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Push-up with Rotation
Builds strength in the pecs, triceps, and shoulders.
Start in the traditional push-up position, but with your feet slightly wider than shoulder-width apart. Lower your chest toward the floor, and as you come up, rotate your body so that your right arm extends overhead (your arms and torso should form a T).

Return to the starting position and then repeat on the other side. Do 10 reps per side.

Single-Leg Squat
Stand with your dominant leg raised a few inches off the floor in front of you, and then squat with your other leg while holding your raised leg off the floor and extending your arms in front of you for balance. When your raised leg is roughly parallel to the floor, drive yourself back up by pushing down through your heel. Do 10 reps, then switch legs.

Towel Row and Calf Raise
Works the lats, biceps, and calves.
Sit on the floor and loop a towel around the balls of your feet, holding the ends in your hands. Keeping your legs flat, pull the ends of the towel, providing resistance by pushing forward with your feet. When your feet are pulled past vertical, reverse the motion by pushing your toes forward and resisting with the muscles in your back. That’s one rep. Do 20.

High-Step Punch and Run
Strengthens the calves, hip flexors, shoulders, heart, and lungs.
Begin running in place, bringing each knee to waist height and punching with your opposite arm. Land on the balls of your feet. Continue for a count of 30.

V-Up
Strengthens the core and lowers your heart rate, preparing you for the next circuit.
Lie on your back with your legs together and arms at your sides. Raise your upper body and legs so that you’re balancing on your tailbone. Your arms and calves should be parallel to the floor. Hold this pose for one minute, and then begin your next circuit.

Curl-up –Works all of your abdominal muscles while maintaining the back’s natural arch.
How: Lie faceup on the floor with your left leg straight, right leg bent, and right foot flat on the floor. Put your hands under the arch in your lower back. Slowly raise your head
and shoulders without bending your lower back. Hold for 7 or 8 seconds, breathing deeply. Do 15 repetitions, then switch legs

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“What human being has not longed to understand the meaning of existence, to fathom the ultimate purporse of creation? And who among us does not desire a sense of security and well-being, the self-confidence and strength to cope with life’s problems? Who has never yearned for perfect love, a love that does not fade with time, old age, or death?

When you go beyond the consciousness of this world, knowing that you are not the body or the mind, and yet aware as never before that you exist – that divine consciousness is what you are. You are That in which is rooted everything in the universe.
From the writing of Paramahansa Yogananda

THE WORKOUT

1. Step Ups – for glutes, Hamstrings, Quads,
Step up onto a low bench or stair with right foot, then bring up left foot. Do 20 reps; then repeat, starting with left foot.

2. Push ups – for triceps, shoulders, chest
Place hands shoulder width apart on floor or bench or wall. Without sagging, slowly bend arms and lower chest. When elbows form right angles, push back up to starting position. Do 30 reps.

3. Lunge Curls – For Glutes, Hamstrings, quads, biceps, Holding 5-8 or 10 pound dumbbell in each hand, stand with feet together and arms at sides. Step forward wit left foot and loer right knee toward floor. At the same time, Curl weights toward shoulders. Return to starting position and preat with right foot. Do 20 reps per leg.

Old Shoes

You have old shoes and do not know what to do with them….

How about donating them. shoes or sneakers to a program that recycles the material or gives them to people in need.

Send Shoes to http://www.soles4souls.org

This organization distributes shoes to people who need them.
http://www.solesunited.com

Nike also collects sneakers of any brand
http://www.letmeplay.com
Nike uses materials from sneakers to make sports surfaces

Site that help you find instructional Videos

www.eHow.com

www.wonderHowTo.com

www.Howcast.com

Howcast is best organized

How To Increase Your Inner Peace

I want to give you a tested technique for gradually and surely increasing your inner peace. It works for you regardless of the noise and confusion that may surround your day.

