Crand Canyon, Arizona

However, that Grand Canyon, in Arizona, USA is a very deep, more than half a kilometer, is not the deepest in the world.
But certainly it is among the richest in their strangeness.

The ancient homeland of Indian tribes, who are still living in the surrounding reserves, comes here close to our idea of the home of youthful Winettu.

Indians are also quite aware of modern world desire and exploit them to great advantage. Quite interesting is one of the things that Indian tribes Hopi have done.

With a financial help from Chinese businessman, they have on their own territory on western edge of Grand Canyon, built a glass terrace for tourists, from which it could been seen a breathtaking vertical depth.

Of course not for free. In million years time, this amazing strong depth, also of one of the ten natural wonders of the world, have been gnaw trough river Colorado with its rapids.

The river looks seemingly soft and tenacious. Moon landscape looks amazing and it was shape by wind, snow, rain and relentless sun.

Even if we feel the Grand Canyon is dead in his eternity, in reality these processes will continue to live, every second, every minute.

Lighter and darker brown and reddish layers are laid down horizontally and are seen as a natural timeline.

Looks as nature would have forgotten to watered deep recession, from more than 400 kilometers long passage, dialect about it is known from ancient Earth period up to the Precambrian.

Is it surprising, if the visitors stay breathtaking looking at this timelessness nature, when compares it with their own impermanence?

Best View over the Grand Canyon is from the southern edge, and for those, who love solitude and despise the crowds of tourists can choose to visit the most beautiful northern edge.

Only that it is not available through all year round and is not always open, it is higher than the South and unfortunately have more severe weather conditions.

Edges are looking at each other with distance of three kilometers on one side, and on the other it could also be separating distance from twenty-nine kilometers.

Often from down there, it’s impossible to see Colorado River, but that doesn’t mean, that there are no rafters on it.

If we count out the original tribes, and later the Spanish, which have travel their way through from Mexico, to find gold towns.

Unfortunate all they could find was burning rocks. Centuries later, it was shown that in these stones lies a numerous Mineral Resources.

After that world has begun to talk about the Grand Canyon, but thanks to Major Wesley Powell, who in the second half of the 19th first century, has wrote about his great expirience and his enthusiasm at the pioneering three-month descent on Colorado River.

Wesley Powel is also a »father« of name Grand Canyon. Since 1919, the area was declared as a national park, which now measure about 5000 square kilometers.

Five million visitors per year In the morning sunrise there is also going up a dark shadow of wild California condor.

In sharp turn under the southern edge he chase away flock of crows, which are not letting him rest.

Squirrels without mop of hair on the ears with thick and rigid tails carcasses, seems to be more like marmots and their cousin hake from the trees.

They live predominantly on the ground, and are not embarrassed when are looking into the overcrowded garbage baskets and through discarded empty bottles and sandwiches wrapper.

Crowd of tourists is really big, statistics shown for about five millions of visitors each year, from which four fifths comes from the United States; in particular the rest is split between British, Japanese and Germans.

Anyone who would like to spend the overnight in Grand Canyon, in the tent, must obtain prior approval on the prescribed form, despite the numerous camps that are there.

For the log cabin with green and pink window frames, it’s necessary to wait more than a year.

Even the oldest rooms in the hotel El Tovar, built in 1905 and restored exactly 100 years later, are not always available, even a simple double room costs 175 dollars, and apartments costs twice as room.

On the web pages you could find numerous offers, some with a fairly aggressive number and variety of accommodation options, payable options, which some adrenaline lovers could afford.

Yoga practice and different types of yoga

In general there are four different types of yoga (for different types of human characters).

In the West, the most popular is »Hatha yoga«, which for different types of human characters can be defined by five fundamental principles.

In general we know four diferent practice of yoga

• KARMA yoga (yoga with altruistic action)
• BHAKTI Yoga (the way of dedication and with selfless love)
• JNANA YOGA (yoga of wisdom and comprehension)
• RAJA YOGA (knowledge of managing body and mind)

There are four fundamental practices of yoga.
Later on, especially in modern world, some yoga masters have combine different ways of yoga, and remodel and transformed it with a Western world.
Quite known “modern” yoga is also Asthanga Ainyasa Yoga.

But today I will write a bit more about general facts about yoga practice, good positive effect on our body and health.

But we should forget that each “way of practice” suits certain individuals, their temperament and personal attitude to life.
That’s way we could sometime here people explaining that in certain yoga practice they just find themselves and can’t imagine going to some other practice.

Although, me, as a yoga practitioner for numerous year now, would recommend to expand you thinking and being with trying out also other practice, maybe one day, at the right moment.

