Accessing secrets of the mind of the millionaire ..

I’ve just finished reading Harv’s book “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind” having recently seeing the author T. Harv Eker live – together with Robert Kiyosaki, Anthony Robbins and Donald Trump)  – in Sydney.  I love the way Harv says it as it is, and how we can all change if we want to, my doing more to control our minds.

I thought of you when I read these words ….

The late author and speaker Jim Rohn’s famous quote  “If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got“ is so true.  Harv says in his book in relation to this, and I quote :

“You already know “your” way, what you need is to know some new ways.  That’s why I wrote this book.  My goal is to give you some new mental files to add to the ones you already have.  New files mean new ways of thinking, new actions, and therefore new results.

That’s why it’s important you continue to learn and grow”

If you get a chance to read the book – no, make some holiday time – to read this, I know you will enjoy the new things we can do for ourselves … I don’t know about you, but  2011 has been a terrible year for many, many people with floods, fires, earthquakes and financial downfalls and with the new 2012 year not too far away …. perhaps we can renew ourselves as well?  I know I will be …

I found this for the ladies (and men of course!) and thought of you.

There are nine tips o

• Eye Cream
• Day Moisturiser with Sunscreen
• Facial Exfoiliant
• Shampoo
• Conditioner
• Body Moisturiser
• Night Serum

All great tips —

Here’s the link from Yahoo! 7

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If you are creating a baked dinner with lamb, pork, chicken or turkey, baked Butternut Squash is a must have addition to those other baked vegetables…

BAKED BUTTERNUT SQUASH

Ingredients
1 large or 2 small butternut squash
olive oil
2 tbsps butter
salt and freshly ground black pepper
few sprigs of thyme stripped of leaves
few whole sprigs of thyme
1 tbsp cumin seeds
1 inch piece of cinnamon
¼ tsp grated nutmeg

Method
Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350ºF/gas mark 4.
Cut the squash in half lengthways and remove the seeds (keep the seeds and eat them raw or toasted as you would with pumpkin seeds) then cut each piece into quarters.
Grease a baking tray and put the quarters onto it cut side up.
Grind the cinnamon stick and sprinkle over the pieces along with the thyme, nutmeg, cumin seeds salt and freshly ground pepper.
Drizzle well with olive oil and dot with butter.
Bake in the oven for 40 – 50 mins or until the squash is tender and some parts are golden brown.
Scoop the flesh out of the rind if you wish (it’s edible too) and puree the flesh, or leaves as they are and serve.

YUM!

While we’re on the subject of Winter in the Northern Hemisphere coming up – or in the Southern Hemisphere midyear, here is a great article I found for you on Butternut Squash and it’s many vitamin benefits … enjoy! (Oh! and there’s a recipe too) …

BUTTERNUT SQUASH – HEALTHY WINTER FOOD:  Medicinal Benefits and Uses of Butternut Squash

Butternut Squash, Cucurbita Moschata

September marks the beginning of the butternut squash season, as well as the start of the pumpkin and other winter squashes hitting the shelves of your local market or supermarket. The butternut squash is one of the Cucurbitaceae family of plants and as such it is related to the pumpkin, cucumber, courgette, melon and watermelon, to name but a few of its many relatives.

The butternut squash is one of my favourites with its orangey flesh promising lots of beta-carotene and lycopene, so I know it’s healthy and tastes good. It is rich in vitamins C and A; it also has vitamins E and K as well as a good number of the B-complex vitamins. It is also a source of Omega-3 fatty acid and Omega-6.

As for minerals it is rich in magnesium, manganese and potassium and also contains calcium, iron, phosphorous and zinc with traces of selenium and copper. Tryptophan is one of the 18 amino acids in a butternut squash’s seeds and this helps produce GABA (Gamma-aminobutyric acid) needed for neurotransmitters in the brain to function well.  The polysaccharides in this squash have anti-inflammatory properties and are insulin-regulating, making this a good food for diabetics. The squash is also high in dietary fibre, adding bulk to our diets, so preventing constipation and thus helping to prevent piles and colon cancer. This also helps in a weight-reducing diet.

It is heart-healthy as it has no cholesterol and vitamin A including that converted by the body from the polyphenolic flavonoids lutein and carotene, which have potent antioxidant actions. There is more vitamin A in the butternut squash than in the pumpkin, and this helps to prevent lung and oral cavity cancers and helps our vision.

