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Mustard as Medicine !!!!. A “Must Read” !!!

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Mustard has a large number of alternative uses, mostly related to health. Herbal medicine is known to stimulate and accelerate blood circulation in the body. This can prevent and alleviate a great host of diseases and symptoms, Besides therapeutic use, it also has useful cosmetic properties: Soften hair, treat dry skin and remove odors. So without further a-do, here are 10 surprising uses for mustard!

1. Mustard relieves a sore throat
Mustard can be used as a natural solution to relieve a sore throat. For the preparation of the solution, mix mustard, lemon juice, a teaspoon of salt, a teaspoon of honey and half a cup of boiling water. Let the solution stand for 10 minutes then gurgle it. The effect is supposed to last for a few days, but if the pain returns, prepare another solution.

2. Mustard fights bad odors
Many products are packaged in attractive bottles, jars and boxes, the problem is that in most cases, it is very difficult to remove the odor of the materials previously stored in those tools. In this regard, mustard is a great solution. Pour a little mustard in the dish, add hot water and shake vigorously. Wash the contents of mustard and water, the smell should completely disappear.

3. Mustard relieves chest congestion
Mustard can help prevent the accumulation of mucus in the body. Prepare a compress made of mustard and flour in a ratio of 1:3, add water until you get a mixture, apply it to a cloth and place on the chest for 20 minutes. Another option is to apply the mustard to the ribcage area and lay over it a cloth dipped in hot water. Within a few minutes you will feel better. If you suffer from sinusitis, apply this method to the forehead.

* Please note, mustard may cause allergic reactions in the skin, so you should first make sure you are not sensitive to it.

4. Use Mustard to treat fever and flu
Prepare an infusion of mustard seeds. On a low heat, cook in a pot of boiling water, and a teaspoon of mustard seeds for about five minutes. Let the brew cool and then drink it all.

5. Mustard as a cosmetic mask
Besides improving the taste of food, mustard can highlight the beauty of the skin, especially facial skin. Apply a thin layer of mustard on the skin, let it sit a few minutes then rinse well. After washing, the face will feel smooth and fresh. As mentioned, check first that you are not allergic to mustard.

6. Use mustard to calm muscles
Athletes and the elderly tend to suffer often from tense and aching muscles. An effective way to relieve pain is by sprinkling mustard and Epsom salt (magnesium- sulfate salt) in a tub. Mustard enhances the therapeutic effects of Epsom salt, which will help relieve muscle pain.

7. Mustard to relieve tired feet
Usually, after a busy day of running around, we suffer from the swollen and painful soles. For relief, make a calming solution in the following way: Mix 2 tablespoons of mustard with warm water in a pot or in a bowl, immerse your feet in the bowl for half an hour, and it should calm the pain and swelling.

8. Mustard treatment for painful knees
For people who suffer from chronic knee pain or seasoanl pain, or during physical effort, it is recommended to perform a warm massage with a mixture of olive oil and mustard oil.

9. Mustard to treat back pain
Back pain often limits the movement of the body, but the long ordeal can be reduced with a hot mustard bath. This is good and effective for back pain, muscle aches, arthritis and sprains. Fill the tub with warm water, add 220 mg of mustard, stir until they mix and then dip in the solution for 20 minutes. The pain will be reduced considerably.

10. Mustard to prevent the growth of weeds in your garden
According to scientists, the materials secreted by white mustard seeds can prevent the growth of weeds on the same ground. Plant a handful of mustard seeds near the plants, or sprinkle the seeds around the garden. The amount of weeds will be significantly reduced, so you can move them easily with bare hands. Please note before you plant: the seeds may harm other plants, so make sure to check first.

 

source:::::babamailnet.

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How to Remember the Names of People !!!

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The most effective leaders are the ones who make you feel like they’re really listening. Most importantly, they always remember names.So how can you get better at remembering names?

I learned some secrets to remembering names during my first Dale Carnegie training class last week (I signed up for the eight-week course after hearing Warren Buffet say they “changed [his] life in a big way”). Carnegie passed away in 1955, but his self-improvement courses have trained more than eight million people and are represented in more than 80 countries.

According to my lecturer Bill Lawrence, a lawyer by day, the best way to remember things is to think of the things you know about them in a mental picture — the more exaggerated the image, the easier it is to remember.

This is particularly useful for names.

Carnegie writes in his book “Public Speaking and Influencing Men in Business” that “the secret of a good memory is thus the secret of forming diverse and multiple associations with every fact we care to retain.” Our minds are essentially “associate machines” and the reason why it’s hard to remember people’s names is because there’s no meaning behind their name for the listener.

