How to Eat Cleaner – Day 7 of 31 – Convenience Foods

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facebook.com How to Eat Cleaner - Day 7 of 31 - Convenience Foods Chemical in Our Bodies Hello everyone. I #39;m so excited that you decided to join me in our 31 days to cleaner or healthier eating. Each one of these videos will have 1 simple concept for you to chew on. It #39;s your choice what you do with it. Try it for a day, a week, a month or implement for your entire life. My hope is it helps you open your mind to learning more about fueling your body more healthily. Part of cleaning up what we eat is getting educated and alot of these videos focus on awareness. What you do with that is up to you. We chatted a little about this in our whole foods post but convenience food is worth a little more attention. Convenience foods are foods like pre made restaurant food, frozen food, packaged foods. Notice I did not say fast food, because a lot of people say, I don #39;t eat fast food and yet they eat out several times a week. I #39;m not saying we cannot eat out, we just need to be real about what we are doing and know what we are eating. I eat at Veggie Grill sometimes and get the Buffalo Chik #39;n. I #39;m not fooling myself into thinking its healthy. This is a chosen junk meal. Just because its Veggie Grill it #39;s vegan does not make it healthy. Stop kidding yourself. Read your label nutritional information. If the ingredient label takes up the entire side of the box you cannot pronounce what #39;s in it, do you really think you should be eating it? Too many chemicals in our bodies are ...

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Rewiring Your Brain – Joe Dispenza – Video

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Rewiring Your Brain - Joe Dispenza
Joe Dispenza, DC, studied biochemistry at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree with an emphasis in neuroscience. He received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Life University in Atlanta, Georgia, graduating magna cum laude. Dr. Dispenza #39;s postgraduate training and continuing education has been in neurology, neuroscience, brain function and chemistry, cellular biology, memory formation, aging and longevity. Joe Dispenza was featured in the award winning film, "What The Bleep Do We Know?"This lecture provides basic yet powerful information on how to co-create ones day and how to use focused concentration, repetition, and visualization (mental rehearsing) to reprogram the brain.

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Larry Moran – Science vs. IDiots (Eschaton 2012) – Video

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Larry Moran is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto interested in molecular evolution and evolutionary theory. As a model system he has been working with a family of genes known as the HSP70 multigene family, the most highly conserved genes known in all of biology. He maintains the blog "Sandwalk: Strolling with a Skeptical Biochemist", and has found himself the target of ire from the Discovery Institute and other proponents of Intelligent Design creationism for his spirited defense of evolutionary biology and scientific theories on the origin of life. Longer Bio: biochemistry.utoronto.ca Website: sandwalk.blogspot.ca CREDITS Sound effect by HerbertBoland http://www.freesound.org Conference by CFI Ottawa filmed with permission

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PPDK In Action – Video

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PPDK (Pyruvate phosphate dikinase) is a key enzyme in photosynthesis and gluconeogensis. This is an animation of catalytic reaction of PPDK from Clostridium symbiosum. Based on the crystal structure of PPDK, this model depicts the transfer of phosphate group from ATP (adenosine triphosphate) to histidine (H) amino acid in the H-domain of PPDK. The H-domain then rotates toward the other side of PPDK, and transfers the phosphate to the pyruvate molecule for conversion to PEP (phosphoenolpyruvate). These reactions are reversible. (Lim et al, Biochemistry 46:14845, 2007)

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Automated Blood Analyser: Part 10 Biochemistry Analysis – Video

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Automated Blood Analyser: Part 10 Biochemistry Analysis
http://www.biologycourses.co.uk At the Leicester Royal Infirmary there is one of the biggest haematology analysers in the country. The machine is an automated, high-throughput system for counting blood cells and measuring biochemical and immunological components in the blood. This video (part 10 of 10 videos) shows the aspect of the machine that measures blood biochemistry. This resource is part of the UK Open Educational Resource project and was made in collaboration between the Leicester Royal Infirmary and De Montfort University.

