Going cold turkey, on the other hand, really will. As the relationship columnist for Cosmopolitan for eight years, I got a tidy amount of email from women who were stuck a few kilometres short of a (potential) relationship and weren't sure how to get to Full Relationship status. Some were …

Conversely, overpriced items won't sell. So if you want something sold quickly, advertise at a low price. If you want more money, be prepared to hold out for longer. Remember - just because you paid a certain amount for something, that doesn't mean it was worth the price. On an auction …

They might have hoarding tendencies of their own - in which case, your extra stuff is definitely not going to help! Remember that when they finally get sick of it, they might try to give it back to you - and you'll be faced with that decluttering decision all over again. That's …

Affirm that the other person is also a fully developed and loving spiritual being. Sense the presence of his or her spirit inside and engage with it. Feel how the unhealthy connections release and only love remains. Call upon the presence of the Divine, which immediately shifts the situation into …

If you create an emotional, intellectual bond with someone before you create a physical one, your relationship will stand a much better chance. After all: it's super easy to have sex. It's not easy to find someone you cherish, and respect, and admire, who makes you laugh and think and …

You'll need to be home to let people view and collect items, of course, as most people want to collect items at the weekend also. Safety and security is a personal consideration. I've been using online classifieds for many years without any issues. I've had buyers prefer to do the …

You might need to traipse through time to your in-utero experience or early infancy. Relationship issues? Walk into your heart and those first school days, and you might discover your answer. Again, the same healing processes that apply to the related energetic boundary will help heal your chakras. Working with …

I've been there. We all have. Whether you've been with them for a few months and it's only semiserious, or you've been living together for two years and just bought a VW together, it sucks. It flat-out sucks. The weighing-up, ruminating, discussing with friends, and self-torment leading up to a …

Pale Orange: lack of joy or play, repressed feelings, inability to feel feelings, lost creativity, fear of feelings. Someone else is holding your feelings or creative urges hostage. Dark Orange: unfelt feelings, bitterness, shame, disgust, guilt. Others' feelings are present; Yellow: mental activity, personal power, work success, optimism, ability to …

Your answer will be evident, and all it takes is a month or two of discipline. If they make you feel like the most incredible creature on earth, and the very mention of their name makes you smile, and all of your friends and family adore them because they see …

This step deserves to be mulled over and pulled apart as one might a treasure chest, searching for all the gold you can find. When you get up in the morning, ask the Divine to support your boundaries in a way that provides the spiritual guidance you need. When you …

Hopefully you've got full boxes of items that you've realised you don't need, don't want and don't like, and you're ready to let them go. That's great! Now we're ready for the next step - getting rid of them responsibly. Time, energy and resources have gone into the manufacture and transportation …

The big, bold bottom line here is that most people need to earn your attention, affection and investment. If you're making them artisanal cakes two weeks in, you're telling them in no uncertain terms that you're TOTALLY IN, and therefore robbing them of their primeval need to win you over' …

Before starting any major or complex new task, go over the 7-step method to approach any task the right way. Finally you will be able to see the 20/20 line from a distance of 3 meters. This is another exercise developed by Dr Bates to relax the eyes and …

By reading this article and these exact words, you have simply followed a predetermined script. Or, you might want to think about other ways to reduce your worry. You might go back to article 6 for some ideas. We hope that reading The Kindness Advantage has given you and your …

There is solid scientific evidence that environment has an influence on eyesight. Beyond consciousness is where the large majority of brain activities dwell. What you are able to perceive, even when you pay attention to all of your senses, represents just a tiny part of the underlying neural workings. This …

You begin to react to this foreign protein in much the same way as you would to a bee sting. Naturally, there is no shortage of studies about the brain and its political inclinations. And it seems in general that liberals have a slightly larger anterior cingulate cortex (the part …

In an ideal world, your friends and family will support you and want the best for you, but that's not always the way things work. Do the same thing with the chart you are holding in your hands. To improve near-sight move the charts further away. For far-sight and presbyopia …

The pressure of life on the pacific island of Vanuatu is very different from the pressure exerted on Chinese students. The important thing is to know that when you choose which house to buy, which share to sell or even which person to marry, rationality is not your only available …

Other researchers have found no basis for the genetic myopia theory. The fact that nothing would be the same without dopamine was revealed to us by wretched lab mice (which share about 97. When they are given a substance that blocks dopamine receptors, they stop eating, potentially until they die …

One day, he took a gun and shot himself in the head. Would you prefer a volunteer experience to be just members of your own family? Would you be open to including another family or your children's friends? Consider these questions as you and your child research different organizations. We …

