В детстве, а иногда и во взрослой жизни мы слышим советы, которые привыкли называть «бабушкиными». Они кажутся довольно странными на первый взгляд, но мы знаем их с малых лет и даже иногда находим полезными.
Но так ли это? Многие из этих советов появились в результате недопонимания, некоторые основаны на устаревших исследованиях и давно уже опровергнутых заблуждениях, но мы продолжаем им следовать — просто по инерции.
«Не коси глазами — останешься таким навсегда»
Каждый хотя бы раз в жизни слышал эту фразу от матери или бабушки. Когда ты обнаруживаешь, что можешь смотреть на собственный нос, и уже хочешь поделиться этим открытием с другими… вдруг тебе строго говорят, что с косоглазием не шутят и «таким» можно остаться навсегда. И ты сразу же пытаешься вернуть зрачки в нормальное положение, с облегчением замечая, что всё обошлось.
Такое положение глаз не может привести к осложнениям. Детям довольно трудно косить глазами долгое время, а единственное неудобство, с которым они могут столкнуться, — некоторое время в глазах будет двоиться, но потом и это пройдёт. Можно просто игнорировать «скрещивание глаз» детьми — со временем они перестанут это делать.
«Пчёл привлекает только жёлтый цвет»
Это не совсем заблуждение. Неправильное слово здесь — «только». Пчёлы могут распознавать зелёный, жёлтый цвета. Тёмные же цвета они видят как чёрный. Из–за особенностей зрения пчёлы любят опылять светлоокрашенные цветы, также их притягивает любая светлая одежда. Не только жёлтый, но и любые яркие цвета могут послужить объектом повышенного внимания пчёл.
«Следуй правилу пяти секунд»
Это правило знают все6 еда, упавшая на пол, пять секунд остаётся чистой, и лишь потом на неё могут попасть бактерии. К сожалению, этому нет никакого научного подтверждения, а микроорганизмы переходят на еду, как только она касается пола или земли. Если вы готовы есть упавшую на пол еду, держите в голове, что на неё могут попасть бактерии, вызывающие пищевое отравление. Лучше подумать о безопасности и купить новое мороженое, чем поднимать с земли упавшее!
«Кофе замедляет твой рост»
Многим детям, желающим пить кофе, родители отказывали, говоря, что он замедляет рост. Стоит ли говорить, что это миф? Кофе в разумных количествах, наоборот, оказывает на организм положительное воздействие. Он снижает риск некоторых болезней, в том числе рака и сахарного диабета. И уж точно этот напиток никак не влияет на рост человека.
«Не выходи на улицу с мокрыми волосами — простудишься»
Не температура становится причиной простуды, а вирусы. В сырую и холодную погоду их в воздухе больше, но это вовсе не значит, что мокрые волосы каким–то образом стимулируют болезни.
«Еда с майонезом портится быстрее»
Всё происходит скорее наоборот, ведь большинство видов покупного майонеза в какой–то степени имеют кислотную среду и потому предотвращают порчу продуктов. Это, конечно, не добавляет им привлекательности как заправке для салата… но в качестве консерванта — почему нет?
«Похмеляйся алкоголем»
Лечить подобное подобным — это, может, и хорошо, но при похмелье «гомеопатия» не работает. Такое лечение может прояснить голову на краткий срок, но в долгосрочной перспективе это ещё сильнее нагружает организм и усугубляет последствия вчерашней гулянки. Это вообще может превратиться в бесконечный цикл и привести к алкоголизму.
«Съешь шоколада — заработаешь себе прыщи»
Опять же, это лишь частично верное суждение. Число прыщей может увеличиться в результате определённого рациона, полного жирных и нездоровых продуктов. Излишнее количество сахара в пище вызывает гормональные колебания, также сопровождающиеся прыщами. Но нет никаких подтверждений тому, что именно потребление шоколада прямо влияет на возникновение прыщей. Более того, в умеренных количествах шоколад, в особенности тёмный, обладает несколькими положительными эффектами на здоровье.
«Острое нельзя есть с язвой»
Такие утверждения выдвигались и докторами, но современные исследования показывают, что острое совершенно необязательно губительно для людей с язвой. Химический компонент капсаицин, содержащийся в острых перцах, даже может помочь с язвами, стимулируя ток крови к ране.
«Мой голову, пока волосы не заскрипят»
Сравнивать чистые волосы с чистой посудой — не лучшая идея. Излишнее применение шампуня лишает волосы их естественной защиты. Вместо этого мойте волосы аккуратно, от корней до кончиков, не перебарщивая с косметическим моющим средством.
These are just some of many different theories about how spells work. For anybody who really enjoys “magical theory” like I do or is looking for validation that there’s something to all these weird spells! None of these serve to discredit magic, but rather add a deeper level of understanding to it. The success of a spell could be credited to more than one of these, or something else entirely!
