Kissing

Kissing reduces anxiety and stops the 'noise' in your mind. It increases the levels of oxytocin, an extremely calming hormone that produces a feeling of peace.

Ok, someone had that posted on something on Facebook.... And I thought really????
So, then I decided to do a little more research....

Here is some information I found out about the subject of KISSING and Health Benefits:

One article stated for Singles to beware, because not only does marriage reportedly reduce the risk of heart attacks, as Finnish scientists noted, but kissing is also great for your health.  A simple embrace increases levels of the "love hormone" called oxytocin.

Another article even mentioned that Kissing could help you lose weight!!

Here is more information I found online in an article by Silvia Mordini:

 ...  there are actual Kiss Scientists who study kissing. They are called Philematologists and they have discovered a wide range of benefits of kissing such as:

1. Kissing lowers STRESS.

Kissing decreases the stress hormone cortisol and increases serotonin levels in the brain. Kissing has also been measured to lower anxiety and has similar benefits to meditation.

 

2. Kissing makes us HAPPIER.

Kissing improves our mood by increasing endorphins, which are our feel-good hormones.

 

3. Kissing keeps us HEALTHY.

Kissing improves our immunity by releasing antibodies that kill bacteria. And kissing helps us prevent cavities by increasing saliva that washes our teeth. It has been shown that our saliva secretes natural antibiotics when we kiss.

 

4. Kissing CALMS us down.

Kissing increases levels of oxytocin otherwise known as the "love hormone" which calms us.  Kissing also reduces pain through our saliva which contains a kind of anesthetic and increases pleasure by releasing dopamine.

 

5. Kissing STRENGTHENS our RELATIONSHIPS.

Kissing promotes togetherness and couples who kiss regularly live five years longer than those who don't.

 

Top 10 Reasons To Kiss List:

• Lowers blood pressure
• Decreases cortisol stress hormone
• Increases serotonin
• Reduces pain
• Increases oxytocin
• Improves immunity
• Fights off cavities
• Increases dopamine
• Improves mood
• Lowers anxiety

 

 

There are plenty more benefits to kissing...but I am guessing that you already have your favorite reasons. What’s my favorite kissing moment, you ask? When you can feel your partner smiling as you kiss each other. Kissing makes us smile more!

Love yourself, love your day, love your life!

Silvia

 

She had this painting called The Kiss (Der Kuss) by Gustav Klimt 1907-1908 mentioned:

 

 

 

One from healthmeup:

1. Start kissing everyday and spark your love with and get cleaner teeth

2. If you want to lose some calories without much hard work, then go on a kissing diet

3. Start kissing to maintain the health of your heart

4. Instead of popping antidepressant pills, start kissing to be happy

5. A kissing session will increase the blood circulation of your face and give you a younger looking complexion. Since a passionate kiss involves moment of 34 facial muscles and up to 112 postural muscles in the rest of the body, which helps to keep your muscles tight and toned.

 

And lastly, since I am finding pretty much the same thing everywhere, is from Women's Day:

5 Surprising Benefits of Kissing:

1. Kissing boosts immunity.
2. Kissing helps you pick the best mate.
3. Kissing burns calories!
4. Kissing keeps facial muscles strong.
5. Kissing naturally relaxes you.

 

Heck what I found out is that God needs to hurry up and bring that Boaz into my life.... I got years worth of Kissing to catch up on.... Wow, you mean KISSING could have helped my stress all these years, not to mention, anxiety that I allowed to be in my life. Why has God made me wait this long or at least why haven't I been kissing more often?!

Watch out whoever my Boaz is, WE WILL BE DOING A LOT OF KISSING!!!!

 

 

Living Fully....

"Maybe this is the true secret to being fulfilled and content. Living in the moment with God, defined by His truth, and with no unrealistic expectations for others or things to fill me up. Not reaching back for what was lost in my yesterdays. And not reaching for what I hope will be in my tomorrow. But living fully with what is right in front of me. And truly seeing the gift of this moment."

