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Better living: Living with your disability for a better tomorrow  

By
Elizabeth Williams

Everyone in society wants to feel like they have a purpose or that they belong. Yet it is extremely difficult to feel like this when there are still countless barriers preventing someone with a disability to feel accepted and be given opportunities similar to that of their able bodied peers.

Not only does the society in which we live create barriers for someone with a disability but more often than not, a person with a disability struggles with their own barriers to better and simple life.

I am an Occupational Therapist and I have worked with high school students with physical/functional disabilities for over 10 years.  Many of my students feel stuck in their disability. In other words, they feel stuck by their body’s own limitations.

They think themselves as of less value and unworthy. In reality, the value or worth does not decrease in case of any disability or lack in material considerations. Their own reflections of who they think they are becomes tied to their disability which determines their own sense of happiness and level of independence they achieve – which is usually less then what they are capable of. It’s really important to note.

No matter what the disability, everyone can do something for themselves.

Everyday goals should be made in order to increase one’s independence and not only personal independence but also as an equal contributor in the home.

I am speaking in very general terms since I would like to address everyone with a disability whether it’s cerebral palsy, spina bifida, autism etc…And don’t think, “yeah I already do that.” Actually form a list of the things you are going to work on towards your own independence (i.e. make bed, do up coat zippers) along with a list of what you would like to do to contribute to the general care of the household i.e. set the table.

And do these things everyday pushing yourself to achieve the items on your list and once those items have been accomplished. Make More! You may be wondering, how this mundane stuff will actually contribute to my overall wellbeing and happiness.

The answer is: The more you do for yourself, the happier you will feel in your body. It is proven. This is not a philosophy. This a proven fact.

Secondly, it is important to become skilled in self-advocating. Know your disability and know your limitations.

For example, this is necessary when going for a job interview or when directing caregivers. Many of my students go for job interviews and they practice their interview skills with me before they interview with a potential employer.

I always try to help them in many ways. The number one thing they stumble on all the time is being able to say what their disability is, how they can be accommodated and what they are skilled at. Here is an example of someone interviewing for an office job.  “I have muscular dystrophy, I am good at typing but have a hard time raising my arms so I will need an adjustable desk so I can rest my arms on the table top while I type.” Or “I have Autism. I work better when presented with a list of things to do for my work day.”

This is the type of information the employer needs to know and it is all about communicating and self advocating. The more you can self advocate in every aspect of your life the more you will feel understood and heard. You will also be seen as someone who is knowledgeable, confident and independent.

And finally, despite how you may feel, YOU, the person living inside your body, are separate from the disabled body in which you habituate.

There is a unique and individual spirit inside that body. Don’t get stuck in your disability and don’t let your disability define who you are. For example, I am in a wheelchair because I have Muscular Dystrophy.

No, don’t let the fact that you have muscular dystrophy and in a wheel chair define who you are. Think about your interests, talents, and take into consideration your physical abilities to start building your life goals, dreams, and activities around them.

I had a student that had difficulty with speech, stuttering and word pronunciation. She felt so robbed by this and felt so hard done by, she couldn’t see what other possibilities or avenues were available to her if she just worked at them.

It wasn’t until I told her of countless people who also had a disability who went on to do amazing things that she finally was encouraged to not only see herself as the woman with no voice but to figure out what she was going to do despite her odds. While many people would generally think they are disadvantaged because of the lack of body parts like strong legs or great physique and as a result of that they cannot achieve their purpose or goal in life and they cannot to pursue a sport or become a waitress, it is still imperative to create a passion.

Here it is essential to know the real purpose in this case, after knowing which you can be comforted and not get disturbed anymore and consider your disability as a great shortcoming.

The way to do this is to look at what your physical body is capable of then build your passions, dreams, and interests around the abilities of your body. Everyone has limitations to what their physical body is capable of. Some people’s bodies can do amazing and successful things such as win Olympic medals and other people’s bodies have poor memory or bad arthritis.

The main thing, is to work your body towards accomplishing goals each day to build a better tomorrow not only for your body but for the person or self that resides inside that body.