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zaid hamid anti Hindu lies caught on tape.flv – Video

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In an unfortunate incident a Pakistani scientist Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was illegally detained by US army and prosecuted. A so called defense analyst Zaid Hamid describes her works...that she was a Neurologist working on a classified projects in biochemistry to develop biological weapons. He also goes on to say that Hindu students from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) came all the way to Afghanistan to interrogate her and demanding her to share her projects. Where as Dr. Faujiya Siddiqui sister of Dr. Aafia claims that Aafia was neither a Neurologist not even a Medical student and she was a PhD in education working on learning my imitation in mentally retarded people like Zaid Hamid. Now Zaid can fool the Pakistanis as more 50% are uneducated and has no clue about Neurologist and a PhD in education. In fact Zaid Hamid who is also a MIT pass out in this case MIT stand for Madrassa Institute of Technology has no idea what he is speaking. I think he should participate in the World #39;s greatest liar contest. My questions are:- 1. How can a person who has never studied science, as Education is an arts field specialize on biochemistry and develop biological weapon? 2. How did a person with a PhD in Education get admission in MIT to work on Neurology and biochemistry?? 3. How can (HINDU) students from MIT be allowed to interrogate someone in Bagram base in Afghanistan? And who allowed it?? MIT is a world renowned University and only top brains manage to get in. They have ...

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Keele University student Rebecka Salt-Mountain and Churchill China – Video

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Churchill China is one of the world #39;s leading manufacturers of high quality ceramic tableware, Churchill has a long history of bringing the highest quality products to the hospitality industry. Based in the heart of the Potteries since 1795 as one of its constituent companies, Sampson Bridgwood, Churchill has progressively developed, building a strong reputation as an innovative and reliable supplier of quality tabletop products. Rebecka is a Biochemistry and Geography Keele graduate who took part in Keele #39;s Destination Green internship scheme. During her 14 week placement at Churchill China she worked on a waste recovery project, helping the company reduce environmental and financial impact.

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“Action Potential: Sparking the Change in Health Care” – Andrea Nakayama at SWSW LIVE! SF – Video

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"Action Potential: Sparking the Change in Health Care" - Andrea Nakayama at SWSW LIVE! SF
For more talks from KC Baker #39;s School for The Well Spoken Woman LIVE!, subscribe to this channel: youtube.com For training info on stepping into thought leadership, public speaking, and writing epic talks, visit: KCBAKER.com For more information on Andrea Nakayama, visit http://www.replenishpdx.com Excerpt: "I wanted to understand the mechanisms that feed cancer growth. I wanted to understand the functioning of the nervous system and I wanted to know what the hell this thing was in his brain called a blood brain barrier that was keeping the medicine from getting to the tumor. I mean fuck the odds, damn the statistics, this was my man, my match and I was going to do whatever I could to keep him alive. And I did, if only I knew then what I know now. I could have done so much more. I look back at the journals we kept. We called them the Isamu books and I think "damn girlfriend you were doing a good job," but I didn #39;t know then what I know now. Now that I #39;ve studied the sciences and I #39;ve had the opportunity to work with hundreds of people around the world on their health and nutrition during their healing journeys. What I know now that I didn #39;t know then was that the key to nutritional healing has two parts.There #39;s the key which is the food we eat and there #39;s the lock which is our physiology and it #39;s the biochemistry between the two that truly allows for a deeper level of healing. This is where food is medicine. I always like to say that we are not actually what we eat. You are ...

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Scientists Unlock How Insulin Interacts With Cells

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Newswise The discovery of insulin nearly a century ago changed diabetes from a death sentence to a chronic disease.

Today a team that includes researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine announced a discovery that could lead to dramatic improvements in the lives of people managing diabetes.

After decades of speculation about exactly how insulin interacts with cells, the international group of scientists finally found a definitive answer: in an article published today in the journal Nature, the group describes how insulin binds to the cell to allow the cell to transform sugar into energyand also how the insulin itself changes shape as a result of this connection.

These findings carry profound implications for diabetes patients, said Case Western Reserve biochemistry professor and department chair Michael A. Weiss, MD, PhD, MBA, one of the leaders of the team. This new information increases exponentially the chances that we can develop better treatmentsin particular, oral medications instead of syringes, pens or pumps.

Weiss, also the Cowan-Blum Professor of Cancer Research at the School of Medicine, is renowned worldwide for his work on insulin. In 1991 he used nuclear magnetic resonance techniques to describe the structure of insulin; more recently he has developed a preliminary version of the hormone that does not need to be refrigerated, a critical breakthrough for those with diabetes in the developing world.

The results published today, however, represent among the most promising for Weiss and an entire generation of scientists devoted to enhancing care for those suffering from diabetes. They have sought to solve mystery of how the hormone bound to cells since 1969, when the late Dorothy Hodgkin and colleagues at the University of Oxford, first described insulins structure.

