This quote accurately describes a fact; a fact that, in this day and age, is obscured by the flashiness of videogames, computers, and electronics. Unfortunately the way Abbey portrays this can be interpreted to signify being in the wilderness is a chore. This is not true, as being in the wilderness can be a wonderful revitalizing experience. Electronics can easily cause a sensory overload. When in the wilderness, the lack of this overload allows us more time and a better environment for inward self- reflection. People should spend more time outdoors. If they did they would slowly begin to realize how wonderful it is.

The wilderness is, after all, an immense fantastic place. However when compared with television and mp3’s seems rather primitive and primordial. Many humans across the globe have become so accustomed to the electronic stimulus, that if you take it away, these people would feel somehow empty or void. This is because they are blocking out their natural self, their ability to see a place teeming with life and enjoy it. The wilderness is the place where all life comes together. It is the root of life, where everything lives and dies.

Unfortunately in this technologic era, city dwellers experience little to naught about the wonders of the mountains, trees, plains, rivers, and forests. This makes it easy for one to push the thought of the wilderness to the back of one’s mind. As one of America’s great nature writers, Sigurd Olson said:

“Wilderness to the American people is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.”

This is absolutely true, and demonstrates that it is necessary for people to take some time away from cell phones and pda’s, and spend time outdoors, if they wish to remain spiritually balanced. In order to counteract the high intensity work environment of this time, people need to spend some time outdoors. However this does not just mean to go tanning on the beach, this means to really experience it for yourself by getting out there and interacting with nature in any number of different ways, including hiking, or climbing.

The nature of modern-days ever-advancing technology leads humans to become more and more dependant on it. We need to severe this link of dependence and make it one not of necessity, but one that is only used for luxury and productivity. This way we would be able to more fully appreciate the wilderness. After all what would happen if a meteor struck? What about a hurricane or tornado, where people would need to start all over? Would any body have the necessary skills to survive?

The wilderness is full of variety. How people can become bored of it, I do not comprehend. It can be dry or wet, hot or cold, full or empty, vivid or dull, complex or simple, colorful or bleak, and most all the time mathematical. Mother Nature is the world’s best architect. She inputs the many principles of science, math, architecture, engineering, and more into her work. Nonetheless the name “Mother Nature” is misleading. “Nature” is not one thing nor another or even a mother. It is an element that is in all living objects. It is the element that shapes us, and nurtures us from the inside. A tree grows because of its very nature, a flower buds by its own element of nature. Even a boy only matures into a man because of this force. This force many people mistake to be unseen, but in reality is all around us. The force can be seen by a simple trip into the woods. With the right perspective one can view into the plants and animals and really get to know them, simply because of this one life element we share.

Even though we share our natural being, all living things are different. Humans like one, are fundamentally different from one another, and so are plants. Though they share characteristics, no two are the same. This is one thing many people mistake. They go hiking in lets say the Goat Rocks Nat. Wilderness. Next year someone offers them to go hiking in Glacier Nat. Wilderness and they refuse on the bases that you’ve “seen one, seen ‘em all”. When it comes to the wilderness however, this notion is totally untrue. By experiencing the wilderness for yourself, you slowly develop your own way of looking at it. With this perspective, all wildernesses are different and immense pleasure can be gained by climbing a mountain, or kayaking the Puget Sound, even going bird watching.

Another factor to take into consideration when promoting the wilderness is self-gain. One thing about climbing mountains is that no matter how big your ascent party is, when it comes down to it, the challenge is just between you and the peak. It becomes a struggle for a different type of personal salvation, a salvation that you only feel when breathing the fresh sweet air gusting down through a valley, or the limited oxygen light headiness you experience at the summit. However it’s all about setting goals. When someone says I want to hike 11 miles today, they do it for personal betterment. Although it may not seem like that at the time, they will hopefully realize that they have just strengthened the bond between themselves and nature. Also by being in the wilderness you strengthen yourself physically and mentally. One really gets to know their self and there limits by experiencing nature in the outdoors.

Another reason to spend more time outdoors is the simply the sheer beauty of the wilderness and its occupants. As Jules H. Poincare said:
“If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.”
Everything in the wilderness is constantly growing and that makes for an always-changing everlasting beauty. Some people may doubt that seeing a dead tree is beautiful, however with a different perspective, it can be. In the dead tree you can see the beginning of new life and the “circle of life” so promoted by the child’s movie Lion King.

