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There are many different types of massage, including these common types:                                                  

Swedish massage. 

This is a gentle form of massage that uses long strokes, kneading, deep circular movements, vibration and tapping to help relax and energize you.

Deep massage. 

This massage technique uses slower, more-forceful strokes to target the deeper layers of muscle and connective tissue, commonly to help with muscle damage from injuries.

HEALTH BENEFITS OF HOT STONE MASSAGE

Hot stone massage performed by a certified therapist can help relax the body's muscles and soft tissues, alleviate pain, improve circulation and help rid the body of toxins. This type of massage treatment can also reduce stress, promote calmness and increase relaxation. Many hot stone massage enthusiasts even claim they experience a sense of enlightenment, inner peace and renewed spirituality after a hot stone massage session.

Benefits of massage

Massage is generally considered part of complementary and alternative medicine. It's increasingly being offered along with standard treatment for a wide range of medical conditions and situations.

Studies of the benefits of massage demonstrate that it is an effective treatment for reducing stress, pain and muscle tension.

While more research is needed to confirm the benefits of massage, some studies have found massage may also be helpful for:

• Anxiety
• Digestive disorders
• Fibromyalgia
• Headaches
• Insomnia related to stress
• Myofascial pain syndrome
• Paresthesias and nerve pain
• Soft tissue strains or injuries
• Sports injuries
• Temporomandibular joint pain

Beyond the benefits for specific conditions or diseases, some people enjoy massage because it often involves caring, comfort, a sense of empowerment and creating deep connections with their massage therapist.

Despite its benefits, massage isn't meant as a replacement for regular medical care. Let your doctor know you're trying massage and be sure to follow any standard treatment plans you have.

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Is is very nice and very true quote

I found one qoute. I think is is very nice, and very true.
" Courage is to move on dangerous paths. Life is dangerous, and only cowards can avoid the danger - but then, they are already dead. A person who is alive, really alive, vitally alive, will always move into the unknown.
There is danger there, but he will take the risk. The heart is always ready to take the risk, the heart is a gambler. The head is a businessman. The head always calculates - it is cunning.
The heart is non-calculating."

translated into my language: 

A bátorság azt jelenti, hogy veszélyes ösvényeken indulunk el. Az élet veszélyes, és csak a gyávák kerülhetik el a veszélyt - de akkor meg is halnak. Az, aki él, valóban él, akiben áramlik az élet, nekivág az ismeretlennek. A szív mindig kész vállalni a kockázatot, a szív hazárdjátékos. A fej üzletember. A fej folyton számításokat végez és ravaszkodik.
A szív nem mérlegel.

Emotions

How To Understand, Identify and Release Your Emotions

What Are Emotions – Feelings?

Different people define emotions in different ways. Some make a distinction between emotions and feelings saying that a feeling is the response part of the emotion and that an emotion includes the situation or experience, the interpretation, the perception, and the response or feeling related to the experience of a particular situation.  For the purposes of this article, I use the terms interchangeably.

John D. (Jack) Mayer says, “Emotions operate on many levels.  They have a physical aspect as well as a psychological aspect.  Emotions bridge thought, feeling, and action – they operate in every part of a person, they affect many aspects of a person, and the person affects many aspects of the emotions.”

Dr. Maurice Elias says, “Emotions are human beings’ warning systems as to what is really going on around them.  Emotions are our most reliable indicators of how things are going on in our lives.  Emotions help keep us on the right track by making sure that we are led by more than the mental/ intellectual faculties of thought, perception, reason, memory.”

Other People, Places, and Things Cannot Change How You Feel

  The only person who can change what you feel is you.  A new relationship, a new house, a new car, a new job, these things can momentarily distract you from your feelings, but no other person, no material possession, no activity can remove, release, or change how you feel. 

  How often do you hear people say things like “when I have enough money, I won’t be afraid anymore”, only to find there never seems to be enough money to stop being afraid.   Or “when I’m in a secure relationship I won’t feel lonely any more”, and finding they are still lonely regardless of their relationship.   We need to understand that we take our feelings with us wherever we go.  A new dress, a new house, a new job, none of these things change how we feel.  Our feelings remain within us until we release them. 

Two Basic Emotions In Life – Love and Fear

 There are only two basic emotions that we all experience, love and fear.  All other emotions are variations of these two emotions.  Thoughts and behavior come from either a place of love, or a place of fear.  Anxiety, anger, control, sadness, depression, inadequacy, confusion, hurt, lonely, guilt, shame, these are all fear-based emotions.  Emotions such as joy, happiness, caring, trust, compassion, truth, contentment, satisfaction, these are love-based emotions. 

  There are varying degrees of intensity of both types of emotions, some being mild, others moderate, and others strong in intensity.  For example, anger in a mild form can be felt as disgust or dismay, at a moderate level can be felt as offended or exasperated, and at an intense level can be felt as rage or hate. And the emotion that always underpins anger is fear.

How To Release Emotions 

Don’t be afraid of your emotions.  Don’t fight them, run away from them, and block them out.  Welcome them, be with them, regardless of what they are.  We were born with all emotions.  They are neither good or bad, they just are.  Emotions dissipate and slowly disappear if you feel them, and are present with them.   Just close your eyes and feel them as deeply as you can.