You will detach yourself as a mental participant in these noisy events. You will observe them, be aware of them, but will not involve yourself mentally or emotionally. Perhaps you ask, “But can this really be done? It sounds impossible to separate myself from the constant clatter around me.” I assure you that it can be done by you.

You see, your True Self is detached from everything on the outside. It has awareness of exterior conditions but does not get emotionally upset by them. You have a True Self at this very moment. At the very instant of reading these lines you are capable of mental detachment from all exterior problems.

Be a calm beholder of life. Mentally detach yourself. Stand back and quietly observe everything that happens to you and around you. Do not resist it; merely observe. Do not try to change or improve or destroy it, merely be aware. See yourself as someone apart, which, in truth, you are.

You need not fear that this detachment loses your control of things. It does not harm your daily tasks. They will go on as before. It may surprise you to find them proceeding as before, even improved. Mental detachment is, in fact, a higher form of control.

This kind of detachment is not retreat from reality; it is a healthy perception of it.

Stand apart and behold your life. It detaches you from trouble. You don’t suffer from that ill-tempered person; you don’t get depressed over that tragic event; you don’t pay the price for that form of mankind’s madness. You are free.

Vernon Howard
From Psycho-Pictography

Meditation Break…

Why not take a meditation break right now, wherever you’re sitting? Sit comfortably and move your focus inward. This contemplation meditation is an opportunity to focus your “thinking mind” on the mystery of being.

Here’s how to try it: Sit back in your chair so that your back is completely supported. Face your hands on your knees with your palms facing, up to open your awareness, or facing down, to calm the mind. As you inhale, silently say “so” to yourself and as you exhale, say “hum.” These words mean “I am that”— in other words, they are an affirmation of your existence.

Once you’ve established the “so hum” rhythm, begin to contemplate the source of your breath: Where is your breath coming from?
As you exhale with “hum,” inwardly say “that” or “all that is.” Feel how your exhalation releases you into the expanse around you. Visualize your exhalation leaving your body through your nostrils and then merging back into the atmosphere, back into infinity, back into “all that is.” Stay with this contemplation until you naturally begin to settle into a state of unified consciousness (which may only be for a few brief, refreshing moments at a time). If a thought (vritti) arises, come back to the simple mantra, “so hum.”

In the beginning, it may be helpful to set an external timer for 10, 20, or 30 minutes so you are not distracted. When you are finished, bring your hands together in anjali mudra (prayer position) and close with a moment of gratitude, reflection, or prayer to soak up the energy of your meditation into your being and life.

This Company May Be the Biggest Threat to Your Future Health

On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television. It is a documentary most Americans will never see, explaining how the gigantic biotech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years.

For millennia, farmers have saved seeds from season to season. But when Monsanto developed GM seeds that would resist its own herbicide, Roundup, Monsanto patented the seeds. For nearly all of its history the United States Patent and Trademark Office refused to grant patents on seeds, viewing them as life-forms with too many variables to be patented. But in 1980 the U.S. Supreme Court allowed for seed patents in a five-to-four decision, laying the groundwork for a handful of corporations to begin taking control of the world’s food supply.

Since the 1980s, Monsanto has become the world leader in genetic modification of seeds and has won 674 biotechnology patents, more than any other company. Farmers who buy Monsanto’s Roundup Ready seeds are required to sign an agreement promising not to save the seed produced after each harvest for re-planting, or to sell the seed to other farmers. This means that farmers must buy new seed every year.

Monsanto puts pressure on farmers, farmers’ co-ops, seed dealers, and anyone else it suspects may have infringed its patents of genetically modified seeds. To do this, Monsanto relies on a shadowy army of private investigators and agents. They secretly videotape and photograph farmers, store owners, and co-ops. They infiltrate community meetings. They gather information from informants about farming activities.

Some Monsanto agents pretend to be surveyors. Others confront farmers on their land and try to pressure them to sign papers giving Monsanto access to their private records. Farmers call them the “seed police” and use words such as “Gestapo” and “Mafia” to describe their tactics.

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