What Makes A Good Relationship?

Be it a guy or a girl, even if you have been in a relationship for years, you will still not be able to put down the exact ingredients of a good relationship. So, what makes a good relationship? Is it just love? Is it just trust? Or is it just compatibility? It is a mixture of all of these and much more. Here is my recipe for a good relationship which contains the traits of a healthy relationship!

Ingredients
The following ingredients will be required to cook up a good relationship.

• Love – Well, lets face it, a relationship without love, is kind of abysmal.
• Romance – Romance adds the butterflies in the stomach, even to regular activities.
• Respect – If two people don’t respect each other, co-existence is near impossible.
• Passion – Having passion in a relationship is like having salt in a recipe. Without it, there will be color, but no taste.
• Empathy – Empathy is very important in a relationship. Lack of empathy would render the relationship abusive.
• Understanding – It is important to be able to understand each other. It is through understanding that a connection develops, and respect and love can be discovered.
• Acceptance – If you are in a relationship with a person, you need to accept him/her for what he/she is. If you have it in the back of your mind that you will eventually change him, then the relationship will not work out.
• Friendship – Basically, in a relationship, you need to be able to laugh at each other, cry with each other and yell at each other. Who better to do that than a friend?

These are the basic, most important ingredients of a good relationship. Mix them up in the quantities that you see fit, based on your and your partner’s nature. But, for you to understand the mixing, you need to understand the ingredients. Let’s move on to that aspect of the relationship advice.

Love:
Love is that which holds everything together. It is the basic ingredient. Like, if you were cooking chicken, love would be the chicken of your recipe. Love is the reason why you are making the effort of bringing in the other ingredients. However, if this ingredient gets too much importance, it would be wrong. Like, you cannot have only chicken in your dish, right? You need to add spices, and other ingredients. Just like that, a relationship with only love, will meet its end in a dump! Read more on love and relationship.

Romance:
There is a very good saying for men in relationships, if you want your woman to be your princess forever, be her prince forever. That means, the couple needs to keep the romance and the charm alive. Romance is the break from the mundane everyday duties. The vacation from regularity that you need. So, keep a regular balance of romance, to maintain a good relationship.

Passion:
Sex is very important in a marriage. True statement. However, more than the sex, passion is important. There should be a longing in the couple for each other. It is passion that makes each touch, each kiss, each blink of the eye mean a lot more than that which meets the eye. You see those aging couples walking hand in hand, it is the passion that keeps them there. The passion to stay together despite the odds, that is what makes a good relationship.

Empathy:
Lack of empathy in a relationship would spell doom for it. You need to have a basic know how about the other person. How they think, how they react and how they behave. It is this empathy that makes a couple manage living with each other for a longer time. It is this empathy that helps a couple do those small, small things that make the other person happy. Have you heard those women who go “Oh, that is just how he is!” or men say things like “That’s my girl”? That is out of empathy!

Understanding and Acceptance:
Understanding and acceptance go hand in hand. In a relationship, it is important to understand the other person. Why they did what they did? It is the understanding that overlooks the jealousy. More so, acceptance is required in a relationship. If you cannot accept the person for what they truly are, then the relationship will be a farce. A good relationship is made by two people who understand each other and accept each other with the flaws.

Friendship:
Friendship is that ingredient which adds the magic to the relationship. If two people can be lovers and friends at the same time, they have a complete relationship. Friendship allows the two to laugh together at their silliness, yell at each other for the mistakes and cry with each other for the losses. How complete do you feel in company of a friend? That is the feeling that you will have with a partner, if you both share friendship in your relationship as well! More on managing relationships.

While the amount and the percentage of all these ingredients may have differed from person to person, each ingredient is important for a good relationship. This is where I sign off! Happy loving!

How to Make Someone Fall in Love with You

                                                    By Farouk Radwan

Myths About Making Someone Love You

Do you think that love is just an uncontrollable random process?

Do you think that if the person you loved didn't love you back then nothing can be done about it?

Do you think that you can't make someone fall in love with you?

The Truth About Making Someone Fall in Love with You

Most of us believe that love is completely random and can never be controlled or manipulated. However, the shocking truth is that love and hatred are fully controlled by the mind. If you can come to understand the logic behind that mind's operation then you will have a good chance of making someone fall in love with you.

Love is just like any other psychological emotion you experience. Just as there are ways for dealing with and controlling stress, learning about the psychology of falling in love can be used to your advantage to make someone fall in love with you. This won't work one hundred percent of the time, but it will at least double or even triple your chances of making that person fall in love with you.

How to Make Someone Fall in Love with You

The following are methods and ways that can help you in making someone fall in love with you. Note that most of them are based on the psychology of falling in love and if you don't know what that is, you'd better take a quick look first.

