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If you are a Type 4, the best way to get out of your depression is to find a practice that helps you become grounded. |
And there are many ways to become grounded or stay present. Find a practice that will help you open up to the wisdom of your body, mind, and heart. Take a few moments, several times a day, to intentionally breathe to help you find your equilibrium. |
Thus, it is essential for you to pay attention to your body by paying attention to the sensations of your organs and muscles. |
A great way to become more aware of the sensations of your body is by taking part in a body scan meditation. You can find excellent body scans on the Insight Timer app. And you can do it on your own. |
Lie down and start focusing your attention on your feet. As you move your awareness up your body, spend at least 30 seconds on each part of your body — feet, lower legs, knees, and so on. |
You may find this hard, and it takes time and practice to become aware of your body, but it is worth the effort. |
Due to the intensity of your emotions, some people will not be prepared to communicate with you at the deep level that you would like. Give them time and they will be touched by your desire to connect, heart-to-heart. |
You are a beautiful person! You are unique! You are special! |
Trust that you have something important to contribute to the world. Remember, we all have a bit of Type 4 in us. Sometimes, your answers to your big questions are a lot closer than you think. Pay more attention to what is rather than dreaming of what could be. |
When you feel stuck in an emotion, find a way to ground yourself. Remember that feelings are in constant flux and they change from moment to moment. |
When you ground yourself, you will know what you are feeling in each moment. |
Learn to enjoy the moment. Fully experience all of what life is offering you a moment-to-moment with all the ups and downs. |
When you feel down, know that it will pass. The wisdom of your body, mind, and heart will show you the way. |
Roland Legge is a Life Coach with REL Consultants who works with individuals, couples, families, and executives to help them to be the best they can be. For more information, reach him out to him via email. |
Wall-E might be the most sympathetic, lovable robot ever created on film. While R2-D2 was hilarious and endearing, he had the benefit of C3PO to translate for him and a cast of human characters to carry the weight of the story. At the end of the day, R2-D2 was simply comic relief, but his descendant, whose voice was al... |
The first 40 minutes or so of Wall-E are almost completely without dialogue. Instead, the story is told visually, as we see Wall-E, the abandoned garbage bot, puttering around a staggeringly rendered post-apocalyptic Earth. He goes around doing his job, as he has for the past 700 years, compacting trash into cubes and ... |
He watches Hello, Dolly! on an iPod that he somehow hooked up to a VCR, emulating the dancing and learning about love. (That's not the only Apple reference in the movie: he makes the classic Mac bootup sound when he turns on, and his love interest EVE was designed by Jonathan Ive). When you see Wall-E try to imitate th... |
Immediately, we realize this isn't your typical kiddie cartoon. No pop culture jokes? No instantly-recognizable celebrity voices? A decimated, humanless landscape full of towers of garbage and decrepit buildings? A lonely robot trying to learn about love and humanity through centuries of its trash? This looks more like... |
Wall-E features loving nods to everything from Brave New World to 2001 to Star Wars without ever feeling derivative. Instead, it builds on them, making what has the potential to be an almost relentlessly bleak world into one full of complete joy and levity. It always has that undercurrent of melancholy just under the s... |
And isn't that the sign of great science fiction? While on the surface it's a movie about robots and spaceships set centuries in the future, deep down it's about humanity and its place on Earth and in the universe. It uses its out-of-this-world settings and characters as a lens to reflect our own world back at us, show... |
In a movie season that's overpopulated with tired superhero movies, remakes and sequels, it's incredibly refreshing to see a movie that stands on its own as a completely new and unique creation. It's safe to say you've never seen anything like Wall-E, and you might not see anything like it again. Go. Go see it as soon ... |
A European probe into possible oil price manipulation expanded with the investigation of a small niche trading house in the Netherlands and a key U.S. senator on Friday called for the Justice Department to join the investigation. |
