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Introduction

One of the major secrets to being successful in your life and attracting all your heart’s desires is having the ability to bypass your conscious mind so that you can access the immense powers of your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind uses approximately 90 percent of your total mind power as opposed to the 10 percent of your brain that you utilize in your normal daily waking state.

The subconscious mind is incredibly powerful and will accept any truth or image that you submit to it without question, and will then act on your instructions and ultimately bring your vibration into complete harmony with everything that you desire. This enables everything that you wish to manifest into your life so that you can experience them in full.

In order for you to attract your desires into your life, you have to know precisely what you want and how to ask for it, but most importantly you have to “vibrate” in harmony with your desires by believing that you have everything you desire right now. To vibrate in harmony with all that you want you to have to think positively. In other words, you have to think in terms that all that you desire already exists in your life and you have to feel as though you are already experiencing and enjoying those desires.

This is where the power of positive affirmations comes into play. The conscious and rational mind will always work to reject anything that doesn't appear to be logical, attainable, or to be a reality. It doesn't know, at a conscious level that you genuinely are infinitely powerful and capable of realizing your desires and living a life that you've dreamed of. Therefore, your conscious mind will always reject those things that it doesn't agree with and will also block your wishes accordingly.

Fortunately, as your subconscious mind is a powerful tool, much more so than your conscious mind, all you need to do is use the power of positive thinking to impress our greatest wishes and heart’s desires onto the subconscious mind. Doing this will cause you to know, subconsciously, that your desires already exist in your life. In turn, this will cause you to vibrate in harmony with your desire and will ultimately appear in your life as reality.

What Are Positive Affirmations

Daily positive affirmations are nothing more than positive statements that declare specific goals as if they have already happened. While they may sound simple, they are incredibly powerful mantras that can have a profound effect both the conscious and subconscious mind, as well as on the actions that you take to achieve the life that you desire.

Why You Should Use Daily Affirmations

We are surrounded every day by negative messages from the world around us. The media, our family, and even well-meaning friends can impose limiting beliefs on use that greatly diminish our belief that anything is possible. These limiting beliefs are continually repeated to us throughout our childhood and well into adulthood and ultimately how we end up defining ourselves and who we are and what we can accomplish.

Unfortunately, we end up internalizing the negative messages that we are constantly bombarded with and they become our truth. The truths that are formed with these limited beliefs end up holding us back from our hopes, dreams, and goals and keep us from stepping into our true potential. It should really come as no surprise when your physical reality matches these limiting beliefs because our external world is always a reflection of our inner world.

Willpower isn't enough to create the change in your life that you seek. When you have negative self-talk and when you are going through your life with limiting beliefs, such as "I don't deserve it. That's just the way it is," the negativity ends up canceling out any action or effort that you make, every time. To create the change in your life that you desire, you have to let go of the negative thoughts and images that you associate with your life, and fill your mind with new ideas that are positive, and that will support you in creating the change you desire.

Daily positive affirmations work to replace these old limiting beliefs, pessimistic thoughts, and negative self-talk with positive statements that fill affirm who you want to be and what you want to experience in your life.

How Affirmations Work

When you repeat an affirmation over and over again, it begins to change the way that you think as well as what you believe is possible. Energetically repeating affirmations raises your vibration out to the Universe so that you become attractive to what you desire to draw into your life. Affirmations will expand your thinking so that you begin to believe that anything is possible. When you start to think that something is possible, the chances are higher that you will proceed with certainty and confidence, not let obstacles set you back and you will more likely look for and find creative solutions to achieve the outcome that you desire ultimately.

What you talk and think about the most, as well as the kind of beliefs you hold onto is what you ultimately attract in your life. Positive thinking attracts positive experiences and outcomes, while negativity attracts more negativity.

While there are already a plethora of resources and means that are available right now to help you achieve your goals, when we affirm that something isn't possible or allow the negative thinking to take over our minds, we end up shutting ourselves off from those resources and means that can make our dreams and desires come true. When our minds are full of negative thoughts, we simply aren't able to see the opportunities in front of us, and we don't recognize the means of creating the changes in our life that we desire.

On the other hand, when we use positive affirmations to affirm the outcomes that we desire, over and over again, we are training our minds to believe that it is possible. When you can open yourself up to what is possible, then your subconscious mind gets to work to find the creative solutions and the means for achieving your dreams, goals, and all that you desire in your life.

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The Internet has become a vast marketplace where millions of people use their knowledge and experience to make money online. As at the start of 2019, there were more than 1.94 billion websites on the Internet. For someone trying to enter into an online business, this can be rather intimidating. If you want to stand out from the increasingly crowded market, then you have to find your niche.

The key first step that you need to take when creating a successful online business is to understand how to find a profitable niche market. If you want to build a successful online business and make money online, then you have to identify a niche market that you can create your business around. The good news is that there are literally millions of niche markets that you can choose. Finding a niche market is easy, but finding a profitable one can be a bit more challenging.

