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擁抱大笑益健康
Reasons Why We Need at Least 8 Hugs a Day (mindbodygreen.com)

Research shows that hugging (and also laughter) is extremely effective at healing sickness, disease, loneliness, depression, anxiety and stress.

1. The nurturing touch of a hug builds trust and a sense of safety. This helps with open and honest communication.

 

2. Hugs can instantly boost oxytocin levels, which heal feelings of loneliness, isolation, and anger.

3. Holding a hug for an extended time lifts one's serotonin levels, elevating mood and creating happiness.

 

4. Hugs strengthen the immune system. The gentle pressure on the sternum and the emotional charge this creates activates the Solar Plexus Chakra. This stimulates the thymus gland, which regulates and balances the body's production of white blood cells, which keep you healthy and disease free.

5. Hugging boosts self-esteem. From the time we're born our family's touch shows us that we're loved and special. The associations of self-worth and tactile sensations from our early years are still imbedded in our nervous system as adults. The cuddles we received from our Mom and Dad while growing up remain imprinted at a cellular level, and hugs remind us at a somatic level of that. Hugs, therefore, connect us to our ability to self love.

6. Hugs teach us how to give and receive. There is equal value in receiving and being receptive to warmth, as to giving and sharing. Hugs educate us how love flows both ways.

7. Hugs are so much like meditation and laughter. They teach us to let go and be present in the moment. They encourage us to flow with the energy of life. Hugs get you out of your circular thinking patterns and connect you with your heart and your feelings and your breath.

8. The energy exchange between the people hugging is an investment in the relationship. It encourages empathy and understanding. And, it's synergistic, which means the whole is more than the sum of its parts: 1 1 = 3 or more! This synergy is more likely to result in win-win outcomes.

Laughter is the Best Medicine (helpguide.org)

Humor is infectious. The sound of roaring laughter is far more contagious than any cough, sniffle, or sneeze. When laughter is shared, it binds people together and increases happiness and intimacy. Laughter also triggers healthy physical changes in the body. Humor and laughter strengthen your immune system, boost your energy, diminish pain, and protect you from the damaging effects of stress. Best of all, this priceless medicine is fun, free, and easy to use

Questions:

1. What are the health benefits of hugging? Reasons why we need hugging?

2. What are the ways to show someone that you care?

How to build trust in your relationship?

3. How to be a good friend? What are the ways to build trust in friendship?

4. How often do you laugh a day?

Ways to laugh? What are the health benefits of laughter?
 

5. How to deal with loneliness? How to make people happy?What are the tips for being happier?

6. Are you a humorous person? Are you a fun person to be around?

Telling us the importance of humor?

7. Do you think that humor is a key to success? Why? or Why not?

    
This young man offers on his microblog to hire a girlfriend for 1 million yuan (US$ 165,200) to take home for the Spring Festival.

百萬租女友過年?

Man Offers to Hire Girlfriend for 1 Million Yuan  [china.org.cn]

A Chinese man's microblog post offering to hire a temporary girlfriend for 1 million yuan (US$ 165,200) to take home to his family in central China's Henan Province, for the Chinese New Year has gone viral online. 

 The message was discovered and circulated by a radio operator in Henan. It offers to pay 20,000 yuan (US$ 3,304) in advance for the girl, to be selected on January 23 and take her home by private jet. A photo of the man sitting behind piles of money on a desk was posted with the message on January 17.  

 In the message, the man asked for a good-looking girl younger than 25 years old, over 168 centimeters high and weighing no more than 50 kilograms to satisfy his parents who have been pressing him to get married. The girl should have at least a bachelor's degree, and he offered 10 percent extra if the girl was a PhD or a virgin. By yesterday, the message had attracted more than 5 thousand applicants and over 10 thousand views. 

 "One million yuan for seven days -- this payment is as high as for an A-grade actress," one netizen said. "This super rich man is renting a girlfriend, and mediocre young men have no futures," another comment said. "If I were a woman, I would not miss the opportunity to marry into a wealthy family," one man joked.  

