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It is a shame that proper behavior, respect, and ethics do not make great headlines in the newspapers. Just watch the news, and read the newspaper for a week, to confirm what makes “good copy.” It will not take long for you to find a dozen, or dozens, of scandals.

We all make mistakes, and none of us wants to have them in print, but some are preventable. Here are some guidelines for Yoga teachers to consider when teaching their students. As a leader and role model, your ethical behavior will be duplicated by your Yoga students.

There is no need for an air of superiority within the Yoga class. Everyone is good at something, so why waste time and energy trying to impress your students, or the public, about your ability as a Yoga instructor. If students are attending your Yoga classes, they are already impressed, so there is no need to turn your Yoga studio into a “circus act.”

If someone does not practice Yoga, or is not a vegetarian, please do not bolster your ego over the issue. Do not engage in hostile debates over these issues. There is a time, place, and method for convincing people about health issues, but hostility will not convince anyone.

Bias and discrimination are hard habits to break. Sometimes, these ideas exist within families for generations. Yoga teachers should accept students, regardless of race, religion, gender, ethnic origin, age, social status, or any other reason we can find to be unjustifiably bias.

In the case of age - children who are too young may have a separate Yoga class, but this depends on the patience of the Yoga teacher and the group. Some “Mommy and me” Yoga classes run along smoothly, but some adult Yoga students do not want to be in a Yoga class with children.

I teach children four years of age and up, but it is specifically within a “Kids Yoga” class. This is much different from a typical adult Yoga class, and the circus act I mentioned earlier might be fine. Do not be surprised to see children perform difficult asanas, but do not expose them to hazards.

In the course of a week, I teach many Chair Yoga classes, and these are age specific. However, when seniors show up to a Yoga class, at a Yoga studio, or ashram, they should be welcomed and modifications should be taught - if they are needed.

Getting back to discrimination in general: The largest problem with bias is our history of war crimes, holocaust, atrocities, and slavery. Discrimination cannot go unchecked, and it has no place anywhere, especially in a Yoga studio or ashram. If you teach Yoga to a specific religious sect, that is fine, but do not speak harshly of those who are not present.

It comes down to the golden rule, which is very universal to most of the world’s religions, and I will conclude this part with a quote. Most of you will recognize a much similar quote within your own religion. It does shed light on the wisdom of our ancestors.

“This is the sum of duty; do naught onto others what you would not have them do unto you.” Mahabharata 5,1517

Paul Jerard is a co-owner and the director of Yoga teacher training at: Aura Wellness Center, in North Providence, RI. He has been a certified Master Yoga teacher since 1995. He is a master instructor of martial arts, with multiple Black Belts, four martial arts teaching credentials, and was recently inducted into the USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame. He teaches Yoga, martial arts, and fitness to children, adults, and seniors in the greater Providence area. Recently he wrote: Is Running a Yoga Business Right for You? For Yoga students, who may be considering a new career as a Yoga teacher. http://www.yoga-teacher-training.org/index.html

Back pain can be caused by a variety of reasons and is generally a very painful condition that requires diligent attention and treatment. Pains below the waist are often called lower back pains and can be caused my muscle pulls or straining the muscles with heavy work or lifting heavy objects, moving or sleeping in awkward position etc.

Spinal infections and fractures might also cause lower back pain. In most cases the cause of the problem is that a particular nerve or a set of nerves are being pinched. The pinching can be caused due to the rupture of a disc in the spinal card or when a disc bulges and presses a nerve root. This causes a lot of pain to the patient. Sometimes the pain will decrease or go away completely by sitting or bending in a particular position etc. but if the pain continues, a check-up is necessary

Lower back surgery is the solution when such a pain continues for a period of time or becomes unbearable. Before considering lower back surgery, the patient has to consult their doctor or physician and check out the various options available and also get a complete information about the lower back surgery procedure, its recovery procedures, risks involved, expected costs etc.

Sometimes other options like traction, physiotherapy and others can be used in the place of lower back surgery if the problem is mild and curable. Lower back surgery is not a minor surgery and has to be approached with care. Patients are normally advised to do mild exercises and keep themselves healthy before the operation and might also be told to quick smoking.

