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Are your emotions being affected by pain, illness, injuries, medications, recreational drugs, alcohol, or caffeine? If your emotions feel troubling or overactive, could they be responding to health conditions or substances that destabilize you or reduce your ability to manage? Are your intimate relationships healthy? Your love relationships, friendships, family, and children are a part of your basic emotion-regulation structure. If you've developed healthy relationships with people who respect you, listen to you, and love you, your emotions will have an excellent foundation of support and ease. If you haven't, your emotions may need to protect you at all hours of the day and night. How is work? If you work full-time, you spend more time at work than you do in any other place except possibly your bed. You essentially live at work, and it has a tremendous effect on your ability to listen to and work with your emotions. A healthy workplace can contribute to your emotional health, but an unhealthy one can keep your emotions on guard for most of the day (or night). Here are the six essential legal documents to have ready for your loved one. MEDICAL DOCUMENTS HIPAA authorization (U. The Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was created to protect the privacy of a patient's health information. Under this law, doctors and other medical professionals, as well as caregivers, are not allowed to discuss a patient's health information with anyone but the patient, unless the patient has provided them with a HIPAA release form. Your loved one can get a copy of this document at their doctor's office. Health care power of attorney (POA) A health care POA gives legal permission for a trusted person (eg, a family member, friend, or caregiver) to make healthcare decisions on your behalf. This document would allow a person with PD, for example, to grant legal authority to a trusted relative or friend to make healthcare decisions on their behalf. The person with health care POA could then determine things like where the person with PD lives, what they eat, who bathes them, and what medical care they receive.

Mental Neurotoxins Pessimistic attitudes create chronic stress as the person is always bracing for the worst. Catastrophizing leads to anxiety and paralyzing fear, producing stress hormones and increasing inflammation; Optimists live 19% longer than pessimists. Critical self-talk is a kind of mental autoimmune disorder, and it's reached epidemic proportions. When the self attacks itself, this negative, critical self-talk produces stress hormones and shame. The feeling of shame is so difficult to bear because it directly undermines our sense of self and makes us feel unworthy, not okay, unlovable. Shame produces inflammation. The fragile brain that produces the fragile self easily fragments in challenging situations or when self-esteem is threatened (eg, calling yourself a loser or stupid or feeling rejected). When the self fragments in the face of an assault like this, shame and inflammation result. Wear It Down Attending a dressy event and thinking about having your hair swept into a tight updo? Whether it's a celebrity at an awards show or you at your cousin's wedding, hair pulled tautly on top of the head looks matronly. For one thing, it allows everyone to get a good look at your jaw, your neck, and your collarbone, which you may not want in the line of sight. But even if you have a firm jaw, the more modern way to pull back hair is to make it casual, loose, and a little messy, as if you just pinned it up on your way out the door and couldn't be bothered to catch all the strands. When in doubt, wear your hair down. It's so much sexier. Grow It (But There Is Such a Thing as Too Long) Just because you're no longer sixteen doesn't mean you have to pack away your sensuality and chop off your hair. Although a gamine pixie cut can look incredibly sexy, it's not your only option.

Your heart rate as you are being pushed out fluctuates from 180 to 250 because of the intense physiological impression state and you think you are dying. The light is gone and all you hear is crushing pressure and suddenly, you are in the light and all of the pressure is gone and the face of your mother is mind boggling and the colors in the iris in her eye is remarkable with so many changing colors, filaments of color in your mothers hair, changing every time she moves, or laughs or even breathes. It is an extraordinary scene of greens and blues, and you can't believe how beautiful the world is. And then we go through a forgetting of the magic that we are alive right now, forgetting that we are in an exquisite miracle of beauty every day. That miracle of life becomes a dying memory of the magic that is life itself. This is part of the process of living and dying. It is a cycle. You then find yourself in yet another extraordinary event, the process called death. You find yourself in the darkness inside an ICU; Your heart rate is failing, and then you enter into this dark tunnel. But the fact remains that those leaders who are unwilling to share information with their people will never have their people as partners in running the company successfully and will never have an empowered organization. This act of sharing information is absolutely crucial to empowering an organization. That's why it's the first key. You're asking for a major shift in thinkingalmost a lobotomy, said Marvin with an uncomfortable laugh. I know it, said Robert. Every leader has to fight the battle against habit and tradition in the depths of his or her own heart. Each leader has to make a leap of faith. The most crucial place the shift has to occur is inside you. It certainly would be a big first step for me, said Marvin emphatically. And why wouldn't it be?

Just do it. Usually, by starting you build enough momentum to keep on going. Simply concentrate on taking the first step. Start by taking one small first step. And then another. And another. These small steps will add up to results quite quickly. The only difference between people who reach their goals and people who don't, between successful and unsuccessful people is one thing: Taking action. A year from now you will thank you for having started today. The only difference between who you want to be and who you are now is what you do from today onwards. My life gets more fabulous every day. I look forward to what each new hour brings. I am neither too little nor too much, and I do not have to prove myself to anyone. Life supports me in every possible way. My consciousness is filled with loving, positive, healthy thoughts that are reflected in my experience. The greatest gift I can give myself is unconditional love. I love myself exactly as I am. I no longer wait to be perfect in order to love myself. Releasing Your Inner Critic Today you learn to break the habit of judgment and self-criticism, and to go beyond the need to put yourself down.

Instead of following your gut instinct, you overthink and end up making the wrong decisions. Creating Problems You may also find yourself thinking in a way where you are creating problems that are not there in the first place. There are certain situations or things which are not as complex as you think. In ordinary situations, it would have taken you a minute or two to solve them. It is vital to focus more on the bigger picture and not nitpick at the details. Sometimes it is important to see things as they are. Don't complicate your life by thinking of potential problems. Magnifying the Issue Usually, small problems require simple solutions. It is not up to you if you are born rich or poor, smart or somewhat dense, handsome or ugly. But it is very much up to you to make the best of it. That is the measure of your excellence as a human being. DON'T BE SUPERSTITIOUS. YOU CANNOT read your future in signs from the stars, cards, tea leaves, or psychics. Besides, no matter what the universe has in store for you, it is up to you to make the best of it, whether it concerns your health, your property, your reputation, or your relations. Let it, therefore, happen as it may; THE SURE WAY TO WIN contests is to enter only those in which you are guaranteed to win. The only contest that qualifies is that for becoming a better person. Nothing else.