It’s always good that we explore all our possibilities, try new thing, and see if they suits us or not.
As for me, I am dedicated to Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga practice for some years now and I love it.

I can feel something is missing if some days go without practice. But for some time now, I notice, that I can do yoga practice while I am working in the garden, vineyard, go for a long walk, cycling… in all these things.
It is just important that I find that little peace in me.

Enough about me, let me introduce you a bit more thins wonderful thing, called Yoga.

All four ways of practicing yoga leads to the same goal; spiritual development, to deep spiritual knowledge and spiritual truth of life (the internal experience of growing awareness, wisdom and contact with us) and various forms of exercise.

Learing should be gradual and going step by step.

RAJA Yoga (Royal Yoga) is a method which monitors the waves of thought, thereby changing their mental and physical energy into spiritual.
This is the youngest »path« of practice. It is also called Ashtanga Yoga (yoga with eight steps practice).
In Raja yoga is also included most well-known yoga in the West countries, named Hatha Yoga.

The things that we could achieve if we are able to observe what is happening in ourselves are; cognition of our mind, nature of human being and minds.
The Raja yoga science offers us the way to observe our inner world. Studying Raja yoga does require neither faith nor religion.
It teaches us, Not to believe in anything, which we haven’t discovered for ourselves or haven’t been our own experience.
Nevertheless, it requires much time and continuous exercise. This is partly physical, but mostly mental exercised.
Spirit is simply part of the body and the finest works in the body, and vice versa.
If the body is feeling sick, consequently also our spirit is being the way our body feels.
If we are healthy, the spirit remains healthy and strong.
For most people, the spirit has a great influence on the body, with other words, means it is not developed enough.
Raja Yoga teaches that the outside world only robust aspect of the internal, subtle world.
Between mind and material is only apparent distinction, the reality is only one.
The aim of all science is to find unity, one from which all originates.
Raja yoga approach comes from the inner world, to study internal nature, and then manage the whole, both internal and external nature.

To Raja yoga also belongs type of Yoga, called Hatha Yoga.
This is also a general path or technique which leads us to physical health, mental clarity and spiritual enlightenment.
Practicing Hatha Yoga combines Asan (postures), Kriya (purification of body art), PRANAYAMO (breathing exercises), concentration and meditation.

The word hatha itself indicates the objectives of exercise: ‘ha’ means ’sun’, ‘tha’ and ‘moon’, ‘hatha yoga’ is a technique that allows practitioner to balance his solar and lunar energy, and create restoring harmony in the body and mind with balancing the solar and lunar, male and female, active and passive aspects of the individual. This is not possible to achieve without merging breathing and meditation with physical postures.

Five basic principles of yoga

1. CORRECT Exercise (practice and exercise of body postures – Asana). Asana work systematically on all parts of the body; increases flexibility and muscle strength, increase and maintains flexibility of joints and spine, stimulates functioning of the heart and circulatory, modulates the function of glands and other internal organs, improves the awareness and ability to concentrate and regulates the functioning of the nervous system.

After practice, we feel very relaxed and full of energy. Each asana has three stages: the capture retains and abandonment of position. All three are performed as single, continuous movements.
The essential is the retained phase position, which we extend with regular exercise and afterward it’s performed more and more relaxed.

2. CORRECT breathing (breathing exercises – Pranayama). With the help of breathing exercises, we learn how to breathe more deeply and accurately.
Learning to be aware of breathing and the fact that the body, mind and breathing are inextricably connected.
Any anxiety or tension in the mind cause the breathing alters its natural rhythm and depth.
Moreover, with knowledge on influencing to our breathing, we can calm down the mind.
Practicing yoga breathing helps to restore physical strength and control our mental state, because it’s energetically and mentally calming down and balances.

3. CORRECT methodically relaxation (consciousness relaxing) correct exercises can relax the whole body and restore energy supplies.
The real deep relaxation must be threefold: physical, mental and spiritual.
Again it’s very important awareness and the fact that only we could consciously and thoroughly relaxed our self, with our mind.

4. The right food / nutrition. Means that the right diet is a healthy balanced diet, based on natural food.
The body of such human remains light and flexible, with calm spirit and resistance to disease is strengthened.

5. Positive thinking and Meditation, helps to get rid of negative thoughts and calm down the spirit.
Meditation is an integral and important part of yoga exercises!
Contrary to the belief of many, meditation is hard work, which takes a lot of perseverance, discipline and will.
Only with proper and regular exercise, we could achieve the desired effects; inner peace, developing compassion, kindness and love.

