Costa Rica, a great yoga destination

Exhale deeply and open your eyes to find yourself at peace next to the calming waves of the Pacific or the relaxing blue waters of the Atlantic, or possibly you are atop a mountain surrounded by the natural wildlife sounds of the jungle.  
If this sounds like your most recent yoga experience then you are most likely in Costa Rica.
Costa Rica has quickly become one of the world’s top yoga destinations and it isn’t hard to see why. Many yoga retreats/resorts have opened in this magnificent country filled with beautiful beaches, abundant wildlife, majestic mountains and even active volcanos! Costa Rica offers a great balance of convenience and nature so let’s get to it and talk about some of Costa Rica’s most visited yoga destinations.
Nosara
Nosara is a pleasant beach town located in the Guanacaste Province. The breaking waves make a wonderful soundtrack to you morning yoga session.  Just down the road is the Ostional wildlife reserve, here you may have a few tiny visitors scurry past you as you free your mind and body as it is one of the world’s best places to see newborn sea turtles! Being in Guanacaste this region is also Costa Rica’s driest, giving you 5 months of pure sun from December to June and less rainfall throughout the rest of the year then other parts of the country.
Montezuma
Located on the southern coast of the Nicoya Peninsula, Montezuma is known as a very magical place. Something about it draws people here time and time again, as is also said with Sedona, Arizona. Montezuma’s beach is amazing and you will surely want to spend most of your time on its sands, but if after your routine you feel like getting your adrenaline pumping try walking up stream to the waterfalls where cliff-diving is the pastime.
Central Highlands
Costa Rica’s Central Highlands are vastly different then its coastal regions. In destinations like Alajuela and Cartago the cool mountains air is a delight as colorful parrots and other wonders surround you with a presence of naturalism. These destinations offer great mountains and valley views from high altitudes that are truly awe inspiring. Going through your routine of poses high in these hills is an incredibly calming experience.
Costa Rica also offers tons of other great yoga destinations, so explore some yourself! Never forget sometimes getting slightly lost is the best way to discover new experiences and beauty!

Ways To Live More Happily (1)

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Many problems we have in the life are not real but invented by our mind. We often do not think about it but if we could change our attitudes, the life could change and become better. 

So, what are those behaviours that ruin our existence?

We often judge others from our point of view. We do not pretend the person that does not have feet, for example, runs so as we do. But we pretend that others are able to do something so as we do it. 

Specially, it's true for the mothers that pretend their children are perfect or at least so brave as the mother. And they suffer terribly if the child has not the capacities the mothers want he has. So many times I heared from my friends: I was so brave to study -why my child is so stupid???

The other wrong behaviour are the predictions. We "know" what this or that person will do in the next moment, in this or that situation. We act accordingly to our predictions -and create explosive situations. By the way, this is the main cause of most broken relations.

One of the reasons of the unhappiness is the dramatization of the situation. Some persons are very brave to create big problems from nothing. This behaviour creates anxiety. With all the consequences that are known to everybody.

Often, we create rules for ourselves. The rules we are not able to follow. We accumulate the tasks and suffer from different complexes that grow from nothing.

Raw Food Diet

Raw food... maybe, I'm not informed about it but I have to admit that I knew nothing before I read this article today.

Do you eat raw aliments? Well, salads, fruits... What else? Ah, I eat medical herbs I pick up in our soil when I go for a walk in the morning, in spring. And I make juices from them, too.

Who knows, maybe raw food could be the right solution to loose weight.

They say, fibers are very useful for intestine, they clean it and all the body, too. And the skin becomes young and beautiful, naturally.

Do you know what is my problem? I can't live without meat, sugar and fat. I'm able to eat 250 g of butter without anything. Only butter. I add 2-3 kg after that, I even feel bad some time later, but I can't resist on the tentation to eat it.

Raw food is not for everybody -those who has allergies, pancreatitis etc have not to experiment with raw vegetables because they can irritate the intestine. But in my case it is not so serious and I want to try, sincerely.
I'm not convinced, because I know that the vegetables sold in the shops grow often in not clean places. But, to be honest, where you can find clean ambience today? Only on my hill, where I live. And it will not be too natural because there paesants use very hard toxins to grow anything. And vegetables you grow personally in your garden will be contaminated, anyway.

Well, I will begin my diet immediately. I go to squeeze a lemon.

Harmful Foods

Talk show THE DOCTORS of February 27 will be dedicated to the harmful foods. It's a very touching topic, for me, since I'm allergic on every kind of additives and other toxic substances. I received a summary of this show and permission to pubblic it. Here, that conmtent. I wan't believe that it's true.

Burgers* – Would you eat a burger made out of “pink slime”—the name given to the mechanically separated meat that’s treated with ammonia hydroxide to kill bacteria like E-coli?  McDonald’s, Taco Bell and Burger King, once purveyors of pink slime, say they have discontinued their use of this meat, made from discarded beef (i.e. everything else from the cow that had been deemed inedible), but who still does? Schools serve it up daily in kids’ lunches.
·         Chicken –To disinfect and cool chicken post slaughter, chickens are often soaked in a chlorine bath with a water-to-chlorine ratio up to 50 times more potent than the local swimming pool.  Then, to help hide the chlorine taste, the chickens are “plumped” with salt water, making the chickens larger in both weight and price.  Plus, via a scientific experiment, THE DOCTORS determined that chlorine baths may not even rid chicken of the bacteria the chlorine bath is supposed to prevent.
·         Ice Cream – One billion gallons of ice cream are consumed by Americans every year. The most popular flavor?  Vanilla.  Real vanilla beans are expensive, so to save money, many ice cream makers use a synthetic flavoring called piperonal which is also an ingredient in lice killer.
·         Bread – Many breads are made with potassium bromate, which has been banned in Canada and the UK and has been named a carcinogen by the EPA, but has been approved by the FDA.  Plus, azodicarbonamide, found in many manufactured donuts and hamburger buns - as well as plastics, rubber and foam - has been found to  aggravate asthma symptoms and contribute respiratory problems in humans.

