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Today, everyone you come across complains about being too busy. People are busy conforming to deadlines at work, hotfooting to class or running the kids from one activity to another. Our lives are ascertained by time sensitive, externally monitored, stress acquiring activities. Unfortunately many respond to stress by alleging, "I just don't have the time to alleviate it." You can have time to cut down stress. Here are a few quick to do, stress cutting activities.

30 minutes - 4 days a week:

Pick your favourite exercise and just do it. Even if you have to awaken 35 minutes sooner than usual to achieve it, just do it.

Examples of exercises:

You can walk around the block or maybe two blocks, timing yourself until you've been walking for half-hour. Take a dog, or an acquaintance with you and make it a leisurely walk. You can enjoy the neighbor's back yard, a community park, or nature trail.

Take a relaxing swim in your pool or a residential area pool.

Join an aerobic exercise class.

Exercise releases endorphins that are natural healing and soothing chemicals.

Exercise aids us keeping physically and mentally healthy. Good health through exercise diminishes our risk for unwellness and can direct our attention away from issues that cause us stress.

15 minutes - 3 times daily

Bringing in the choice to eat 3 healthy meals including fruits and vegetable daily can encourage your body's natural defense against stress by catering for what your body needs to heal.

Foods that are copious in cholesterol, saturated fats, and sugar can induce headaches, digestive troubles, inability to concentrate, nervousness and irritability. Once we experience these symptoms we can feel stressed and uncomfortable. Consuming healthier foods and beverages like water (8 - 8oz glassfuls), fruits, veggies, grain, calcium products and protein (not necessarily meat, but nuts and seeds).

Inner calmness:

An additional way to bring down stress is to spend time on your inner peace of mind. Meditation, yoga and tai chi chuan are methods for everyone to become more well aware of our body and to unstrain our mind. As we concentrate on body motions, another object or a sound our mind blanks out other distractions and we therefore feel the tenseness release.

Whilst you have a poor diet or eat at irregular times this adds to strain.

Lie down on a couch with your shoes off. Lay a cool flannel over your eyes if you suffer from allergies. Listen to your favored music whilst you relax. Slowly and gently blow air out your mouth and slowly inhale through your nose.

Breathe Correctly:

Stress increases our heart rate and our breathing gets shallow and speedy. Whilst this comes about our body loses oxygen that it necessitates to function. Take deep breaths so that oxygen can flow into our stomach and into our lungs. Make deep breathing a part of your day-to-day routine and before long it will replace your shallow breathing. Your body will consume the oxygen it calls for and you'll feel better.

Ian Wilkins writes for Your Health And Fitness We have articles and tips written by fully qualified doctors and nurses and give all the information free. If you are serious about looking after your health and fitness, then visit the number 1 resource for Your Health And Fitness

In Search of an Orchid as Big as a Plate

One day, not long ago, I sat at the round table in front of the Yellow Rose, drinking a cold Iquitena with my good friend, Ryan, talking about the many beautiful orchids and epiphytes we have observed in the rainforest near Iquitos, Peru. Ryan nodded his head.

He glanced over his shoulder, leaned toward me, and said in a low voice, "My spies, which are wrong ninety percent of the time, tell me that a new species of orchid has been discovered near Moyobamba the size of a dinner plate."

"Sounds more like the size of a pile of horse manure to me."

"My spies work for INRENA."

"I always wanted to go to Moyobamba."

"They say the weather is perfect every day and every night."

"I think I will go tomorrow."

"You know about the Lacey Act?"

"How can I not know, you lecture me on it once a week!"

"I only want you to be careful and stay out of trouble. This orchid is unknown to science, it is unnamed. You can not touch it, hold it, move it, transport it, or export it. You understand?"

"I understand! I only want to look at it. Smell it's scent, photograph it for posterity. That surely doesn't violate the Lacey Act, does it?"

"Be careful, it's intoxicating."

I spent one day researching and packing. My best friend, Marmelita, and I left the next day for Tarapoto, a quiet, clean, farming community. We found an inexpensive hostel, two blocks from the central plaza, took a motokar to the market and made a meal out of fresh milk, whole grain corn bread, good cheese, fruits, and nuts from the local farms.

My Nikon D-70 camera malfunctioned and the man at the camera repair shop loaned us his digital Canon while he worked on mine. In the afternoon we hired a car to take us up to the High Cascade Waterfalls, a great place to swim and enjoy nature. In the evening we ate delicious, giant, fresh, aqua-farmed Malaysian shrimp and washed it down with a pitcher of mango juice. The next morning my camera was still in pieces so we decided to spend another day in Tarapoto.

Tarapoto is not a bad place for nature lovers. It was near here the English botanist and explorer, Richard Spruce, discovered and named the Platycerium Andinum, or Staghorn Fern. Spruce's specimen died before getting back to England and it was not until 1969 that Lee Moore, the Adventurer, rediscovered the staghorn in the vicinity of Tarapoto and got a live specimen back to civilization.

I fondly remember growing two staghorn ferns in the shower of my bathroom in Indiana, in the 70s, doing my best to recreate the tropical rainforest environment. When I found my first magnificent specimen in the wild rainforest, I realized how pitiful my houseplants had been. This monster circled most of the tree, had fronds hanging down five feet or more, and the 35 shield fronds grew nearly two feet tall. If my house plants had reached their natural potential, there would not have been room for me to have taken a shower.

