Habits of the wealthiest people

So damn true !

"There is no point in starting your own business unless you do it out of a sense of frustration" 
       
       - my respect, Sir Richard, I only hope I'll had enough soon, with this shit I'm doing now ...

Anyone can become confident, and confident people can lose confidence over time if
they don't do things that push them outside of their comfort zones. To become confident, all you need is the right advice and a willingness to put that advice into action. I want to share with you one quick tip that will help you become more confident. Not only will this tip help you become more confident, but it will also directly help your business as well.

Is there someone who is very successful you really want to email, but you've been reluctant to contact? Are you not contacting that person because you think you aren't successful enough or don't have enough experience to reach out? Does the thought of emailing that person cause some fear, even if it might really help your business?
" I came to realize that rejection is a huge part of business and a huge part of life. 
http://www.virgin.com/entrepreneur/the-10-minute-confidence-trick

"Life challenges are not supposed to paralyze us, they are supposed to help discover who you are"
-  Bernice Johnson Reagon

How big a backyard do you need to live off land?

Original post:  ... lost it :-(

What is Oil Pulling?

Oil pulling – Do you want to brighten up your smile without using harsh chemicals?

Bleach trays and teeth whitening products do make your smile brighter but they also strip away precious enamel that could ultimately result in the thinning of your teeth. Plus, most of these products are packed with toxins such as coal tars, fluorides, aspartame, aluminum and benzene.

If you want whiter teeth without ingesting harmful carcinogens then try oil pulling.

Oil pulling is an ancient Ayurvedic ritual where you swish oil (teaspoon of sesame oil or sunflower oil) around in your mouth for about 20 minutes and then spit it out. At first you have to get used to swishing around oil for 20 minutes but over-time you get will get more comfortable.
Oil pulling goes beyond teeth whitening.  According to Dr. Karach, M.D., “oil pulling treats headaches, bronchitis, tooth pain, eczema, ulcers, and much more.”
Dr. Bruce Fife, whose written an entire book on oil pulling, says the oil acts like a cleanser.
“When you put it in your mouth and work it around your teeth and gums it “pulls” out bacteria and other debris. As simple as it is, oil pulling has a very powerful detoxifying effect. Our mouths are the home to billions of bacteria, viruses, fungi and other parasites and their toxins. Candida and Streptococcus are common residents in our mouths. It is these types of germs and their toxic waste products that cause gum disease and tooth decay and contribute to many other health problems including arthritis and heart disease. Our immune system is constantly fighting these troublemakers. If our immune system becomes overloaded or burdened by excessive stress, poor diet, environmental toxins and such, these organisms can spread throughout the body causing secondary infections and chronic inflammation, leading to any number of health problems.”
Oil pulling (best to do it before breakfast) this  is incredibly effective for:

Peace

• Brightening & whitening teeth
• Healthier gums
• Removal of mucus
• Boosting the immune system
• Preventing bad breath
• Increasing energy
• Having a clearer mind
• Decreasing headaches
• Clearing the sinuses
• Alleviating allergies
• Better sleep
• More clearer skin
• Regulating menstrual cycles
• Decreasing inflammation
• Improving the lymphatic system
• Improving PMS symptoms

How to oil pull:

• Drink 1 cup of water on an empty stomach (best to do it before breakfast).
• Use 1-3 teaspoon of organic, cold-pressed vegetable oil (sesame oil is shown to work best) in your mouth
• Swish through your mouth for 20 minutes while you’re busy doing something else like checking your emails.
•  After 10-15 minutes the oil will become thin and white as it emulsifies with your saliva.
• Spit into trash, compost or outside in the grass (just not in the sink – we don’t want to clog the pipes).
• Swish water through your mouth to rinse.

There’s a lot more you can do with sesame oil besides oil pulling. Here are some other sesame oil benefits:

Bed time gum massage:

Ayurveda recommends massaging the gums with sesame oil before going to bed to prevent or help receding gums. For a quick night time boost to your oral health, you could pour a little oil onto the bristles of an electric toothbrush and then massage around your gums and over the surface of your teeth. For maximum benefit don’t rinse afterwards, just leave the oil residue in your mouth to work while you rest. It’s not unpleasant and makes your mouth feel very clean.
Sesame oil works as a great natural lip salve too, dip your finger into a small amount and rub it gently into your lips morning and night to protect them from chapping.
While the oil’s out why not spend a couple more minutes really looking after yourself?

The sesame oil de-stress routine:

To ease anxiety and improve sleep pour a little oil into the palm of your hand and massage into your forehead and temples. Rubbing warm sesame oil into the area between your eyebrows in slow gentle circles is particularly good for calming your mind and improving the quality of sleep.
Finally use a little more oil and massage it into your feet. Work up and down the instep to release tension from your spine, and across the soles of your feet to relax tension and help you feel grounded as you settle down to rest.
If you’re worried about getting oil on your bed linen you could sleep with cotton socks on which will also help keep your feet warm and draw tension from your head down into your lower body.
Now it’s your turn.
Try it out and let us know what you think!

