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“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.”

- Alexander Graham Bell

You remember it. I’m sure you do. I am certain that the average person spends much of their time wishing they were back there, laying back, looking up at the stars and dreaming about what they will be and then wishing they were older so that they could be living their dreams… or is it just me? And then the adventure ended, and it was time to go back to work; it was nothing like I had imagined. I’m thinking, “How can I achieve my dreams and change the world when I have these sales to make, these people to see, these problems to conquer and this paper work to do?” Oh the visions of what could have been!

Are you how, while in your youth, you imagined you would be? Have you achieved that which you said that you would that long ago starry night when, if it had not been for gravity, you would have been up amongst the stars? Remember how brilliantly the stars shone, and how they encouraged you to just dream of what could be? You, laying on your back, dancing with the stars, voicing your dreams to the universe, not competing, not doubting, not afraid. In those dreams, you never imagined that you would someday be looking back saying, “I wish I had.” You always saw the biggest, the best, the brightest, and the boldest you that was possible. You were never concerned that what you wanted would not happen, no sir, not you! You were going to go out and shake the universe until the stars of success fell abundantly all around you. It had to happen. Remember that feeling?

When I allow myself to remember what I pictured way back when, it does not include things like having a domineering boss, being surrounded by negative people whose definition of success reads “getting through the day without someone shouting at them or losing their temper with them”. It doesn’t have stress, or pressures or rude people, and it certainly doesn’t have failure. What it does have is happiness, hope, love, success, relationships and fun…Lots of fun. My dreams allowed me to think that I could and that I would change the world, and that I possessed all I needed to make it happen. Yours did too didn’t it?

So, what happened? Are you living up to your potential, or are you potentially living? You know that it is possible; you just haven’t gotten to there yet. One of the best things that you can do for yourself right here and right now, to become that person that you remember, is to rediscover who you actually were when you were younger and allow yourself to dream the big dreams again. Give yourself permission to actually believe that anything is possible, no matter what your current conditions may be. When you find this, you become a better salesperson or scientist, journalist or educator, parent or coach, business person or bouncer, ad writer or artist, and somewhere along the way you learn to love yourself and your life again, and the seeds of greatness that you planted in the spring of your life begin to break through the fertile soil of your emotions and shoot their message up towards those stars.

But it is all up to you, no-one else. Only you can create belief. I can tell you what to believe, you can turn on your television and watch a Discovery Channel documentary on how or what to believe, or you can listen to a smooth and slick sales pitch on who to believe, but, believe me, ultimately you are the one who gets to make that choice.

Do you want to know the secret of loving your life again? I could tell you what it is right now and when I did, you’d have one of two reactions: First, you might say, “It’s so simple, what am I waiting for, I must do this right now!”, or you may possibly say “It can’t be that simple. I was looking for a real secret, not something that I already knew!” The secret is quite simply this: stop putting limitations on yourself based on what you have, think or have done and live in the present moment. Yes, that’s it. But let me explain what I mean.

Who you were yesterday, is NOT the person you are today. You have 24 more hours of experience than you did then, and you have become wiser. What you do with this wisdom and time is the real secret to loving your life. If you believed at one time that you could amount to success, what did you allow into your life to tarnish this picture? Stress…Other people’s opinions…failure…divorce…a failed business? You may have tried something and it didn’t work out the way that you wanted it to, and ok, you had a temporary setback. Does this make it final? Heck no! The way I see it, failure is just one way that you now know how NOT to do something. Give it another try. If you wanted to be an archeologist when you were young, and failed a test, instead of giving up, study and take the test again. What’s the worst thing that can happen? You may learn another way how not to do it, but don’t quit; study and take the test again. There are thousands of people worldwide who are discovering their passions again and going back to school, or starting businesses, or getting married or doing whatever it was that they danced in the stars with when they were young. The key is they are daring to believe that they are more than their current circumstances and you can too!

What dream has kept you leaning against the wall, listening to the music, wanting to dance, but not joining in? There is only one way to dance, and that is to start moving. It doesn’t matter that you have two left feet, or no feet, what matters is that you dance, because by dancing, you learn to let go and learn to love the music which allows you to love your life.

Will you dance the success dance with me my friend? Join me on my journey.

