILLIAM L. SHIRER â??â??Most true happiness comes from oneâ??s inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.â?

WILLIAM LANDBURG â??â??Modern portfolio theory allows for the fact that financial markets are by their nature unpredictable. An infinite array of events that are, impossible to foresee or control affect returns â?? currency meltdowns, earthquakes, terrorist attacks and 100-year storms (which have a way of occurring every five years!). Logic and rational thinking rarely factor into the mix. As was seen in the dot corn era, a company’s underlying strength, reflected by such variables as profitability, earning prospects and market share, may have far less effect on share price than mindless exuberance. How else can we account for the swings and gyrations in the stock market in recent years?â?

WILLIAM LANGLAND â??â??We should be low and love like and lean each man to the other And patient as pilgrims, for pilgrims are we all.â?

WILLIAM LANGLAND â??â??We should be low and love like and lean each man to the other And patient as pilgrims, for pilgrims are we all.â?

WILLIAM LAW â??â??A life devoted to the interests and enjoyments of this world, spent and wasted in the slavery of earthly desires, may be truly called a dream, as having all the shortness, vanity, and delusion of a dream; only with this great difference, that when a dream is over nothing is lost but fictions and fancies; but when the dream of life is ended only by death, all that eternity is lost, for which we were brought into being.â?

WILLIAM LAW â??â??All other sacrifices that we make whether of worldly goods, honours, or pleasures, are but small matters compared to that sacrifice and destruction of all selfishness, as well spiritual as natural, that must be made before our regeneration hath its perfect work.â?

WILLIAM LAW â??â??For Heaven is as near to our souls as this world is to our bodies.â?

WILLIAM LAW â??â??Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God; hate nothing but the evil that stirs in your own heart.â?

WILLIAM LONDON â??â??To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.â?

WILLIAM M THACKERAY â??â??Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of children.â?

WILLIAM Mc FEE â??â??The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.â?

WILLIAM MCDONOUGH â??â??Don’t get me wrong: love nuclear energy! It’s just that i prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there’s an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more than we could ever use in just about eight minutes. And it’s wireless!â?

WILLIAM MCGONAGALL â??â??Beautiful city of Glasgow, with your streets so neat and clean, Your stately mansions, and beautiful Green! Likewise your beautiful bridges across the river Clyde, And on your bonnie banks I would like to reside.â?

WILLIAM MOMS â??â??The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life and elevating them to an art.â?

WILLIAM MORRIS â??â??Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship’s sake that ye do them.â?

WILLIAM MOTHERWELL â??â??Men say that in this midnight hour, the disembodied have power to wander as it liketh them, by wizard oak and fairy stream.â?

WILLIAM ODOUGLAS â??â??Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.â?

WILLIAM PENN â??â??Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of our sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.â?

WILLIAM PENN â??â??He that does good for goodâ??s sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at least.â?

WILLIAM PENN â??â??No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; r no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.â?

WILLIAM PHELPS â??â??We look backward too much and we look forward too much; thus we miss the only eternity of which we can be absolutely sure â?? the eternal present, for it is always now.â?

WILLIAM PITT â??â??Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom: it is the argument of tyrants.â?

WILLIAM PURKEY â??â??Dance like no one is watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like no one is listening and live like it’s heaven on earth.

WILLIAM R INGE â??â??We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.â?

WILLIAM RANDOLPH â??â??A politician will do anything to his job â??even become a patriot.â?

William S. Burroughs- â??Be just, and if canâ??t be just, be arbitrary.â?

WILLIAM S. GILBERT- â??And whether youâ??re an honest man, or whether youâ??re a thief, depends up on whose solicitor has given me my brief.â?

WILLIAM SAFIRE â??â??Never assume the obvious is true.â?

WILLIAM SAROYAN â??â??Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.â?

WILLIAM SAROYAN â??â??No manâ??s guilt is not yours, nor is any manâ??s innocence a thing apart.â?

