Fasting

Fasting month is here (22 Aug - 21 Sep 09).

Found a good article from anandamarga site about yogic fasting.
i decided to try this, and i SUCCEDDED :D

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Question: What's so good about fasting? How long does it last?

Answer: Fasting is one of the secrets of long life.

Your body, and your digestive organs in particular, are required to work and work without any vacation. You know that you require rest from your work or your school from time to time.

In the same way, your digestive system needs a rest from time to time.Periodic fasting provides the rest for your digestive system. It allows your digestive system to recuperate from the rough treatment that you may have given it by overeating or eating the wrong foods or eating at the wrong time.In addition fasting also provides an opportunity to eliminate many toxins from your body.

After fasting, you should take some lemon water with a bit of salt. This drink helps to flush the digestive system, eliminating waste material that might otherwise remain in the body if you didn't fast.

Fasting also helps you to keep a balanced mind inspite of the attraction of the moon on the fluids of your body. That is why our fasting system is timed in relation to the moon. The eleventh day after the new and full moons is the time when this attraction is very strong. If you fast during this period, then the emptiness of the stomach pulls down liquids that would otherwise rise up in your body under the attraction of the moon.

Finally fasting also gives you a chance to save some time and use that time for spiritual pursuits. In order to eat, you may have to spend time shopping, cooking, cleaning and of course eating. If you fast, you can use that time to do meditation, to read or some other valuable pursuit.

This system of yogic fasting has a duration from sunrise to sunrise. You begin at sunrise on the fasting day and eat nothing. If your body is strong you can also refrain from drinking anything.On the next day, you can break the fast with lemon water, as I have mentioned above, and then with fruit and other suitable food.

Some people think that fasting is difficult. If you prepare yourself for fasting it is not difficult. Prepare yourself physically by taking enough food and also plenty of liquids the day before. Prepare yourself mentally by deciding the night before fasting: "Tomorrow is fasting day, and I am not going to eat anything." If you take this mental determination prior to the fasting day, you will not be hungry during the fasting day.

If you don't make a prior determination, during the fasting day you will start to think "Maybe I should eat, and fast another day!" Decide beforehand and you will be able to complete your fast.All in all, fasting is one of the best practices for maintaining physical, mental and spiritual health.

I highly recommend it.

food allergy

swollen lips >> one of the signs of food Allergies

Food allergies occur when a sensitive person eats, inhales, or comes into contact with even tiny amounts of certain foods or food additives. These allergic reactions can be very mild or may be life-threatening.

Food allergies are becoming more and more common. There has been an increase in severe food allergy cases in the last 10 years, mostly driven by peanut and tree nut allergies.

In adults, the foods most likely to cause anaphylaxis are peanuts, tree nuts, fish, and shellfish.
Symptoms tend to occur just after eating. They may include reddening of the skin, hives, itchy skin, swollen lips or eyelids, tightness of the throat, wheezing, difficulty breathing, coughing, vomiting, or diarrhea.

www.bing.com

new search engine is launched :)

www.bing.com

new sites

after the invasion of www.twitter.com, few new sites to click:

www.tumblr.com >> to make a minimalistic blog ~ you can leave short comments just like in twitter.

http://www.wolframalpha.com >> new computable search engine -- interestiiiinggg...


happy surfing!

problem?

The definition for word = PROBLEM = something that comes with a solution.
If there is no solution, then that is NOT a problem.

>> quoted from Ajahn Brahm on one of his mp3 file talks ~~

"You should cherish everything even if you don't possess it"

"Fragrant Rice" / "Dao Xiang"

lyricsComposer: Jay Chou
Lyricist: Jay Chou

If you have too many complaints towards this world
When you fall down you don't dare to continue walking forward
Why must people be so weak, depraved
I ask you to turn on the TV and see
How many people bravely try hard to continue walking for their life
Shouldn't we be content with what we have?
You should cherish everything even if you don't possess it