 However, the man who posted the advertisement denied an interview request from the Zhengzhou Evening News, a Chinese newspaper in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, saying that he did not want to reveal his personal information, nor did he intend to let his parents know his plan. But he confirmed that the online post was genuine.  

Questions:

1. What do you think about the idea of renting a girlfriend home for the new year?.

Is it a good idea? Are you willing be a hire girlfriend for a million dollar?

2. Do you feel that it's really difficult to find the right woman/man? Reasons why it's so difficult to find a right woman/man?

3. How to find the right guy/ woman?

4. What do you think about the wealthy people?

What do you think about the Chinese second generation rich?
 

5. Which is more important, money or love?
 

6. Why pretty girl only likes rich men? How do you know if she's a gold digger?
 

7. The benefits of marrying late?

The benefits of being single"?

The advantages of being married?

    

花100萬租女友回家過年 網友熱議

【世界日報╱北京20日電】 2014.01.20

一位新浪實名認證用戶「河南新聞廣播某主持人」日前爆料，稱在移動交友應用「微聚」中竟然發現神級土豪，稱願意花100萬租女友回家過年，23日選出來就給訂金20萬，還有私人飛機接送。據鄭州晚報報導，此信息引起該網友吐槽：「100萬能在鄭州二環買兩間套房、能買三輛奧迪A6，能抵15年不吃不喝的工資，只需演7天女朋友！」發帖人表示百萬現金租女友是事實，但是不願透露自己的個人信息，也不希望父母知道這件事。

報導稱，昨日微聚首頁排名第一的就是該帖子，照片上男主角坐在桌子後面，一堆百元大鈔在其面前的桌子上擺成「前墻」。該男主角網名為「大默飛鷹百萬現金租女友」，目前只發了這個帖子，內容不到140個字：「本人長期各地忙項目，老媽催結婚心切，所以特誠心租女友回家過年。百萬現金酬勞，本人包機接送往返深圳鄭州。要求女方：25歲以內，身高168cm以上，體重50kg以內，長相甜美，個人至少本科以上學歷，博士或者處女優先，並額外增加10%酬勞！出發當天付20萬訂金，結束後付全款。有興趣的報名發聯繫方式，通過審核即有專人聯繫面試！」

「招租」消息一爆出，立刻引來了網友的熱議。「演7天就掙100萬，堪比一線女星啊！」、「連土豪都重金租女友了，男屌絲們看不見未來啦！」甚至有網友感嘆「恨自己不是女人，錯過這嫁入豪門難得的機會。」

據報導，該消息也引來許多質疑，不少人留言表示，該事件只是炒作，有的說這些錢是不是男主角的有待查證，更有網友善意地建議男主角「你發錯地方，你應該去非誠勿擾。」

然大家爭議不斷，但該條微博在一天內就引發評論一萬多次。而面對如此大的「誘惑」，截至19日下午，已有5264人應徵報名「競選」女友。

 

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Benefits of Sunlight

(Dr. Michael Murray care2.com)

Sunlight may help prevent cancer.

It’s not just plants that metabolize sunlight. Humans do too. Through a complex process, our bodies turn sunlight into life-giving vitamin D. The connection between vitamin D deficiency and cancer was first made by Drs. Frank and Cedric Garland from the University of California, San Diego. After finding that the incidence of colon cancer was nearly three times higher in New York than in New Mexico, the Garland brothers hypothesized that lack of sun exposure, resulting in a vitamin D deficiency, played a role. Research now indicates that being deficient in vitamin D increases the risk of many cancers, especially breast and colon. For example, a four-year, placebo-controlled study involving 1,179 postmenopausal women concluded that vitamin D supplementation produced a dramatic 60% drop in the risk of developing any form of cancer.

 

 Sunlight can ease mild depression.

 There has been a lot of research on the link between sunlight and mood. One solid study found that sunlight actually increases levels of a natural antidepressant in the brain. On sunny days, the brain produces more of the mood-lifting chemical serotonin than on darker days.

