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Love and romance, mankind has paired into couples ever since
Adam and Eve, but what makes some relationships sizzle and
others fizzle? Some say it may well be the romantic nature of
the individuals who make up the couple. However, whether you are
single, searching or happily married, it is human nature to seek
romance and love.

So why don’t you take my quiz and test your Cupid Quotient?!?

1. In what country would a man send a woman a Valentine letter
containing a rhyme and signed with a series of dots to represent
his name? According to this country’s tradition, if the woman
guessed his identity correctly on Valentine’s Day he would
reward her with a gift.

A. Denmark

B. Italy

C. England

D. America

A. Denmark

QQ. In Denmark, a man would send a woman a Valentine letter
containing a rhyme and signed with a series of dots to represent
his name. If the woman guessed his identity correctly on
Valentine’s Day he would reward her with a gift.

2. In what country would young ladies awaken before sunrise and
look out their window? According to tradition, the first man
they saw would be either the man they would marry or someone who
looked like their future husband.

A. Denmark

B. Italy

C. England

D. America

B. Italy

QQ. In Italy, young ladies would awaken before sunrise and look
out their window. Tradition said the first man they saw would be
either the man they would marry or look like their future
husband.

3. In what country would a suitor leave a basket of gifts on his
beloved’s doorstep and run off?

A. Denmark

B. Italy

C. England

D. America

C. England

QQ. In England, a suitor would leave a basket of gifts on his
beloved’s doorstep and run off.

4. In what country would young ladies write their names on slips
of paper and at Valentine’s Day party young men would draw
names. According to this country’s tradition, the young man
would then wear the name of his lady on his sleeve for days to
claim her as his valentine, originating the saying “wearing your
heart on your sleeve.”

A. Denmark

B. Italy

C. England

D. America

D. America

QQ. In America, young ladies would write their names on slips of
paper and at a Valentine’s Day party young men would draw names.
A young man would wear the name of his lady on his sleeve for
days to claim her as his valentine, originating the saying
“wearing your heart on your sleeve.”

5. The tradition of pairing lovers in February comes from:

A. A pagan festival called Lupercalia when young men and women
drew names to choose partners, exchanged gifts and often married
after the festival pairing.

B. Geoffrey Chaucer who chose the date because the 14th of
February was the day birds began to pair for the spring nesting
season.

C. Pope Gelasius chose Feb. 14th as the day to honor St.
Valentine.

D. The Romans once honored Juno, the Roman goddess of women and
marriage, and Pan, the god of nature, during a festival on Feb.
15.

E. They are all true

E. They are all true

QQ: Interesting how many reasons there are to become a couple on
a specific date!

6. Valentine’s Day-celebrated Feb. 14-is a festival of love and
romance. Its history can be traced back to which civilization?

A. Rome

B. Greece

C. Celts

D. None of the above, it was created by the greedy card,
chocolate and flower companies.

A. Rome

QQ: While admittedly the holiday has become excessively
commercialized, it is not a manufactured holiday but one with a
long tradition extending back to Rome

7. Why was Cupid chosen as the symbol of Valentine’s Day and
lovers?

A. He was the Roman god of love.

B. A celebrated marksman from Greece, he won the hand of his
beloved through an archery match.

C. According to Celtic tradition, Cupid was an unfortunate
suitor killed by the arrow of an outraged father who refused to
let his daughter wed for love.

D. There is no reason other than the fact greedy card, chocolate
and flower moguls thought that was the cutest design created by
their marketing staff.

E. All are correct

A. He was the Roman god of love.

QQ: Sometimes we get a little silly

8. The original Valentine, who was sainted after his death, was:

A. A Christian priest who lived in Rome and was jailed and later
beheaded for aiding persecuted Christians in 270 AD

B. Was killed on the site of ancient altar to Juno (the Roman
goddess of women and marriage).

C. A bishop of Terni who was persecuted for converted Romans to
Christianity and performing Christian marriages.

D. Was actually two different Christian martyrs.

E. All are correct

E. All are correct

QQ: You couldn’t miss!

9. Deep red carnations tell your loved one that…

A. Your heart is broken.

B. Celibacy

C. Friendship

D. True Love

A. Your heart is broken.

QQ: Your heart is broken because they mean “alas, my poor heart”.

