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Kids cannot stare at a screen and their hands are not available to text or play video games when they are building a snowman, splashing in a stream, scaling a rock wall, digging in a garden, or climbing trees. 1. Lead by example: You are a role model for your kids. If they see you plop on the couch and watch TV they will be inclined to recline as well.
2. Think outside the box: Give a child an expensive gift and they promptly rip it open and… start playing with the gift paper and box. Skip expensive toys and break out glass jars to catch and release insects. Use gift boxes and shoe boxes to display and stow keepsake shells, rocks, dried leaves and other found treasures. It is often said the best toys are 10 percent creation and 90 percent imagination.
3. Watch and Listen: What do your children enjoy doing outside? What activities do they talk about doing? (Ask them). Encourage those activities and build on them.
4. Share: What are your favorite childhood memories of outside play? Share them with your family and then go on a night hike, build a tree house, or run through the sprinklers to create new family memories.
5. Sculpt: By providing your children with opportunities to move and create, you are sculpting their brains. Play fosters new neural connections and prunes existing ones. As kids sculpt snow and sand, they sculpt their futures.
6. Meet: Safety is one of the major reasons parents are hesitant to let their children play outside. Organize a play-date that really is about play.
7. Create opportunities: Do not over schedule your children or yourself. Leave open little windows of time – even if only for 10 minutes – just to goof off and move around and explore outside. Any outdoor activity is much, much better than sitting inside staring at a screen.
8. Resolve: Make a resolution to join the National Wildlife Federation’s Be Out There Movement and take the pledge to get your kids outside.
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Scientists in Germany are reporting a major improvement in their potential new treatment for facial wrinkles that could emerge as an alternative to Botox and cosmetic surgery. The non-invasive technique combines high-intensity light from light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and a lotion made of green tea extract. It works 10 times faster than a similar anti-wrinkle treatment that uses LEDs alone.
American Chemical Society (2009, September 9). LED Light And Green Tea Cream Smooth Facial Wrinkles. ScienceDaily. Retrieved
Whether it is on the eyelid crease, the entire eye, or under the brow, using eyeliner as eye shadow is simple to apply and offers the wearer long lasting waterproof color that can be layered. There are an infinite number of simple ways to use eyeliner as eye shadow. For all applications, it is recommended to dust translucent powder over the entire eyelid. The powder will help to spread, blend, and set the color. Using the side of the pencil, gently shade in the area you want as shadow. Apply the pencil a bit darker than you want the final color to be. Then take any sized concealer brush and blend the color. Small brushes are preferable because they are easy to control. Use short, light strokes blending the edges up away from the majority of the color. This technique will spread the color to look like powder shadow but will have the benefit of a long lasting waterproof shadow. Plus depending on how light or dramatic you want the shadow, you can blend several colors using this technique. Use them as a base to hold powder shadow too. The powder color will look more dramatic and will adhere to the pencil base beautifully. Be creative and use the pencils as both liner and shadow together. Once all the color is applied, dust again with translucent powder to set the color.
Here are some tips on how to make yourself feel better when you are stressed:
1. Calm down: Before anything else, calm yourself down. Do not panic. Close your eyes and take a deep breath.
2. Feed your mind with positive thoughts: When you are depressed, it is easy to fall into a vicious cycle of negative thoughts. It is important that you break this cycle. To do that, feed your mind with positive thoughts. You may read spiritual texts, motivational books, or inspiring quotes. You may also listen to positive tapes.
3. Remember good things: Direct your mind to the positive. Remember the good things in your life. Remember the good people around you.
4. Look at the big picture: An event that seems bad might not seem that bad if you look at the big picture. Put the event in context.
5. Believe that everything will be all right: What you believe has a big effect on you. If you believe that things will go wrong, that would usually be the case. On the other hand, if you believe that everything will be all right, you will have a winning attitude.
6. Exercise: When you are depressed, take time to exercise. Exercise relieves the symptoms of depression and anxiety.
7. Forgive: Sometimes one reason you feel bad is because you do not forgive. Perhaps you had made mistakes in the past and you blamed yourself for it. You need to forgive yourself. Or perhaps someone mistreated you. You need to forgive them.
8. Take action: Things will not get better if you just sit and do nothing. Instead of thinking about how bad things are, think of what you can do to solve the problem and take action.
9. Say something positive: Negative words have a devastating effect on your confidence and motivation. So whenever you are about to say something negative, stop yourself and take a deep breath. Reframe what you are going to say and make it positive.