While there are many profitable niches that you can pursue online when you are just starting out, you will often run into various challenges. The biggest problem that you will face is finding a profitable niche. While there are other aspects besides profitability that you need to consider when finding a niche, making money online is the entire reason you've decided to start an online business in the first place. There are, however, other things that you need to evaluate to ensure that you are successful with your online business. Here are five secrets that will ensure you find a profitable niche for your online business.

1. Consider Your Passions

Along with finding a profitable niche market, you also have to consider your skills and what you're passionate about if you want to start a successful online business. Finding a niche that you are passionate about will fill you with excitement and give you the motivation to get up every morning and focus on your business. Being passionate about what you are selling will also help you get through challenges and setbacks. Finding success with an online business doesn't always come easy, and you have to find a way to work through the unbearable days if you want to see results.

If you are passionate about your niche, you will make it a point to find ways to invest further and grow your business into something that you take pride in. Being passionate about what you are doing will keep you interested and excited to continue working day in and day out.

This may be something that you've already done, but if you haven't already considered what you are passionate about, take some time to make a list of the top ten areas that you are passionate about and topical interests that you have.

You don't have to find a perfect fit; you just need to identify some aspect of running the business that you are passionate about if you want to stick with it. If you don't care about the topic, chances are you won't be able to find the drive you need to persevere when the going gets tough. If you are having problems identifying your passions and interests, consider the following:

• What do you look forward to doing when you aren’t doing it?

• What topics do you like to learn about? What are your favorite books to read? Do you subscribe to a specific magazine?

• Do you belong to any organizations or clubs?

Finding the answers to these questions should help you narrow down your top ten passion areas and local interests.

2. Identify Problems That You Can Solve

Once you've identified your top ten passion areas and local interests, you can start to narrow down your options. If you want to create and maintain a profitable business, then you need to determine what problems your target audience is experiencing and find a unique way to solve those problems. You can start this process by considering the issues you face in your own life and see if there is a solution to those problems online. Take a look at your list of ten passions, and consider whether or not there is a problem that you continuously face in regards to those passions. If you discover a consistent problem within your passions, then you can narrow down your niche. If not, here are some other ways that you can identify the issues that your target audience is experiencing.

The best way to identify problems within a niche is to sit down and have a conversation with your target audience. You can do this in several different ways. You can form a focus group to discuss the problems that your target market is experiencing or have one-on-one conversations with them. You want to make sure that you create or find a framework for asking those questions that will help you to uncover specific pain points. If you aren’t able to meet directly with your target audience, you might want to consider using online survey sites like SurveyMonkey to reach your target audience.

Another way that you can identify the pain points of your target audience is by perusing forums like Quora or find forums that are related to your niche ideas. Go through the discussions that are taking place within the forums and determine what questions people are asking and see if you can figure out what problems they are having. Finally, you can research keywords that are related to your niche ideas. You can use Google Ads Keyword Planner and Google Trends to help you uncover popular search terms that are related to specific pain points within your niche idea.

3. Analyze the Competition

While you may have been hoping that you’d discover a niche that no one else knows about, the chances of that happening are highly unlikely. That means that you will have competition, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Typically, when a niche has competition, it means that there is money to be made within that niche. To ensure that you will be able to carve out a section of that niche for your online business, you need to make sure that you do a thorough competitive analysis of competing sites.

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Let's face it, there are lots of misconceptions out there about the keto diet. People haven't done their research. People relied too easily and what their friends tell them. In fact, too many individuals, who would otherwise benefit from this amazing diet, let Facebook comments and link shares discourage them.

This really is too bad, because if they only knew, they probably would benefit quite a bit from the keto diet. What benefits?Well, imagine eating fatty and greasy foods with a clean conscience. I know, sounds too crazy to be true. Well, that’s exactly what you get with the keto diet. You can indulge in your ‘guilty’ food pleasures and not have to worry. Keto enables you to melt off your fat by, you guessed it, eating fatty foods. What’s not to love?

Another key benefit keto brings to the table is its inflammation fighting properties. Please understand that inflammation is bad news. The reason why the Standard American Diet (rich in carbs) is making so many people sick is because it is an inflammatory diet. You end up bloated because your carb intake sucks up so much fluid.I wish I can say that this is the extent of the inflammation you suffer from a standard high carb diet. Nope. Not even close. Not only do you bloat up because of all that extra water, your nerves, cardiovascular system, kidneys, even your skin all bear the brunt ofall that extra water. Your blood pressure remains elevated, your skin starts to wrinkle up, you end up suffering from brain fog, I can go on and on. To say the least, inflammation is bad news. When you switch over to a keto diet, you cut down dramatically on carbs. This means there’s less water absorbing hyper spongy carb molecules in your system. Not only will your body start expelling your ‘water weight’ (which is great news for people trying to lose weight), you will also get better skin. All that inflammation weighing down on your skin and prematurely aging and wrinkling it disappears. Similarly, your nerves get a much needed break and neurotransmitters in your brain and central nervous system do a much better job sending nerve signals. This translates to less ‘brain fog’ and increased mental alertness. Finally, getting rid of much of that water in your system means your blood vessels get to relax and your blood pressure starts to normalize.Still, if you believe in some common myths about ketosis, ketogenic foods, and the keto diet in general, you would cut yourself off from the awesome benefits listed above.

