Saturday, September 19, 2020

De-smoking Your House and Seeing the Glass Half Empty

                                             De-Smoking Your House

With all the fires out West, air pollution is at dangerous levels and the smoke may be getting into your house. I ran across this recommendation for de-smoking your house. I don’t know if it will work for the people out West (I live in Virginia so I can’t experiment with it). Let me know if it does works.

So, the recommendation is to simmer a pot of water on the stove and add one or a combination of these items – cedar, fir, thyme, sage, or rosemary. According to what I read, the water vapor that comes off the pot attaches to smoke particles and drops them to the ground which makes the air more breathable. The article also recommended adding drops of peppermint oil every 20 minutes for extra soothing relief.

If this doesn’t work, I apologize in advance, but because of the difficulties people are having out West, I thought it was worth sharing with you. 


      Seeing Things as the Glass Half Empty Has a Bigger Impact on Your Health Than You’d Think

We’ve all heard the expression the glass was half full verses the glass was half empty. The glass half full is interrupted as seeing things from the positive side and the glass half full is seeing things from the negative side.

Well, it turns out that if you regularly see the glass as half empty it can actually lead to your developing dementia and/or Alzheimer’s Disease.

A study reported in the journal Alzheimers Dement even have a term for this negative thinking mode. They call it Repetitive Negative Thinking (RNT). It’s going far beyond having an occasional negative thought. It’s people who have a long term, chronic view of the world.

The researchers tracked 292 people over 55. They looked at the people who had a high RNT score and found that over a four-year period they had greater cognitive decline and memory loss. Brain scans revealed that they had higher deposits of tau and amyloid proteins in their brains.

So…the way you change these out comes if you are prone to RNT is to learn how to meditate or do mindfulness meditation. If you want to learn how to meditate, you can get my book or e-book called Managing Your Stress in Difficult Times: Succeeding in Times of Change. Here’s the link to order it: https://teplitz.com/Managing-Stress-Teplitz.html
(Reported What Doctors Don’t Tell You, September 2020)


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