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Jasmin Balance Picks: 10 Choices You Will Regret in Ten Years

Good things to think about… 10 Choices You Will Regret in Ten Years

1. Wearing a mask to impress others. – If the face you always show the world is a mask, someday there will be nothing beneath it. Because when you spend too much time concentrating on everyone else’s perception of you, or who everyone else wants you to be, you eventually forget who you really are. So don’t fear the judgments of others; you know in your heart who you are and what’s true to you. You don’t have to be perfect to impress and inspire people. Let them be impressed and inspired by how you deal with your imperfections.
2. Letting someone else create your dreams for you. – The greatest challenge in life is discovering who you are; the second greatest is being happy with what you find. A big part of this is your decision to stay true toyour own goals and dreams. Do you have people who disagree with you? Good. It means you’re standing your ground and walking your own path. Sometimes you’ll do things considered crazy by others, but when you catch yourself excitedly losing track of time, that’s when you’ll know you’re doing the right thing. Read The 4-Hour Workweek.
3. Keeping negative company. – Don’t let someone who has a bad attitude give it to you. Don’t let them get to you. They can’t pull the trigger if you don’t hand them the gun. When you remember that keeping the company of negative people is a choice, instead of an obligation, you free yourself to keep the company of compassion instead of anger, generosity instead of greed, and patience instead of anxiety.

Click here to read the rest of the article at The Mind Unleashed.
10 Choices You Will Regret In Ten Years
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What Everyone Should Know About Car Seats

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So, it’s been a while since I’ve written… I have been a bit consumed with motherhood and writing has taken a “backseat”.
Speaking of backseats… (Haha) Today I was inspired to write, for I had the most interesting and important experience yesterday.
For whatever reason, I felt inclined to schedule an appointment for a free car seat inspection at a local Children’s Hospital (Joe DeMaggio’s Children’s Hospital in Hollywood, FL to be exact).
I had heard the staggering statistics that the majority (like more than 90%) of car seats are installed improperly and needed to confirm that I wasn’t one of them.
I assumed that since I am highly educated, fairly intelligent, was extremely thorough in reading the instructions and most importantly, I love my child more than anything in the world, that I would just show up, and she would tell me I did everything right, and I’d be on my way.
Man, was I wrong!
I was greeted by the kindest, most informed, helpful woman, who spent close to an hour taking my car seat out, readjusting, refitting and teaching me more car seat information than I could have ever imagined existed.
Apparently she had spent over 40 hours in training to be a car seat inspector! I couldn’t believe there was so much information that I had never heard about, not even in any of my child safety classes!
A few things I learned…
Did you know that any object hard, soft, heavy, light becomes like missile if you’re in a crash? Something as light as a Kleenex box has seriously injured a baby when moving at such fast speeds.
As a new mommy, eager to entertain a fussy baby, I purposely kept the floor in my backseat covered in toys that, should the car rollover, could all seriously hurt my child…
Also, as a means to keep the car seat even more secure, my front seat was pushed all the way back to help hold the car seat in place. Good thinking right? Wrong!
Apparently the car seat’s ability to bounce up and down a bit creates suspension, which keeps the car seat bouncing instead of your baby’s head and neck if in a collision.
Car seat moving from side to side however, is not okay!
I thought that I had the base of the seat in strapped as tight as possible. It seemed to move less than an inch, as had been instructed by the manual, but when she got in there and put all of her bodyweight on top of the base in order to tighten strap just a little bit more, I realize that my car seat was definitely not as secure as I thought it was.
Not to mention the shoulder straps, which, I thought were fine, but apparently were were all sorts of confused. She needed to re-adjust and fix it all!
All in all, clearly I am not a car seat specialist (hopefully a bit more knowledgeable now than previously), but I do recommend that everyone go see one. The knowledge and learning I received truly blew my mind, and made me realize that this is something everyone should know!
For more information, ask your local pediatrician, fire department and I think even huge toy stores, if they know of a car seat inspector. If you can see the one that I saw (Andrea), even better, she was amazing!
Joe DiMaggio’s Children’s Hospital (954) 265-3482
Keep those kiddos safe!

Body Has a Built in Stress Reliever?!?

I enjoyed this NPR article Just Breathe: The Body Has a Built in Stress Reliever.
Here are some highlights:

  • “As it turns out, deep breathing is not only relaxing, it’s been scientifically proven to affect the heart, the brain, digestion, the immune system — and maybe even the expression of genes.”
  • “…breathing can have a profound impact on our physiology and our health.”
  • ‘Our breaths will either wake us up or energize us. It will relax us, or it will just balance us’…
  • “Research has shown that breathing exercises like these (see article) can have immediate effects by altering the pH of the blood, or changing blood pressure.”
  • “But more importantly, they can be used as a method to train the body’s reaction to stressful situations and dampen the production of harmful stress hormones”
  • “She says rapid breathing is controlled by the sympathetic nervous system. It’s part of the “fight or flight” response — the part activated by stress. In contrast, slow, deep breathing actually stimulates the opposing parasympathetic reaction — the one that calms us down.”
  • “Research shows that breathing can even change the expression of genes. He says that by using your breath, you can alter the basic activity of your cells with your mind.”
  • “What’s happening when you’re stressed is that your own body is giving itself multiple shots of that anti-inflammatory hormone, and so that tunes down your immune system’s ability to do its job to fight infection,” Sternberg says.

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