Physical Health

Physical Health


Your body’s the only place you have to live, so take care of it

Just as important as keeping a healthy mind during your time in college is maintaining your physical wellness. The typical college lifestyle can put a tremendous strain on the body. It’s a big change from high school, and many freshmen aren’t ready for the responsibility of looking after themselves. The greasy cafeteria food, late-night study sessions and germ-infested bathrooms of college life all add up, and many students fall into the pit of constantly feeling crappy.



Exercise


Exercise
Staying fit in college

There is more to physical health than just eating right. Exercise is also a vital component of any healthy lifestyle. Unfortunately, for many college students, it’s hard to fit in time to exercise with so much schoolwork and so many social distractions. Many students live a sedentary lifestyle, only venturing out of their dorm rooms to go to class. This is particularly true for female students, whom statistics show to be much less physically active than their male counterparts.




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A Complete Workout
Fulfilling your fitness needs

Every well-rounded workout consists of three distinct elements: aerobic exercise, strength training and flexibility training. Many students choose to spend extra time in one particular area, but no workout is complete unless time is spent on each of the three separate aspects.

Aerobic Exercise

Any motion that gets your heart pumping and makes you take faster, deeper breaths is considered to be aerobic. Aerobic exercise is commonly referred to as cardio. Jogging and biking are two common forms of aerobic exercise. Running up stairs, jumping jacks and even dancing are other great ways to work out your heart and lungs. Ideally, you’ll spend between one and two hours a week on cardio. Don’t do it all at once. Instead, spread it out over three or four separate workouts.


Sleep
Your mom is right - you probably aren’t getting enough

It’s very common for college students to struggle with their sleep patterns. In fact, the average college student is twice as likely to suffer from inadequate sleep as is a member of the general population. In total, less than 15 percent of college students report that they’re consistently well-rested. Even more disturbing is the fact that recent studies have shown that the amount of sleep the average college student gets is decreasing every year.

Are You Getting Enough Sleep?

College students are more active than most other demographics, so they need a lot of sleep. Seven to nine hours per night is needed by most, but few get this much. Many students only get six hours of sleep or less per night.


Hygiene
Staying so fresh, so clean

College campuses (and dorms in particular) can be quite filthy places. Germs are everywhere, spreading with ease through cramped lecture halls, public bathrooms, cafeterias and shared laboratories, causing a wide range of illnesses.

The control and prevention of disease is a social problem, not a personal one. Good hygiene is an obligation you have to society. We all have to take part to ensure the health of those around us. College students are generally among the healthiest people in society. Unfortunately, this can lead many to feel a sense of invincibility. Even if you aren’t worried about getting sick, be sure to consider those of us who are more vulnerable to disease the next time you decide to leave the bathroom without washing your hands.

Sickness
The most common illnesses on campus

College campuses are, in many ways, an excellent breeding ground for diseases. Students’ immune systems are compromised due to lack of sleep, unhealthy eating habits and stress. Plus, communal living and eating and crowded classrooms and bars make the likelihood of coming into contact with germs pretty much inevitable!

You can minimize your chances of contracting a viral or bacterial infection in two easy ways. First, get plenty of sleep. Second, practice good hygiene. Wash your hands frequently, never share eating utensils and keep your distance from any person who is showing signs of illness.

Personal Safety
Staying safe on campus

College should be a time for broadening your horizons and opening yourself to new ideas and experiences. The freedom and excitement that college offers leads many students to gain a sense of limitless potential (which is good) and invincibility (which can be problematic). Unfortunately, there are over 75,000 crimes committed every year on college campuses across the nation, and violent crimes, including assault and rape, are not uncommon. It’s important that all students form practical strategies for staying safe in college.