Soon you find that you are wearing the glasses the whole time, when the truth is that you could see perfectly well without them. This ability is called theory of mind. It means to be aware of the fact that other people's mental states, such as their wishes and intentions …

This is the clinical amplitude. This already constitutes a big step forward towards empathy. Your brain is able to project in imagination not only into another place but into another time and a different identity, which is essential for being able to put yourself in someone else's shoes'. <a href …

He examined the stress forces on the sclera by accommodation, convergence, vitreous pressure and the external eye muscles. That said, we each run into our perception of the global whole: ourselves, others, the universe, accumulated culture, beliefs, convictions, ideas, inclinations, values, ethics and all they carry within them. It's our …

Now, close your eyes and imagine yourself doing the same thing, except that you are moving the eyes further in each direction. There is the physical sensation of having a body separate from others and, especially, the underlying awareness of one's own individuality, or self-awareness. The latter, after centuries of …

Let your entire body relax. According to another study, the less activated a certain part of the frontal cortex is, the more the brain is inclined to wear rose-coloured glasses, as though the rationality knob had been turned anti-clockwise. A positive' brain foresees happiness, good health and success for itself …

Since astigmatism is caused by tension in the muscles around the eyes, the best way to correct it is to release the excess tension. It's all that and much more. Consciousness is the brain's most mysterious characteristic. So mysterious that it attracted the attention of theologians and philosophers long before …

Near vision test The pursuit of happiness is the most powerful motivator in the world, irrespective of social, geographical and geopolitical differences. It is clearly printed in the 1776 United States Declaration of Independence, although it is not mentioned in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1972, after …

Now, very slowly, move your thumbnail straight up. Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviours. The weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness …

Suddenly everyone realized that the astigmatism had gone after just one exercise. It's also a well-known fact that physical exercise increases endocannabinoids and that sexual exercise - not indispensable to happiness and yet very useful - gives us dopamine, oxytocin and various endorphins. Finally, just to cover everything, there's also temperature to …

Are you avoiding what you don't want to see? Why does a beautiful song trigger the release of dopamine making human beings take pleasure in listening to it? Why does a string quartet contribute to lowering the levels of cortisol, the stress hormone, and increasing those of immunoglobulins, antibodies crucial …

Apparently her subconscious mind agreed because a few days later she called me and very excitedly told me about the amazing progress she had made in just a few days. It always comes at the bottom of every list of the five principal senses. We call it touch, but that's …

Which line can you see? Some literally die for love. The experience of falling in love produces on the brain stimuli that are, in intensity, up there with hunger and thirst. This is all thanks to a powerful cocktail of chemical substances that flood the appropriate parts of the brain …

In China the system of acupuncture is a major part of the country's medicine. There is also a three-dimensional model, where you can see that the space reserved for the genital organ is rather small despite its being, well, a rather sensitive area. Penfield (who refrained from drawing a female …

Or we simply continue reading way past the time when the eyes need a break. In his article, The Gift of Fear, Gavin de Becker writes that precautions are constructive, whereas a state of fear is destructive'. <a href='http://www.gov.pe.ca/advertising/redirect.php3?adnumber=290&url …

Do three circular movements right to left (counter-clockwise) and then left to right (clockwise) movements to energize. Forgiveness, friendship, frustration, gratitude, gratification, grief, guilt, happiness, hatred, honour. Indifference, indignation, irritation, jealousy, loneliness, love, melancholy, misandry. Misanthropy, misogyny, mistrust, nostalgia, pity, pride, regret, remorse, resentment. Revenge, sadness, shame, spite, solidarity, trust …

If the energy flow is blocked, the organs, in this case the eyes, are depleted in energy and will function less efficiently. In any case, the fact that time seems to expand in situations of danger is an illusion with obvious evolutionary implications, since our distant ancestors used to risk …

This movement is often referred to as the tiger climbing the mountain. The information reaches the thalamus, which immediately dispatches it to the amygdalae, the control centre for fear. Even though the data received is still rather vague, the amygdalae order the brainstem instantly to block all the body's movements …

Letter size and distance is important for accurate measurement. Mothers also produce and administer oxytocin during breastfeeding, thereby strengthening the bond with the new arrival. Even dogs get a discharge of oxytocin when they look into their owner's eyes. It's the extraordinary chemical and psychological power of attachment. It becomes …

If so, then make the image appear to be the same size internally as well as externally. For years, there was the belief that the human visual system received a series of images in sequence, a bit like a movie camera, which can record 24 or more images per second …