Here are some common myths you need to keep an eye out for so you don't get thrown off track.

One of the most common misconceptions about the keto diet is that ketosis is the same as ketoacidosis. Ketosis, of course, is the metabolic process your body goes through when it burns fat for energy. On a standard diet, your body burns sugar for energy. This means when you eat carbohydrates, your body processes those calories into energy.

This is the body's default setting, but the body does have an alternative. It can use fat for energy; this process is called ketosis. Your body releases the fat stored in fat cells all over your body. This fat is then turned by your metabolic system into chemical compounds called ketones. Your body’s cells then absorb ketones and burn these molecules into the energy your body needs to continue living.

Ketosis is the foundation for the keto diet. Unfortunately, a lot of people confuse ketosis with ketoacidosis. The former is safe. The latter is deadly. Obviously, they are not one and the same.

Ketoacidosis is a condition where your body builds up too many ketone acids, which is the byproduct of breaking down fat. When your body builds up too much ketones, you can die. The good news is, for most people, ketoacidosis is not a risk at all. This condition really only becomes a risk if your body does not produce any insulin whatsoever.

Put simply, it mostly affects people who have type I diabetes. If you're like most people who are thinking of trying the keto diet, and you can produce insulin normally, you have nothing to fear. You have to understand that even within the keto framework, you're still taking in a little bit of carbohydrates. This is usually enough to flip on insulin for a small period of time in your system to prevent ketoacidosis.

Don't think for a second that just because you’ve switched over to burning fat as energy that ketoacidosis is going to be a real threat; it isn't. As long as you are able to produce insulin naturally, you should be fine.

One of the most discouraging misconceptions regarding the keto diet is that the food is simply hard to enjoy. Many people think that the quintessential keto meal plan is chockful of butter sticks, tons of eggs, and liquid fat. In other words, to many people, the keto diet is loaded with waxy tasting one dimensional food items you’d rather forget.

This can't be further from the truth.

If you think about it, a lot of the foods that you eat are things that you would consider “guilty pleasures.” I'm talking about fatty and salty food. You are halfway keto and you don’t even know it.

All of us have some sort of guilty pleasure when it comes to fatty foods. You know you shouldn't be eating it, but you do it anyway because it tastes so good. Can you imagine changing your diet so that you basically eat your guilty pleasures all the time?

I know, sounds crazy, but that's precisely what the keto diet is. It helps you load up on fat (the food that you were supposed to avoid), and you end up losing weight and becoming healthier. Please understand that there are a lot of misconceptions about high-fat foods.

I'm going to go into this issue in-depth with myth #3. But just because people have been saying the same things over and over again for decades, doesn't necessarily mean it's true. You can enjoy the vast majority of your meals on a keto diet.

In fact, if you want to switch over to the keto diet, the easiest and the tastiest way possible, click here for the keto blueprint that will help you adopt this diet quickly and easily.

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Eczema is not a single illness, but rather a name for a group of diseases connected due to similar symptoms. Skin rashes and autoimmune disorders can be described in this way.

Usually, dryness appears on hands, elbows, feet, knees, and on the face. Rashes on contaminated areas start to itch and become even more inflamed when scratched. This illness is not infectious, but it is long-lasting.

Moreover, its intensity may change during the lifespan. Some children may overgrow the allergy while others remain highly vulnerable. The current disease can cause additional illnesses. Symptoms and intensity of skin inflammation are specific to each patient.

There is a variety of eczema types. Besides the most popular case, atopic dermatitis, there are about six other disease
variants, different in their methods of treatment and side effects.

All of them should be identified with the help of a specialist to ensure a specific approach for each case. Atopic dermatitis is a most widely spread type of disease. It is common among children and is often associated with asthma and hay fever.

Other types can be triggered by contact with an allergic substance, stress, improper moisturizing, insect bites, temperature shifts, pressure and even genetic predisposition.

Each case is different in its look and side effects. The only common thing for them is that they are types of sore and dry skin that should not be scratched.

There is no single opinion regarding the cause of eczema. According to the latest research, various types of illness are caused by their different principles. Particularly, for the children of eczema-ill parents, the probability of developing the illness is much higher.

The risk doubles in cases where both parents have the illness. Besides that, an impressive list of external sources can affect bodies of vulnerable people and trigger the inflammation.

Sources of danger can be divided into internal and external types. Allergenic chemicals, temperature, food, and dust can cause a skin metamorphosis from outside, while stress and hormonal shifts influence symptoms from within.

Eczema is mostly spread among children. They are more difficult to handle as well. As dermatitis is cured according to the evaluation of causes, the process can be obscured when it comes to a child.

In this case, it is common for grown-ups to minimize the contact of a vulnerable kid with an acknowledged list of triggers of dermatitis. One should pay attention to the time and situation in which a probable physical and mental stress took place.