About the Author

Emily lives in a quaint small house in the booming city of Toronto with her 3 legged husky, Niko. She has earned her degree in Occupational Therapy and works full time supporting students with special needs.  She spends her free time exercising, cooking delicious, vegetarian food and regularly attending Kirtan. Emily enjoys a regular, daily practice of mantra meditation and seeks to inform others of its benefits.  She is grateful for the good will and support of her readers.

The 3 Best Female Zodiac Signs To Marry

By
Elizabeth Williams
best female zodiac sign to marry

There are no wonder zodiac signs can reveal a lot about your personality. You can learn about a person just by knowing the month in which they were born.

This article is for all future husbands out there. If you are thinking to pop the question, read on and find out if your woman zodiac sign is one of the three below – these three signs make the best wives!

1. The Cancer Queen

Have you ever heard of the term ‘unconditional love’? This is the kind of love that this woman will give you.

When in love, she loves unconditionally and forever. You will always know where you stand with her because she is not ashamed of showing her emotions.

She never lets important dates and details skip from her memory. She remembers everything – from your birth date to the kind of salad you had last Thursday.

She uses wisely all this information, so you can be sure that she will always find new ways to cherish you and make you happy every day.

However, there is one (small) downside to all this “perfection” of a woman: She tends to get overly dramatic at times, even for trivial things.

Still, this will not be important when you see all the other benefits you will get from marrying this (drama) Queen.

This is a woman who will do everything in her power to keep the family together. She will make your house the coziest home for you.

And, have you heard of the saying: “love comes from the mouth first?” If you did, you will adore your cancer woman because she loves to cook. You can enjoy delicious meals every day if you decide to marry her.

This Cancer Queen is a very loving and caring mother. She always puts her children first because they are really the most important thing in her life.

In a husband, she looks only for true love and sincerity.

2. The Empress Aries

The women born in this sign are the ones for whom men fall on their knees. The Aries woman is fiercely strong and independent, and she will stop at nothing when it comes to achieving her goals.

She is stubborn, determined, and passion-driven. You must be a very brave man if you decide you want her in your life – for you must at all times keep her interested and also keep the fire burning between you two. Nothing can make her fall out of love like boredom.

She expects your loyalty and support while winning her battles. This Empress will give you high social status and soon you will be enjoying respect from everyone.

Because of her, you will become stronger, more determined, and admirable. And, although the Aries woman is very down-to-earth, you won’t be able to attract her easily.

As a mother, she is strict – but fair. She gives birth to and raises only winners and leaders.

In a partner, she wants determination and strong character – just like she is.

3. The Ruler Leo

This is a woman who has a sword instead of a tongue. She is the ‘warrior’ of the Zodiac indeed!

She is strong and powerful and doesn’t accept ‘no’ as an answer. This woman doesn’t like anything ordinary – including men.

 It takes a superman to win her heart. Besides, she doesn’t have trouble seducing men – her charming personality and charisma do it for her.

This is a very dedicated and faithful woman who will do everything for the man she loves. She will cherish and protect him while at the same time loving him intensely.

There is no love like that of a Leo woman. She ‘rules’ the love world of the Zodiac!

Finally, no one messes with her loved ones. She fights like a lioness for her family. So, there is no doubt that the Leo woman is indeed a woman with an enormous ‘lion’ heart.

She has also inner strength and depth of character.

She likes a man who is equally if not stronger as her. He must respect her very much and never try to change her or (God forbid!) ‘overrule’ her.  

Your Body Is ACIDIC. Here Are Very SIMPLE WAYS TO ALKALIZE YOUR BODY-AMAZING EFFECTS!

By
Elizabeth Williams

A lot of people are unaware of the fact that their body has a high level of acidity. Maybe you are one of those people too. Acidic body is a result of our everyday diet of refined sugars, processed foods and GMOs.

Bad news is that such acidic body is a perfect ground for developing cancer, becoming overweight, feeling chronic pain and other health problems.

Good news, on the other hand, is that making your body more alkaline is something you can achieve easily.

Practice these 10 natural ways daily and have an alkaline body. As a plus you’ll be more vital and have more energy as well.

