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Dorm Room Spa: 3 Easy DIY Beauty Recipes to Try. Photo Credit It’s that taxing in-between time of the semester again – spring break is over, papers and projects are coming due, and finals are looming ahead.

Dorm Room Spa: 3 Easy DIY Beauty Recipes to Try

It’s clear that college students are stressed right now, and with that stress comes the need for relaxation. Reclaim your waistline: 7 ways to enjoy your food AND lose weight. The obesity epidemic.

reclaim your waistline: 7 ways to enjoy your food AND lose weight

You would have had to have been living under a rock not to know about it. But in the world of food blogging, it’s almost like the white elephant in the room. No one really talks about it. While we gush over our latest favourite ice cream recipe or the simplest way to make a frittata, we remain silent when it comes to the biggest challenge that pretty much every food lover faces: How to enjoy all the delicious things that the world of has to offer AND maintain a slender waistline. Ballet Exercise – Get a Dancer’s Body on ELLE. Weight Loss Secrets – Healthy Living on ELLE. "Oprah told me I should," Brad Lamm deadpans when we ask him what motivated him to write his new book, Just 10 Lbs.

Weight Loss Secrets – Healthy Living on ELLE

Lamm is a board-certified interventionist with an OWN show, Inside Rehab: Food Addiction, premiering this spring and two other book titles to his name. This, however, is the first publication that applies his winning tactics to weight loss. With an unassuming one-inch silhouette and conversational tone, Just 10 Lbs is an easy read, but don't be fooled—it's packed with tons of useful information, identifying and deconstructing what Lamm calls the main obstacles to sustaining a healthy weight: one's relationship with food and one's relationship with oneself.

Here, the best tips we gleaned from the program with insight from a now-svelte Lamm who, at 5 foot 9, once weighed nearly 200 pounds. Sun-salutation-2. Slideshows - Bedtime Yoga. Yoga For Bedtime Whether you are a night owl who would rather be a morning bird, have trouble falling asleep at night, or just need a little extra help relaxing before going to sleep, doing a little yoga before bedtime can help.

Slideshows - Bedtime Yoga

This routine—which you can do in bed—will put your body and mind to rest, helping you to sleep soundly through the night so you can wake up rested and fresh for the morning. No sleeping pills required! First things first. Get ready for bed. Short Meditation Sit up in bed comfortably, either with your legs folded or straight in front of you; whatever you can do with the most ease. Seated Twists Stay in your seated position and twist around to the back of your bed. Easy Forward Bend Keep your seated position and gently bend forward at your hips and let your hands stretch out straight in front of you on the bed.

Legs Extended Forward Bend Flat Back Slowly start to straighten your legs in front of you. Legs Extended Forward Bend Round Back. The Vegan Stoner. Overcome Addictions and Procrastination Simultaneously. Why would smart people abuse themselves by uncontrolled consumption of alcohol or illicit substances?

Overcome Addictions and Procrastination Simultaneously

Do they not see the harm? The answer is sometimes yes and sometimes no. Some see the danger and fall prey to the "unstated agenda trap" where they say they want to quit, but only if there is no hassle (See ). Others con themselves into believing that they can drink or use and get high without a downside. A subgroup think they will stay miserable whatever they do: drinking or using takes away the curse of living, but may also be the curse. Filtering reality through a prism of addiction reasoning is like looking at the world from inside a murky bottle and believing what you see is real. We all operate with different belief systems or schemas. Denial cloaks a problem. You can tell denial by its results.

What is simple in principle to do may not be easy in practice. Denial is a barrier to readying yourself to cope. 1. . 2. . Zen habits. 5 Natural Blemish Busters - Planet Green. Men's Health - Yoga - Get Started Guide.  Cultivating the Community of Businesses And People Making it Happen. Yoga Postures. Fresh Tuna with Sesame, Ginger & Coriander Noodles Recipe at Epicurious. Personality test based on Jung - Myers-Briggs typology. A good and stable relationship between partners is conducive to a happy marriage, and we often don't know what the underlying cause of our conflicts is.

Personality test based on Jung - Myers-Briggs typology

The ability to assess the likelihood of a healthy long term relationship is one of the main challenges in dating and matchmaking. Jung Marriage Test™ addresses this challenge. The test identifies potentially successful and potentially problematic matches by comparing and analysing personality types of the partners. Personality type is defined by the three criteria introduced by Carl Jung: Extraversion - Introversion Sensing - Intuition Thinking - Feeling And the fourth criterion added by Isabel Briggs Myers *: Judging-Perceiving The different combinations of these four criteria define sixteen possible personality types.

PersonalityZone - Temperament and Your Career. Finding Your Passion or What Makes a Job Right for You?

PersonalityZone - Temperament and Your Career

Rationals - Finding Knowledge and Competence In this five-part series, we're examining each personality type and job fit. Rationals may have a problem with the Boomer phrase, "Finding Your Passion. " Many Rationals are suspicious of strong emotion. For them, life satisfaction equates to having Knowledge and Competence. Many of our early Presidents were Rationals, such as John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe.

Of all the Rationals, the most driven toward a leadership position is the Fieldmarshal (ENTJ).