The surgery might involve making cuts and incisions and moving the muscles so that the surgeon gets a good look and approach on the spine, the discs etc. Newer inventions like Lasers and bone grafts with genetically engineered protein that induce a persons bones to grow and fuse together have been making the lower back surgery a more simple, safe and easy procedure. They help the surgeon by removing the need to make large cuts or incisions etc and help the patient by reducing the risks and pain involved , thus speeding up the recovery procedure.

After the lower back surgery, the patients should try to maintain good health and fitness. Exercises will be advised for the patient for the patient. Exercises or other treatments like Yoga etc have to be practiced with great care and only with qualified teachers. Also the teachers or trainers should be aware of the lower back surgery and details.

To learn more about the pro’s & con’s of back surgery, visit Back Surgery Information webpage. Also, visit Surgery Information Guide website for help related to various types of surgeries like ear surgery, eye surgery, brain surgery and more…

Remember the time when you see a jerk that has no looks, no sense of dress code with his arm over the shoulder of a pretty and very sweet girl; walking down the street. You think to yourself, how in the world does he do it? You are a much matter boyfriend in all fields as compared to the Joker.

Allow me to ask you this.

How would you be as a boyfriend? What would you do to make the girl fall for you? If you say you can be a better boyfriend, what would you do different than the joker?

Would you give her flowers? expensive gifts? Have a candle light dinner with her? Treat her like a queen? Pamper her like no one else has before?

If you think the above will make you a better boyfriend, you are watching too much movies.

No one will fall for your. There are too many people that can give her flowers, spend on expensive gifts, and pamper her. What make you different? What makes the jerk different?

The jerk might or might not realize it, but he is practicing this theory called the “Roller-Coaster”.

You notice that a roller coaster is not flat. It would be no fun if it were. A roller coaster is a series of up-and-down motion. When you go up, you feel relaxed, or scared, when you come down, you feel excited or panic, exhilarated. And so on. The roller coaster makes everyone’s palm sweat. But people like the roller coaster because it makes us feel.

You have to be like a roller coaster to your girl. Make her feel intense happiness when she is around you. How do you make someone feel that? You make them feel sad first. Make them hurt. Make them jealous.

Once you have made them hurt enough, go back and beg for their forgiveness. The more you hurt them, the more you need to plea for forgiveness. But the more intense the feelings you give them. And the more the love you will receive once you are forgiven.

*Please note, when I say hurt them, I mean emotionally. NEVER abuse anyone physically.

Humans are a strange bunch. We will love the people that can change our mood. Especially those people that can change our mood to a happy one. Think of the movies. What differentiates a good movie from a bad one? A good movie makes the audience feel. Some movies gives us a happy feeling, some, a fearful feeling or feelings of adventure, anything! What you want to aim for is to make your girl feel things.

Many girls say that their Date is Boring because their date are not making them feel things. Make them Feel. Think of the feeling you want to give your girl for the day. Then ask yourself, how you can make her feel what you want her to feel.

Now that your know how to make your girl crazy over you, go out there and have fun!

When your life is working well it’s an opportune time to reflect on what you’ve been doing to make it that way. What have you pro-actively done? The same applies for when it spirals out of control - what have been the main contributing factors? Have you ignored the signs and kept going hoping the situation sorts itself out rather than pro-actively making changes?

The most important person in the whole wide world is you. Yet how much time, effort and money do you invest in you? How much time, effort and money do you invest in your health?

I’m asking you these questions because of an incident that affected me last week.

The Accident

My husband is in the building industry and unfortunately he was involved in an industrial accident. He badly cut his right thigh muscles close to his bone on sheetmetal roofing that was sticking out on the site. He was rushed to hospital and was operated on that day, ending up with over 100 plus stitches to his leg.

When I was able to see him that night he looked unbelievably well. You would never have guessed the trauma he had been through a few hours earlier. He was hardly in any pain. He had been given medication but only low doses.

The next day he came home! His leg was heavily bandaged and he had a Velcro splint to keep it straight. He could even walk with the aid of crutches. The only tablets he took were the antibiotics to prevent infection, anti-inflammatories to reduce the swelling and some Panadol.