1.Wake up happy and energized each morning and be prepared to go through the day.

Start your day by drinking a big glass of water mixed with freshly-squeezed lemon juice. Although acidic, the lemons have just the opposite effect to your body. They make it more alkaline. Drink this mixture every morning on an empty stomach in order to flush acids from your system.

Or you can also add one or two tablespoons of vinegar into eight ounces of water and drink that. You’ll have the same effect.

2. Include a portion of green salad seasoned with some olive oil and lemon juice in your everyday menu.

Fruits and vegetables are rich in alkaline minerals, like calcium. So you should try and eat as much fruit and vegetables as you can because they help maintain the pH level of your body and maintain balance in the organism.

3. Eat raw, unsalted almonds for your snack.

Almonds are rich in minerals, like magnesium and calcium. These minerals alkalize your organism and balance the blood sugar.

4. Drinking cow’s milk is fine but drinking almond milk is a better option.

You can also prepare yourself a delicious berry smoothie spiced with some green powder like spirulina or similar green powder.

5. Be more active and exercise every day.

If you are not a very sporty person, a walk to the park or shopping will be enough too. Exercising helps your body digest acidic products more quickly so your body could eliminate them faster.

6. You need more clean air.

Find a place which has clean and oxygen-rich air and spend a lot of time there whenever you can. And don’t forget to drink plenty of water, while spending time there and during the whole day too. That way your body will flush out waste and become alkaline.

7. In order to alkalize your body you shouldn’t eat meat every day because meat leaves acidic residue in the organism. Opt for more fruit and vegetables as we have said before.

8.Start avoiding sweets and soda because they are rich in sugar and there’s no worse acidic food than sugar.

You need to be aware of the fact that if you drink only a can of soda, you’ll have to drink more than thirty glasses of neutral water to balance the level of acidity in your organism.

9. While adding more vegetables in your everyday diet in order to alkalize your organism is necessary, you should avoid eating potatoes. Sweet potatoes are fine but only if you bake them with olive oil and Himalayan salt not butter.

However, aubergines, asparagus, peppers, squash, and other vegetables are great choices which you should consume on a daily basis.

10. Sprouts should be your daily choice too because they are very alkalizing and packed with nutrients and enzymes which will boost your energy.

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28-Year-Old Model Born with Rare Condition Is Breaking Fashion Stereotypes

By
Elizabeth Williams

Fashion has long imposed strict appearance standards that were used to define beauty. However, it seems that these unrealistic standards of beauty are being challenged with every new day. The new trend in fashion is breaking its stereotypes.

Melanie Gaydos is one of the growing number of models who challenge and transform the fashion industry. She was born with ectodermal dysplasia, a condition which makes her pores, teeth, nails and small bones form abnormally.

Melanie also has alopecia, lacking hair in areas where it normally grows, and is partially blind as a result of eyelash growth that scratched her eyes as a child. She has lived a very challenging life, with people treating her as if she was contagious.

However, despite all the odd looks and restrictions she has lived through because of the people’s lack of understanding and knowledge, Melanie persisted with her self-confidence and bright outlook on life.

An art graduate based in NYC, Melanie has worked with renowned photographers, including Eugenio Recuenco. It all started when she responded to a Craigslist advert looking for “unique people” for fashion photographers to shoot.

Just as the initial response, her pictures still inspire surprise for some and shock for others and come with an array of positive and negative responses.

However, not only does her career have an overwhelmingly positive impact on her self-confidence, it also heralds change within the modeling industry.

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Pastor Claims To Be Innocent After Beating Gay Man For Two Hours – Because He Never Asked Her To Stop

By
Elizabeth Williams

If you thought beating therapy is just a thing of the past, think again. This method is what Pastor Brooke Covington used to beat the ‘gay’ out of Matthew Fenner, after a typical Sunday prayer service at the Word of Faith Fellowship in Spindale.

The attack happened in January 2013, when more than 20 people, including the church leader, surrounded Fenner and started beating him for nearly two hours. To chase the gay demons away from him, someone even grabbed him by the throat and shook him.

