Seven Ways to Uplift Yourself

"The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself." - Wallace Wattles


Stop allowing people to get to you.

You are a great person. If you believe someone who says you're not, you will lose self-confidence.

Continue to build your self-confidence.

Think win for all concerned. Engage in activities that result in a win for everyone concerned. When people see you as a winner, they treat you that way.

Surround yourself with success.

Most of your personality traits and your thinking stems from your associations. Read about success. Get yourself around successful people and successful ventures. If you don't know how to succeed you won't. If you don't know how to fail you won't.

Gauge where people stand in life.

Determine their usefulness. The useless ones are those who don't help others. If you help anyone anywhere to uplift the strains of life, you are definitely useful and worth your weight in gold.

If you want to make the best of yourself, you must begin to take risks.

One conditioning that stops people from having the things that they want is that they are accustomed to only go so far. When problems of the same nature arise, people become discouraged because they have gone as far as they can go (or think they can go). The majority of obstacles are in your own head. Mental barriers will stop you dead in your tracks.

It takes work to put forth the effort necessary for success.

Pushing yourself is a full time job. Working for someone else is easy. Your employer pushes you in the direction that they think is most profitable. His or her job is to push you in the right ways. If you are out to make the big bucks, that job belongs to you. Working for yourself is the hardest job you are ever going to have. Once you have acquired that ability, success is near.

You have the power to make promises to yourself...and keep them, with no backsliding.

If you promise yourself that you are going to live a healthy life, and you keep that promise by taking steps to achieve it, you will get the health you seek. And the same process happens with anything else you desire in life.

Why Are Healthy Bones Important?

Why Are Healthy Bones Important?

• A healthy skeletal system with strong bones is essential to overall health and quality of life
• Strong bones support us, are the framework for our muscles, and allow us to move
• Bones are a storehouse for vital minerals
• Strong bones protect our heart, lungs, brain and other organs

Your body stores almost all of its calcium in your bones. One of the functions of the skeletal system is it serves as a chemical "bank." Here are some facts on how people deplete their bone resources:

1. People who do not get enough sunlight and do not supplement with vitamin D do not replenish their calcium stores.
2. Heavily salted foods (bacon, salami, smoked salmon, prepared soups, salty snacks, and other processed foods) interfere with calcium absorption.
3. The phosphoric acid in the colas that you drink block calcium absorption. The body uses your bone bank minerals to maintain the alkalinity of your blood and other bodily systems.
4. The caffeine in coffee, in energy drinks, and in soft drinks depletes your calcium.
5. Alcohol damages the bones.
6. Girls and boys who do not get enough calcium in their diets have begun the process of bone depletion.
7. People who do not engage in weight bearing exercises lose bone mass (Paraplegics and wheelchair bound individuals are especially at risk).
8. Post menopausal women are at risk of losing bone resources.
9. Some medications, such as those used to control arthritis and asthma, reduce bone mass.
10. Obesity, smoking, and people on strict diets cause early onset of bone loss.
11. Pregnancy and breast feeding depletes bone resources.
12. People who do not get enough calcium rich foods or bio-available forms of calcium are not replenishing their calcium stores.

The office of the US Surgeon General and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that approximately 34 million Americans over the age of 50 are estimated to suffer from decreased bone density; that bone and joint disease are a leading cause of disability for over 16 million adults in the US; that approximately 66 million adults report chronic joint symptoms. (Sources: Bone Health Facts and Osteoporosis Risk Factors)


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The Problem

• Problems occur when bones release more calcium than they take in.
• Once bone density decreases to a certain level, its structure can no longer hold calcium, regardless of how much is taken in through food and supplements.
• Absorption studies have shown that only 10% of the calcium taken from most supplements actually enters the cells.
• If our bones are not rebuilding, they will deplete themselves of important nutrients. The result is the bones become weak and much less effective in supporting the rest of the body.

The Solution

Our bodies produce a variety of essential chemical that control every function. These chemicals can only be formed in the body itself. As we age and deplete our nutrients in various ways, the body produces less of these important chemicals. The result is degenerative disease. Bio-replenishment is a new approach to supplementation, providing a delivery system to enhance the synthesis of these essential bio-chemicals. (Bharadwaj S, Naidu AG, Betageri GV, Prasadarao NV, Naidu AS Milk ribonuclease-enriched lactoferrin induces positive effects on bone turnover markers in postmenopausal women. [JOURNAL ARTICLE]Osteoporosis Int 2009 Jan 27.)

Diane Quaadman, an international wellness consultant, and I interviewed Dr. A. S. Narain Naidu, a medical microbiologist with more than 20 years of experience studying antimicrobials. You can listen to these interviews at our podcasting site, Open Your Mind to Healthy Living.

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Health is the ultimate integrity issue

"Your body is your vehicle for life. As long as you are here, live in it. Love, honor, respect and cherish it, treat it well, and it will serve you in kind."

--Suzy Prudden

Health is our natural state of being. Our physical body, for example, automatically rebuilds itself through the DNA blueprint. It is always moving toward structural integrity.

Often, we interfere with the body's ability to maintain structural integrity physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Our objective is to get rid of anything that interferes with structural integrity and to do what is necessary for our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being.

Integrity, then, is a way of moving toward health through being, feeling, thinking, relating to others, relating to self, and engaging in healthy habits; it is the joining of what we know and value to what we do.

It's so easy in today's world to waste energy and lose our health. Healthy habits replenish energy, conserve energy, and work in harmony with our energy.

So which habits do we need to integrate in our lives to remain healthy? And, if we are not healthy, how do we get there?

• Develop the habit of controlling your destiny.
• Develop the habit of cultivating a healthy environment.
• Develop the habit of engaging in meaningful work - work that you enjoy.
• Develop the habit of self-responsibility, self-care, and professional upkeep.

All true healing begins when the individual sincerely desires it and is willing to accept changes in his or her life.