So, what does THE DOCTORS recommend to avoid these harmful foods? 

• Read the fine print on labels! 

o    Look for fewer ingredients with words you can pronounce

o    Avoid “artificial flavors” as much as possible

o    Avoid “artificial dyes”, especially Red 40, Blue 1, Yellow 5 & 6

·         Limit processed foods.
·         While it’s not economical for everyone to buy organic all the time, it’s worth spending a few extra dollars on organic poultry and beef. 

o    To save money, purchase the whole chicken.  Boneless, skinless chicken breasts are the most expensive by the pound.

o    Check the “sell by” dates, and plan to shop the day before when your butcher is likely to mark down the poultry and meat.

o    Consider buying direct from a farmer’s market

·         Check the sodium levels on fresh and frozen chicken packaging.

o    A truly natural chicken breast has 50 to 75 mg. of sodium. If there’s more than that, the bird has been “plumped”.

·         Cook for your family.

o    If you want to know what’s in your food, make it yourself.

o    It’s a great way to bond with your children and teach them about health.

Winter-Inspired Depression

Depression is a really bad beast. Something that destroys personality. Seasonal or not, it's always terrible.

But, as in any other popular human problem, there are vendors grasping every possibility to sell.



Those send me infinite mails to pubblish here and in my other blogs. This way I knew so much about winter-inspired depression. Oh no, don't worry, I will not fill this post with the quotations. I wanted only to think a little about it.

What do you know about winter-inspired depression? You would never think about it if the vendors did not persist with the descriptions how bad you feel in winter and what medicines you have to assume, I think. Some of them have other ideas -they advise to color your desk or to change your furniture. Еo change your husband or friend, maybe. Something like this.

I feel sad in winter, too. I need much sun, light. But I noticed that complexes of vitamins help me. And some time passed under the rays of the sun, too. So, I try to take advantage of every sunny moment. I go out and open my face, my hair, skin of the hands and arms. And try to inspire sunshine, as well.

And you?

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How to Forget Chronic Pains

Chronic pains are those that continue for more than 6 months. Many persons know this phenomen from personal experiences. Interesting is that it's so important that damages economies of entire countries which citizens do not work and use the resources of the country to cure chronic pains. Imagine that the negative profit caused to the finances by chronic pains is bigger than it's of oncological, cardiovascular and immunity deseases together.

This is the reason why the governments are interested in researches that could eliminate this problem.

Canadian researchers discovered the "root" of the chronic pains. It's the memory. Every pain that lasts for more than some minutes remains in the memory of the body thanks to a substance that remains in the nerves of the place where the pain was. This substance is proteinkinasa PKMzeta (hope, I spell the word right).

The researchers discovered that it's possible to block this substance with drugs. That allows to "cancell" the memory of the pain.

Maybe we will forget about the chronic pains in the next future...

Why We Do Not Loss our Weight? -Leptin

Did you know it about weight loss? We can't eat so as we did when we were young because of slow metabolism. We have slow metabolism because it's normal for our age, because we sit all the days fore the computer and are not active as years ago. And this is the reason that we have the low level of the LEPTIN, hormone responsible for the sense of satiety.

Second. Low Calories diets are responsible for much more low level of Leptine than it is in our body normally.

Leptin is produced by our blood and that is why we can't assume it with food.
As the conseguence, products that contain Leptine do not exist. Period.



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Oh my dear God!!! What have I do now??? I want to become so light as I was at least some years ago!!!
Don't dispair!
There is a solution!

There are foods that can accelerate our metabolism. And this will maintain our body young, too.
Red and blue fruits
Vegetables: bulbs, cabbages, cabbage, rocket.
Ginger, parsley, cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, basil
Fish, yoghurt, green tea  

Want we try this "diet"? 

Depression -Strange Causes

Depression is a bad beast. There are many causes of this terrible emotional state: from genetic problems to the deficiency of the vitamins (and this last is very common). But there are different modern causes of depression, too. Here are some of them.

First of the modern causes -and it's possible that you will not believe me but it's the fact proved by many researches taken in different countries. This cause is the dipendence from the social networks. Specially hard is the situation for the children that have nervous breakdown because they have to maintain their "status" not only in the school but online, too.

Second modern cause is Internet generally. Too many hours passed for the computer provokes the depression. Specially, if the person tryes to escape the problems of the real life there.

Next cause is the personal need of sleep hours. Everybody has own internal clock, and if you have to sleep 7 hours but you sleep effectively 6 hours, it will cause the depression.

Procrastination puts you in a bad situation. You have to solve the problem but are not sure how to do it, you accumulate the tasks and feel bad that provokes depression. That provokes procrastination. Etc without stop.

Did you know that the life in a city is the cause of depression? Yes, you do. But you do not know the reason, maybe. It's the solitude in the crowd of the persons.


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