And this comes as no joke when we say ‘gay demons’. Fenner says that the attack was a calculated effort by the church members to break him free of the “homosexual demons” they so viciously despised.

The Pastor who orchestrated the attack, Brooke Covington, 58, is now on trial, facing charges of kidnapping and assault. If convicted, she will face up to two years behind bars, reports Queerty.

Fenner recalls the experience as truly horrifying, testifying that he thought he was “going to die” as one of the church members was choking him while Covington screamed, “God said there is something wrong in your life!” Which was worse, Fenner had been recovering from a biopsy at the time of the attack.

And if you thought that the absurdity of the whole act cannot become bigger than it already is, now Covington’s lawyer claims that his client is innocent because “Fenner never explicitly asked her to stop beating him.”

Of course, should we only ask for whoever is assaulting us to stop doing it… and as if most of them would? Fenner feared that doing so would only enrage them even more, and well, being choked can’t really contribute to the whole ‘asking to stop’.

Which is even more contradictory, while the lawyer used the defense of ‘not being asked to stop’, the Word of Faith church came out with a version where “no one ever physically harmed Mr. Fenner,” and that “the church does NOT target members who are gay.”

Fenner’s coming forward has encouraged more to emerge with similar stories where the Word of Faith church would beat the sins out of the sinners.

Indeed, the church comes with some strict and bizarre rules for its members, such as the church deciding which congregates can marry or have children, while forbidding them from watching TV, going to movies, eating in restaurants that play music or serve alcohol, or reading the newspaper.

Source: QUEERTY

Only 3% Of People Have The Letter X On Both Their Palms – Here’s What It Means If You Have It

By
Elizabeth Williams

What would you do if someone said that they could read your palm and foretell your future? Would you be intrigued and spread out your hand or just frown and walk away?

Palmistry or chiromancy is the practice of foretelling the future by reading one’s palm. There are some differences in the practice depending on the different cultures but all in all, it’s the same thing.

Some people are believers in palm reading while others consider that their future can’t be predicted by the lines on their palms. 

However, history tells us that palm reading is not just superstition. Did you know that Alexander the Great was foretold to become a great leader because he had the letter x on his palms?

According to research called “X Palm Mystery and Spirit Science Formula”, conducted by the STI University in Russia, the people who were a part of the research and had the letter x on both palms became remarkable people later in life.

Do you want to know one more interesting fact? Vladimir Putin is also one of the people who have the letter x on both his palms. Abraham Lincoln is a member of this list too.

What Are The Characteristics Of People Who Have The Letter X On Both Their Palms?

These people have really strong characters. They are capable of reaching every goal without planning it all the time. Whatever they decide they can achieve. And moreover, they’ll become very successful fast even if they don’t try too hard.

People who have x on palms are destined to become famous and well-known in the world. They are expected to be honored and idolized by a lot of people before they die.

They are pretty intuitive and can easily sense what is good and what is bad for them. These people cannot be easily deceived because they know exactly when someone is trying to cheat them.

Even if sometimes you succeed in lying and betraying them, they’ll be aware of the things you’ve made up and one way or another, they’ll make you tell the truth.

Although they do not look like very big and strong people, many of those with x on their palms will come out as winners if they get in a fight.

These people are not only capable of changing their own lives and achieving everything they’ve planned to, but they are also very helpful in changing and improving the lives of other people as well.

People With An X On Palms Are:

  • Great leaders
  • Very clever and sharp-witted
  • Destined to great success
  • They live in people’s hearts long after their death

How To Read Palm Lines

The right hand is usually the dominant one in most people — it represents the present and the future, a person’s time and experience, while the left hand represents the past and the personality traits a person is born with. Hence, the reading on your right hand can be somewhat more relevant, nonetheless, if you have x on both palms, know that it’s always a good indicator.

Now, different lines tell about different aspects of life. For an accurate reading you need to learn how to recognize the five lines. There might be breaks in them or they might be short and curvy, either way, they contribute to a unique and personalized reading.

Head Line

The head line (also known as wisdom line or intelligent line) starts from the palm edge between the thumb and forefinger, and extends across the palm in the middle part with the life line below and the heart line above. It is the second most important line in palm reading, describing the nature of our thinking process, being deeply rooted to our childhood.