Paul

For 22 years, Paul Kearley has thrived in the personal development and coaching business. As a Master Coach for the past 10 years, Paul’s passion is in developing and creating increased potential with both clients and other trainers. A columnist for two newspapers in Eastern Canada, and editor for his own weekly ezine, Paul writes articles that address the everyday challenges we all have and face in life and in business, and offers suggestions for success.

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If you want to live longer you should follow the diet of the people on the Greek Island of Crete.

The Cretan Diet is famous — and some say miraculous! It is highly nutritious and has been shown to extend life and prevent many of the modern western diseases related to unhealthy eating habits, which shorten the lives of millions of people every year.

It is now increasingly important to find a diet, or away of eating, that helps people reduce weight and improve overall health — without actually dieting, or diminishing the pleasure we get from eating food.

Fortunately, there is a way of eating that is healthy, natural, tasty - and proven to prolong life!

The traditional Cretan Diet

The Cretan diet is both simple and wholesome. It features:

• Fresh local fruits and vegetables (plenty!)
• Beans, pulses and grains
• Olive oil as the principal fat
• A little wine!
• Herbal teas like Greek mountain tea
• Honey and yoghurt
• Occasional lean red meat
• Occasional fish and poultry.
• moderate dairy

What’s the secret?

Natural, local produce are key features of the Cretan Diet. Some things might surprise you though!

In the traditional Crete Diet almost three times more fat is consumed than what the average American eats! However, the Cretan consumes only olive oil, most neither boiled nor fried.

Olive oil is a very special food, and is a key factor in maintaining good health and preventing illnesses. Unlike other oils and fats, olive oil is rich in monounsaturated fatty acids, highly resistant to oxidation. Olive oil is uniquely packed with anti-oxidative agents, which bond with toxic free radicals creating a natural defense against many cancers.

Now is the time to throw away all your other types of cooking oils!

Another surprise is bread. A Cretan will eat three times more bread than their American counterpart. But they mainly eat wholemeal unprocessed bread.

Meat and fish play only a small part in the traditional Cretan diet, grilled not fried. The main staples of the diet are fruit, beans, pulses and vegetables.

This is slow food, prepared with fresh, local ingredients. Recipes are kept simple, with wild herbs adding flavour.

Last but not least is the liquid accompaniment — wine. The benefits of red wine in moderation are well documented, and the Cretan diet gives a thumbs-up to this! At least one (but more often two!) glasses of wine will accompany the meal.

All in all it sounds like a wonderful diet, plenty of bread, olive oil with everything — and a glass of wine or two with every meal!

How to eat like a Cretan

These are the basic rules for the Cretan Diet:

• Replace your fats and oils with olive oil for frying and dressings
• Drink only a moderate amount of alcohol (preferably wine)
• Eat plenty of fresh fruit and limit sugar and saturated fat
• Include lots of food from plant sources, including fruits and vegetables, breads and grains, beans, nuts, and seeds
• Eat low to moderate amounts of cheese and yoghurt daily
• Consume low to moderate amounts of fish and poultry weekly
• Include red meat rarely, perhaps just once a week

Simple fresh food locally produced

A major feature of the Cretan Diet is its simplicity. There are no difficult combinations or strange exotic ingredients. All you need is a basic store cupboard of ingredients and then simply get in what you need for each individual recipe.

Always try to get local produce, in season. This is the tastiest and the healthiest of foods. Produce that has travelled round the world in refrigerated containers always loses some of its nutrition and taste.

It’s not natural to eat non-local food.

Graham Yates is a writer and traveller from the UK. He now lives with his wife Alison on the Greek Island of Crete. Both like to share their insider knowledge and experience about Greece and her islands with others, by publishing articles and websites.

To learn more about the Cretan Diet and how it can help you live a longer, healthier life, together with recipes you can try, visit http://www.completely-crete.com/.

An independent insider’s guide to Greek island life.

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President Bush just announced plans to prepare America for

a possible Bird (Avian) Flu pandemic (world wide infection).

Few people still alive in America remember the flu pandemic

that occurred after World War I. 675,000 people in America

died when our returning troops brought the illness back

from Europe. Between 20-40 million died worldwide.

A modern day pandemic would spread even faster and farther

because of our modern means of travel. After the war our

troops came back on slow moving ships. They brought the

flu to America. Today a few hours is all it takes to get

to the United States from Europe. The carrier of the

disease would come into contact with many people before

they even knew they were sick.

Will there be such a Pandemic spread of this deadly flu?