Theres been a logjam in our understanding since then, Weiss said. We hope that weve broken the logjam.

The magnitude of the challenge is, in part, evidenced by the diversity of the team required to overcome it. Weiss partnered with Associate Professor Mike Lawrence, of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia, to lead the project. They, in turn, engaged scientists from the University of Chicago, the University of York in the United Kingdom, and the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry in Prague in the Czech Republic.

The scientists recognized that cells absorb sugar from food as energy for the body, yet glucose cant penetrate a cells membrane without help from insulin, a hormone secreted from endocrine cells in the pancreas. To absorb the sugar, most cells have insulin receptors that bind the hormone as it flows through the bloodstream.

The researchers tested structural models using molecular-genetic methods to insert probes that, in turn, are activated by ultra-violet light into the receptor. The procedure creates highly detailed, three-dimensional imageswhich provided critical answers for Weiss, Lawrence and their colleagues.

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World Travel Awards Now Accepting Nominations for 2013 Ceremony

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World Travel Awards (WTA) self-nominations for the 20th annual ceremonies this year opened on Jan. 7 for all regional categories.

Many companies and destinations are expected to participate due to the marketing and networking opportunities that the ceremonies offer, according to the WTA announcement.

Nominations are being accepted for all regional categories including Africa, Asia, Australia, Caribbean, Europe, Indian Ocean, Middle East, and North, South and Central America.

This years tour will also include Maldives, Dubai (UAE), Antalya (Turkey), Kenya, Peru, Antigua and Singapore throughout the year. The winners in these categories will go on to the Grand Final in Las Vegas at the end of 2014.

WTA aims to reward excellence in customer service, product development and business performance throughout the tourism industry.

The 2013 nominees will be published on the WTA website.

Entry forms, deadlines and rules can be found at http://www.worldtravelawards.com/nominate.

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World Travel Awards starts 2013 global search with call for nominations

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9 January 2013

World Travel Awards (WTA), 'the Oscars of the travel industry', is issuing a call to those organisations that aspire to be recognised as the best in their field, as voted by their fellow professionals, to participate in its 20th anniversary, 2013 programme.

Established in 1993, WTA is recognised globally as the highest accolade in travel and tourism, and serves to recognise, acknowledge and reward excellence of customer service, product development and business performance throughout the tourism industry.

This year, the 20th anniversary, the competition is set to be the fiercest yet as growing numbers of companies and destinations realise the marketing opportunities that a World Travel Award nomination offers.

Entry is now open for all regional categories Africa, Asia, Australasia, Caribbean, Europe, Indian Ocean, Middle East, and North, South & Central America. For further details, including entry forms and closing deadlines for nominations, visit http://www.worldtravelawards.com/nominate.

The 2013 nominees will be published at http://www.worldtravelawards.com/nominees when voting opens for each region. Votes can be cast at http://www.worldtravelawards.com/vote which includes a list of voting dates.

WTA's 2013 Grand Tour will include regional legs in the Maldives, Dubai (UAE), Antalya (Turkey), Kenya, Peru, Antigua and Singapore throughout the year. The winners of these regional heats will progress to the Grand Final, which will take place in Las Vegas at the end of 2014.

The ceremonies are widely regarded as possibly the best networking opportunities in the travel industry, attended by government and industry leaders, luminaries, and international print and broadcast media.

The 2012 WTA Grand Tour ceremonies were attended by more than 3,000 guests from 92 countries, as well as media from 194 TV channels and publications.

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Owner hopes stem cell therapy will get dog's life back

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REHOBOTH, Mass. --

A first of its kind procedure is being performed in Massachusetts Monday. Its a stem cell therapy on a dog.

"He can't get comfortable, can't lay down, because of the pain, so he sits up and stares at the wall all night, which is tough to watch," said Bob Cook, Bubbas owner.

Cook of Taunton is talking about his 2-year-old English Bulldog Bubba, who suffers from hip dysplasia.

He said his condition has gotten worse in the last several months. After doing research, he found out about a regenerative stem cell therapy and has been hopeful.

He brought Bubba to the Abbot Animal Hospital in Rehoboth.

"Hopefully we can give these animals relief and increase quality of life and their life span as well, said Dr. Ashraf Gomaa.

Gomaa is the only doctor in our area certified by MediVet America, the company that developed this technology.

