Nine Tips on How to Care and Nurture Your Soul

by | May 13, 2023 | Faith and Spirituality

Life is a flowing river with constant movement of different currents which should include the caring and nurturing of your soul, but in the hectic pace of daily living the essence of our being is usually the one neglected. While the soul is invisible to the physical world, it is still living inside us and needs particular attention care and nurture.

We are born with an innate desire to do well and to improve ourselves in everything we set out to do. Often, we do not stop to think how what we do affect us, and how that which we pursue influences us and saturates every part of our being. Although most of us realize there is the part of our being known as the soul, many of us still need to find ways to care for it.

Here are nine tips on how you care of that which is your soul:

 

Meditation as an exercise routine

 

Meditation as a routine has become extremely popular to achieve a better self. It brings your mind into focus and nurtures your soul, which becomes an important source of strength. It may also help you attain higher consciousness in a positive way.

Meditate regularly. Start by taking 15 minutes of your day to practice breathing exercises. In an area of your home, selected with this in mind, sit legs folded across and straight back, breath in and breath out slowly and comfortable. During this motion close your eyes and let all distractions fade away. Make this a daily routine and discover how you are better able to handle the day’s challenges.

 

Prayer to connect with God

 

Pray daily. If thus far you have no prayer in your daily routine, you may start taking 15 minutes each day to connect your soul and spirit to the greatest power, God. In return your soul will be deeply encouraged, the virtue of wisdom will grow, and love will increase starting within yourself and extending to those closest to you.

Prayer is a great source of power and strength.

Too Much Thinking turns a tiny Snow Flake into an Avalanche

You cannot solve all your problems all at once and all the time. Learn to take and deal with your problems one at a time, as in bite sizes. Life is about learning, discovering, and applying new things.

Life is also about embracing old knowledge you may benefit from because it may be useful and effective. Thinking too much about the problems that you are experiencing can sometimes result to more troubles with the usual resulting stress.

 

Learn to Forgive

This is a hurdle that when achieved will bring you rewards in refreshing ways. Relief and a new sense of leaving the past behind is among them as well as opening yourself for new prospects and opportunities because the soul and mind are now clearer. Like a clear blue sky.

Your soul cringes when remembering those who did you wrong, offended you, and hurt you, holding a grudge is easier but learning to forgive is better for you.

Forgiveness will set you free do away with negative feelings, resentment, anger, pain, and other unresolved unproductive issues.

 

Accept Your Imperfections

Is anyone perfect? Of course not. Others are not better than you. Each one of us have our own flaws.

To embrace our imperfections and accept ourselves as we are the beginning of learning how to improve ourselves to become better beings in a positive light. Our flaws too, make us individuals with space for improvement recognizing them aids in keeping us humble and understanding of others in a healthy kind of way.

 

Breakaway and Posses your own Space

 

For at least once a week, try to give yourself your own space. Disconnect yourself purposely from the routine, work, and work-related items, telephones, and computers, turn them off for a while. This time is for you, and you alone. If you have a partner, a spouse, a better half, do it together. Disconnect.

This is the best approach to unwind and take a break. You may also take a drive or a flight to a remote place where the environment is conducive to disconnect or at the very least view videos that will take you there (there are such videos in YouTube and other reputable media).

Listen to or play your favourite music and dance if you can, a good swing is enjoyable.

 

The Place of Less Resistance

 

There are people who waste a large amount of energy trying to become resistant to situations and to people whom they prefer to avoid. These situations are real and such type people as well.

Please fret not but encounter those you feel that are unfavourable to you, face them prepared mentally and emotionally realizing that neither of them is a permanent fixture in your life deal with them and leave them behind quickly.

Learn how to accept such things and determine how you can adapt or disregard them altogether.

 

Read Good Books and Feed Your Mind and Imagination

 

They say that the eyes are the windows to the soul and let me add that good books are the food. Reading good books therefore need to feed your mind and grow your imagination.

