Keep dating your spouse. Hire a baby
sitter. Get dressed up! Make special dinner reservations. Buy her flowers. Wear
his favorite perfume. Approach each "date" with your spouse with the
same desire to impress that you held in your heart on your first date.
Write him love notes. Leave them
in the brief case, on the mirror, or taped on the computer monitor. Please, do
it the old fashion way, with pen and perfumed writing paper. Not, emails or SMS’s.
Come on, give him a back rub!
Give him love credits. Spoil him by giving him a love credit for any of his favorite
activities: dinner in a particular restaurant, tickets to a favorite sporting
event, etc. Be creative!
Instead of celebrating your anniversary,
why not celebrating your honeymoon? Visit the place where you spent your
honeymoon, even if it is for just one night. Should it not be possible for
whatever reason, just book into the next best, but classy, hotel for the night!
Serve him
breakfast in bed, anytime! Make it yourself and serve it with a flower and a
love note!
You can never kiss him too much! Do not be
content with a simple little peck on the lips. Give him at least 10 seconds of
serious affection each day. Try it just before leaving for the office. You will
hardly be able to wait to get home!
Buy him a romantic novel and read a chapter
every night in bed!
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Sometimes you just have to take flight. A summer in New Orleans is exactly what Allie needs before starting college. Accepting her dad’s invitation to work at his hotel offers an escape from her ex-boyfriend and the chance to spend the summer with her best friend. Meeting a guy is the last thing on her mind—until she sees Levi.
Never stop loving him, and tell him
that you love him every day!
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This is a beautiful book and all women will love it!
Water – be it from a shower, a sauna, a Jacuzzi or a
swimming pool is the ideal treatment for body therapy.
Water has many benefits: it is highly relaxing; it can tone
the skin and the muscles; and, in the form of steam, it can cleanse the pores
and rid the skin of impurities. One particular use of water for health and
beauty that has been employed since Greek and Roman times is hydrotherapy. This
entails using the pressure of water to break down the fatty deposits called
cellulite that form in the body’s connective tissue. Cellulite causes unsightly
puckering and lumpiness on the surface of the skin, usually around the upper
arms, buttocks and thighs.
Many health farms and solaria have special tubs called Jacuzzi designed for hydrotherapy, which work on simple principle of water
pressure. Jets situated around the side of the tub create a whirlpool effect,
forcing pressurized water against the body, which tones and stimulates. Some
swimming pools and saunas have a less sophisticated version - a machine fixed
to the poolside that pumps fixed jets of water. You attach yourself by a loose
belt and move those parts of the body that require treatment against the jets.
For more regular and cheaper treatment, you can make your
own home version of hydrotherapy by investing in a shower attachment for you
bath taps. Turn the taps on as full as possible - using warm water rather than
hot – and aim the shower at the areas you want to tone for about three minutes
at a time. Never spend more than 20 minutes giving yourself this water
treatment, to avoid drying out your skin, and always moisturize your body
thoroughly afterwards.
With a home shower, you can also create the ‘sauna effect’ of
a rapid change of temperature from hot to cold.
All you do is to run the hot shower over yourself, moving
from the feet upwards then switch the taps to icy coldness. This in turn
expands and contracts the skin’s capillaries, stimulating circulation.
Exercises
Your local swimming pool may be less glamorous than a health
farm, but is just as good a place to practice another type of water therapy
involving exercise. Any form of exercise in water is highly beneficial because
your muscles are forced to work against the pressure of the water. You can use
your sessions at the pool both for swimming and for exercise routines. Swimming
is an ideal way of firming up loose muscles, and is an excellent form of
aerobic exercise – it forces the heart to work faster, giving a boost to the cardiovascular system. The crawl is especially good for improving breathing,
while the breaststroke is a good remedy for flabby upper arms and thighs.
Isometrics in the bath is another effective form of water
therapy. Get into the habit of a bath exercise routine at least three times a
week. Start by breathing deeply while lying on your back, and push your abdomen
up and out against the water. Then slowly sit up, arms at your sides, pushing
against the water; this exercise is good for firming the waist and toning
flabby stomach muscles.
To strengthen your upper body and firm up you breasts, lie
back, arms at your sides. Then, slowly push your arms up, palms upwards, as if
you were trying to raise a weight. Now lie back and slowly lift your legs, with
your toes pointed, until they are at right angles to your body, holding onto
your feet as you do so. Repeat each exercise three times. In addition, you can
modify other sitting and lying exercises from any keep-fit routine to do in the
bath.
Massage
You can complete your water therapy programme with
underwater massage, which some beauty experts advocate as highly effective for
dissolving fat deposits. Lie in warm water, and first give your body a hard
all-over rubbing with the palms of your hands. A few drops of bath oil in the
water will make this easier. Then pay specific attention to flabby areas,
rolling and twisting the loose skin between fingers and thumbs, pinching as
hard as you can. Follow by massaging with your fingertips in a circular motion.
Finish with a cool shower and a brisk rub with a soft towel.
Wash the feet thoroughly and adopt a
comfortable position that allows you to reach all parts of your foot.
Anoint the feet with a skin lotion for
lubrication when carrying out the massage.
Massage the area between your toes using
your fingers and your thumb. Wiggle and wriggle the toes and pull each one
gently. Then move to the four metatarsal bones that run along the top and
middle of the foot. Moving from the base of your toes to just above your ankle,
slowly massage one area at a time.
The soles. When you are working on
yourself, this is easiest with your foot propped on the opposite knee, with a
towel underneath to protect your clothing from cream. Using your thumbs, make
small, circular motions that cover the entire surface of the bottom of your
foot, moving from the base of your toes toward your heel. Keep the pressure of
the circles steady and even. Use a bit more firmness on your heels as the skin
there is tougher.
Still working the sole, use your pointer
and middle fingers to make crosswise movements, back and forth, from the heel
to the ball of your foot.
Taking a firm hold of the foot, raising it,
and massaging the back of the calf with the free hand is effective in relieving
muscle stress in that leg.
With one hand holding the heel and the
other enfolding the toes, rotate the foot, without causing pain, to gain an
overall sense of relaxation, ease and well-being.
After the massage, wipe the soles of your
feet with a towel to prevent your feet from being slippery. Slip into some
wonderful heavy cotton socks or favorite (clean) slippers.
Everyone wants to be happy, but many do not
succeed. Why? Because sometimes we rely on people or things, like money to make
us happy.
This is wrong. Happiness lies within each
of us. But how?
Oscar Wilde once said: 'It's better to be
beautiful than to be good, but it's better to be good than to be ugly.’ Many
women, but men included feels inadequate when they are not as beautiful as they
want to be. Subsequently, this makes them unhappy.
When you were not born blessed with natural
beauty, there is nothing to worry about. All you have to do is to learn to
accept who and what you are and love yourself. Nobody is perfect, but true
beauty is from inside. Once you accepted that you are beautiful in your own
right, you will be happy! Be happy with your body and what it can do for you.
We must have and cherish friends. Remember,
friends cannot make us happy. But, having true friends must make us happy. This
is because all human beings need close social connections to be happy. Work on
the strength of your friendships, and not the quantity thereof.
Personality, too, seems linked to happiness
extroverts usually seem happier, probably because they do things that bring
them happiness, like forming strong friendships, enjoying relationships and
accepting career challenges. But, whether you are introvert or extrovert, we
can all learn to be happy. It starts with a choice.
The choice of being happy or not, lies
within, not outside!