After extracting fat from Bubba, it is processed in a machine that basically breaks down the cells to get to the healthy stem cells. The cells are then injected back into Bubba into the area of concern.

"Replacing the bad cells with new cells, pretty advanced technology," Gomaa said.

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DOH: Stem cell therapy dangerous

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By JENNY F. MANONGDO

Manila, Philippines Doctors yesterday warned against fatal complications of the use of stem cell therapy.

According to the Philippine Society for Stem Cell Medicine (PSSCM), a stem cell transplant poses a host of complications, including fatal complications that depend on several factors such as the type of blood disorder, type of transplant and the age and health of the person receiving the transplant. If the stem cell that you received is not from your own body, it could lead to fatal complications, PSSCM said.

The Philippine Medical Association (PMA) also warned that a patients body may reject the transplant stem cells from a donor.

Although some people experience few problems with a transplant, others may develop complications that may require treatment or hospitalization. Some complications could even be life-threatening, said Dr. Leo Olarte, PMA vice-president.

According to Olarte, the complications that can arise with a stem cell transplant include graftversus-host disease, stem cell (graft) failure, organ injury, infections, cataracts, infertility, new cancers, and even death.

According to Olarte, a person who will undergo a stem cell transplant from a donor (allogeneic stem cell transplant) may be at risk of graft-versus-host disease.

This condition occurs when a donors transplanted stem cells attack your body. Graft-versushost disease can be mild or severe. It can occur soon after your transplant or months to years later. Aside from the graft-versushost disease, stem cell transplant from a donor can likewise affect any organ, commonly the skin (rash, often like sunburn), gut (mouth sores, abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea or vomiting), liver (jaundice or yellowing of the skin), lungs (blocked airways) or eyes (irritation and light sensitivity).

Olarte said it could also lead to chronic disability arising from organ injury or infections that are potentially life-threatening.

Commercial establishments offering stem cell treatments have increased following its popularity in the treatment of various diseases.

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Author explores connection between science, spirituality

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Faith and Family: Life after death

A British author explores the relationship between science and spirituality in her new book after claiming to have seen angels at a hospital just before her mother died.

Linda Hoy wrote "The Effect," which "counters that science can reveal the existence of the spiritual plane described by the worlds leading religious movements," according to her website.

I thought myself as a very rational, scientific person and I thought I am not going to believe this is a heavenly miracle. But then I got surrounded by angels," said Hoy.

Hoy said she never considered herself spiritual or religious before that day.

What is so important about this kind of experience, well, you cant deny it and say that it couldnt have happened," she said.

Dr. Edward Sunshine, a theology professor at Barry University, said those experience may be real or simply fabricated.

There are people that scientist who are trying to explain religious premonitions in different states that engage in mediation that can measure the changes in the brain that is occurring so they can get a better understanding of what is happening," said Sunshine.

Sunshine added that scientists have only begun to explore the possibilities of a fourth dimension.

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Role of spirituality in healing has its advocates but it's hard to prove

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Mary H. Wilson has been living with inherited colon cancer for 49 years. She has endured 40 surgeries since she was 15 and, over time, embraced a gamut of spiritual perspectives: "Better me than anyone else" became "why couldn't it have been someone else," which gave rise to "every morning is a gift."

Wilson, who lives near Sandy, grew up in the Methodist Church and thinks of herself as a Christian. But at 64, she doesn't claim allegiance to any particular denomination.

"My belief is that my higher power is right here beside me, any time I want to talk to him or lean on him," she says. Her faith is "very personal and very open," and she doesn't rely on any particular ritual -- prayer or church attendance, for example -- to keep it vital.

"Doctors have done a heroic job, just keeping me alive," she says. But she believes her faith also plays a part in her health and well-being.

That's a connection that many patients and physicians acknowledge, but one that science has had a hard time quantifying.

Several studies suggest that patients commonly rely on their religious beliefs to cope with serious medical illnesses. Some say their faith led to an actual physical cure. But the difficulty of measuring faith empirically makes it impossible to say definitively whether or how religion or spirituality affects physical health.

Dr. Harold G. Koenig, a physician and co-director of the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke University, contends that prayer, for example, has healed some people of cancer but accepts the results of scientific studies that cannot prove it.

"God is not predictable," Koenig says. "If you could reliably predict the effectiveness of prayer, you wouldn't need faith because you'd have proof."