Growing your imagination will expand your horizon beyond reality into a more creative self, opening your mind to new possibilities and abilities you may have to yet to discover.

Reading good books is also recreational picking your mind to live through imaginary characters brought to life and causing you to remember how it was to fall in love, be fearful, and feel glad about a happy conclusion.

 

Peace Within Self

 

Peace within directly nurtures your soul like rivers of fresh water flowing free to feed and cleanse your inner being resulting in a more compassionate you wishing to make people around you happier and more comfortable.

This is well and good but remember to always provide for yourself the same care of mind, body, and soul. Take responsibility for the loving care of your soul because when you do, you will deal with the issues of life when they come, from a position of strength.

The choices you make will direct your path and consequences, your thoughts may guide your behaviour and determine your needs and wants. Embrace life, a good and healthy life however possible, make it your goal.

Cheers!

Priscilla Hudson

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Stress the Old Devil and How to Suggestions

by | May 13, 2023 | Health and Beauty

A close member of our family kept having health symptoms that were very troublesome he was convinced it was related to his heart as he experienced heart palpitations, a rushed sense of dread, difficulty breathing, cold sweaty hands. Stomach pain and heartburn also present lead on suspicion of an ulcer. Visits to the ER only produced momentary relief complemented with extremely costly bills.

ER we learned was not the place to get a diagnosis, these emergency help although expensive offered no long-term solution. This dire situation continued for a long time, until finally we sought the help of a doctor specialized in internal medicine specifically a Gastroenterologists.

After a series of lab tests which included an electrocardiogram, having a heart problem was out of the question, ulcer also was no issue. Additionally, the Gastroenterologists prescribed an endoscopy procedure to examine the lining of the Esophagus, stomach, and duodenum.

The heart was found in good condition and problem with an ulcer was eliminated. The doctor however found a condition showing ulcers in areas of the Esophagus lining.

After a lengthy consultation we learned this condition develops in individuals with an elevated level of stress. In other words, a physical reaction to stress.

I am sharing this experience as we consider the subject known as stress and demonstrate with this real-life example how stress harms our health.

The diagnosis was given and so it was the prescription: Make a conscious effort to manage the level of stress to reduce and eliminate the internal flare ups. Make lifestyle changes or the condition will not go away.

So, What is Stress?

While not all stress is harmful the stress that is, builds up because of living through and experiencing an uncomfortable situation. Something opposite to pleasant, comfortable, productive, creative. Something that causes emotional tension. The tension that burns on our shoulders or worse in our Esophagus lining.

This stress is very harmful to the body as we see how the high emotional tension brings on physical harm to our bodies.

There are two other type of stress we can identify as “eustress” and “distress.” Eustress described as “beneficial stress” either phycological or physical often of short-term duration, where emotions increase, and the body goes on self-demand mode. This is the kind of stress that increases dopamine. For example, the stress experienced in sports.

Distress creates the sensation of the inability to control a situation or circumstance bringing on anxiety, negativity, bad energy. However, it can also be short-term if dealt with appropriately and without delay. Long term distress could be very harmful to our bodies.

Learning Techniques to Manage Stress

We are forever evolving and learning techniques to help ourselves in this case, to help us manage stress.

There are professions that bring with it more levels of stress than others. For example, medical doctors, financial investors and traders, particular circumstances also can create this, like being unemployed, and going through financial hardship. However, even if you are not in one of these categories but nevertheless stress affects you, try doing this:

  • Leave your workload at work, office, or business.
  • Burn it at the gym, take a steam bath, jog, or walk.
  • Relax by listening to your favourite type of music.
  • Reduce or eliminate caffeine from your diet.
  • Review to eliminate any foods irritant to your digestion.
  • Maintain a satisfactory level of vitamins D, C, B12 and other supplements.

(Discuss it with your health care practitioner on your next visit)

  • Whenever drive to the seashore and bathe yourself in sunshine and sea waves, let the marvellous ocean sounds soothe you

And

  • Learn a new creative skill, you will be surprised how relaxing it can be, knitting, crocheting, drawing, or painting, or
  • Learn to play a musical instrument – if it is relaxing and enjoyable.