Dutch trading house Argos Energies, a mid-sized trading company that deals in physical oil products and owns storage facilities, was visited by inspectors from the European Commission on Tuesday, a source familiar with the investigation said on Friday. |
The visit occurred on the same day that authorities raided the London bureau of pricing agency Platts, and the offices of Statoil, Royal Dutch Shell and BP in the biggest cross-border action since the probe into rigging of Libor benchmark interest rates. |
In Washington, the chairman of the Senate's energy committee asked the Justice Department to investigate whether alleged price manipulation has boosted fuel prices for U.S. consumers. |
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Federal Trade Commission have both declined to comment on any role or coordination with EU authorities in the probe. U.S. politicians including Wyden often call for enquiries into issues that may affect gasoline prices, although regulators are not obligated to take acti... |
A spokesman for the Justice Department would not comment on whether the agency would undertake a probe, but said it was reviewing Wyden's letter. |
Over the past year many observers have noted the resemblance between the Libor self-reported benchmark and the journalist assessment-based methodology used to set most of the world's oil prices, but this week's investigation is the first indication that EU authorities are taking a harder look at the system. |
Hungary's Pannonia Ethanol, a recent entrant to Europe's market, was the first company to identify itself as having complained to Brussels over access to the Platts market-on-close (MOC) system - a daily half-hour "window" of trading during which the agency determines prices through a series of bids, offers a... |
The source said that inspectors were still on the premises of Argos Energies on Friday and that it was also the last day of the inspection at the company. |
Argos Energies declined to comment. |
Platts said trading in the oil market has not been significantly affected by the investigation. |
"Market participation and liquidity are unchanged," Platts editorial director Dan Tanz said. |
Meanwhile Neste Oil, a Finnish refinery, said it had received a request from the European Commission to provide information, although it said it was not under inspection. |
"We will naturally cooperate with this request and provide the information requested to assist the European Commission in its investigation," Matti Lehmus, executive vice president, Oil Products and Renewables said in a statement. |
The investigation is focused on whether there was collusion to distort prices of crude, refined oil products and ethanol traded during the MOC window. |
Platts, a unit of McGraw-Hill, provides clients with price benchmarks set by reporters for opaque energy markets. |
Its assessments are used to close physical and derivative deals worth billions in a $2.5 trillion market. |
Thomson Reuters, parent of Reuters news, competes with Platts in providing news and information to the oil market. |
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Is Obamacare Costing America Jobs? |
The Affordable Care Act is transforming the way we receive medical care, but is it also cutting workers' hours and killing jobs in America? |
When it comes to the most controversial aspect of Barack Obama's presidency, it very well might be the passage of the Affordable Care Act. |
Known colloquially as Obamacare, the ACA was designed to hit a number of key points. First, it was created to offer affordable medical care access to low-income individuals and families that previously couldn't afford health insurance. Secondly, it looked to make the process of buying health insurance easier by creatin... |
After more than a year and a half on the books, Obamacare has indeed met some of its goals. More than 11 million people now have health insurance who didn't previously have access to insurance. Gallup's Q2 statistics show that the uninsured rate stood at 11.4%, substantially below the 18% figure logged in the quarter p... |
However, one criticism Obamacare has yet to shake is whether or not it's going to ultimately cost America jobs. |
In one corner, we have the optimists, who suggest the move to digital health records, and an influx of insured patients, will only improve the demand for healthcare workers and be a boon for the U.S. economy. With so much money flowing into healthcare, it seems logical to optimists that the effect on jobs should be pos... |
In the other corner, skeptics believe Obamacare is bad news for the U.S. jobs picture. For starters, there are concerns that the medical device excise tax, a 2.3% tax levied on the total sales of medical devices to assist in paying for Obamacare's expected $1.2 trillion cost over its first decade, could drive innovatio... |