I encourage all readers not to totally reform their lives around the wilderness but rather conform your schedule to allow time to enjoy life. Not just your own but all around. Nature is full of exciting things if you take the time to look for them. It’s taken me 15 years to figure this out, and I hope that you have or will find this out soon.
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life!”
John Muir

“Mirror Mirror on the Wall, who’s the most beautiful of them all?”

This is a line spoken by the Queen in the children’s fairy tale “Snow White”

The Queen most likely, was once the most beautiful woman in the kingdom; expected only to hear the Mirror confirm that fact.

To the Queen’s dismay The Mirror had exchanged her beauty for that of Snow White’s He pulled down the Queen’s Beauty position replacing it with that of her Snow White’s.

Immediately, jealousy reared it’s ugly head, causing the Queen to begin her all consuming quest of getting rid of innocent Snow White.Set in today’s age that Mirror would very well become television, magazines, internet and the modeling agencies behind them.

Beauty is not so much a look as it is an action.For if beauty was a look then the same model would be Queen of television, magazines, and internet forever and only to be replaced with a clone of Queen Model.

In my time it was Farrah Fawcett and Bo Derek at the top of the list. Many women copied just about everything about them. From hairstyle to toenail polish women all across America, wanted to mimic these two Super Models.

What is wrong with copying a style or look you admire, not anything as long as you don’t allow it to all consume you to the point that you too, are drastically changing your physical looks every time the Mirror says “This is NOW what we call beauty.”

Beauty is not a look but an action. The simple act of carrying yourself in a wonderful way can make you feel beautiful.

Here is another action you can practice in your quest of beauty.

At least once a day look into a mirror place a decisive smile on your face and say very simply:

“Beautiful!” and know, that no matter how you feel you are describing yourself! Over a period of time not only will you begin to feel beautiful. You will also ,begin to see things about your physical self in a much better light and begin to compliment yourself.

In transition as you will you feel more beautiful. You will hold your head higher and have a more graceful walk. Don’t think others won’t notice, they will!

I wrote this article especially for Body By Baby EZine Subscribers, because the concept of beauty is often lost to women who have became mothers.

Bringing forth a brand NEW LIFE is usually accompanied by extra weight. We as a society must embrace the childbearing body before, during and after pregnancy.

If I may boldly borrow from the Ezine. The body that encompass and nourish a child should be “Treasured as a One of a Kind Work of Art. Sculptured not by hands but by the delicate development of new life!”

I want to apologize to all women who has NOT felt beautiful due to media’s concept of beauty.No one or no thing should ever make a person feel that they are lacking in any area of self worth, for the BIBLE says that we are fearfully and wonderfully made!

The next time you look into a Mirror don’t ASK it if you’re beautiful! TELL IT YOUR’RE BEAUTIFUL!

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The only thing I can think of is, “Where are you, Mama?” It was so much fun in the pasture where I could run and play with my friends and eat when I got hungry. What am I doing here? I feel like I’m being punished. They jammed me into a trailer that was so full I couldn’t even wiggle.I didn’t fall down when my feet slid on the wet floor, but the grassy pasture was sure a lot softer to stand on.

I hear lots of babies crying, waiting in little square pens in the big sale barn. Where did they all come from? They put me in a pen with about 40 other strangers. I passed my sister in the aisle. She learned about pregnancy tests and…the workers are all cussing about how mad she got, kicking the vet in the leg. What do they mean? “They will all end up as steak at some cowboy’s barbeque next year?”

Ouch! Here comes that electric buzzer again….Wait a minute! We just got out of one trailer, where are we going now? Hey, this really isn’t such a bad place. Nice little corral, dry hay and fresh water. I might even like it here….What a night! Couldn’t sleep a wink! Some of my new friends bawled all night long. It was the first time they were away from their mothers. Throats are even hoarse. Uh-oh, they’re warming up a branding iron? On top of missing you mom….Ma-a-aw! Maw! You never warned us that some things might hurt. Hey, our chorus sounds pretty good together! There’s Mrs. Farmer taping us now. She thinks her city cousin would like to hear the sounds of farm life. Mmm-o-mm, can’t you hear us….all together? I wish I could have stayed home. Ma-a-a-w! Ma-a-a-aw!

Lynn Moriarty Parman is author of Mushroom Marathon, Running Toward the Prize of Serenity, 2004, Authorhouse. She has also been published in Stars and Stripes, 2003.

Sometimes both people have become very angry at each other, or both feel hurt. Hurt feelings can be the result of a slip of the tongue, a misunderstanding, or a deed committed in bad judgment. Sometimes feelings are hurt deliberately in the heat of anger and regretted later.

