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Colors play a huge role in everyone’s lives. The atmosphere in our room, the clothes we wear, and even little stuffs we pick from the store, it’s almost always colors what influence us to decide. During special occasions like weddings and birthdays or whenever we give gifts or flowers, they also are very important as they portray a part of person’s life or they give meaning to our presents. But what’s the truth behind every color that makes each of them our choice and emerges very special? Here’s the first part of our discovery:

Spirit and Paradise: Blue

Blue is the overwhelming “favorite color.” Blue is seen as trustworthy, dependable, and committed.

The color of ocean and sky, blue is perceived as a constant in our lives. As the collective color of the spirit, it invokes rest and can cause the body to produce chemicals that are calming. However, not all blues are serene and sedate.

Electric or brilliant blues become dynamic and dramatic — an engaging color that expresses exhilaration. Some shades or the overuse of blue may come across as cold or uncaring.

Indigo, a deeper blue, symbolizes a mystical borderland of wisdom, self-mastery, and spiritual realization. While blue is the color of communication with others, indigo turns the blue inward to increase personal thought, profound insights, and instant understandings.

Blue is the least “gender specific” color, having equal appeal to both men and women.

How the color influences us?

- Calmness and sedation

- Cools

- Aids intuition

Fire and Drive: Red

Red has more personal associations than any other color. Recognized as a stimulant, red is inherently exciting and the amount of red is directly related to the level of energy perceived. Red draws attention and a keen use of red as an accent can immediately focus attention on a particular element.

Red is the color of blood, and as such has strong symbolism as life and vitality. It brings focus to the essence of life and living with emphasis on survival. Red is also the color of passion and lust.

Red also means love, power, rage, heat, and danger.

How the color influences us?

- Increases enthusiasm

- Stimulates energy and can increase the blood pressure, respiration, heartbeat, and pulse rate

- Encourages action and confidence

- Provides a sense of protection from fears and anxiety

Immaculate and Divine: White

White projects purity, cleanliness, and neutrality. Doctors don white coats, brides traditionally wear white gowns, and a white picket fence surrounds a safe and happy home.

Strictly speaking, white is not a color, but the manifestation of the presence of all color - the complete energy of light. It stands for wholeness and completion. In many cultures it represents openness and truth. White has a cold quality. It can provide clarity as its energy is complete.

White has purification vibrations and can be used to clear blocks from your path.

It holds the potential to move toward every other color and this makes it a good choice for new beginnings, and development in any direction.

How the color influences us?

- Aids mental clarity

- Encourages us to clear clutter or obstacles

- Evokes purification of thoughts or actions

- Enables fresh beginnings

Supremacy and Mystery: Black

Black is authoritative and powerful; because black can evoke strong emotions, too much can be overwhelming. Black represents a lack of color, the primordial void, emptiness. It is a classic color for clothing, possibly because it makes the wearer appear thinner and more sophisticated.

But black, and its opposite white, represent polarities. Black absorbs all aspects of light. While white reveals, black conceals. It has come to mean hidden, fearful or bad experience. It is linked to the unknown or the unseen.

In times of fear and uncertainty black contains the energy of the threatening unknown. In a positive state, black is seen as a restful emptiness into which anything may emerge and disappear once again. It is also mysterious, providing a sense of potential and possibility.

It can also convey elegance, sophistication, and eruditeness.

How the color influences us?

- makes one feel inconspicuous

- provides a restful emptiness

- is mysterious by evoking a sense of potential and possibility

To know more information, check these websites:

http://crystal-cure.com/color-meanings.html

http://www.sensationalcolor.com/color-messages-meanings/color-meaning-symbolism-psychology

Some people tend to shun away from modern medicine and opt to traditional medicines more commonly known today as alternative healing. But what really is about them that creates a cult-like of followers from all over the world. Here’s what we got according to some research:

Acupuncture

Based on the Chinese culture, it’s one of the oldest methods of healing with a belief that our body possesses patterns of energy, or sometimes called Qi, that flows all over. When this energy flow is obstructed or disrupted, diseases occur. So the use of needles inserted to specific points is believed to restore the flow.

