Coping With Diabetes

Diabetes is a chronic disease that can be controlled, but not cured. Doctors say one of the hardest parts of dealing with diabetes is the toll the disease takes on a person mentally. Many people either deny they have it or get angry or depressed about it. While these feelings are normal, experts say these feelings should not prevent proper treatment and behavior.
Here are ways experts suggest diabetics should cope with their swirling emotions:







DENIAL
Almost everybody goes through denial when he or she is first diagnosed with diabetes. The trouble comes when you continue to deny your diabetes. Continued denial keeps you from learning what you need to know to stay healthy. If you think or say some of these phrases, you may be denying some part of your diabetes care:
"One bite won`t hurt."
"This sore will heal by itself."
"I`ll go to the doctor later."
"I don`t have time to do it."
"My diabetes isn`t serious."
"I only take one pill, not shots."
"My insurance doesn`t cover that."

Here are ways to break away from denial:
* Write down your diabetes care plan and your health goals. Know why each part of your plan is important. Accept that it will take time to reach your goals.
* Talk to your diabetes educator about your diabetes care plan. Together, you may be able to device a better plan.
* Tell your friends and family how you take care of your diabetes. Tell them how they can help you.






Anger
Anger is a powerful emotion. If you don`t use anger, it will use you. To gain control over your anger, learn more about it. Start an anger diary. Write down when you felt angry, where you were, who you were with, why you felt angry,and what you did. After a few weeks, read it. Try to understand your anger. What are you angry about? Usually under your anger are hurt feelings.
The better you understand your anger, the better you will be able to control it. How you use the energy of your anger is up to you. Plan to use your anger in a way that helps you next time.

Here are ways to control your anger:
* DEFUSE IT. Talk slowly, take deep breaths, get a drink of water, sit down, lean back, keep your hands down at your side.
* LET IT OUT. Do a physical activity like jogging or raking leaves. Cry over a sad movie. On a piece of paper, write what you feel like saying or shouting.
* MAKE IT TRIVIAL. Ask yourself just how important it is. Some things are just to trivial to be worth your anger.
* LAUGH AT IT. Find something funny about it. Sometimes laughter can push out anger.
* LET IT GIVE YOU STRENGTH. Anger can give you the courage to speak up for yourself or act to protect someone else.






DEPRESSION
Feeling down occasionally is normal. But feeling really sad and hopeless for two weeks or more might be a sign of serious depression.

You may be depressed if:
* You no longer take interest or pleasure in things you used to enjoy doing.
* You have trouble falling asleep, wake up often during the night, or want to sleep more than usual.
* You wake up earlier than usual and cannot get back to sleep.
* You eat more or less than you used to.
* You quickly gain or lose weight.
* You have trouble concentrating. Other thoughts or feelings distract you.
* You have no energy. You feel tired all the time.
* You are so nervous or anxious, you can`t sit still.
* You are less interested in sex.
* You cry often.
* You feel you never do anything right and are a burden to others.
* You feel sad or worse in the morning than you do the rest of the day.
* You feel you want to die or are thinking about ways to hurt yourself.

If you have three or more of these signs and have been feeling bad for two weeks or more, get help. Talk to your first. There may be a physical cause for your depression.





ACCEPTANCE
Once you have made it through any denial, anger, or depression, you are on your way to accepting your diabetes. Accepting your diabetes is the way to cope with it.

Accept that diabetes care is up to you. You are the one who decides what to eat, how much to exercise, and when to check your blood glucose. Accepts this for what it is-control. You are in control.

Learn as much about diabetes as you can. Read. Asks questions. Take diabetes education classes. go to diabetes support groups.

Share what you have learned with family and friends. The more they know, the better they will be able to help you. Tell them how you feel about diabetes.

Keep active in your hobbies, activities and sports. You`ll show everyone, including yourself, that you`re still the same person. You can still have lots of fun.

Think positive. Thinking good thoughts about yourself and about things in your life can make your life happier. Maybe even longer. Thinking too much about things you don`t like or that make you angry or sad can only make living with complications harder for you and your loved ones.