Sentences that start with the phrase “A guru once told me…” are, more often than not, eye-roll-inducing. But recently, while resting in malasana, or a deep squat, in an East London yoga class, I was struck by the second half of the instructor’s sentence: “A guru once told me that the problem with the West is they don’t squat.”
This is plainly true. In much of the developed world, resting is synonymous with sitting. We sit in desk chairs, eat from dining chairs, commute seated in cars or on trains, and then come home to watch Netflix from comfy couches. With brief respites for walking from one chair to another, or short intervals for frenzied exercise, we spend our days mostly sitting. This devotion to placing our backsides in chairs makes us an outlier, both globally and historically. In the past half century, epidemiologists have been forced to shift how they study movement patterns. In modern times, the sheer amount of sitting we do is a separate problem from the amount of exercise we get.
Our failure to squat has biomechanical and physiological implications, but it also points to something bigger. In a world where we spend so much time in our heads, in the cloud, on our phones, the absence of squatting leaves us bereft of the grounding force that the posture has provided since our hominid ancestors first got up off the floor. In other words: If what we want is to be well, it might be time for us to get low.
To be clear, squatting isn’t just an artifact of our evolutionary history. A large swath of the planet’s population still does it on a daily basis, whether to rest, to pray, to cook, to share a meal, or to use the toilet. (Squat-style toilets are the norm in Asia, and pit latrines in rural areas all over the world require squatting.) As they learn to walk, toddlers from New Jersey to Papua New Guinea squat—and stand up from a squat—with grace and ease. In countries where hospitals are not widespread, squatting is also a position associated with that most fundamental part of life: birth.
It’s not specifically the West that no longer squats; it’s the rich and middle classes all over the world. My Quartz colleague, Akshat Rathi, originally from India, remarked that the guru’s observation would be “as true among the rich in Indian cities as it is in the West.”
But in Western countries, entire populations—rich and poor—have abandoned the posture. On the whole, squatting is seen as an undignified and uncomfortable posture—one we avoid entirely. At best, we might undertake it during Crossfit, pilates or while lifting at the gym, but only partially and often with weights (a repetitive maneuver that’s hard to imagine being useful 2.5 million years ago). This ignores the fact that deep squatting as a form of active rest is built in to both our evolutionary and developmental past: It’s not that you can’t comfortably sit in a deep squat, it’s just that you’ve forgotten how.
“The game started with squatting,” says author and osteopath Phillip Beach. Beach is known for pioneering the idea of “archetypal postures.” These positions—which, in addition to a deep passive squat with the feet flat on the floor, include sitting cross legged and kneeling on one’s knees and heels—are not just good for us, but “deeply embedded into the way our bodies are built.”
“You really don’t understand human bodies until you realize how important these postures are,” Beach, who is based in Wellington, New Zealand, tells me. “Here in New Zealand, it’s cold and wet and muddy. Without modern trousers, I wouldn’t want to put my backside in the cold wet mud, so [in absence of a chair] I would spend a lot of time squatting. The same thing with going to the toilet. The whole way your physiology is built is around these postures.”
So why is squatting so good for us? And why did so many of us stop doing it?
It comes down to a simple matter of “use it or lose it,” says Dr. Bahram Jam, a physical therapist and founder of the Advanced Physical Therapy Education Institute (APTEI) in Ontario, Canada.
“Every joint in our body has synovial fluid in it. This is the oil in our body that provides nutrition to the cartilage,” Jam says. “Two things are required to produce that fluid: movement and compression. So if a joint doesn’t go through its full range—if the hips and knees never go past 90 degrees—the body says ‘I’m not being used’ and starts to degenerate and stops the production of synovial fluid.”
A healthy musculoskeletal system doesn’t just make us feel lithe and juicy, it also has implications for our wider health. A 2014 study in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology found that test subjects who showed difficulty getting up off the floor without support of hands, or an elbow, or leg (what’s called the “sitting-rising test”) resulted in a three-year-shorter life expectancy than subjects who got up with ease.
In the West, the reason people stopped squatting regularly has a lot to do with our toilet design. Holes in the ground, outhouses and chamber pots all required the squat position, and studies show that greater hip flexion in this pose is correlated with less strain when relieving oneself. Seated toilets are by no means a British invention—the first simple toilets date back to Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium B.C., while the ancient Minoans on the island of Crete are said to have first pioneered the flush—but they were first adopted in Britain by the Tudors, who enlisted “grooms of the stool” to help them relieve themselves in ornate, throne-like loos in the 16th century.