Carnegie’s memory-linking technique is to picture images that sound like a person’s name — and combine it with other things you know about them.

If you meet someone named Laura from Brazil, imagine her with a laurel wreath on her head swimming in the Amazon River.

Similarly one can combine these elements in a ridiculous phrase.

To remember that Mr. O.W. Dolittle sells cars for a living, you can remember the phrase “do little and you won’t succeed in selling cars.” For Mr. Thomas Fischer who works in coal, you can remember the phrase “he fishes for coal orders.” If you meet a scientist name Matt, you can remember him as “the Matt scientist,” which sounds like “the mad scientist.”

Although these exercises may sound silly, Carnegie says they are proven to work.

One of our first exercises in Dale Carnegie’s course was to come up with a story or phrase to help others remember our own names. One girl’s name is Allegra Westin and she asked us to think about her running with her legs on the West Side Highway. Another guy’s name is Marco Rossi and his story included a red (“Rossi” is plural for the color red in Italian) arc resembling the letter “M” (the arc combined with the letter “M” is “Marc-o”).

Also, if you don’t hear someone say their name clearly, always ask again.

Vivian Giang In Businessinsider.com

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-remember-peoples-names-dale-carnegie-2013-7#ixzz2Y5vICHYQ

Tailpiece:::::  Notwithstanding the techniques listed out above ,  i have got my own  technique for remembering and recalling somebody”s name !!!

I use to link the probable names starting  with all Alphabets ….. right from A to Z  !!!!…..If i am not able to recollect , i will try AA and AB  or BA  BB and So on till i catch up !!!!

Invariably i will get the correct names …mostly in the first round of Alphabet excercise itself !!!!  You can also try …it is simple and short…

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Message For The Day…Grief and Joy Are the Obverse and Reverse Of the Same …

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Liberation is attained when the Soul shines in its own divinity. Liberation is not a nation or a suburb in paradise where aristocratic residents secure good sites. Liberation is the condition of one who has shed delusion. Shed delusion, then grief will be destroyed and joy established. Removal of Grief (Dukha-Nivrithi) and Attainment of Bliss (Ananda-Prapthi), happen at the same time. Your mind is the villain, its other name is desire! When you pull out all the yarn from a piece of cloth, there is no cloth. So too, pull out all the desires from the mind; the mind disappears and you attain freedom! Grief and joy are the obverse and reverse of the same experience. Joy is when grief ends, grief is when joy ends. Just as you must set the table for two when you invite a blind person for dinner (the blind person and his/her companion), so too, grief and joy are inseparable.

 

Sathya Sai Baba

Children Build Castles in the Sand While Elders Are Building castles in Air !!!

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A little girl is on her knees scooping and packing the sand with plastic shovels into a bright blue bucket. Then she upends the bucket on the surface and lifts it. And, to the delight of the little architect, a castle tower is created.

All afternoon she will work. Spooning out the moat. Packing the walls. Bottle tops will be sentries. Popsicle sticks will be bridges. A sandcastle will be built.

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A man is in his office. At his desk he shuffles papers into stacks and delegates assignments. He cradles the phone on his shoulder and punches the keyboard with his fingers. Numbers are juggled and contracts are signed and much to the delight of the man, a profit is made.

All his life he will work. Formulating the plans. Forecasting the future. Annuities will be sentries. Capital gains will be bridges. An empire will be built.

little girl in beach

Two builders of two castles, they have much in common. They shape granules into grandeur. They see nothing and make something. They are diligent and determined. And for both the tide will rise and the end will come.

Yet that is where the similarities cease. For the girl sees the end while the man ignores it, Watch the girl as the dusk approaches.

As the waves near, the wise child jumps to her feet and begins to clap. There is no sorrow. No fear. No regret. She knew this would happen. She is not surprised. And when the great breaker crashes into her castle and her masterpiece is sucked into the sea, she smiles. She smiles, picks up her tools, takes her father’s hand, and goes home.

The grownup, however, is not so wise. As the wave of years collapses on his castle he is terrified. He hovers over the sandy monument to protect it. He blocks the waves from the walls he has made. Salt-water soaked and shivering he snarls at the incoming tide.

“It’s my castle,” he defies.

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The ocean need not respond. Both know to whom the sand belongs… I don’t know much about sandcastles. But children do. Watch them and learn. Go ahead and build, but build with a child’s heart. When the sun sets and the tides take – applaud. Salute the process of life and go home.   

source:::: Reblogged from Propel Steps of Dinesh Kumar Radhakrishnan,

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Message For The Day….In Your Heart There Is Aatma Rama….