WILLIAM SEWELL â??â??We shall be judged, not by what we might have been, but what we have been.â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE - â??Hell is empty and all the devils are here.â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE - â??We are such stuff as dreams are made of; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE â??â??A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE â??â??Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety; other women cloy The appetites .they feed.â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE â??â??Alas! How should you govern any kingdom, That know not how to use ambassadors.â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE â??â??Fear no more the heat of the sun, Not the furious winter’s rages; Thou thy worldly task hath done, Home art gone, and taken thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust.â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE â??â??Have more than thou showest, / Speak less than thou knowest, /Lend less than thou owest, / Ride more than thou goest, / Learn more than thou trowest, / Set less than thou throwest; / Leave thy drink and thy whore, / And keep in-a-door, / And thou shalt have more / Than two tens to a score.â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE â??â??Here comes one with a paper: God give him grace to groan!â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE â??â??Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons’ difference, as the icy fang And churiish chiding of the winter’s wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body. Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say, “This is no flattery”.â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE â??â??How poor are they that have not patience What wound did ever heal but by degrees?â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE â??â??I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it.â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE â??â??If she be made of white and red,/ Her faults will ne’er be known,/ For blushing cheeks by faults are bred/ And fears by pale white shown:/ Then if she fear or be to blame,/ By this you shall not know,/ For still her cheeks possess the same/ Which native she doth owe.â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE â??â??If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE â??â??Love all, trust a few: Do wrong to none.â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE -â??Love asks me no questions. And gives me endless support.â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE â??â??My crown is in my heart, not in my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen; my crown is called contentment. A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoyâ?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE â??â??Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE â??â??Poor and content is rich and rich enough.â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE â??â??Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE â??â??Some rise by sin, some by virtue fall.â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE â??â??The gods approve the depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE â??â??The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE â??â??The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE â??â??Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE â??â??What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE â??â??When icicles hang by the wall,/ And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,/ And Tom bears logs into the hall,/ And milk comes frozen home in pail,/When blood is nipp’d and ways be foul,/ Then nightly sings the staring owl,/ Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note,While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE â??â??Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.â?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE â??â??You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments.â?

WILLIAM SHEDD â??â??A ship in the harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.â?

WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM â??â??The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.â?

WILLIAM STYRON â??â??A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.â?

WILLIAM THOMAS- â??No statement can be profound once it has been repeated by others.â?

WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY- â??Blindness we may forgive but baseness we will smite.â?

WILLIAM WARD â??â??The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountainâ??he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem â?? he is challenged by it.â?

WILLIAM WORDSWORHT â??â??Wisdom is often near when we stop than when we soar.â?

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH â??â??And, when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left, Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.â?

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH â??â??I made no vows, but vows/ Were then made for me; bond unknown to me/ Was given, that i should be, else sinning greatly/ A dedicated spirit.â?

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH â??â??The World is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; little we see in Nature that is ours; we have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not â?? Great God! I’d rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; so might I, standing on this pleasant lea, have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.â?

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH â??â??Wisdom is often nearer when we stoop than when we soar.â?

WILLIAN ERNEST HOCKING â??â??Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.â?

WILLIS HARMAN â??â??By deliberately changing’ the internal image of reality people can change the world.â?

WILLIS PLATER â??â??A liberal is a person whose interests arenâ??t at stake at the moment.â?

WILLIS WHITNEY â??â??Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.â?

WILLS DURANT â??â??India was the motherland of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages. India was the mother of Our philosophy, of much of our mathematics, of the ideals embodied in Christianity.. of self-government and democracy In many ways, Mother India is the mother of us all.â?

WILLS DURANT â??â??It is the function of the youth to defend liberty and innovation; of the old to defend order and tradition, and of middle age to find a middle way.â?

WILMA ASKINAS â??â??A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view.â?

WILMA RUDOLPH â??â??No matter what great things you accomplish, somebody helps you.â?

WILMA RUDOLPH â??â??No one goes alone to the heights of excellence. Whether your business is building a loving family, a great idea, a meaningful career, a work of art, or a vast commercial empire, your success will depend on others, and theirs will depend on you.â?

WILMA RUDOLPH â??â??When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God: Why was I here? What was my purpose? Surely, it wasn’t just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.â?

WILT ROGERS â??â??It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.â?

WIN PE â??â??Monk-poet Shin Maha Thilawuntha wrote poems on the thoughts in the Dhamma like the deep tone of a palace drum heard in the far end of the realm. Shin Maharathathara wrote of the nature of kingship and of matters secular in poems like an ensemble for an anyein or like the warble of a karaweik. I marvel at their use of language and a vocabulary both precise and rich. From which deep intellect did they draw it. By which attrition are we losing it. I feel sad for our collective forgetfulness.â?

WINNIE THE POOH â??â??If there ever comes a day when we canâ??t be together, keep me in your heart Iâ??ll stay there forever.â?