Heart Line

The heart line also called also mensal line indicates the strength and nature of a person’s emotions. The heart line indicated the love life of a person.

Life Line

The life line is one of the three major lines alongside the head line and heart line in palm reading. It starts from the palm edge between the thumb and forefinger and extends to the base of the thumb. It indicates the life longevity of a person.

Destiny Line

The fate line also known as Saturn line, is a vertical line running up from the base of the palm the palm towards the base of the middle finger. The destiny line indicates your professional and financial future, your ups and downs in life as well as your lucky periods.

Sun Line

The sun line spans from the wrist until the head line and holds the answers to your luck, fame, and prosperity while at a very young age. A sun line between head line and heart line indicates luck between teenage and late 30s.

Kinds Of Hands: The Four Elements

There are four fundamental hand shapes inside palmistry, each associated with an alternate component and its related characteristics. Albeit the four components are additionally inserted in crystal gazing, your hand type may not compare with your prophetic profile.

For example, in spite of the fact that somebody might be a Libra, the state of their hand might be that of a fire sign, uncovering nuanced knowledge into the intricacies of their character.

Earth Hands

Earth hands are recognized by square palms and short fingers. These hands are frequently firm, strong, and beefy. People with earth hands are known to be viable, sensible, and grounded. While secure and dependable, they can turn out to be excessively overcome with their nearby real factors, which can eventually impede long haul arranging and accomplishment.

Fire Hands

You can tell a fire hand by its long palm and short fingers. These hands regularly have particular wrinkles and characterized hill. People with fire hands are known to be enthusiastic, certain, and productive. They’re driven by their cravings and on an awful day they might need judgment and sympathy.

Water Hands

Water hands are recognized by their long palms and long fingers. These hands are regularly delicate to the touch and somewhat damp, with a general tight appearance. The individuals who have them are on top of their feelings, instinct, and mystic capacity. Energized by empathy and creative mind, these people are frequently creatives. They’re likewise incredibly touchy and their sentiments are effectively harmed, causing bothersome relational pressure.

Air Hands

Air hands have square palms and long fingers and are frequently boney, with jutting knuckles and spindly fingers. This hand type implies mentally inquisitive people with intrinsic insightful capacities and relational abilities. Those with air hands are quickly drawn off-track and, if not animated, can become restless or tense.

Not sure what palmistry says about your lines? Quick, check your palms to see if you can find x on your palms, and more importantly, what else do the palmistry Gods have in store for YOU!

Why You Really Shouldn’t Go Swimming With a New Tattoo: Man Ignores Advice To Wait For 2 Weeks And DIES After Catching A Flesh-Eating Bug And Developing Sepsis

By
Elizabeth Williams

Image source: Dailymail.co.uk

Freshly made tattoos require constant care and a lot of caution. This is mainly because in order to make a tattoo, the skin is being injured and a wound is being made at the place of the tattoo.

This is why many will tell you not to go in water with the tattoo for at least 2 weeks. If the advice is not heeded, the result can be seriously devastating to the health, and it may even lead to sepsis and death.

One such case is that of a 31-year-old Hispanic man, who chose to ignore the advice and went for a swim into the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, after only five days of receiving his new tattoo.

The fresh wound was open to all kinds of bacteria, and he received a harsh dose of the reality that may happen to many, should they ignore the advice of not going in pools, lakes, or oceans.

The unidentified 31-year-old got infected with a flesh-eating bacterium that tore out chunks of his skin and eventually led to his death by triggering a septic shock.

This man had already damaged his liver by suffering from cirrhosis from drinking 6 bottles of beer every day. This liver damage led to the organism not being able to fight the bacteria which had entered the body through the tattoo wound.

Experts wrote in the BMJ Case Reports that the patient had developed a fever, chills and a red rash close to his tattoo, and that his condition worsened over the following two days, before he was admitted to hospital.

Due to his health history of cirrhosis, the doctors immediately suspected an infection with Vibrio vulnificus, a bacterium that essentially eats the person alive.

