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The pharmaceutical companies don’t want you to know that meditation can cure depression. They want the link between meditation and depression to be kept secret. But we’re about to change that.
THE FACTS ABOUT DEPRESSION AND MEDITATION AND WHY IT’S KEPT SILENT
Every year, billions of dollars are made selling medication for depression.
Approximately 75% of Americans take antidepressants at some time in their life.
1 in 10 Americans being on antidepressants right now.
That’s approximately 250 million Americans buying antidepressants
$20 billion dollars are made on antidepressants every year
It is scienticially proven that antidepressants do not work.
. . . now the really shocking news. . .
It is scientifically proven that meditation, which is 100% FREE, can cure depression.
For some bizarre, multi-billion dollar reason, this fact is kept secret.
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Meditation and Depression – The Conspiracy They Keep Silent
Discover how to beat depression naturally using the power of Feng Shui.
Dana Claudat is a Feng Shui specialist and author of The Tao of Dana.
In this excellent video, Dana discusses some simple but effective ways to use Feng Shui to help beat depression naturally.
If you are suffering from depression, there’s a lot you can take away from this video. Find my highlights of the video below, or watch the video here.
How To Beat Depression Naturally Using Feng Shui – Highlights
First off, I agree with Dana in this video and am not an advocate of medication for depression myself, though, if you are suffering severe depression symptoms you should contact a doctor.
Get as much sunlight as possible – simply but extremely effective, being outdoors and in sunlight is a great natural way to fight depression.
Aromatherapy – use sage, rosemary and other scents for aromatherapy
Remove Negatives – If anything in your house reminds you of bad memories Read more [...]
How To Beat Depression Naturally Using Feng Shui – Highlights
Discover the 30 most shocking facts about smoking, cigarettes and tobacco.
There was a time when smoking was considered sexy, cool and even good for your health. how times have changed. These days the dangers of smoking are known. We all know that smoking is fatally dangerous. What we might not know, however, are the following 30 shocking facts about smoking .
Shocking Facts About Smoking : Facts 1 – 5
1: Cigarettes are the most traded item in the world. Over 1 trillion cigarettes are sold around the world each year. That equates to over $400 billion, making smoking one of the world’s biggest industries.
2. Cigarette manufacturers are increasing the amount of nicotine in cigarettes in order to make people even more addicted. It was revealed by the Massachusetts Health Department revealed and Harvard University that the amount of nicotine in cigarettes has risen by more than 20% over the past 10 years.
3. 70% of the world’s cigarette market is owned by the three American Read more [...]
30 Shocking Facts About Smoking, Cigarettes and Tobacco
Learn how to relax your body and mind with Sink Kitty's complete body and mind relaxation technique.
Hi. I’m a cat in a sink. They call me Sink Kitty.
Look at me. See how completely relaxed I am? Do you wish you could be as relaxed as me, Sink Kitty? Good.
Being the world famous Sink Kitty, there are times in my life when I’m stressed. Trust me, it aint easy being a famous kitty.
Thankfully, I, Sink Kitty, have devised this amazing list of 20 ways how to relax your mind and body.
Bookmark (CTRL + D) this amazing list of 20 ways to relax your mind and body now so you can refer to it later.
Sink Kitty’s 20 Ways How To Relax Your Mind And Body
EXERCISES 1 - 5
Improve Fitness: Mind and body are one, young human. If you wish to have a healthy mind you must have a healthy body. Go walking, do yoga, go swimming. . . get out the sink and exercise.
Eat Better: I know it’s tempting to just eat the kitty treats, but you have to eat some healthy food too. Have Read more [...]
Sink Kitty’s Guide To How To Relax Your Mind And Body
It’s hard losing weight. And one of the main reasons why it’s so flipping complex is that every so often out minds seem possessed with a voice calling us to have a cookie, a cake, some chocolate or some other sweet and fattening food.
A lot of the time we can deal with it. Most times, the voice of candies and cakes call to us but we’re able to silence them. These are the good times, when we feel inspired and motivated to lose weight. But then there are those time when we’re stressed. We just want to get away. We want the sweet goodness and comfort of fatty food.
