One Little Victory » How to http://onelittlevictoryblog.com “…the greatest act can be one little victory…” Wed, 23 Sep 2015 07:54:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.1 How to dye your hair with tea http://onelittlevictoryblog.com/how-to-dye-your-hair-with-tea/ http://onelittlevictoryblog.com/how-to-dye-your-hair-with-tea/#comments Mon, 04 May 2015 12:08:45 +0000 http://onelittlevictoryblog.com/?p=1087 Continue Reading →]]> Dyeing hair with tea? If, with different teas we can give color to our hair, avoiding the use of chemicals. Let’s see how is the method and the different types of tea to use.

Tea hair coloring naturally

Dyed with natural elements is not a modern science. Indigenous and aboriginal cultures have used fruits, spices, herbs, bark, and everywhere in different plant species, for dyeing natural fiber fabrics and items from times immemorial. But today learn a different use of spices in the tincture: we will see how to bring out the color of your hair, dyeing it with simple tea.

FashionWhy use tea to dye your hair?

Choose natural solutions for our beauty rituals and cosmetic is always a wise decision. Avoid chemicals not only it allows you greater current health but also avoid bodily conditions conducive to the development of certain diseases.

It has been shown that chemicals of commercial hair dyes conducive conditions for the development of some types of cancer, including Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Also alter your chemical balance and have often adverse conditions regarding their side effects, including allergic reactions, weakness and hair loss, burning and itching and many others.
As we see, choosing natural solutions is the way to continue for a full and healthy life, today and posterity.

Tea as a natural dye

Stained with tea in fabrics and clothing are ideal, as they achieve a uniform permanent color, which does not fade or discolor in subsequent washes. Similarly, you can use tea leaves prepared in infusion to cover and light hair pigment, especially those first few gray hairs, without the need for chemical dyes that end up damaging your hair.

Also tea, plus white coloring gray hair naturally smooth and provides an unmatched shine to all hair. You can even achieve different tones, from light blond to brown regular, using different varieties of tea and more or less restful charged or infusions. See the methodology.

How to dye your hair with tea

Prepare infusion in boiling water, resting one to two tablespoons of tea leaves (more for darker shades, with longer rest in the water) in about two cups of boiling water. Leave until the infusion to warm or cool, and strain by placing the liquid in a plastic bottle for easy application.

Applied to your hair after shampooing, left to act in gentle massage, soaping your skin while acting tea to avoid minor stains on your body. Then simply rinse, and let dry or apply the dryer, to your preference.

Teas and colors

Preferably, use sheets or strands of natural tea, although in cases of need you can use even shopping bags or tea bags.

The green tea is very delicate in color, mixed with fresh lemon juice can bring light to shine and light hair. For its part, the red tea, Ceylon and black are the most appropriate to achieve more noticeable discoloration. Remember that a stronger tea, applied and steeping for longer on your hair, will give a darker color and pronounced.

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How to lose Belly Fat http://onelittlevictoryblog.com/how-to-lose-belly-fat/ http://onelittlevictoryblog.com/how-to-lose-belly-fat/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2015 19:03:01 +0000 http://onelittlevictoryblog.com/?p=953 Continue Reading →]]> If you want to lose belly fat you might want to read this.

To understand how to lose that fat on the belly we need to examine some common misconceptions and myths first. We know that excessive belly fat is bad for our health since it increases the risks of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and even cancer. This is the reason that it is advised  to lose such belly fat either by changing our eating habits or with the help of the right exercises.

lose Belly Fat

When it comes to eating and our diet, some foods are actually known to have benefits for burning fat. So we can start right there simply by looking what we eat every day.

Some good foods which will help to lose the weight:

Amongst those foods are hot chilli peppers and fish.

Chilli peppers contain capsaicin which is known to help the liver with burning fat faster.

Fish contain lots of good mega-3 fatty acids which play a role in our metabolism since it effects the rate how and how fast we burn the fat. Trout and Salmon stand out as being especially good for this purpose.

So, you might want to onsider changing the food that you eat as a first step in burning the fat.

Drinking Alcohol and Belly Fat

While reducing your alcohol intake will help, it is not enough. You still need a good diet and the right exercise regimen to get rid of the belly fat. Simply cutting down on drinking will likely not do too much if you otherwise keep eating unhealthy foods and don’t exercise.

