Each of us goes through many stories in our life, looking for happiness and personal fulfillment.

In many ways we are looking for ways and limitless possibilities of life to find satisfaction- in the people that we meet, in the cities which we visit, in careers that can provide some meaning and direction to us, – a inner happiness and inner freedom, by which we strive so they could shine in our eyes and our hearts, but although seems somehow out of reach.

Life then encourages us to look inwards to find joy in life, which exists independently from all external things that come and go – and that’s how or personal and spiritual journey could begin.

Finding happiness takes a new, unknown direction, inward journey leads us to seek deeper meaning in our lives and aspirations of the mighty happiness of being free inside you (figurative).

Meditation and how to start?

What are the first steps to start with meditation?

One of the most beautiful things about meditation is that we don’t need to know very much about it, to do it.

We do not fill and “educate” our mind with additional knowledge and different ways of techniques but quite contrary – we completely clear out / empty our   mind.

Furthermore, there isn’t any need for dogma or special believing (or any believing except the one of your own).

But there is one thing that you need to feel.

This is the feeling, that you could develop (blossom) into something more, higher, and that your own positive qualities in your nature or peaceful moments in your life, both could exceptionally strengthen (become strong) or multiply and increase.

Meditation is the transition to reinforcing the silence, inner peace and happiness of the soul.

However, in order to reach this inner level, you have the external life to create the conditions that will support this revelation.

The first secret is sincerity – no matter how difficult and busy your daily life is, you have to add the date and time for your own training and organize some special place at home, where you will practice.

The same as plant grows, when there is enough sun, also your special place will reserved time will be as sun which will worm up your soul.

Feed it, and relaxed it.

Do find a nice place, where you feel comfortable, or place which you find closer to you.

Then, put a low table in that place, decorate table with a white cloth, and put on the table a candle in candle holder or on the salver and add a flower or two in the vase.

If you which, you could also add a thing or two from your personal belongings or some object which have some special value for your or feels close to you.

It could also be a picture of your spiritual or mental guide, meditation statue, anything that connects you with the feeling of the spirit.

You can chose to sit on the blanket, footstool, chair or anything else that suits you.

Ideally is, that you sit one meter away, and point your view straight on.

Scents could also be very useful, therefore, if you prefer any scent of joss-stick, do use them; anything that will help you relax.

The thing is that no one knows you better than yourself. Therefore, think which things, feelings, scent make you feel relaxed and comfortable.

The scent will create special feeling and will add a little ceremony and devotion your practice.

Simplicity, Meditation Music – bamboo flute, singing with one voice, slow, quiet songs – could also embrace us in an atmosphere of serenity, which silence the mind and open heart. Any such small thing will help you to begin.

Lymphatic drainage massage

Did you jump up – when you read this title?

Most likely you said to yourself: “This is the key to success to beat my cellulite.”
And, you were right. But only partially. You asking why?

Often comes to erroneous or rather lack of knowledge erroneous or rather lack of knowledge.

The purpose of its use beyond are not only for beauty reasons, but also medical, but for which only few people know.

Therefore, hand lymph drainage is a type of body treatment, which women have often treat themselves with, often those who are aware of its effects.

But we do need to be aware, that even though superficial knowledge among women is present, the wider knowledge about lymphatic drainage is less known.

Hand lymphatic drainage and its benefits

Hand lymphatic drainage is a gentle technique, which effects on lymphatic system.

Lymphatic drainage was developed by doctor Voder and his wife in year 1930.

Lymphatic drainage works by activating blood circulation in tissues and stimulates the immune and parasympathetic nervous system.

The results of this operation are shown in particular reduction of oedema, body detox, restoring tissues (burns, cuts, scars, wrinkles),
it removes a number of chronically and half- acute inflammation (sinusitis, bronchitis and ear infections), eliminates chronically pain, reduce symptoms of chronic fatigue, eliminates excessive muscle tension, and more.

We could gain a good benefits in overcoming insomnia, stress, lack of vitality and a bad memory, but it also slows down aging and helps to remove cellulite tissue.

A well functioning lymphatic system is essential for human health and its effectiveness.

This system is discharging liquid, detoxifies and renews tissue, strain out toxins and foreign substances and helps to achieve a healthy immune system.

If the lymphatic system does not work the best, toxins in the body begins to accumulate, cell function is compromised, which can lead to physical problems (diseases).

Treatment technique and implementation of lymphatic drainage.

Lymphatic drainage is practiced with hands and fingers, with which create delicate, wave-like movements.

There is no pressing and exhausting movement, but light gentle touch. And who can practice /perform it?

Only a trained therapist. It is important to have good theoretical knowledge.