On day four after the operation he discontinued all medication and has continued to take supplements suggested by our naturopath.

How could he have bounced back so quickly? It’s because he is proactive with his health. He eats healthily (most of the time), exercises regularly and sees our naturopath to ensure his body is functioning internally. In fact, I rang the naturopath to find out what Tama needed to take after his operation to boost his immune system and speed up the healing process.

He doesn’t make excuses about not having time to look after himself…and it’s times like this when he’s thankful he has made the effort. His body can withstand the trauma and has a strong base to restore him back to his normal healthy state.

It will be a few weeks before he is (hopefully) back to normal with full use of his leg. We’ll make sure he is fighting fit with ongoing physiotherapy and he’ll also have a modified fitness program to keep himself in good shape. In fact, I’m also planning to have him go to a health retreat so he can detoxify and remove as much chemical from his body caused from the anaesthetic and pills he was given. This will also help him lose any excess weight he’s likely to put on due to having limited mobility.

Before the accident and after the accident, time, money and effort has to be invested in his health otherwise he will suffer the consequences.

The Manager

A few weeks ago one of my clients felt a tingling in his finger. Being a workaholic he didn’t have time to pay too much attention to it. After all he had meetings booked all day and they were more important than a tingle in his finger. He was about to leave home, then collapsed. Luckily for him, there was another family member in the house and they called the ambulance.

John had suffered a stroke. The warning signs were there all along. He smoked, was 15kg overweight, his diet was poor and exercise was spasmodic. He worked long hours and was under enormous pressure in his role. Much of the pressure was due to John’s organisational skills. He was a poor delegator and had difficulty saying ‘no’. Planning was something he did if he had the time (which meant he never did).

Up until the time of his stroke, John had been making progress through being coached, however he wasn’t making enough consistent effort, particularly around his health. He was a disaster waiting to happen and it did happen. John is 43.

Fortunately John has survived, but what a way to have a ‘wake up ‘ call. He’s definitely paying attention now and making himself the no. 1 priority in his life. He’s had four weeks off and is slowly easing himself back into work with reduced hours and a whole new outlook on the meaning of life. We’ve looked at the options open to him to ensure he stays well. This includes holistic medicine combined with diet, exercise and relaxation.

5 Ways to Get Organised and Stay Alive

Learn how to get yourself organised so you make time for you.

Find a holistic practitioner who offers a range of health tests and can provide proactive on-going treatment and advice. You will require supplements because hardly anyone eats a 100% organic, fully balanced diet and lives in a non-toxic and stress free environment.

If you don’t know where to go feel free to contact me lorraine@office-organiser.com.au I’ll be able to point you in the right direction.

Avoid people and places that do not support what you are trying to achieve, ie. there’s a lady who attends my gym every day to stay in shape and keep her weight under control yet she works in a bakery!

Once you know what to do and how to do it, then do it.

Once you know what to do, how to do it, then do it and if it works…then keep doing it!

The Final Word

Being fit and healthy is not an option. Just because you are standing and breathing doesn’t mean you are well.

You can do our Work/Life Assessment to see what parts of your life are working and where you need to focus more attention. You’ll most likely discover the area of health will be an area where you definitely require a change.

Wellness is about being pro-active with your health and not waiting until you are sick or something happens to you. No matter how busy you are, you surely can’t be too busy to die?

Have a great week

Lorraine Pirihi

1. The lesson forms part of a unit which forms part of a scheme of work.

2. There is a good starter activity, one that gets the pupils settled down an in the right frame of mind to do the work you’ve planned for them.

3. The teacher spends time at the start letting pupils into the secret what the objectives (intended learning outcomes) of the lesson are, ie what is intended to be achieved by the end, and how this lesson fits in with the preceding and following lessons

4. Pupils are given open ended tasks (as far as possible), or at least not tasks with a glass ceiling. (Even lessons designed to impart a set of skills can still be more interesting than “drill & practice”).

5. There are plenty of resources for the pupils to use, enabling the teacher to give QUALITY guidance, ie not confined to explaining how to save the document! Such resources will include “how to’ guides and posters, on screen help (which the pupils will have been taught how to use), and each other.