With proper deep meditation we can cleanse the mind of negative samples, blind reactions and finally achieved a state of mind, which no longer depends on external influences, as it stays and remains balanced in every situation.

When we hear “Hawaii” most of the people think of dream beaches, welcome with the floral wreaths at the airport and the tourism boom of Waikiki. And many would be really surprised. Yes, the beaches are great and the best, but what the tourist brochures do not reveal is that the waves of at least half of the year there are too high for swimming. And at the shores of the island, you’ll often find crosses, put there for the memory of surfers, who have dash on the rocks.

Hula dancers and wreaths of flowers

Do you think about a welcome, where exotic native girls sing a welcome song with accompaniment with ukulele, and they put a garland of scented flowers around the neck? Unfortunate I need to disappoint you little bit. Here it is how it works; if you want Hula dancers, you need to pay them, and the crown comes only in bigger packages. If you go to Hawaii on your own, you’ll already be happy if the rental car will work without problems. And a bit about the most famous beach in Hawaii, named Waikiki, placed in capital city of Hawaii, Honolulu; there are a lot of crime going on, and the local people will most likely advise you, to leave you car open and do not lock it, as it may happened that when you come back, your car-window will be smashed. Some people get to know this “revelation” on a bad way. Don’t say I dint worn you.

Is camping only for adventures types?

Hawaiian almost unreal striking nature, which varies from the previously mentioned paradise beach of all the colors and structures, through the rich and flourishing flowers and hibiscuses and from grove to tropical trees, interlaced with sponging creeper, which invites you to camping.

Who wouldn’t like to wake up on the cliff, where among other things are filming series about Mysterious Island, and where you can get a best view of the Pacific Ocean?

Yeah, obviously the camping is more or less reserved for homeless people and / or drug addicts who came to Hawaii in search of paradise, sleep under the blue sky, wash in the ocean, and where the mangos will come from the trees above, from the marvelous trees. Ooo yeh. I don’t want to be too pessimistic, but, that’s the way it is. Unfortunately.

“Oh my god, you camped on the west side of Oahu? That’s like – a miniature Los Angeles!” was the reaction that we often get when we tell people our adventure. During our stay in camp on Oahu Island, in the middle of the night, with very loud music, some guys broke into a car, parked five meters away, and they took camera with all lenses and mobile phone. And all they left was a chaos, broken glass and blood stains.

Surfers and volcanoes in Hawaii

After all, among all unpleasantness, the famous archipelago, this is the most isolated piece of land in the world, is very well worth to visits. And not because of the relaxing on the beaches surrounded with palm trees – for that you don’t need to sit 20 hours on the plane.

But do visit Hawaii because of charming surfing oriented north coast of Oahu, and because of the glory (still active) volcano on the Big Island, because of the 40 kilometers long trekking along the caves in Kauai, after which you come to a dream landscape, because one the most beautiful roads in the world, exotic and full of turnings road from Hanna to Maui.

Where mangos fly from heaven…

In Hawaii you can ride under the eucalyptus at the foothills of a volcano, and afterwards, high above the clouds, you could see the amazing sunset. You can pick bananas and mangoes in the jungle, where you can still find some remains from the hippie communes. You can watch the fireworks for the 4th of July, while you are enjoying an ice cream with banana, pineapple and macadamia nuts flavor. In the morning you could be walking on the edge of the canyon, called »Grand Canyon, of Pacific« and in afternoon you could already be shopping in surfer’s store, where you suddenly begin to wonder how you can live without the Hawaiian shorts. And in the evening, when you will be at the restaurant, eating fish with the sounding name of mahi-mahi, in a sauce of ginger and coconut, you will truly think that Hawaii are the best resembling of heaven on earth.

Facts about Hawaii

137 islands with a total area of 16,649 km 2 belong to Hawaii. Most of the islands are not inhabited. 8 largest islands are (from west to east) Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lana, Kahoolawe, Maui and Hawaii as the largest island, which carries the nickname of Big Island. Midway Atoll belongs geographically to Hawaii, but not politically.

Vulcan

All the islands are of volcanic origin. Maun Kea rises from 4201 m and the bottom it is even 5000 m below sea level, which means that in total this island is over 9000 m high. With this measured height, this is the highest peak on Earth. Slightly lower is an island Maun Loa, which is measured to be a most scope volcano on Earth. Its weight is so heavy that it deforms the Pacific plate. On the island of Oahu is the capital of the U.S. state of Hawaii, city Honolulu with one million inhabitants. It is interesting that the Hawaiians have arrived from Tahiti before several thousand years ago.