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Attach yourself to God, then all other attachment for the temporary objects will automatically fall off. At least, you will start seeing worldly objects in the right manner, in the light of their relative reality. It is only when the tiny little ego assumes enormous importance, there is a lot of bother. That is the root of all the travail. In your heart there is the Aatma Rama, the Rama who will confer eternal joy upon you. So repeat the Name of the Lord. The Lord’s Name is the Sun, which can make the lotus in the heart blossom in full. Lord Rama is not merely the son of emperor Dasaratha, but is the Ruler of Dasa Indriyas (the ten senses). The recital of Lord Rama’s Name must become as automatic and as frequent as your very breath. The Lord’s name will endow you with power and all the spiritual capital you need.   

 

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For The Day….Wisdom is not Something You Acquire From Elsewhere …It is Your Own From your Heart !!!

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There is no need to fight against the fundamental delusion of body attachment with overwhelming force and argument. Delusion will disappear, if you just sit quietly for one minute and analyse for yourself your own experience with this transient world.Jnana (Wisdom) is not Apraaptha-praapthi, something that is acquired from somewhere, like the gift of money from a donor to a person who did not have it. Wisdom is Praaptha-Praapthi! It is like forgetting about the ten-rupee note that you kept in a book you were reading. You then lent that book to someone and later asked him for a ten-rupee loan. He just gave it to you from the book, which is your own money. Similarly the Guru brings out t he treasure of wisdom, from your very own hridaya pustaka – book of your heart!   

 

Sathya Sai Baba

“தவறு செய்து விட்டோம் …தவறை திருத்திகொள்ளும் புத்தி கொடு பரமேஸ்வரா “

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Subject: எஸ். சாம்பசிவனின் ‘திருக்கேதாரநாதருக்கு விண்ணப்ப மடல்’

source::::: input from a friend of mine  based on an article in   “வாய்மை ”                           a Tamil magazine from chennai…  a Must Read article  by the like minded  persons wherever they are… Hence being shared with you all for a sincere and honest introspection ..

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ஜூன் 16ம் தேதி இரவில் கேதார்நாத் தலத்தில் சிவபெருமானின் பயங்கர அரூபதாண்டவம் நிகழ்ந்தது. அதிர்ச்சியிலிருந்து மீள இவ்வளவு நாட்கள் ஆகியது. ‘வாய்மை’ வாசகர்களின் சார்பாக திருக்கேதார நாதனுக்கு ஒரு விண்ணப்பம் எழுதியிருக்கிறார் நமது படைப்பாளரும், வாசகருமான திரு.எஸ். சாம்பசிவன். படித்துப் பார்த்தேன். என் கண்களில் கண்ணீர் பெருகியது. உள்ளம் உருகியது. நாம் எடுக்கும் தவறான நடவடிக்கைகளை உடனே நிறுத்தி, தெய்வம் அல்லது இயற்கை அன்னையின் சன்னமான குரல்களுக்குச் செவி சாய்ந்துச் செயல்படும் தருணம் வந்து விட்டது என்பதைச் சூசகமாக உணர்த்தும் உண்ணதமான விண்ணப்பம். உங்களிடம் பகிர்ந்து கொள்ள ஒரு க்ஷணமும் தாமதிக்கக் கூடாது என்ற என் உள்ளுணர்வின் காரணமாக உங்களுடன் பகிர்ந்து கொள்கிறேன்.
செயல்படுவோம் நாம் ஒவ்வொருவரும் – துயர் தவிர்ப்போம் வரும் நாளில்.
ஒம், சிவோகம். – ஆசிரியர்.

 