Food of love

Are you aware that what your man orders on your first dinner date reveals his in-bed behavior?



If he chooses red meat: He is a red-blooded mail whose appetite for sex is even greater than his love of food. He likes his woman down to earth and hungry for it.
What you gonna do: Make him hungry for more. Order your stake rare to show you`re as impatient as him to get to the bed.




A seafood lover: Once you hit his hot spots, he`ll be a generous, sensitive lover- and protein-rich stamina will make up for his lack of experimentation.
What you gonna do: From cold fish to hello sailor! Make him hungry for more. After dinner, suggest a sexy shower for two. He`ll have a clean body but a dirty mind.






When he`s a vegetarian: All those minerals make for high energy levels and a fit body. He wants the best, rich in spice and flavor. Make sure you`re up to it.
What you gonna do: You`ll be at it like rabbits. Make him hungry for more. Tie-me-up, tie-me-down sex games will have you both breaking that no-meat diet.

How To Maintain Genuine Beauty

Exercise
Fitting a little exercise in to our day increases our energy, gives us a sense of well being and makes us feel and look more beautiful. Whether it`s doing sports or yoga, any kind of exercise that works up a nice sweat is good for increasing the heart rate to improve blood flow and metabolism, which adds to natural color and beauty. It also helps eliminate toxins and ease tension so we feel and look better almost instantly.




Detoxify
Since we absorb all kinds of toxic daily, we need to regularly detoxify ourselves to keep a healthy balance. Some of the most accessible detoxification methods include fasting, juicing, skin brushing, soaking in epsom salt or cider vinegar baths, lymphatic drainage and colon cleansing.
Avoid too much of the usual suspects like sugar, salt, caffeine, soft drinks, alcohol and smoking. Drink plenty of cleansing herbal teas such as lemon grass(removes fatty blockages)and sambong(remove salt deposits)to flush toxins from the body and skin. Four big glasses of warm mineral water upon rising(with calamansi or lemon squeezed into the first glass)an hour before breakfast is a great way to cleanse.


Diet
Have the discipline to keep generally correct eating habits."Eat to live" rather than "Live to Eat" is a good standard to follow. Steer clear of eating late in the evening when the body is winding down to rest, because the unprocessed food simply gets stored as fat around the waist. Avoid overeating because it hastens aging. If sleepiness sets in after a meal, it`s a sign that you`ve overeaten. Eating small meals frequently is the healthier option. Get as much as sleep as the body asks for, since the rest between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. is when it repairs and renews itself.





Prayer and peace
But how can we achieve centered peace of mind, clarify and a joyful spirit-the inner states that contribute to outward beauty, in a world full of turmoil? Thankfully, the modern world has a wealth of valuable information, both old and new, available to those who are open to receiving it. Ancient practices like yoga, Qi Gong, meditation, cleansing breath work and meditative, prayer as well as teachings from educational and humanitarian organizations like the Landmark Forum and the Art of Living Foundation offer programs that provide practical empowering knowledge on life dynamics, creating new paradigms, eliminating stress, self mastery and transformation, are vastly available to help one make the shift.
Our true divinely-inspired nature is love, joy, and peace. Health is our natural state. As the captains in command of our ship, we have it entirely in our power to choose and create our reality.




Meditation is the way
Meditation is a stabilizing process that offers alertness and inner calm regardless of what external factors try to penetrate, while it releases stress. It also balances both sides of the brain allowing for a higher state of consciousness, which is the realm where profound healing takes place. It clears emotional pollution and issues on all the layers of our being so healing can begin. Focusing on taking slow, deep breaths is one way to induce a meditative state.
The human aura is an energy body made up of invisible subtle or etheric matter that energizes and sustains our existence. With the use of Kirlian photography science has been able to study, photograph and observe this phenomenon closely. Cleansing the auric energy at this level addresses imbalances before they manifest disease in the physical level. the common energy healing techniques include Pranic Healing, Reiki and Quantum Touch.
The good news is that when you work on it from the deepest levels it overrides the rest. When one has decided to nurture the seeds of infinite beauty from deep within, then the radiance shines outward in its entire splendor, permeating lasting beauty throughout your being.