Campus safety is an issue at all colleges. The good news is that if you take the right precautions and make good decisions, you can help ensure that you remain safe, and you can free your mind to focus on other things, like your academics and social life. The following strategies can help you stay safe on campus:

Violence and Abuse
Escaping physical and emotional abuse

Abuse is defined as a means of exerting power and control over a partner in an intimate relationship. There are two basic forms of abuse: physical and emotional. Abuse can penetrate any relationship, from long-term marriages to casual high-school dating. Although both males and females can be abusive, abuse by males is more common and is usually more severe. Somewhere in the range of 25 percent of all college students have experienced abuse in the context of a dating relationship (statistics aren’t exact because most abuse goes unreported).

Physical Abuse

Physical abuse is defined as the use of physical force with the intent of injuring another person. Examples include:

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Mental Health

Mental Health


Navigating the path to psychological well-being

Statistics show that today’s college students are facing more complex and severe mental health problems than the students of past decades. Over one-quarter of freshmen feel overwhelmed on a regular basis, and nearly 10 percent struggle with feeling sad and unmotivated. While most students’ problems subside following their freshman year, a significant proportion of students experience chronic levels of distress that won’t subside as time progresses without professional intervention.

Despite the increase in the number of students requiring help, many communities are closing mental health centers, so students have fewer and fewer places to turn for off-campus counseling. This has placed a great strain on the counseling staff on most college campuses.

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Money


They say it won’t buy you happiness, but they can’t stop you from trying

The only thing less fun than staying up all night cramming for an exam is knowing that you are paying thousands of dollars for the opportunity to do so. Yes, it sucks that college is so expensive, but it’s probably the best investment you’ll ever make. That old saying is true: you’ve gotta spend money to make money. College graduates earn, on average, over $20,000 more per year than those with only a high school education (and flip over 20,000 fewer burgers).

College is the first time that most young people are in full control of their money. No longer are your parents there to look over your shoulder and scold you about buying those designer jeans (“They came pre-ripped?!”). This heightened financial freedom brings about a need for students to learn to be responsible with their money. After all, that extra $20,000 a year won’t mean much if you graduate owing $150,000 (which some students actually do).

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The Road to Intuition

The Road to Intuition

Have you had that experience when all of a sudden you just had this huge hunch that something is about to happen, and to your surprise, that intuition was eventually translated to reality?

When you feel strongly about something without logical basis to it, that's called intuition. It comes in three impressions: clairvoyance or "the third eye", sensing clearly and feeling through listening.

Clairvoyance is when your eye goes beyond what it can see. This is when you know what is happening somewhere.

Sensing clearly is basically what we refer to as "hunch" or "gut feel." This is the time when you are overwhelmed with a feeling and you can't explain it and all you can say is "I just know."

On the other hand, feeling through listening or clairaudience is being able to "listen" between the lines. Intuition also happens at times when a certain sound, whatever it is - be it a car's honk or a bird's twitting - ushers in an intense feeling.

They say only a number of people are gifted with intuition. Astrologers even insist that people born under the Scorpio or Pisces signs are naturally intuitive it almost borders on E.S.P. But studies have been sprouting left and right that proclaim that anyone can develop intuition.

Why the need to develop intuition, you ask? Why not let your emotional and psychological state as it is? First and foremost, intuition promotes good communication. It makes you more sensitive to the people around you; it often keeps you from hurting those you love because you are intuitive enough to understand them. Intuition also makes you far more creative than ever. Intuition means releasing more creative juices for any means of expression. Lastly, intuition has a healing power. This healing power is not in the physical sense, but in delving deep into your soul to eradicate some negative energy buried in it.

With that being said, are you ready to develop your intuition? Here are some ways to unlock this gift:

1. Hypnosis

Oh yes, get yourself hypnotized. Hypnosis is not limited to watching a pendulum move back and forth. Perform self-hypnosis or you can avail of hypnotic programs that can strengthen your intuition.

2. Meditation

Meditating means finding peace in yourself. If your mind and heart are cluttered with too many baggage and hurt, you wouldn't be able to quiet down that part of you that could eventually initiate intuition. There are so many ways to meditate: take a yoga class, or just simply practice some breathing that could bring you straight to Zen.