Voder’s School based in Austria is the one, in which you could obtain a good education.

Lymphatic therapist should have medical training, but participate in it should also be seminars and symposia.

It is important to know their limits and that knows how to dissuade customer from the therapy; those customers, which are not suitable (from medical view, contradictions) to have drainage.

What about the number of therapy that are recommended?

In lymphatic drainage is advisable to have ten therapies, which should be carried out daily or at least every other day.

Some sometimes need more treatments to react, others less.

Some patients feel drowsy immediately after treatment (because it affects the nervous system),

but soon after that they wake up, when the others were awakened and refreshed immediately after treatment.

Immediately after (especially if its done well) it is possible, that you will feel need to discharge water.

This is a logical consequence of removing of surplus fluids and toxins from the body.

What about the lymphatic drainage to win over cellulite?

Lymphatic drainage is successful in fighting against cellulite, especially when it is in the initial state of water stagnation.

Influence on the people on the proper functioning of the lymphatic system.

People can effect on the functioning of lymphatic system with enough drink and to have enough daily exercise.

Special jumping is one that affects the well-lymphatic system. The best recommended tool is trampoline and skipping rope.

See, it’s not necessary that you are falying of every day to the gym, and practice in crowd.

You can go out in the nature, or even practice sometimes at home, which skipping rope.

We all have it at home and why not use it.

But remember, sometimes, the simplest exercises are the best.

And, let me also tell you that, for most of them, when practices, you only need some practice mat to do practice on.

Any don’t forget – lymphatic drainage is also very very good for eliminating stress and organism recovery.

And it’s recommended almost for everyone.

Right food will benefit our health

Wherever I look, I see instructions on how to eat.

Healty food, with reduced calories, more tasty, but wholegrain, bio, no fat, no cholesterol, according to the food pyramid, the most recent and fastest and the best diet ever …

It seems to me that for any disease or other medical disorder there is so much advice, paths, miracle medicines and teas as well as for obesity with food.

And I wonder why, despite all these miracles there are more and more overweight people.

Young girls, almost children, everywhere, even (or even the most time) when buying clothes, they are talking about it.

How to lose weight, what is the best diet, which path celebrities are choosing… etc?

Overweighed and fat legs and buttocks, overlarge or to small breasts –and about this, how some “friend” have lose weight.  In one week.
And mother.

How serious she/he has gone again with dieting. And father.
Again he/she plays tennis as mad, just because she/he gains some extra weight over the winter.

And next year will return all again. Or even before.
But definitely before the summer.

Even in serious experts recommendations we a lot of times could found instructions on how to eat more “bio” food.

A lot of dietary fibers.
Whole grain rice. Whole wheat bread.

Wholemeal pasta. Brown sugar. Wholegrain meal.

At least 12 (!) Of portions of wholegrain meals a day. Every day.

And Mediterranean food.
And what is a healthy drink.

All must be free of bubbles (bubbles cause cellulite!). A whole barrels of fresh fruit juice.

Those bio once, with no sugar in it. It is almost obligatory to have a glass of red (why red?) vine per day.

If we fallow all these instructions, we will  be slim and healthy, happy and in accordance with the Food pyramid.

Hmmm what about food preparation?

Of course, oil with no cholesterol!  (Excuse me? Is it not cholesterol from animal source? Are there are oils without cholesterol?

Do not use butter. But do use olive oil, olive oil..

And once again olive oil. But do not heat it up! As it will become carcinogenic!

Recently, it is preferable to use rape oil. It is more bio. But does not use, under any condition pumpkin oil! (I must admit, I love it, and use it daily).

It is black and thick and very dangerous. It goes into your vanes. Don’t you just over look these recommendations, which so called “experts” are giving us daily?

And on the end, we should be very thankful for these advices. But if you look back, in old days, they eat all sorts of different food, there was no experts to advice, and even tough, there was less illness that in today time.

But, if ou are one of those “unlucky” people with overweight problem – then you should definitely separate carbohydrates and proteins. Uff, this doesn’t go together. And the best will be, that you are avoiding carbohydrates for good.

And when you are trying and trying.

Trying hard, and you inform your practitioner, who has for the last ten years persuade you, that the pain in your knees, increased pressure, abdominal distention  are all due to increased weight.

To not eat bread? And not pasta? Neither whole meal bread? And this for several weeks?

This is absolutely unhealthy. And inadmissible. Certainly will have consequences on health.

Diet without carbohydrates! (How is it? Is it not written in any serious textbook that starches and carbohydrates are not the same thing?

To the carbohydrates in abundance in fruits. And in vegetables. Even in the onions!).

Even the greater horror will fallow, if you succeed. You will lose thirty pounds.