WINNIE THE POOH â??â??If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL - â??There are a lot of lies going around … and half of them are true.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL - â??There are a lot of lies going around … and half of them with out socialism is slavery and brutality.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??Democracy is the worst form of government Except for all the others that have been tried.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??During my life, I have often had to eat my own words, and on the whole I have found them a wholesome diet.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??I am ready to meet my maker, but whether He is prepared for the ordeal is another matter.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??I do not resent criticism even if for the sake of emphasis it parts for the time with reality.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??If you are going through hell keep going.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL -â??If you have an important point to make donâ??t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whackâ?.

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again, Then hit it a third time, a tremendous whack.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??In war, you can only be killed once, but in polities, many times.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures…â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing happened.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??One voyage to India is enough; the others are merely repletion.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??The empires of the future are empire of the mind.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??The price of greatness is responsibility.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young grow wild oats, the old grow sage.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??Without measureless and perpetual uncertainty the drama of human life would be destroyed.â?

WINSTON CHUECHILL â??â??Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.â?

WINWOOD READE â??â??And then, the earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the air is Saharas that separate, planet from planet, and sun from sun. The earth will become a Holy Land that will be visited by pilgrims from all quarters of the universe.â?

WITHROP ALDRICH â??â??The price of power is responsibility for the public good.â?

WM LEWIS â??â??The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.â?

WOLF BLITZER â??â??You always give the aggrieved party the chance to respond before you publish or go to air.â?

WOLFDYKE B KING â??â??The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.â?

WOODROW T WILSON â??â??All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.â?

WOODROW T WILSON â??â??I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.â?

WOODROW WILSON- â??It is not an army that we must train for war, it is a nation.â?

WOODROW WILSON- â??There must be, not a balance of power, but community of power, not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.â?

WOODROW WILSON â??â??You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.â?

WOODY ALLEN - â??How it is possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size.â?

WOODY ALLEN - â??Not only is there no god, but try getting a plumber on weekends.â?

WOODY ALLEN â??â??Donâ??t let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.â?

WOODY ALLEN- â??Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.â?

WOODY ALLEN â??â??Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.â?

WOODY ALLEN â??â??I am not afraid of death, I just donâ??t want to be there when it happens.â?

WOODY ALLEN â??â??I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work… I want to achieve it through not dying.â?

WOODY ALLEN â??â??If you’re not failing, you’re not trying anything.â?

WOODY ALLEN â??â??I’m astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.â?

WOODY ALLEN â??â??I’m astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.â?

WOODY ALLEN â??â??I’m not afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.â?

WOODY ALLEN â??â??My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.â?

WOODY ALLEN â??â??No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is not saying.â?

WOODY ALLEN â??â??People who drink to drown their sorrows should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.â?

WOODY ALLEN â??â??Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experience go, itâ??s one of the best.â?

WOODY ALLEN â??â??The heart wants what it wants. There is no logic to those things.â?

WOODY ALLEN â??â??The heart wants what it wants…. There’s no logic to those things.â?

WOODY ALLEN â??â??To you Iâ??m atheist; to God, Iâ??m the Loyal Opposition.â?

WOODY ALLEN â??â??You see me as an atheist. God see me as the loyal opposition.â?

WORLD BANK â??â??If you are not reforming, another country will overtake you.â?

WORLD BANK â??â??Reform is like repairing a car with the engine runningâ?? there is no time to strategise.â?

WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION, 1948 â??â??Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.â?

WORLD SCRIPTURE â??â??In a family, parents are responsible for the welfare of children and offer children an embracing, unconditional love.â?

WRITINGS OF BAHA WTAH â??â??No man shall attain the shores of the ocean of true understanding except he be detached from all that is in heaven and on earth.â?

WRITINGS OF BAHAâ??uâ??LLAH â??â??That seeker must at all times put his trust in God, must renounce the peoples of the earth, detach himself from the world of dust, and cleave unto Him Who is the Lord of Lords. If anyone revile you, or trouble touch you, in the path of God, be patient, and put your trust in Him Who heareth, who seeth. He, in truth, witnesseth, and perceiveth, and doeth what He pleaseth, through the power of His sovereignty.â?

WTPURKISER â??â??Not what we say about our blessings, but how he uses them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.â?

XENOCRATES â??â??I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.â?

