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Chapter 6: More Advantages Of Reiki

Synopsis

Reiki is an ancient form of harnessing positive energy from one source and transferring it on to another, for healing purposes.

Practicing reiki brings many advantages into an individual's life. The more popularly and common benefits from practicing reiki are; relief from mental and physical stress, relaxation, comfort in body and mind and surroundings and peace, to name a few.

A Few More Advantages

There are also other little known advantages to practicing reiki, though none any less beneficial. Some reiki practitioners practice this art form to induce spiritual clarity. In offering the relief needed during emotional distress and sorrow, reiki helps one be more connected to the center of one's spirituality, thus preventing the state of mind and body to feel totally drained.

Reiki also works to relief pain while improving the general blood circulation throughout the body. In doing so, reiki can also contribute to hastening the stoppage of small bleeding wounds. Some reiki practitioners also attest to the benefits of the cleansing element reiki can effect in the liver, arteries, spleen, gall bladder, and lungs. There are many other illnesses or ailment the reiki has been found to play a positive role when introduced as a complimenting therapy to ongoing medical procedures or medications. Some of these medical conditions have to be endured with considerable pain before reiki was introduced, to bring the much needed relief, at least from the pain enduring angle.

Some medical conditions are generally linked to some kind of imbalance and reiki has also made positive in road in the area. Medical conditions such as chronic and acute nose bleeds, chronic insomnia, depression, menopause to name a few are where reiki has been a positive benefit.

Reiki has also been known to be used to speed up the recovery process after surgery. The positive energy transference helps to bring about a positive and quick recovery, without the use of further adding on any medications.

Chapter 7: Using Reiki Effectively

Synopsis

When undergoing treatment for a particular medical condition, the individual often has to contend with various other negative elements.

These added negative elements further stress the mind and body of the individual and may sometimes cause other complications or at best a slower recovery rate.

Putting It Into Action

Some people have found that by adding the use of reiki to their ongoing medical regiment, positive results have been noticed. Such noticeably positive results range from faster recovery to actually cutting down on some medication that are no longer needed to treat the medical condition due to the positive energy garnered from reiki.

Ideally reiki should be practiced for a reasonable amount of time before some positive results can be expected. In doing so, one can also feel the changes in other areas, such as the new mental capabilities brought on by the positive energy. In order to benefit from reiki effectively, the exercise of transferring positive energy must be done with the recipient's cooperation and wiliness to explore this style of healing. A positive mind set is almost a prerequisite to the success of a reiki exercise.

Many scientific researchers today are willing to acknowledge the power in positive energy, when it used for its healing potential. Scientists are often a skeptical bunch, and for this sort of acknowledgment to be forth coming, proves that reiki can be a beneficial tool in helping the healing process. Some even go as far as to say the positive element is permanently contained in every individual and learning to tap into this energy has a high potential in guarding one's health.

The best way to use reiki for the purpose of healing or simply to gain a holistically healthy state of body and mind is to experience the process itself. As there are no known side effects, reiki is considered a safe endeavor, to embark upon.

Chapter 8: Other Treatment Benefits Of Reiki

Synopsis

Everyday there are new discoveries in the medical field. Some encouraging while other aren't. Yet others may be quite costly to even consider, so when a discovery like reiki comes to light it can be a blessing to many needing this type of promising relief.

Additional Discoveries

Though reiki has been around for a long time and practiced successfully in many ancient cultures, mostly Asian, it is fast gaining popularity with the younger set of people.

Some athletes have opted to use this method of healing to compliment their ongoing medical treatments with astounding results.

Using the positive energy the reiki style of treatment is based on, to counter act the negative elements of an injury, the healing process of many athletes today have taken on a faster pace.

Adding to this surprisingly faster healing time frame is the "better than before" condition of the injury affected area.

Some new break-throughs have also been made, with the usage of reiki in areas where the Aids disease has caused untold misery to many individuals.

This promising state of using reiki as the positive energy to combat all the negative elements brought on by the Aids disease is encouraging many people to try out reiki.

Distance healing using the reiki technique is another effective way of healing an ailment. As it is not always convenient or even possible to be by a patient's side for various reasons, opting to use reiki is not only currently widely practiced but also touted to be just as effective in providing the much need relief and healing.