Drew Canole

Sources:
http://www.oilpulling.com/
http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-4896/The-Single-Most-Effective-Ayurvedic-Practice-for-Your-Mouth.html
http://thehealthylivinglounge.com/2009/05/25/how-to-get-shiny-teeth-and-healthy-gums-with-oil-pulling/


Original post here: http://fitlife.tv/what-is-oil-pulling/

Debunking the Hybrid Myth

At the Seed Savers Exchange Conference this summer, Dr. John Navazio ‘s talk, “Debunking the Hybrid Myth,” laid out the hybrid vs. open-pollinated argument.  Here’s a peek at John’s speech, the whole speech is available here.  Also, check out Dr. Navazio’s new book, The Organic Seed Grower, due out in December.

Dr. Navazio teaches a class at Seed Savers Exchange on how to maintain robust varieties.

Why are hybrids favored?

• Once the parental inbreds are fixed it is easy to make the hybrids year after year.  You have two parental types and you cross them.
• You can maintain those two homogeneous, very uniform parental types, and every time you want to make some new hybrid seed just plant it out in the field, detassle one, and let the other one make pollen.  They’ve been inbred so much they’re very easy to maintain, unlike OP’s that have all that variation. You’re seed savers, you’ve seen it, right?  Once you’ve inbred them you’ve basically made it so genetically narrow that you’ll see that the variation is gone.  Two uniform parents make a uniform hybrid.
• Companies liked it because hybrids allowed instant proprietary ownership. If you maintained your own inbreds and didn’t give it to anybody else you were the only one that could make that ‘Copper Cross’ hybrid and sell it.  Whereas, previously, if you were Ferry Morse and released ‘Detroit Dark Red’ in 1902, within three years every home garden, farmer, and seed company in America had ‘Detroit Dark Red.’ Owners of seed companies loved this little trick, this little wizardry, and the breeders liked it because of the stacking of traits it is actually easier to breed hybrids.

What are the disadvantages of hybrids?

• Inbred lines are genetically narrow and have less adaptation over time than many OP’s.  That’s why so many of them died from inbreeding depression.  You reveal these deleterious traits and narrow their genetic base so much that they’re not adapting and evolving like our older varieties were at the hands of the humans who kept them.  In fact, in studies of inbred lines they found that the best inbred lines tend to have less of McClintock’s transposable elements which meant they stayed stable much easier and are the reason the companies loved them so much.   It’s anti-evolutionary.
• Hybrids are weaklings.  When you grow inbred seed, and I worked at a company where I grew inbred seed, you have to pour on the chemicals, use more water, more fertility, you really do have to baby them.  They are prima donnas.
• F1’s focus is often not on the best traits.  They’re really focused on the traits that are good for the centralized systems, where we do high input agriculture.  It’s the wedding of modern reductionist science and high input, high output.  That’s not the way Mother Nature normally works.  Vandana Shiva talks about how the focus of science has been reductionist, and it’s all about how can we figure out the input to get exactly what we need to get the right output.  At that point you are taking a lot of nature out of the system and the new variation that gives us all of the diversity that we honor so much here today just doesn’t show up as much.
• When you save seed from the hybrids, they don’t breed true, and when varieties are dropped they are gone!  You don’t save seed from hybrids, although there’s always an exception to the rule.
• Seed growing has become very centralized and very specialized.  A hundred years ago all farmers had knowledge of how to grow seed for most of their top line crops.  If you want to talk about loss of diversity, we have lost the people who know how to grow seed.  This is as tragic as losing the genetic variation itself.

What are the advantages of open-pollinated varieties?  

• They carry variability, and this results in genetic resilience.
• OP varieties can be bred to be tough in all stages.  We can select for that in all stages.  You can do that with hybrids too, but it’s easier if you have that built in resilience.
• They can be very regionally adapted and continue or always will be adapting year in and year out.  We need things like that right now, we’re going through this climate chaos, and so is everyone that I speak to all over the country.
• When you save seed they do breed true, if you followed your isolation, of course.
• Varieties are not lost due to a business decision.  Many of the farmers I work with actually went back to OPs’ because they were sick and tired of seed companies dropping hybrid varieties that they’d actually come to know and love and learn to cater their system too.  All of the sudden it is gone one day.

What are the disadvantages of OP’s?  

• They are genetically variable, and not always consistent. I don’t know if any of you get frustrated on the garden scale of not getting as much uniformity as perhaps you would like – some cabbage plants don’t really make a head or something like that.  But we can also take advantage of this if we do our selection and upkeep, and learn how to foster that adaptation.
• They are harder to maintain.  I can attest to that having bred both hybrid and OP’s.  It’s much harder to breed something that’s genetically resilient, while keeping in enough variability to keep it strong, and enough selection to make it uniform.  It’s a real paradox, how will I get a uniform enough variety but keep the variability?
• How do seed companies keep varieties exclusive?  If we’re just growing OP’s anyone can go and grow it.   That’s a biggie. And the question that I ask all the seed growers I work with is, “What is the incentive for you to proceed if there is no business incentive?”

Original post here : http://blog.seedsavers.org/debunking-the-hybrid-myth/