Tuesday, April 21, 2015

How to prepare for life?



Q: How to prepare for life?
 “Nothing very serious about life, actually. Life is full of surprises, and how well we are prepared depends upon our wisdom and upon our innate ability, which surpasses intellect. Suppose if I have to sit for an exam and pass, what do I have to do? Memorise a few things and learn a few things. But wisdom is a different matter. Wisdom is something, when invoked within you, thatallow you to handle the most unknown situations in life. No surprise can confuse you, no surprise can disturb you, and such is the way of our Indian civilisation. How can we prepare ourselves for the most surprising moments in life?
“Do not differentiate between the spiritual life that has to be dealt with later and the material life. Material life and spiritual life must go together. We should not differentiate between them. Material life and spiritual life are like two wings of a bird. If I pay a lot of attention to this material proliferation, there is nothing wrong with it, but I must pay equally intense attention to spiritual life if I want a balanced existence, if I want a satisfied existence while I am going through this so-called journey on this planet. How to do that? How to balance this?”
Kamlesh,our Master shared an interesting observation while he was explaining about the physical, mental and spiritual realms of human life. He said, “Now, look into the spiritual realm. Spirituality says that there is no limit to the expansion of consciousness, spiritual consciousness. We devote one minute a day, two minutes a day, to this field, which has no limitations, while we devote so much time to the field which is full of limitations – limitations at the physical level, and restricted approach at the mental level. Where there is no limitation, we don’t seem to be serious about it at all and we don’t pay any attention to it. That is the tragedy of modern life, you see.”
“The purpose of meditation after all is expansion of one’s consciousness.”
“If you meditate and create some inner peace within, having inner peace within, it will radiate outside.”

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Nature can do this

By Dr. Mercola
If you feel challenged in consuming enough vegetables, then making a small investment in a high-quality juicer is one of the best steps you can take for your health.
Raw juice is equivalent to a "living broth" teeming with micronutrients that many people are lacking, and this deficiency is a major factor in disease.
More people die from chronic disease today than all other causes combined. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 36 million people die every year from degenerative conditions, and 100 million are driven into poverty by healthcare costs alone.
When you drink fresh, live juice, it's almost like receiving an intravenous infusion of vitamins, minerals, and enzymes because they go straight into your body without needing to be broken down. Since juicing is essentially "mainlining" live nutrients, it's no surprise it can produce rapid and profound health benefits.
What if the answer to preventing and reversing disease is as simple as juicing? Jason Vale designed an experiment to help answer that question.

'Super-Juicing' for 28 Days Cured Diabetes and Chronic Pain

Juicing expert Jason Vale recruited eight people who collectively suffered from 22 different chronic diseases and put them on a juice-only diet for 28 days (plus exercise) in order to explore juicing's potential benefits for reversing chronic disease. And then he filmed their experience.
The documentary "Super Juice Me" chronicles Vale's 28-day "super-juicing" experiment. The health improvements seen by those eight are nothing short of astounding.
Every participant felt energized and lost weight, and most reported a drastic reduction in their symptoms—as well as in the number of medications they used. One man went from 52 prescription pills per day to two pills per day. Another had his diabetes completely resolve.
One woman went from years of chronic pain to being completely pain free, and others suffering from asthma, colitis, and sleep apnea enjoyed a profound reduction in symptoms.
It was not an easy journey as several experienced detoxification reactions, food cravings, and for some, a temporary increase in symptoms as their bodies began to purge toxins they'd been accumulating for years. But those reactions were relatively short-lived, and they felt immensely better on the other side—better than they'd felt in years.