Eczema is a specific type of disease. For each person, a source of contamination is specific, as well as the place where the rashes appear and their type.

Nevertheless, symptoms may be the same among different people, especially in the case where they are relatives. Its main symptom is itching, and one also may experience various manifestations from slightly irritating to dangerously annoying.

The second case urges an ill person to scratch the infected part of skin until it bleeds, and thus to worsen his/her state of health. The type of skin inflammation can vary. Itching and inflammation either disappear totally or come back in each case of contact with the undesired matter.

It is highly recommended to visit a local doctor to distinguish an eczema type and thus to decide on methods of its treatment.

Conventional treatment of eczema includes a combination of basic steps directed to stabilize the condition of the patient and minimize the effect of illness on the human body. This illness is caused mainly by a specific allergic reaction to an external trigger.

The first step for each person is thus to identify what is causing their disease and minimize unnecessary interaction with it. One also should avoid the use of substances known as possible dermatitis triggers.

Moreover, it is highly recommended to take special care of yourself; specifically, to humidify the skin, avoid stressful situations and refrain from scratching. Remedies can also be used according to the situation to minimize the inflammation.

Antibiotics are applied to protect persons in cases of extreme skin infections. Antihistamines work for prevention and assist in reducing itching. The corticosteroid-inclusive drugs can be divided into ones for internal and external use.

The external use, in this case, is highly preferred, while the internal use results in a variety of side effects and should be used only in cases of emergency. With certain types of dermatitis, immunomodulators and wet dressing can be used as well.

At the same time, a lack of cure afforded by conventional medicine urged society to address a natural treatment of this illness. In certain cases, long-term homeopathy treatment can become more productive while presuming a lesser amount of side effects.

Such approach evaluates the personality of a patient, his preferences, mental state and even family issues. There is a variety of products of daily consumption that may positively influence the progression of the disease. They include kimchee, rice, soybean food, and oat.

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Too many of us are too stressed, too often.

This is simply a product of the world we live in. Most of us work extremely hard, performing a job that is highly stressful. We have deadlines, we have people shouting at us, we have threats of termination. And our lifestyles – probably the happiness and health of our family, or future family – is riding on our success.

We then commute home through busy streets/on a busy train. Then we have 20 chores to do when all we really want to do is to crash out in front of the TV. The baby is crying, friends are upset we can’t make it out, and the pile of plates on the sink is growing.

Meanwhile, we are all too aware of all the things that we should be doing, but can’t/aren’t. On Instagram, it seems that everyone is out there finding love or travelling the world. The covers of magazines show us perfect, beautiful people.

And heck, we’re not getting any younger!

To make ourselves feel better, we turn on the TV. There we hear about all the calamities happening all around the world and feel petrified by fright. Also, did you know that the very light from the television increases your production of cortisol – the primary stress hormone?

Oh, and that bag of chips you’re eating is only going to artificially spike your blood sugar, causing a subsequent crash and surge of cortisol.

So yeah – it’s a wonder that more of us aren’t in a state of permanent panic attack.

If you want to feel happier. If you want to actually enjoy your life.

And if you want to make positive progress to improving your situation moving forward…

If you want to do all of this, then you need to make sure that you are finding ways to overcome this stress. And I’m not necessarily talking long term – but short term even.

Here are five extremely simply things you can do right now that will immediately improve your sense of calm and help you to relax.

Read on and you will have five extremely powerful tools in your arsenal to calm the mind whenever you think it is necessary.

5 Powerful Strategies

Following are five extremely effective strategies for quickly feeling calmer and better. Find the one that works best for you, or use them in conjunction with one another for even greater effect.

Control Your Breathing

The first thing you can try doing is to control your breathing. This is highly effective due to the two-way link between your breathing, and your vagus nerve. The vagus nerve is a nerve that is highly responsible for the action of the autonomic nervous system – the part of your system that is responsible for handling such things as your fight or flight response. This includes the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems.

When you are in a state of fight or flight, your sympathetic nervous system goes into overdrive sensing danger. The result is that you start to breathe more quickly, blood gets delivered to your muscles and brain, your blood viscosity increases (to help clot wounds), and your thoughts start to race. From an evolutionary perspective, this should occur only when in physical danger – but today many other ‘low level’ things can set it off. The result is that we’re always a little tense and anxious.

At the other end of the spectrum, we have the parasympathetic system. This is responsible for the state known as ‘rest and digest’, which helps to increase anabolism (muscle and tissue building), to calm the mind, and to strengthen the immune system. This is the state we go into when we are fed and in no immediate danger. Breathing slows down, as does our heartrate.

Notice how the breathing an the heartrate are affected strongly in both cases. This occurs through that vagus nerve, but what’s interesting, is that you can also send the signal the other way: calm down your breathing, and you will also calm down the vagus nerve and the nervous system!

So if you find yourself hyperventilating and panicking, one of the very best things you can do to get yourself back under control is to try breathing more calmly.

This method is even used by the military and special forces, in what is known as ‘box breathing’. Box breathing is so called because it has ‘four sides’ or four seconds.