By Mary Kurus

Copyright Mary Kurus 2003

All Rights Reserved

Thanatology

Thanatology is the scientific study of death that almost always involves deathbed visions. Such visions are regarded as showing that death is not an extinction of life but the transition of life. Many see this transition as a rite of passage that should be undergone consciously and with dignity. There are various arts to "right dying" as described in the ancient Western mystery traditions and in the Tibetan Book of the Dead (see Egyptian Book of the Dead). However, in the technologically advanced societies of the West such dignified rites of passage are too often forgotten and abandoned in effort to prolong life as long as possible with advanced techniques and machines.
Deathbed visions are paranormal experiences of the dying. Most commonly the visions are apparitions of the dead or mythical or religious figures, and visions of an afterworld. The significance of these deathbed visions is that they provide evidence, although not scientific, to support the concept of the survival of consciousness after death. These visions share certain characteristics with mystical experiences, such as being regarded as sacred, profoundly peaceful, and giving a sense of elation.
Karlis Otis, under the auspices of the first Parapsychology Foundation and then the American Society for Psychical Research, conducted a significant research study. During 1959 and 1973, he collected data on tens of thousands of deathbed and near-death experiences (NBEs) in the United States and, in a joint effort with Erlendur Haraldsson, in India. Their findings confirmed Barrett's research, the experiences of Elisebeth Kubler-Ross and others who work with the terminally ill and dying, and research of near-death experiences.
It is recorded that deathbed visions have common characteristics regardless of racial, cultural, religious, educational, age, and socioeconomic lines, such as radiant lights, scenes of great beauty, beings of light, and feelings of great peace. Most of these visions are apparitions of light beings that may be dead persons known to the dying, or great religious or mythical figures, such as the Virgin Mary, Jesus, and so on. These figures are called "take-away apparitions" because their apparent purpose is to summon or escort the dying to the afterworld. Generally their appearance elicits a response of joy, peace, happiness, and cessation of pain, but a small number of individuals have reacted with fear and denial.
People that are with the dying sometimes, through rarely, report perceiving the take-away apparition, which is sensed as an unusual light or energy in the room. At times an energy cloud may appear over the dying, and in fewer instances, may assume the shape and appearance of the dying, connected to the body by a silvery cord. At death when this cord is severed, the astral shape dissipates.
In one-third of the visions reported, the dying beheld (or saw when transported out of their body) a preview of the afterworld. Other visions include great architectural structures, and symbolic transitional figures such as gates, bridges, rivers, and boats. The afterworld scenes are populated with angels or spirits of the dead. In a small number of instances celestial music may permeate the vision. The typical colors seen are vivid. Rarely does the vision conform to the religious expectations of the dying.
The length of the visions may vary. About half of the deathbed visions studied by Osis and Haraldsson lasted less than five minutes. Another 17 percent lasted between six and fifteen minutes. Approximately 76 percent of the individuals died within ten minutes of their vision, and almost all died within one or several hours afterwards.
Theories that discount deathbed visions cite the possibilities that they are hallucinations induced by drugs, fever, disease, oxygen deprivation, wish fulfillment, and depersonalization. However, it has been noted that hallucinations arising from these factors generally concern the present and not the afterworld. Also, Osis and Haraldsson discovered that deathbed visions mostly occur when patients are fully conscious.
Sources: 9, 1689; 29, Deathbed visions 141-143.

Exercises for Chakras in Your Body

The seven main chakras in your body correspond with your nervous system, which runs along your spine. They also correspond with different levels of consciousness, your physical body's functions, sound vibrations and different colors. Exercising your chakras improves your physical health, as each chakra helps sustain the health of the organs with which it corresponds. Exercising chakras can also bring about emotional calmness, enhanced intuition and peace of mind.

The Seven Chakras
Your seven chakras run from your tailbone along your spine to the top of your head. They're like vortexes of energy through which you can channel earthly or cosmic energy. Each has a different energy field or vibration and its own role.

Physical Exercises for Your Chakras
Physical exercises, such as yoga and strength training, can help open your first three chakras. For your first chakra, do reclining bound angle pose, corpse pose and child's pose, which are grounding poses that promote surrender to gravity and the earth. Second chakra yoga poses, like cow face pose, pigeon pose, bound angle pose and open angle pose, improve your adaptability and receptivity, according to "Yoga Journal." Any exercise or physical activity that strengthens your abs will help open your third chakra. Breathing through your lower abdomen using your diaphragm muscles helps open the third chakra, so keep your focus on this type of breathing when exercising or practicing yoga.

Chakra Meditation
Sit up tall in a chair with your feet on the floor and arms relaxed by your sides. Breathe slowly and deeply for a few minutes with your awareness on your breath. Next, focus your awareness on your first chakra; visualize a red spinning wheel or vortex. Visualize yourself inhaling and exhaling red energy. After you've done this for a few minutes and feel comfortable, move to the second chakra and repeat. Continue doing this for each of the chakras.

Daily Tarot Card

The Chariot
The Chariot is the representation of Victory and the personality traits required to attain victory. 
The Chariot indicates self-awareness and control. 
Courage—the ability to overcome fear and confront the unknown head on--is a primary ingredient of any victorious campaign and is denoted by the Chariot. 
So too is force of will. 
Often success is as much the product of will power and a refusal to surrender as it is anything else. 
The Chariot also represents the healthy personality of someone who believes in themselves; someone who can take control of the situation and bring events to a positive end. 
His successes come in competition with others.

My favorite quote

"Money can buy a house, but not a home. 

Money can buy a bed, but not sleep. 

Money can buy a clock, but not time.

Money can buy a book, but not knowledge.

Money can buy food, but not an appetite. 

Money can buy position, but not respect. 

Money can buy blood, but not life. 

Money can buy insurance, but not safety."