திருக்கேதாரநாதனுக்கு ஒரு விண்ணப்பம்.
நீலக்ரீவாய நம:
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ஹே! கேதார நாதா! திருக்கேதாரத்தின் ஆதாரம் தில்லையிலே என்று சொல்லுவார்களே! ‘கேதாராதி க்ஷேத்ராதாரம்’ என்பதல்லவா வாக்கு. தில்லையிலே ஆனந்த நடனத்தைக்காட்டிய உனக்கு திருக்கேதாரத்திலே ஏன் இந்த கோர தாண்டவம்? நாங்கள் என்ன பிழை செய்தோம்? கடுமையாகத் தண்டித்து விட்டாயே? சங்கரருக்கும் மத்வருக்கும் ராமானுஜருக்கும் சிவானந்தர்களுக்கும் மற்றும் பல கோடி கோடி சாதுக்களுக்கும் சன்யாசிகளுக்கும் ஆத்மஞானிகளுக்கும் பல நூறு ஆண்டுகளாக ஞான மார்க்கத்தைப்போதித்த உனக்கு எங்கள் தலைமுறையினரிடம் என்ன கோபம்? கோடிட்டுக் காட்டியிருக்கலாமே? இப்படியா ருத்ர தாண்டவம்? பிரளயம் எப்படி இருக்கும் என்ற முன்னெச்சரிக்கையா? உனது வில்லில் நாண் ஏற்றி விட்டாயா? நாங்கள் புரிந்துகொண்டோம். எங்களிடம் கோபம் வேண்டாம். திருபுர சம்ஹாரத்தின்போது மேருமலையை வில்லாக வளைத்தாயாமே? இன்று இமயத்தை வளைத்தாயா? இமவான் உனது மாமனார் ஆயிற்றே!. அவரை விட்டுவிடு. கருணாரச வாஹினியான உமையவளும் உன்னிடம் சொல்லவில்லயா? இல்லை, நாங்கள் செய்த தவறு அதற்கும் மேற்பட்டதா?
திருக்கேதாரத்தை ஒரு உல்லாச Hill Station ஆக்கிவிட்டோம் என்ற கோபமா? உன் கோபுரத்திற்கும் உயரமாக பல ஹோட்டல்கள் கட்டி கழிவறைகளும் படுக்கை அறைகளும் கட்டிவிட்டோம் என்ற கோபமா? ஆழ்ந்த அமைதியிலே ஞானத்தைத் தேடுவோரின் தியானத்தைக் கெடுத்துவிட்டோம் என்கிற கோபமா?
‘வனானாம் பதயே நமஹ’ என்று பிரதோஷம் தவறாமல் ருத்ரம் படித்துவிட்டு உனது காடுகளையும் அழித்து உன்னை ஏமாற்றிவிடலாம் என நினைத்தோமா?
‘அபர்ணானாம் பதயே நமஹ’ (இலைகளுக்கெல்லாம் அதிபதி) என்று உன்னைத்துதித்துவிட்டு இலைகளுக்கு மாற்றாக பிளாஸ்டிக் குப்பை சேர்த்த குற்றமா?
உனது உறைவிடமான பனிமலையை இராட்சத இயந்திரம் கொண்டு துளையிட்டு பனி இல்லாமல் செய்து விட்டார்களே என்று கோபம் அடைந்தாயா? நிர்மலமான சூழ்நிலையை மாற்றி தூசியும் துர்நாற்றமும் சேர்த்த குற்றமா? சொல் ஒன்று செயல் வேறு என்பது காலத்தின் கோலம்.
நீதானே கால தேவன்? ஏன் காலனாய் மாறினாய்?
ஏதோ தவறு செய்துவிட்டோம். இனியாவது அந்தத் தவறைத் திருத்திக்கொள்ளும் புத்தியை எங்களுக்குக்கொடு.
‘ம்ருத்யோர்மா அம்ருதம் கமய’ என்பது சத்திய வாக்கானால் இந்த அழிவிலிருந்து நன்னிலைக்கு அழைத்துச்செல்.
ஒலியும் நீயே எதிரொலியும் நீயே! மேகமும் நீயே, மழையும் நீயே, வெள்ளமும் நீயே அழிவும் நீயே என புரிந்து கொண்டோம்.
உன்னை அடி பணிகிறேம். நாங்கள் உன் குழந்தைகள்.
मानो महान्तमुतमानो अर्भकं मान उक्षन्तमुत मा न उक्षितम् ।
मानोवधीः पितरं मोत मातरं प्रिया मानस्तनुवो रुद्र रीरिषः ॥
ஸ்லோகத்தின் அர்த்தம்:
ஒ! பரமேஸ்வரா! எங்களின் வயது வந்தோர்களை நோயினால் வாட்டாதே. எங்கள் குழந்தைகளை வாட்டாதே. எங்கள் இளைஞர்களுக்கு இடையூறு செய்யாதே. கர்பத்திலிருக்கும் கருவை கலைக்காதே. எங்கள் தாய் தகப்பன்மார்களைப் பிரிக்காதே. எங்களைக்காப்பாற்று.
சிதானந்த ரூப: சிவோஹம் சிவோஹம்.
இப்படிக்கு
உன்னால் ஆட்கொண்ட தீனர்கள் ‘வாய்மை’ வாசகர்கள்.
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