The Many Health Benefits of Juicing

The movie shows an extreme example of juicing, but it can be incorporated into your life to any degree you choose—as an occasional cleanse or as the start of every morning. There are several reasons to consider incorporating vegetable juicing into your health plan:
Juicing helps you absorb all the nutrients from your vegetables. This is important because most people have impaired digestion as a result of making less-than-optimal food choices over many years, which limits your body's ability to absorb all of the nutrients in whole, raw vegetables. Juicing helps "pre-digest" them, so that you won't lose any of this valuable nutrition.
Juicing makes it easier to consume a large quantity of vegetables. Virtually every health authority recommends that you get six to eight servings of vegetables and fruits per day, but very few actually get that. Juicing virtually guarantees you'll reach your daily target.
You can add a wider variety of vegetables to your diet. Many people eat the same vegetables every day, which violates the principle of regular food rotation and increases your chance of developing an allergy to certain foods. Juicing expands the number of different phytochemicals you receive, as each vegetable offers unique benefits. Juicing also allows you to consume vegetables that you may not normally enjoy eating whole.
Boosts your immune system. Raw juice supercharges your immune system with concentrated phytochemicals and biophotonic light energy, which can revitalize your body. The nutrients in fresh juice also feed your body's good bacteria and help suppress potentially pathogenic ones.
Increases your energy. When your blood is flooded with nutrients and your body's pH is optimized, you'll feel energized. Since juice is absorbed and utilized by your body very rapidly, juicers report feeling an almost instantaneous "kick" of energy.
Supports your brain. In the Kame Project,1 people who consumed juice more than three times per week were 76 percent less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than those who consumed juice less than once a week.
Provides structured water. Vegetable juice is one of the purest sources of water and actually qualifies as water. Vegetable water is structured water (living water), which is different from regular water—H3O2 rather than H2O. Water from vegetables is the best quality water you can drink!

What About Protein and Fat?

When you think of protein, the image that might come to your mind may be a big juicy steak—but many vegetables actually contain substantial amounts of protein. For example, broccoli contains roughly 4 to 5 grams of protein per cup. Spinach contains 5 to 6 grams, and kale, watercress, collard, and turnip greens have respectable amounts of protein as well.
So during a juice fast when you are drinking juices all day long, you could easily be consuming 20 to 30 grams of protein or more from your juices alone. If you're doing a short fast—a few days, for example—chances are you're going to get plenty of protein from the juices.
If you were to try an extended juice fast (as in the film), you might want to consider adding a source of high-quality protein, such as whey, especially if you're exercising heavily. You could augment your fats by blending healthy fats into your juice, such as avocado, coconut oil, and extra virgin olive oil, as well as raw seeds (flax, chia, hemp, etc.).
It's important to remember that juice is not a beverage—it's a liquid food. The way to get substantial protein from veggies is to consume them in high volume, and the way to consume a high volume of veggies is by juicing! I recommend getting into the habit of juicing daily. But even if you don't, a three- to seven-day monthly juice fast is a great detox that can give your health a considerable boost.

My Thoughts on Why this 28 Day Juice Fast Worked

If you haven't watched the video yet, I would certainly encourage you to do so as there were some very dramatic improvements noted in the individuals who took part in the experiment. There is simply no question in my mind that high quality vegetable juices can lead to dramatic improvements in one's health as the video clearly demonstrates. However, what the program did not elaborate on is that there was another factor involved. It was clear that most of the people on the program ate a typical Western diet.

Not only did they juice, but they eliminated many of the toxic processed foods that they were eating. I suspect that in many cases it was the elimination of the processed foods was the more important factor. So unless you commit to eliminating all the processed foods in your diet, there is a strong likelihood that you will not observe the same improvements that the people in the video did.

Juicers 101: Three Basic Types of Juicers

Please understand that blenders, like Blendtec and Vitamix are NOT juicers but blenders. They are great blenders but will damage the juice because they process it at much higher temperatures, and the added fiber makes it less palatable and more difficult to consume larger amounts. When it comes to juice extractors, you have three options:
  • Centrifugal Juicers: Centrifugal juicers separate the juice from the fiber through a spinning process. These are the most common and least expensive machines, but they are noisy, generate higher heat, are harder to clean and typically less efficient at separating the juice from the pulp.
  • Masticating Juicers: Auger or masticating types of juicers (single and double gear) chew up the vegetables and push them through a strainer. They work very well and tend to give you more juice than a centrifugal juicer (possibly 20 to 25 percent more), with less heat. They're also quieter than other models and tend to be easier to clean and assemble. They cost a bit more than centrifugal juicers, but over time you'll break even as they give you more juice per veggie.
  • Grind-and-press: Presses work like an apple cider mill. These are quite expensive and therefore not as popular for everyday juicing.

