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THE RHYTHMIC CHANTING USED WHEN SAYING THE ROSARY PRAYER OR PERFORMING A YOGA MANTRA SEEMS TO HAVE A CALMING EFFECT ON THE HEART, STUDY FINDINGS SUGGEST.

The rosary might be viewed as a health practice as well as a religious practice, according to study lead author Dr. Luciano Bernardi, of the University of Pavia in Italy and his colleagues.

To investigate, the researchers measured the breathing rates of 23 adults while they either prayed the rosary in the original Latin or recited a yoga mantra. The rosary is a repetition 50 times of the Ave Maria, or the Hail Mary prayer, with the whole 50 repeated three times. For comparison, the researchers also measured the study participants respiration during free talking, and during spontaneous and controlled slow breathing exercises.

When the participants breathed spontaneously, their respiratory rate was about 14 breaths per minute, which slowed down to almost 8 breaths per minute when they engaged in regular conversation, the investigators report in the December 22/29th 2001 issue of the British Medical Journal, During recitation of the Ave Maria or the yoga mantra, however, their respiratory rate was about 6 breaths per minute.

A slow respiration rate of 6 breaths per minute has generally favorable effects on cardiovascular and respiratory function, the researchers note.
Furthermore, breathing rate was irregularly reduced during free talking, but was significantly more regular during recitation of the Ave Maria and the yoga mantra, similar to during the 6 minutes of controlled respiration,

Bernardi’s team reports. This indicates that these methods could stabilize the respiratory rate as effectively as precisely timed control, the authors write.
What’s more, recitation of both the Ave Maria and the yoga mantra similarly synchronized all the heart rhythms, the investigators found.

The similar effects produced by the two seemingly different cultural practices may not be merely coincidental. In fact, Bernardi and colleagues suggest, the two practices may have similar origins.

It is known that the rosary is related to the Christian religion, but it was actually introduced by the crusaders “who learnt a similar technique from the Arabs who in turn learned it from the Indian and Tibetan masters of yoga,” according to Bernardi.

Ladies, what you’ve got to realize is that Valentine’s Day is not your day alone. Sure, you’d expect to receive sweet little nothings from him and for him to plan a wonderful evening to make you smile. But what does he get out of that? Since he loves you, it’s enough that he knows you had a great time. But it doesn’t mean that you can’t do anything for him. While he’s going out of his mind, trying to get that coveted dinner reservation at the city’s hottest restaurant your main concern probably is, “What should I wear?” Well, how about dressing the way he would want you to?

It’s not a fashion shoot Wear something that makes you feel comfortable and confident at the same time. Don’t be pressured into wearing trendy and fashionable clothes that compete with the other ladies on their awn dates ft’s your personal time with a significant other and what really matters is that you’re attractive to him, not the whole room.

But be the most beautiful. Men — love it when they feel like they’ve got the most beautiful girl clinging on their arm. It’s an ego thing and it’s genetically linked to the Y-chromosome. Your goal is to out-pretty everyone else in the room, without resorting to brand- conscious and trend-starting gimmickry Gent appreciate simplicity and if you can dress simple and look phenomenal at the same time, you’ve got to know that you’re the trophy girlfriend that he’s so proud of parading around.

Dessert should be a surprise. By dessert, I mean unmentionables. Have on some deliciously scrumptious inner- wear that he would go crazy if he gets the chance to see it This is especially helpful to married couples. Your spouse sees you in your underwear everyday, so it’s a neat trick to have something new and ultra-sexy that he hasn’t seen yet that you can surprise him with on the day of hearts.

Funny thing happened on the way to the Facebook log-in page. Earlier this
month, hundreds of users wanting to log into Facebook got lost” and stumbled into a technology blog instead that had just written I about the social networking site. And they couldn’t tell the difference.

I’ve always felt it imprudent to post personal information on the Internet, including photographs, for the whole world to see. At the same time, I found the “games” that Facebook uses to lure people in an insipid waste of time.

But the recent events at the technology blog ReadWriteWeb (www.readwritteweb.com) confirmed, albeit accidentally, my notion of the type of people Facebook attracts. I’m afraid the picture is not too flattering.

It began with Mike Melanson post entitled “Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login,” which warned about the impact of Facebook recent alliance with AOL.

The partnership will enable AOLS 17 million users to import their Facebook friends as instant messaging contacts and allow chat directly between the two services.

“The partnership reinforces the idea that our Facebook profile is at the center of our online existence,” Melanson wrote. “Whether or not someone is signed into AOL is no longer what’s at stake here, its whether or not the user is logged into Facebook,”

The point was valid, but neither Melanson nor ReadWriteWeb were ready for what happened next.

“Within a half an hour of posting, the number of visitors had skyrocketed, Melanson writes in a subsequent post. “It looked like a real winner. An hour later, it had reached the number of visitors an average post might see in an entire day.I figured I’d hit a home run.

HOW many of you have heard the old saying “Life begins at 40” or the slogan “50 and fabulous’? Whoever coined those phrases must have been a man because the older we women get the higher maintenance we need to actually resemble what our former selves used to be. Men, on the other hand, simply jump out of the shower, look great with salt and pepper hair, perhaps dab on a bit of moisturizer and they are good to go. Unfair as it may sound that is the reality of men aging.

For women, it’s a whole different story. We spend a ton of money picking the right foundation that reflects light or fills in our wrinkled faces. We also keep our local dermatologist in business with regular injections of botox and restalyn or whatever new anti aging product is in the market Meanwhile, whilst we are suffering being injected with botulinium on our faces the men who are aging gracefully and hooking up with women half our age are enjoying themselves.

Sometime I wonder why is it when Demi Moore and Madonna hook up with younger men it makes headlines? But when older men hook tip with younger women no  one gives a rat’s ass. Just because women get old and menopausal people think we have nothing left in life.