Some people, who have practiced reiki for long periods of time, have even been documented to be promoting this style of healing for pets.

In trying to seek the best treatment for the beloved pet, some individuals have turned to reiki for its non invasive and gentle style of treatment. There are many reported cases of success as this style does not further stress the already unwell pet.

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Chapter 4: Give Back

Synopsis

Among the most beneficial places to network is in voluntary organizations. Besides setting your skills to great use for a cause you believe in, you establish your expertise and allegiance to other like-minded persons, who might become, or mention you to, prospective clients, partners, or employers.

Give

Nonprofit organizations all around the globe are receiving benefit from the add-on of virtual volunteer opportunities to their volunteer plans. With these net opportunities, volunteers frequently discover that they've more time to give as there's no travel time called for and they may often be even more effective in their own surroundings. Listed here are some of the forms of projects that are simple for virtual volunteers and useful for the organization.

Common virtual volunteer opportunities include:

Site development - An internet community must have a firm web presence designed to furnish maximum ease and efficiency of engagement

Translating - With worldwide online networking there's more and more need to have sites, press releases and additional literature available in a lot of languages so that various communities may link up.

Authoring press releases - authoring and sending out press releases online may make the difference in a movement getting public attention and funding.

Authoring and proofing - web sites that want individuals coming back on a steady basis have to keep updating their info and must make certain everything is precise and professional

Image design - images are compelling and help to paint an emotional image and produce a potent picture of the troubles and resolutions addressed by net communities

Exploration - If you love to browse the net, you will love this. And you will be rendering valuable info for a great cause.

Watch legislation - If you're captivated by the ins and outs of government activity, you may be a valuable resource for a nonprofit recommending legislation to promote their cause.

Producing online discussion boards - These organizations require individuals who are tech savvy to host chat rooms, make online message boards, and originate blogs and other net activities.

Authoring e-mails - you are able to be a useful resource by helping to reply to the a lot of e-mails that these net communities are getting

Yielding sponsor support - use your sales, promotion, and negotiation skills to get sponsorships, support and bonds that help advance their cause.

E-zine and newsletter developing - Making steady contact with members of a net community are critical for its longevity.

E-mentoring - depending upon your background and expertise, you may be a good e-mentor at an executive, management or leader level; or as an e-mentor for unpaid workers in the organization or the individuals serviced by the organization.

A few individuals don't like to donate their services, believing that it in some manner devalues them. In fact, there's nothing that shows the value of what you do to a higher degree than to put it to goodness use for a movement you believe in.

Chapter 5: Be A Pioneer-Using Sony PSP

Synopsis

With the likes of Twitter, Facebook and Skype producing a bona fide social networking twister on the net, it’s only instinctive for individuals to would like to take those personal links with them where ever they go..

Play and Work

True to form, tech-savvy users have discovered a way to make practically whatever Wi-Fi enabled device and have it act as a social hub, with Sony's PSP not to be excluded.

Let's make it clear from the beginning however; for any of these platforms to work you will need a set up source of WiFi. If you can't get a connection, you are pretty much out of luck. All the same, since wireless net connections are spreading out fast, you should not have much hassle discovering one.

The 1st, most pragmatic choice to keep in touch with those significant to you would be a platform that comes stock with every new PSP now on shop shelves: Skype. Skype is a social networking and online phone application program that lets users keep in touch thru profile messages or by a easy, free (as long as the receiver is likewise utilizing Skype) telephone call. Users who want to place a call from their Skype-connected device to a genuine carrier telephone number will need to buy credits in order to do so.

If voice calls aren't your way you are able to always fall back on a more standard technique of communicating like text. PSP users have a large number of choices in this area.

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Chapter 7: Investing in Education for Your Financial Empowerment

Summary

The journey has begun sooner than you think, but it hasn't ended yet.

Investing in Education for Your Financial Empowerment

What we don't really realize is that our tryst with financial empowerment begins much sooner than we think. It isn't when we are 20 and thinking about a career; it is right when we are 3 and attend our first school. In fact, our financial empowerment begins even before that when our parents lovingly and patiently tell us what is what. All those questions, all those attempts at gathering information and, later, education, are nothing but steps toward financially empowering ourselves.

