CARDS: Love Greetings

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FACTS: 50 Facts

1. 1. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.
2. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
3. The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders.
4. Earth is traveling through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
5. In 1643, the British Parliament officially abolished the celebration of Christmas.
6. Santa's Reindeers are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen.
7. In 1875 the director of the US patent office resigned. He said that there was nothing left to invent.
8. The Channel between England and France grows about 300 millimeters each year.
9. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
10. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
11. On average, a person has two million sweat glands.
12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
13. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
14. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
15. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
16. 97% of the earth's water is undrinkable.
17. The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
18. All babies are color blind when they are born.
19. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
20. 14 million people were killed in World War I, 20 million died in flu epidemic in the years that followed.
21. There are more than 40,000 characters in the Chinese script.
22. Vision requires more brain power than the other four senses.
23. On average, men are 40% muscle and 15% fat; women are 23% muscle and 25% fat.
24. There are no public toilets in Peru.
25. Urine and tears have the same basic ingredients.
26. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee.
27. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
28. Historically, a blue ribbon has been awarded for first prize.
29. The motto of M-G-M movie studios is Art for Art's Sake.
30. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named "Volney".
31. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
32. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
33. The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste oder Nichts' meaning 'the best or nothing'.
34. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
35. There are more Rolls Royce cars in Hong Kong than anywhere else in the world.
36. X-ray technology has shown there are 3 different versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one.
37. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
38. It takes only about 8 minutes for the Space Shuttle to accelerate to a speed of more than 27,359 km/hour.
39. Hydroponics is the technique by which plants are grown in water without soil.
40. Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year" in 1982.
41. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears.
42. Your left lung is smaller in size than your right lung, it is like that in order to make room for your heart.
43. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time.
44. Male human brains are about 10 percent heavier than female brains.
45. Before 1800 there were no separately designed shoes for right and left feet.
46. The glossy look to lipstick comes from fish scales, which are iridescent.
47. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
48. Honey is used as a center for golf balls and in antifreeze mixtures.
49. The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'.
50. Your body weight is lower at 9 A.M. than at any other time of the day.

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INFO: Body Points & Massage

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Massage

Massage is the practice of applying structured or unstructured pressure, tension, motion, or vibration — manually or with mechanical aids — to the soft tissues of the body, including muscles, connective tissue, tendons, ligaments, joints and lymphatic vessels, to achieve a beneficial response. A form of therapy, massage can be applied to parts of the body or successively to the whole body, to aid the process of injury healing, relieve psychological stress, manage pain, and improve circulation. Where massage is used for its physiological, mental, and mechanical benefits, it may be termed "therapeutic massage" or manipulative therapy.
In professional settings, massage involves the client being treated while lying on a massage table, sitting upright in a massage chair, or lying on a pad on the floor. Except for modalities such as Acupressure, Shiatsu, Tui Na, Thai Massage, or Barefoot Deep Tissue, the massage subject is generally unclothed or partially unclothed, also referred to as disrobed, and their body would be "draped" with towels or sheets. The practice of covering the parts of the body that are not being massaged is referred to as draping and its practice varies from one part of the world to another. In addition to making a professional statement and providing a boundary, draping helps keep the client warm which aids in the relaxation response. In some countries it is required that certain areas such as the genitals on both genders and the breast/nipple area on women be draped at all times. In the United States draping is a standard of the profession, while in other parts of the world, such as some parts of Europe, it is not practiced at all. In most forms of massage, the session begins with the client face up, referred to as supine, or face down, referred to as prone, for the first part of the session and then the client rolls over for the second half. Relaxation is necessary for benefits to be achieved.

Body Points [TSUBOS]
Within our bodies are thousands of electrically sensitive points called Tsubos. These represent accupressure points found experimentally thousands of years ago by trial and error. Each of these Tsubos appear to be electochemically connected to the output of neurotransmitters and other highly ionic chemicals the body uses to transmit and alter the frequency of electricity in the body. This is important since certain chemicals transmit feelings of depression and others transmit feelings of euphoria. The whole range of human body feelings and emotions are transmitted by these neurotransmitters and associated ionic chemicals. These affect the brain and bring on moods which reflect the frequency transmission from the body.
Some of these Tsubos are more effective than others, for example, the ones commonly called "chakras" are giant Tsubos functioning over a broad range of frequencies and containing large quantities of neurotransmitters. When these giant Tsubos are functioning improperly, you will have serious problems with you body and mind's emotional state. It is important therefore to control the operation of these electrochemical stations throughout the body.
Each of the Tsubos, the more than 1,000 energy points or acupressure points presently known, are like little electrical junction boxes. They are all programmable and can get out of adjustment, or be set to odd adjustments by the operator.
To readjust these, you must take control from their main operator and use your signals to realign the connections. Luckily (perhaps) these Tsubos are highly responsive and easily adjusted.
You don't even have to know exactly where these Tsubos are to be effective. But, you will do a better job and be more effective if you do know.
The reason for this is that these junction boxes are highly directional. They can be reversed, shunted, or even shut down, but, for the health of the body and mind, they each have a preferred orientation.
Look at it this way: Each Tsubo is a relay station in a telegraph line. They each receive and send messages. If they get a message they may send it right out, delay it, ignore it, or even rewrite it. Worst of all, they may send it to the wrong place.
The small stations don't get a lot of traffic and don't usually mix things up. But the big stations are swamped with in and out signals. Not only that, but they have chronic employee problems.
These signals come from the brain and tell the body what to do and how to feel. Conversely, signals can be sent back to tell the brain what to do and how to feel. Thus, if a Tsubo sends in a bad message, the brain may worry but not know why. Really it's just an ornery local operator having a bad day. Now, the brain sends out a team of experts to see what's wrong. If the Tsubo operator locks the door or lies to them, they may blunder off and file a false report so they don't get into trouble. Well, one thing leads to another and....well, the next thing you know, other Tsubos are picking up the bad message and believing it, then sending it on. Sooner or later, the whole system may be forced to adjust to a permanent bad signal and the person develops sloped shoulders, or a hunchback, or a bad attitude.
One of the most important ways of keeping these little station operators happy is through a technique called balancing.
Balancing uses body meridians discovered long ago by the same technique Tsubos were discovered. A body meridian is basically a line of Tsubos closely connected electrically. The meridian is where that electrical line shows on the surface of the body. Balancing also includes techniques for realigning the functions of the Tsubos along the meridians, and, at its most simple, uses massage and magnetic field energy flow patterns to grossly adjust the body to normal. The technique shown below is the most simple of adjustments and will get you started on the learning process. In a later book, we'll give a detailed application of all the techniques applied to adjust bodies to whatever the operator desires. Right now, simple and healthy.