Study Shows Blenders Significantly Damage Vegetable Nutrients

In addition to juicers, there are also high-power blenders that some people use to make "whole juice," which is essentially whole vegetables and/or fruits blended with water or another liquid. This is not the same as juice. You lose at least one of the major advantages of juicing—which is being able to consume a very large quantity of vegetables, because the fiber limits the amount you can drink and it's not as tasty. While fiber certainly has its own benefits, the abundant live nutrients in real juice are more important. The following comparison between blended juice and extracted juice by Juicing Science is instructive in understanding why the fiber issue may be insignificant:2
"One hundred grams of kale contains more than 100 percent of your recommended daily intake (RDI) of vitamin A, vitamin C, and vitamin K, and more than 10 percent of your RDI of vitamins B1, B2, B6, calcium, iron, magnesium, and manganese. Yet, despite its dense, dry appearance, it is made up of only 1.7 percent fiber, which means it provides less than six percent of your RDI for fiber."
So if you're pursuing a high-fiber diet, blended green smoothies may help, but you're still going to have to get the majority of your fiber from other sources. Another downside to blended juices is that the heat generated by blending significantly damages many of the micronutrients, due to oxidation. One laboratory analysis3 found that 60 seconds in a high-powered blender destroys between 23 and 63 percent of the vitamin C, calcium, and potassium in green vegetables. There is simply no replacement for the flood of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and phytonutrients your body gets from fresh, cold-extracted juice.

Don't Be Afraid of the Green!


Your juices should consist mostly of green vegetables, with minimal fruits so its sugar (fructose) content will be low. You can add in an apple, kiwi, or a handful of berries to give your juice flavor, but the bulk of it should come from organic green veggies—spinach, celery, kale, Swiss chard, etc. Unfortunately, green juice has a stigma for tasting bad, and many people avoid it simply because of its color. But green juice actually has a very pleasant flavor, and it's easy to "tweak" it to taste even better.
If you're new to juicing, you can start with more mild-tasting veggies, like celery and cucumbers. From there you can work your way up to red leaf lettuce, romaine, spinach, and escarole, along with parsley and cilantro. Kale, collard, dandelion, mustard, and other greens can be bitter, so you'll want to start slowly and add just a few leaves at a time.
Some of the most nutrient-dense veggies are the strongest tasting, but don't avoid them—just use a lesser quantity in your juice until your taste buds acclimate. Selecting organic, non-GMO produce is very important when juicing, but the price can be a challenge for some. One alternative is to grow your own veggies, making sure to avoid toxic garden chemicals (synthetic herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers). A great trick to make your juice more palatable, especially in the beginning, is to add one or more of these elements:
  • Limes and lemons: You can add one half to a whole lime or lemon for every quart of juice. Provided you're using organic lemons or limes, you can even juice the skin if you want to avoid the hassle of peeling them. Limes are my favorite for cutting bitter flavors.
  • Cranberries: You can also add some cranberries if you enjoy them. Limit the cranberries to about four ounces per pint of juice.
  • Fresh ginger: This is an excellent addition if you enjoy the taste—it gives your juice a little "kick"!
  • Limited amounts of apple and carrot (just be mindful of your overall sugar content)

Juice Preparation and Storage Tips

One nice thing about juicing is that you don't have to peel the majority of your veggies, provided they're organic—simply brush them thoroughly. One exception is beets, which have a rather foul tasting skin. If you're using non-organic vegetables, your best bet is to peel them, to avoid juicing pesticide residues. This is particularly important for fruits and vegetables that have been waxed, as this seals in the chemicals. It can be difficult to discern if a vegetable has been waxed or not, because the wax can be applied in a very thin, transparent layer. According to Dr. Saul:
  • Eggplant, turnips, cucumbers, and tomatoes are almost always waxed
  • Zucchini and other squash are usually waxed, but not always
  • Carrots are never waxed
Ideally, you'll want to drink the juice right away. The longer it sits, the more nutrients are lost through contact with the air (oxidation). You also lose taste. This brings me to another reason I prefer masticating juicers: they introduce less air into your juice, so the juice may actually stay fresher longer. When storing juice in a container, such as a Mason jar, make sure you fill it all the way up to the top to minimize air space.
You might want to enlist the help of a FoodSaver vacuum sealer, which comes with an attachment designed to suck out the air from the top of a Mason jar. You still need to keep the juice refrigerated, and you'll want to drink it all that day to avoid the risk of botulism, which can happen over time in an oxygen-free environment.
Juices stored more than 24 hours can also build up methanol. Your body is not adapted to detoxify methanol, which can cause a number of problems—for example, it can convert into formaldehyde that can then make its way into your brain. Methanol toxicity, which is primarily associated with the artificial sweetener aspartame, has been linked to Alzheimer's and other health problems. Methanol is not a problem in fresh produce because the methanol is bound to pectin, which allows it to safely pass through your system, but juice is a different story. So, if you haven't consumed your juice within 24 hours, toss it into the compost bin.

