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"When this plague was passing from one land to another, many people saw shapes of bronze boars and (figures) sitting in them resembling people with their heads cut off. Holding staves, also of bronze, they moved along on the sea and could be seen going whithersoever they headed. These figures were seen everywhere in a frightening fashion, especially at night. Like flashing bronze and like fire did they appear, black people without heads sitting in a glistening boat and traveling swiftly on the sea, so that this sight almost caused the souls of the people who saw it to expire." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"There may be pain in the rectum during and after stools and on sitting. What Conditions are Linked to Hemorrhoids? Conditions that contribute to this problem are constipation, sitting for prolonged periods of time, pregnancy and aging. • Constipation with urging for stools puts pressure on the lower pelvic floor. • Heavy lifting can cause a hemorrhoid strain. • Pushing during childbirth and/or heavy lifting also adds strain on that area. • Pregnancy naturally puts a lot of pressure in the veins of the pelvic area. They have more blood flow and baby weight." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"They've made being in bed so much like sitting on the sofa, or at a brightly lit desk, that the difference between sitting up and lying down is no longer very great. Using your bed as an office tends to extinguish your body's normal association between bed and sleep, which triggers sleepiness. The link between bed and falling asleep is very much akin to what happens to a dog that learns food will be provided whenever a bell rings. Pretty soon, the sound of a bell will cause the dog to salivate even when there's no food around." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "Lying down in the afternoon _ 6. sitting and talking to someone _ 7. sitting quietly after lunch (no alcohol) _ 8. Stopped for a few minutes in traffic while driving _ Total score _ While it would make sense that people with severe fatigue or widespread pain might have an underlying sleep disorder, the evidence for this possibility is not convincing." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"This is done by sitting in a bath of hot water, with the water level just above the waist, for three minutes, followed by sitting in a small second portable metal or plastic tub of ice cold water for one minute. This procedure is repeated three times in succession, once or twice daily throughout the course of the pain and infection. CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE APPROACH Conventional practitioners rely on their judgment in assessing the severity of the disease and the ability of the patient to carry out the treatment successfully." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "This is done by sitting in a bath of hot water, with the water level just above the waist, for three minutes, followed by sitting in a small second portable metal or plastic tub of ice cold water for one minute. This procedure is repeated three times in succession, once or twice daily throughout the course of the pain and infection. Nutrition The nutritional goals during an active STI are to eat health-promoting and immune supportive foods." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Someone will be sitting down minding his own business, doing his work. In comes the office jerk, a person who is hostile, with a big chip on his shoulder. He walks into the other person's cubicle and starts talking with a critical edge in his voice. If you read his energy field, you'll notice a sudden thrust—like an arrow—coming out from his field and invading his "victim's" field to "bite" a chunk of the other's energy. He steals his coworker's energy and leaves the victim feeling drained and anxious." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"I was sitting on the couch, watching the World News" he said. "I said, 'Hell, that's the pill I took.'" Jerry still doesn't understand how the marketers at Parke-Davis obtained his name and address, which allowed them to send him that promotional letter back in 1996. He doesn't know how the drug executives knew he had diabetes. For years, however, pharmaceutical companies have been paying pharmacies, doctors, and other health care providers to send personal letters to patients promoting their new medicines." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Light therapy consists of sitting two to three feet away from a specially designed light box, usually placed on a table, allowing the light to shine directly through the eyes. Tinted lenses, or any device that blocks the light to the retina of the eye, should not be worn. It is not necessary to stare at the light, although it has been proven safe. You can carry out your normal activities such as reading, working, or eating, while sitting in front of the box. After a week or two, either reducing or increasing the daily duration may be necessary." - Dr. David W. Tanton; Ph.D., A Drug-Free Approach To Healthcare, Revised Edition (Get the book.)