No one knows for sure. One thing is sure:

just like we know a hurricane will hit the Gulf Coast

just like we know fires will burn houses in California

just like we know politicians will always disagree

we know that at some point of time, a Pandemic will occur.

Will this be one? There are some things that have to happen

first. It has to make the jump to people. And it has to

begin spreading from human to human. So far it hasn’t.

Some people have gotten sick by prolonged contact with

birds. But the disease hasn’t learned to move from human

to human.

Will it learn to move about the human population? Viruses

mutate all the time. That’s why we don’t really have a

cure for the common cold. By the time we have a vaccine

the virus has changed and the new vaccine doesn’t work.

Should we wait to see if a problem develops? That’s what

the people in New Orleans did.

We should be prepared in case it comes. Period.

Will our efforts be wasted if it doesn’t?

No. The same precautions you make for the Bird Flu, are

the same ones you should make for the normal winter

infections like the more common flu viruses. And these

every day illnesses kill a lot of people too. They just

don’t get the press. So you could be saving your family

even without a pandemic.

How do we prevent these illnesses?

First we need to know how they spread and then interrupt

that process.

Viruses like influenza (flu) and colds travel by air and

by touch.

If someone sneezes near you and the droplets of infected

mucus (snot) get into your nose or eyes. You got it.

If an infected person rubs their nose and shakes your

hand and you rub your nose. You got it.

Air and touch.

So we have to keep it out of our noses. And we have to

keep it off our skin.

How do we do that?

Viruses are tough little bugs in the body. But they are

easy to kill outside the body.

My favorite materials are grapefruit seed extract and

Tea Tree Oil. They kill mold, bacteria and viruses but

don’t kill people. This last part can’t be said about

many things on the market.

I don’t get the flu and don’t take vaccines (an article

for another time). Here is my regimen.

Drink bottled water and soda when away from home. The

glassware in restaurants may be a problem. You don’t

know who put them on your table. They are supposed to

wash their hands, but do they? I know restaurant

workers who laugh at the suggestion that they wash

between each customer. Also it’s hard for viruses to

live on a soda bottle in a cooler.

During the flu season I don’t shake hands.

I carry sanitizing wipes. If I go to the grocery store

I wipe the handle of the grocery cart. Who pushed the

cart before me?

Doorknobs are unsanitary. When you leave a public

restroom protect your hand with a paper towel. You

washed your hands but did the person before you? If

anyone used the restroom and didn’t wash their hands,

that doorknob is dirty.

Stay out of crowds during the flu season.

There are devices you can wear around your neck that

sanitize the air around your face. You see people

wearing them on planes to protect themselves from the

bad air moving through the air conditioning system.

I have a friend who maintains large jets. He told me

that his airline removes 5 tons of mold and

contaminants each year per plane. They don’t do it

for sanitation. They do it to save fuel. Five tons

requires a lot of fuel to get off the ground.

Wearing a surgical mask would be better than the

electrical device. You see the people in China wearing

them all the time. But in America you would draw a crowd.

Keep your body clean. You don’t know who or what touched

you. I use CitriSafe Natural Botanical Cleansing

Concentrate. Put it in your bathwater. It’s gentile

and chases away those little bugs. There are other

products in health food stores that do the same. But

check your source. There are some fakes on the market.

CitriSafe also produce a spray that sanitizes the mouth.

It was designed to eliminate mouth sores. The vapors

also drift up into the back of the nose.

There are Grapefruit Seed Extract candles on the market

that sanitize the air in your home or in your motel room

if your travel. There are also sprays that you can spritz

in a room to sanitize the air. Make sure they are

botanical and not some chemical combination that will

cause other environmental problems. Check the labels.

There are Grapefruit Seed Extract solutions you can

drink. The herbal fights viruses inside your body.

Another good thing about using products with Tea Tree

Extract and Grapefruit Seed Extract is that they also

kill mold in your personal space. If you have mold in

your home or office, these fungal parasites get into

your body and lower your ability to fight off colds

and flu.

Any of these products can be found at most health

food stores or can be ordered online at:

http://www.tennesseemold.com/shop/index.php

http://www.moldlabintl.com

Have a safe winter and protect yourself. The government

has only limited ability to protect you from the Bird Flu.

Copyright November 2005 This article may be reprinted in newsletters and

on websites, with resource box included. If using this article, please send a brief message to DrGraham@themoldlab.com

Dr GW Graham
30 Years in Environmental Counseling
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High potency resveratrol quite simply put means high effectiveness so the question to ask ourselves is, is resveratrol highly effective? And if it is in what ways is it highly effective?