The bigger concern, though, is the increased costs associated with the employer mandate. Under the employer mandate, employers are required to offer full-time employees access to health plans. More importantly, employers may also need to provide financial assistance (e.g., a subsidy) to their employees if the cost of p... |
The thinking here is that employers are either going to scale back workers' hours below 30, since 30 hours is considered "full-time" under Obamacare, or simply lay off workers in order to keep their costs under control. |
So, the $64,000 question is this: Is Obamacare costing America jobs? |
On the surface, the answer appears to be "no," but there's a catch, and we'll get to that in a moment. |
In terms of reducing workers' hours, although we did observe a few higher-profile instances of this happening shortly before Obamacare was implemented on Jan. 1, 2014 -- nationwide movie chain Regal Entertainment, for example, moved thousands of workers to part time from full time and blamed Obamacare -- data from a re... |
Additionally, it doesn't appear that Obamacare has had a material impact on the U.S. jobs market, either. Since being implemented, U.S. nonfarm payrolls have expanded from 137.5 million in Dec. 2013 to 141.8 million as of June 2015. The current unemployment rate of 5.3% is also the lowest rate since 2008. All told, the... |
Now for that caveat: The U.S. economy is also a lot healthier than it was when Obamacare was first signed into law in 2010. Thus, it's difficult to tell if businesses are simply absorbing the potentially higher costs of providing premium subsidies to some of their employees because they feel it's the right thing to do,... |
If there is one small component of the U.S. economy where Obamacare could be having an adverse impact on domestic jobs, it's arguably within medical devices. Stryker announced 1,170 job cuts, or about 5% of its workforce at the time, in 2012 in order to save $100 million annually prior to the implementation of Obamacar... |
It's no secret that device makers being pinched by tightening margins could look overseas in an effort to lower their tax exposure and personnel costs. Obamacare may just be the impetus that pushes these device makers to act. |
So, what does this mean for you, the investor? Based on the data we have through the first year and a half under Obamacare, it would appear Obamacare isn't going to be much of a financially disruptive force in the workplace. In other words, it may mean little in the way of layoffs or added expenses as businesses implem... |
This isn't to say we won't continue to see a story emerge now and then where job cuts or hourly cuts are blamed on Obamacare, but the data thus far seems to suggest that Obamacare isn't costing jobs in America (with an asterisk based on the aforementioned stronger U.S. economic growth rate). |
It's worth continuing to monitor Obamacare as there's no telling what might happen if and when U.S. economic growth does slow, but for now, it's full speed ahead. |
Chef Christina Tosi will bring her famed Milk Bar to Seattle's Canlis Aug. 12 for a pop-up fundraiser for the Queen Anne Farmer's Market. |
Her cult favorite creations include cereal milk soft serve, crack pie and the compost cookie. |
On Aug. 12 only, you won't have to travel to Manhattan to stack up on crack pie, cereal milk soft serve and compost cookies. |
Milk Bar, the cult favorite New York City bakery by Christina Tosi, will team up with Canlis to raise money for the Queen Anne Farmer's Market in a county fair-style celebration. |
It will be the second pop-up for Canlis this summer, which brought its former general manager Randy Garutti's empire to town, Shake Shack, in June. That pop-up previewed the opening of Shake Shack's forthcoming South Lake Union location. |
No word on whether Canlis can bring Tosi's famed treats to Seattle for good, but meanwhile, you can pick up some of her truffles, corn cookies, cornflake marshmallow cookies, the famed cereal milk soft serve, and more, according to Seattle Met. |
Canlis, meanwhile, will cook up turkey legs, corn on the cob, corn dogs, fried cheese on a stick and popcorn. Never imagined fried cheese on a Canlis menu, did you? |
Admission is free -- you pay a la carte for each item you pile onto your plate. But a $50 VIP ticket will help you beat the lines. Those will be sold exclusively at the Queen Anne Farmer's Market Aug. 2 and 9. |
The fun will also include carnival games and the chance to take a Polaroid photo with Tosi, which you can then decorate. |
As with Shake Shack, Milk Bar also bears a connection to Canlis -- Tosi's husband, Will Guidara, sits on the restaurant's board, Seattle Met says. |
The waiting is almost over, and the celebrations are about to begin. Dear readers, our gift to you for this wonderful occasion is this double issue, with double the flair, and double the glam. It's all about family as Sam Q brings in the Eid spirit with irresistible eats, and gifts and goodies galore to share with your... |
