Zach Bonner Little Red Wagon Foundation

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It all started during Hurricane Charlie. Zach Bonner, then just 6 years old, took his little red wagon door to door in his neighborhood to collect clean water for the victims. After four months, Zach had collected 27 truck loads of supplies.

“Some boys like football or baseball, Zach likes doing charity work,” his mom says. He liked it so much by the time hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit, Zach’s family needed to set up a foundation because of the amount of monetary donations he was taking in. They named it Little Red Wagon Foundation, after the moniker he received around town during Charlie.

His latest mission doesn’t include the wagon, just his feet, and a 1,225-mile journey of the “My House to the White House” project. This is the last walk he is doing to raise money and awareness for the 1.3 million homeless kids in the United States. The money is going to setting up apartments for them. “It’s really hard not to help. Once you’ve met them and heard their stories, it’s hard not to want to help,” Zach, now 11, tells us.

Source: CNN.com

Monday Already?

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Happy Monday Everyone. It is the start of another week. I know how stressful and taxing Monday’s can be so here are some great videos and pictures to get you through the day!

Meditation For Love

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• Meditation Of The Week

Say the word, “love” quietly to yourself right now, a couple of times, listen to the resonance of it, and wonder about what it means. The word love is one of the sweetest sounds in the language. Listen to how soft it is, soft as a glove.

Every moment of love you’ve ever experienced still exists in your being, resonating now like a hum in your cells. This is more than an image, more than a memory; it is a living current that grows stronger with awareness. When you feel the movement of love flowing through you this way, you are tuning in to your personal body of love.

Source: LorinRoche.com (This is a beautifully simple site that has great meditations and inspirations).

7 Thoughts That Aren’t Good For You

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Cynicism
Cynics who tend to be suspicious and mistrustful of others, a character trait that scientists refer to as hostility, may have an increased likelihood of developing heart disease. “These aren’t necessarily hot-headed people, but people who are more likely to read into people’s behavior as some hostile motive,” Stephen Boyle said during a telephone interview.

In a study of more than 300 Vietnam veterans who were healthy at the study start, Boyle found that those who scored high on measures of hostility were about 25 percent more likely to develop heart disease.
If you lack a sense of purpose, your stay on Earth could be truncated. A study involving more than 1,200 elderly participants who didn’t have dementia at the study’s start found that those who indicated having a high purpose in life were about half as likely to die over the study period, which lasted up to five years.

Fretting
People who are highly neurotic — constantly worried and anxious, and prone to depression — die sooner on average than their chill counterparts. And a recently reported study of nearly 1,800 men followed over a 30-year period suggests that’s partly because neurotics are also more likely to smoke.

Lack of Self-control
A review of more than 20 studies and nearly 9,000 participants revealed people who are conscientious — organized and self-disciplined, as opposed to impulsive — live two to four years longer than others. Study researcher Howard S. Friedman of the University of California, Riverside, suspects the boost in lifetime can be attributed partly to the fact that highly conscientious individuals are less likely to smoke or drink to excess, and live more stable and less stressful lives.

Anxiety
The jitters can put a strain on your noggin, research suggests. Compared with the highly frazzled, individuals with a mellow demeanor who are outgoing may be less likely to develop dementia, which can be caused by Alzheimer’s disease and other illnesses. The claim is based on a study that followed more than 500 elderly individuals for five years. Among the outgoing extroverts, dementia risk was 50 percent lower for participants who were calm compared with those who were prone to distress.

Gloom and Doom
A preliminary study of more than 180 patients suffering from peripheral arterial disease (plaque buildup in the arteries) showed participants with so-called type D, or distressed, personality, had an increased odds of dying sooner than other people. Type-D people are more likely to experience negative emotions while at the same time hold in their feelings.

Stress
Whatever you do, don’t let this list worry you! Research is showing that prolonged stress can be deadly, and if it doesn’t do you in, workplace stress can increase your chances of heart disease, flu virus, metabolic syndrome and having high blood pressure.

A study of nearly 700 Israeli workers found that those who experienced job burnout (when work stress becomes unmanageable) were nearly twice as likely as others to develop type 2 diabetes, in which a person’s body becomes resistant to the sugar-regulating hormone called insulin

Source: Live Science

Eco-Friendly Sleep and Relaxation

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Firefly Light Tray

It has the convenience of a nightlight, but requires a tiny fraction of the power. This neat bedside tray, called the Firefly, uses super-energy efficient “electroceramescent” technology, which combines a durable ceramic with phosphorescent particles to produce a soft blue glow. Even if left on 24/7, the particles will give off light for at least a decade (the company’s been running one for 12 years now). No more fumbling in the dark for your glasses.

Glo To Sleep Mask

Put on your Glo to Sleep, gently raise your eyes and hold your gaze on the soft glo, and breathe deeply. Repetitive and worrying thoughts will stop. Tension will leave your body. You will become very relaxed and quickly be asleep. You will sleep deeply and wake up refreshed and alert.

( I have heard mix reviews about the masks. However, they people that said it work were also people who have been on many sleeping pills for many years. The benefit to using the mask; no more pills).

Eco Massage Torch

This mini dynamo massager with LED light is a great eco product that is ideal for hiking, camping and other outdoor activities. This fantastic massage torch doesn’t require new bulbs or even batteries just wind up the crank attached on the back and it will provide you with light and even vibration to relax your tense muscles.