Resveratrol has become a very popular word and secondary plant metabolyte. It’s very humble beginnings of being discovered back in the 1940’s, in the roots of the hellebore plant, were a far cry from the popularity it has now achieved in the last 10 -20 years. Scientists first recognised this antioxidant for providing the hellebore with protection from other fungi and bacteria that would try to attack it. But not much more was investigated at that time.

However it is fair to say that the Polygonum cuspidatum, an indigenous plant to areas of the Asian continent including Japan have had the benefit of resveratrol for hundreds, even thousands of years as a medicinal herb. It is only as modern, worldwide, intense scientific research has gone on that we are able to understand the high potency of resveratrol in fighting many diseases and protecting the body in many ways as well.

The most popular food that resveratrol has been most widely associated with is red grapes, including their skins but it is found in other types of fruit and food such as peanuts, raspberries, bilberries etc.

Resveratrol has the ability to effectively arrest the spread of cancer, in all its stages of growth. It does this by attacking the DNA of the mitochondria of the cells. The mitochondria of a cell, is the powerhouse of the cell and is responsible for creating energy. The fact that it can stop that energy from happening makes it very effective in protecting against cancer cells. Cells from both the lungs and prostrate of lab animals have been tested with extremely great results.

When resveratrol has been combined with chemotherapy or radiotherapy it has been able to protect the healthy cells while stopping the rogue cells and then leaving them open to be destroyed by the chemo or radiation. It is known to help humans with diabetes type 2 and is a great aid to losing weight naturally as resveratrol is able to stabilize the blood sugar levels in the body.

There are many other roles it plays as well but the most important thing is to ensure that you have an adequate amount daily. I do this by taking it as a combined supplement with over 70 other specialised ingredients that ensure that my body is protected from the ravages of old age.

Just a couple of the other ingredients that are carefully blended with this high potency resveratrol are decaffeinated green tea extract, black cumin seed extract, ginger etc. All of these ingredients are healers in their own right and then when mixed together it gives me the most powerful life enhancing treatment available.

For more information on achieving optimal health visit my website www.total-supplements.info today.

Karen is an holistic therapist, health and nutrition researcher. Visit her site to find out what ingredients work best to battle the causes of aging and promote optimal health, one is Resveratrol and discover her recommendations to her clients.

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I remember the very, very first time that I smoked DMT. It was sort of a benchmark, you might say, and I remember that this friend of mine that always got there first visited me with this little glass pipe and this stuff which looked like orange mothballs. And since I was a graduate of Dr. Hofmann’s, I figured there were no surprises. So the only question I asked is, ‘How long does it last?’ and he said, ‘About five minutes.’ So I did it and… [long pause, audience cheers] there was a something, like a flower, like a chrysanthemum in orange and yellow that was sort of spinning, spinning, and then it was like I was pushed from behind and I fell through the chrysanthemum into another place that didn’t seem like a state of mind, it seemed like another place. And what was going on in this place aside from the tastefully socketed indirect lighting, and the crawling geometric hallucinations along the domed walls, what was happening was that there were a lot of ahh.. beings in there, what I call self-transforming machine elves. Sort of like jewelled basketballs all dribbling their way toward me. And if they’d had faces they would have been grinning, but they didn’t have faces. And they assured me that they loved me and they told me not to be amazed; not to give way to astonishment. And so I watched them, even though I wondered if maybe I hadn’t really done it this time, and what they were doing was they were making objects come into existence by singing them into existence …

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It is not necessary to know all about platinum to pick out a platinum wedding band but knowing the price of platinum will obviously help.

This is the first of a three part series on platinum wedding bands. Firstly lets get familiar with what platinum is.

Platinum is a metal that melts at double the temperature of gold so it is very hard and strong. It is also quite rare. In fact so rare that all the platinum in the world currently would likely fit in your living room and it takes about ten tones of ore to refine one ounce of platinum.

Platinum is associated with wealth due to its rarity and so now you get, platinum cards, platinum awards in music and the like.

Platinum jewelry should be at least 95% pure. Gold jewelery does not usually have that degree of purity. Only gold coins and gold bars have a purity of 9.99 percent hopefully. America, platinum jewelry contains either 90% or 95% pure platinum. By comparison, 18 carat gold is 75% pure and 14 carat is 58% pure gold.