The next morning my camera still did not work. I purchased the used Canon 3.2 megapixel I had borrowed the day before. Compared to the Nikon at 5 megapixels, with the wonderful lens and all the buttons and functions that I know and love, this was a big loss. With no practice and the manual in Spanish, the odds of getting great photos were about the same as finding an orchid big as a plate.

Moyobamba is the Orchid City, with 2,500 species of orchids growing in the high jungle around the town. Marmelita and I hiked jungle trails, saw hundreds of species in full bloom, soaked in the hot springs, went to more waterfalls, and pursued tips to the nearby villages of Lamas and Rioja. We had a good adventure, accomplished most of what we set out to do, and learned a lot. We learned the truth is rarely heard, seldom seen, and difficult to photograph. The orchid is more the size of a saucer than a plate, but it is one of the most beautiful, rare, and valuable blossoms I have ever laid eyes on. Here is most of its story, woven together from several sources we interviewed in and around Moyobamba. Some of the locations and most of the juicy gossip I am keeping to myself.

A farmer named Faustino Medina set in motion an Indiana Jones style adventure by discovering a large group of pretty flowering plants. He dug some and sold them at a crossroad truck stop called El Progresso, for $1 apiece. An orchid collector from Virginia, like a typical gringo, paid $3.60 for three of them. He can be forgiven for not negotiating the price. He knew they could be worth $10,000 apiece and make him famous. I imagine him running down the road, looking over his shoulder, cradling his three treasures, but an important part of the story is he used Lee Moore's taxi driver, Jose Mendoza. He did not have to run; Mendoza drove him directly to Moore, who confirmed, "You have the Holy Grail of Orchids."

Wild orchids are protected by the international CITES treaty. This orchid was new to science and was unnamed. The catch is that only 23 experts in the world can name an orchid and none of them are in Peru. To gain possession of an unnamed, world-class orchid is hard. To get a legal permit to take the orchid to an official taxonomist is next to impossible. Legend has it that Lee Moore has smuggled most of the things that can be smuggled. His advice was to put it in a suitcase and go straight to the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida. They are affiliated with five taxonomists, the most of any botanical garden in the world. The collector walked through customs, worked up some papers, and realized his dream by having the lady slipper orchid named after him, Phragmipedium kovachii.

It is ok to build a road and destroy a million orchids. One gets a permit. It is not ok to take an orchid out of the country in a suitcase. That it has been done many times is not a defense, and it was not a defense this time. Federal agents confiscated the plant and charged and convicted the collector and the botanical garden of possession of an endangered species and illegal trade. They paid fines, served probation, and suffered loss of reputation.

At approximately the same time, the taxi driver, Jose Mendoza, raided Faustino Medina's patch, taking every plant, and selling them on the black market to dealers in Ecuador and Lima. Lee Moore has the other two plants left by the collector, and has acquired 200 others that he is raising and propagating for the time when they are legal to export.

Faustino discovered another patch and seems to have sold several hundred for $4 apiece to a rogue with a pickup truck named Kenneth Reategui, who has a small recreational park and restaurant on the outskirts of Tarapoto. He fenced them to an orchid dealer in Lima for what is understood to be a small fortune. An article appeared in the Orchidist, about the last known site of P. kovachii. A thousand mature plants. It was considered to be a safe site because of its inaccessibility, requiring a "hike from hell." Two weeks later a helicopter with cargo boxes swooped in and stole all but two plants too high up on the cliff to reach. Armed men who would not know an orchid from a cactus are fingering the hibiscus.

Intoxicating.

Anyone interested in having an adventure, photographing orchids, touring Tarapoto, Moyobamba and the surrounding countryside, swimming under waterfalls, and soaking in natural hot springs can contact me to arrange the details.

About the Author

Bill Grimes owns and operates Dawn on the Amazon Tours and Cruises, custom cruises on the upper Amazon River and its tributaries from Iquitos, Peru. For details, visit his website at http://www.dawnontheamazon.com

Give me reasons why I shouldn't be afraid of Pit Bulls?

These are animals when they die, they still hold on to you even if you kill them to stop the attack. Ouch!!! Seriously, Ouch!!! LOL That's the craziest thing about a vicious dog I've ever heard about. Plus, that big block size head of theirs looks very intimidating too. I don't even really have a fear of dogs just those dogs and the pain they can afflict from their dog bite. Plus, for some strange reason I'm mainly concerned about a dog attacking my nuts so I'm always conscious of that when I met a vicious dog. So, if you were a therapist, please tell me how I can get over not being afraid of Pit Bulls? Give me some good reasons why I shouldn't fear the bite of these vicious dogs?

Because the pit bull doesn't have the strongest bite force of the dog world. Their jaws don't lock. Secondly not every Pit or dog that is mistaken for a pit is vicious. You are more likely to meet a vicious lap dog than a vicious pit bull.

A vicious dog is the results of poor breeding, poor training, or a mental/chemical imbalance.

They will NOT hold on even in death.

You shouldn't be afraid of these dogs because the media distorts the truth as usual the majority of pit related attacks reports are not pits, pit mixes or other bull breeds.

Its the owners not the dogs. And secondly if a dog WERE to attack you they'd go for the throat or the soft underbelly, not your balls.

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