Managing Cravings and Detox Symptoms

Changing your diet or any other aspect of your lifestyle is sometimes stressful, and stress can sabotage your success. As some of the people in Vale's super-juicing experiment discovered, you might feel a little worse before you feel better, as detox symptoms and food cravings can arise. You simply can't address your physical health without also addressing your mental health. EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) makes it possible to tap away your anxiety about dietary changes—it's one of the most powerful tools for reducing stress and anxiety that I know of. In 2012, a triple blind study4 found that EFT reduced cortisol levels and symptoms of psychological distress by 24 percent—more than any other intervention tested.
If you worry that you won't be able to get the juice down or you won't take the time to do it, or your food cravings will be unbearable, EFT may be able to help. The first couple weeks of a new eating routine are typically the most challenging, while your body is making the necessary biochemical adjustments. Tapping can be extraordinarily beneficial for reducing anxiety, cravings, and detox symptoms during this time.
EFT is easy to learn and once you do, it's always at your fingertips—whenever and wherever you need it. You can even adapt this intermittent fasting EFT video by Julie Schiffman, for juice fasting. Just as juicing helps reduce your body's toxic burden, you can think of EFT as detoxification for your mind. By combining the two, your healing will be unstoppable!
Watch this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QDKywAZAfJ4

Thursday, April 9, 2015

Samples of Bach Flower Remedies



Cure Negative Emotions with Bach Flower Remedies
The Bach Flower Remedies is a system of 38 Flower Remedies discovered  by Dr. Edward Bach in England more than 80 years ago. The Bach Flower Remedies remove negative emotions by flooding them with the positive energies from flowers. In combination the 38 Bach Flower Remedies can restore happiness and joy in humans and animals.
Below is a list of some of the negative emotions with the suggestions of remedies that can help you get back to normal.