The problem is that we’ve learnt to use food as a way of dealing with stress. So inevitably, when we’re stressed, we eat and put on weight and undo all the good we’d done on our weight loss programs. Urggghhhh.
Sugar Addiction And Weight in America
An average American will eat 156 lbs of sugar each year. That’s only a little less than my body weight.
We’re consuming more soft drinks; 500% more than Read more [...]
How Can We Beat Sugar Addiction To Succeed in a Weight Loss Plan?
The best way to quit smoking is to quit smoking naturally. You don’t want to be hooked on Nicotine patches any more than you want to be addicted to smoking cigarettes. But how do you quit smoking naturally without using a quit smoking product?
How To Quit Smoking Naturally
One of the best answers ways of quitting smoking naturally is through a special breathing technique.
You already know precisely how to do this breathing technique. It’s the exact same type of breathing you do while smoking.
How Smoking Changes Your Breathing
For the smoker, there a two main types of breathing. There’s regular breathing and “smoking breathing.”
For a smoker, “regular breathing” is usually shallow, You breathe unhealthily because smoking has damaged your body. Unfortunately, breathing shallowly in itself causes stress (when we are stressed we shallow breathe; when we are relaxed we breathe deeply).
So, we smoke, which causes our breathing to be shallow. Breathing shallow makes Read more [...]
FREE! How To Quit Smoking Naturally Through Special Breathing Exercise
Did you know that Facebook is commonly making people feel depressed?
Every day, Facebook users are searching Facebook using the following search terms .. .
“Facebook makes me feel depressed.”
“Facebook makes me feel sad.”
“Facebook makes me jealous”
“Facebook makes me insecure”
“Facebook makes me feel lonely. . . “
People are even saying that Facebook makes them fat!
Now, I’m not sure about the last one. But what I do know for a fact is this: Facebook is one of the leading causes of depression in the world.
Yup, of all the reasons to feel depressed, Facebook is one of the absolute most common.
There’s no wonder Facebook makes us feel depressed. We see friends updates all day showing how they’re all socialising, going to events, doing cool things.
But if you’re feeling lonely on Facebook, let me assure you that you most definitely are not alone. In recent research, it was shown that 44% of all Facebook users feel depressed Read more [...]
Facebook Makes Us All Feel Depressed, Lonely and Jealous– You’re Not Alone!
What if I told you that the best way to quit smoking cigarettes naturally was to forget all about your efforts to quit smoking cigarettes?
There’s one secret that practically every professional psychologist knows but that next to no one in the health industry wants you to know: it’s impossible to QUIT doing anything.
Yes, it is impossible to quit smoking.
It’s hard to believe because—well, because most professionals don’t want you to know. They want you to believe that nicotine patches and e cigarettes and other expensive products are the right way to go, because then they’ll get a freaking ton of money.
But sadly, quitting smoking is impossible. For proof, reading this excellent article on Psychology Today.
Yes, quitting smoking is impossible. So, how the heck do you quit smoking without . . . errr. .. quitting smoking?
The answer is to completely change the way in which your thinking about your habit and your life.
Most people when quitting, Read more [...]
How To Quit Smoking Naturally by Forgetting to Quit Smoking
Our online anger management test will tell you whether you're passive aggressive or not and what to do about it.
The majority of people in the world (or at least in this part of the world) more often than not choose to handle their anger in a negative way – by keeping it inside. When we keep our anger inside it tends to slip out in passive aggressive statements.
The problem with passive aggressiveness is that, by keeping our anger inside instead of truly expressing ourselves, we all negative feelings to build up over a time to a point where it becomes a real problem.
Frequent passive aggressive statements are one of the warning signs and symptoms of depression, as they show that we have built up negative feelings to point where we are losing control of them.
Passive aggressive statements should also be a warning sign to friends and family. Passive aggressiveness is a very bad thing in a relationship, which is why family and marriage counselling classes often focus on Read more [...]
Our Online Anger Manegement Test – Are You Passive Aggressive?
