10 Ways to Love Myself More (By Tamara Monell)

1. Maintain optimism no matter how bad you feel. These are the times for one to stay positive so that you can maintain a healthy attitude to manage your emotions in a healthy manner.


2. Use positive affirmations and language. Ones internal dialogue such be as positive as possible to manage negative thoughts, feelings and reactions. Positive self-statements also lead to increase hope which helps to keep one motivated.


3. Keep up with your appearance and hygiene as this is fundamental in maintaining a healthy state of mind. Beauty begins in the inside and can help you feel good to look good. The days you feel the worst are the most important days ones needs to get out of bed, shower, get dressed and begin their day of exploration for happiness.


4. Learn to accept praise. This is a great way to get use to compliments from others and hopefully beginning to complement yourself. When one has talents it is healthy and necessary to acknowledge and appreciate them.


5. Surround yourself with positive people. This is important when developing healthy relationship. In having people support system one is valuing oneself in addition to looking out for ones best interest.


6. Have self-confidence. The best person to trust is yourself so if you must, work on improving this area in your life. With self-confidence one can do and deal with anything. This is also important when making decisions in ones life.


7. Accept your weakness and focus on using your strengths to make improvements in your life. No one is perfect and should never try to be as this will only add unnecessary pressure.


8. Build on your strengths as these are the qualities and talents one is bless to grow with.


9. Learn to forgive yourself for your regrets and/or mistakes. One not only falls but also grows form any and all experiences whether it be good or bad.


10. Love yourself no matter who you feel you are. The only person who determines this you. This means learning to change areas in your life that need improvements that will help lead to progress in ones life.

Written by: Tamara A. Monell MS, LMHC, NCC
Date: Sunday 03-14-10 @10:55 PM
Expert advice from a Licensed Mental Health Counselor & Psychotherapist; National Certified Counselor
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Tamara_Monell



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God Bless Japan

2011/03/11日本東北大地震對於日本居民，甚至是全世界的人來說，一定非常難忘。媒體放送地震當下的畫面，讓我想起921地震時的驚恐，今天新聞發佈地震級數更是上修至9級，是921的256倍大，地震當時一定很可怕，更可怕的是地震引發海嘯吞噬船、汽車、房屋、農田以及居民.........那一刻的畫面，更讓我覺得怵目驚心!! 日本福島核電廠也因地震、海嘯而造成爆炸，昨天九州又有火山爆發.........災難不斷的發生，大自然的力量，不是我能夠想像，而我更不敢想像，如果這次的地震發生在一樣位處板塊交界地帶的台灣，結果會是怎樣??  相較之下，我的煩惱是如此渺小..........唉~~這一刻，請替日本祈福，希望日本可以盡快走出災難的陰影，恢復往日的生活，God Bless Japan.

酷酷嗽

算一算感冒到現在也十多天，「酷酷嗽」的情況一直沒改善，只要多說話，就開始咳咳咳，咳到都胸痛了，還是感覺有濃濃的痰卡在呼吸道出不來，尤其是晚上睡覺前，咳的特別厲害。下午Eva Wu專程從桃園開車送來止咳涼涼小黑丸，好感動哦。現在的我，每天十點上床睡覺，早點休息，希望感冒咳嗽快點好。google到下列四種經絡止咳方法，我要來試試，也順便分享給大家。


終結「酷酷嗽」四式 1／毛巾去寒 止酷酷嗽

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終結「酷酷嗽」四式 2／輕拍胸口 身體補氣

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終結「酷酷嗽」四式 3／久咳不停 舒通經絡鬆身
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終結「酷酷嗽」四式 4／徹底改善 夜間咳嗽

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亞布力滑雪行

2011/2/25~2/28滑雪行，地點選在離哈爾濱市區約200KM的亞布力滑雪場，亞布力是全中國最大的滑雪區，曾舉辦過冬運，整個亞布力區有好多滑道，是很棒的滑雪區。

哈爾濱行Tom已請當地友人--馬磊安排好，2/25一早帶著愉快的心情從台北出發，和Tom在上海浦東機場碰面後，轉機到哈爾濱太平機場，因上海飛哈爾濱的班機delay2小時，到哈爾濱市區時已經是晚上8點多，從深圳出發的Aki & David早已在市區閒逛2小時，等我們一起用餐，日落後的哈爾濱氣溫是零下10度C以下，這麼冷的天，在街頭逛街，一定是冷到不行 :s

2/26從哈爾濱搭火車前往亞布力，從來沒在中國搭過一般的火車，感覺很新奇。火車有分軟座及硬座，軟座就像包廂房，一個包廂短程供6人座位，長程則是供4人的臥舖，硬座就像是一般的火車座位，馬磊特別訂了軟座，讓我們這些台北俗體驗第一次不同的中國火車行。

3個小時的車程抵達亞布力，沿途的風景也不輸北歐哦。

下午著裝滑雪去囉，等我們租用好雪具，準備開始滑雪時，外頭開始飄起雪來，搭上覽車上山去。

馬磊&David是第一次滑雪，學2小時就搭上覽車到半山腰，滑初級雪道2次後，馬磊體力不支休息去了。

David和我們一起搭覽車上山頂，誰知道這是他一切惡夢的開始......David說他沒料到中級滑道是這麼陡峭，好不容易走完中級滑道，差不多把體力也耗盡，到達初級滑道時，沒剎車一路從半山腰往下衝，重力+速度最後失速跌倒，就這樣把左腳的膝蓋及小腿骨頭給摔裂了，得開刀治療，滑雪真的是很費體力及危險的運動啊....

2/27仍照原訂行程，早上再滑半天，經過昨晚下了一整夜的雪，一大早山上的樹木有霧松，好美哦。



因David腳受傷，我也更加的小心，Aki&Tom挑戰了A2及A4高級滑道，我還是選擇在A1中級滑道就好。

下午退了火車票，包車回哈爾濱市區，沿途高速公路路況很差，難怪大多數的人選擇搭火車到亞布力。用完餐後，馬磊帶我們到松花江畔、中央大道步行街去走走，松花江仍是結冰狀態，哈爾濱市區的體感溫度怎麼比滑雪場更冷啊~~我開始懷念台北溫暖的天氣了。

2/28一大早搭機回浦東，再轉回桃園機場，機場迎賓大廳多了些可愛的娃娃，是花博娃娃嗎?

太久沒滑雪，全身痠痛，又因滑雪渡假村外部供熱水系統故障，洗完冷水澡，出現的感冒症狀，回來後愈明顯，很擔心是新流感，上星期五Tom同學胖哥因新流感急救無效，唉~~還是一句，平安健康最重要。