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FACTS : 100 Facts

1. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.


2. It's been proven that people can lessen reactions to allergies by laughing.


3. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system.


4. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day.Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.


5. In the middle ages, people would pin the name of their sweetheart to their sleeve on Valentine's Day and keep it there for a week, hence 'wearing their heart on their sleeve'.


6. It was during the Victorian era that the formerly nude Cupid was redesigned as wearing a skirt.


7. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!


8. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.


9. Tomato Ketchup was once used as medicine in the United States. Was sold as "Dr.Miles Compound Extract of Tomato"


10. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.


11. Dating back to the 1600's, thermometers were filled with Brandy instead of mercury.


12. The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times a second.


13. An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.


14. Shoe sizes were standardized in Britain in 1885.


15. The average person's eyes will be closed about 30 minutes a day due to blinking.


16. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.


17. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.


18. There are at least 40 known carcinogens in cigarettes.


19. The earliest British expeditions tackling Everest wore tweed jackets, woolen underwear, and leather boots.


20. The amniotic fluid that surrounds a baby in the womb is completely replaced every three hours.


21. During World War II, twice as many fighter pilots were killed during training than combat.


22. In 1962 an outbreak of contagious laughter in Tanganyika lasted for six months and caused schools to be closed.


23. A nautical mile measures 6,080 feet while a land or statute mile is 5,280 feet.


24. No one can drown in the Dead Sea. It is 25 percent salt, which makes the water very heavy.


25. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.


26. Earth's oceans contain 7 1/2 million tons of gold, dissolved in the water.


27. Children who are breastfed tend to have an I.Q. seven points higher than children who are not.


28. The bird flu virus could evolve into a form that is easily spread between people, resulting in a highly contagious and lethal disease.


29. The Chinese, in olden days, used marijuana only as a remedy for dysentery.


30. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth.


31. To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers.


32. Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'.


33. Communications giant Nokia was founded in 1865 as a wood-pulp mill by Fredrik Idestam.


34. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!


35. People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.


36. Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.


37. Astronauts can't belch- there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.


38. Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash.


39. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.


40. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off!


41. Because of the speed at which Earth moves around the Sun, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.


42. The night of January 20 is "Saint Agnes's Eve," which is regarded as a time when a young woman dreams of her future husband.


43. There are over 25 million bubbles waiting to burst out of each bottle of Champagne.


44. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.


45. It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!


46. The "heat" of peppers is rated on the Scoville scale.


47. Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years.


48. Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.


49. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.


50. Each year 2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related diseases.


51. When it originally appeared in 1886 - Coca Cola was billed as an Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage.


52. Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.


53. Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.


54. The song, "Auld Lang Syne" is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.


55. For every real Christmas tree harvested, two to three seedlings are planted in its place.


56. Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.


57. Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450°F.


58. The Shell Oil Company originally began as a novelty shop in London that sold seashells.


59. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.


60. Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.


61. The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.


62. Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.


63. Fish and Chip selling officially remained an offensive trade until 1940 due to the smell it produces.


64. The University of Alaska spans four time zones.


65. The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.


66. In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.


67. Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil).


68. Warner Comm. paid $28 million for the copyright to the song 'Happy Birthday'.


69. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.


70. A comet's tail always points away from the sun.


71. The "Swine flu" vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent.


72. Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.


73. The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.


74. If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.


75. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight.


76. Trivia is the Roman goddess of sorcery, hounds and... the crossroads.


77. In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.


78. Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.


79. Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams.


80. It cost the soft drink industry $100 million a year for thefts committed involving vending machines.


81. The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year.


82. The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.


83. Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters.


84. Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the left.


85. Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.


86. Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down.


87. The painting that won second place in a competition held by the US National Academy of Design was hanging upside down when it was judged.


88. Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.


89. For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off.


90. The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.


91. Snake venom is ninety percent protein.


92. Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.


93. Pizza Hut is the world's largest pizza restaurant serving close to 1.7 million pizzas a day.


94. Beer foam will go down by licking your finger then sticking it in the beer.


95. Those stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.


96. A full-moon is nine times brighter than a half-moon.


97. If all of the blood vessels in your body were placed end to end, they would stretch 12,000 miles.


98. If you were to roll a lung from a human body and out flat it would be the size of a tennis court.


99. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.


100. Two-thirds of the people in the world have not made a phone call.

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