• Breathe in for four seconds
• Hold for four seconds
• Breathe out for four seconds
• Hold for four seconds

Do this for a couple of minutes and you’ll find that your heartrate slows down and your biochemistry changes in order to help you keep a more level head. This is ideal before an interview as well, and can even be useful in staving off a panic attack.

The rest of the time, it is important to ensure you employ deep ‘belly breathing’ which allows you to draw more air into the lungs and the abdominal cavity beneath them. Many of us have made a habit of shallow breathing only using the top of the lungs. This actually increases stress throughout the day. Kundalini meditation and yoga can help to teach you to correct this issue.

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If you're reading this book, you already know what sales funnels are and what they're used for. The truth is, many people are confused about sales funnels.

In fact, in many cases, they confuse content funnels with sales funnels. If you tried your hand at making money online using dump traffic onto a sales page, chances are you're making some basic mistakes that I am going to describe in this booklet. The truth is, many people suffer from a serious disconnect between different stages of their funnels. These differences add up and this is the reason why most people who put up a sales funnel don't make the money.

Let’s put it this way, if your funnel’s parts aren’t doing their jobs properly, don’t expect to convert your traffic efficiently or effectively. How come? When people come to your funnel, they may be confused about your sales page. They might not have a clue as to how your offer can help them with their problem. Your initial pages seem to just float out there on the Internet-disconnected and totally lacking context.

If people do manage to read further down your page or click to an internal page, those sections may do a lousy job of recommending a particular category of solutions. Instead, the reader is left guessing. At this point, most, if not all, the people who found themselves on your pages would have bounced out. It wouldbe a complete and total waste of time for them to keep going.

Many marketers things that sales funnels and content funnels are so different that they run on completely different tracks. This is wrong. The big difference really turns on justhow much time and space you have at your disposal in order to convert the prospect. That’s really the bottom line.

When you direct traffic to a sales funnel, you have a series of messaging platforms and tools you can use to get your message across. Social media accounts, forum posts, quora posts, reddit posts, Web 2.0 posts, and others are all different information-based ‘contact points’ between you and your intended audience member.

From these contact points, you then link them to your site or your sales page. If you link them to your site or blog, you give yourself many chances at further earning the trust and confidence of your prospect as they click deeper and deeper into your site. Every new page they view is an opportunity to build trust, credibility, and authority.

Once you get them to click through to your sales page, very few of them will be left. Maybe you are able to attract 5000 people to the top level of your sales funnel every single day. If you built and optimized a tight funnel, maybe 50 or even 10 of those people will make it all the way through to the bottom of the funnel.
You may think that this a bad thing. After all, you started out with so many people, now you only have a handful. Wrong.This is how sales funnels are supposed towork, they are supposed to filter people based on interest and interest intensity. In other words, the ones who are most likely to put dollars in your hands are the ones who will probably make it all the way through.

Content funnels are similar to salesfunnels with a twist

Obviously, content funnels are not intended to convert your traffic. It’s not like your visitors will just click a link on your content page and see a credit card information entry page. Instead, content funnels are intended to filter your traffic hard.

How hard? The more tire kickers or other non-serious visitors your content drives away, the better. Don’t feel too bad. These people weren’t going to buy from you anyway. They’re not a big loss. In fact, they are not a loss at all.

Content funnels are all about answering the following questions:

“Can you trust me?”“Can you be loyal to my brand?”“What is it about my brand that makes it worthy of your time, attention, trust, and loyalty?”If you are not answering these questions, you are wasting your time building content funnels. Seriously.How come? If you can’t come up with a convincing answer to the questions above, your content funnel is GENERIC. Put simply, your visitors can find the exact same information from millions of other places on the Internet. There is nothing really special about your site, your brand, how your present information or the the kind of information you provide.

Once your site becomes generic, it is not worthy of loyalty. There’s really nothing making it stand out. Your pages’ ability to convert or convince your visitors to click on to your conversion pages would be the same or even inferior to the run of the mill content page in your niche.

Content funnels are intended to build trust so the user wouldwant to click through to your conversion pages or join your mailing list. That’s the bottom line. But for all this work, you have to optimize to create a workable content brand!

The bottom line with optimization is that you build on your successes and you try to fix your problems. The key here is to identify what you are doing right and replicate it. For example, if you have a dog breed website and you notice that of all the dog breeds your website covers, only your content about Chihuahuas get any kind of traction. You might need to change the orientation or the focus of your website to Chihuahuas.

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Hello and welcome to our short, beginners guide on all aspects of Kombucha, a fermented tea also known as “the tea of immortality”.

If you go into any health food store and even many other stores that sell drinks, you will find kombucha, often in a huge variety of brands and flavors. Although it’s been around for thousands of years, it’s only been in recent years that it’s gained popularity in the United States and is being hailed as a healthy drink that has a number of benefits, which we will cover in this guide. Firstly let’s start at the beginning…

What is Kombucha?

Kombucha is a fermented tea drink. It is naturally effervescent much like carbonated beverages, and contains tea, water, sugar, healthy bacteria, and yeast. The healthy bacteria and yeast are what work together to ferment this beverage which gives kombucha its many health benefits.

