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How To Prevent The Flu Naturally

Learn how to prevent the flu naturally using a simple remedy that’s been used for thousands of years!

One of my favorite and most effective ways I’ve found to prevent the flu naturally is using THIS Germ Fighting Essential Oil Blend (comparable to “Thieves” from Young Living).

Flu Season is upon us and I wanted to tell you about a remedy that’s been working wonders keeping my family flu and cold free.  My family has been around a handful of people with colds or the flu and we have managed to stay flu-free so far with this Germ Fighting Essential Oil Blend. I even accidentally drank after one child who had the flu and did not get the flu!

If you keep reading, I’ll tell you exactly how to use this blend, how you can make your own or where to get it so that you can help prevent the flu naturally. We use the Germ Fighting Blend when we are around a large group of people. Or we use it immediately after we’ve unknowingly been in contact with someone who is sick. We also use this at the first sign of a sore throat, runny nose or other cold symptoms and our symptoms disappear within a few hours. I hope you have similar success!

History of this Germ Fighting Oil Blend

The history of this germ fighting, bacteria killing natural remedy is fascinating. The story happened all the way back in the 15^th century when many people died of the Plague. Thieves would prey among the dead and dying, robbing them of their belongings, but somehow the robbers never managed to get sick themselves. A group of four thieves finally got caught in France robbing plague victims. In exchange for a lighter sentence, they had to confess how they never contracted the plague despite being around the very sick and dead. They revealed their secret at trial. Apparently, they rubbed themselves with a special blend of oils, known today as THIS germ fighting blend.

This special germ fighting blend is comprised of 5 special oils known for their extremely powerful anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-septic and anti-fungal properties:

• Clove
• Lemon
• Cinnamon Bark
• Eucalyptus
• Rosemary

You can buy this Germ Fighting Oil already pre-blended (I, personally use THIS one) or you can easily make it yourself! 

Want to make it yourself? Recipe for Homemade Germ Fighting Essential Oil Blend

Ingredients:

1 Tablespoon Clove Essential Oil 

1 Tablespoon Lemon Essential Oil

2 teaspoons Cinnamon Bark Essential Oil

 2 teaspoons Eucalyptus Essential Oil

 1 teaspoon Rosemary Essential Oil

Instructions:

Blend oils together and pour into dark, glass bottles that have a dropper (like THIS). Store in a dry place away from sunlight. 

Before applying to the skin, you must dilute the blend with a carrier oil. I like to use melted coconut oil (THIS is where I get mine) as my carrier oil because of the added anti-bacterial properties, but you can use any oil you prefer. Many people like using sweet almond oil (find HERE). Dilute 20 drops of your thieves oil into 2 tablespoons of your carrier oil.

If you plan on ingesting this blend or using it on your body, please make sure that you are using 100% pure oils that are specifically designed for therapeutic use. Many of the cheaper oils available at places like the health food store are typically NOT safe for ingestion. The oils I have linked to are the ones I personally use and are chemical free and designed for therapeutic use.

How To Use This Germ Fighting Blend To Prevent The Flu Naturally

• Dilute with a carrier oil and apply to your body. Many people like to rub it on the bottoms of the feet or on the chest area. 
• Diffuse 10 drops in a diffuser (like THIS) to kill airborne bacteria.
• Put a few drops in water, tea or beverage of choice and drink daily.
• Add a drop to your toothbrush before brushing your teeth.
• Mix 1-2 drops in a teaspoon of raw honey (also very effective for coughs).
• Add 5 drops to ¼ cup of water and use as a disinfecting spray (spray down doorknobs, toys, computer keyboard, remotes, etc.).

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Want to find other ways to prevent the flu naturally? Read my article HERE

Do you use thieves oil? Or do you have any other tried and true remedies to prevent the flu naturally that you could share? 

What The Wild Things Are

Understandings of Self, Awareness, and Mental Health in an Ever-Changing World

by Samantha Smithstein, Psy.D.

Are today’s youth even more self-absorbed (and less caring) than generations before?