The next couple hundred years saw slow, uneven toilet innovation, but in 1775 a watchmaker named Alexander Cummings developed an S-shape pipe which sat below a raised cistern, a crucial development. It wasn’t until after the mid-to-late-1800s, when London finally built a functioning sewer system after persistent cholera outbreaks and the horrific-sounding “great stink” of 1858, that fully flushable, seated toilets started to commonly appear in people’s homes.
Today, the flushable squat-style toilets found across Asia are, of course, no less sanitary than Western counterparts. But Jam says Europe’s shift to the seated throne design robbed most Westerners of the need (and therefore the daily practice) of squatting. Indeed the realization that squatting leads to better bowel movements has fueled the cult-like popularity of the Lillipad and the Squatty Potty, raised platforms that turn a Western-style toilet into a squatting one—and allow the user to sit in a flexed position that mimics a squat.
“The reason squatting is so uncomfortable because we don’t do it,” Jam says. “But if you go to the restroom once or twice a day for a bowel movement and five times a day for bladder function, that’s five or six times a day you’ve squatted.”
While this physical discomfort may be the main reason we don’t squat more, the West’s aversion to the squat is cultural, too. While squatting or sitting cross legged in an office chair would be great for the hip joint, the modern worker’s wardrobe—not to mention formal office etiquette—generally makes this kind of posture unfeasible. The only time we might expect a Western leader or elected official to hover close to the ground is for a photo-op with cute kindergarteners. Indeed, the people we see squatting on the sidewalk in a city like New York or London tend to be the types of people we blow past in self-important rush.
“It’s considered primitive and of low social status to squat somewhere,” says Jam. “When we think of squatting we think of a peasant in India, or an African village tribesman, or an unhygienic city floor. We think we’ve evolved past that—but really we’ve devolved away from it.”
Avni Trivedi, a doula and osteopath based in London (disclosure: I have visited her in the past for my own sitting-induced aches) says the same is true of squatting as a birthing position, which is still prominent in many developing parts of the world and is increasingly advocated by holistic birthing movements in the West.
“In a squatting birthing position, the muscles relax and you’re allowing the sacrum to have free movement so the baby can push down, with gravity playing a role too,” Trivedi says. “But the perception that this position was primitive is why women went from this active position to being on the bed, where they are less embodied and have less agency in the birthing process.”
So should we replace sitting with squatting and say goodbye to our office chairs forever? Beach points out that “any posture held for too long causes problems” and there are studies to suggest that populations that spend excessive time in a deep squat (hours per day), do have a higher incidence of knee and osteoarthritis issues.
But for those of us who have largely abandoned squatting, Beach says, “you can’t really overdo this stuff.” Beyond this kind of movement improving our joint health and flexibility, Trivedi points out that a growing interest in yoga worldwide is perhaps in part a recognition that “being on the ground helps you physically be grounded in yourself”—something that’s largely missing from our screen-dominated, hyper-intellectualized lives.
Beach agrees that this is not a trend, but an evolutionary impulse. Modern wellness movements are starting to acknowledge that “floor life” is key. He argues that the physical act of grounding ourselves has been nothing short of instrumental to our species’ becoming.
In a sense, squatting is where humans—every single one of us—came from, so it behooves us to revisit it as often as we can.
Source https://quartzy.qz.com/1121077/to-solve-problems-caused-by-sitting-learn-to-squat/
Here are some of the most effective and practical Feng Shui tips that make sense and improves impact for your home in 2018.
Many Filipino people usually believe in Feng Shui believing that it could allegedly bring good luck and wealth to a person through harmonizing everyone with the surrounding environment.
Feng Shui is a collaboration of Chinese philosophy and space planning adhere to good architecture. People also believe that it could bring fortune and wealth to those who were using it.
Here are some effective Feng Shui tips for your home:
What can you say about this? Just feel free to leave your comments and reactions to this article.
If you think vision boards are bogus, then the joke’s on you. They work, and there’s actually a really simple explanation of why they work so well.
Creating a sacred space that displays what you want actually does bring it to life. What we focus on expands. When you create a vision board and place it in a space where you see it often, you essentially end up doing short visualization exercises throughout the day.
Visualization is one of the most powerful mind exercises you can do. According to the popular book The Secret, “The law of attraction is forming your entire life experience and it is doing that through your thoughts. When you are visualizing, you are emitting a powerful frequency out into the Universe.”
Whether you believe that or not, we know that visualization works. Olympic athletes have been using it for decades to improve performance, and Psychology Today reported that the brain patterns activated when a weightlifter lifts heavy weights are also similarly activated when the lifter just imagined (visualized) lifting weights.
So, what’s the big secret to creating a vision board that works? It’s simple: Your vision board should focus on how you want to feel, not just on things that you want. Don’t get me wrong, it’s great to include the material stuff, too. However, the more your board focuses on how you want to feel, the more it will come to life.
