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Love Your Heart!
Hypertension (high blood pressure) is one of the risk factors for heart disease. You can help control or reduce hypertension with diet, exercise, weight, salt reduction, limiting alcohol & caffeine, not smoking and managing stress. Many doctors include deep breathing and meditation in a stress management plan. Qigong and Reiki are excellent tools for stress reduction. Slow, deep breathing and meditation are foundational to the practice of Qigong and the deep meditative state experienced while receiving Reiki brings deep relaxation, calm and peace to the body/mind. February is Heart Month in Canada. What better time to do something new for your heart?!
Tracking Multiple Income Streams
It’s important that we track multiple income streams properly to ensure we don’t end up with a large bill at tax time. Use a spreadsheet that includes these categories: Employer, Gross Income, Income Tax, CPP, EI, and Net Income (for each income stream). Total all streams so that you can calculate the total earnings, tax, CPP, and EI deducted so far. Then determine what the actual deductions should be, based on the combined income. The Canada Revenue Agency has an online calculator that is useful for this (http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/esrvc-srvce/tx/bsnss/pdoc-eng.html). A qualified accountant can also help with any questions you might have.
Hearing Loss and the Risk of Falling
A study led by Frank Lin, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, suggests that hearing loss may also be a risk factor for a huge public health problem: falls. The study found that people with a 25-decibel hearing loss, classified as mild, were nearly three times more likely to have a history of falling. Every additional 10-decibels of hearing loss increased the chances of falling by 1.4 fold. If you or a family member are concerned about hearing loss, visit your local hearing specialist to take a free online hearing test.
Take Care of Your Ticker
Do you regularly consume processed foods? This may dampen your circulation causing oxidation of the arterial lining which in turn may lead to unwanted plaques and hardening. Denatured fats as opposed to natural fats are mainly to blame and are most often found in packaged, processed junk food. Stick to a whole foods natural diet high in phytonutrient-rich vegetables and greens. Drink plenty of water and drink herbal teas that support circulation and blood. Daily exercise and movement is vital for circulation and the pumping of your heart muscle. Some top nutrients to keep in mind are Omega 3s, coQ10, magnesium, and various bioflavonoids. Keep ticking happily!
Service Your Dentures Regularily!
Many people believe that dentures last forever but the reality is that they need to be serviced regularily and replaced about every five years. Wearing the same dentures for more than five years without having them checked can result in; softening of the gums, painful and irritated gums, accelerated bone loss, more laborious chewing and difficult digestion and a crumpled mouth. It can also lead to headaches, ear aches, neck pain and joint problems as well as a whole host of other issues. Regular consultation with your denturist to have your dentures checked and cleaned may prevent problems in the future.
Avoiding Manmade Electrical Energy
Our bodies are made up of billions of cells that communicate with each other using minute electrical signals. Our brains function at the exact same frequency as the planet Earth. All life forms function in the same manner in exquisite balance with the universe. This fine-tuning has been disrupted by manmade electrical energy that operates at power levels and frequencies billions of times higher than those in nature. Exposure of all living beings to manmade electromagnetic radiation can be avoided when one becomes aware of and educated on how it all works.
Young Children and Grief
Are you struggling with a grieving child? Bereaved young children don’t have our understanding of death, nor the language to say how they are feeling. However, they definitely experience feelings of loss and separation, and pick up on the distress of those around them. Providing them with options of drawing or playing with puppets can help, as can using storybooks and pictures. Sharing your feelings of loss with a child can help them express their own sadness. Children tend to grieve in bursts, and at other times will look for reassurance and comfort in their normal routines and activities.
Hearing Loss and the Risk of Falling
A study led by Frank Lin, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, suggests that hearing loss may also be a risk factor for a huge public health problem: falls. The study found that people with a 25-decibel hearing loss, classified as mild, were nearly three times more likely to have a history of falling. Every additional 10-decibels of hearing loss increased the chances of falling by 1.4 fold. If you or a family member are concerned about hearing loss, visit NexGenHearing.com to take a free online hearing test. -NexGen Hearing
Love Relationships
February brings love to mind, and that’s a good thing. Love creates, nourishes, rewards, and defines us. It affects how we communicate outwardly and feel inwardly. Counsellors are often asked to help with relationships and it does not take long before it is realized that love of any type (parental; sexual, intimate love of adulthood; demanding love with family and friends; and especially self-love) can get out-of-balance and negatively affect the relationship. Avoiding or suppressing old love issues clearly affects the present. Fortunately, even a small amount of awareness and acceptance about these love relationships can improve a relationship. Don’t wait to connect with a counsellor about difficulties with love of any type.
Music and Brain Plasticity
Brain-imaging techniques have revealed the brain’s plasticity and have identified networks that music activates. The brain areas activated by music are not unique to music. These networks also process other functions. Musical and non-musical functions share systems. For example, motor control and executive control share circuits with music. Music can activate and drive complex patterns of interaction between the other two, so that a stroke patient and someone with Parkinson’s increases movement, and someone with traumatic brain injury increases cognitive functioning, such as problem solving or decision making.