Have kids today stopped caring about others?

Published on June 5, 2010 by Samantha Smithstein, Psy.D. in What The Wild Things Are

Earlier this week, Sara Konrath, a researcher at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, released her results on a study analyzing and comparing empathy among college students over the last 30 years. The results? The "biggest drop in empathy" in recent history. She writes, "College kids today are about 40 percent lower in empathy than their counterparts of 20 or 30 years ago."

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In related survey research, psychologist Jean Twenge has labeled the current generation of young people the "iGeneration," or "Generation Me". In her books she describes how young people today "take it for granted that the self comes first," and has labeled this time a "narcissism epidemic," stating that we are "living in the age of entitlement." Konrath and O'Brien link the self-absorption and lack of empathy together,calling the current generation "one of the most self-centered, narcissistic, competitive, confident and individualistic in recent history... It's not surprising that this growing emphasis on the self is accompanied by a corresponding devaluing of others."
There are some who argue that this description fits most teens and young adults and is appropriate to some degree for everyone in this developmental phase of life. However, both researchers compare similarly aged kids from other generations and the difference is striking.
This difference raises the question of why? Researchers Konrath and O'Brien hazard a few guesses, most related to the increase in exposure to and use of media. For example, many in this current generation have had repeated lifetime exposure to violent video games and films, and there is a growing body of research suggesting that violent video games (and perhaps films) are a cause of increased aggressive behavior, thoughts, and feelings, and a decrease in empathy and prosocial behavior across both gender and culture. Additionally, the researchers surmise that the ease of having (and ignoring or dumping) online "friends" may make it easy to tune out when they don't feel like responding to the distress of others, and may carry over offline as well. They also add that the inflated expectations of success fueled by "reality shows" creates a socialenvironment that encourages self-focus and works against slowing down and listening to someone who needs a bit of sympathy.
Obviously, any statements about an entire generation are not true of every person in that generation. Clearly there are young people today who are deeply empathic and caring. But the general trends and statistics are alarming, and it would behoove those of us in a position to influence today's youth to pay attention and be proactive about it while we can. Paying attention to the forces that influence children and young people so that they can grow up to be empathic is not only better for them, but ultimately better for us all.

photo: Maybe they aren't all bad: these college kids have just donated the clothing off their back. (Erich Schlegel/AP Images for AXE)

Why are the youth of today so rude?

They have no conversation, don't listen and refuse to take an interest in anyone else... a survey reveals that this generation has few manners. How did it happen, asks Thomas Blaikie?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3653126/Why-are-the-youth-of-today-so-rude.html

Young people have always been rude, far ruder than anybody else. It goes back at least as far as Jane Austen. Remember how, in Emma, Frank Churchill left all the doors open, exposing poor fragile Mr Woodhouse to a draught? Even the Queen, aged 19, knocked off a policeman's helmet on VE Day, so she once told the writer Hammond Innes.

But the young of today are worse than preceding generations. This is the depressing conclusion of a survey by the Left-wing think tank Demos.

Employers questioned say that graduate recruits lack ''soft'' skills; they don't know how to have a conversation, aren't very flexible, don't listen properly and don't know enough about customer relations or even how to be polite to customers. These attributes, employers say, are more valuable than degrees - or would be if young people had them.

It is, however, the degree of rudeness that especially bothers employers. According to the Demos survey, the past 10 years have seen a noticeable deterioration.

We've all heard about it, either at dinner parties or through direct experience. We've known about the graduate recruits who, six not very impressive months into their first job, are demanding to be allowed to set up and run their own branch of the business.

Or, the young whippersnapper who is kindly taken out for a welcoming lunch by their new boss. What do they do? Glance at the menu to find the most expensive thing (these types are known as ''lobsters'' after their favourite choice) and then precede to bore the well-meaning boss rigid with a blow-by-blow account of the latest antics on Big Brother.

Rudeness becomes blazingly apparent when anybody tries to confront the young person about their conduct. A common response to the mildest telling-off is: ''I'm sorry I seem to have upset you", as if it were all the other person's problem and the wretched youth need take no responsibility at all.

