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Are you satisfied with your success in life? Did you discover the exact meaning of your life? In general, many of you find yourselves successful in all aspects of your life by following various traditional ways, but still feel discontent or dissatisfied.

This is due to the reason that you lack adequate emotional intelligence in yourself.

So, if you want to know the real sense of your life and to become a successful person with control on your emotions, then here are certain essential keys, which can help you to reach your goal of life.

Identify your emotions!

Try to be aware of all your individual emotions including love, passion, anger, joy, hate and many more. Try to understand why they are taking place in your life.

Discover the root cause for your emotions and then understand or estimate their influence on your personal life.

Know the Difference between thoughts and feelings!

Thoughts are quite different from feelings. So, try to realize the basic difference between a thought and a feeling. This can help you to improve your emotional intelligence.

Take more responsibility for your feelings!

Never try to blame others for your feelings. If anyone hurts you, then think about the reason behind it and try to evaluate yourself and check for your faults. So, taking this kind of responsibility for your emotions can make you to improve your emotional intelligence in a better way.

Set realistic goals!

Your goal setting strategy also plays a vital role in developing emotional intelligence. So, try to set tough but attainable goals in your life.

Regularly practice meditation!

Meditation is the most powerful tool for you to achieve better concentration and focus at your work, which is very necessary to enjoy the success in achieving goals in your life. So, try to meditate daily for at least 15 minutes. This is very helpful for not only improving your concentration levels, but also in improving your emotional intelligence.

Develop optimism in yourself!

It is quite common for every one to make certain mistakes in life. So, never get distressed or depressed whenever you face any kind of failures in your life. Consider your failures as stepping stones for your future success.

Try to accept your mistakes and develop a positive attitude towards them. This kind of optimistic attitude can greatly help you to develop an emotional intelligence in you that makes your life a complete circle.

So, these are certain essential keys to develop an emotional intelligence in you. If you feel that you can achieve the real success in your life with these essential ways of emotional intelligence, try to implement these strategies in your real life and enjoy the success in living a sensible life.

Do you really want to be a better boss? As a boss, your role plays a critical part in order to achieve success for your organization.

You are the person, who should become the main source of motivation and also a role model for your staff.

Each and every step which you make can significantly reflect your staff. So, it becomes very necessary for you to think twice before you make any decisions.

However, if you fail to fulfill any of your duties, while accepting the role of a boss, then it can greatly lead to an ultimate disgrace for your organization. So, it is very essential to remind yourself to become actually a good boss!

Don’t try to crack your brains too much! Here are few tips which can hopefully help you to play your role of a boss in a much better way.

Tips to play the role of boss in better way:

Maintain healthy relationship with your staff!

Develop healthy relationship with your staff in order to bring out the hidden talent of each and every individual employee who works under your guidance. Try to take a genuine interest in your staff’ lives and try to find out all possible ways to extract talent which they possess and discover the things which can help you to motivate them in a better way.

Try to be friendly whenever you can!

Don’t behave like an angry lion! Always try to maintain a simple and also pleasant smile on your face for heaven sake! If your staff gets only your irritated or focused concentration when there’s trouble infusing, they will simply try to avoid you and would try to hide a lot of information from you, which could be very essential for you to handle the team more effectively.

So, try to maintain a genuine relationship with your staff which can help you to know the thinking way of your employees. Maintaining this kind of rapport with your staff members can help them to resolve their problems in their work and gives a better motivation and interest in their job.

Try to appreciate their good work!

Recognizing the accomplishments made by your employees and appreciating their work can give a better motivation at their work. So, whenever you feel that any of your staff members has done a great work, then try to appreciate their work, which not only gives a self boost, but they also feel happier about their work. But, be careful; don’t praise them too much, as it can build over confidence in them.

Try to be kind to them whenever they make mistakes!

When people commit any mistake, by all means it needs to be corrected. The way you correct their mistakes actually determines whether they will become inspired to work harder or not and they must also become more productive with the way you correct their mistakes.

These are certain most effective and also sure ways to become a better boss. Try to employ these guidelines in order to become a better boss and to enjoy the success of your organization.

The news that antidepressants in actual fact don’t work better than sugar pills and increase the risk of suicide has filled major media during the past year. Psychiatrists, Big pharma and medical agencies, responsible for distorting the facts for many years, are now working hard to save profits and careers, says Swedish independent investigator and reporter Janne Larsson.

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A new study, “A Regulatory Apologia - A review of placebo controlled studies of new-generation antidepressants”, claiming that antidepressants work well for all forms of depression should be seen in that light. It is another good example of how our allegedly objective medical agencies work together closely with the pharmaceutical industry and its paid psychiatrists to increase sales.

The study was announced in the Journal of the Swedish Medical Association (Läkartidningen) on April 15, 2008. The author, a long standing advocate for antidepressant drugs, Professor Björn Beerman of the Medical Products Agency (MPA), the Swedish equivalent of the FDA, promoted continued high level use of these drugs. Beerman does not believe in the validity of data presented internationally. In the article he stated, as he had many times before, that “there is no doubt that the medication has effect and that this is independent of the degree of depression”, adding “we don't believe that the drugs are less effective in case of mild depression”.

Beerman proudly announced a new study of the Swedish MPA in support of his statements. The study was said to be submitted for publication in The Lancet, a most prestigious medical journal.

But there is another part of the story that needs to be told...

What Beerman did not say in his April 15 announcement was that on 4 April, almost two weeks earlier, the Lancet had already rejected the article – it refused to publish. The MPA then made another attempt at publication, submitting the data to the British Medical Journal (BMJ) – another journal with high impact. But the response was the same, the BMJ rejected the material.

