Monday, April 30, 2012

Nine Tips for Healthy Beautiful Hair

Nine Tips for Healthy Beautiful Hair:

Regardless of what type of locks characteristics endowed you with, there are things you can do to keep it balanced, shiny, looking its best. Here are some guidelines for a balanced locks from the custom of Ayurveda, the 5,000-year old healing custom that originated in India:
1.            Like everything else about true, lasting beauty, healthier locks begins in the system. Start with your diet. Involve lots of for example and sweet hot fruits. Milk products items such as milk and clean natural yogurt will also help. Fresh grape is also considered excellent "hair food" - spread grated grape over soups, chopped fruit, or grain. 

2.            Cut down on refined, processed and processed meals. Ayurveda views meals with artificial preservative chemicals and substance preservative chemicals removed of their built in "intelligence" and therefore not helpful in supplying nutrition to your persona. Ice-cold drinks also slow down the procedure of digestive function and intake of nutrients.

3.            Cooking with certain spices or natural remedies adds taste to your meals and provides nourishment for your locks. Cumin, turmeric root extract extract and spice up are some "hair-friendly" spices or natural remedies. Add a balanced touch of each to single-portion cereal and soups as they are preparing. Saut - 1/8 - 1/4 tsp. each of the three spices or natural remedies in a tsp. of ghee (clarified butter) or essential olive oil and add to cooked veggies. Cooking floor cumin and floor spice up can be spread over clean natural yogurt.

4.            Stress can be seriously dangerous to long-term wellness and shade of locks. Try and manage your some time to energy and effort and tasks to minimize time-related demands. Practice relaxation techniques such as relaxation. Seek out relaxing attractions in characteristics to help recover stability to your thoughts. Relaxing or impressive music can be healing. Get adequate, top excellent rest to help the organic procedure of restorative.

5.            Ayurvedic natural remedies that help locks wellness include Eclipta alba and Gotu Kola. Eclipta alba is known as "Bhringaraj" - literally, king of hair. It feeds the locks and allows level of capacity pressure as well. Brahmi, sometimes known as Gotu Kola, also allows stability the brain and feeds the head. Since Ayurveda views the wellness, shade and shimmer of locks so dependent on overall mind/body wellness, complete Ayurvedic natural arrangements for locks range from natural remedies such as Country Mallow, which is supposed to strengthen the structure, and Winter Cherry, which helps level of capacity pressure.

6.            Stay away from harsh substance topical items that can harm locks eventually. Look for soothing, organic solutions and hair conditioners, especially if you wash your locks more than three periods per weeks time. Hair shampoos and hair conditioners that contain healthy botanicals are even better. Read labels carefully - sometimes, items that say "herbal" or "natural" range from no-no chemicals.

7.            A warm oil head rub two or three periods per weeks time will help activate and hydrate the head. You can use top excellent grape, almond or essential olive oil Ayurvedic locks oils also contain some of the natural remedies mentioned earlier. Apply some slightly heated oil to your locks and carefully rub into your head equally with your convenience. Keep on instantaneously if you can, if not, leave on for at least an hour or two, then get it out by washing your locks. The head rub allows you relax and helps sound rest as well.

8.            Never attack wet locks with a sweep, no issue how hurried for time you are. Troubles in wet locks are best removed with a wide-toothed hair comb. Use a wooden hair comb if you can find one; it won't generate fixed electricity. Excessive blow-drying can harm locks in the long-term, making it weak and causing split ends. If you can, let your locks dry naturally, then sweep into place.

9.            Last, but not least, cleaning your locks regularly to activate the head will keep it looking balanced and shiny. Brush each night in all directions in turn - departed to right, right to departed, all-around and thoroughly Use smooth lengthy cerebral vascular accidents from head to hair-tips.

Your locks can indeed be your glorious wonder if you treat it right!



Sunday, April 22, 2012

We Just Wake Up and then Get Out of There

I woke up to the sounds of a young child wiggling in his sleeping bag.  A tiny crack of light was coming in through the paper blinds so I knew it was getting to be morning, but my alarm hadn't gone off, so I also knew I could keep sleeping.

The sounds progressed from wiggling noises to loud sighs and finally to a declaration, whispered into the otherwise silent roomful of sleeping bodies:  "I don't like going to hotels.  We just go to bed, wake up and then get out of here."

While it was a very strange thing to hear first thing in the morning, he was right.  Our weekend adventures usually consist of a long drive, hours spent at a chapel where Greg or I have meetings and then, finally, arriving at the hotel in time to go through the bedtime routine, sleep, and wake up early to head off to church again.

He was right that our hotels stays aren't super vacation-y (although they can be fun and have been know to be adventuresome at times).  But he was wrong about not liking it.  He loves going to hotels.  He doesn't mind sleeping on the very hard floor in a sleeping bag.  He never complains about the drive, though it's between 3 and 6 hours one way, depending on the branch.

Yes, although it's generally all business, we all love traveling for the church.  I realized today that we have been taking these weekend trips from 1-4 weekends a month every month for the past 10 years, except for at the end of pregnancy.  It's been our life since Greg has been overseeing the southern part of Poland (first in the mission presidency and then (now) as district president).  Evie had just turned two when we started.  It's been a big part of my parenting experience and my children's life.  I just love it. I have a hard time imagining living a different way.  I'm not sure how long it will last, but in this church when one adventure ends, a new one always begins.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Souvenir

Most people looking at this picture would see a small plastic cup and spoon.  And that's what it is.  A racquetball probably would not fit in the cup.  It's small.  And it is plastic.  And there's a tiny spoon with it.

When we were in Italy I didn't buy any souvenirs.  An ornamented ceramic mask would not mean anything to me.  The pictures we took are much better (to me) than any postcard or painting or statuette.  What I did do was snatch my family's gelato cups out of their hands before they could throw them in the trash.

THAT.  That right there is a souvenir.  To me.  It takes me back.  I see delicious ice cream, savored during conversations with people I love in places I never thought I would be.  I see stacks of the different colored bowls turned upside-down on counter tops in gelato shops.  I remember dreaming of one filled with a smooth delicious treat as we wandered, stomachs growling but eyes feasting, through Venice in search of "Quanto Basta" pizzeria. I can almost feel the wet-wipe in my hand after cleaning off Spencer's hands and face in Murano and Budoia (how romantic!).

It's just a small plastic cup and spoon, but it happens to be my favorite little cup and spoon in the world.

I'll post a bit about our trip soon enough.