Studies conducted from different countries reported positive results among patients who underwent post-surgery or post-chemotherapy acupuncture programs compared to patients who chose residential programs. Some of them also reported less occurrence of pain that allowed them to stop taking painkillers. Modern doctors dismiss the idea of Qi because according to them the needles inserted allow the body to release endorphins, which are natural painkillers, and hormones that stimulate the immune system. All the same, acupuncture remains to be in the mainstream.

Massage

The use of touch and applied pressure to the body is what describes the art of this treatment. It targets the skin, muscles, tendons, and ligaments to ease discomforts and pain by relieving tension and promoting active blood flow. Due to this effect, the nervous system is calmed and muscles get loosened up. A massage varies depending on techniques. Today, Swedish, Shiatsu, Thai, Deep Tissue, and Rolfing are some of the best techniques advocates choose.

According to experts, massage really generates positive health effects because there’s a relationship between stress and our immune system. Studies claimed that cortisol, a stress hormone, may be greatly reduced with massage.

Yoga

According to yoga experts, the art of yoga is more than just about bending, stretching, and meditation. It focuses on the balance and harmony in the mind, body, and soul of a person to achieve holistic wellness. When a person’s focused and thinking positively through practicing meditation, he frees himself from stress thereby allowing hims to always feel joy and contentment. Also, the position a practitioner does also promote hormone release, which helps better functions of the organs.

A different scientific study proved that being on a state of contentment, optimism, and bliss allows the body to release natural killer cells and other components of the immune system that aid in combating a lot of diseases including cancers.

Reiki

This healing process comes from Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation. It’s more commonly characterized by “laying on hands” and its idea is rooted from an unseen “life force energy” that flows through a person. This energy flow what causes a person alive and if it’s low, it means a possibility of getting sick or stressed. With each treatment, a person feels a glowing radiance that flows through and around. It aims to treat the body, emotions, mind, and spirit to create physical and psychological effects like relaxation, peace, security, and well being.

Speaking of scientific and biological effects, Reiki’s effect to human health may be as well similar to yoga. Many claims of its benefits but perhaps these health benefits are accounted to the positive emotions a person feels thereby increasing stamina and boosting the immune system.

Any kind of sport is a cool thing and they’re pretty much getting everybody to be preoccupied, more goal-oriented, and happy. At this time that winter’s finally over, water sports are getting more into the mainstream. There’s scuba diving, surfing, para sailing, rafting, and other fun activities people can actually do about water. Although water sports are a bit expensive to sustain because one has to provide some specialized water-resistant gears, but these sports are really making a big name especially among the young ones.

One particular water sport that may get everybody interested because the extreme nature that’s with it plus the rush and excitement one can surely experience upon mastering it is wakeboarding, which is actually the combined dynamics of water-skiing, snowboarding, and surfing. Hitting three birds with one stone, eh?

Today, through the development of the sport, enthusiast may choose between open or closed water circuits. In the open water, the rider is usually towed by a motorboat, which can be more variable as speed may change depending on the water condition and the area, while the closed course is somewhat limited because the location is more like an artificial lake and commonly uses an energy-powered cable system to drag the riders around the course. All the same, they can both deliver you the precise art of wakeboarding.

Anyone may consider trying it as long as you don’t fear the possibility of getting tangled in the cable, being dragged along the water course inevitably, and worse tearing some skin and breaking some bones upon landing after the ramp. After all, fun and risks are two things that go hand in hand even with all the other sports. But there’s always the safe way as everyone would contest about it.

It can look a bit tricky, but it’s quite easy and very addictive according to those who have experienced it. Riding the wakeboard is rather simple at least in theory by just hitting the wake and waiting for yourself to be launched into the air or hitting a special ramp also called as a kicker. Now if you’re serious about knowing much about the sport and experiencing it, try some amateur courses first before you consider purchasing the basic gears such as the board, bindings, helmet, gloves, life vest, and goggles or sunglasses. After that, you can start all the practicing to master a host of manoeuvres like the switch, the raley, or the butter slide.