So the Swedish Medical Products Agency – with its pro Big pharma “research message” – went directly to the manufacturers, or rather to a journal with an editor-in-chief who has always been favorable to the approval and sales of antidepressant drugs internationally: The agency submitted its article to European Neuropsychopharmacology, whose editor-in-chief, Dr. Stuart Montgomery, accepted to publish.

For those not familiar with the work of Dr. Montgomery it can be said that he played a major role in helping Big pharma to get new antidepressant drugs approved in the beginning of the '90s – despite the fact that the actual data, even at that time, already showed that these drugs caused an increase in the risk of suicide. Montgomery was also responsible for the famous concealment of the severe withdrawal symptoms caused by any attempt to stop taking Seroxat/Paxil. Instead of accepting the clear withdrawal symptoms for what they were so that patients and doctors could be warned, Dr. Montgomery and colleagues misclassified these symptoms as signs of recurring depression – and the need for more drug treatment.

So it would appear that a study with the PR-message that antidepressants work well for all forms of depression would most likely be very welcome in the journal European Neuropsychopharmacology - and it was. One of the reviewers of the article made the point very clear, saying: “This meta-analysis is very timely in the current situation where the recent meta-analysis of Kirsch et al. (2008) induced much uncertainty about the efficacy of antidepressants, both in the psychiatric community and in public opinion.” The reviewer recommended that the article should be published “without delay, given the situation mentioned above [“uncertainty … in the psychiatric community as well as in public opinion”].”

The Swedish MPA and its U.S. counterpart, the FDA, have done almost nothing to use the wealth of data in their files to draw attention to the actual suicide risks inherent in the use of antidepressants, and to warn doctors and the public. There is a newly unsealed extensive analysis by Dr. Joseph Glenmullen that points to GlaxoSmithKline’s hiding of Seroxat/Paxil suicide data. It provides an example of how the pharmaceutical industry will act to protect its interests and how ineffective and almost timid a regulatory agency can be in questioning the data in drug applications http://finance.senate.gov/press/Gpress/2008/prg061208a.pdf (4MB).

The lack of efficacy of these drugs has always been denied by the Swedish Medical Products Agency. In addition to this, the inefficient system for post marketing surveillance of adverse drug effects is putting the public at severe risk – yet that situation is allowed to continue unchanged year after year. The often horrible withdrawal symptoms of anti depressant drugs have been explained away as signs of recurring depression – and thus transformed into evidence of positive drug effects; and this manipulation has been accepted by the regulatory agencies. The MPA and the FDA, supposedly established to protect the public, are agencies out of control. They see the pharmaceutical industry as their real clients.

What we are witnessing here is a situation where independent analyses of data submitted to the FDA show no positive effect of antidepressant drugs compared to placebo, and yet the Swedish MPA puts all its “research resources” into action to prove the opposite. Their eagerness to collaborate with Big Pharma in getting out a PR-message, to handle the “uncertainty about the efficacy of antidepressants, both in the psychiatric community as well as in public opinion”, is yet another example of betrayal of the real clients – the public.

Prenatal yoga has many benefits including an increase in body awareness.  Body awareness means you’ll be conscious of what feels right in your body.  As your belly grows you will be able to do different movements.  Some of the postures you did in your first trimester will no longer be comfortable in your third trimester.  However, you can enjoy a deeper connection with your baby as your awareness grows to the ever increasing size of your baby in your belly.  Try this simple exercise below to connect with your baby and experience body awareness.

Body and Baby Awareness Exercise
*Sit comfortably with your spine tall and straight. 
*Close your eyes and inhale through your nose
*Exhale out through your mouth
*Imagine that there is a cord running from your pubic bone all the way to the top of your head
*As you breath notice the sensations in your body
*Is your baby quietly sleeping or active?
*Imagine that with each breath you are comforting your baby
*Notice if the movement changes
*Repeat the breath as long as desired

Did you realize that you have bad habits? Have you decided to change your bad habits?

Then this is one of the best qualities that you have identified your bad habits and determined to change it by any means.

It is extremely hard to live with bad habits and even it also becomes much difficult for you to eliminate all sort of bad habits.

Habits significantly plays vital role in living a successful happy life. Your personality and character are mainly identified with your habits.

So, if you want to prove yourself as a best and unique person in your society, then it is very essential for you to throw away all your bad habits and to develop good habits as soon as possible.

Here are certain important steps, which you need to follow, to eliminate all those disgusting habits present in you.

Commitment!

This is the most essential step, which you have to consider, while replacing all your bad habits with good ones. You must have a strong determination in yourself to break all your bad habits. Developing a strong determination can help you to get better control on yourself and also on your life.

Identify your weakness!

Try to recognize all those sensitive situations in your life that are forcing you to repeat the same bad habits. If you recognize all those sensitive situations, then it becomes very easy for you to stay away from all those susceptible situations in your life easily.

Consider the consequences!

Just try to think about the consequences; am I loosing anything by consuming more amounts of alcohol or what am I losing by watching too much TV? Once if you realize all those bad circumstances that you face because of your bad habits, it becomes much easy for you to avoid all those dangerous habits from your life.

Consistent achievement!

If you have more than one bad habit, try to focus on each of them individually. Concentrating on all of your bad habits or changing them all at once can become quite tough task for you and even at times you can have a chance to fail in changing them.

So, never rush to change all your bad habits at once. Consider one followed by other and take necessary actions to eliminate each of them successfully.

Get support from your family and friends!

When you have decided to change your bad habits, immediately inform it to your family members and friends and seek better suggestions from them. During your elimination process of bad habits, at any time, if you feel depressed or anxious, try to seek better support from your friends and family members.

These are certain important ways to consider while elimination or changing your bad habits. Try to implement these successful ways in your life. In case if you need more help, try to consult any experienced health counselor and seek better advice and live a healthy joyful life!