Health Benefits of a Good Night's Sleep

Sleep, we all love it, especially when you wake up from a great night's sleep. In the past, sleep was often ignored by doctors and surrounded by myths, but now we are beginning to understand the importance of sleep to overall health and well-being. In fact, when people get less than 6 or 7 hours of sleep each night, their risk for developing diseases begins to increase.

Music Therapy Promotes Health

Music therapy is a healthcare profession that uses music as a medium to address physical, psychological, emotional, social, cognitive, and / or behavioural needs of individuals with the guidance of a certified music therapist under a therapeutic environment.

A music therapist conducts a variety of musical intervention to meet an individual's needs, aiming to improve the quality of life for healthy people who seek personal growth and those with illnesses.

Research has shown that music has a profound effect on your body and psyche. In fact, there’s a growing field of health care known as music therapy, which uses music to heal. Those who practice music therapy are finding a benefit in using music to help cancer patients, children with ADD, and others, and even hospitals are beginning to use music and music therapy to help with pain management, to help ward off depression, to promote movement, to calm patients, to ease muscle tension, and for many other benefits that music and music therapy can bring. This is not surprising, as music affects the body and mind in many powerful ways. The following are some of effects of music, which help to explain the effectiveness of music therapy:

How to Break a Habit in 12 Steps

 

Our lives are marked by countless habits and routines, many decades in the making. Some are good, some are bad. Learn to change habits that harm you

We all want to be healthy, strong, energized, and happy. So why do so many of us have habits that take us in an opposite direction? Simple: Losing a habit requires change. And of all the things we do in a day, changing is by far the hardest.
You know this, and so do the experts. We recently took a deep exploration into the science of bad habits, reading the wisdom of countless experts, researchers, and gurus on the subject. What they say is both obvious and eye-opening. Here, the 12 guiding principles for breaking a bad habit:

Technically Legal

Today you've probably downloaded an image from the internet for a presentation, posted a comment on your blog about an article you've just read, or uploaded a video clip of a concert you saw onto a video sharing website. You may not realise it, but you may have just broken the law.
Copyright laws protect literary, dramatic, musical and artistic work, and these works, unless stated otherwise, cannot be used without the creator's permission. Websites and personal blogs belong to the public domain, so what you put up for public viewing is subject to copyright law.

6 Electricity Myths That Can Kill

Storm damage got you down and powerless? Don’t become a statistic. The number one rule with power lines is to not touch them. Let the professionals take care of these potential killers. If you hear someone spouting the myths below, set them straight with these tips from NYSEG.com

Myth: Power lines are insulated. 90 percent of power lines are not insulated and even the ones that are could have lost insulation from a storm.

Myth: The line is safe because it’s not high voltage. Actually, voltage is not what will kill you, amperage will. It takes 1 amp to cause fatal heart irregularities. The average house has between 100 and 200 amps running through it.

Myth: A fallen wire will shut off. No it won’t because if it falls on a poor conductor, like asphalt the wire will not short circuit.

Myth: A live wire will make sparks when it falls. Not always. The line will spark when it doesn’t make firm contact, with firm contact it will not.

Myth: Wood is not a conductor. False, wood is just a poor conductor, but wet wood is much better so be careful.

Myth: Rubber gloves and rubber shoes insulate. Only if they are 100% pure rubber. Your typical cleaning gloves and shoes are mixed with cheaper materials and they can be conductors.

Planking and my Plankers Kids

Well lets talked about Planking.I love to see many picture in the net on this issue.Sometime its funny and some time its to extreme.There are some incidence where some "plankers" lost their life in a bit to capture the extreme spot of their planking.I had provided their meaning and history below which I extract from Wikipidea.You can try some safe and friendly planking indoor or outdoor.

"Planking" (or the "Lying Down Game") is an activity consisting of lying face down in an unusual or incongruous location. The hands must touch the sides of the body and having a photograph of the participant taken and posted on the Internet is an integral part of the game. Players compete to find the most unusual and original location in which to play.The term planking refers to mimicking a wooden plank. Rigidity of the body must be maintained to constitute good planking.
Since early 2011, many participants in planking have photographed the activity on unusual locations such as atop poles, roofs and vehicles, while some "plankers" engage in the activity by planking only their upper body and feet while leaving the back suspended.

The food of Malayalee the food of Onnam

Swagatham ! (Greating).Since today is Onnam festival which is the Harvest Festival that been celebrated by all Malayalee through out the world and especially in Kerala.I feel to write a bit about some important aspect of the Onnam festival which I believe without them the Onnam celebration is not up to the mark or expectation.I am talking non other than " Foods".

I  am a Malayalee the 3rd generation in Malaysia.Both my Grandfathers (Dad and Mom parent) originated from Kannur or Cannanore in Kerela which is also famously known as "God Own Country".I been to Kerela for vacation sometime back in 2009 and indeed it is a beautiful country with wonderful scenery and lots lots of greens with marvelous backwaters.A peace of heaven on its own right.The food is superb and as you known the main ingredients is mandatory with Fish,Shrimp,Chicken and Mouton as this is essential in their cuisine.

"Revolutionary Gandhi" - A socialist or even a communist?

(Revolutionary Gandhi) Did you know that India’s independence father Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi had leftist leanings? Or that he had no hesitations in calling himself a socialist or even a communist?
In fact, Gandhi’s ideology to develop the nation, which was then under colonial rule, was premised on the concept of socialism, claims a newly published translated version of an original Bengali book on the iconic statesman.
Translator KV Subrahmonyan has done a brilliant job in painstakingly translating “Gandhi Gabeshana” to become “Revolutionary Gandhi”. The book was originally written by Indian author and a top communist leader Pannalal Dasgupta in 1955 and the English version offers an insight into the thinking of Gandhi on socialism and how he thought it could help form a nation.
“Revolutionary Gandhi” tells its readers of Gandhi’s firm belief that a thorough change in the socio-political environment must start with an individual, rather than with society as a whole. Gandhi’s approach to socialism was inspired by the spirit of putting oneself in order first.
“Beginning with oneself was central to all his thoughts and actions. He also felt the need for a classless society and had no hesitation in calling himself a socialist or even a communist,” wrote Pannalal.
Pannalal argued that on hindsight, left-leaning Indian freedom fighters had failed to recognise Gandhi as a true revolutionary force. He even ventured to state that this was a historical blunder.
Pannalal should know. After all, he was a revolutionary communist leader – widely known as the indomitable rebel – during the years India was fighting for her independence from the British.
The 490-page “Revolutionary Gandhi” is not the ordinary biography or narrative-based book on Gandhi; rather it offers a valuable, penetrating vision into the thoughts of Gandhi while in the midst of preparing his non-violent campaign against the British.