Healthy Ways to Reduce or Get Rid of Insomnia

• Vitamin B during the day (reduces stress and increases energy)
• Melatonin @ night 1 hr before want to fall asleep; helps you fall asleep   Note: It is habit forming, thus let it form the habit of falling asleep at a certain time (bedtime), and then get off of it asap, as you Will become dependent on it.  Melatonin is naturally produced in your body throughout the day and puts you to sleep at night.  You may not have enough of it and thus have trouble falling asleep.
• do lots of exercise or activity during the day and do Not do it within 2 hours of bedtime
• go to sleep and get up at the same time every day for 1 - 3 weeks (as long as possible)
• do all the work you need to relax (lots of work) before you go to bed
• sleep is to digest the day and solve problems; it is harder to sleep deeply if you are stressed.  Thus creating more stress and less sleep.  It is a mad cycle.  Use any of these steps to stop the cycle early!
• determine why are you not sleeping?  If you are not tired, then maybe you need to exercise more during the day (be active in any way you can!)  If you are feeling overworked or you have too much o your mind, then you need to relax more.
• vitamin C energy, fights sickness and clears the mind
• antioxidants: acai, berries of all sorts have lots of happy stuff in them and more vitamin B
• vitamin D: sunshine, go outside and absorb some
• smile it releases more happy hormones than eating dark chocolate or wine
• no naps
• eat regular meals 3/day
• do what you do to relax and decrease stress: parkour
• massages, baths, lotions, candles, read, walk before bed, enjoy some sun, etc
• do Not stay up late often
• may like to stay up late one night and then sleep lots and easily next night
• why can you not sleep?  ask yourself each time it happens!
• do Not pull all-nighters or sleep all day; both put your rhythms off

Yamakasi Spirit

Parkour Parkour!!

Strong heart means you help others who do not have the talents and livelihood you have; you seek to love others; you do more for others than you do for yourself; you are not self-centered

Strong mind means you think for the team; it means you think about safety; it means you push your boundaries and abilities until they change; it means you encourage others to do so as well; it means you share with others what you know; it means you work together

Strong spirit means you live by your morals (you establish them); it means you risk being vulnerable and humble; it means you listen to others and do not advise them, you listen until you know what they need from you; it means you are there for ppl- ppl you may have only met; ppl you hardly know, and you risk getting to know someone after having one thing in common with them (one thing you are both passionate about)

You live what you believe and you stand by them throughout Your Life! That means in relationships, in school, in your job, with your family, with your girlfriend, with your parents, with your enemies, with pure strangers, with all the ppl who offer you help. :)

We start together…We finish together!!

My Orange Personality!!!

            I recently participated in a personality training at work; it is supposed to help us work better together, communicate, and live together!

            I was an orange: spontaneous, fun, lively, impromptu.  Behavior: acts boldly and is direct, takes risks (esp. sports), seeks adventure (duh!), wants “hands-on”activities, has high expectations.  I think this describes me very well!  I have a few traits from other colors; green: inventive, questions and explores ideas, works independently, intellect; glue: lead by the heart, emotional, loving, caring, creativity and craftiness, contagiously enthusiastic, expresses feelings, encourages others; gold: responsible and dependable (I’m not very gold; golds are structured and serious and planned, everything that I am Not).  As you can imagine, I had a primary color of orange, and a tied secondary b/w blue and green.  Gold was a loosing 3^rd; with the bare minimum number of points; it receives the same number of points simply because it is diagnosed in the spectrum; lol.  I have just enough gold to get along in a gold society; the one in which we live.  We are all, all 3 of these colors, just in varying amounts and in different situations.  For example, I am gold when I have to get work done or present it to my boss.

            Examples of my orange personality: my obsession for parkour, vibram 5 fingers, rock climbing, my job, adventure, impromptu road trips, spontaneous “plans,” crazy purchases, my trampoline, my bouncy ball chair, my purple hair, my unique clothing style, my love of crafts, skateboarding, my health prowess, need I go on?

            This result actually makes it all make sense.  I no longer feel guilty about my wild weekends to counterbalance my stressful and gold weekdays working hard!  It makes perfect sense.  It is how I balance straining myself and being myself.  It really helps me better understand myself.  I hope it helps you better understand me.

Let me know if you would like to know more about the colors of our varying personalities.

Or read for yourself:

“Showing your True Colors” by Mary Miscisin

Why I Love Parkour

For those of you who do not know, I fell in love with parkour about a year ago; incidentally, when I met my current boyfriend.  I love it for many reasons, which I will list here.  I decided to help me remember what days to train on, I would train on all SMWRF days (that’s pronounced smurf.)  Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.  This allows me 2 sporadic days of rest, and plenty days of play and exercise!  This keeps me sane and my happy levels high!

By the way, this fits under health!!