10. Roses are among the most popular flowers for lovers to give,
but what does the gift mean?

A. Hopeless love

B. Be mine

C. Love

D. Farewell

C. Love

QQ: That one was easy, wasn’t it?

11. However, the combination of white and red roses sends what
message?

A. Unity

B. Declaration of love

C. Farewell

D. Distrust

A. Unity

QQ: You could get bonus points for that!

12. If you hope to propose, what flowers should make up the
bouquet you present to your intended?

A. Ivy

B. Blue violets

C. Globe amaranth

D. Rose

E. Any and All

E. Any and All

QQ: I think combining all these flowers would make a beautiful
gesture as: Ivy means fidelity and marriage, Blue violets mean
faithfulness, Globe amaranth means unfading love, and Roses mean
love

When it comes to psychic healing, human beings are dynamos. In many ways, when tested in a lab, it is the strongest natural psychic gift ever tested. It is such a strong gift that untrained people, those with little to no instruction, can help people heal around 10% faster than normal by just vaguely trying. This is an amazing gift, comparable to many medications and surgeries in over-all effectiveness.

As with most things, training and practice can help to improve a persons skill level. The practice I would like to go over here is a process known as repatterning.

Repatterning is a simple enough idea to use, once you get the basic concept down, but one that has hundreds of thousands of uses.

Let me use an example from the world of healing to get things started. Here is a hypothetical situation.

The person you are trying to heal has no known medical disorders, though they are so sick that they might not live. The medical system has given up on any attempt at treatment outside of low level pain control. Now that medicine has failed, you are called in to try and effect a cure, often the normal course of things. You begin by getting a feel for things and after attempting to sense what the problem is, you can determine that, while they are obviously ill, you have no name for the problem either! So do you give up? No, of course not.

What you do is find a healthy person and get a sense of their properly arranged bio-field, when you have a good idea of what a healthy person feels like, you change the pattern of the patient to match the healthy field.

Such restructuring can make a vast difference in the health of an ailing person. As often as not, this simple but powerful technique can give a person on the brink a chance to survive, even when all other options have failed.

Now, after you get a feel for what is healthy in a human being, you will be able to make such changes without examining another, healthier man or woman, before starting. While the strength and feeling of an individuals bio-field is as varied as their fingerprints, it is easy to tell what is properly patterned and is not.

Now lets walk through the steps, before applying them on handy passers by.

*As with all psychic techniques you will want to start in a relaxed and centered fashion. Take a few deep breaths and let all of the tension flow out of your body. Just relax and don’t worry about starting until you feel perfectly ready.

*When you are ready, go into a deep conceptual state, if you wish, take a few moments to hold a self-propagating concept of relaxed focus and synchronistic brainwave activity. This just means that you generate the concept of the state you wish to enter and let it grow in strength until it takes off and continues on its own without constant reinforcement. For added depth of state, hold a concept that will continue to take you into a more focused and synchronous place.

*Properly in state, gain a sense of the information field of your patient. Just sense this field for a few minutes, let it tell you what is wrong, or right, with the person. Don’t judge the information at this point. Just record what it is telling you.

*Now, pick a healthy person to compare this field to. Notice what things are different and what matches up.

*Focusing on the original bio-field again, hold, in conceptual form the idea that this field is changing to match the healthy parts of the other, well persons, field.

*As you are maintaining the concept of change, you must also continue to psychically sense the field you are working on. This feedback will allow you to make very exacting changes in any system in real time.

*Once the changes have taken place, and it should only take a few minutes, keep the new pattern steady and solid for around an hour.

It is possible that with this basic skill you could learn to influence any active, energetic, system.

By focusing your repatterning a bit more, you can often increase the speed of healing. The reason for this is simple. When you heal a person the energy for the corrections comes from the other person. If you focus your efforts their body will only go after the problem area with faster levels of repair.

Here are a few other things you might wish to try with your repatterning skills.

*Working with plants is a great and rewarding exercise for repatterning practice. Find a plant that is doing poorly and change its information to be more like that of another plant that is thriving. Plants are easily influenced and will respond very well to your efforts.