Now, here are a few of the reasons as to why kombucha is such a popular drink:
Easy to Make

We’ll go into more details later, but the basic brewing of kombucha involves making tea with sugar, then adding something known as SCOBY which contains the bacteria and yeast and allowing it to set for a certain number of days to ferment. Because it’s so easy to make, many people prefer making their own kombucha to buying it in stores.

Variety of Flavors

Because you can start with nearly any type of tea and add additional flavors after the brewing process, it means that the possibilities are endless when it comes to the flavors that kombucha can have. You can also find kombucha in the store in many different flavors, so there’s always something different that you can try and tantalize your taste buds.

Good Soft Drink Alternative

For people that love the carbonation of sugary soft drinks, kombucha makes an excellent alternative. It’s not only got the fizziness that makes soft drinks stand out, but it’s also much lower in sugar without lacking in flavor. The fact that there is a healthy alternative to soft drinks is great news for people who want to kick that addiction without losing out on enjoying a delicious beverage.

Low in Caffeine

While some people may need some caffeine in their tea to get a little boost to make it through the day, others prefer lower caffeine because of the way it affects them such as keeping them from being able to fall asleep at night. Because of the fermentation process, kombucha allows you to get many of the great benefits of tea without the addition of caffeine.

Relaxing

One of the natural by-products of the fermentation process is alcohol. The amount increases with the amount of time the kombucha is allowed to ferment, so this is strictly controlled in a commercial setting and can be experimented with in a home setting. However, because of this low alcohol content, kombucha will help anyone who drinks it to relax.

Healthy

Easily the biggest reason that kombucha has gained popularity is because of its many health benefits. It has a number of probiotics

which can help with digestive issues, antioxidants which can help remove toxins from your body, and B vitamins which help in a number of ways within your body. It’s also low in sugar, calories, and sodium, making it great for people who are trying to lose weight.

Well that’s a basic overview of what Kombucha is and why it’s gaining notoriety as a miracle elixir for overall health In the next part we’re going to take a look at the history of Kombucha and how it’s evolved over time Let’s dive in…

Chapter 1 – History Of Kombucha Tea

Nobody knows for sure how far back kombucha goes, and the truth has been so mixed with legends over the years that it’s hard to separate them now. But, we’re going to do our best to present you with the history of kombucha tea and how it came all the way from an ancient Chinese medicinal drink to a modern-day health beverage around the world.

First Mention

The first recorded mention of kombucha goes back to 220 BC during the Qin Dynasty in China. It was said to have been used as a drink of immortality for Emperor Qinshi Huangdi. This is likely where it gets the “cha” part of its name as the Chinese word for tea is “cha.” The Chinese had many other names for this drink as well such as “stomach treasure,” “sea mushroom,” and “tea mold.”

Dr. Kombu

Supposedly, in the year 414 AD, a Korean doctor by the name of Dr. Kombu brought the drink to Emperor Inyoko of Japan, and this is where the drink gets its name. However, there isn’t enough evidence to back up this story, so it could be the stuff of legends. Another story is that Ghengis Khan carried kombucha with him as he traveled.

Russia and Beyond

From Asia, kombucha found its way to Russia as well as Europe, where it not only gained in popularity until the 19th century, but also gained a few more names, such as in Russia where it is referred to as “tea mushroom.” According to one account, this beverage saved the life of Alexsander Solzhenitsyn, a Nobel Prize winner, while he was in exile in Siberia.

World War II

Kombucha continued to be popular throughout Europe and Russia until the beginning of World War II. This was because both tea and sugar were rationed and it was too hard for the average citizen to get their hands on enough of them to regularly make the drink. After the war, however, it began to grow again in popularity, and saw a surge in the 1960’s when Swiss researchers proved its health benefits.

Chernobyl

In the 1980’s, there was a horrific accident near Chernobyl in Russia where a nuclear plant melted down, exposing hundreds of people nearby to radiation. There was a group of people made up primarily of elderly women, however, that survived and did better than the others. It was found by the scientists and doctors that these people regularly drank kombucha.

Modern Popularity

Since the year 2000, kombucha has become a popular health drink throughout the Western world, with people all over Europe, the United States, and Australia enjoying its numerous health benefits. Unfortunately, as many hail this drink as a miracle cure for a number of ailments, others claim it to be dangerous. Because it is created through a natural process and cannot be patented, big companies have little interest in it, which is why there have been few studies done on kombucha to provide completely conclusive evidence one way or the other.

Now that we’ve uncovered what Kombucha is and the history of this tea, the next thing to do is explain how it’s made…more specifically the SCOBY (Mother), which is what we will cover in the next part.

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Make no mistake, anxiety site is one of those personal topics that are very sensitive to a whole lot of people. In fact, many people would fight you tooth and nail to deny that they are suffering from any kind of anxiety and they will tell you to your face, “What the hell are you talking about?” if the conversation somehow some way veers into something that is too close for comfort.