And if you were to go as far as suggesting to a young person that, in order to participate in conversation generally, he or she really ought to know who the Prime Minister is or what is meant by ''the Establishment'', you will be greeted by purple-faced outrage worthy of a pre-war colonel, albeit with a rather different vocabulary.

No, the young have never been so complacent, pleased with themselves, demanding, unco-operative and downright rude - and seemingly unaware of it. Everyone over 35 has long suspected this. The Demos survey proves it. So, if you feel that you haven't really got going with complaining about them, now's your chance.

But, hang on a minute. I don't want to spoil the fun but shouldn't we try to be fair? Social ineptitude, lack of confidence, shyness, intense self-absorption - these are the afflictions of the young. To some extent they can't help it. They just don't have enough experience, awareness of others and knowledge to cope. We mustn't make unreasonable demands upon them.

Nevertheless, the question remains: why are they so much worse? To some extent it is surprising. After all, education nowadays is less competitive (no more exam results in rank order pinned on the notice board for all to see) and school-children are formally assessed at GCSE not just for their speaking skills but for their listening ones as well.

A lot of schoolwork is done in groups and teams where pupils are encouraged to co-operate with each other, yet employers are complaining that new recruits can't work in teams.

The sad truth is that a lot of the ''teams'' at school aren't teams at all, but one poor sucker doing all the work while the others flick through the latest Heat magazine.

There is also no escaping the brutal results-driven, league-table culture in schools and universities from which new graduate employees emerge. Ultimately, pupils know that their performance is the only one that matters.

Often, encouraged by their parents, they see school as a service; they are the consumers. When they are not banging on the staff room door, demanding extra help, they are e-mailing their teachers at dead of night, making further demands. It is not surprising that they transfer this attitude on to their employers; what are they there for but to provide them with the job interest and financial reward that they require?

This basically selfish approach explains other failures highlighted in the survey - lack of creativity, for instance. An inability to talk to people (so vital in the workplace - or at least it was before e-mail), on the other hand, arises first and foremost from the failure of parents to provide their children with a grounding in basic manners.

Many middle-class parents appear to believe that ''manners'' are some kind of appalling spiritual restriction on their darling child's individuality. How dreadful that little Ben or Zoe should have to take a polite interest in Aunt Marge's adored collection of house plants. In many households a separatist regime is operated where the children either eat in another room or appear at the table only intermittently during meals. They don't talk to adults, they don't ask or answer questions, they have no small-talk, they don't learn anything; they are stuck in the narrow perimeters of their own interests and experience.

Indeed, childhood is one long self-indulgence. It's no wonder that, thrust into the workplace, confronted by all kinds of different people, new recruits are completely at sea. They have no idea of how to take an interest in something just because somebody else is interested in it.

Education and parenting are also at fault in producing many young people with a boffin mentality. They are encouraged too much to pursue their own interests. General knowledge is frowned upon. The result: a young person who knows all about the dolphins or how a desalination plant works but is still, as Jane Austen said of Mrs Bennett, a person of ''mean information'' - pig ignorant in other words.

It could hardly be any worse, but there's more. ''Youth'' culture has never before been so markedly divided off from mainstream culture. Big Brother is the shining (and, at times, horrific) example but there is a mass of television, music, even literature, aimed specifically at under 25s that the rest of us have never heard of.

The new survey undoubtedly reveals a big problem. We know now why offices all over the country are unsatisfactorily divided along age lines as they never were before. But, awful as they might seem, don't blame the young people. At least not entirely. It's not all their fault. And, as the Demos concludes, it's up to employers to find a way to solve the problem.

• Blaikie's Guide to Modern Manners by Thomas Blaikie (4th Estate) is available for £10 plus £1.25 p&p. To order, please call Telegraph Books on 0870 428 4112

Aqeedah Book - Q&A - Part 2

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GOLDEN POLICY OF BROOKLYN COLLEGE

The Golden Policy of Brooklyn College by Nasrin Akther

س و ج في تعليم العقيدة للناشئة والمبتدئين

س و ج في تعليم العقيدة للناشئة والمبتدئين 1&2 by Nasrin Akther

Natural Expectorant Remedies for Phlegm

Natural Expectorant Remedies for Phlegm

Several naturally available substances have properties of an expectorant. They help to push out phlegm.