I still remember you said your home was the only castle,
you continue to run with the fragrance of the rice and the flowing river
Smiling, the dreams when you were young, I know
Don't cry, let the fireflies lead you to escape,
the eternal dependence of the folk song in the country
Just go home
Go back to the happiness at the very start

Don't be so easy to give up, it's just like I say
For dreams you can't achieve, switch it for another and it'll be fine
Put some colour into your life, firstly paint the colour you like on love
Come on and smile, merit and fame aren't the goals
Let yourself be happy, this is what you call meaning

The paper airplane from my childhood, it's finally flown back to my hand now
That so called happiness, running barefoot in the fields chasing crickets and getting tired
Picking fruits without permission and getting scared from being stung by bees, who's sniggering?I lean on the scarecrow while being blown by the wind while singing while sleeping
Oh oh, if the sunshine sprinkles on the road then I won't be afraid of being broken-hearted
You should cherish everything even if you don't possess it

I still remember you said your home was the only castle,
you continue to run with the fragrance of the rice and the flowing river
Smiling, dreams when you were young, I know
Don't cry, let the fireflies lead you to escape,
the eternal dependence of the folk song in the country
Just go home
Go back to the happiness at the very start

Ajahn Brahm

http://www.ajahnbrahm.org/ajahnbrahm.org.au/Home.html

Reza Gunawan...

Aku adalah penggemar berat koko Reza Gunawan.....

for more, click links below....

http://www.rezagunawan.blogspot.com/

http://www.truenaturehealing.net/html/schedule.html

Is Sungazing good for you?

More on "Sun gazer":

http://www.solarhealing.com/sungazing.htm

http://www.rawpaleodiet.org/sungazing/

Amy Winehouse Lyrics - Love is a losing Game

Artist: Amy Winehouse Lyrics
Song: Love Is A Losing Game Lyrics
Submit New Amy Winehouse Lyrics

For you I was a flame,
Love is a losing game
Five story fire as you came,
Love is losing game

One I wish I never played,
Oh, what a mess we made
And now the final frame,
Love is a losing game

Played out by the band,
Love is a losing hand
More than I could stand,
Love is a losing hand

Self professed profound
Til' the chips were down
Know you’re a gambling man
Love is a losing hand
Tho' I battled blind,

Love is a fate resigned
Memories mar my mind,
Love it is a fate resigned
Over futile odds,

And laughed at by the Gods
And now the final frame,
Love is a losing game

Robin Thicke

Anyone heard of this name? His songs?
This song is for his lovely wife..... sooo sweeettt.......

Album: Evolution of Robin Thicke

The lyrics:

LOST WITHOUT YOU

Tell me how u love me more
And how u think Im sexy baby
That u dont want nobody else
U dont want this guy
u dont want that guy u wanna
Touch yourself when u see me
Tell me how u love my body
And how I make u feel baby
U wanna roll with me u wanna hold with me
U wanna stay warm and get out of the cold with me
I just love 2 hear u say it
It makes a man feel good baby
Tell me u depend on meI need 2 hear it
Im lost without u
Cant help myself
How does it feel2 know that
I love u baby
Baby youre the perfect shape
Baby youre the perfect weight
Treat me like my birthday
I want it this way I want it that way
I want it Tell me u dont want me 2 stop
Tell me it would break your heart
That u love me and all my dirty
U wanna roll with me u wanna hold with me
U wanna make fires and get Norwegian wood with me
I just love 2 hear u say it
It makes a man feel good baby
Im lost without u
Cant help myself
How does it feel2 know that
I love u baby

Buddhism

Interested in Buddhism?