So you need a few good ways how to stop thinking too much. Your mind's been running like a hamster on a ball and it just won’t stop. . . damn hamster. So, what can you do to still your mind, to find mental calmness and to stop thinking too much? Here are ten great and very diverse ways how to stop thinking too much.
How to Stop Thinking too Much in 5 Ways
1: Meditate: Meditation is proven to be of mental benefit as it calms the mind. Simply find a spare ten minutes in your day to sit somewhere silent and focus your mind on your breathing. Continued meditation practice will be of great help! Find out more about meditation HERE.
2: Stop being an information junkie: If you’re constantly thinking too much, it’s likely because you take in too much information for your brain to handle. You watch TV, read the paper, watch movies, play games, chat in person and online. . . no wonder your brain is fried! Stop being an information junkie!
The above is probably the best solution, Read more [...]
There can be little doubt that Eckhart Tolle is one of the most inspiring people in the world; certainly in the realms of self improvement and spirituality. In a great segment on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday, Eckhart Tolle answered the question of how to stop thinking too much. This is great for many reasons: it can help you stop thinking about someone, stop thinking about food, stop thinking negative thoughts and can even get you more connected to life and to the present moment.
As Tolle explains, if you are asking the question "How to stop thinking too much," and if you are aware of the voice in your head, you are already ahead of the game. Most people don’t realise that they themselves are creating the voice in their head. When hearing a voice in their head saying, “I must do the washing up” (for instance) most people don’t have clear presence to think “There is a voice in my head telling me to do the washing up” they simply think “I HAVE to do the washing up.” Read more [...]
With this simple relaxation technique (a meditation for beginners) and the relaxing quotes below, you’ll be feeling completely chilled, calm and relaxed in no time. This relaxation technique works by having you meditate to become completely relaxed, then, once relaxed, you simply read the quotes about relaxation below for complete and total serenity.
Relaxation Technique: Meditation for Beginners
Spend ten minutes (or as long as you can ) performing this exercise and you will feel fresh, new and totally relaxed.
1) Find somewhere quiet where you can relax in peace without being disturbed.
2) Sit down in any position where you are relaxed and comfortable but are not slouching (kneeling down with your back straight or sitting with legs crossed are good examples)
3) Close your eyes and begin to focus on your breathing. Focus on the air coming and going through your nostrils.
4) If you find it difficult to focus on your breath, help Read more [...]
Relaxation Techniques — Meditation for Beginners + Relaxing Quotes
Keep asking yourself "Why am I so unhappy?" Then you need to get out of the cycle of unhappiness. Discover the reason you're unhappy and what to do about it below.
Let me describe to you a time of personal unhappiness in my life, then tell me if it sounds familiar.
There was a time when I would feel like I have nothing and I would want everything. I was hungry. Hungry for women, for money, for success, for fame (I’m an actor so fame is, in this field, almost like a very large promotion—it’s desired). I craved. I would look at the life I had, determine it as not being good enough and then desire more.
At times, I would get more. There were times when, as an actor, I scored roles I really wanted. There were times when I got lucky in love. There were times when I was popular. I had fortune. Sure, I wasn’t a millionaire and I wasn’t a mega movie star, but I had more than enough to be thankful for. The problem? Instead of being thankful all I could thing was “What next?”
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“Why am I so unhappy”? – Untangling the Knot of Depression
The pharmaceutical companies don’t want you to know that meditation can cure depression. They want the link between meditation and depression to be kept secret. But we’re about to change that.
THE FACTS ABOUT DEPRESSION AND MEDITATION AND WHY IT’S KEPT SILENT
Every year, billions of dollars are made selling medication for depression.
Approximately 75% of Americans take antidepressants at some time in their life.
1 in 10 Americans being on antidepressants right now.
That’s approximately 250 million Americans buying antidepressants
$20 billion dollars are made on antidepressants every year
It is scienticially proven that antidepressants do not work.
. . . now the really shocking news. . .
It is scientifically proven that meditation, which is 100% FREE, can cure depression.
For some bizarre, multi-billion dollar reason, this fact is kept secret.
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