Here’s an example. I have a beautiful coaster from Drybar on my vision board (pictured above), not because I want to open my own blow dry bar, but because I love the feeling I get when I walk into one of Alli Webb’s Drybar establishments. I want my customers to feel those same happy vibes when they come across my brand, so on the board it went.
I added few trinkets, like a peacock feather and bookmark, that I picked up at retreats where I felt incredible energy and motivation around what I was learning. When I’m in my home office, I want to feel the same way I felt at those retreats.
A few inspirational notecards from my best friends and women I admire are on my board as well; I personally believe that their handwritten notes on the back infuse it with even more good vibes. Front and center is a card from Danielle LaPorte’s Fire Starter Sessions that reminds me how I want to live.
I even have a few items from past events that I want to keep occurring each year, like a photo of my husband from a surf vacation and an invitation to an annual gala dinner for the top 25 sales people in my company. I want to continue to enjoy surf vacations with my husband, and want to continue to be invited to this exclusive gala. I’ve been invited back to that gala each of the last three years, and not coincidentally, have had the previous year’s invitation on my vision board for the last two (see, it works!). A few quotes and reminders round out my board and I truly feel giddy every time I look at it.
There is only one major rule to creating a vision board that works, and it’s that there aren’t any rules. You aren’t going to mess it up, you can create your vision board on your own terms. Here are the answers to the most common questions people ask:
Q: What should I put on my vision board?
A: Anything that inspires and motivates you. The purpose of your vision board is to bring everything on it to life. First, think about what your goals are in the following areas: relationships, career and finances, home, travel, personal growth (including spirituality, social life, education) and health.
You don’t have to cover each area exactly the same, just take a mental inventory of what you want each of those areas to look like and write them down. Always handwrite your goals instead of typing them, there’s something energetic about actually handwriting your goals. From your goals and aspirations, think about what you want on your vision board. Like I said before, what you focus on expands. You’ll be amazed at how things just start popping up all over the place once you set the intention for what you want and how you want to feel.
Q: Should I have one main vision board, or a bunch of small ones for different areas of my life?
A: It’s totally up to you. What makes the most sense in your life? I personally like to have one central vision board that I look at every day in my home office, and I have a few small ones that I’ve made at retreats that I keep around too. Each area of our lives affect each other, so starting with one central vision board usually makes sense. Theme boards that center on specific events or areas of your life are great too, for instance a wedding-day-specific will help you focus on how you want to feel on your big day, or a career specific board at your desk space can help you work towards that promotion.
Q: How often should I re-do my vision board?
A: Whenever it feels right. I often leave blank space on my vision board so I can accept new things as they appear in my life, and add and rearrange during the year when I feel it. You’ll just know. Then, every December, I give the board a total refresh to get clear about what I want in the new year. Some things stay and some have served their purpose and don’t make the cut.
What you’ll need:
Any kind of board, if you’re new maybe start with a cork board or poster board from the hardware store, they run about a dollar. If you can, I recommend a pin board or something pretty you like to look at — I got my 24×24” white wood framed pin board on Etsy.
Scissors, tape, pins, and/or a glue-stick to put your board together.
If you want, fun markers, stickers, or anything else you can think of to deck out your board. I don’t use that stuff, but if embellishments make you feel great, then go for it.
Magazines that you can cut images and quotes from.
Most importantly, the stuff you want to look at every day. Photos, quotes, sayings, images of places you want to go, reminders of events, places, or people, postcards from friends and just about anything that will inspire you.
Time. Give yourself a stress-free hour or two to put your board together. If you’re a social butterfly, invite you friends over and make a party out of it. I host a vision board party every year on the first night of my partner mastermind weekend and I can’t even tell you how much it sets the tone for the event — everyone is more focused and less stressed after we do it.
How to do it:
Set the mood. Turn off the TV and turn on some relaxing music. Light a candle and clear your space.
When it comes to actually putting your stuff on the board, I like to leave space in between each item because clutter clouds my mind. I like space. However, if you love the feeling of closeness and want everything to touch and overlap, then huddle it all together and overlap your objects. As for choosing what makes the final cut, lay everything out before you start gluing and pinning so you can get an idea of where you want everything.
By Elizabeth Rider
v1.std3.ru
Праздник кончился…
More info @ http://ift.tt/1X9UhDy
v1.std3.ru
Это моё вознаграждение.
More info @ http://ift.tt/1UDSIPm
v1.std3.ru
Ускакал)
More info @ http://ift.tt/1Sn5iC6
v1.std3.ru
Весна
More info @ http://ift.tt/1QwBsGv
Best templates |
|
|
|
New templates |
|
|
|
Best Symbols |
|
|
|
New Symbols |
|
|
|
|