The problem with exercises like crunches or sit ups is that these exercises are meant  for building strength and abdominal muscle. Those are not really fat burning exercises. Therefore, at first we need to do calories burning exercises to burn off those layers of fat covering that muscle up. This should be our priority.

Just a little more walking within your daily routine or taking up an active hobby or sporting activity can already benefit us a lot, given that we don’t overdo it and instead keep consistent and do it every day.

The key here is in the routine. 20 minutes per day walking might ultimately be better than attempting some exercise regimen which requires us to pump irons, especially if we are not used to such routines.

If we want to lose that belly fat we need to combine all those tips:

Start with a more healthy diet and eat those good foods which benefit in burning the fat. Do the right exercises and to them frequently and consistently. Results might not come overnight, but if we do all this we already have a good start for losing that fat on the belly.

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How to Live the Present! http://onelittlevictoryblog.com/how-to-live-the-present/ http://onelittlevictoryblog.com/how-to-live-the-present/#comments Sat, 25 Oct 2014 10:51:32 +0000 http://onelittlevictoryblog.com/?p=570 Continue Reading →]]> There is no past or future, today is all we have and we should stay there. Discover some techniques for living in the present and feel full

To live the present is to focus on the now, no matter where they are clockwise.

Learning to Live the Present

Living this would require a huge mental training, or so it seems. So what we have to do tomorrow and next week and the fate of the summer holidays, and where we will spend the Christmas dinner. Meanwhile, we also review what we did yesterday, our last birthday, the delights of our childhood. We worry if we will make ends meet, and focus on how and when the last pay utility bills. We think what time we get up tomorrow and feel nostalgia for delayed awakening the previous Sunday. Anyway, we are not experiencing the here, the now, the present.

LifestyleThe Grand Master Osho reminds us of the importance of enjoying the present, this “being” that is our only reality. Like him, many great sages remind us of the need to recover our present, and often we are mistaken in thinking that do not succeed: it only unwillingly proportionals mentalizing and enjoy the day, every day. Here we have some good practices to keep in mind all the time.

The concept of living in the present

If you refuse to live for today, then you will spend hours in the past or in the future, that is clear. But you must remember that neither of these exists. Yes, you read it as such, and as strange as it may seem. Yesterday is past, no longer exists, we can do nothing to change it, avoid it or relive it. And the future has not arrived yet, we can not control or experience right now, because it is not yet born.

So we have only the present, the now. If your mind wanders places (times) exist, then what you’re doing is not exist, right ?. Understands this reality first, and see how to automatically start being aware of your present.

Techniques for living in the present

It is difficult but essential. Everyone will have their own technique to recover the mind from the past or from the future and from reality. As one who is trained to stop daydreaming, imagining, watch for things that are not live this requires that you yourself find the tool that brings you back to the here and now.

For example, some people are trying to identify the thoughts about the past, the future, imaginations, dreams and awake others. Train your mind to recognize it is a way of saying “hey, do not do this.” It is, for many, the first step. It identifies the time when your mind wanders.

Then, many choose to take action, mental focus by renovating a current one. While many choose the technique of corrective punishment (wear a rubber band on your wrist, and pull and release every time you notice your mind wandering, to correct this trend), others prefer to focus renewed mental focus on something very specific, analyze the bus in which they travel, people present at that meeting, the fabric of the clothes they wear or how they see cloud in heaven.

Useful resources for living in the present

One of the easiest ways to live in the present is listening to music. A song that we like and who informs us that while our attention hog rings, or let us sing and dance to. While you do not think about the past or the future: you are in total and complete “now.”

The meditation is also a way to communicate with your real interior. i.e.: contact the “I” you are right now. You can meditate anytime you want, you need it, you feel it, anywhere.

Finally, there are those who opt to choose a mantra to live in the present, a motivational phrase that helps recovering alien to the mind of the time now. They are phrases that should be repeated-in the mind or aloud when you feel your mind wandering, like “This is what I am now,” “This is this” or you feel, and you can even use an amulet or take you. When you feel your mind goes into another time, just take your amulet and concentrate on it, in texture and weight in their appearance under the light it receives now, or repeat this technique with anything that you have on hand to remind your mind about the importance of living in the present.

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