The seeds are edible, like the pumpkin seeds and can be eaten raw and roasted, so don’t throw them away when you prepare a butternut squash for cooking.   In fact the first butternut squashes were cultivated for their seeds, and it is believed that the early squash was much less fleshy than the varieties we have today. It is thought that the butternut squash originated in Central America, in Mexico and Guatemala, and was consumed by ancient peoples there 10,000 years ago.

You can cook this versatile squash in many ways, baked, boiled, steamed, casseroled, made into thin game chips (crisps); puree it for use in soups or as a spicy dip, with celery and carrot sticks to scoop it up with – there are lots of things you can do with one.

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I found this article for you northern hemisphere-ers whose winter is coming up .. whilst we swelter in summer heat in OZ.  Hope you will find it useful during those darker months …..

5 Bright Ideas for Coping with Darker Days

You can brighten your mood during winter’s dark days with 5 simple strategies, including light therapy for SAD (seasonal affective disorder).
Megan Othersen Gorman, Rodale.com

Does winter get you down? Plenty of people suffer mood changes ranging from mild “winter doldrums” to full-blown seasonal affective disorder (aptly acronymed SAD), all due to the decrease in daylight that occurs in fall and winter and the hormonal changes that coincide with it.

“SAD is a serious condition—a subtype of major depressive disorder in which life can be severely compromised by fatigue, low mood, anxiety, reduced sex drive, and more,” says psychologist and SAD specialist Michael Terman, PhD, director of the Center for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms at New York–Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. “But SAD is really just the tip of the iceberg,” he adds. Far more of us experience similar but less intense symptoms, becoming just short of clinically depressed. And that’s just, well, sad.

Why Is Antidepressants Use On The Rise?

Light therapy for SAD, and other tactics, will combat both general seasonal sadness as well as full-blown disorder, Terman says. Here’s what you can do:

Stop hitting the snooze button – That is, try your best to keep to the same sleep hours on workdays and weekends. “Oversleeping, even if only on weekends, allows your circadian rhythms [your internal body clock] to drift later, out of sync with local time,” says Terman. “And that can trigger the lethargy and low mood associated with winter.”

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Eat at the same time every day—And no later than 8 p.m. for dinner (to avoid interfering with your sleep) – “Just as with light, our biological clocks respond to meal timing,” says Terman, “and consistency is the name of the game.”

How To Eat To Defeat Depression

Schedule some outside time – Light therapy for SAD or milder mood problems begins outdoors. If your schedule allows it, make a point to exercise outdside, after the sun is up. “Less exposure to natural light is at the root of the winter doldrums,” says Terman. “By working out in daylight, you’re getting more light than you otherwise might and you’re fighting depression with aerobic exercise.” When your schedule precludes outdoor time, gym workouts can still make depression less likely. Make sure you work out at the same time most days, says Terman, and avoid working out in the late evening hours before sleep.

Let there be light – To counter the season’s reduction in light, create it—by purchasing a light-therapy box (a box that emits bright light that mimics natural outdoor light, which is more intense than normal household lighting). “By my estimate,” says Terman, “half the U.S. population would benefit by using a light box for 30 minutes before work [light therapy can cause insomnia if performed late in the day]. It’s just a highly convenient and effective breakfast-table routine.” By the time you’re done with your eggs and the paper, he says, you’ll likely have received enough light therapy to prevent any mood shifts and stay energetic throughout the day.

The trick is to opt for the best box. “Light boxes come in all shapes and sizes, and with many uncontrolled properties, so the choice of device is very important,” says Terman. He recommends light boxes that have been clinically tested and provide a broad field of illumination from above the line of sight. Also, UV radiation should be filtered out, and the light should be smoothly diffused, to eliminate glaring bright spots.

Win the battle of the bulb – To a lesser extent, indoor light can also help combat the doldrums. But you don’t need full-spectrum light bulbs, which can cost more than 10 times their non-full-spectrum cousins. “At the intensity needed to achieve an energizing/antidepressant effect, full-spectrum lighting is glaring and uncomfortable and it’s no more effective than regular indoor light, at an appropriate intensity, at easing winter symptoms,” Terman says. Instead of scouring the aisles for full-spectrum bulbs, Terman suggests choose light bulbs based on color temperature ratings. “A color temperature around 4100 Kelvin is ideal,” Terman says. “Higher color temperatures of 5500 Kelvin and above should be avoided.”