Another option available to us when we feel stressed is to consider talking with a professional therapist with the training to teach you how overcoming stressful situations can and is possible.

Remember, that although we may not control our circumstances, we can learn how to react to them.

If we are alive and breathing stress does and will come. What is important is developing a strategy to stay on top of it and not let it overpower us causing poor health. We are a priority to ourselves in the good sense of the word, a priority because when we live healthy, we can project a healthy attitude inwardly that will reflect outwardly in positive ways.

Cheers!

Priscilla Hudson

 

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Sleeping Healthy is a Habit Worth Learning

by | May 12, 2023 | Health and Beauty

There is a general agreement among health professionals and members of the public that cultivating superior sleeping habits is beneficial for the body and mind. The benefits gained have been proven, they enhance the overall health of an individual. People should live fulfilled in all areas of their lives. How are you in this department?

Living healthy is a habit worth learning, a healthy diet and regular exercise are two key factors and so is to sleep well and long enough, a minimum 7 hours is usually the prescribed amount, give or take your own body and age bears influence, and the best sleep takes place during the night hours. The human brain functions best this way.

Without delving too deep into the scientific evidence available one can observe that we are creatures of habit made to shine during the daylight and grow opaque to sleep during the night.

Notice how you feel after lack of sleep? Tiresome and underperformed, irritable impatient even. This translates into the rest of your day until you catch up.

Take those hours to catch up the following night or when possible. As soon as your body begins to signal it needs it. Take a nap. You will wake up refreshed after only a 30-minute nap. Your brain sends the signal to the rest of your body enabling you to fall into the sensation of heavy eye leads foggy brain and a general sense of sleepiness.

 

Take it from the Spanish culture.

The Latin American culture which by extension follows the Spanish culture have for ages practiced taking a “Siesta” in the middle of the day, typically shortly after having lunch. Time is set aside for this endeavour, and it is generally understood and accepted.

However, with the changing times and the demands made by a faster working pace, there are many among this group no longer able to practice this highly beneficial habit. Although I understand there are Europeans who still adhere to the practice of having a siesta and enjoying late hours dining.

Regardless of culture I believe having a siesta is worth emulating wherever possible because the benefits outweigh well over the disadvantages. Additionally, this practice can aid in lowering stress levels. A well-rested mind means a well-rested body better able to deal with stress.

 

Talking of Stress Levels

In addition to that, it keeps a person protected from various kinds of harmful sleep disorders that are not too easy to treat and can destroy the excellent health status of an individual in an instant when not treated properly.

Cultivating good habits to assist in managing stress levels is key be purposeful in your objective to prepare for bed at night, turning off radios, televisions, smartphones, by a certain hour. Let your brain settle down, unwind, calm down from the day’s activities and the memories stored from each hour lived.

Even the best productive hours of a day can cause our brain to continue calculating, reviewing discussing regretting with self well into the night adding to a stressful feeling of unrest.

 

What about Prescription Medicines

There is usually no need for prescribed medication to aid with sleep after good habits are developed is easy to achieve reliable results without chemicals.

However, when necessary if you must look for natural ingredients alternatives always. Including herbal teas made for this purpose, melatonin that work naturally with your sleeping cycle which will not create dependency.

Chemicals have side effects long term this is true for all medications whereby they offer temporary help at the expense of other organs in this case adding potential harm through toxins in the brain. The safest and most effective alternative is cultivating good sleeping patterns.

In this article, you will learn the most effective ways on how to achieve a relaxing bedtime routine with these Steps:

  • Establish a regular or fixed bedtime schedule.
  • Learn to manage your time properly (during the day, rest is for the night)
  • Allow yourself listening to relaxing type music for about an hour before
  • Turning off all electronic devices by 9:30 pm nightly
  • Give thanks to God for the day lived and the hours of rest ahead

(a grateful heart brings inner peace and comfort)

Add to these steps what you find helps you as you grow your good sleeping habit. Remember the old saying: Practice makes perfect.