Today it is a mixed nation settlement of people from Japan, China and some various white people. Hawaiian language has 12 letters, of which there are 5 are vowels, and the language can be read as it is written. Hawaiian culture can learn about the various events, and one of the most popular is called »Hula show – dance show« – danced by beautiful girls in their “national costumes”. For the Pacific Ocean is know, that attracts a lots of newly-wedded pairs, which are coming for honeymoon. And, if from old time you thought, that Hawaii are too far away, or are too expensive to go, pay attention…. not anymore.

Hawaii, which are surfers paradise are cheaper as they could never been before. As they usually say, this is the most expensive island, which is more than three thousand kilometers away from North American mainland, but as financial crisis in 2008 have bring to less visitor and prices have gone down. There are many romantic places for relaxing (they say the most romantic is Hawaiian island of Kauai) which are almost always pleasantly chilling by wind pasat, the natural scenery. Volcanoes, cliff, canyons, crystal beaches, coral reefs, lush green forests and amazing, endemic flora and fauna is only part of a long list. In Hawaii love already welcomes you – Hawaiian word ‘aloha’ means not only ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye’, but also ‘love’! Alternatives that you have in the Pacific and Indian Ocean are: Galapagos Islands, the “naturalists”, the Philippines and the Andaman for the thinner wallet?, and “honeymoon classics” are in the Seychelles, Maldives, Fiji, Tahiti …

In year 2004 after quite a long time, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, has approved for the first time, a new botox treatment for excessive sweating under armpit; also called axillary hyperhidroses.

More accurate, at July 16th FDA approved Botox (Botulinum toxin type A) for severe treatment of sweaty armpits, for those patients, who wasn’t get help with antiperspirant.

Botox is produced in company named Allergan, in city Irvine, California, USA and it is the most studied botulinum toxin brand, known all over the world.

Botox is available for more than decades, and has been used to treat more than one million patients with various medical conditions.

Including also various deformations and movement disorders.

With FDA approval, the United States are joining more than 20 other countries, that have already approved botox treatment to treat excessive sweating.

Usage of local botulinum toxin injections is a promising approach to reduce and relieve hyperdoses symptoms.

Researches has shown that armpits, hands, feet and face treatment with botulinum toxin is safely and effective.

In a clinical study, which have include 322 patients with severe armpits sweating, more than 81% which received injections reached more than 50% less sweating.

Also interesting is, that more than 50% of all patients have reduce sweating for least 201 days, which is nearly 7 months.

Effective use of botulinum toxin type A injections

Usage of Botox treatment for sweating is most effective if it’s done by a special doctor, who went through special training and have experience with the procedure.

Botulinum toxin injections can be administered in the medical’s office.

It requires relatively little time and don’t require any restrictions on work or leisure activities (except intensive exercise, or use of sauna on the day of treatment).

During the process, doctor uses a very fine needle, with which inject small quantities of botulinum toxin, just under the skin near the sweat gland.

These are responsible for excessive sweating problems. Doctor, who give you this botox treatment, could decide, that you could use more injections regarding your necessary treatment.

But moreover, be careful, and think twice, before you start the procedure. It’s quite known, that a lot of people don’t need “beauty improvement”.

But getting rid of unpleasant sweating is not one of them. I would recommend it, as I; myself know how embarrassing and unpleasant this could be some time.

Furthermore, if we look from the other side, sweating is known as a physical reaction, therefore, it would also help, and that we calm down ourselves (if this is our main problem).

For this we would need a bit of meditation practice and some breathing exercise. These are quite easy to achieve.
I would give it a shoot, it could be easy to learn, and quite effective.

Anyway, I should write a bit more about effective use of Botox treatment; I didn’t mentioned jet, that injections in the palms and sole may sometimes be quite painful.
In order to ease the discomfort, doctors use some of many techniques of anesthesia, such as; creams pain, nerve blockage, ice or vibration.
There is always possibility, that some sweat gland could be missed in the process. As a result, you could still continue experienced sweating in untreated areas.

If this happens, it is important to discuss it with your doctor for a re-evaluation of these areas; the possibility to “fill” the gaps with additional injections.

Botulinum toxin injections do not cure hyperhidroses and your symptoms will gradually return. Subsequent injections are necessary to maintain dryness.

These additional injections may be necessary in do them in intervals, ranging from seven to sixteen months.

Therefore, know that this is not a treatment, which would end sweating. But it would definitely reduce it, and moreover, make you feel better and more confident.

But on the end, the decision for these botox treatment is on your side. But the most important is that you get the best information about it, before you decide to do it.