Still feeling blue, despite actively trying to lighten your days? You may have clinically significant depression. To get an objective assessment of where you fall on the seasonal-depression spectrum, check out the Center for Environmental Therapeutics’ Personal Inventory for Depression and SAD—an online symptom self-assessment at www.cet.org. And, of course, consult your doctor.

Did you know this about Brewers Yeast?

• Brewers Yeast is high in B Vitamins, provide more than twice the protein as steak and almost four times that of eggs.  Plus, there is no animal fat or cholesterol!  It’s also rich in calcium, phosphorous, iron, chromium and selenium.

• Brewers Yeast has what is called “the glucose tolerance factor” which is an organic complex between niacin and the mineral chromium.  It therefore helps the hormone insulin to lower blood sugar levels.  This is the reason some say the quickest way to sober up after the “night out” is to take brewers yeast.  Alcoholics are known to be prime candidates for Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).

• Brewers Yeast tastes ….. well not so good!

Saccharomyces cerevisiae is more commonly known as brewers yeast.  It belongs to what is c alled the perfect yeasts.  The name brewers yeast is not always accurate because the product is not always a byproduct of the brewing industry.  Often it is grown specifically for its nutritional value.  When this is done it is often called “primary grown nutritional yeast”.

Brewers yeast is also one of the finest natural sources of the amino acid lysine.   Each tablespoon contains about 190 mg of surplus lysine.  Brewers yeast is also one of the perfect foods known.

How often do you think of your muscles?  Don’t give them a passing thought – until they let you down?

If you’re like most, you wake up to a painful, aching reminder that there’s a muscle behind every movement you make.  Maybe you thought about your muscles the day you came to realise you could only do half the push ups you used to do, or on the family hike everyone was waiting for you, breathless, to “catch up”.  Times like these truly tell you the importance of staying active and keeping your muscles in good condition.

But there’s even more at stake than just your strength and endurance.  Inactivity us just plain bad for your health!  Muscles that are not used decrease in size.  They shrink…and that can affect the way you feel in many ways.  One day you’ll notice it’s a little harder to move a chair while vacuuming, or to lift a spare tire out of the trunk.  You’re suddenly aware you don’t seem to have the stamina you used to have.

What’s even worse, you now face a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease, diabetes and high blood pressure.  I you are old enough (attention Baby Boomers!) you might just blame it on age.  But actually every one of these changes may be directly related to inactivity and the diminishing proportion of muscle in your body – a situation you can correct no matter how old you are.

Scientifically, people of all ages have the same capacity to increase muscle strength and size.  In fact, staying thin and maintaining a high percentage of lean muscle mass is probably the secret to staying as young and active when you turn 60 as you were in your 20′s and 30′s.

There are of course three other very important advantages to retaining and maintaining healthy, conditioned muscles.

(1)  They help prevent injuries

(2)  They enable you to perform your daily activities easily and efficiently

(3)  They help you control your weight

In addition, many common accidental sprains and strains can be prevented by maintaining healthy, flexible muscles.  And an added bonus:  strong muscles can protect your joints from injury.

There’s one more part to total muscle fitness  -  a healthy diet.  

Choose foods low in fat, rich in protein and high in fiber.

Best ways to build and maintain muscle tissue.

The good news is you do NOT have to exercise vigorouosly in order to gain the benefits of exercise.  People who walk for a half-hour three times a week can achieve these benefits.  Establish a regular exercise program and then stick to it!  There does, however, appear to be a problem with picking out only one exercise (like walking) and doing it to the exclusion of all others.  Walking builds endurance, but it does not add appreciably to two other aspects of muscle fitness – strength and flexibility.  So a combination of all three will make you look and feel healthy and strong.

Let’s look at these:  Walking, running, bicycling and swimming are great endurance exercises.   Increase muscle tissue through systematic and regular strength or weight training, calisthenics (exercises that utilize your body’s own weight to build strength like sit-ups, pushups and pull-ups), and flexibility comes from stretching.  Flexibility exercise is probably the most important of all three in helping to prevent injuries.  Yoga is an excellent way to keep your body flexible, to learn how to relax and correct breathing.  

So choose a lifetime of muscle fitness that will keep you feeling strong, healthy and in control of your weight.  And best of all, it can increase your chances of living a longer and healthier life – the best bonus anyone can ask for!

Losing weight is your choice … but of all the things we can do for our long term health, maintaining proper weight is perhaps the most important.  The list of health risks that are increased by being overweight includes our most prevalent and deadly diseases.