I have what you need: when people search for a partner, they unconsciously try to find someone who is similar to what they like about themselves and at the same time different from what they hate about themselves. For example, someone who feels inferior but is also intelligent will seek an intelligent but confident partner. If this resembles the person you are targeting, playing the role of an incredibly confident person can be very effective, simply because you will be sending a message to his/her subconscious mind saying "I have what you need". On the other hand try to do your best to show that you have some common interests (don't lie, just search for what's common between you).

Meeting Criteria: Inside the mind of every one of us is a quick list of basic criteria that must be met before we even consider loving a person. Although meeting these criteria does not neccessarily mean that we will love the person, not meeting any of them makes it certain that we will never love him. Examples of these criteria can be: “He must be a non smoker“, “He must be religious” ...etc. You should try to know the background of the person you like and attempt to meet his basic criteria, else you will be rejected before you even begin.

Does Trying Harder Work? : Does repeatedly trying to approach a person work, or does chasing him or asking him out several times work?

Doing these things will most likely work if your partner is externally dependent. External dependancy is being dependant on something or someone to make you feel good or to escape your bad mood. When someone becomes externally dependant, it's likely he'll jump at the first chance of getting into a relationship. If the person you are targeting is externally dependant then your chances of making him fall in love you becomes higher. That's why caring for someone when he's down gives you a great chance of being loved by him because at these times people become more externally dependant

Program his Subconscious Mind: The subconscious mind can be made to accept something by continious repetition. This doesn't mean that you should call your partner every five minutes, as that would be chasing his/her conscious mind. Chasing the subconscious mind requires no more than staying in sight, and letting him/her see you a lot. Even if you hardly talk, just staying in his/her sight is enough to enforce your position.

More Subconscious Mind Programming : If you have mutual friends then you are even more lucky, since the subconscious mind is programmed much easier by trusted sources. The more your friends talk to him/her about how great you are (something you'll probably have to arrange) the better your chances of having a place in his/her subconscious mind.

Please don't misuse this Information

This kind of information should only be used when you are serious about a relationship and not just for playing around. Please be grown up enough to know that people have got feelings and that hurting their feelings just to feel victorious is something that is far from being mentally healthy.

Australian Dollar Risk Inches Towards Range High

                                                                      By Jamie

 “A 4th wave decline is probably complete at this week’s low and focus is on the 2011 high at 11080, and typical Fibonacci relationships; Wave 5 = 1 at 11153 and wave 5 = 61.8% of waves 1-3 at 11236.  These levels intersect the EW channel on March 7th and March 15th. Risk on longs can be moved to today’s low (10650). The current technical position is exciting for bulls as a 3rd wave may be underway from today’s low. If this assessment is correct, then expect the rally to accelerate in the next few days. A short term objective above 10844 is the 161.8% extension of the 10597-10754 rally, at 10905.”

Australian Dollar Outlook - 02/28/2012

The AUD is stronger this morning, currently trading around USD1.0750 after looking markedly weaker during our local trading session yesterday.

Australia: The explanation for the rally is the increased optimism in the market after Germany signed off on the second bailout package for Greece, as well as the second long-term refinancing operation (LTRO) by the European Central bank taking place on Wednesday.

With renewed optimism comes increased demand for riskier assets, such as the AUD, with the heavy demand for our local currency seeing it rise almost 1% from yesterday's close. While many thought that yesterday's weakness was related to the uncertainty around the political stoush between Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd, price action with the USD/JPY was more likely the influencing factor.

We are hopeful that now a resolution has been reached in Canberra, that the government can now return the focus to running the country in an effective manner. There is no local data due for release during our trading session today, therefore we expect the AUD to remain in a fairly tight trading range, and follow equity markets as well as offshore developments.

Majors: Improved data out of the US has reversed earlier losses, causing a rebound in equity markets as the sentiment in the region continued to recover. It was housing data that provided the buoyancy, with pending home sales rising by 2% in January, well above the market expectations of a 1% rise.

Historical data was also revised upwards for the month of December. January's result sees the housing re-sale data the highest it's been in 2 years. This boosted the S&P500 above 1,370.58 for the first time since June 2008. It wasn't the same across the Atlantic Ocean, with equity markets in Europe retreating, despite the bailout agreement being signed by German officials.

Germany's DAX fell 0.2% and the FTSE 100 also closed down 0.3% at 5916. Oil prices have been a concern of late, as
many believe that the increasing price of the commodity will hurt global growth, especially in the US.

It was reported last week that the oil price had risen to a 10-month higher of USD125.00 / barrel, but prices have since declined back to be below USD110.00.