• Parkour encourages visualizing to improve and discover techniques.
• It also encourages achieving and maintaining a strong body, strong mind, and strong spirit.  In order to do this, you must not only maintain your health and fitness, you must also care for those you love, and care for society, and give to others, and embrace your responsibilities.
• To me, it also encourages dispelling all negativity in the body to allow free movement and a focused mind.
• It does not allow one to have disbelief in oneself.  You are not allowed to ; ) say “c-a-n-‘-t” (I did not say it!)  If you say coconut, then you must do 10 pushups to improve your language and physique.  It is all about believing in yourself, learning your limits and then exceeding and changing them.  It is all about an ever-changing individual.
• It’s fun!
• It also encourages great concentration and meditation. 
• It encourages conquering your mind.
• It requires silencing your fears.  It uses fear as an ally and a weapon.  It warns you of danger and reminds you to have backups and friends close at hand.  Simultaneously, it compels you to confront and then defeat your disbelief and fear.  It allows a simple way to defeat physical fears, so to better prepare you for the more difficult mental blocks and fears.
• It requires constant vigilance, persistence, and awareness.  You c-a-n-n-o-t give up or stop trying.  In order to achieve the difficult, you must persevere and do things 100+ times!
• It constantly pushes my limits, pushes me.
• I am constantly learning new things and having my mind blown by what the human body is capable of!
• It suggests there is no limit!
• It also suggests applying all of these principles not only to physical barriers/obstacles, but also to mental and emotional barriers.  All of which are great life lessons, and are best learned in as many ways as possible as to remember them when you need them!  Rather than making the mistakes!
• I am constantly surprising myself with my abilities; unbeknownst to me previously.
• It attracts unique individuals: outcasts, rebels, nerds, geeks, jocks, happy, people who push and challenge the status quo (most who never accepted it as quo).
• It expresses my creativity through movement; the same reason I fell in love with dance time and again!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-0ujf6jcr4&list=FLQpd20sbsD62q7auTAMl98w&index=1&feature=plpp_video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j886vVYkFLY&list=FLQpd20sbsD62q7auTAMl98w&index=5&feature=plpp_video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI_-mT_UVMI&list=FLQpd20sbsD62q7auTAMl98w&index=17&feature=plpp_video

Because if pictures speak 1000 words; these videos speak 1 million!  They are epic and they are parkour; that is epic squared!

Weight-loss with HCG

I recently fell in love with HCG, before even trying it!  It is a homeopathic remedy to aid in weight loss.  It is not harmful; in fact it is essentially water and 1% alcohol.  The essence of it, however, is HCG – Human Chorionic Gonadotropin.  HCG is a hormone found in pregnant women.  NCG resets the hypothalamus and sends signals to break down stored body fat as a primary fuel source; instead of storing it.  Without HCG to assist a low calorie diet, the body will consume muscles and metabolism will slow down.  It also resets the body’s weight set point, allowing you to maintain your new weight.  Also, it suppresses appetite.

The diet: 2 days of loading up on calories and fat.  3-45 days with only 500 calories intake (as apposed to the recommended 2,000 calories per day.)  Then for 3 days, you stop taking the HCG and continue at 500 calories per day, gradually eating more as you get hungrier.  This allows HCG to slowly leave your system.  Then if you continue to want to loose weight, you must take a break for 2-3 weeks to allow your system to plateau at your new/current weight.

I am hoping to loose 50 or 40 lbs; coming out to 120 lbs.  Yet maintaining muscle and my 6-pack!  It is not much, and yet it would greatly affect my body.  Also, I have weighed the same since high school, 9 years.  I am convinced my body has plateau-ed at this weight and is most comfortable staying here, unless persuaded otherwise forcefully!  : )

I will not begin the diet until December 25th, as I expect to eat a lot that day, and will count it as a loading day.  That way my weight loss does not interfere with the holidays!  

http://hcgproviders.com/

I will keep you updated and post before and after pictures.  I have samples of HCG if you are interested.  Maintaining your proper weight benefits your health ten-fold: decreasing diabetes, obesity, heart disease, cancers, high blood pressure and cholesterol, etc.

Benefits of Lotion Lites

Benefits of Natural Lotion Lites

Deep Reaching Moisturizers - These are natural oils that absorb deeply, penetrating into the youngest and most tender layers of your skin to feed, nourish and encourage your skin to produce the strongest and most resilient cells possible.

Jojoba Oil - Most similar to sebum, the skin's natural oil secreted by the sebaceous glands.

• Antibacterial to help prevent acne breakouts.
• Natural preservative to keep skin looking younger.

Avocado Oil - Avocado oil is renowned for its healing, anti-bacterial, and anti-wrinkle properties. Rich in vitamins A, D and E, lecithin, as well as potas sium. High in sterolins, which reduce age spots, help heal sun damage and scars.

Sweet Almond Oil - High in minerals, protein, naturally occurring vitamins (A, B1, B2, B6 and E) and in mono and poly- unsaturated fatty acids. Relieves muscular aches and pains.

Vitamin E - Prevents the damaging effects of free radicals found in pollution and ultraviolet light

Soybean Oil 

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Barrier Moisturizers - These are natural botanical butters and absorbable waxes that have a large molecular structure which allows them to stay closer to the upper layers of your skin in order hold in the deep moisturizers and create a protective barrier to keep out environmental pollutants. They seal moisture in while at the same time allowing your skin to breathe easily.

Shea Butter - Anti-inflammatory aiding in the healing process and as an aid to heal eczema, burns, rashes, severely dry skin, and to lessen the irritation of psoriasis.

Cocoa Butter - There is some evidence that the CMP (cocoa mass polyphenol) in Cocoa Butter may also help prevent heart disease and ease arthritic symptoms.

Bees Wax 

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I recently fell in love with lotion lites.  It is a candle and lotion 2 in 1.  You simply light a candle, make your room smell great, and then use the hot/warm oils as a lotion and moisturizer anywhere on your body!  It is one of the coolest new inventions.  So simple and yet so great!   It tells the customer outright that they use only essential, natural oils.
It comes in many different aromas:  Cranberry Fig, Dragon's Blood, Lavender, Plumeria, Relax - vanilla, lavender, etc, Rosemary Mint, Sedona - rose, mandarin leaf, Yuzu Japanese fruit, Sandalwood Vanilla, and White Tea Ginger - hyacinth, lemon, green day lilies.  The best smells, in my opinion: Lavender, Plumeria, and Relax!!  Benefits of lotion lites : so many I will do a separate post for this.  Suffice it to say they contain deep moisturizers: jojoba, avocado, sweet almond, and soybean oil, vitamin E; barrier moisturizers: shea and cocoa butter, and bees wax!



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