After an aggressive initial treatment to kill off the bacteria, the doctors were forced to put the patient on life support, as his organs began to fail within only 24 hours of being admitted.

This organ failure started occurring when the patient’s body developed severe sepsis, a violent immune response to an infection in which the body starts attacking its own organs.

Despite the efforts to save his life, the patient succumbed to the septic shock, with both his kidneys failing completely, and two months after he was initially admitted to the hospital, he died.

Tattoos and tattoo care

Tattoos are made by wounding the skin at the place it is drawn through repetitive needle punctures in the skin. While this method is invasive and creates a superficial wound, the sores can heal back quickly with proper care.

However, the fact that the tattooed part of the body is an open wound, especially in the first weeks after its application, means that any means of possible infection should be avoided.

This, of course, includes avoiding submerging the open sores in any body of water, be it a bath, a pool, or seawater. This could lead to serious infections and even sepsis, like in the case of the man discussed above.

Should you consider getting a new tattoo, you need to know that proper care is crucial not only to preserve the intended look of the tattoo, but also to your health, and this is the most important thing.

There are countless blog posts on the internet which discuss tattoo care from day 1, and you can find more about what you should and mustn’t do when receiving a new tattoo. Everything comes with a dose of responsibility, which if not heeded can lead to serious unwanted results.

 

Source DailyMail

83.000 Brain Scans Have An Important Lesson To Teach Us About Our Mental Health-Dr. Amen

By
Elizabeth Williams

“Did you know that psychiatrists are the only medical specialists that virtually never look at the organ they treat?” This is what Dr. Daniel Amen, a famous psychiatrist who specializes in brain disorders and Times bestselling author, has to say in his TED talk.

And it’s true. Psychiatrists diagnose a patient’s condition by talking and “looking for symptom clusters,” as they did in 1840. This outdated approach, which doesn’t take brain scans into consideration, has led many people to health complications and even greater brain disorders.

From the 83.000 brain scans of different individuals with various brain disorders, dr. Amen has a different story to tell when it comes to psychiatric treatment, which needs to be implemented as a rule of thumb.

His conclusion is that psychiatric treatment should look at the individual characteristics of each brain before deciding on what to do next, as each brain is unique, especially when it comes to brain disorders.

As an example, he points to two different brain scans of patients suffering from depression. In one of the scans, the brain shows increased activity, whereas the other scan shows an underactive brain.

Understanding the way the brain of the patient functions reveals some very important features that can provide life-changing information about the patient and the way they should be treated.

Dr. Amen notes a very important thing: The brain can be changed through proper therapy and rehabilitation and this can change people’s lives for the better. Many issues are a result of some kind of brain damage, and this damage can be reversed.

Memory loss, dementia, and brain trauma related issues can all be reversed through proper treatment tailored to the individual’s brain. And this can only be achieved by first looking at the person’s brain.

One such case was Dr. Amen’s study on the brains of NFL players who demonstrated poor brain function. After being put through the Brain Smart program, 80% of the players showed great improvements in memory and mood.

When it comes to behavioral issues, Dr. Amen scanned the brains of 500 convicted felons with the effort to find a pattern in their brains which contributed to their deviant behavior.

He found that not only did these people have troubled brains, but that instead of jailtime, they should go through a rehabilitation process that will potentially change their outlook on life.

Another case that Dr. Amen mentions is that of a 9-year-old boy with extreme violent tendencies. He would attack other children for no particular reason, and draw disturbing pictures of him killing other children.

While most psychiatrists would prescribe medication to treat him, the boy’s brain scan revealed that the issue came as a result of a brain cyst. After the cyst was removed, the violent tendencies disappeared and the boy returned to his original peaceful nature.

The boy’s name was Andrew and he was Dr. Amen’s nephew.

Just like all other doctors use scans to reveal any underlying causes for their patients’ health issues, the same should be done when psychiatry is in question.

And indeed, why would psychiatrists resort to guesses, when they can have a close look into the issue and understand the problem right away? It’s not only more efficient for their practice, but it’s also much safer and more reliable for the patients.

This Native Indian Story Will Change The Way You Think – 20 Second Read!