That is from Chapter 2 page 36 of the book "Becoming More than a Good Bible Study Girl" by Lysa Terkeurst.... and it is exactly what I feel.  Exactly how I am trying to live every day Expectantly with Hope.... However, I am fulfilled and content living in the moment with God when I am living moments with others.... I take each moment I have with friends and family for what they are when I have them.  I don't expect them to be anyone or anything in particular except exactly who they are.  I met someone recently whom I wish could see that I do live each moment I have with them for All that it is.... I don't have an expectation and wish they weren't afraid that they wouldn't live up to expectation they think I may have of them.  Can't they just see that what I expect exactly who they are.... both the good and bad.....

I don't need anyone or anything or any position to make me feel complete or content.  I'm content with being God's girl. Since God is my fulfillment I can simply enjoy others for what and who they are.

And as I said, I am living in the moment with God, sometimes that is even by myself with just Him and other times it is when I am in the presence of someone amazing whom God has Blessed my life with. And there are a lot of those somebodies.  Though to be honest sometimes when I am home alone, which is very often it is hard to live fully in those moments 100% of the time.... maybe because sometimes it is hard to enjoy and laugh just by myself.... But.... even that is still Living in the Moment that God has me in at that direct time....

Lysa goes on on that same page at the end of Chapter 2 to say more of what I am exactly thinking too:

"I have finally landed. That's the way I feel since I stopped that intense search for what I am supposed to become in life. I still have goals and HOPES for my future, but they no longer send me into a striving frenzy. But I must continue to pursue truth that keeps me grounded and God's love that keeps me filled. Then my desperate hollowness is replaced by a desire for holiness. And though it took me years to get it, and though I definitely don't live it out perfectly, I have finally found what I'd been looking for."

It's so nice to just Be Still, and Know He is God.  Because He knows the plans He has for me I can be still and adventurously Wait Expectantly with Hopeful Trust on Him. And with a childlike Faith say, "What's Next, Papa?" I am here with open hands and open heart for All that you have Ready for Me....

Let me say Adventure Ahead as I Live in Every Moment with You, God my Everything!!!!

HOPE

It is my favorite word..... So today I looked into some scripture that used my favorite word, as well as added some photos and other scripture pictures I have collected when seen...

HOPE

Job 6:8

“Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant what I hope for,

 

 Job 11:18

You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety.

 

Psalm 25:5

Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.

 

Psalm 25:21

May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope, Lord, is in you.

 

Psalm 31:24

Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord.

 

Psalm 33:18

But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love,

 

Psalm 33:20

We wait in hope for the Lord; he is our help and our shield.

 

 Psalm 33:22

May your unfailing love be with us, Lord, even as we put our hope in you.

 

 Psalm 62:5

Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from him.

 

 

Psalm 119:49

Remember your word to your servant, for you have given me hope.

 

 Psalm 130:5

I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope.

 

Psalm 130:7

Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is unfailing love and with him is full redemption.

 

Psalm 147:11

the Lord delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love.

 

 Proverbs 23:18

There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.

 

 Proverbs 24:14

Know also that wisdom is like honey for you: If you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.

 

 Isaiah 40:31

but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

 

Isaiah 49:23c

Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who hope in me will not be disappointed.

 

 Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

 

 Lamentations 3:25

The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;

 

Micah 7:7

But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.

 

 

Romans 5:2b-5

And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

Romans 8:24-25

For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

 

 Romans 12:12

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.

 

 Romans 15:4

For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.

 

Romans 15:13

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. 

 

1 Corinthians 13:7

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 

 

 

1 Corinthians 13:13

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

 

Galatians 5:5

For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope.

 

 1 Thessalonians 1:3

We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

 1 Timothy 4:10

That is why we labor and strive, because we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all people, and especially of those who believe.

 

Hebrews 6:11

We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so that what you hope for may be fully realized.

 

Hebrews 6:19

We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,

 

Hebrews 10:23

Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.

 

Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

 

 1 Peter 3:15

But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,