Dancing for Exercise Equals Less Stress

The same regular dance routines that will help you build muscle and prevent disease can also help you manage stress.  According to the Mayo clinic, regular dancing activities bump up the production of your brain’s feel-good neurotransmitters, called endorphins.  Although this function is often referred to as runner’s high, dancing can also produce this same feel good feeling.

Dancing is meditation in motion.  After a good dance exercise you may find that you’ve forgotten the day’s problems and irritations because you are concentrated only on your body’s movements and the music.  As you begin to regularly shed your daily tensions through the movement, music, and physical activity, you may find that this focus on a single task, and the resulting energy and optimism, can help you remain calm and clear in everything you do.

Dancing also improves your mood.  Regular exercise can increase self-confidence and lower the symptoms associated with mild depression and anxiety.  Going out to dance regularly can ease your stress levels and give you a sense of command of your body and your life.  It has huge social benefits.  Most often the physical activity of dancing involves others and gives you a double dose of stress-relief with the combined benefits of exercise and fun with friends.

A dance studio is the perfect environment to be in at the end of the day.  Dancing just a couple of times a week to start can begin to increase your energy levels and allow you to be less tired throughout your day.  Local dance studios offer beginner’s classes almost everyday of the week.  Set aside time in your schedule and try to stick with the plan.  Commit to taking a once weekly dance class alone or with a partner for a month, and see how you feel.  Dancing your way to a better physical and emotional you can be one of the best new things you’ve ever tried!

Jim Stein enjoyed a twenty year career as a dancer with Boston Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, and Ballet Austin.  He is the Fitness director at the Dance Institute located on 6612 Sitio Del Rio in the Four Points area.

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Self Sabotage – The law of internal resistance

Have you ever had a deal fall through and just couldn’t figure out why it didn’t happen? Or maybe you just couldn’t get yourself to do something that you knew had to be done yet something inside of you posed a force of resistance. You know deep down that something has to change in order for life to be more fulfilling. Once you try to change though, that force of resistance keeps springing back up. There are new technologies out there to help like visualization and positive thinking. These are great tools and work well but only under one condition… these tools work best only when that underlying force of resistance has been eliminated.This force of resistance is what helps us forget important documents on the way to a meeting, places road blocks in our way when we are trying to accomplish something, encourages us to eat more fattening foods soon after we break a diet, encourages people to drink more alcohol than ever after they have decreed they would never drink again.

Every person you know of has had to deal with this force of resistance. We developed this force of resistance over time by taking on certain beliefs that were instilled within us during childhood. When we become adults with responsibilities and ambitions our underlying beliefs set in even stronger making it harder for us to achieve what ever it is that our underlying belief says won’t happen.

After working with more and more clients I have found that the older we get the stronger this resistance becomes sometimes leading people to think there is no hope for change, but there is. After a decade of working with people helping them eliminate their force of resistance it never seizes to amaze me that no matter what age someone is, the technique I show them still works fast and the effects last. There is typically no need to keep coming back for the same issue. Goals in life become clear in our minds eye and progression works its way toward finding us instead of us seeking it. Once these blocks known as internal resistance are removed life becomes more fulfilling, exciting and adventurous.

If you are at a milestone in your life and the time for change is now, contact me for more information.

Nick Taylor

Business & Personal Breakthrough Consultant

Advanced Insight Consulting

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Vacations and Jewelry

Vacations and Jewelry

On more than one occasion I have been asked to do an appraisal for a purchase made while a client was on vacation. I have seen many different styles of jewelry and many different priced ranges purchased on a cruise or in a resort area. Some have been beautiful and well made pieces but the vast majority were misrepresented. The hardest part of my profession is telling someone that a piece that they have purchased, been given or inherited is not what they believed.
Many years ago, prior to the internet and the ever expanding global economy, it was possible to find truly good prices on many fine jewelry items including fine watches. But times have changed. Manufacturers now balance the pricing of the products they manufacture and you will find that one item in Europe for example costs the same at home. Moreover, the jewelry stores that have sprouted up in resort areas are there for a reason. They have a captive audience on holiday with money to burn and people are usually celebrating an event that they would like to commemorate with a beautiful piece of jewelry. The temptation is GREAT I know I have been there myself. I was actually offered the management position for several stores in Alaska that opened when the cruise ships arrived. I simply could not take the position. It not only required me to be away from my family for 6 months at a time but the pricing policies and types of merchandise I was required to carry I deemed below my standards.
Please remember one simple rule when purchasing ANY piece of Fine Jewelry. It is always a good idea to purchase from someone you can always get your hands on. This is not to say that if you find a modest piece that you like, it will remind you of your trip and it is something you will wear for a while and enjoy you shouldn’t purchase it. But be smart about a major purchase. The idea of spending over $300-$400 in another country from someone you do not know and will never see again should cause you to think twice.
Remember!!!! You should know your Jeweler as well as you do your doctor, lawyer and accountant.

The Golden Rule for Intimate Relationships

As a psychic medium and spirituality coach, when I have several clients in one week who need the same lesson or–ahem–lecture from our session, I know this is a universal need. And that’s what happened a while back. I therefore feel compelled to share this important information about human relationships.

We all know the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. It’s great to teach children, so that they learn empathy or at least sympathy.

But when you get into more intimate relationships, especially those with a spouse or romantic partner, you need to go a little deeper. It’s not enough to think how you would feel or what you would want. You have to know what your partner wants.

And so the Golden Rule for Intimate Relationships is:

Do unto the other person as the other person wants or needs you to do.

This is what keeps husbands from giving their wives speedboats and wives from giving their husbands fur coats.

The trick is that the partner must express those needs and wants clearly. No fair saying, “If you don’t know what’s wrong, I’m certainly not going to tell you!”

Thus, the corollary to the Golden Rule for Intimate Relationships is:

Each partner must express his/her wants and needs.

If you don’t know what you want, then the two of you work on it together.

Sure, it isn’t always easy. A few episodes of, “I’m sorry, but that’s what I would have wanted if I had be in your situation” are acceptable. After a while, though, couples should really get the idea.

Have you made your wants clear? If not, maybe not getting what you want is - well, it’s in your hands!

Susan K. Morrow is a psychic medium, medical intuitive, and spiritual teacher based in Austin, TX. She provides readings and coaching for clients across the country and around the globe, helping people learn about loving themselves and enjoying greater health and happiness. To get Susan K.’s free report, “12 Woo-Woo Tips You Need for Living in the Real World”, visit http://www.SisterMystic.com