Thursday, July 5, 2007

Natural Beauty Tip of the Day

Count your blessings! Take a little time of at the end of each day to dwell on the good things that have happened. Look for the silver lining in the not-so-good things (eg, what did you learn from it or could it have been worse?).

Remember that any awkward or embarassing moments are usually more prominently felt by you than by others looking on.
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Positive Thinking for Better Health and Beauty

Back to posting after a few day's absence due to mum being in hospital. She's out now but the radiation and chemo treatments have really affected her health. Mum's not a positive person to begin with. Actually, I'm sad to say that she's the most negative person I have ever known in my life and it takes a great deal of effort to get her to think optimistically (with very little effect).

She suffers from a host of ailments which I have no doubt are very real but I do believe that most of this is due to her outlook in life and her doomsday thinking. Anxiety and worry plagues a person and the mind does things to the body. She's been thru a lot in life so I can understand why she's like that but I also think some people are just more worriers than others. I feel I've inherited some of this trait so I have to work really hard to psyche myself to be more positive. When a problem looms, I start counting my blessings. I look at mum and much as I love her, I don't want to be like her in this way.

Sometime ago, in a conversation among friends, we got to talking about the most important lessons our mothers taught us. I thought of how my mother always encouraged me to dress adventurously (within decent limits) saying that you won't get a chance to do that when you're old (not entirely true). That's kind of funny seeing that she's so conservative. So I wore the miniest of mini skirts, hottest of hot pants, bare-back halters, midriffs, chunkiest of platform shoes, etc. No big deal these days but eye-raising in those times. But I think the biggest lesson is what she didn't teach me but that which I learnt from observing her and that is to THINK POSITIVE and that's a big step to feeling good and staying beautiful, naturally.