6. Ample time is allowed for the plenary, thereby allowing it to be somewhat more useful than the POLO model: Print Out and Log Off. The plenary is an ESSENTIAL part of the lesson, used to check what learning has taken place, consolidate learning, and prepare pupils for the next stage. In fact, a lesson might have two or three plenaries rather than just one at the end.

7. Homework is set at the START of the lesson, enabling the teacher to explain what needs doing, and for the pupils to understand what they need to have achieved by the end of the lesson in order to be able to make a good job of the homework; note that homework is ALWAYS given, regardless of so called homework timetables! (It doesn’t always have to be written down.

8. Pupils are given plenty of time on the computers, with the teacher helping individuals and small groups.

9. Work is set at an appropriate standard, taking into account the pupils prior learning and attainment, and what is expected of their age group in terms of national standards.

10. There is a lot of questioning ” PROBING questioning ” and assessment for learning techniques in evidence.

11. There is a good range of material to provide for differentiation (higher attainers and children with special educational needs) and personalised learning.

12. The teacher is aware of individual pupils needs, such as their individual education plans ” and makes use of the assessment and other data she has ” remember: data only becomes information if you DO something with it!

13. Not all work takes place at the computer.

14. Pupils come in on time, prepared, and ready to start work.

15. There is a good buzz in the room pupils are talking about the work, not last night’s TV programs.

16. Pupils organise themselves and, if working in groups, work collaboratively rather than competitively at least with other members of their own group!

17. Pupils don’t keep asking the time, unless they are worried about not being able to complete the work (see below though) and don’t notice the time going by.

18. Pupils don’t understand the concept of finishing the work in the sense of having time left over to check email, play Solitaire etc.

19. Pupils, even normally poorly behaved ones, ask to be allowed to stay on, come back at lunchtime or come back early in the morning.

20. Pupils respect the equipment and the room. For example, they do not leave discarded print outs on the floor.

21. Pupils are happy and confident enough to try out things you haven’t shown them: they ask help from each other or look at the posters and manuals that are available for them.

22. If you interrupt their work in order to announce or explain something, someone asks you to hurry up so that they can get back to their work.

23. Pupils do a greater amount work, say for homework, than you have asked them to. For example, instead of conducting a survey with 10 people they decide to ask 20.

24. Pupils do a wider range of work than you have asked them to. For example, instead of just writing about what the hospital of the future will be like, they canvass the views of others and carry out some research about current developments.

25. Pupils want to show off to you little tricks they have discovered, such as keyboard shortcuts.

26. Pupils talk to their friends about the lesson.

27. Pupils discuss with their friends the possibility of taking a particular ICT course in 3 years time.

28. Pupils not only want to assist at open evenings/days, but are able to look after and even create an ICT presentation on your behalf.

29. Pupils are able to help other (younger or older) pupils with confidence and enthusiasm.

30. Pupils ask you questions that you are unable to answer.

This article is (c) 2005 Terry Freedman

Terry Freedman has nearly thirty years experience in education, and nearly 20 years experience as a writer. A member of the United Kingdoms Society of Authors, Terry has had around a dozen books published, and over 800 specialist articles in leading newspapers and magazines. His website, provides free access to many of his articles, a free newsletter and more, or visit his blog at http://www.terryfreedman.biz for more quirky bits and pieces.

Relate the two of everybody’s most important leisure actvities and what you’ve got is a mania we normally title a sportsbook wagers website. Seriously, what could be more resourceful… Fancy a troop of sports maniacs cheering to support any given chosen players, and frequently wagers are reckoned complementing the ruckus. Wanting to catch more of the delights, on-lookers will often essay to presage who is the likeliest to prevail in the upcoming meet. In the end, this all eventually evolves into a matey little meet titled sportsbook wagers website.

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So it may easily sound quite habit forming but on the contrary - sports gambling is actually merely an entertainment and to relate with fellow sports admirers. Here, you’ll be able to bet a a slight amount of wampum and all the same have a excellent time. Beyond this, here are various hints to get going sports gambling.