10. Think about other people: One of the best ways to make yourself feel better is simply by taking the focus away from yourself. Start thinking about other people and how you can help them. When you do that, your problems will no longer seem so hard.
Yeast Shows Good Moisturizing Potentional
Glycolipids produced in abundance by a number of yeast strains exhibit good moisturizing properties and can help damaged skin cells recover, according to a recent study by Japanese scientists.
Woodhouse Day Spas are appearing all over the country, but they are not your average spa nor is the company complacent to settle for the status quo. The Woodhouse team strives to improve and seek solutions to better serve its franchisees and ultimately the guests they serve. Since opening its first set of doors in 2001, The Woodhouse and its business model have proven to be a success. While each guest may receive different treatments, the total experience will always be the same. The company has developed a series of steps that spa employees must deliver to each guest, thus ensuring that all guests receive the same signature elements that are both unique and therapeutic.
With wedding, bikini, and vacation season just around the corner, it is important to start thinking about putting together spa packages and treatments that will assist your clients in getting their backs ready for other people to see. Whether your client is preparing for their wedding dress, getting ready to wear tank tops and ponytails on vacation, or adding that finishing touch for their bathing suit, this year it is important to remind your clients to not forget about their back. We have included several different back treatments from spas around the country to provide you with an idea of treatment menus that can help you emphasize this typically forgotten or hard to reach area of the body.
The combination of new active and effective Immuni-Tea products from Èminence Organic Skin Care with the state of the art LED Light Therapy System will revitalize your skin by reducing inflammation, increasing circulation and lymph activity, and accelerating cellular turnover. Published studies have shown that combining red LED light therapy with green tea lotions and/or serums works 10 times faster than similar anti-wrinkle treatments that use LEDs alone and increases the metabolic rate of the cell, leading to healthier skin rejuvenation with no risk of hyperpigmentation. The overall result is that of naturally smoother, firmer, and more radiant skin with a diminished appearance of fine lines, wrinkles, and age spots.
Step 1 Begin with cleansing the skin by applying a small amount of Citrus Exfoliating Cleanser (oily to normal skin types) or Lemon Cleanser (normal to dry skin types) with water. Apply and massage into the skin, avoiding the eye area. Completely remove with warm water, damp face cloth, and finish with an application of Lime Refresh Tonique.
Step 2 Exfoliate the skin by mixing equal parts Pear & Poppy Seed Microderm Polisher and AHA Fruit Pulp Treatment and apply gently for two to five minutes under steam and then rinse off.
Step 3 Perform extractions as needed.
Step 4 Apply Green Tea & Guava Fortifying Serum to face and neck prior to the light therapy to enhance the penetration of the serum. Please note that no creams of any kind should be applied prior to light therapy.
Step 5 Apply the large red LED probe to the skin, starting at the right side of the neck and avoiding the thyroid gland. Work your way up the right side of the face, around the forehead, down the left side of the face, onto the left side of the neck, and finishing on the décolleté. As you move the probe, overlap the light by 25 to 50 percent each time you pick it up and place it back on the skin. It is important to let the light remain in one area for 10 second increments.
Step 6 Cover the eyelid with a small cotton/gauze pad or with goggles and apply the small red LED probe to problem areas, around the eye area and nasal labial fold, by moving the small probe every 10 seconds.
Step 7 Once the LED treatment is complete, apply a thin layer of Mandarin & Rooibos Antioxidant Masque with fingertips to skin, avoiding the eye area (mask may be diluted for lighter application). Leave on for five to 10 minutes and remove with a damp face cloth.
Step 8 To finish the treatment, apply Guava & Bamboo Age-Defying Moisturizer to the face and neck and Wild Plum Eye Cream to the eye area with light blending movements until absorbed.
It is suggested that treatments are preformed seven to 14 days apart and, depending on the age and skin condition of the client, it generally takes approximately six treatments to achieve desired results with maintenance treatments every 45 to 60 days thereafter. Èminence has taken the finest Eastern philosophies and ingredients and infused them with our traditional Hungarian elements and craftsmanship and the state of the art technology of our LED light therapy system to bring you the most potent skin strengthening treatment yet. Featuring free radical fighting green, white, and rooibos teas; exotic guava and mandarin; and skin strengthening bamboo; your skin will be strong and youthful from head to toe.
For more information please contact Èminence Organic Skin Care of Hungary at 604-602-4787 or www.eminenceorganics.com