XHARYA MAHAPRAJNA â??â??The principle of anekanta symbolizes the fact that no element is either different or same as the total. It is both separate and integrated. A person is not entirely different from this universe; yet, he is not the same. We are undeniably connected â?? that is why we lead both dependent and independent lives.â?

XUN ZI â??â??A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.â?

Y V REDDY â??â??In India our mandate encompasses both growth and stability.â?

Y.B.YEATS â??â??Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of fire.â?

YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO â??â??There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment. Everyone lets the present moment slip by then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed this fact. But grasping this firmly one must pile experience upon experience. And once one has come to this understanding he will be a different person from that point on, though he may not always bear it in mind. When one understands this settling into single- mindedness well, his affairs will thin out.â?

YAMANA ESKIMO â??â??Do not seek to benefit only yourself; think of other people also… If you were lucky in hunting, let others share it. Moreover, show them the favourable spots… let others, too, have their share. If you want to amass everything for yourself other people will stay way from you; no one will want to be with you. If you should fall ill one day no one will visit you because, for your part, you did not formerly concern yourself about others. Grant other people something also. The Yamana do not like a person who acts selfishly.â?

YANN MARTEL â??â??To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.â?

YASNA â??â??All these, indeed, gather unto Thee, 0 Mazda! They who have done Thy work, whose actions accord with the Truth, Whose words proceed from the Good-Mind, Whose Inspirer art Thou from the very beginning.â?

YASNA â??â??At the last turning of life to the faithful making the right choice according to his norm doth Ahura Mazda, the Lord Judge, in His sovereign power Bestow an end better than good. But to him who shall not serve the cause of good, He giveth an end worse than bad, at the last turning of life.â?

YASNA â??â??He who upholds Truth with all the might of his power, he who Upholds Truth the utmost in his word and deed, he, indeed, is thy most valued helper, 0 Ahura Mazda!â?

YASNA â??â??I shall take the awakened soul to the exalted abode with the help of the Good-Mind, Knowing the blissful rewards of the Wise Lord for righteous deeds. As long as I have power and strength I shall teach all to seek for Truth and Right.â?

YASNA â??â??May the true-spoken word triumph over the false-spoken word.â?

YASNA â??â??Through Thy power, 0 Lord, Make life renovated, real at Thy will.â?

YASNA â??â??With Truth moving my heart, With Best Thought inspiring my mind, with all the might of spiritual force within me, I venerate Thee, 0 Mazda, with songs of Thy praise. And at the last when I shall stand at Thy Gate I shall hear the echo of my prayers from Thy Abode of Songs.â?

YASSER ARAFAT- â??Choose your friend carefully. Your enemy will choose you.â?

YASSER ARAFAT â??â??I extend my congratulations to the Israeli people towards the Jewish new year. I hope this holiday will be the beginning of a new era of peace and security between the two peoples â?? the Israelis and Palestinians and other people m the region.â?

YASSER ARAFAT â??â??Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.â?

YEHUDI MENUHIN â??â??Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.â?

YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO â??â??Who never knew the price of happiness will not be happy.â?

YIDDISH PROVERB â??â??The whole world is a dream, and death the interpreter.â?

YIDDISH PROVERB â??â??What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul?â?

YIDDISH PROVERB â??â??With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well too.â?

YITTA HALBERSTAM & JUDITH LEVENTHAL â??â??At times, all we have to do in life is show up, be present, and allow the magic to unfold.â?

YOGA SUTRAS â??â??When one is established in non-injury, beings give up their mutual animosity in his presence.â?

YOGI BERRA â??â??You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.â?

YOGIBERRA â??â??You should always go to other people’s funerals; otherwise, they won’t come to yours.â?

YOHYA B. MUâ??AD AL RAZI- â??Paradise is the prison of the sage, just as the world is the prison of the believers.â?

YOKA DAISHI â??â??The Mind like a mirror is brightly illuminating and knows no obstructions, It penetrates the vast universe to its minutest crevices; All its contents, multitudinous in form, are reflected in the Mind, Which, shining like a perfect gem, has no surface, nor the inside.â?

YORUBA PROVERB â??â??Lack of respect to the constituted authority is the source of most conflicts in the world.â?

YORUBA PROVERB â??â??Lying does not mean that one could not be rich; Treachery does not mean you may not live to old age; But it is the day of death (judgment) about which one should be baffled.â?

YORUBA PROVERB â??â??Offend me and I will question you â?? this is the medicine for friendship.â?