• Anger, Hate, Resentment (Sibling rivalry, Children of divorced parents, unhappy children/people.)
• PTSD
• ADD, ADHD, Lack of Focus, Daydreaming
• Weight
Depression.
Mustard: Helps you when you feel suddenly depressed without reason. It feels like a cold dark cloud has destroyed all happiness and cheerfulness. The depression can lift just as sudden for no reason.
Elm: You feel overwhelmed by your work load and matters of life and you feel depressed and exhausted.
Sweet Chestnut: For those moments which happen to some people when the anguish is so great as to seem to be unbearable. When the mind or body feels as if it had borne to the uttermost limit of its endurance, and that now it must give way. When it seems there is nothing but destruction and annihilation left to face.
Willow: Helps you when you have suffered adversity or misfortune and find it difficult to accept. You feel sorry for yourself and are grumble and sulky.
Gorse: When you feel a great hopelessness, you have given up belief that more can be done for you. Under persuasion or to please others you may try different treatments, at the same time assuring those around that there is so little hope of relief.
Gentian: When you are easily discouraged. You may be progressing well in illness or in the affairs of their daily life, but any small delay or hindrance to progress causes doubt and soon disheartens you.
Larch: When you lost self-esteem and feel depressed.
Stress
Rescue Remedy: Help any stressful situation where you need to be able to collect yourself and be in charge of your emotions.
Oak: Helps you when your inner strength wanes. Usually because you are an over-achiever and will overwork and ignore your tiredness.
Elm: You feel overwhelmed by your work load and matters of life and you feel depressed and exhausted.
Sweet Chestnut: For those moments which happen to some people when the anguish is so great as to seem to be unbearable. When the mind or body feels as if it had borne to the uttermost limit of its endurance, and that now it must give way. When it seems there is nothing but destruction and annihilation left to face.
Cherry Plum: When you feel like exploding and fear that you may lose control of your emotions and actions.
White Chestnut: Helps you when your mind is cluttered with thoughts, usually arguments, ideas, thoughts which you do not wish to keep repeating in your mind. These thoughts might prevent you from sleeping.
Impatiens: Those who are quick in thought and action and who wish all things to be done without hesitation or delay. When ill they are anxious for a hasty recovery. They find it very difficult to be patient with people who are slow as they consider it wrong and a waste of time, and they will Endeavor to make such people quicker in all ways. They often prefer to work and think alone, so that they can do everything at their own speed.
Oak: When you struggle on without taking care of yourself, workaholic, wont take a break no matter how much it is needed.
Larch: When you lost self-esteem
Fear and Anxiety
Rock Rose: Helps you when you experience terror or fright and you feel frozen and unable to move or think clear.
Mimulus Helps you when you feel fear, the type of fear that you can put a name on such as, fear of spiders, being alone, losing a job, not being able to do car payments, illness etc. Also fear of speaking freely of it to others and shyness.
Cherry Plum: Helps you when you fear that your mind is being over-strained, you feel like you are going to explode or do irrational things. You are afraid of losing control.
Aspen:  Helps you when you feel fearful without knowing why.  You feel that something bad is going to happen, but nothing happens and you cannot tell what you are afraid about.
Red Chestnut: Helps you when you find it difficult not to be anxious for other people, you are afraid that some unfortunate things may happen to your loved ones.
White Chestnut: When your mind is too cluttered with thoughts and worries that you are unable to fall asleep.
 Self Concern
Crab Apple: Helps you when you feel that there is something not quite clean about yourself. You may need to wash hands often, find things dirty without any reason; you may find yourself ugly although others find you very attractive.
Heather: Helps you when you get unhappy being alone for any length of time, you are always seeking the companionship and find it necessary to discuss your affairs with others, no matter whom it may be.
Rock Water: Helps you when you expect too much of yourself.
Larch: Helps you to regain self-esteem and confidence in yourself.
Willow: Helps you when you have suffered adversity or misfortune and find it difficult to accept. You feel sorry for yourself and are grumble and sulky.
 Interfering with other people.
Chicory: Helps you to be less critical, opinionated and argumentative. You always find something about others that you believe should be put right.
Vervain: Helps you when you spend much of your energy trying to convert all around to your own views of life.
Vine: Helps you respect other people’s views and ideas, you tend to try to persuade other people to do things your way.
Beech:  Helps you be less critical toward other people and accept them as they are.
Red Chestnut: Helps you when you find it difficult not to be anxious for other people, you are afraid that some unfortunate things may happen to your loved ones.
Panic Attacks.
Rescue Remedy: Helps at any stressful situation where you need to be able to collect yourself and be in charge of your emotions.
Aspen: Panic, nightmares, pounding heart, sweating for no reason, anxious but don’t know why.
Rock Rose: When you feel that the fear is so great that you are unable to move or react, a frozen fear.
Mimulus Helps you when you feel fear, the type of fear that you can put a name on such as, fear of spiders, being alone, losing a job, not being able to do car payments, illness etc. Also fear of speaking freely of it to others and shyness.
Cherry Plum:  Helps you when you feel that your mind is being over-strained, you feel like you are going to explode or do irrational things.
Jet Lag.
This combination helps you adjust to the time change and with the physical tiredness and impatience that comes from sitting in a plane for hours. Start taking this combination a couple of days before the flight and continue while flying and afterward until all symptoms are gone.