For, what is education if not a way to empower ourselves in every way, including financially?

A lot of people tap into their educational qualifications when they are looking for a job, pitching for a promotion, applying for a freelancing assignment or even when applying for financial assistance for a commercial venture. The educational qualification is a kind of abstract collateral; it is something people judge your financial worth with. If you are better qualified they know that you will keep sailing through and hence they don't mind extending a better financial help for your ventures. They don't mind investing in your ventures either because they consider you as a worthy candidate with their money.

That is the reason, it is important to learn as much as possible. After becoming the President of the United States, one of the first things Barack Obama did was to give a clarion call to his people to „go back to school'. This does not really mean physically going back to school, but it means continuing to learn something or the other as we did when we were younger.

Come to think of it, when we were at school, we would learn a new thing each day. Are we doing that right now? At school, we enriched our minds each day and became what we are today. But why has this process of 'becoming' stopped for some people? Why do some people think that their learning age has ceased? We need to educate ourselves continuously, till the last day of our lives and keep improving ourselves.

When we are more educated, we not only learn better avenues to earn money but we also learn how to manage the money properly so that it keeps growing. No form of education should be intimidating and there is no age when you cannot begin learning something.

Chapter 8: Enriching Your Financial Coffers with Recreation

Summary

How does recreation help in building your financial value? Isn’t this like shattering a myth?

Enriching Your Financial Coffers with Recreation

The common mentality of most people is that when they are getting some recreation for themselves - in whatever form that might be -they are actually wasting time. They think that by giving themselves some amusement, they are actually depriving themselves of the opportunity of being able to earn something. Proverbs like "Wasting time is akin to wasting money" don't help matters one bit. But we should remember that "All work and no play make Jack a dull boy." But, is it only a dull boy that Jack can turn out to be? No, worse things can happen if you deprive yourself from proper routes of recreation.

You have to understand what recreation means first. To recreate means to free up your mind and utilize it in doing something that you really like to do. It means to unwind yourself from your daily rigmarole of work. Since our mind is not a machine, but a living organ with blood and tissues in it, it does need this kind of unwinding ourselves.

But there is a subtle point that you must understand. Every person chooses his or her form of recreation and this is most times connected with what they do professionally. For example, for a person who teaches, reading could be a form of recreation. Now, this is actually helping their profession in various ways. This person is able to expand his or her knowledge and that really helps them in their profession. For a professional sportsperson, looking at someone else's game could be recreation. Now, they could pick up various tips from that and learn.

However, even when you think there are no obvious benefits of your form of recreation on your profession, there are actually several benefits. Consider that you have a desk job. Your mode of recreation is to shoot villains in computer games. How does this help your profession? It actually does, in a very poignant way, because it helps clear the clutter of monotony that your job has created and gives you a chance to do something that revitalizes your energy. You are refreshed and can even return to work the next day in a better mood.

Remember that empowering yourself financially does not mean immersing yourself in money-related thoughts and keeping yourself there all the time. Sometimes, you have to come out of those shackles and think in a liberated manner. This helps you rethink things and you begin looking at the world with a renewed perspective.

Chapter 9: The Long Haul

Summary

Financially empowering yourself for the future - Yes, it's possible, but only if you act right now.

The Long Haul

It may not sound pleasant to a lot of us, but when most of us think of the term 'financial empowerment', they tend to think about short-term goals. They think about how they can put in efforts to achieve money in the short term, within just a few weeks probably. One of the biggest mistakes that we do is that we contract our entire lifespan into a few weeks by thinking in this manner. We forget that we have a long life ahead of us and that if you want to be really financially empowered, we have to make sure that we have enough for that period which looms ahead of us.

That is why, when we speak about financial empowerment, it is not going to be much about what you can do that can give you returns today - there is a lot of material on that already - but it is about what you can do so that you stay financially empowered for the longer term. This is actually what must interest each and every one of us.

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Chapter 8: Using Acupuncture For Weight Loss And Controlling Obesity

Synopsis

Keeping a healthy diet is not a priority for most people. Grabbing something to satisfy the hunger pangs and fill the stomach are more important to the individual who has little time to spare to create a balanced food intake.

