Can Botox Relieve Depression?

April 16, 2009 by  
Filed under Feeling Positive

daisyCan Botox help you be free of depression?

Rainy days used to bring Kathleen Delano down. She’s suffered depression since her 20s. Antidepressants and therapy didn’t help. I wasn’t suicidal, she says, but I wasn’t interested in getting out of bed. I wasn’t interested in talking or communicating with friends or family.

So she enrolled in a piloy study testing the effects of Botox on depression. Dr. Eric Finzi of the Chevy Chase Cosmetic Center conducted the pilot trial to test whether preventing a patient from frowning would make it difficult to feel sadness. To feel emotions, you have to express it on the face, he felt.

The study involved 10 patients who were clinically depressed.

Dr. Finzi injected a normal dose of Botox into their brows. Two months later, nine out of 10 patients were no longer clinically depressed. You’re basically preventing people from expressing those sad and angry emotions on their face. Somehow, that’s feeding back directly to the brain, said Dr. Finzi.

Results are gradual and take a week or two to kick in. It’s not like you take the Botox and ‘Hallelujah, I’m healed, said Dr. Finzi.

But Kathleen is already a believer. I’m really feeling for the first time in a lot of years that I’m free of depression, she said.

When the Botox wears off, so does the antidepressant effect, so patients would need to get the shots about every three months to remain free of depression. A single Botox treatment costs about $400.

Source: King5.com

Who Wants to Become a Billionaire

April 16, 2009 by  
Filed under Prosperity

money1Are billionaires born or made. And are there any common success secrets required to become a wealthy billionaire.

Forbes Magazine gets these questions a lot, and finallydecided it was time to go beyond the broad answers of smarts, ambition and luck by sorting through otheir database of  the ultra wealthy in search of trends.

Forbes analyzed everything from the billionaires’ parents’ professions… to where (or if) they went to school… their track records in the early stages of their careers… and other experiences that may have put them on the path to extreme wealth.

Their admittedly unscientific study of the 657 self-made billionaires yielded some interesting results.

Some of the most common professions among the parents of American billionaires (for whom Forbes  could find the information) were: engineer, accountant and small-business owner.

Those who became a billionaire by making  their fortunes from finance make up one of the most highly educated sub-groups: More than 55% of them have graduate degrees. Nearly 90% of those with M.B.A.s obtained their master’s degree from one of three Ivy League schools: Harvard, Columbia or U. Penn’s Wharton School of Business.

But you don’t have to go to college to become a billionaire. More than 20% of the self-made American moguls on the most recent list of the world’s billionaires never finished college. Many of them made their fortunes in the tech sector. Among them:  Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell, Larry Ellison, (Oracle) and Theodore Waitt (Gateway).

Several ultra wealthy billionaires suffered a bitter professional setbacks early in their careers. Pharmaceutical tycoon R.J. Kirk’s first venture was a flop–an experience he regrets but appreciates. Failure early on is a necessary condition for success, though not a sufficient one, he told Forbes in 2007.

According to a statement read by Phil Falcone during a congressional hearing, his botched buyout of a company in Newark in the early 1990s taught him several valuable lessons that have had a profound impact upon my success as a hedge fund manager.

Want to become a billionaire. One place to start is to first learn to think like a millionaire. And YES, this IS possible.

Source: Forbes

Change Habits

April 15, 2009 by  
Filed under Our Experts

You have approximaely 30 billion neurons, the nerve cells that conduct information throughout your brain and down into your body. It has been estimated that your brain has 100,000 miles of neural fibers created as your neurons communicate with each other.

How Power of Mind Works. Everything making up your power of mind is stored on such physical neural-pathways. Each time you think a thought, it is communicated among your neurons via tiny electro-chemical messages.

The first time you learn something new, a new neural pathway is created. The next time you have that experience, your brain will follow the same pathway. This is how a thought or action becomes a habit.

Then each time you act out that habit, the more physically durable the neural pathway holding it will become. That is why it is so hard to break a habit. Your habit is wired into your brain as actual physical connections.

Using Mind Power to Change Habits. If you have habits you would like to change, start by recognizing the fact that you cannot just rationalize them away. You will have to create neural pathways that are stronger that the one you wish to change. Two things create strong neural pathways: Repetition, and intense emotion.

You can use your mind power to change a habit by: (1) Allowing yourself to feel some intense emotion about the habit you want to change, (2) choosing a new positive behavior or thought pattern, (3) associating your new pattern with even stronger positive emotion, (4) rewarding yourself with praise each time you replace the old pattern with the new one, and (5) repeating this as often as possible.

By doing this you are creating physical changes in your brain – rewiring the neural pathways that will change that habit.

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