But Koenig and other physicians say that engaging regularly in religious practices does encourage a number of factors that may influence a person's health: improved coping skills, social support, more nutritious diets, a sense of optimism and hope, and reduced depression, anxiety, smoking and alcohol consumption.

But as proponents of spirituality's connection to good health look for ways to focus on and measure faith, they warn that religious or spiritual views don't guarantee good health. It's important, they argue, to seek and receive medical treatment in addition to practicing one's religion.

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Solution to terrorism lies in Indian spirituality: Modi

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Ahmedabad: Hailing Indian spirituality for having solution to problems such as global warming and terrorism, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the world was yet to realise its full potential. "The world has accepted the power of our youth in information technology, but it has yet to realise India's power of spirituality. Solutions to so many global problems such as global warming lie in the path shown by our saints, through our spirituality," he said.

Modi said this at the closing ceremony of the 60th Youth Anniversary celebrations of the Aksharpurshottam Swaminarayan Sanstha here today. "At present, humankind is struggling to thwart the environmental crisis created because of global warming. Who has the capacity to show a way out of it? Our country is the place on earth where our saints had given the status of 'mother' to nature," he said.

"As soon as the world realises the message of our saints and spiritual leaders, it will find solutions to all crises," he said and added that, "in the philosophy of 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' lies the answer to terrorism". The grand finale of Bochasanwasi Shri Aksharpurushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha's 60th anniversary celebrations was held at the Sardar Patel Stadium here where more then 25,000 youth from all over India, USA, Canada, UK, East Africa, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Dubai had assembled.

Pramukh Swami Maharaj, who is not in good health, blessed the gathering through his video message and congratulated them for "upholding satsang and service to parents as well as country". The celebrations was themed on six values portrayed through colourful dances, dramas, parades and more than 1,600 children and youth performed on stage.

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Don Ingwerson: Spirituality, money, happiness and health

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Every time I look around, I find another article about what happiness can do for someone. The most recent reported that happiness can actually help people make more money (according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences).

"Whether smart or simple, tall or short, self-confident or insecure, happier people earned bigger paychecks than more doleful peers: Deeply unhappy teens' future incomes were 30 percent lower than the average, while very happy teems earned 10percent above average."

While this study shows that the outward expression of happiness can benefit our pocketbooks, there is also evidence showing its value to health and our general well-being.

In a recent lecture by Dr. Andrew Weil, noted leader in integrated medicines, he described the term "infectious happiness" as an emotion that can spread from person to person. Weil further stated, "that there is no question that who you choose to associate with can raise or lower your spirits, make you happy or sad, calm or anxious, comfortable or uncomfortable." These are qualities that translate directly to being healthy or unhappy and these infectious happiness qualities can be quantified.

According to a study published in the British Medical Journal, if a person lives less than a half mile from a happy friend, he would have a 42 percent greater chance of being happy. This same infectious happiness can ripple through groups and organizations, and has a profound

Happiness not only affects the external environment of relationships with others and increased financial success, but also generates a healthier body and mind. Recent studies indicate that much of true satisfaction and well-being come from within, and that one is not born happy or unhappy - it is mostly a developed or a learned trait.

How can that be? We get a glimpse of how in a study by Professor Robert A. Emmons, a UC Davis psychologist and editor in chief of the Journal of Positive Psychology. He has found that "those who regularly practice grateful thinking improved their happiness score by 25 percent. Since being grateful improves one's happiness, so do these same qualities reportedly have a positive effect on one's health."

Evidence continues to mount that thought affects the body, especially qualities like gratitude, which researchers see as a rapidly growing field of study. Some say improved health and happiness may result more from increased spirituality and less from external materialistic achievements. How, then, would one improve or increase his spirituality? Author Maggie Lyon in an article titled, "Making Room for Spiritual Practice," defines spiritual practice as something you do every single day that draws you deeper into who you really are, by connecting you with your divine self.

Being an advocate of this type of spiritual practice for decades, I agree with her description of the discipline it takes. "You must designate, carve out, and stick to the time for it, often letting go of something else in order to keep it alive. Many people find it easiest to maintain a practice first thing in the morning. But what does that mean you give up? Sleep? Or is it the extra hour on the computer before bed the night before so that you don't lose the time in bed?"

I have a set study time each morning for reading and studying from Scripture as well as a book titled "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" written by Mary Baker Eddy, along with quiet time for prayer. I can quantify the improvement of my personal health and happiness by using this consistent practice to develop my spirituality.

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