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This is my world of relaxation!

The most relaxing thing in the world is
a hot soak!

soft_an_silky's Recipe for Homemade Bath Salts

Use equal parts of:     Rock Salt (ice cream salt)
              Epsom Salts
                                          several drops of food coloring

In a bowl, toss all ingredients until it's the color you want.
Store in a decorative decanter.
A cupful of these salts will give you a "relaxing" soak and leaves your skin soft.
Just Enjoy!

Poem

I hold in my hands a box of gold

with a secret inside that has never been told.

The box is priceless, but as I see

the treasure inside is far more precious to me.

Today I share this treasure with thee.

It's the treasure of friendship you've given to me.

Author
soft_an_silky

If nobody smiled and nobody cared and nobody helped us along.
If every moment looked after itself and good things always went to the strong;
If nobody thought just a little about you and nobody cared about me,
and we stood alone in the battle of life. What a dreary old world this would be
Life is sweet, just because of friends we have made
and the things which in common we share.
We want to live on, not because of ourselves, but because of the people who care.
It is doing and giving for somebody else on which all of life's splendor depends
The joy of this world, when you've summed it all up, is found in the making of friends.

Author
soft_an_silky

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Herbal Alternatives

Home Remedies

Powder cold feet with pepper ---

Sprinkle cayenne pepper in your shoes. Cayenne contains capsaicin, an ingredient believed by some naturopaths to help stimulate circulation.

Water down sinus headaches --

Just hold your wrists under running hot tap water for three minutes, then switch to cold for 30 seconds. Dennis, who comes from a family of sinusitis sufferers, says that he always feels instant relief. T. Michael Culp, N.D., Healthy Living's consulting naturopath, says the best way to beat the misery of sinusitis is "to shunt blood and heat away from the head." In this case, the hot water draws blood to the hands; you can also transport it to your toes by soaking your feet in hot water while at the same time applying a cold cloth to the back of your neck.

Gone with the wind --

One teaspoon each of grated ginger andlime juice. Slug it down as soon as you've swallowed your last mouthful. Gets rid of gas every time. Beans and other high-fiber foods contain hard-to-digest sugars, which ferment with bacteria in the colon, giving us gas. Ginger is often used in traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurvedic medicine asa muscle relaxant or antispasmodic. The sweet-smelling herbis believed to contain ingredients similar to digestive enzymes and can help break down the sugars before the fermentation begins

Did you Know?

Micro electronic impulses that are collected in the nervous system
along the spinal cord, are released from the body by standing barefoot on the ground!
Standing barefoot on the ground (not pavement) acts just like the grounding
plug found on all electrical plugs these days. It directs excessive impulses
through the body and into the ground.
Feeling a bit of anxiety or tension?
Then kick your shoes off and walk around the backyard!