YORUBA VERSE â??â??Only few people act in our interest in our absence, When we are not around. But in our presence, all display their love for us.â?

YOSHIDA KENKO - â??Ambition never comes to an end.â?

YOSHIKO NOMURA â??â??The law of cause and effect without exception rules all events that take place in the phenomenal world. There is no effect without a cause and each effect becomes a new cause.â?

YUL BRYNNER â??â??Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can’t get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.â?

YURI GAGARIN â??â??To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with natureâ??could one dream of anything more? When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is, Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!â?

Z.A.BHUTTO- â??Democracy is a flexible art. What appears impossible today is possible tomorrow.â?

ZACHARY SCOTT â??â??As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didnâ??t do.â?

ZADOK RABINWITZ â??â??A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness.â?

ZAFARNAMA -â??God is the Master of the earth and the sky: He is the Creator of all men, all places. He it is who creates all â?? from the feeble ant to the powerful elephant, and is the Embellisher of the meek and Destroyer of the reckless. His name is: “Protector of the meek”, And Himself He is dependent upon no one’s support or obligation. He has no twist in Him, no doubt. And, He shows man the Way to Redemption and Release, From the Guru’s.â?

ZAHARIAS â??â??Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.â?

ZARATHUSTRA â??â??Courage begets strength by struggle with hardships. Courage grows from fighting danger and overcoming obstacles. Develop the courage to act according to your convictions, to speak what is true, and to do what is Right.â?

ZARATHUSTRA â??â??Seek your happiness in the happiness of all. Regard the sorrows and sufferings of others as yours and hasten to assuage them.â?

ZARATHUSTRA â??â??These two Primordial Principles in One, Of Light and Darkness, Good and 111, that seem Apart from one another, yet are bound Inseparably together, each to each In Thought, in Word, in Action, everywhere. Are they in operation; and the wise Walk on the side of Light, while the unwise follow the other until they grow wise? These ancient Two, in mutual wrestle-play Give birth to Twin- Desires, high and low, that shape as Hate-Mentality in some, in others as the Better Mind of Love. 0 Mighty Lord of Wisdom, Mazada! Supreme, Infinite, Universal Mind!, Ahura! thou that givest Life to all!,/ Grant me the power to control this , mind,/ This Lower Mind i of mine, this egoism, And put an end to all Duality,/And gain the reign of One as is desired/ Unconsciously by even the graceless ones,/ The evil sinners, in their heart of hearts.â?

ZARATHUSTRA-â??Courage begets strength by struggle with hardships. Courage grows from fighting danger and overcoming obstacles. Develop the courage to act according to your convictions, to speak what is true, and to do what is right.â?

ZAUQ- â??An increase in love increases the light in the world.â?

ZELDA FITZGERALD- â??I donâ??t want to live â?? I want to love first, and live incidentally.â?

ZELDA FITZGERALD â??â??I donâ??t want to live- I want to love first and live incidentally.â?

ZEN â??â??Life is the only thing worth living for.â?

ZEN BUDDHISM â??â??A University Professor went to see Nan-in, a Zen Master, to find out more about Zen. As their meeting continued Nan-in was pouring Tea and continued to pour even though the cup was overflowing. The Professor cried. “Enough! No more will go in!” Nan-in replied, “Like this cup you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?â?

ZEN BUDDHISM â??â??The world is like a mirror, you see? Smile and it smiles back.â?

ZEN MASTER KYONG HO â??â??Accept the anxieties and difficulties of this life â?¦ Attain deliverance in disturbance.â?

ZEN SAYING â??â??To know and not to do is not yet to know.â?

ZEN STORY â??â??One day it was announced by Master Joshu that the young monk Kyogen had reached an enlightened state. Much impressed by this news, several of his peers went to speak with him. “We have heard that you are enlightened. Is this true?” they inquired. “It is”, Kyogen answered. “Tell us”, said a friend, “how do you feel?” “As miserable as ever”, replied the enlightened Kyogen.â?

ZEN THOUGHT â??â??Before enlightenment â??chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment â?? chop wood and carry water.â?

ZHUANG ZI â??â??Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.â?

ZIG ZIGLAR - â??If you go looking for a friend, youâ??re going to find theyâ??re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, youâ??ll find them every where.â?

ZIG ZIGLAR â?? â??Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.â?

ZIG ZIGLAR â??â??A lot of people have gone farther than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.â?