Heart disease, high blood pressure (hypertension), diabetes, arthritis and joint deterioration are all on the list.  Even some forms of cancer have been associated with obesity.

As significant as all of these health risks are, they are not the main reasons why most of us who are overweight want to lose weight.  We want to lose weight because we want to look good – look good to others and, more importantly, to ourselves.  Self image is a large part of personal happiness.  When we are unhappy with ourselves, it’s hard to maintain a positive outlook in the face of life’s day-to-day challenges.

Indeed, depression is one of the primary factors in “binge eating” and other eating disorders.  Whether for health or happiness, weight reduction and control is one of the most difficult struggles we can ever face.  It’s like doing battle with our own body.  We want it to do one thing and it wants to do another.  The rewards for winning this battle, however, are truly gratifying.

We can give ourselves years of health and longevity we might otherwise have lost.  We can relish in the kind of satisfaction that only personal pride and self-esteem can provide.  Few other accomplishments in life offer these kinds of rewards.

For these reasons, no matter what our motivation, weight control is an important key to health and happiness.  Modern science has taught us a lot, but it still comes down to our individual desire and commitment.  The choice of losing weight is now, more than ever before, ours to make …..

Why Do Heart Attacks Occur?

Angina is a common predictor of heart attacks. It is a pain the chest usually experienced upon exertion or after eating.  Because there is not sufficient blood reaching the heart, pain occurs due to the atherosclerosis or a narrowing of the arteries.  Most heart attacks are caused by the formation of a blood clot in a coronary artery that has been narrowed by atherosclerosis.

The supply of blood carried by the artery and that portion of the heart subsequently dies because the clot blocks it.  Ventricular fibrillation is what happens mechanically at the time of death from a heart attack. It is an erratic heartbeat that interrupts delivery of oxygenated blood to the brain.

Heart Attack Severe Chest Pain

The heart expiring results from the condition of the autonomic nervous system that governs involuntary actions like breathing, digestion and heartbeat. When the autonomic nervous system is in sympathetic mode, which has a contractility effect as opposed to the parasympathetic, which is relaxing, fibrillation is more likely to happen.

Death from heart attack is due to an artery spasm in some cases. Artery spasms occur when the sympathetic nervous system is dominant and the adrenals are overactive. Also, heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats, can be the result of an activated sympathetic system.  Heart disease can be halted and reversed through changes in the diet and lifestyle even though genetic predisposition can play a role in heart disease.

Stress not only raises serum cholesterol

but also increases the activity of the sympathetic nervous system and the adrenal glands.  Smoking also affects the nervous system; it damages the arteries by constricting blood vessels, which inhibits blood circulation and the oxygenation of tissues. In sensitive individuals, excessive caffeine puts the sympathetic system and the adrenals into overdrive and should be avoided. If caffeine is a must, it should be limited to two cups daily.

Obesity can affect the heart by straining the heart muscles and making high blood pressure stress the arteries.  Diets should be monitored to include the correct types of fat and other foods to keep the arteries from developing atherosclerosis and to dissolve any plaque that has already formed. Omega-3 fats, the highest concentrations being in walnuts, flaxseed, rapeseed (source of canola oil) and purslane, a green leafy vegetable, inhibit blood clotting, encourage activity of the parasympathetic nervous system, increase blood flow, protect against heart arrhythmias, dissolve clots, lower blood triglycerides, raise HDL cholesterol and have inflammation soothing properties.

Fruits and vegetables contain nutrients that prevent plaque from building up on the arterial walls, reduce blood pressure and strengthen heart muscles. Foods that are blood thinners include omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin E, garlic, onions and cayenne. Exercise is vitally important in maintaining the integrity of the arteries and heart muscles as well as facilitating the circulation of oxygenated blood.

Foods

Fresh fruits, apple, pineapple, fresh vegetables, green leafy vegetables, spinach, asparagus, carrots, shiitake mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, onions, nuts, brazil nuts, walnuts, seeds, whole grains, brown rice, corn, legumes, soybeans, soymilk, peanuts, garlic, cayenne, ginger, turmeric, extra virgin olive oil, cold pressed organic canola oil, ground flaxseeds.

Juices

Beet, carrot, celery, cucumber, dark berries, grapes, pineapple and tomato.

Massage

Ylang Ylang massage, for heart palpitations; a relaxant.

Herbs

Lavender, peppermint and rosemary are good for strengthening heart muscles.

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