Meaning of Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra

                                                          ॐ  त्र्यम्भाकम  यजामहे , सुगंधिम  पुष्टिवर्धनम ,
                                                            उर्वारुकमिव  बन्धनं , मृत्योर  मुक्षीय  मामृतात l

"om tryambhakam yajamahe, sugandhim pushtivardhanam,
urvarukamiva bandhanan, mrityor mukshiya maamritat."

OM

Om is the absolute reality. It is said to be "Adi Anadi", without beginning or the end and embracing all that exists. Om is beyond any limit, transcendental, and indestructible. OM represents the wholeness of the universe and the eternal vibratory sound of brahman (the universal soul) that permeates it. Indeed, Om is called shabdabrahman, the sound-form of brahman. Om is a mystical or sacred syllable. The syllable is taken to consist of three phonemes, a, u and m, variously symbolizing the Three Vedas or the Hindu Trimurti or three stages in life (birth, life and death ). A-U-M represents the divine energy (Shakti) united in its three elementary aspects: Bhrahma Shakti (creation), Vishnu Shakti (preservation) and Shiva Shakti (liberation).

In upanishads and sutra:

Om consists of the three sounds a (a-kara), u (u-kara), m (ma-kara). A-kara means form or shape like earth, trees, or any other object. U-kara means formless or shapeless like water, air or fire. Ma-kara means neither shape nor shapeless (but still exists) like the dark matter in the Universe. When we combine all three syllables we get AUM which is a combination of A-kara, U-kara, and Ma-kara.

According to the Mandukya Upanishad

Om is both atman and brahman: it is the past, the present and the future, as well as all that transcends time.

In Purana

Aum or Om is the mystic name for the Hindu Trimurti, and represents the union of the three gods, viz. a for Brahma, u for Vishnu and m for Mahadev which is another name of Shiva. The three sounds also symbolize the three Vedas (Rigveda, Samaveda, Yajurveda).

Om is the mantra of assent. It means yes and affirms and energizes whatever we say after it. That is why all mantras begin with OM. OM is also the mantra of ascent and causes our energy to rise upward into the infinite. By reciting Om, a person gains access to the powers of the universe; and meditation on Om is said to lead to enlightenment and immortality. OM is expansive and increases the fire, air and ether elements, particularly ether. It also gives strength, protection and grace.

Tryambakam

Tryambak = trya + amba = three amba

‘Three Amba' are the three Shaktis (the power) signifyin

‘'will power' (iccha shakti)

power of work’ (kriya shakti)

power of wisdom (gyana shakti).

These three shaktis are the creators of this whole world, and the one who has these three is called tryambak.

Tryambak also refers to the three eyes of shiva as 'Trya' means 'Three' and 'Ambakam' means eyes. Three eyes of shiva also refer to fire, sun and moon.Maharshi Kapil defines these eyes as sattva, raja and tamo guna. So we can say that the one who is beyond all gunas is tryambak.

According to Astrologers, past, present and future are the eyes of the mahakaal tryambak. Thus it can be said that the one who exists in past, future and present,and is omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent is tryambak.
In vedanta - chitta, ego and buddhi are the three eyes of Shiva. Yogis define 'A', 'U' and 'M' as eyes of shiva. Tryambak is the father of the three worlds - bhu, bhuva and svarga lokas (planes of existence). He is the lord of the three heavens created by the dominance of the three Gunas - Rajas, Satva and Tamas.

Yajamahe

By chanting the Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra we surrender to Lord Trayambak establishing a connection with Him. Here the root yaja means to sacrifice for the communion with divinity and yajamahe means ‘performing yagya’. Yagya is the tradition that follows from the Vedas. It is the act of offering oblations to propitiate a deity. Thus Yajamahe refers to the desire to make a connection with the lord who is the origin of light, nectar and life by sacrificing and offerings (havan samagri).

Sugandhim

'Sugandhim' refers to the fragrance of the flower that spreads in all directions. Similarly, He - The Supreme God is present in all the bhutas (modes of existence), in the three Gunas (nature of creation as being Satva, Rajas or Tamas), in the ten indriyas (five gyana-indriyas or senses and five karma-indriyas or organs of action), in all the devas (33 devas are the source of all illumination and enlightenment) and the ganas (hosts of demi-gods), He exists and pervades as the illumine atma (soul) and is their essence. He is spreading His fragrance all around and making us as fragrant as He is. Fragrance refers to the joy within Him. we all are bathing in His Fragrance, the real joy. Our self is true and pure as He is. No one can deteorite the true self.

