You are beautiful

You are beautiful – yes, you are, although beauty is morethan skin-deep. Beauty is unique grace and confidence, a shining light thatsparkles through the eyes and smile. It's not what you look like; it's what youproject.

Beauty is a subjective quality and a universal perfectbeauty is but an abstract concept.

Secretly, we all want to be beautiful and make the best ofourselves. We want to look more beautiful without losing the essence of whatmakes us uniquely attractive.

Perfect beauty is an elusive concept, but if you can feelgood about yourself by enhancing your looks, you may find more joy in your life.

Enjoy the beautiful you and Life!

How to counter insomnia

Keeping your hands busy

Many smokers find the rituals involved withsmoking calming and satisfying, and handle cigarettes as a way to feel lessself-conscious in public. But of course, there are many alternative things todo with your hands when you quit.

Find other objects to handle - forinstance, keep a pen and pad in your pocket or on your desk (pick this upinstead and write down your reasons for giving up smoking, or just doodle);hold a real cigarette if the touch is all you miss - but not if handling acigarette makes you want to light up; don't confuse hunger with the desire toput a cigarette in your mouth - eat regular meals and keep healthy snack foodson hand; and take up a hobby that keeps your hands busy, e.g. painting or wood carving.

What are unhealthy diets?

There is a great deal of controversy about what constitutesan unhealthy diet and how precisely to define ‘junk food’. In general, however,it can be stated that an unhealthy diet is one which does not contain a goodbalance of all the components of the diet which are necessary to health, orwhich is eaten in excess of the body’s requirements, or which places a strainon the body’s metabolic system by introducing toxins and chemicals such aspreservatives and colouring which interfere with the natural processes of theliver and intestine. Particularly toxic components of many people’s daily dietsare tea, coffee, and alcohol.

Both tea and coffee contain caffeine, which is a nervoussystem stimulant, and which can be habit-forming. Cola-based drinks alsocontain caffeine, and children in particular can become addicted to them.Alcohol on the other hand is a central nervous system depressant, which exertsits effects by loosening the inhibitions, which usually prevent us from actingin an anti-social fashion. Whether stimulants of depressants, all these agentshave two things in common - they all have a rebound effect (hangover) whentheir effects wear off, which can only be countered by waiting for them toeliminate themselves from the body , or more commonly, taking more of them;secondly, they are harmful to the body’s metabolism, particularly when taken inexcess.

Tip: A pleasant and satisfying hot drink can be made bysoaking a slice of lemon in hot water and drinking it. Alternatively, herb teassuch as rooibos tea, chamomile tea, or hibiscus tea or any of the herbal teamixtures can be pleasant and refreshing without being toxic to the body.

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