By
Elizabeth Williams

In life, there is a constant battle in all of us; we are constantly struggling to control our thoughts and emotions. Sometimes our good thoughts win the battle, sometimes not. This is a story about this battle.

An old wise Indian is teaching his grandson a life lesson. “There is a fight going on inside all of us,” he said to his grandson.

“This is a horrible fight between two wolves. One of them is evil – he is rage, jealousy, misery, sadness, greed, regret, pride, guilt, self-pity, bitterness, inferiority, lies, arrogance, selfishness, and ego.

The other is virtuous and benevolent – he is happiness, calmness, love, hope, serenity, modesty, affection, big-heartedness, sympathy, generosity, sincerity, pity, and faith. They fight all the time.”

This words captured the boy’s attention, so he couldn’t help but ask his grandfather the ultimate question, “Which wolf would win?”

The old Indian answered, “The one you feed.”

Don’t let your negativity get to you. Stop feeding the negative thoughts because they are your worst enemy. Try to focus only on the positive things and life will reward you for this.

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The Truth About Why Native Americans Keep Their Hair Long

By
Elizabeth Williams

What’s your hairstyle? Do you like your hair long or short? Back in the old civilizations, hair was considered to be a very important part of the body, attributing its length to inner strength, spiritual power, and energetic connection.

As Dr. Birendra Kaur points, “the natural intelligence of our body is to maintain its hairs.” Each body has its own requirement as to how long these hairs should be, and once that requirement is met, hair stops growing.

Science has shown that people with long hair tend to be more energetic, less tired, and have lower likeliness of becoming depressed. These people can also conserve energy better and can endure cold better than those with short hair.

This is because a portion of the body’s energy is reserved for the growth of hair, which is thus used if you have short hair. It has been estimated that people who cut their hair over their lifetime force their body to grow 22 meters of new hair. On the other hand, those who keep their hair produce only 1.5 meters of hair over their lifetime.

Hair bears special attributions to one’s ability when left to fully grow. This is something ancient civilizations knew too well.

In fact, even the Bible speaks of Samson’s strength, which he lost after Delilah cut his hair. Another example is what Genghis Khan did to the conquered people of China – he cut their hair and made them wear bangs over their forehead (to inhibit their spiritual potential).

But perhaps the best example of how much power long hair can give to a person is that of the Indian people.

During the Vietnam War, special forces in the military department sent out undercover experts to trace and recruit Indian trackers that exhibited outstanding, almost supernatural, tracking abilities.

Once convinced and recruited, the Indian trackers amazingly ‘lost’ their extraordinary abilities. Their talents seemed to have mysteriously disappeared and they failed in what they were best at.

This led the government to conduct expensive testing in order to find out why and how the trackers lost their abilities – and this is what they found:

Once interviewed about their failure to perform, the recruits consistently said that since they had received their required military haircut, they hadn’t been able to ‘sense’ the enemy, their ‘intuition’ had become unreliable, and they couldn’t ‘read’ the subtle signs.

So, the testing institute recruited more trackers and allowed them to retain their hair length. After being tested in several areas, the researchers paired two men who received the same scores together and gave one of them a military haircut.

Now, they were to retake the tests. The recruit with the long hair excelled in each test, every time he did it. However, the recruit with the short hair failed the same tests, in which he had previously scored with high results.

It was concluded that the trackers’ long hair attributed to their extraordinary abilities, and the research results recommended that all Indian trackers be exempt from the military haircuts, requiring that trackers keep their hair long.

This and many other examples only shows as to how much we tend to underestimate the importance of our body’s natural intelligence. We tend to follow trends and fashions that don’t pay too much attention to our natural form and needs.

The thing is, every part of our body has a solid reason for being there, and hair is not excluded.

It has been concluded that the hair has a special property of providing an information highway which reaches the brain. It also has the property of emitting the electromagnetic energy from the brain into the environment.

Cutting it results in hampering its ability to receive and send transmissions from and to the environment. This in turn numbs you out and makes you less aware of many things around you, while your body is struggling to regrow it back to its intended length.

Source: QuantumBalancing

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