A bill that would allow Howard’s County Council to charge a fee on plastic bags at the point of sale on Monday passed the Maryland House of Delegates in a 99-38 vote. |
The measure, proposed by Del. Terri Hill, would exclude a fee for plastic bags used for certain items, among them bulk vegetables or produce, dry cleaning, newspapers or prescription drugs. |
A fiscal analysis found the revenue garnered from the fees could be as high as $870,000 if each household purchased three bags per week, based on 2017 census data. |
The money garnered from the fee, however, could only be spent on environmental initiatives, administrative costs or to support a program to help with financial access to reusable bags. |
Hill, a Democrat who represents portions of Baltimore and Howard counties, co-sponsored the bill and previously said its primary purpose is not to raise revenue but to change behavior to combat climate change. |
Plastic bags are made from polyethylene and emit greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change, according to a 2018 report by researchers at the University of Hawaii. |
Howard County Executive Calvin Ball has said previously he doesn’t plan to introduce legislation on the issue. The four Democrats on the County Council — Liz Walsh, Opel Jones, Christiana Mercer Rigby and Deb Jung — have previously expressed interest in probing the issue. |
The bill is now in the Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee, pending a hearing. |
Mochi Rickert is a very, very good dog. She also happens to have the Guinness World Record for the "longest dog tongue" in the world. Woah. |
Mochi's tongue measures a whopping 7.3 inches from "snout to tip," or "the equivalent of two-and-a-half Jenga blocks in a row." |
When she's not dribbling, eating peanut butter, or licking her own face, Mochi is bringing her owners boundless joy. She's a rescued St Bernard who's been with her family for six and a half years. |
"She's brought a lot of joy to our life because she is so calm and she's also a comic relief to us because she's very funny," says Mochi's owner. |
Her owner adds that Mochi's official naming as the world record holder for the longest dog tongue makes all the "water and slobber" she's cleaned up "well worth it." |
The study is the military’s first large-scale effort to gauge the effect of mild head injuries that some experts worry may be causing a host of undiagnosed neurological deficiencies. |
About one in six combat troops returning from Iraq have suffered at least one concussion in the war, injuries that, while temporary, could heighten their risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder, researchers are reporting. |
The study, in The New England Journal of Medicine, is the military’s first large-scale effort to gauge the effect of mild head injuries — concussions, many of them from roadside blasts — that some experts worry may be causing a host of undiagnosed neurological deficiencies. |
The new report found that soldiers who had concussions were more likely than those with other injuries to report a variety of physical and mental symptoms in their first months back home, including headaches, poor sleep and balance problems. But they were also at higher risk for the stress disorder, or PTSD, and that a... |
Experts cautioned that the study had not been designed to detect subtle changes in mental performance, like slips in concentration or short-term memory, that might have developed in the wake of a concussion and might be unrelated to stress reactions. Many returning veterans are still struggling with those problems, whi... |
The findings are in line with previous research linking concussions to post-traumatic stress disorder that develops after frightening events outside a military context, like car accidents; concussions from athletic collisions rarely lead to the disorder. |
“This study is a very good first step, and an important one, but like any first step it should lead us to ask further questions about these injuries,” said Brian Levine, a neuropsychologist at the Rotman Research Institute and the University of Toronto, who was not involved in the study. |
Now that the prevalence of combat concussions is better known, Dr. Levine said, the next step should be to assess troops’ cognitive functioning early on and track it over time, before and after combat. |
In the study, military psychiatrists had 2,525 soldiers from two Army infantry brigades fill out questionnaires asking about missed workdays and dozens of kinds of physical and emotional difficulties, including symptoms of PTSD. The soldiers had been back home from Iraq for three to four months. |
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