Olive: Helps you over the physical exhaustion of traveling and being on the road for several hours.
Walnut: Helps you adjust to a new time zone and place.
Impatiens: Helps you from getting impatient while sitting in a plane for several hours without much to do.
Rescue Sleep: A wonderful combination of Rescue Remedy and White Chestnut which helps when you feel restless and have cluttered unwanted thoughts.
Stuttering.
Mimulus: This Essence helps you when you have fear known things, such as, fear of spiders, fear of not being good enough, fear of being old, fear of not succeeding, fear of heights, fear of public speaking etc. You might also be shy, tongue-tied in company; you might even be blushing and stuttering.
Larch: Helps you regain courage to face difficulties with humor and confidence. You will be able to stand up for yourself, and with the emotions under control can enjoy life without fear.
Seperation Anxiety
Mimulus: This Essence helps when a child suffer from separations anxiety. Separation anxiety is fear, fear of being left alone, fear of Mommy not coming back, fear of all scary things a child may think about.
Walnut: Helps the child or adult adjust to a new schedule or situation.
Larch: For self-esteem
Being unable to fall a sleep
Rescue Sleep: Calms our mind and body to allow us to fall asleep.
White Chestnut: When your mind it too cluttered with thoughts that you are unable to fall asleep.
Impatient: When you get irritated and impatient with yourself, you start counting hours until the alarm clock will wake you up.
Vervain: When your mind is too wind up with plans.
Emotional Eating
Crab Apple: Helps you when you feel that there is something not quite clean about yourself. You may need to wash hands often, find things dirty without any reason; you may find yourself ugly although others find you very attractive.
Chestnut Bud: Helps you when you keep repeating the same mistake.
Cherry Plum: Helps you when you loose of self-control.
Gentian: Easily get discouraged by small set back.
Olive: When you eat as a way to get more energy
Anger, Hate, Resentment. (Sibling rivalry,  Children of divorced parents, unhappy children)
Cherry Plum:  Helps you when you feel that your mind is being over-strained, you feel like you are going to explode or do irrational things.
Holly: Helps for the feeling of jealousy.
Willow: Helps you when you have suffered adversity or misfortune and find it difficult to accept. You feel sorry for yourself and are grumble and sulky.
Heather: Helps you when you get unhappy being alone for any length of time, you are always seeking the companionship and find it necessary to discuss your affairs with others, no matter whom it may be.
Beech: For those who are critical of others and are only able to focus on their faults
PTSD:
PTSD is a combination of emotions that is caused by very stressful or traumatic emotions that have occurred over a long period of time. The Bach Flower Remedies can be very helpful in releasing the negative emotions that the person is experiencing.
When selecting the Bach Flower Remedies you look at each negative emotion and select the Bach Flower Remedy that remove it, such as but not limited to:
 Aspen: Panic and fear which can not be explained, nightmare, feeling that something “bad” is going to happen, uneasy fear.
Cherry Plum: Fear of losing self-control, hurt yourself or others.
Star of Bethlehem: Whenever you have experienced trauma, current or in the past.
Rock Rose: Frozen fear, terror.
Mimulus: When you have fears that can be described, shyness, phobias.
Gorse: When you have lost hope and are ready to give up, despair, hopelessness
Sweet Chestnut: For those moments which happen to some people when the anguish is so great as to seem to be unbearable. When the mind or body feels as if it had borne to the uttermost limit of its endurance, and that now it must give way. When it seems there is nothing but destruction and annihilation left to face. When you need to restore faith that all will be okay.
Oak: When you struggle on without taking care of yourself, workaholic, wont take a break no matter how much it is needed.
Pine: When you take responsibility for things that happened that you had no control over, feeling guilt for what other people did
ADD, ADHD, Lack of Focus, Daydreaming
ADD and ADHD is a combination of emotions that can be balanced with the help of the Bach Flower Remedies. Parent have had great success with the Bach Flower Remedies when their children has a hard time focusing in school and teachers often are commending that the child has become much calmer and focused after using the Bach Flower Remedies for only a short time.
When selecting the Bach Flower Remedies you look at each negative emotion and select the Bach Flower Remedy that remove it, such as but not limited to:
Clematis: Helps when you daydream and have a hard time focusing on the task in front of you
Chestnut Bud: Helps when you keep forgetting what you have learned, it helps you remember
Walnut: Helps when you get easily distracted by noises, movements and commotion
Gentian: Helps when you get easily discouraged by small set backs.
Vervain: Helps when you are overly excited and hyper, from over involvement in a subject or idea.
Impatiens: Helps when you easily get impatient with the slowness of others.
Elm: Helps when you easily get overwhelmed by homework, things you need to do and responsibilities.
Larch:Helps you regain self-esteem.
Please also note that some children have adverse reactions to artificial food colorings, milk, chocolate and over processed foods. Healthy diet of whole grains, vegetables and fruits is important for healthy brain functions.
 Weight
The Bach Flower Remedies can help you change unhealthy eating habits and replace them with healthy options. The following remedies can help you active your goals.
Cherry Plum: Helps you have self-control when you are presented by unhealthy choices.
Chestnut Bud: Helps you learn from past mistakes.
Crab Apple: Helps you accept who you are and how you look.
Gentian: Helps you not to get discouraged with small set backs.
Impatiens: Helps you have patience with yourself.