If we were the guilty party, we might regret what we said the instant we let the hurtful remark out of our mouths. We might want to apologize right away, but some of us find apologizing about anything extremely difficult, almost impossible.

Sometimes the reason we don’t apologize is because we are convinced that the other person totally deserved our angry outburst. Sometimes the reason we don’t apologize is because we have absolutely no idea that we hurt the other person. And sometimes we apologize very profusely, but we don’t really mean it.

When you sincerely apologize to a friend, it means that you regret causing the other person emotional pain, and you want to work on repairing the friendship.

If you have said or done something that hurt your friend or partner, it is important to acknowledge your loved one’s painful emotions. You can say something like, “I’m so sorry you feel hurt because of what I said. I didn’t mean to hurt you. Let’s talk about what happened.”

In some relationships, hurt feelings and problems are never dealt with. Instead, they get “swept under the rug”. These relationships may look polite on the surface and they may even be long-lived, but they are not really very intimate. There is no deep sharing between the two people and there is no ability to be honest.

If one, or both of you, are feeling very angry with the other, put off your in-depth discussion until both of you are to be calm and levelheaded. But apologize to your friend sincerely as soon as you can.

Once an apology for a particular incident has been extended and accepted, don’t go back and revisit old battles the next time you have a disagreement. Take care of each incident as it comes up and don’t nurse old resentments.

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Those who follow spiritual laws to lead their life know a basic fact and that is:

Your thoughts are very powerful. They determine your life.

If you think positive thoughts, you life is very positive. You are healthy, you have money, time, a great lifestyle, opportunities, friends, a good love relationship, and you live joyously.

If, on the other hand, you chattering mind is negative, your life is a disaster, so to speak. It is quite the contrary from been joyous. You are broke, you have no friends, no opportunities, your relationships suck, you hate your job, your health leaves much to be desired, life is a drag. You hate it most of the time.

So, how do you know what kind of thought are you thinking? Just look at you, your surroundings, and your reality. Most of us have our ups and downs. We are also very imbalanced, as some areas of our life are good, some are satisfactory, and some are plain yucky.

For instance, you may have a great family and good friends but you hate your job and your boss is exasperating. Or, you do love your job and make good money but you have several small physical problems or a huge one. Or, perhaps, you have good health and a loving family but have no money.

That means that your thoughts are positive in some aspects and negative in others. You need to learn to send positive thoughts all the time for everything in order to balance your life so all of it is just one joy after another.

What you need to do to balance your life based on the Law of Attraction and the power of your thoughts is to transform all of your negative thoughts into positive ones. To accomplish this, this simple game does wonders. Here is how you play it:

To everything that you so desire (but your mind limits), begin your sentence with “Wouldn’t it be nice if…?” For example:

“Wouldn’t it be nice if I had someone to help me organize my desk?”

“Wouldn’t it be nice if I found the best caretaker for my pets when I way in the summer?”

“Wouldn’t it be nice if my body were supple and firm?”

“Wouldn’t it be nice if I had a cash availability of $50,000 in the bank?”

“Wouldn’t it be nice if I could eat all the chocolate in the world and still keep my ideal weight?”

By saying “Wouldn’t it be nice if…?” you trick your mind into accepting what you want because it is just a wishful question and your mind can’t say: “Oh, yeah, right! Not in your dreams!” But pay attention how powerful this wishful question is when you play the game. Your manifestations will start pouring in your life.

© Maria Moratto 2006

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You get a very good feeling when you make new money. You also get a very good feeling when you save money.

Here’s how you can have and enjoy both:

First, I’d like to share my personal story with you.

When it came to fortunate breaks in life, I would lose out a lot. As the old saying goes: I’d be “a day late, and a dollar short”.

I would sometime come in second place, third place, or fourth place. I would come up short. Missing out on first place opportunities by a thin hair.

Strange mishaps kept working against me. Odd-ball twists. Monkey wrenches thrown into my plans at the last minute. It was so bad, sometimes I thought there was a secret curse on me.

I would come up short too many times, too often, for it to be normal or natural. Something was mysteriously holding me back. Somehow, I was missing the good life; the mother lode of “lucky breaks”, “deals”, “bargains”, “windfalls”, “contests”, “found Money”, “fortunate advantages” etc.

You know what I mean. I was losing out. I would miss out on good opportunities by the skin of my teeth. I missed items on sale by a day, lost office pools, unfortunate mishaps, expired coupons, losing lottery tickets, etc.

I lost thousands of dollars every year on failed and missed opportunities.