3. Think positive!

A worry-free, fear-free state could do so much to improve your intuitive ability. By staying positive, you attract good energy that would be able to easily recognize imminent feelings and events.

4. Just let go.

What does this mean? If you are on the brink of making a huge decision, let go of all the inhibitions and head to a quiet place where you could find out where the letting go has brought you. Sometimes you just have to listen to the voice within you, and that voice wouldn't come out unless you let go.

5. Never expect.

After letting go of the inhibitions and all those things that stop you from thinking and feeling clearly, never expect for an answer right away. Never expect that the "hunch" would fall on your lap immediately. Give it a little time then you'd just get surprised that -- wham! -- now you have your answer.

6. Believe in your first impressions.

When you see someone for the first time and think that he is a bit too arrogant for your taste, chances are that impression actually holds true. Most of the time, first impressions are brought by intuition.

7. Stay happy!

See? All you need to be intuitive is to stay happy! Happiness attracts immense power and such power includes intuition. In tapping your intuition, your motivation must be happiness and contentment. Given that premise, intuition will fall to you easily.

Intuition is helpful, because sometimes it leads you to something that cannot be achieved otherwise. A lot of lives have been saved by intuition alone. Decisions are easier done if armed by this gift. Develop intuition now and reap benefits you have never imagined.

Impossible is Just a Word

Everyone, at some point of his or her life, has dreamed of being somebody special, somebody big. Who hasn't fantasized about being the one who hits the game-winning homer? Who hasn't dreamed of being the homecoming queen? And how many times have we dreamed of being rich, or successful, or happy with our relationships?

Often, we dream big dreams and have great aspirations. Unfortunately, our dreams remain just that – dreams. And our aspirations easily collect dust in our attic.

This is a sad turn of events in our life. Instead of experiencing exciting adventures in self actualization, we get caught up in the humdrum of living from day-to-day just barely existing.

But you know what? Life could be so much better, if only we learned to aim higher.

The most common problem to setting goals is the word impossible. Most people get hung up thinking I can't do this. It's too hard. It's too impossible. No one can do this.

However, if everyone thought that, there would be no inventions, no innovations, and no breakthroughs in human accomplishment.

Remember that scientists were baffled when they took a look at the humble bumblebee. Theoretically, they said, it was impossible for the bumblebee to fly. Unfortunately for the bumble, bee no one has told it so. So fly it does.

On the other hand, some people suffer from dreaming totally outrageous dreams and not acting on them. The result? Broken dreams, and tattered aspirations.

If you limit yourself with self-doubt, and self-limiting assumptions, you will never be able to break past what you deem impossible. If you reach too far out into the sky without working towards your goal, you will find yourself clinging on to the impossible dream.

Try this exercise. Take a piece of paper and write down some goals in your life. Under one header, list down things ‘you know you can do’. Under another header, write the things ‘you might be able to do.’ And under one more, list the things that that are ‘impossible for you to do.’

Now look at all the headers strive every day to accomplish the goals that are under things ‘you know you can do’. Check them when you are able to accomplish them. As you slowly are able to check all of your goals under that heading, try accomplishing the goals under the other header-the one that reads ‘you might be able to do.’

As of the items you wrote under things I could do are accomplished, you can move the goals that are under things that are ‘impossible for you to do’ to the list of things ‘you might be able to do.’

As you iterate through this process, you will find out that the goals you thought were impossible become easier to accomplish. And the impossible begin to seem possible after all.

You see, the technique here is not to limit your imagination. It is to aim high, and start working towards that goal little by little. However, it also is unwise to set a goal that is truly unrealistic.

Those who just dream towards a goal without working hard end up disappointed and disillusioned.

On the other hand, if you told someone a hundred years ago that it was possible for man to be on the moon, they would laugh at you. If you had told them that you could send mail from here to the other side of the world in a few seconds, they would say you were out of your mind. But, through sheer desire and perseverance, these impossible dreams are now realities.

