Seven Quick Fixes to Feel Better

Anxiety and fear dissipate quickly when countered with conscious breathing.

The signals our bodies use to tell us we need to cleanse ourselves physically, mentally, and emotionally are multifaceted and often mirror symptoms we associate with illness. If we heed these signs, we not only feel better quickly but also stave off poor health before it can start. These quick fixes for common ailments can get you started.

1. Applying pressure to the acupressure point between the thumb and forefinger can release blockages causing pain, tension, and fatigue. You can relieve a headache naturally by squeezing for 20 seconds and releasing for 10 seconds, without letting go, four times.

2. To breathe freely, irrigate your nasal passages with a neti pot and warm salt water. As you clear and soothe the sinuses, congestion associated with allergies or infection will gradually disappear.

3. Apple cider vinegar is a powerful purifying and detoxifying agent. Soaking for 20 minutes in a warm bath infused with two cups of apple cider vinegar pulls toxins from the body and can clear blocked energy.

4. The foods you eat can have a profound impact on your outlook and mood. Eating a small yet satisfying meal rich in complex carbohydrates can lift your spirit and help you let go of feelings of anger, irritability, and depression. 

5. Anxiety and fear dissipate quickly when countered with conscious breathing because concentrating on the breath enables you to refocus your attention inward. You can ground yourself and regain your usual calm by taking a series of deep belly breaths as you visualize your feet growing roots that stretch miles down into the earth.

6. Though tuning out can seem counterproductive, a few minutes spent lost in daydreams or listening to soothing music can help you see your circumstances from a new angle when you feel frustrated.

7. If you feel ill health coming on, brew a wellness elixir. Simmer three sliced lemons, one teaspoon freshly grated ginger, one clove freshly minced garlic, and one quarter teaspoon cayenne pepper in five cups water until the lemons are soft and pale. Strain a portion into a mug and add honey by tablespoons until you can tolerate the taste. Drinking this potent mixture of antibacterial, antiviral, and antifungal ingredients three times each day can ensure your symptoms never progress into a full-blown illness.

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Ideas for motivation

Here is one word to live by in every aspect of your life. This video outlines how you can be the best at everything you do, just like the greats of sports, business and politics.



Passion and motivation are key factors in going forward in life. CEO Peter Bregman provides the following tips:

Why do many people have trouble focusing on what really needs to get done?

For a few reasons. First of all, there’s so much to do – and everything is screaming for attention – that it’s hard to distinguish what’s important and what’s peripheral. Everything seems important. In the face of so many things to do, it’s hard to distinguish what really matters.

Also, we tend to procrastinate most on the things that are most important to us. We are afraid of failure – if something is really important to me and I don’t succeed, what would that say about me and my future? – So we have trouble even getting started on the things that matter most to us. In those situations, we need to force ourselves to begin. Start in the morning, before opening your email.

What 18 minutes can help you really accomplish.

18 Minutes is not a lot of time. But spread throughout the day it can have an incredible impact. Divide the 18 minutes into 5 minutes in the morning, 1 minute each hour, and 5 minutes in the evening. Use the morning minutes to get focused, hourly minutes to regain focus, and the evening minutes to recap, learn, and prepare for the next day. 18 minutes creates a structure to the day that helps to get your most important things done.

Should you try and get all your work done by the end of the day?

It is unlikely that you will ever get “all” your work done. For most of us, there’s simply too much to do for any human being to get it all done. Instead, we have to figure out what the “right” things are to get done.

Choose things that matter most and also choose things that you are willing to ignore. Then ignore the things that don’t matter and schedule what you want to get done onto your calendar. If you decide when and where you are going to do something, you’ll get it done. If you don’t, you won’t. We should all be working off our calendars, not our task lists.

What are the four elements that form the foundation of your success and happiness?

We are most happy when we are working at the intersection of our strengths, weaknesses, differences, and passions. That’s our sweet spot. When we are making full use of our strengths, leveraging (not developing) our weaknesses, doing things we are uniquely qualified and positioned to do, and spending our time on activities that give us energy because we love them, then we will be successful and happy.