Pustivardhanam

Pushti + vardhnam = pushtivardhanam

Tantric refers pushti as Shakti, In puranic language pushti is maya-( ). Philosphers (tatva chintak) refers it as ‘Nature’. Thus, here pushti indicates the shakti- the power - the nature and the one who expands/ enhances the pushti is called pustivardhanam. The one who transforms subtle forms into gross forms and expands the nature into many new forms by his creation is God. God is the sustainer of all beings who has created the entire creation starting from mahatatva (primordial state of matter/energy) to the individual parts. He is the sustainer of the world, the father of all.

Urvarukamiv Bandhnan

We bound by many diseases (approx 100 are in vedas) influenced (negative) by three doshas (imbalance of five elements earth, space, air, water and fire), fear of death, eight type of Agyana (ignorance) and the cycle of birth and death. We are living in the falsehood and are unable to perceive the all pervading God. We are bound by shadripu, the six demons of attachment, lust, greed, ego, anger and

Mrityormukshiya Ma Amritat

O God I wish to be free from the all negativities and to be in real joy. Please take me out of all weakness and the never ending cycle of birth and death. Free me from the fear of diseases and death for the sake of immortality (Moksha, Nirvana or final emancipation from re-birth).

ma amritat means 'please give me some Amritam (life rejuvinating nectar). It means that we are praying for some 'Amrit' to get out of the death inflicting diseases as well as the cycle of re-birth. and to be one with the supreme being, Shiva in the same way as the cucumber fruit (urvaru) gets separated from its stalk.

Australian Dollar Outlook - 02/23/2012 ;

                                        International Business Times

The Australian dollar has had a relatively quiet trading session overnight, despite
the political uncertainty created by Kevin Rudd's resignation as Foreign Minister late yesterday.

Australia: Housing data released in the US overnight was received quite well by the market, and as a result, commodity prices were pushed a little higher and the AUD found some buying interest.

However, the local unit is looking a little heavy this morning, and the ongoing speculation over the Labor leadership has the potential to add to AUD volatility in the short term.A number of forecasters are looking for a short term pull back in the AUD.

Yesterday's release of a HSBC Chinese purchasing manager's index wasn't overly encouraging, with a final figure of 49.7 in February, following on from a 48.8 figure in January. Any result below 50 is considered to be a sign of contraction. China is Australia's biggest trading partner and any sign of slowing growth within their economy will more than likely take some of the momentum out of the AUD's recent rally.

Majors: Developments in Europe continue to grab the international headlines. Despite the EUR130bio Greek aid agreement reached earlier this week investors remained concerned that the austerity measures that have been agreed for the Greek economy will be very difficult to implement.

Ratings agency Fitch cut Greece's credit rating to C from CCC, stating that a default by Greece is likely in the near term. The economic environment in the US continues to improve, albeit at quite a slow pace. US existing home sales increased by 4.3% in January - the highest figure in almost two years. In the UK, BoE minutes indicated that some members favour further quantitative easing, which sparked a sell-off in the GBP.

The Art of Exiting a Trade ; Richard Krivo, Trading Instructor

Most newer traders tend to concentrate on ways to enter a trade and place virtually all of their focus on that aspect of trading. While entries are important, experienced traders will agree that managing and exiting a trade will have a greater impact on the level of success a trader may achieve.

One of the most effective methods for exiting a trade is simply to employ a Risk Reward Ratio on the trade. By doing so, there is no question of when to exit.If the limit is hit, you are profitably out of the trade. If the stop is hit, you are out of the trade with a small, manageable loss. This plan is very straight forward and it eliminates the chance of your emotions taking control.

For example, if a trader were to employ a 1:2 Risk Reward Ratio on a trade (the minimum that we would recommend), and a 100 pip stop were set, then a 200 pip limit would be set. With that done, just let the trade run until you are either stopped out or limited out on the trade.

Here is another method that could be employed if a trader were trading multiple lots.

Using this scenario, a trader would open, let's say, two lots on a trade. At a predetermined level of profitability, perhaps 75 pips, one of the lots would be closed...thereby locking in that amount of profit. On the remaining lot, the stop would be moved to break even...the point at which the trade was entered. Then, should that lot move in the favor of the trader, the stop could be trailed periodically to continue to lock in profit. The worst that would happen on the second lot would be that if the trade would do an about face, the trader would be stopped out at break even...no gain on that lot but no loss either.Also, a trader could simply observe levels of support and resistance. As their trade is approaching levels of significant support or resistance, they could exit all or a portion of their position at that level, or perhaps simply tighten their stops. By so doing, should the pair hit the support/resistance level and retrace, a major portion of their profit would be protected and should the pair breakthrough and continue on, they would still be in the trade.