"One day, he was sitting at the Pittsburgh airport with a friend who was a young member of the Mellon family. They were in his friend's private jet, a luxurious twenty-seater. Ram Dass was suitably impressed with the plane, commenting on the richness of the interior and its many amenities. "You are very fortunate to have a plane like this," he said to his friend. "Yeah," his friend replied, "but this jet is not as nice as my uncle's jet." He pointed outside to another plane on the tarmac. "It carries forty people and is much nicer. I could never have a jet like that." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Symptoms Associated with Anal Fissures • pain when having a bowel movement or remaining long afterwards • pain may be sharp and cutting and may hinder sitting comfortably • rectal bleeding • itching and swelling of the rectum • anal discharge • anal skin tags and growth like papilla What Causes Anal Fissures? • Constipation and diarrhea • A low fibre diet contributes to many diseases such as constipation, hemorrhoids, high cholesterol, colon, breast and prostate cancer. Fibre binds up toxins, negative hormones and cholesterol and excretes them via the intestinal tract." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.) "Extra body weight contributes to hemorrhoid development. • sitting for long periods of time creates a lot of pressure in the rectal area. Blood flow is less likely to become stagnant if one exercises. The capillaries push the blood flow all around the body. It is enhanced when one exercises and moves around. As people age, the vessels in the anal area may weaken. Medical Treatments for Hemorrhoids • Sitz baths are recommended to those who have had surgery in the area of the rectum or to ease the pain of hemorrhoids." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"About five years ago, I was sitting in a beautifully renovated playhouse in Greensboro, North Carolina, watching my daughter play the lead role of Maria in West Side Story. It was a fathet's dream come true. She was fantastic, seemingly right there in Spanish Harlem, standing on a fire escape on the second floor of a tenement building. At intermission, though, I walked up to the stage—a set design, painted on a wall just a few inches thick. From this perspective, it was obvious the stage was nothing but an illusion." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"The effect of standardising the body mass index for relative sitting height. Int. J. Obes. Relat. Metab. Disord. 19, 206-208. 48. Lemieux, S., Prud'homme, D., Bouchard, C, Tremblay, A., and Despres, J. P. (1996). A single threshold value of waist girth identifies normal-weight and overweight subjects with excess visceral adipose tissue. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 64, 685-693. 49. Klein, S., Allison, D. B., Heymsfield, S. B., Kelley, D. E., Leibel, R. L., Nonas, C, and Kahn, R. (2007)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "And, in the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (ALSWH) of 8071 women aged 45-55 years, there were independent relationships between the odds of gaining more than 5 kg over 5 years and lower levels of habitual physical activity, as well as more time spent sitting, energy intake (in women with BMI > 25 kg/m2), menopause transition, and hysterectomy [33]. Maintaining a given physical activity level over time may not be adequate to maintain a given weight, however." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"This does not mean our relationships should involve sitting or standing in strange positions; physical yoga is only one kind of yoga. The Sanskrit word yoga means "union," and a yoga is any path that leads to union, a union with the cosmos and with one's own inner essence —in other words, a path to spiritual awakening. • George Bernard Shaw Our personal relationships offer us such a path because they can bring into focus the various shortcomings in our thinking and behavior." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Conditions that contribute to this problem are constipation, sitting for prolonged periods of time, pregnancy and aging. • Constipation with urging for stools puts pressure on the lower pelvic floor. • Heavy lifting can cause a hemorrhoid strain. • Pushing during childbirth and/or heavy lifting also adds strain on that area. • Pregnancy naturally puts a lot of pressure in the veins of the pelvic area. They have more blood flow and baby weight. People who are expecting also tend to have constipation more than others." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"They call him that, pipes in his teenaged nephew Scott, sitting nearby, because "he grafts way too much." Grafting is a means of propagating a plant by cutting a branch from one tree and sticking it onto the trunk of another tree. For the most part, this technique is used to clone a desired variety in order to create more of the same fruits on other trees. Clift's passion—or compulsion—is grafting together as many different species as possible and seeing what comes out. "I like making fruits—creating them," says Clift. "It's like the excitement of breeding a Great Dane for the first time." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Find a sitting or lying position where you are most comfortable: sitting in a chair, cross-legged on the floor or lying on a blanket outside in the grass. Just don't get so comfortable that you fall asleep! You may choose to have "accessories" - crystals, candles, incense or music. Quartz crystals for instance intensify your energy, while other minerals radiate different beneficial vibrations. I like to work with mineral spheres because their symmetry appeals to me and are reminiscent of the earth." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"Craig had been sitting next to Greg, listening patiently. Now he jumped in. "It is not only what Okinawans eat, but how much. Their food has a very low caloric density, yet it is very nutritious. Compare a typical Okinawan meal—a tofu stir-fry, some miso soup, and some greens to an American hamburger. The Okinawan meal has three or four times as much volume and more nutrients but only about half the calories of a burger. So you're feeling fuller but getting leaner and living longer. And if you remember Kamada's hara hachi bu and eat only until you're 80 percent full, you'll even do better." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "We were sitting in the back seat as the vivid foliage of northern Okinawa zipped by. "You know Dan, Ushi really changed my life," she began. "I'd been working in the center of Tokyo. I'd go from 7:30 in the morning until late at night, five to seven meetings a day, then dinner and karaoke until one or two in the morning. It was hard work, and I loved it. I did a good job. I made lots of money. But my life lacked something. I felt empty right here." She brought her hand to her chest. "Dan, you remember," she recalled, "when we met Ushi I first saw her big smile." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "She was sitting off to the side, watching my interview. "Sayoko," I said, conscious of the fact that I was raising my voice inappropriately, but also figuring that Sayoko was too polite to approach Ushi without being beckoned. "Don't you want to tell Ushi your story?" Sayoko hesitated but then came forward and knelt in front of Ushi. "Five years ago I came here, and you changed my life," she said. "Because of you, I decided to quit my job and get married. I owe you a big debt of thanks." Sayoko's eyes welled up with tears as she spoke. Ushi looked bewildered. She didn't remember their meeting." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "Most centenarians, we discovered, spent their time somewhere between their bed and their favorite sitting chair. Their days were punctuated by meals with their families and perhaps a stroll to meet friends. As a rule, they had worked hard their whole lives as farmers or shepherds. Their lives unfolded with daily and seasonal routines. They raised families who were now caring for them. Their lives were extraordinarily ordinary—with one exception." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Noticing a strange yellow fruit sitting in a box off to the side, I picked it up to get a closer look. It was an egg fruit, something I'd tasted with Ken Love in Hawaii. A red-faced, heavyset man immediately raced over. "Put that down," he scolded. "It's a very rare fruit. You're going to smash it!" I tried to apologize, but the egg-fruit man stormed off. For the rest of the evening, he refused to make eye contact. When he cut open the fruit later on, he came up to the group I was standing with and handed out a slice to everyone except me." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Then one day, sitting in meditation, he had an insight that caused him to wake up —and hence to gain the name Buddha, which simply means "the awakened one." He summarized his realization in the Four Noble Truths, which might be paraphrased as follows: 1. We all experience suffering in one way or another—mental, physical, emotional, spiritual. 2. We create our own suffering. It is a consequence of our desiring things to be other than they are. 3. It need not be this way. We have a choice as to how we perceive the world and live our lives. 4." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Ten at a sitting," he says, and proceeds to demonstrate. Kiawe's and Ta's diet is even stranger. Although they join us in eating some durians, they explain that their main course is yet to come. Alongside fruits, they also eat raw meats, many of which they dry themselves. Kiawe calls it "the caveman diet." "We eat original food," explains Kiawe, "the way primal man ate before the advent of fire." The proper term for this diet, he says, is instincto anopsology Regular sushi or beef tartar pales in comparison to the raw meats they prefer." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"In the photo taken for his high school graduation, he's sitting in the grass under a tree, wearing a white sweater and jeans. He's looking out toward the camera with the eyes of a young man who knows what he is doing. The long-lost smile of the third grader is back. Sandy told me about the family's experience five years after they had stopped taking the meds. Peter is now twenty-two and in the Navy. He recently scored better than 93 percent of the sailors taking a written test and was promoted to the rank of petty officer, third class." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"It is thought that merely sitting in the vicinity of Sacred Basil can bring healing, as it is highly oxygenating and holds a strong electrical charge. Sacred Basil brings radiant beauty wherever it dwells. Yash Rai tells us, "Early in the morning, after your bath, spread a mat in the proximity of a Tulsi plant, and sit in such a position as to allow the fragrance emanating from its leaves, inflorescences and stem to mix with the air you inhale and to fill your entire being with ecstasy. Inhale deeply, and hold your breath." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.) "There's a little elf-like man sitting at a table writing out prescriptions. Many people are coming to him and he is handing them out left and right. Then he notices me and asks what it is I need help with. I say that I'm here to meet him and get acquainted. He says he has no time for chit-chat because there are too many people who are sick and need his help. I say I will be happy to help him in his work if he will teach me. He agrees and I begin my apprenticeship with Agrimony." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.) "In her inner vision she could see the heart sitting to the left. In place of the heart was a litany of "shoulds" that had to do with his work, finances, and home life. All of the decisions he was making were based on the "shoulds" and not on his heart's desire. Jill asked Hawthorn to move through her hands and place the heart back in the center of his being. Hawthorn told Jill to relay the message, "Follow your heart's desire and you will be in service to yourself, your wife, and all life." Jill told her client this, and he cried with the knowing of this truth." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

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