Ok, I will get serious now – and let you know how it works.

The thing is, that all you need is, decide that this is for real.

And do set yourself real objectives, which you can achieve.

Do not set them to high.  You should distinguish between the ideal and healthy weight.

It is ideal weight is for beauty. That healthy one, can be a little higher. If you have some additional ten or fifteen kilogram much too you would not die.

Actually, is even better, because you will not have wrinkles. And you will look younger.
Ok. I will stop here and let you know some truth about thing that I have written above.

Truth about carbohydrates

Carbohydrates are a group of foods with the same energy value as protein.

They have fewer calories as fat. Reduced to half.

However, in addition to carbon and hydrogen contain oxygen (this means that the combustion or metabolism do not need oxygen from the outside) and because the human body is arranged in

the way that the metabolism and absorption of carbohydrates into the blood begins in the mouth (not as in fat and protein,

which is just beginning to digest in the stomach or even lower in the duodenum and small intestine), is an ideal fuel, and most important (and quickest) source of energy. Also stored out in the body.

They are always in stock and it’s easy to use for the body so we don’t fall into “hypo”, or we don’t lose blood sugar to the level, that we should eat something sweet immediately.

In carbohydrates group we count ib simple sugars (from one or two sugar molecules) that have a sweet taste, and made of sugar or starch (non-sweet taste).

We can enjoy one and the other should, but only quality once.

Now, with expert recommendation, we should not longer talk about all-over about carbohydrates, as a undesirable type of food, but we must sorted out,  to whether they are natural (eg vegetables, fruit) or processed (flour).

Ok, I will give you some rest after this post.. and will wrote more about carbohydrates in next post, as avoiding them is quite crucial to lose weight.

And once you get used to not use (eat) bad once, you will feel much better.

Yoga Asana, Prayer on one leg, as we also call the asana presented on the picture on left, improves body posture, movements’ coordination and concentration.

Furthermore also strengthen mental concentration and release tension.

It has a good effect on people with knees and ankles pain, which is caused by gout.

It’s a good benefit to those with good body condition and scarce. But, do not get me wrong, it’s also recommended for all people, no matter the age.

The only thing is, that you are aware of your abilities, and that you listen to your body.

To avoid eventual injury, you must be careful, not to lean your bend leg to your other knee.

Lift the leg as high as you can, but please do not exaggerate to get into ideal position, as you will soon lose balance.

And this wouldn’t be good for your body. No tension is good. If you are practicing yoga, do all postures to the limit you still feel comfortable in.

The final position in which you insist, do adjust to your current skills.

During practicing and holding in this asana, direct your look in one point, which should be in high level of your eyes and in front of you.

Similar to other asana postures in Hatha yoga, also Eko Pada Pranamasana Sanskrit name is not chosen by accident but describes its purpose and main features.

Eka means only-one (one), Pada means leg, and Pranam could be a name for prayer.

That’s way a lot of times this asana is also called “Prayer on one leg stand”.

This asana is classified as posture asana, which balances body and spirit.

Yoga master, Kostas Tselioa, has also give some instruction by practicing this asana, as a lot of people have trouble by maintaining standing posture, while they are just standing still, and also when they walk or sit.

Often they gain hanged shoulders, or even lean forward, and consequently poor posture eventually becomes habit.

Usually they become aware of, that they are not standing upright until someone doesn’t remind them of that or, more often when difficulties arise, especially back pain.

The correct posture consolidates with muscles exercise to gain strength along the spine and abdominal muscles.

Moreover, this gives small brains possibilities to control movement of the body and to try to maintain balance in body posture.

According to experience of Eka Pada Pranamasana helps us to balance function of nervous system and improves body coordination.

On a strictly physical level, with this asana we consolidated ankle and knee flexibility and increase the power of leg muscles in general.

Due to written above this posture is also a good benefit for people, which have problems with gout, joint inflammation, often have a sense of stiffness in the legs, cold feet or suffer from other problems in the lower limbs.

During practicing this asana direct your sight towards one point in the room.

Do select your point in eye level, where the distance should be between one and two meters from the point where you are standing.

Calm, focused look and deep, strong and steady breathing helps us helps to relax and calm the mind.

Any anxiety and tension in the mind and body cease out spontaneously, as they are totally focused on posture practice and holding asana still.

How you practice?

Get into standing position; feet should be slightly apart, but not so much that would be aligned with the shoulders, arms are next to the body.

Set us your body upright; you can you imagines that you are grabbed by a giant, who gently pull up your head up.

But do not over do it. Relax the shoulders and upper back.

When you stand still and stable, select the item or object in front of you at your eye level.