An expectorant thins out the mucus and helps to expel it from the bronchial tubes and lungs. This helps to make breathing easier. It is very important for an affected patient to expel mucus. Coughing helps to clear the mucus buildup in the chest and the lungs. It makes breathing easier. If you have common colds, flu, bronchitis, sinus congestion or pneumonia, it is necessary to get the phlegm out of the system. 

Licorice

  Source: Wikimedia Commons: Erin Silversmith

 Licorice

Licorice is a root which has been used for culinary and medicinal purposes for centuries. Licorice tastes sweeter than sugar. It has anti-inflammatory, antibacterial and antispasmodic properties. It is also a very good expectorant. Licorice helps to break down the thick phlegm and push it out. It can also help to soothe the irritation due to the inflammation in the respiratory tract and throat. It is advisable to drink licorice root tea twice a day to make the best use of its expectorant properties. 

Garlic

Garlic has several medicinal properties. Garlic can be used as a steam inhaler. Garlic based cough syrup can be prepared by grating a garlic and mixing it with a teaspoon of honey. It would help to thin and push out the phlegm. Garlic is a decongestant as well as an expectorant.

Onion

Onion is a natural decongestant and an expectorant. You can eat raw onion slices. It is very easy to do so if you develop a taste for it. Grated onion can be combined with grated garlic and honey to be more effective.

Eucalyptus Oil

Apply eucalyptus oil or Vicks to your chest and rub it vigorously so that some warmth is generated. This will be of great help thin out and loosen the phlegm. 

Ginger

Ginger is a natural expectorant. Drinking ginger tea 3 times a day can help to loosen the phlegm and expel it. Add grated ginger to water and boil it. Strain it after it cools and it is ready for drinking. Honey can also be added to ginger tea as it is also an expectorant. It will sweeten the tea and add to its taste.

Steam

One of the best methods to get rid of phlegm is to inhale steam from a vaporizer. Moist air helps to loosen the phlegm from the air tubes and expel it.

• Elevate your pillow so that the phlegm does not get back to the lungs.

• Drink lots of water as it thins out the mucus and helps its expulsion.

• Hot spicy foods like chilli peppers help to loosen the mucus.

• Hot tea will also help to loosen the mucus.

These are some of the natural expectorants which will help you to get rid of phlegm.

Don’t 

If you have phlegm in your air tubes and lungs it is essential to stop smoking. Smoke can irritate nasal passages and aggravate the problem. Certain over the counter expectorant syrups, suppress mucus are available. Don’t over use them. 

References

health911.com:  Coughs

umm.edu        :  Eucalyptus

Natural Remedies for Throat Infection

Natural Remedies for Throat Infection

Throat infection is caused by virus or bacteria. Viral throat infection which is caused by a virus as the name itself suggests is more contagious. The most common types of bacterial throat infections are strep throat and mycoplasma. Strep throat is caused by bacteria called streptococcus. It infects the oral pharynx and tonsils. Symptoms of throat infection are

• Pain or irritation of the throat
• Low grade fever
• Difficulty in swallowing food and liquids
• Throat redness
• Cough

Treatment of Throat Infection


Throat infection is generally treated with antibiotics. However antibiotics are effective only against bacterial infection. The most commonly used antibiotics to treat strep throat are amoxicillin and clindamycin. Some pain killers like ibuprofen and acetaminophen are also used. Viral throat infection should not be treated with antibiotics. 


Some of these medications can lead to side effects. A variety of home remedies exist for throat infection which are equally effective but would not cause any side effects. These natural remedies for throat infection stimulate the immune system to fight bacteria. 