Here’s the second part of our rendezvous in planning about the perfect bash for our dearly beloved gal pal. And we hope that these add-ons fulfil the joy of her last days being the maiden that she still is. Here are crazy and fun stuffs you can do as games or activities to complete the wild party for that night:

Highlight the Night with Rubbers

Condoms can serve as good decorating tool. Although these might seem taboo in public but there’s no way that they’re forbidden in this moment of her life. You can blow ‘em up and tie their ends to make a bouquet or even a multi-colored streamer. For a crazier idea, you can glue some blown-up condoms to a head band and make everyone or only the soon-to-be-bride wear one. There’s nothing more candid and funny with kinky stuffs all over the place, which we can make fun of less maliciously.

She Made Me Wear This

Ever had a bridesmaid in a really tacky dress? You can relieve those memories by making that the party’s attire. Have a blast in teasing each other and recalling funny prom or grad night stories during your high school and college days. Let the bride pick out winning outfits such as Cheesiest Prom-style Dress or Most Unflattering Colors.

Take Your Best Shot

Reserve one small part of the room to set up a photo booth by placing a digital camera on a tripod and hanging a funky piece of cloth to create a backdrop in it. Prepare some funny or stylish hats, costumes, accessories for some serious fun in front of the camera. Complete the work by adding a printer nearby for Polaroid-perfect shots.

Learn to Strip

Accompany your martinis, vodkas, and your other fancy alcohols by having an all-out moment with a sexy music on to complete the wildness of the night. Perhaps you can start the striptease along with your game girlfriends to heat up the atmosphere. The last thing you’ll know everyone will be joining and already stripped away. This is a perfect chance of letting go of your inhibitions together with the closest gals you have. And admit it, a little striptease lesson will go a long way at wedding night.

Holes vs. Rods

If it’s in the plan that male friends can come then let the men join in for some wicked fun, too! Prepare broomsticks and tissue rolls, then pair off the guests and blindfold them. Put a broomstick between the guy’s legs, while a roll of tissue between the girls then let each pair go a distance away with each other. Each pair must guide the stick through the paper hole sans the use of hands. The fastest pair wins!

The Best Time is Always Macho-Dancing Time

It might be that one night in the bride’s life when she can see another man in his full glory—without the guild. You can pay for a professional but you can always improvise without spending too much. Get her guy friends to pretend to be male dancers. There’s nothing funnier than seeing men getting jiggy with it.

This article is based on a Cosmopolitan Magazine issue in 2009.

A great site to learn about weddings is www.bride.com

We have to admit that we’re experiencing a worldwide climate change. At this moment where we are, we might be battling with snowstorms or hurricanes while the other part suffers tremendous heat and drought. Perhaps, we can survive all these phenomena but we have to face the fact that Mother Earth is actually calling everyone to protect and conserve whatever is left in her, even in the least ways we can.

In an effort to make different contributions in this worldwide environmental campaign, people do composting, segregation, energy conservation, or planting more trees. There are actually lots of methods we can do in able to do our contribution. These can be in the form of air, land, noise, or water conservation measures.

One of the most used natural resources all over the world is fresh water, which is only three percent of the total Earth water, and about two-thirds of that is actually in the form of glaciers. Water is of course renewable as from what we learned since our elementary education. But what we don’t realize is that water has to undergo a lot of process and has to count months and years before we can even use it as a valuable resource. This is not to mention the process and time it takes to form groundwater, which a major source for deep well utilization.

Imagine the impact to our natural resources considering the world’s entire population and its rate of water consumption versus groundwater formation itself. This is the reason why environmental activists and concerned citizens all over the world try to get everyone be aware of this imbalance and how water recycling can alleviate the problem. The fact is water recycling can be an easy process which we can do in our home by only having to set up rain barrels in our backyard or attaching them to our downspouts.

We can conserve water through this method because we’ll be able to cut down on the use of clean water for garden and lawn irrigation, cleaning purposes, or even emergency use. Think of how much water volume one can save and how much more if all of us contribute to this kind of crusade. We just have to think that we don’t really own nature, it’s always for the future generation.