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Be the Cat Vet: Avoid Convulsant Flea Topicals

If I were a vicious, clever, and serious enough lawyer (I hold no legal credentials) I would sue the pants off this company: Sergeant.  More specifically, Sergeant’s Pet Care Products.  They have caused in a few instances, the deaths of many pets, and in many, many instances a slew of worried pet-human-friends panicked about [...]

TIL (Today I Learned) About Pure Water

(Actually, I researched this a few days ago, but still wanted to share).

Why this is Important?

We’re 70% H20 (Hey roughly the same proportion of water as the earth!). Water is in all our cells, in our blood, in our brain, in our organs. The water we drink touches every cellular nuance of our [...]

Remove the Label of the Product and Stop Being an Involuntary Consumer/Advertiser

Something spectacular occurred to me after a few hours of meticulous frustration. I was touching up a portion of my material_items_all list and got stuck on a hygiene component. Specifically a hygiene-travel items. I looked up exactly what was the TSA aviation regulation for non-flammable fluids and, appealing to a precise side of me, was [...]

Awesome Compilation of Unique Inspiring Physiology/Work-Out Clips (+Agility, Cardio, Strength)

This covers soccer, core dynamic strength, jump rope, cycling, and yoga- all things that require agility and high fitness. I found the combination of the variety of these clips to be pretty motivational.

I woke-up, surfed the net to determine the difference between jam and preserves (turns out:  jelly, the fruit comes in the form of [...]

Be the Cat Vet – Play the Finding Treats Game!

[audio: http://validateyourlife.com/vylab/vylab_20110915_bcvfindingtreatsgame.mp3] Time: 09:12 Edify on the Go!

This anecdotal and enjoyable game eases your feline friend into your small office, home, or a room or any place that you may want your cat to connect if it is a bit skittish.

‘Play the Finding Treats Game’ is fun, your cat enjoys it, and [...]

The Preventive Wholistic Doctor

[audio: http://www.validateyourlife.com/vylab/vylab_20110816_wholisticdoctor.mp3] Edify on the go! The aim and fulfilment of discovering name, identity, and home is a journey only done by the heroic.  

I identify myself as a preventive wholistic doctor (some people would call me a productivity coach, however, and, indeed, I am a Certified Professional Coach).  Back to the preventic wholistic [...]

The 3-Hour Pattern Absolute Rule: Ultimate Health “Awake” Technique

[audio: http://www.validateyourlife.com/vylab/vylab_20110809_3hourrule.mp3] Edify on the Go! I’ve tried to write this post 3 times but had technical difficulties and have had to undergo three drafts.  Fortunately, that also gave me three shots at revisions!  Here’s what I’ve surmised.

The principle:  Eat nothing until three hours (or longer) after waking up.

It’s incredibly simple but [...]

Want to Maximize Health and Productivity? Stay on Your Feet!

[audio: http://www.validateyourlife.com/vylab/vylab_20110802_increasefocusstayonfeet.mp3] Edify on the go with this audio download! This is one of the Top 5 Productivity Posts! To some, this may sound repulsively unpleasant, insane, too demanding or have myriad other reasons for why that is impossible. I am at a standing desk writing this, literally looking down on this old cramped, [...]

Defining Enjoyment Maximizes Joy

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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Philosopher, Playwright and Author I finally understood the significance of “enjoy your [...]

15 Ways of Changing your State after Becoming Aware of Your State

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1. Change Physiology (posture, smile, breath deeply Change state, jumping up and down, long run, physiological shift.; physiology overrides thought)

2. Move and Exercise (releasing beta-endorphins which are powerful mood enhancers)

3. Change breathing 2x inhale changes carbon dioxide [...]

Every Second Your Life is Getting Shorter

—– Disclaimer: Although its intention is to be uplifting, this stuff is pretty heavy.

Think about this: This may sound morose, but as you allow this idea to bounce around in your mind, simply accept that this second…and this second…is one less second you have to left to live. If you’re life is a [...]

The Best Cure is Addiction-Cessation

I hate the TRAP of thinking some addiction is a reward for anguish or pain.  The french proverb holds true: It’s better to prevent than to heal. Interacting with the wrong people injures you  and then in that injured state one thinks that some addiction is what they need, when in reality it’s the opposite [...]