ZIG ZIGLAR â??â??All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we’re doing what we have been told or asked to do.â?

ZIG ZIGLAR â??â??Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.â?

ZIG ZIGLAR â??â??Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.â?

ZSA ZSA GABOR â??â??A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.â?

ZSA ZSA GABOR- â??Getting divorced just because you donâ??t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.â?

ZSA ZSA GABOR â??â??Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.â?

ZSA ZSA GABOR â??â??I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.â?

ZSA ZSA GABOR â??â??I know nothing about sex because I was always married.â?

ZSA ZSA GABOR â??â??I want a man whoâ??s kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire.â?

ZSA ZSA GABOR â??â??I’m an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the home.â?

Mr. Ashok Sharma

Restless Legs Syndrome

An irresistible urge to move the legs is called “Restless Legs Syndrome.” The urge to move the legs is usually due to unpleasant feelings in the legs that occur when at rest. Movement eases the feelings for a while. Although symptoms mostly affect in the legs, they can also affect the arms.

There are two types of restless legs syndrome, they are:

1.Primary: Cause is not know, but tends to run in families, and is the most common
2.Secondary: Caused by another disease or condition or by taking certain medicines.

Restless legs syndrome is common in pregnant women and usually occurs during the last months of pregnancy. It usually improves or disappears within a few weeks after delivery.

People with restless legs syndrome describe their symptoms with words like creeping, crawling, tingling or burning sensations. The unpleasant feelings may also occur in the arms.

People with RLS often don’t get enough sleep because RLS can make it hard to fall asleep and stay asleep. They are often tired and sleepy during the day which makes it difficult to:

Â?Concentrate, learn and remember things
Â?Work
Â?Carry out other usual daily activities
Â?Take part in family and social activities

Not getting enough sleep can also cause depression or mood swings.

People with RLS usually also have a condition called periodic limb movement disorder. PLMD is characterized by leg twitching or jerking uncontrollably about every 10 to 60 seconds usually during sleep. The legs are usually most affected, but PLMD can also affect the arms.

Although RLS is unpleasant and uncomfortable, there are some simple self-care approaches and lifestyle changes that can help in mild cases. RLS symptoms often improve with medical treatment. There is ongoing research to better understand the causes of RLS and to develop better treatments.

Medicines that can cause RLS

RLS symptoms usually go away when medicine is stopped, if the RLS symptoms are actually caused by the medicine. You should never stop taking any kind of medicine that is prescribed by your doctor unless he or she instructs you to do so. Medicines that can cause RLS are:

Â?Antiseizure medicines
Â?Antinausea medicines
Â?Antidepressants
Â?Some cold and allergy medicines
Other substances that can cause RLS symptoms or make them worse include:
Â?Caffeine
Â?Alcohol
Â?Tobacco

Although RLS affects both men and women, the disorder occurs more often in women than in men. The age group in which RLS mostly occurs is middle age; however, in up to two out of every five cases, the symptoms of RLS begin before age 20. People who develop RLS early in life usually have a family history of the disorder. The disorder is also more common in persons of northern European descent.

Signs and Symptoms of Restless Legs Syndrome include:

Â?An almost irresistible urge to move the legs or arms when sitting or lying down
Â?An unpleasant feeling in the legs
Â?Difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep because of the unpleasant feelings in the legs or arms
Â?Daytime sleepiness that results from a lack of restful sleep due to the repeated limb movements

Restless legs syndrome gets its name from the urge to move the legs when sitting or lying down. Typical movements include:

Â?Pacing and walking
Â?Jiggling the legs
Â?Stretching and flexing
Â?Tossing and turning
Â?Rubbing the legs

To help your doctor take a medical history, and to provide you with an appropriate diagnosis, provide him or her with answers to the following questions:

Â?Can you describe your symptoms?
Â?When did your symptoms first begin?
Â?When during the day or night do the symptoms usually occur?
Â?When are your symptoms worse?
Â?Do symptoms interfere with your sleep?
Â?What time do you go to bed and get up?
Â?What is your routine before going to bed?
Â?What kind of noise, light, interruptions are there in the room where you sleep?
Â?Do you snore?
Â?Are you tired and sleepy when you wake up and during the day?
Â?Do you have trouble concentrating?
Â?Do you doze off or have difficult staying awake doing routine tasks, especially while driving?
Â?Do other members of your family have similar symptoms?
Â?What medicines (over-the-counter and prescription) do you take?
Â?Do you gasp for air during sleep?
Â?Do you use caffeine, tobacco, or alcohol?