*If a friend, or yourself, gets a small scratch or bruise, take a few minutes to alter the damaged information back to an uninjured state. If you wish to practice this on yourself and no one else is around, compare the damaged area with an undamaged one on your own body. You should be able to more than double the speed of healing in this way. Even if you need a bit more time to practice, the very act of trying to fix the problem will help!

*If you are feeling low on energy, change your pattern to reflect a more energetic one. Copy a hyper friends feeling of energy, or use your memory of the last time you felt peppy and bring it back. The longer you hold it, the stronger it will be. As an additional perk, you can increase the feeling of energy by quite a bit compared to the state you are copying! I often use this as a solid pick me up in the afternoon.

True, no one is going to be perfect at repatterning over night. It takes time and effort to learn to do well and there are many other skills, as well as specific patterns that you have to learn, before declaring mastery of the subject. With time and discipline you can do it though and it is an ability that is useful enough to be well worth the daily practice.

About the Author

Dale Power is a psychic healer, researcher and educator that has been focusing on ways to improve psychic functioning in humans for the last twenty years.
Go to: http://healing.worldispnetwork.com to find out more about the work being done.

The Atkins diet Plan breakfast can usually composed of eggs strips of bacon and coffee. A snack might include coffee with cream, and chunks of cheese. A huge steak fried in butter could be dinner. Doesn’t this sound really good? It seems very tempting but there is a catch.

In the beginning you will have to give up most carbs, such as breads, potatoes, pasta, rice and other things like chocolate, cake, some fruits. In theory, when carbs are eliminated from the diet, the body burns stored fat. Weight loss is quicker because fat burns more calories than carbs.

Stable blood sugar levels help you to feel fuller thereby damping your appetite. The Induction is the first phase of the Atkins diet, which you follow for at least two weeks. Only 20 grams of carbs a day, but you can eat lots of red meat, chicken, fish, eggs cream and butter. That you want.

During this phase, your body learns to burn fat and not carbs. The ongoing weight loss phase is the second stage. Add 5 grams of carbs a day until you get to your critical carbohydrate level for losing weight. How many carbs can YOU eat and still lose between 1 and 3 pounds a week? Bread, pasta rice and potatoes are still taboo.

The pre-maintenance or third phase is started when you have only 5-10 pounds left to lose in order to reach your goal weight. Yes! Now you get to add 10 grams a day for one week, to your carb intake, to help your body adjust to the addition of carbs to your diet, and to the final phase of the diet.

Lifetime maintenance, phase 4, teaches you ways to stay motivated. Your carb intake is limited to 90 grams in a day. You will be eating low carbs for the rest of your life. Some doctors have expressed concern about the long tern effects of the Atkins and other low carb plans.

High saturated fat consumption may cause an increased risk of heart disease. The lack of certain nutrients in this diet could cause future health problems. The limited intake of calcium could possibly put you at risk for Osteoporosis. The low antioxidant nutrients could lead to cancer, heart disease and premature aging.

The Atkins diet is boring in the Induction phase. Vegetarians have a hard time with Atkins, particularly in the early stages, due to the limited amount of vegetables, nuts seeds and beans. The Atkins diet presents an image of good health from a proper diet. Some are concerned that once you go off the diet the weight comes back quickly.

The very low carbs in this diet could cause ketosis which can be dangerous for diabetics. The high cholesterol of this diet may cause constipation and heart disease because of the high fat content. This diet, low in fruits and veggies is consequently low in antioxidants that fight cancer. The Atkins plan is that it’s not intended for long term use and has serious side effects.

The Atkins Plan works, it is that simple. Weight loss is rapid and you can eat as much protein and fat, as you would like. The carbs eliminated by the Atkins diet can cause a loss of antioxidants which are known to prevent some cancers.

This high fat, high protein diet can increase the risk of elevated cholesterol and heart disease. This Diet really works, although some believe you can’t stay on it long term. If you go off the diet or cheat , you will begin to re-gain the weight. Once you start eating a more normal diet the initial weight loss will return.

As with any diet check with a physician-to make sure you are healthy to begin with. The Atkins diet, some believe, is not for long term use and that it poses some serous health risks. If you are overweight, you are already at risk for heart disease and other health problems, and Atkins could increase those risks.

About the Author

About the Author
Martin Smith is a successful freelance writer providing advice on a variety of subjects. For more information on