Look still at this object. When you are ready, bend the right leg and grab the ankle with your right hand, slowly try to lean foot to the internal part of left leg thigh.

The more flexible you are, the faster you will succeed, and on top of that, you will easily put your leg higher.

During movements do not draw back your look from your selected point.

When your foot is places in the inner part of your other knee, try to push your right knee out as much as possible, so far that the right limbs is almost aligned with the left side.

With your right hand hold your foot in the ankle, as long as possible, that you still keep balance.

When you are stable in this position, slowly abandon hand grip, raise it in front of the  height of breast, at the same time also raise your left hand and put your hands together in praying position.

Keep the position as long as you can, breathe calmly, deeply and constantly, and do not move look from selected point.

For the start it will be enough, that you stay in position for few minutes.

Strive to leave posture peacefully and pay attention, when you are losing your balances, and try to finish your pose calmly, before you lose balance.

Otherwise, there’s a chance you will fell on both of your legs.

It’s recommended that you go from asana to the starting position as slowly and calmly as you can.

No fast movements and chasing your balance are recommended.

First of all, pace your hand beside body, then release your bend leg and slowly put it on the floor.

After you do the same with the other leg. You should never forget, to do all postures on both sides, never just one.

Even though, you will notice, that sometimes is harder to asana with one side than the other.

These are just barriers in our head, and will eventually disappear.

Do hurry slowly

Even though this asana looks very easy, a lot of people find it, while start practicing, quite hard to do it.

As it’s hard to keep balance for a long time in this posture. Important is, that you practice in harmony, and you don’t go into next phase, until you become very comfortable in posture you arte practice.

You will easily keep your balance if you keep your sight pointed in point in front of you.

For beginning out your leg up high as much as you can, but do not over do it, otherwise you will lose your balance.

For start it will be enough, that you place your bend leg beside your other leg, so that your fingers are barely touching the ground.

Eventually, you’ll put it higher.

Be careful, however, that you don’t rely your foot on your knee to hard, because you run the risk that you will be injured.

Eka Pada Pranamasana is suitable for people with good body condition and also for those with less body condition.

In particular, its impact on the acquisition and consolidation of mental alertness is very good and welcome to all.

Moreover, also is good for strengthening confidence and our will.

Yoga master Talios have once remind himself about one occasion, when he called up his yoga teacher to let him know, that due to his bad cold, he won’t come to practice yoga this day.

His teacher asks him, whether is he now, when talking to him in the Eka Pad Pranamasana?

He replied that of course not, since he is not feeling well. Teachers advised him to go into posture, and soon he will be able to come in yoga studio to practice.

On the same day he felt better already, and he went to yoga studio, just like the teacher had announced.

Negotiations are main activity when we make effort to achieve measurable objectives.

We do not negotiate just for the own sake of negotiations, but what it counts is mutual harmonizing communication and activity.

These results are also the only true measurement for how to measure work.

Therefore, negotiations are an essential component of business operations and special activity of a manager in organization.

The main thing with negotiations is, that is process of communication for adjustments for interest in which several participants influence on each to decide and format joint decisions.

Negotiations are divided into two sides; on one side is the strategy itself, and on the other side is style of negotiations.

Negotiating Style requires a substantive negotiating stance: these are the classic and principled negotiations.

Classical negotiations could vary from simple to long / wide negotiations and from adjustments that we want to make.

It is also like if we would sell something retail or with a huge marketing campaign in background.

Classical negotiations are by its nature narrower, both in content and in assessing long-term outcomes, using almost all means to achieve the objectives, without knowledge of specific obstacle.

The principled negotiations are wider and deeper, more aware of the other participants and assess the longer term views on the outcome of negotiations.

Classical negotiations can be carried out in an easy and uncompromising manner.

Between them there are considerable differences, which you will find in a table below.
For better comparison of these two extreme styles of business negotiations, there is also a third column in the table, where is additionally described an effective style of negotiations.

The success of business negotiations a lot of times depend on the choice of strategy and style of negotiations, which skilful negotiators adapt to certain situation, to the nature of negotiation and participants characteristics in the debate negotiations.

In fact negotiators deviate from their own and opponents optimal targets, and on the end they are approaching satisfied aims, sometimes in extreme cases, they are approaching also to minimum target.

It all depends from the business case and desire that stands behind.

They need to know how far they can go, and where the final limit is, and when and under what circumstances they could go below this limit.

Any failure of one side should result in appropriate action on the opposite side. In many cases, a small and skilful yielding could bring us large consideration.

While sometimes this tactic is not the most appropriate and sometimes is necessary to select uncompromising style, otherwise, the participant on the other side could question our beliefs, professionalism and desire to reach set up objectives.