In order to bet, I would advise you visit a sportsbook wagers website, that’s to say a place which takes sportsbook wagers website. In America, there’s four states where we can go for sports gambling officially, but beyond legal you can try it anywhere you like provided you determine a bookie and you happen to be of legal age. Amongst the sports events you’ll be able to bet on are pro in conjunction with college league basketball plus college football, pro baseball and hockey, in conjunction with horse and dog racing. You may choose to risk money on the global combined score of a contest or game, at which point any given opponent will go under, and even whether a given coin toss in a contest or game comes out either heads or tails.

The sportsbook setup rely on the science of statistics to assist you decide which players you sense is the likeliest to prevail. Primarily, there’s spread, in other words points leverage tallied to a weaker competitor assumed to go down by a specified number points. Evidently, this comprises the sportsbook company’s established technique of enabling even stakes for a Sportsbook. To give an example a bettor can choose to bet on a competitor assumed to go down and and all the same win the wager provided the competitor takes a licking by a specified number of points.

Why not have a stab at it and enjoy the amusement all at once… Only take care that you won’t get too enthused and kill your entire social security checks on a crotchet. Else, you’re bound to catch yourself regretting it all your life.

Oh no! Here we go again. Just when we thought it was safe to start rebuilding it seems to be starting all over again as Mother Nature Presents; Hurricane Zeta, A New Years Hurricane for All Seasons. Can you believe we now have Tropical Storm Zeta brewing out in the Atlantic Ocean? Is this the Hurricane Season that would not die, will it ever end? Are we entering a new Climate Change where Hurricanes will be all year around? Can humans live in that level of fear? If so there are going to be some serious issues? For instance what about Florida Real Estate prices? And can the giant sand bar we call Florida really exist over the years if we keep watching the beaches erode away?

Well things are not that dire yet, but one has to wonder if the Super Storm scenarios that the science fiction writers and the Global Warming Alarmists are discussing are going to become our reality? After this last 2005 Horrific Tropical Hurricane Season with the most named Tropical Storms, most Hurricanes, longest season and three of the most powerful Category Five Plus Hurricane one can only wonder what 2006 will bring us. Can you believe we have a Tropical Storm the size of Zeta this late in the year or early in the year depending on how you look at it. Is Mother Nature just screwing with us to remind us that she is the boss and we only rent the surface of the planet while we are here? Will she show us much more of this in 2006?

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What is the definition of the word “mistake”?

Well many think it’s doing something that is expected of them but incorrectly so.

I would like to suggest however that a more fundamental definition might be; “Doing something that is not right for you”.

Doesn’t that resonate with you at some deep level? At the same time it might also make you feel uncomfortable because you might start to realize that perhaps your entire life starts to feel like a mistake.

What do I mean by this? Well if you look at how you choose to live your life, how happy or stressed you are generally speaking from day to day then I think you will understand what I’m getting at.

If not let me make it clearer. If you are doing what is right for you then it should make you feel happy, calm, at peace, fulfilled, and satisfied should it not?

Is this how you feel most of the time? Not likely correct?

So you see by my definition mistakes abound in your life, don’t they? Now I’m not trying to make your life more difficult than it already is. In fact I’m actually trying to make you more conscious of the consequences of the choices you make for yourself in every moment.

I hope you can see that, even if at first it may make you feel a bit irritated.

So if you have been making “mistakes” by my definition, why is that? Well probably because somewhere in your life you became conditioned into accepting certain beliefs about what was right for you that were false. In other words you allowed yourself to become “programmed” much like how a computer gets programmed.

A computer is told what to do and does it without question, whether it likes it or not. Of course a computer can’t feel anything so it doesn’t matter how unpleasant a task it is given.

But you are not a computer or robot are you? So why are you choosing to behave like one?

Well likely because much of the programming that runs your life is so deeply buried in your unconscious mind and body that you can’t even see that it is there.

The only measure that you have to know that it is however is the level of unhappiness or stress you feel in your life. This is the measure that tells you whether you are going where “you” want to or not.