I can still remember my sick stomach feeling I would have after purchasing an item, only to see it go on sale a day, or week later. It got so bad, I would hesitate buying, fearing the item would go on sale just afterward.

Some would say I was just plain “unlucky”. Remember, I said it seemed like a curse was hanging over me.

But here’s what I found out: there wasn’t a curse on me after all, the problem was my own mind. I wasn’t using it properly. I mean, I wasn’t daily, actively, using it to better my life.

Formal schools never taught me how to use my mind. So, I wasn’t educated about the mind/life circumstance connection. Even worst, I was mentally ignorant. I didn’t know my subconscious mind from a hole in the ground.

I didn’t see how my mind could make a difference in my life. I thought an unlucky curse was the cause of my missing out. I never suspected my own mind. I always looked outside for the cause/answer, never within.

That all changed, when I started learning how my mind worked. I got a good mental education. I started growing. I learned about my subconscious mind. I kept growing. I learned how to program my subconscious mind.

So, instead of rushing out and buying, only to see the item go on sale later, I now program my subconscious mind, and patiently wait on its intuitive hunch promptings. It works like magic!

My subconscious mind finds out, and sets up all kinds of profitable opportunities for me, then gently signal nudges me to do the right things, and go to the right places at the right times. I started winning. It was truly amazing!

I started catching items on sale, winning lotteries, office pools, parking spots, found money, stock dividends, savings growth, fortunate meetings, great deals on my car, home, etc.

Like a charmed life, I started making and saving thousands of dollars each year; just by properly using my subconscious mind. You can do it too!

Without my mental education, being taught how to use my subconscious mind, I’d still be a loser, missing out on the good life.

Today, people call me “happy-go-lucky”, not knowing how unlucky my life used to be. Today, I treat my subconscious mind like a daily intimate partner. And like that credit card TV commercial said, “I never leave home without it”

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Ok, so it may well seem overwhelming, though sportsbook wagers is essentially merely an amusement and to bond with your buddies. Here, you’ll be able to wager a any small budget of chips and nevertheless enjoy yourself. Beyond this, here are a select number of basic remarks to get you started sportsbook wagers.

In order to bet, you will probably want to look up a sportsbook gambling Web location, that’s to say a place which tenders sportsbook gambling Web location. In the US, you can find four states where everyone can go for sportsbook wagers absolutely legally, but illegally you may attempt it everywhere if you locate a bookie AND you happen to be legally of age. Amongst the sports competitions you’ll have a choice of risking some money on are pro together with college football as well as college basketball, professional hockey, professional hockey, together with wagers on both dog and horse racing. Punters might choose to bet on the total score of a contest or game, at which point the contestant will be defeated, and even if a given tossed coin in a contest or game will land either heads or tails.

The sportsbook provider confide in their figures be of assistance to you determine which club you sense is the likeliest to win. First, you’ll see chances, i.e. lead in points pertaining to a inferior team presumed to go down by a defined number points. Self-Evidently, this comprises the betting outfit’s proven routine of offering even bets for a sports book. To take a practical example, we might bet on a contestant presumed to go down and and nevertheless win that bet if the team does actually get beaten by a defined number of points.

There are plenty of loads of different manners of bets: straight bets, where you’ll simply specify the contestant you feel will make it or be beaten, parlay stakes, teasers and so on, the straight bets being the best known in sportsbook wagers. Why not just experiment with it, and enjoy yourself at one go. Only take pains to ensure that you won’t get too enthusiastic and expend your complete retirement pension on a whim. If not, you just might end up regretting it all life long.

I again started thinking about what I could say and I was reminded of a skill I learned in becoming a coach, the challenge of finding perfection in everything even when it doesn’t seem to make any sense. It has become one of my favorite tools in helping others and along the way myself, by looking deeply into the chaos and struggles in our own lives to discover the real lesson behind them. I felt this same challenge and determination to find something seemingly perfect within this disaster, so there I was smelling blueberry shampoo, feeling grateful, and remembering the mother and son I saw on the news, still looking for the perfection in all this, when it was sitting right in my lap all along.

The waters are receding along with the blame, the chaos and soon I hope the catastrophic suffering as well. It no longer seems relevant that most of the time we are divided by politics, religious affiliations and sometimes still, even the color of our skin. The stories that remain newsworthy when everything else is said and done is the best in all of us and the basic goodness of human nature and that is our ability to be compassionate and kind, to give and receive love, to be generous with our time and money and to feel gratitude for even the simplest of things.

Just a thought

What is perfect about your life right now?

It may not be the smell of blueberry shampoo for you, but how will you remember the perfection in your life at this moment?

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