Platinum is very distinctive and hard wearing. It does not tarnish or lose its rich white luster. It tends to be twice the cost of gold also.

Platinum jewelry made in America should contain either 90% or 95% pure platinum and platinum jewelry marked “IRIDPLAT” contains 90% platinum and 10% iridium. When marked “PLAT,” an item is at least 95% platinum, with 5% ruthenium. In Europe, platinum is identified by the following marks: 950 or PT950.

Platinum has been used throughout the centuries The ancient Egyptians used platinum. The American Incas also, and it has been used by royalty and famous jewellery houses such as Faberge, Cartier and Tiffanies for years so Platinum is an ideal precious metal for wedding bands.

In part two of Platinum Wedding Bands we find out how to select a platinum wedding band and what to watch out for.

Part 2 of Platinum Wedding Bands is available on http://platinum-price.org

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Get ready for a shock if you don’t already know.

Every day countless millions of transactions are facilitated with money. Why do we need money? How does it get into “circulation”? Who puts it there? Who creates money? And on what basis? Is it the government? If not, why not? Who is it? And how do they know how much to “print?” What if they add too much or too little to the economy?

Three chapters of my book How to Profit from the Coming Great Depression are devoted to these questions. Most people are shocked when they first learn about our “fractional reserve” money system, which has sewn within it the seeds of its own destruction.

First of all, we need money because the barter system is too unwieldy. If you are a building contractor and I am a potato farmer, and I want you to build me a house, how am I going to pay you? How many potatoes can you and your family eat before they go rotten?

Clearly we need something that represents both houses and potatoes. But note that that does not make money a resource in itself. It is merely a vehicle for transferring the value of resources from one person to another. There are natural resources, both under the ground and above it, and there are human resources - labor and intellect. Put these together and man can produce. But although money may be used to value and transfer these resources, money is not a resource itself. Those who control money really want the resources that money represents.

Centuries ago things like gold and silver were used as money, before we had notes and coins like today. Remember the old western movies where highwaymen would hold up the stage coach and people would have to hand over all their valuables? Why, on earth, would people carry their gold and silver with them? Because they had nowhere else to put it.

This created an opening for the goldsmiths, who were the forerunners to our modern day bankers. They built large, secure vaults and allowed people to deposit their precious metals in these safes. In return they gave people “receipts” confirming the amount of gold held on their behalf. In time people began trading with the receipts rather than the gold. Today these receipts are called banknotes.

But that’s not all the goldsmiths did. They even paid interest to those who had deposited gold in their vaults (e.g. 3%), but then lent the gold out to others (in the form of more receipts) at say 6%. That’s how they covered their costs.

In time the goldsmiths noticed that nobody ever came back to collect their gold, and not all being honest, began to lend out more in new “receipts” than was represented by the gold in their vaults. In time there was ten times as much “money” in circulation as there was gold in the vaults.

That’s exactly how our money system operates today. For every dollar you deposit in a bank, the bank lends out about ten dollars. Money is created by banks - out of thin air! All money comes into existence by way of a bank loan. Less than 5% of it is ever converted to notes and coins. Most of it is never anything but a balance on a computer at the bank.

A hundred questions come to your mind. Right? They are all answered in my book.

Why do I say the system has sewn within it the seeds of its own destruction? It has a use-by date. That is why we have an economic depression at least once each century. It is not a question of if the system implodes. Only when it implodes.

Let’s say you borrow $100,000 from the bank (which takes security over your real estate worth $150,000). But you have to pay back $110,000 with interest added.

Where does that other $10,000 come from? You will have to get it from someone else. Where will they get it? What’s the only way money comes into existence? They will have to borrow it from a bank.

Can you see how in our debt money system it is not possible for everyone to pay their debts? Some have to go bankrupt. And as money is sucked out of the system in interest by the banks, money supply is reduced. The only way it can be replaced is with more borrowed money. So debt must rise exponentially. Can you see now why we have a debt bubble and why there is no solution to it other than a massive purging, with all of the horrific deflationary economic consequences, not to mention social dislocation that will come with it?

How can you protect yourself from these consequences?

The Graham Dyer Newsletter has not missed a month’s publication since July 1983. His track record for forecasting the market is the envy of many, including the 1987 stock market crash, the demise of the Japanese economy and stock and real estate markets in the 1990s, the bull market for bonds from 1989, and the real estate boom this decade.

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