Unfortunately, no matter how you deny it, if you are suffering from anxiety, your life will suffer overall. In fact, you may reach a point where the only person you are fooling is yourself.

Imagine that! You're walking around talking to people, living your life yet everybody knows that you've seen better days. Everybody knows that you're not having a good time but throughout it all, you think that you are putting on a good show and everybody's none the wiser. Pretty sad situation, right? It's like wearing clown makeup and everybody looking at you trying not to laugh and you thinking that everything is fine.

Let's not mince any words. Anxiety is a mental and emotional rot that destroys you from within. It’s only a matter of time until the rest of your life falls into shambles. At the very least, your ability to enjoy life and everything that it brings to the table is severely damaged by anxiety.

It's always a good idea to get a handle on it but for that to happen, you must first understand that you have it. Here are ten of the many signs that somebody is struggling with anxiety.

If you exhibit a few of these signs, it’s time to own up to it. Stop sweeping it under the rug. Look at it straight in the eyes. Get professional help.

Is there something that you did in the past that constantly makes you feel guilty and remorseful until today? Is there an event from your past you wish, above everything else, to change? Of course, none of us have access to a time machine so the facts are the facts. Things happened in the past that many of us are not all that happy with.

However, you take it to a whole other level. You’re just extremely guilty about it. You feel that it basically defines who you are, where you're going, what you're capable of, and somehow some way poisons you're relationships in the here and now. In fact, if you're suffering from this, guilty thoughts about the past make up a significant percentage of your daily thoughts.

Everybody worries about the future. There, I said it. At some level or other, we don’t like that we can't control the future. So, many of us focus on how things could happen and what possible factors might come into play or things that we may not foresee.

This is normal; however, you may be suffering from anxiety when you take things to a whole other level. It's as if your worry about something happening in the future takes a hold of you and refuses to let go.

You’re worried about what other people would think and you’re just really going into fine detail in your head about the extreme personally disaster you stand to suffer when the thing you fear comes to pass. This puts you in a very negative emotional space. You have a tough time coping with your present-day responsibilities, duties, and obligations because you’re just paranoid about things that could happen in the future.

The fact that they don't play out the way you initially feared them to doesn’t really set your mind at ease because once wants the thing that you fear doesn't happen by a certain date, you then move on to another future point in time. It's as if you're kicking the can down the road as far as your mental peace and inner harmony go. You are never at a loss for things to worry about when it comes to the future. If any of this is true, then you might be suffering from anxiety.

It's okay to be indecisive. When most rational people don't think that they have all the necessary facts in front of them, it's perfectly okay for them to second-guess themselves. At the very least, they feel kind of uneasy about what kind of decision they would make because they have incomplete information.

On the other hand, if you have a tough time making up your mind altogether, then you may be dealing with a completely different problem. Even if you put in all the work and the time to gather information and still you can't make up your mind, you might be suffering from anxiety. You might be focused more on the consequences of making the wrong decision. Instead of making sure that all the information is lined up properly so you can make better decisions, you focus instead on some sort of guarantee.

I’m sorry to be the one to break this to you but the future is never guaranteed. Even if you have the best-laid plans and even if you’ve taken all sorts of precautions things, can and do get knocked loose. That's just what makes life so unpredictable and, if you think about it hard enough, so much fun. However, if you can't make up your mind, regardless of any advanced preparation you’ve made, you may be suffering from excess anxiousness.

It’s very easy to blame other people or situations for our personal failures. Seriously. It feels good actually because when we do that, we no longer have to change. We can say to ourselves, “Well, I’m right” or “I’m the victim here.” This relieves us of any responsibility to change. However, the problem with blaming other people or situations that we can’t control for our failures is simply going to extend our powerlessness.

Anxious people or people with high levels of anxiety find themselves blaming other people or situations for whatever is going. The more they do this, the less in control they feel. It’s as if their world has spun out of control.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why. When you place blame on somebody else, you’re basically saying to yourself that the solution lies with that person. After all, that person caused your problems, then it logically follows that they are the ones who could put everything back together.

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Introduction

Smart marketers know that successful business is not about reaching the largest audience possible. Rather, successful business is about reaching the most targeted audience possible and building engagement.

It is FAR better to have 100 fans that read and like every post you share, than it is to have 1,000,000 followers that never actually engage with any of your content. With a product that nets you $20 profit, the first group will likely earn you around $200 for a promotional post, while the latter will earn you ZERO.

In the book “1,000 True Fans”, author Kevin Kelly explains that a business can succeed and even thrive as long as it has 1,000 ‘true’ fans.

What he means by this, is that if your fanbase is engaged and passionate enough, then it will be enough for you to sustain your business. They will buy enough products and services to keep you afloat, but more importantly: they will also become brand ambassadors who go out and spread the word, thereby bringing even more people to your site. Once you cross that 1,000-fan threshold, you can get big. Getting to that point is the hard part. Reaching an audience of 1 million people is easy: you just need the advertising budget. Turning 1,000 of those people into fans though is hard.