Thomas Edison once said that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Nothing could be truer. For one to accomplish his or her dreams, there has to be had work and discipline. But take note that that 1% has to be a think-big dream, and not some easily accomplished one.

Ask any gym rat and he or she will tell you that there can be no gains unless you are put out of your comfort zone. Remember the saying, “No pain, no gain”? That is as true as it can be.

So dream on, friend! Don’t get caught up with your perceived limitations. Think big and work hard to attain those dreams. As you step up the ladder of progress, you will just about find out that the impossible has just become a little bit more possible.

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So how do you stay calm, composed and maintain self esteem in a tough environment? Here are some tips you may to consider as a starter guide to self improvement.

Imagine yourself as a Dart Board. Everything and everyone else around you may become Dart Pins, at one point or another. These dart pins will destroy your self esteem and pull you down in ways you won’t even remember. Don’t let them destroy you, or get the best of you. So which dart pins should you avoid?

Dart Pin #1 : Negative Work Environment
Beware of “dog eat dog” theory where everyone else is fighting just to get ahead. This is where non-appreciative people usually thrive. No one will appreciate your contributions even if you miss lunch and dinner, and stay up late. Most of the time you get to work too much without getting help from people concerned. Stay out of this, it will ruin your self esteem. Competition is at stake anywhere. Be healthy enough to compete, but in a healthy competition that is.

Dart Pin #2: Other People’s Behavior
Bulldozers, brown nosers, gossipmongers, whiners, backstabbers, snipers, people walking wounded, controllers, naggers, complainers, exploders, patronizers, sluffers… all these kinds of people will pose bad vibes for your self esteem, as well as to your self improvement scheme.

Dart Pin #3: Changing Environment
You can’t be a green bug on a brown field. Changes challenge our paradigms. It tests our flexibility, adaptability and alters the way we think. Changes will make life difficult for awhile, it may cause stress but it will help us find ways to improve our selves. Change will be there forever, we must be susceptible to it.

Dart Pin #4: Past Experience
It’s okay to cry and say “ouch!” when we experience pain. But don’t let pain transform itself into fear. It might grab you by the tail and swing you around. Treat each failure and mistake as a lesson.

Dart Pin #5: Negative World View
Look at what you’re looking at. Don’t wrap yourself up with all the negativities of the world. In building self esteem, we must learn how to make the best out of worst situations.

Dart Pin #6: Determination Theory
The way you are and your behavioral traits is said to be a mixed end product of your inherited traits (genetics), your upbringing (psychic), and your environmental surroundings such as your spouse, the company, the economy or your circle of friends. You have your own identity. If your father is a failure, it doesn’t mean you have to be a failure too. Learn from other people’s experience, so you’ll never have to encounter the same mistakes.

Sometimes, you may want to wonder if some people are born leaders or positive thinkers. NO. Being positive, and staying positive is a choice. Building self esteem and drawing lines for self improvement is a choice, not a rule or a talent. God wouldn’t come down from heaven and tell you – “George, you may now have the permission to build self esteem and improve your self.”

In life, its hard to stay tough specially when things and people around you keep pulling you down. When we get to the battle field, we should choose the right luggage to bring and armors to use, and pick those that are bullet proof. Life’s options give us arrays of more options. Along the battle, we will get hit and bruised. And wearing a bullet proof armor ideally means ‘self change’. The kind of change which comes from within. Voluntarily. Armor or Self Change changes 3 things: our attitude, our behavior and our way of thinking. Generate revenue from your website. Google AdSense.

Building self esteem will eventually lead to self improvement if we start to become responsible for who we are, what we have and what we do. Its like a flame that should gradually spread like a brush fire from inside and out. When we develop self esteem, we take control of our mission, values and discipline. Self esteem brings about self improvement, true assessment, and determination. So how do you start putting up the building blocks of self esteem? Be positive. Be contented and happy. Be appreciative. Never miss an opportunity to compliment. A positive way of living will help you build self esteem, your starter guide to self improvement.

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