Diminishing Exhaustion: The Validity of Saying "No"

The great Tony Blair once stated the truism:

“The art of leadership is saying no, not yes.  It is very easy to say yes.”

Indeed, when it’s so easy to become toxically riddled with guilt or shame, or simply having a bad habit of serving others requests at your expense, it can be very [...]

Chronic Stress: Stop it Or Die.

High amounts of stress (That I have endured) increase the arterty-clogging, LDL low-density lipoprotein cholesterol that leads to an increase of of heart disease risk. Additionally high amounts of stress increase asthma (which I have had, physically induced asthma) and digestive problems (which I have had, at Colorado college, because of the stress, during some [...]

No Advice Please!

In my years I’ve given and received a lot of advice. Sometimes I’ve lucidly expressed and shared wisdom or my own or received brilliant tokens of wise suggestions from others. However, not until recently did I start to scrutinize the Value (or lack-thereof) of the advice I received from others. Upon this scrutiny, I quickly [...]

Liberating Mind and Body with Performance

After thoroughly researching the horrors of pschiatry and medicine, it’s clear that the conventional doctor imprisons the mind, but not the body. The mind gets imprisoned in a web of disorders, diagnostic drabble, and drastic symptoms with medicine.

Law works the body, but not the mind. After hearing about 17 recent exonerations by DNA of [...]

Ritalin Kills and ADHD is bogus!

The drug Ritalin has come under fire in the U.S. for a potential link to heart problems and deaths in children.

Health Canada issued a warning two years ago about rare heart-related risks for all attention deficit hyperactivity disorder drugs telling those with risk factors to avoid them.

Ritalin is commonly prescribed to children diagnosed [...]

Trusting Intuition and Engaging Only Trustworthy People

Trusting and Most Importantly LIVING OUT your Intuitive Knowings and Understandings The crazy and most disturbing and frustrating thing about no resources in Chicago, is that I KNEW that back in 2006 when I went to CA. I knew I didn’t want to go back to Chicago and when I went to my CC graduate [...]

The Best Anti-Psych Post

Pharmaceutical firms linked to defining DSM diagnostic criteria. Proving, it’s all about the money. This is a brilliant reference! I knew this, and rhetorically have asked people why so many of the so-called “disorders” could fit symptomatic criteria of almost any person (insinuating that the pharmaceuticals need to make money from diagnoses, and, thus, make [...]

Tips for Staying Healthy and Consistent Weight

Nutrition The big tip here revolves around the fact that we can plan our meals and stay focused and eat our “prescribed” health food as much as we want. We’ve all tried the diets. The problem is when those diets collapse, our temptation resistance caves, and we lunge for the nearest bag of junk food. [...]

The Cat Vet

Cat Vocalizations Caring for your cat with a Flowchart so it gets the attention it needs and you care for it without feeling over-worked. Okay, Cats have 7 — yes, count them, seven — primary vocalizations. First, there exists what I refer to as the 2 “okay” vocalizations — purring and happy meowing, 1 sign [...]

High Intensity Training (HITs)

Just came back from the gym with a VERY awesome new little workout skill, HIT.

Started by Arthur Jones, the BRILLIANT AND RIGHT-ON hits training totally works by doing fast maximal workouts – highest performativity – and spending short highly focused workouts in the gym, instead of hours on end (it goes away from the [...]

Heart Attacks — Infarction

Some quick medical jargon.

Myocardial Infarction (MI). Sound familiar? Well how about “Heart Attack”. The same. Infarction is the diseased state of a temporary (or permanent) loss of blood to tissue. The heart, composed of myocardial tissue, that doesn’t get enough (or no) blood for a period of time experiences a Myocardial Infarction, or Heart [...]

To Puff or Definitely not to Puff

Take a drag of that cigarette (not!). Here’s what will happen if you do (so don’t!)…

Hyperglycemia. Your biochemical insulin production completely shuts down so your glucose blood level balance gets out of rhythm Glucose levels rise. You become temporarily hyperglycemic. Dopamine Incease. Neurosynaptic re-uptake transporters for dopamine become blocked so the amount of dopamine [...]

Jogging and Bone Density

They say milk does a body good? Well, running does a body better!

Joggers have stronger bones. Think of the astronauts in space that must vigorously exercise just to prevent ligament, cartilage, and muscle atrophy. The same is true for our bones and humans who jog on a regular basis. They have stronger bone [...]