That’s what makes you different from a computer or a robot. If you want to reclaim you power and your human-ness and stop all of these pre-programmed automatic behaviors that are killing you please visit the web link below where I have a special audio message waiting for you.

Dr. Nick Arrizza is trained in Chemical Engineering, Business Management & Leadership, Medicine and Psychiatry. He is an Energy Psychiatrist, Healer, Key Note Speaker,Editor of a New Ezine Called “Spirituality And Science” (which is requesting high quality article submissions) Author of “Esteem for the Self: A Manual for Personal Transformation” (available in ebook format on his web site), Stress Management Coach, Peak Performance Coach & Energy Medicine Researcher, Specializes in Life and Executive Performance Coaching, is the Developer of a powerful new tool called the Mind Resonance Process(TM) that helps build physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well being by helping to permanently release negative beliefs, emotions, perceptions and memories. He holds live workshops, international telephone coaching sessions and international teleconference workshops on Physical. Emotional, Mental and Spiritual Well Being.

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Very often, when perusing materials relating to improving your speed reading skills, you’ll see comments to the effect that vocalization is the biggest hurdle in speed reading. Moreover, if you do happen to be one of those people who vocalize when you read, you’ll need to overcome this practice if you want to significantly increase your reading speed.

All of this is a roundabout way of saying that those of us who vocalize our words when we speed read have not perfected our speed reading skills. Having said that, what is vocalization - and why is it seen as being one of the biggest hurdles in speed reading?

Vocalization explained

“Vocalization”, or subvocalization as it is sometimes also known, is the practice of pronouncing/speaking words out aloud, albeit under your breath or even in your head, as you read materials. The argument goes that this is a common flaw in most people’s reading skills as it is a habit adopted from our formative years, when we were encouraged, by our teachers, peers and parents, to speak-out the words we were reading. The net result of all this is that we place a limit on our ability to speed read if we vocalize the words as we read. This is because part of our brain needed to vocalize the words being read has to be activated.

Vocalization - the cons

The overwhelming reason why vocalization is seen as negative is the fact that it inhibits your ability to speed read - it slows you down! Here, empirical observation seems to suggest that those who vocalize are unable to read more than 300 words per minute - and are likely unable to exceed 250 words per minute. Although reading at a rate of between 250 and 300 words per minute would make you an average reader, speed reading techniques should help you to reach at least 500 words per minute. Furthermore, opponents of vocalization argue that rather than helping a reader to comprehend the text being read, vocalization is a barrier to such comprehension; therefore, vocalization is a hurdle not only to speed reading, but also comprehending what is being read.

Vocalization - the pros

Proponents of vocalization who argue that vocalization is actually a good thing, base their counter-argument on two principles. First, they argue that most people are able to speak faster than they can read. Vocalization, where you speak as you read, therefore enables us to read faster - not slower. Second, vocalization is a process that involves repeating what one has just read. Thus, by repeating something we have just read we are far more likely to be able to retain that information in our brain than would be the case if we merely only read the material. Both of these are strong arguments: they both lead to a logical and persuasive argument that vocalization equals a better understanding of the text that we are reading.

And finally, another argument in favor of vocalization harps back to the very reason why we may vocalize in the first place: because vocalization of text helps us in our skills of verbally pronouncing the word being read.

Nonetheless, there are undoubtedly HUGE flaws with vocalization. One of these is the need to re-read material that we have only just read, which is another commonly cited limitation on one’s ability to speed read.

Vocalization - eliminating this bad habit

No tried and tested method of curing vocalization has come to the forefront of speed reading techniques. Rather, what is often cited is the need to cure the problem through disciplining yourself not to speak out (vocalize) the words that you are reading as you read them. However, if you have been reading for some time, re-training yourself so that you don’t vocalize words can be exhausting and time consuming!

In this regard, one method that has become popular is to read using a marker. The argument goes that if you drag the marker along the page as you read, you are less likely to vocalize your words and more like to be able to read faster. Another method of avoiding vocalization is to readjust the focus of your eyes. Adjusting the focus of your eyes by zooming in on a word and then adjusting your eye focus outwards to see the broader picture of a whole paragraph enables you to read faster as it increases the number of words your eyes can focus on at any one time!

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