Listed below are some lifestyle changes to improve and relieve symptoms of RLS:

Â?Avoid things that can make symptoms of RLS worse such as tobacco, alcohol, foods and beverages that contain caffeine such as chocolate, coffee, tea, and some soft drinks
Â?Medicines: Only at the advice of your doctor should you stop taking medicines that have been specifically prescribed for you. There are some medicines that can make the symptoms of RLS worse and they include: Antidepressants, antinausea medicines, antipsychotic medicines, antihistamines.
Â?Adopt good sleep habits such as keeping your bedroom or sleep area cool, quiet, comfortable and free of unnecessary light. Use your bedroom for sleeping, not for watching TV or using computers or the telephone. Go to bed every night at the same time and wake up at the same time every morning.
Â?Follow a program of moderate exercise
Other activities that may also help relieve symptoms include:
Â?Walking or stretching
Â?Taking a hot or cold bath
Â?Massaging the leg or arm
Â?Using heat or ice packs

Doctors prescribe medicines to treat RLS in people who:

Â?Have clearly defined symptoms
Â?Those who have symptoms that cannot be controlled by lifestyle and non-drug treatments.

There is no single medicine that is helpful in all persons with RLS. It sometimes takes several changes in medicines and dosages to find the best approach. Always talk to your doctor before taking any medicines or over-the-counter medicines for your symptoms. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved ropinirole to treat moderate to severe RLS.

Restless legs syndrome is very often a lifelong condition. The symptoms may come and go frequently or they may disappear completely for long periods of time. They may even get worse over time. Lifestyle changes and medicines can help control and relieve symptoms of restless legs syndrome. Discuss with your doctor about lifestyle changes and medicines that might help your symptoms. As research continues new treatments are being developed.

Source: The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

Disclaimer: *This article is not meant to diagnose, treat or cure any kind of a health problem. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Always consult with your health care provider about any kind of a health problem and especially before beginning any kind of an exercise routine.

This article is FREE to publish with the resource box. Article written 4-2007.

Connie Limon
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A Boomers Guide to Dealing With Bi-polar and Mood Disorders During a Recession

The current economic recession will see many people having to deal with different situations, either with themselves or their family members.  One of the problems that have been increasing amongst Americans, especially older ones, is anxiety about the future.  This anxiety can result into the onset of a variety of mood disorders that range from being relatively mild to severe.

Depression and Bipolar Disorder are two types of mood disorders that are becoming increasingly common.  Depression has many levels and often goes undiagnosed for a long time if itâ??s mild.  Bipolar Disorder is a bit easier to identify because it involves severe mood swings that others will find abnormal and may seek to investigate the matter further.

How do you know if you are depressed or have bipolar disorder

There are signs that you can use to tell you if you or a loved one is depressed.

·        You feel sad, irritable or tense at all times.

·        You find yourself not enjoying hobbies and other things that you used to enjoy.

·        You donâ??t have a lot of energy even when youâ??ve done nothing all day.

·        You either lose or gain a lot of weight due a change in your eating habits.

·        Youâ??re either sleeping too much or not enough.

·        You have difficulty concentrating on something for a prolonged period of time.

·        You have times when you feel as though youâ??re not contributing to your family, job or community â?? a general sense of worthlessness.

·        You think about committing suicide or dying.

·        In the case of bipolar disorder, you have mood swings that go from one extreme to the other.

How to deal with it

If you find that most of the above signs fit your current emotional state, you may be depressed or have bipolar disorder and need to seek professional help immediately.  This does not mean that you should start taking a lot of medication; but it is the first step in diagnosing whether or not you really have a mood disorder.  A professional will help you create a mood chart on which you can record your moods over a period a time so that you can be accurately diagnosed. 

Do not be afraid to talk about your findings with those close to you.  Do not try to work things out alone; it will probably only make matters worse.  Also, try to identify the source of your depression and, with the help of loved ones, work on a solution or a positive way of dealing with the problem.

These mood disorders have a way of creeping up on us and slowly eating away at our will to live without us realizing it.  Awareness of the signs is the key to preventing anything devastating from happening as a result.  As with most illnesses, persistence and patience are essential as you will not necessarily see immediate improvement, but that will come with time.

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