Then there is the array of processed food available today. With easy access and fast preparation styles these foods have become a popular if not the only choice for most people. All these eventually lead to health problems like weight gain and obesity.

Weight Loss

Acupuncture can be used successfully to treat the obesity condition effectively. There are different method of acupuncture which can address the weight issue, such as, manual acupuncture, electro acupuncture, acupressure and auricular or ear acupuncture. Acupuncture helps by adjusting the functions of the nervous system, the endocrine system, and immune system.

Technically, acupuncture manipulates the intestinal motility and metabolism as well as the emotional factors that contribute to stress, the number cause for over eating. Acupuncture through other corresponding reactions causes the increase in tone in the smooth muscle of the stomach thus suppressing the appetite.

In addressing the weight loss issue acupuncture suggests that the needle based alternative therapy does successfully contribute to this condition. The acupuncture process is supposed to stimulate the body's flow of vital energy and in turn improve several factors that relate to the weight problems. This is done by suppressing the appetite while boosting the metabolism and also reducing stress.

However to date there is not much scientific proof that acupuncture works in weight loss issues. One possible reason for this lack of scientific endorsement is that should acupuncture be proven to be the ultimate way to successfully accomplishing weight loss, the pharmaceutical industry and the medical industry would be severely affected.

Chapter 9: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome And Fibromyalgia Treatment With Acupuncture

Synopsis

A lot of new and little known diseases, ailment and illness are in existence today. Though some have gained medical attention and thus various researches have been conducted and a whole host of medications have been invented by pharmaceutical companies.

Tiredness

Though little known, the chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia has long been treated with the use of acupuncture. Currently it is being introduced either as a standalone treatment or as a complementary therapy. Acupuncture is considered safe and effective and also suitable to be used to treat this condition.

Most people with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome have been noted to have unusually low threshold of pain, thus when acupuncture is administered the threshold level is altered to be able to sustain a higher level of pain comfortably.

The position of the needles causes the complex changes in the brain and body by stimulating nerve fibers that then send signals to the brain and spinal cord, which in turn releases certain hormones that block pain or dulls it to make the individual feel more comfortable.

Because the pain threshold is not at a higher level, long term relief is noted. In some inconclusive experiments done using acupuncture, it was noted that this course of action actually provided for the deactivation part of the brain's pain matrix.

Acupuncture works by correcting the energy pathways through the body. This life force energy is called Qi or Chi. The Qi flows through the meridians in the body each of which corresponds to an organ or group of organs. When the acupuncture process restored the positive balance in the meridians then the body no longer has to deal with the occurrences of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. With acupuncture this flow is kept constant and at optimum levels.

Chapter 10: What you Need To Know To Find a Reputable Practitioner

Synopsis

Finding people who practice various forms of therapy or alternative medicinal styles can be quite challenging. There is a tendency for most people who have just a little knowledge in any particular field to start a business or institution promoting that skill.

If one is not cautious or discerning, getting hood winked is not unusual. However is some cases the consequences are even more damaging and severe.

What You Ought To Know

Taking the time to check out the back ground and credentials of the practitioner is very important. If it is possible, getting to know people who have sought acupuncture treatment at the particular facility is also useful. Besides being informed of the success rate one also learns of the experiences of the individuals who have already tried a few sessions.

Other factors to take into consideration are the tools used for this trade. In the case of acupuncture the tools of a practitioner consist of very fine needles. The condition of the needles must be of paramount importance. In each session new needles should be used and they should be properly sterilized. Infections from non sterile needles may cause serious medical conditions.

Though it very rarely happens, sometimes unfortunate mishaps may occur, such as organ puncture. Thus one should enquire as to the experience of the practitioner. As most types of acupuncture procedures target the areas that surround the organ with the intention of treating a particular condition, a wrong insertion of the needles can lead to irreparable damage.

Some practitioners who are not very gentle or not so experienced may end up leaving bruises on the skin surface. These bruises could be rather unsightly.

Most medical practitioners will have some idea and recommendations as to the list of reputable acupuncture practitioners and methods used. Thus consulting a doctor or clinic which can then refer the individual to a qualified acupuncturist is a wise step to take.