 Sunlight can improve sleep quality.

 When sunlight hits your eyes, your optic nerve sends a message to the gland in the brain that produces melatonin (a hormone that helps you sleep); the gland decreases its secretions of melatonin until the sun goes down again. In other words, exposure to sunlight during the day increases the natural production of melatonin at night. Low levels of melatonin production are linked to poor sleep quality, especially in older adults.

Reasons to smile

(By Mark Stibich, Ph.D. longevity.about.com)

 

Smiling Changes Our Mood

Next time you are feeling down, try putting on a smile. There's a good chance you mood will change for the better. Smiling can trick the body into helping you change your mood.

 

Smiling Is Contagious

When someone is smiling they lighten up the room, change the moods of others, and make things happier. A smiling person brings happiness with them. Smile lots and you will draw people to you.

 

Smiling Relieves Stress

Stress can really show up in our faces. Smiling helps to prevent us from looking tired, worn down, and overwhelmed. When you are stressed, take time to put on a smile. The stress should be reduced and you'll be better able to take action.

 

Smiling Boosts Your Immune System

Smiling helps the immune system to work better. When you smile, immune function improves possibly because you are more relaxed. Prevent the flu and colds by smiling.

 

Smiling Lowers Your Blood Pressure

When you smile, there is a measurable reduction in your blood pressure. Give it a try if you have a blood pressure monitor at home. Sit for a few minutes, take a reading. Then smile for a minute and take another reading while still smiling. Do you notice a difference?

 

Questions:

What are the benefits of smiling?

What are the Benefits of Happiness?

What kind of actvities you like to do in winter?

What are the Benefits of Smiling and Laughing ?

What are the Health effects of sun exposure?

What are amazing health benefits of sunlight ?

情緒智商用途

The Purpose of Emotions   By Kendra Cherry

Emotions can help us make decisions.

Our emotions have a major influence on the decisions we make, from what we decide to have for breakfast to which candidates we choose to vote for in political elections. Researchers have also found that people with certain types of brain damage that impairs their ability to experience emotions also have an decreased ability to make good decisions. Even in situations where we believe our decisions are guided purely by logic and rationality, emotions play a key role. Emotional intelligence, or our ability to understand and manage emotions, has been shown to play an important role in decision-making.
Q: What do think about the influence of emotions?

新聞討論

Chiayi City has nation's lowest jobless rate thanks to tourism

Taipei, Jan. 22 (CNA) A booming tourism industry in Chiayi City, fed mainly by visitors from China, has contributed greatly to the southern city's 3.9 percent unemployment rate for 2013, the lowest in the country, the city government said Wednesday.
Q: What do think about the unemployment rate in Taiwan?

Q: What do think about the visitors from China?

Tighter inspections announced for freeway toll operator

Taipei, Jan. 20 (CNA) The operator of Taiwan's glitch-plagued electronic freeway toll system will be subject to a daily fine of up to NT$500,000 (US$16,500) if it fails to improve service quality and the system's stability, the National Freeway Bureau said Monday amid mounting public anger.
Q: What do think about the electronic freeway toll system?

Overseas travelers warned against flu, norovirus outbreaks

Taipei, Jan. 20 (CNA) The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Monday warned travelers heading overseas for winter vacation to be on guard after reports of outbreaks of various diseases at popular destinations.
These include flu in China, Hong Kong and North America; norovirus in South Korea and Japan; and dengue fever and measles in Southeast Asia, according to the CDC.
Q: How to prevent from flu?

Cold surge to hit Taiwan Monday night

Taipei, Jan. 20 (CNA) A cold spell could start to bring temperatures down across Taiwan from late Monday, causing areas as far south as Chiayi likely to see daytime lows of 8 degrees Celsius over the next three days, the Central Weather Bureau said.
Lows on Tuesday could range from 8 to 11 degrees in the north, 9 to 13 degrees in central Taiwan, and 8 to 14 degrees in the south.
Q: How to keep yourself warm during the cold temperatures?

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