And that’s where the Facebook group comes in. Yes: Facebook groups – not pages – are your secret weapon for galvanizing your following and turning them into highly engaged fans. That’s because Facebook groups allow you to talk to your followers directly and to create conversations. It creates a community, and it lets your audience feel as though they ‘belong’ to something. That way, your brand becomes part of their identity.

This is the difference between a company like Apple – that has genuinely loyal fans who love what it stands for – and a company like Asus. That is a good company… but… yeah. Now the next question: how do you make your Facebook group a massive success? Here are the five secrets you need to know! These are the five things that business and blog owners need to know in order to utilize this truly powerful tool and outperform their competition.

Secret #1: Exclusivity

The first secret to making a highly successful Facebook group is to make it a secret group. You will select this setting in the privacy options, and it will mean that people can’t see what you’ve posted unless they have also joined. Why is this important? Firstly, because it makes people curious. People naturally want what they can’t have, this is an in-built evolutionary aspect of our psychology, and it’s something that you can use to your advantage.

Moreover, having an exclusive group makes it more appealing simply because it is less readily available. People like to think of themselves as VIP and important, and again, this comes from a strong evolutionary imperative to ‘fit in’. Simply causally referring to your group as a ‘VIP group’, or talking about the members as your ‘VIPs’ can be enough to create a strong incentive for people to join up.

At the same time though, having an exclusive group – particularly early on.

Secret #2: Early Buzz

One of the easiest ways for your Facebook group to fail is for it to look overly empty. This is something that many brands fall afoul of and it can immediately turn off many of their potential members.

Imagine that you’ve been encouraged heavily by a brand to sign up to a Facebook group. Eventually, you relent and do so. And what do you find? Nothing! It’s a big empty group where no one really posts. You post in there and there is no answer. You notice there are only three members…

So, what do you do? You leave! And not only have you now left the group, but your opinion of the brand has also probably gone down a notch. Seems the brand lacks the impact to build a big following! Again, it’s about social signals. And in this case, the strong social signal is: your brand stinks!

Keeping your group private will mitigate this somewhat, because it makes it seem as though you did that on purpose. But what’s also important, is that the members who are there be as active as possible. It only takes a few highly active members for you to then gain the kind of momentum and progress that you need in order to be highly successful.

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10 Muscle Building Myths Exposed

As with anything in the health industry, there’s a lot of information out there about muscle-building. There are a number of people that claim to be experts that say one thing, then another expert will say the opposite. This has led to myths arising that simply aren’t true. Today, we’re going to bust some of those myths for you.
Here are 10 muscle-building myths exposed:

1. More Protein = More Muscle

This is by far the biggest myth when it comes to building muscle. People believe that because protein is necessary for building muscle, the more protein you eat, the more muscle you will build. However, the truth is that packing your diet with as much protein as possible will not pack your body with more muscle than you thought possible.

The truth is that protein is a necessary and important part of building muscle, and you won’t build muscle efficiently if you’re not getting enough protein. But the key here is “enough.” While body builders and those trying to build muscle will need more protein than the average person, they don’t need ridiculous amounts, just more.

2. Carbs Don’t Help Build Muscle

As the focus with muscle-building is on protein, many people believe that carbohydrates are unnecessary when it comes to building muscle. The idea is that because muscle is made up of protein, there’s no need for anything but protein when it comes to increasing muscle mass. This leads many muscle builders to skip out on carbs altogether.

Carbs are used by your body for energy, which means if you don’t have them in your system when you go to build muscle, then you’re going to have a difficult time performing the exercises you need to build muscle. Of course you want to use them in moderation, but a healthy helping of complex carbs before a workout will help you reach your muscle-building goals.

3. You Need Supplements

This is one of the most common myths and it unfortunately keeps a lot of people from even pursuing muscle-building because of how expensive many supplements are. Many people have bought into the idea that protein supplements and amino acid supplements will provide your body with what it needs to build muscle.

Let’s bust that myth. You don’t need fancy supplements in order to build muscle. You just need to get enough protein, which you can get from food. Choosing high-quality protein sources like milk, eggs, and soy is an easy and inexpensive way to make sure you’re getting enough protein to build muscle. Of course most supplements will help, but you don’t actually need them.

4. More Reps = More Muscle

Although it would make sense that the more repetitions you do in a set, the more muscle you will build, but this is actually a muscle-building myth. This common belief has people stuck at the gym for hours, doing as many reps and sets as they possibly can in order to gain more muscle mass. However, there are better ways they could be using their time.

Studies have shown that it’s actually muscle fiber activation that leads to the muscles increasing in size and strength. There are a few things that you can do to activate more muscle fibers. First of all, you want to focus on complex moves that involve more muscles. Secondly, lift more heavier weights rather than a lighter weight more often and you’ll soon see those muscles bulk up.

5. Variety is the Key to Muscle Building

When it comes to muscle-building, many people believe that you have to continue to spice up your routine and choose different exercises in order to continue building muscle. The idea is that once you’ve done a certain exercise for a while, you’ve done all that you can with that movement and now have to find another one to work that muscle from a different angle for more gains.