Cheers!

Priscilla Hudson

 

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How to approach Passive Income and by What Expectations

by | May 12, 2023 | Educational-Self-Growth

Wikipedia describes the term passive income as a type of unearned income that is acquired automatically with minimal labour to earn or maintain.

Right, the dream we dream.

Is there a secret about that sought after passive income?

And how do we approach it without the risk of disappointment?

What should we anticipate from it?

Great Expectations

It is important to look at passive income and what it means with the correct expectations. Thought of it loosely one can easily form the image of making a lot of income with very little effort.

This could not be farther from the truth. It does not mean getting money for nothing. Contrary to the notion of making easy money it means putting in a good amount of effort intelligently. Passive does not mean without an active response.

There have been instances where a good number of people are told to go buy a domain name and build a website, write in a few posts, include a product, and bam money will start to stream in. Wrong.

To their great disappointment they soon find out the truth. The easy part is buying a domain name, building the website to a good level of health will require many and I mean many hours of effort and know-how.

Earning thousands of dollars through that website will come but it will take some time depending on other factors.

The options of paid advertisement or growing organic traffic will be available with one producing faster result for the cost of advertising $dollars$ and the other perhaps with a lower cost will take a longer time.

And thus, it follows that you need to get as many visitors as possible to make any serious money. How many visitors? That depends on numerous factors including just how well you have optimized your ad placement and how good the niche you initially chose is.

How many views does it take?

But what you can rest assured is that it’s going to require at least a couple hundred thousand. In fact, if you read around the web and do your research, you’ll likely find that the average advice is that it takes somewhere in the region of 150,000 views for your website to make $200.

How long does it take to get to those kinds of numbers daily? I’d argue that it can take at least a couple of years for most people.

And that’s only if you put in a huge amount of work to consistently flood your site with excellent quality content and to continuously promote your site and your brand in the meantime.

The same goes for selling digital products.

The Right Approach

Why is this important?

Simple: because if you head into this expecting to make $100 a day immediately, you are going to be disappointed and you are probably going to quit out of frustration before you get anywhere.

This is what happens to most people. It is best for you not to quit your day job just yet. What you need to do, is scale back your expectations and make a steady attempt to increase your earnings and to build a business.

Your aim is not to give up your day job. Not right away anyway! Rather, your aim is to make yourself some extra money on the side that will make your day-to-day life that much comfier and more enjoyable.

It’s to fund your lifestyle and it’s to follow something you’re passionate about.

To begin with, you’re not going to quit your day job or stop providing services online.

Instead, you’re going to start devoting just a short amount of time in the evenings or whenever you have the time for writing content, creating a sales page, developing the pages of your website, and learning more about the products you need to promote to earn those affiliate commissions.

What say the experts

I have heard and have read from the “experts” to choose something you’re passionate about and that you enjoy and do it for the love of creating.

Interestingly a very successful online marketer said not necessarily so to that statement, adding that while you need to keep a good measure of that passion you need to go where the hungry buyers are, the people who are needy for help and solutions, because the purpose of our online presence is to help them with information and with tools offering resources and solutions for their needs.

If you make a little money on the side, then you should consider that to be a bonus – not the main reason you’re getting started.

If you do that, then in a few months you might start earning an extra $20 a week – enough to treat yourself to something nice at the end of the month. In time, that might climb to $30, $60 or $150 a week. Build upon that.

Having goals and expectations is a very good thing, without them believe me I would have quit a long time ago. I do not say this referring to the online business only but also regarding the offline business or job but keeping the right perspective is crucial to avoid us having a crashing experience that may lead us to give up.

Giving up is no option.

So, keep on learning searching applying and testing through this exercise you will develop an instinct to identify what works and what does not you will also learn to recognize the b-e-s-e-r-s from the group of so-called experts and gurus. And when you find a good fountain of free and helpful information to increase your knowledge and improve your chances of success remember to go back and tell that fountain “Thank you”

Look to your online options carefully

I’ve lost a good amount of $dollars$ pursuing business before I made any back. Why? Because in my eagerness to succeed money was spent in buying several domain names, I felt were good for the niches I was after. All good intentions but not enough understanding of the word niche and too early into market exploration.

