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Poetic Prayer

Be a queen. Dare to be different. Be a pioneer. Be a leader.
Be the kind of woman who in the face of adversity will continue to embrace life and walk fearlessly toward the challenge.
Take it on! Be a truth seeker and rule your domain, whatever it is - your home, your office, your family ~ with a loving heart.
Be a queen. Be tender. Continue to give birth to new ideas and rejoice in your womanhood. . .
It doesn't matter what you've been through, where you come from, who your parents are -nor your social or economic status.
None of that matters.
My prayer is that your life continues to be a success. That all that you think, do, or say will bring the results that you wish for today.
May life treat you gentle and always be kind,
Keep you in health, and then, that you'll find.
The life you so dream of, and set your goals toward,
May it bring the treasures that gold can't afford.
The love of your family, and those you hold dear,
Respect, admiration, and wisdom that's clear.
May you always gain knowledge, to teach and to grow,
Motivation so that you will reap what you sow.
Show the world all around you the difference between,
having faith in yourself, not just what is seen.
Oh I pray every moment, of my waking day,
That forever you're blessed and your spirit at peace that each
day of your life your joys will increase!
Be a queen . Own your power and your glory!
with best wishes,
Rammdas

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This ain't no joke! lol!

One day God came down and said to three guys that the less you cheat on your wives the better the cars you'll get in heaven. So the first guy went to heaven after cheating on his wife 67 times and he got a Mercedes. The second guy went to heaven and had cheated on his wife 2 times and he got a Ferrari, then the third guy went to heaven and said that he had never cheated on his wife and he got a Bentley. Then one day the third guy was all sad and depressed and the first and second guys asked him what was wrong and the third guy said, "I saw my wife the other day" and the first guy said "yeah, so" and the third guy said " she was riding a skateboard"

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UCLA study suggests friendships between

By Gale Berkowitz

A landmark UCLA study suggests friendships between women are special.They shape who we are and who we are yet to be. They soothe our tumultuous inner world, fill the emotional gaps in our marriage, and help us remember who we really are. By the way, they may do even more.

Scientists now suspect that hanging out with our friends can actually
counteract the kind of stomach-quivering stress most of us experience on a daily basis. A landmark UCLA study suggests that women respond to stress with a cascade of brain chemicals that cause us to make and maintain friendships with other women. It's a stunning find that has turned five decades of stress research---most of it on men---upside down. "Until this study was published, scientists generally believed that when people experience stress, they trigger a hormonal cascade that revs the body to either stand and fight or flee as fast as possible," explains La ura Cousino Klein, Ph.D., now an Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health at Penn State University and one of the study's authors. "It's an ancient survival mechanism left over from the time we were chased across the planet by saber-toothed tigers.

Now the researchers suspect that women have a larger behavioral repertoire than just "fight or flight." "In fact," says Dr. Klein,"it seems that when the hormone oxytocin is released as part of the stress responses in a woman, it buffers the "fight or flight" response and encourages her to tend children and gather with other women instead. When she actually engages in this tending or befriending, studies suggest that more oxytocin is released, which further counters stress and produces a calming effect. This calming response does not occur in men", says Dr. Klein, "because testosterone---which men produce in high levels when they're under stress---seems to reduce the effects of oxytocin. Estrogen", she adds, "seems to enhance it."

The discovery that women respond to stress differently than men was made in a classic "aha!" moment shared by two women scientists who were talking one day in a lab at UCLA. "There was this joke that when the women who worked in the lab were stressed, they came in, cleaned the lab, had coffee, and bonded", says Dr. Klein. "When the men were stressed, they holed up somewhere on their own. I commented one day to fellow researcher Shelley Taylor that nearly 90% of the stress research is on males. I showed her the data from my lab, and the two of us knew instantly that we were onto something."

The women cleared their schedules and started meeting with one scientist after another from various research specialties. Very quickly, Drs. Klein and Taylor discovered that by not including women in stress research, scientists had made a huge mistake: The fact that women respond to stress differently than men has significant implications for our health.

It may take some time for new studies to reveal all the ways that oxytocin encourages us to care for children and hang out with other women, but the "tend and befriend" notion developed by Drs. Klein and Taylor may explain why women consistently outlive men. Study after study has found that social ties reduce our risk of disease by lowering blood pressure, heart rate, and cholesterol. "There's no doubt," says Dr. Klein, "that friends are helping us live." In one study, for example, researchers found that people who had no friends increased their risk of death over a 6-month period. In another study, those who had the most friends over a 9-year period cut their risk of death by more than 60%..

Friends are also helping us live better. The famed Nurses'Health Study from Harvard Medical School found that the more friends women had, the less likely they were to develop physical impairments as they aged, and the more likely they were to be leading a joyful life. In fact, the results were so significant, the researchers concluded, that not having close friends or confidantes was as detrimental to your health as smoking or carrying extra weight! And that's not all! When the researchers looked at how well the women functioned after the death of their spouse, they found that even in the face of this biggest stressor of all, those women who had a close friend confidante were more likely to survive the experience without any new physical impairments or permanent loss of vitality. Those without friends were not always so fortunate.

Yet if friends counter the stress that seems to swallow up so much of our life these days, if they keep us healthy and even add years to our life, why is it so hard to find time to be with them? That's a question that also troubles researcher Ruthellen Josselson, Ph.D., co-author of "Best Friends: The Pleasures and Perils of Girls' and Women's Friendships (Three Rivers Press, 1998)."Every time we get overly busy with work and family, the first thing we do is let go of friendships with other women," explains Dr. Josselson. "We push them right to the back burner. That's really a mistake because women are such a source of strength to each other. We nurture one another. And we need to have unpressured space in which we can do the special kind of talk that women do when they're with other women. It's a very healing experience.

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Warriors of the Rainbow

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Dream of BLISS

Paradise restored, our hearts full of BLISS, fear has no place, as we expand in our true nature. Walking safe and peacefully through our gardens, which grow in our love. WISDOM, the watchman of our souls, guiding us into our abundance. Growing beyond that which is now perceived. LOVE, the only true source of our POWER.
VISIONs abound of that which is yet to come.
CREATION uninterrupted by darkness.

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"the heart feels what the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.." -unknown

May the followers of all religions and spiritual paths work together to create peace among all the people of the Earth

Nothing moves you forward faster than letting go of the past. ~ Unknown

"Expand the place within you that knows the truth, thus eliminating the go nowhere dramas that distract from your own energy." --VERONICA

"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed." - Michael Pritchard

"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?" -Alice

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -Dr.Seuss

"If you have love, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have." -Sir James M. Barrie

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a beautiful mind..

Global Community Event - New Free Distant Healing Session ~ Sunday March 29, 2009 7-8pm Pacific Time | http://www.qigongenergyhealing.com ( events » community ) New Free Distant Healing Session
Sunday March 29, 2009 7-8pm Pacific Time

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I'm doing another free distant energy healing session for everyone on my email list and all their friends, families, and anyone el... read more
event starts Sunday, March 29, 2009 - 7:00 PM
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