Throat Infection Precautions


When you have throat infection it is necessary take rest and keep yourself hydrated. You have to keep away from tobacco smoke and alcohol vapors which may irritate the throat and lungs.

Herbal Remedies for Throat Infection


Several natural remedies can help to get rid of sore throat

• Different types of herbal tea can provide relief from the symptoms of sore throat. Licorice and chamomile tea provide relief from throat irritation. Chamomile tea has analgesic properties. It also prevents dehydration.

• Take a glass of warm water. Add some honey and lemon juice to it. Drinking this mixture will provide relief from the throat pain and irritation.

• Add cumin seeds and a few pieces of garlic to a glass of water and boil it. Drink it when it is lukewarm. 

• Cinnamon is a very effective remedy for sore throat. Take a glass of hot water and add a teaspoon each of cinnamon, honey and black pepper. Consume small sips of the liquid at regular intervals. 

• Sage is a herb used to treat pharyngitis and other types of sore throat in the form of tincture. It reduces the inflammation of the mucous membranes of the throat.

• To reduce the discomfort you can drink a glass of warm milk with a teaspoon of turmeric added to it. 

• Apple cider vinegar helps to treat the bacterial infection and reduce the inflammation. Add a tablespoon each of apple cider vinegar and honey to warm water. Drink it at regular intervals, holding is as long as possible in the throat before swallowing it. 

• Cut a ginger root to small pieces and boil it in a cup of water. Add two teaspoons of honey and sip it slowly. 

• Goldenseal root will provide relief from throat inflammation. Add a teaspoon of goldenseal root to half liter of water and boil it. Drink the mixture at regular intervals.

Gargle For Throat Infection

• One of the most commonly used remedies is salt water gargle. 

• Add some fenugreek seeds to water and boil it for some time. This can be used to gargle when it cools down. 

• Add a teaspoon of cayenne pepper to water and boil it. Gargling this will not only provide relief but also cure the inflammation

• Wheatgrass juice is quite effective in treating throat infection. It contains chlorophyll which helps to reduce the inflammation and pain. 

These are some of the natural remedies for throat infection which will help to cure the disease without any side effects. 

Masjid Al-Fawzan - Alif Baa lesson's Audio/Videos

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Sister Hina: Offering NEW ~QURAN~ COURSE - JOIN IF YOU WANT TO

Assalam alykum WarehmatuAllahi Wabarakatuh
Dear sister, 
AlhamduliAllah I planned to start another english group for level 1 at 8:30p.m EST-9:30 EST on Monday / Wednesday / Thursday /Friday (Friday even later than this). or 11-12a.m ESt on Sunday/Tuesday.pls email me with ur suitable days or sutiable later time on Friday.
mail: Hina Malik   mayaabc@hotmail.com

class details:
The class will be on skype.
the duration of class is one hour per week.
No makeups if u missed the class.
try to record or request ur fellows to record the class if u know u will be missing.
Syllables:  we will be covering the first book of ustadha Kareema. u will be assesed after every chapter and u must pass it for graduating to the next chapter , and finally pass all the test of book 1 to complete level 1 to graduate into level2.
for passing all the 3 books will lead u to learn the Jazarriyah ( mathumatul muqadimah feema yajibo a'la Qar'el Qur'ani An ya'lamah) and acheive in ijazah in Jazariyyah which will lead to acheive an Ijazah in Hafs Un Asim Min tareeqat Ash Shatibiyyah.
Expectation:
students must be regular and punctual for the class.
Kindly don't register If u r not serious and do hard work.
u must revise ur reading practice lesson and try to acheive good level in it.
u must revise theory and do ur home work for better learning.
Fee:
the fee is 25$ per month.
U must have to pay in advance and the fee is not reserved for the next month if u will leave in the middle of month.
u must have to inform a month before if u stop taking classes in a group.
u must have to pay for the vacations if u wnat to keep urself with the group.

email me back if u r interested .
 take a momemt to spread it to ur contacts may be it will reach to some one who is really in need.
Jazakum Allahu Khair



Wasalam, 

Hina Malik

Tajweed Instructor

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