Here what I needed to do first was

  • Search in the search engines the keywords for the niche I was studying (digital products)
  • Digital products were too general.
  • Narrow it down to a more specific group of digital products.
  • Narrow it even more into a more specific group of users (those searching for these products, people who needed the products and were likely ready to buy them

I had a small to medium size budget to invest therefore reading more in depth about the segment should have been a must before going ahead to buy domain names.

The cost for each domain name purchased was about $9.97 (this varies depending on the online service to buy and register) some services charge about $14.95 per domain name.

Note, annual renewal registrations may increase without notice. Recently I renewed a good domain name (a dot com) I’ve owned for at least the past 15 years from the original $4 annual to $20.

It adds up, because of this I will be looking at moving it to a better priced registrar before the year is up.

Once you have a domain name, remember you will need.

  • A website builder, WordPress or other (I use and recommend DIVI check the link below at the end of page) 
  • Hosting service for your website (see some recommended resources at the end of page)
  • Optimizing your website pages for SEO
  • Creating and building your website pages, posts
  • Adding quality content

Unless you are a website developer or hire one, I suggest you focus on the one website and build it up. You will become more comfortable with the process as you add pages and content.

The next challenge is driving traffic or viewers to your website and turning them into paying customers. This do when affiliate products have been added.  Some options are:

  • Create a page in social media associated to your new website/business.
  • Paid advertisement on social media through that page

(Focus on one social media for starters and learn how to use it well)

  • Set a maximum amount to spend per day x how many days.

(Try $5 and test how it does)

Capture website visitors by having a sign-up registration form.  If you have built your website with WordPress a free or paid versions are available through mail plugins.

If you need to become familiar in how to prepare the registration form search in WP for a simple form plugin, download it, read the instruction in how to use, follow the instruction, create a draft, preview, and make changes until you have it how you want it.

Autoresponders

These are great and organized to help you communicate with your subscribers regularly schedule your messages as you prefer. This service is offered through a wide selection of providers.

Research your options online carefully with special consideration on the amount of contacts to your monthly subscription cost. Prices vary widely.

Sign-up form design templates along with mail formats are user friendly and after a few adjustments to include your individual information they are ready to go.

Learn, do, test, and test again. In all you do in this effort remember giving up is no option.

PERSEVERE!

Priscilla Hudson

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7 Figure Affiliate System

by | May 12, 2023 | Educational-Self-Growth

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Recommended For ANYONE Looking to Start and Grow a Digital Business in 2022 and Beyond

His business courses became Top Performers his record spans 20 years …. and he’s done it again.

 

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Now it might be different for you, but when Michael Cheney started his online business twenty years ago and finally started making big money online a few things changed.

He went from loathing Mondays to loving them.

Now he can’t wait for the new week to start so he can keep growing his business, keep helping people and keep counting the cash.

Rather than resenting your time online you start to truly enjoy and cherish it.

You start to see the ripple effect you are having on others.

You realize your work is important and you are making a positive impact in people’s lives.

And sure.

All the money is nice too.

To be blunt, Cheney could pretty much RETIRE buy whatever he wants.

None of this is down to luck.

He has done all the arduous work research testing and now we’re given the opportunity to follow and part-take some of the benefits.

it’s down to TWO SIMPLE THINGS.

  1. Doing stuff every day
  2. Doing the right stuff

Most people get stuck at #1 – they are just not cut out for it.

They don’t have the drive.

Those who do commit energy are almost always doing the wrong stuff – that’s why they are failing.

Let Cheney show you the right stuff to do (which gets you money) and inspire you to take daily action.

You get all this and much, much more inside.

Here’s What You’ll Discover In The7 Figure Affiliate System 

Cheers!

Priscilla Hudson