forestsangha.org

Top Smile Savers & Spoilers

Posted Tue, Apr 03, 2007, 10:02 am PDT
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Somewhere in America right now, a student's science fair project is demonstrating cola's ability to eat through tooth enamel. It's not pretty. But soda isn't the only food that does a number on your grin. Here are some of your smile's worst enemies -- and best friends.
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THE ENEMIES LIST
Soda, fruit juice, and sports drinks
Not only are they sugary, they're acidic, and that creates a perfect home for the bacteria that cause cavities and gum disease -- especially if you tend to sip on one or another of these drinks all day (who, us?). Acid-neutralizing saliva just can't keep up.
The realistic fix - Nobody's saying go cold turkey but for all-day swigging, choose water. Reserve these pick-me-ups for once-a-day use. And buy some straws -- sipping through them (try this trick) shrinks teeth-exposure time.
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Sticky stuff
We're not just talking gooey caramels or fruit rollups. Bread, crackers, chips, sweet rolls, and other refined carbohydrates are nearly as likely to cling to teeth as a Tootsie Roll -- and they hang on for at least 20 minutes. Not good.
The realistic fix - Try to say no to sticky sweets and carbs when you can't brush afterward. Alternatively, slosh some water around in your mouth or chew a stick of sugarless gum that's sweetened with xylitol. The gum helps remove sticky food particles from your teeth, and xylitol curbs cavity causers and increases healthy saliva.
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YOUR SMILE'S BEST FRIENDS
Cheese, please Eating a bit of cheddar (or whatever) at the end of a meal helps protect teeth. It stimulates the production of cleansing saliva, plus the calcium in cheese helps harden teeth.
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Crunchy things Crisp apples, celery and carrots are nature's little toothbrush alternatives. Not only do they help rid your mouth of food particles but their rough, fibrous texture actually scrubs away as you chew, slightly brightening your smile.
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Have a cuppa Drinking tea after eating can help destroy the germs that cause cavities, gum disease, and phewy breath. That goes for both green and black teas.
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Shiitake mushrooms These delicate, delicious flavor-boosters contain lenitan, a plant substance that's anything but a lightweight: It fights both tooth plaque and the bacteria that live in it.

All GooD Things CoMe To an End

good tune!

ALL GOOD THINGS COME TO AN END by Nelly Furtado

Rubik's Cubes

Rubik's Cubes - sexy or unsexy?

Post long holiday

Stay at home today. Think i've got COLD :( hate to be sick .....

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who is Deepak Chopra? His new book: LIFE AFTER DEATH

outsourcing

outsourcing : womb ..

Flashmob

The term lightning-accumulate, usually however English Flashmob (flash - lightning; mobilization - also Smart mobilization ("more intelligently human being-accumulate ", lat. mobilis - mobile) and/or Smart Mobbing designates a short, apparently spontaneous human being-accumulate at public or halfpublic places or purposeful collective Buhrufen with political meetings with those the participants usually personally do not know each other. Flashmobs are organized over Weblogs, groups of messages, E-Mail chain letters or by mobile phone. Although the origin idea was explicitly unpolitical, there were meanwhile already Flashmobs with political background.

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Click here and here.

a n g e l

A n g e l - by Robbie Williams

I sit and wait
Does an angel contemplate my fate
And do they know
The places where we go
When we're grey and old
cos I have been told
That salvation lets their wings unfold
So when Im lying in my bed
Thoughts running through my head
And I feel the love is dead
Im loving angels instead
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And through it all she offers me protection
A lot of love and affection
Whether Im right or wrong
And down the waterfall
Wherever it may take me
I know that life wont break me
When I come to call
she wont forsake me
Im loving angels instead
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When Im feeling weak
And my pain walks down a one way street
I look above
And I know Ill always be blessed with love
And as the feeling grows
She breathes flesh to my bones
And when love is dead
Im loving angels instead
And through it all she offers me protection
A lot of love and affection
Whether Im right or wrong
And down the waterfall
Wherever it may take me
I know that life wont break me
When I come to call
she wont forsake me
Im loving angels instead
m
And through it all she offers me protection
A lot of love and affection
Whether Im right or wrong
And down the waterfall
Wherever it may take me
I know that life wont break me
When I come to call
she wont forsake me
Im loving angels instead

cooking class...

After reading my blog, my sweetest friend suggested that i should "update the damn thing more often" -- well, i take that as a genuine remark to motivate me :) t h a n k y o u

Let's start a new hobby in cooking - click here