
At present, motorized window blinds are considered as one of the most contemporary window products available in the market. They are different from other window coverings designed before. They can be managed, opened, and closed by using a remote control to either obstruct or permit the light in your space. Be sure to carefully understand the topic of discount window treatments, before beginning your project.
With standard window shades, you are required to spin the wand and pull the cords to control the sun rays that penetrate your room. For the most part, the window coverings with the wand do not entirely block the sun therefore they are not as efficient in light control. With motorized window treatments, you can sit down and relax with your family and watch a program without having to deal with glares on the TV screen.
If you take pleasure in watching movies in a room that was constructed with numerous windows, you are very lucky. If you have saved enough money for window coverings, you can eliminate the hassle of switching the wand since you can always utilize the remote control to open and close the window blinds and shades. Take advantage of this mechanism and save time in doing other significant chores and tasks while you are at home. Many folks find decorating windows to be most rewarding.
Even though standard blinds are great window shades to begin with, having them installed with a remote control will make your life easier.
Placing Motorized Window Blinds
You might initially anticipate that remote control window coverings are complicated to install. But, you’ll be very glad to find that the process of installing these treatments is very similar to the installation of common shades. Because they are wireless, you will not experience problems of the wires getting twisted. They are very easy to program as well as control, so you’ll not deal with issues of ineffectively controlling the sunlight.
The remote control blinds can be operated from fifty feet away. This feature gets rid of the predicament of standing and moving when you are resting comfortably and contentedly near the blinds. With this tool, you just have to push a button and multiple coverings will close or open promptly.
Installing remote control window blinds is a surefire way to improve your way of life when it comes to house cleaning. Since you save a considerable amount of time and energy, you can take that time to bond and take care of your kids. These window shades also restrain the stress of household cleaning and maintenance to the minimum.
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Posted: 04 Mar 2010 02:44 AM PST
A guest post by Arvind Devalia of Make It Happen and author of Get the Life you Love Do you believe that life is miraculous? Are you waiting for a miracle to happen in your life? Just imagine what it would be like to live your life as if everything is a miracle.
Simetimes people look for some kind of miracle when their life is in a fix. Other times, people may pray for a miracle when a loved one is seriously ill or when they face a life threatening challenge. I remember praying for a miracle when I felt I hadn’t done well in a school exam. Somehow I did pass and that was my first personal experience of my own miracle, albeit a tiny one. In the recent Haiti earthquake, there were many “miracles” of afflicted people surviving for many days under the rubble without food or water.
What’s a miracle and how does one recognise one? Wikipedia gives us a number of interpretations of what we by a miracle:-
In all of the above, the common thing is some unlikely or unexpected occurence, or something that just seems so incredible such as the birth of a child. I have never witnessed the miracle of a child being born but a few years ago, I was lucky enough to be just outside the hospital maternity where a friend was giving birth. I heard some faint crying and then 20 minutes later, the beaming father invited me in to see their newly arrived baby son. And there he lay cradled next to his mother, with his eyes wide open and looking as if he had always been there. It was one of the most beautiful and miraculous moments of my life – I can’t even imagine what it would have been like for the proud father.
Just how did that little baby boy happen?
In reality, everything around us is a miracle if only we can learn to see and recognise these miracles. By living your life as if everything is a miracle, every moment becomes something to savour and live in awe of. You naturally get to feel great appreciation and gratitude for your life, knowing that you are blessed with such miracles all around. To help you become more present to all the miracles in your life – I have split them up into 5 specific categories. As you read the remainder of this post, I invite you to treat this as your own personal journey into the world of miracles. After every section, please pause for a few seconds, breathe deeply a couple of times and simply become present to that miracle. Lets begin our journey:- 1. The miracle of life. The greatest miracle is that you are alive and able to engage in this conversation with me. Just think about it – how is it that a mass of flesh and blood is able to partake and experience what we call life? What allows us to experience the world through our senses? If you have never thought about your very life as a miracle, please take a pause right now. What is it that makes your blood go through your body – and what’s that universal intelligence that makes you tick? Isn’t it a miracle that somehow life evolved on this planet we call earth, which just happens to be the right distance from our star and where during the course of billions of years, just the right conditions came about for some hydrogen and carbon molecules to gel together and finally evolve into you and me? I am giving myself permission to repeat what I just said here, since I am so in awe – just how is it that a soup of organic materials somehow evolved into the wonder of you and me? It all seems to happen like magic – and yet we hardly ever pause to reflect on the biggest miracle of all. Life – our greatest miracle and gift – and even more reason for you to appreciate it every day.
2. The miracle of love
After the miracle of life, the greatest miracle is that of love. But what is love? Love is much greater than what we feel romantically. It is what makes us sing, dance and makes us human.
Love is the most amazing thing in our lives. It is what makes us human, what makes life worth living – in the grander scheme of things, nothing else truly matters. The size of our homes, bank balances, the beauty of our partner, the speed of our car – all those things pale into insignificance when we face the miracle of love.
Love leads to other miracles such as kindness. Have you noticed how great you feel afterwards when you have done someone a kind deed? Through the miracle of our love, we can indeed transform the world – even a hug, a loving touch or just a smile can cause the miracle of healing others. There are so many simple things we can all do on a daily basis to bring more love into our lives. Together we can all make this an even more beautiful and miraculous world than it already is. So from today onwards, appreciate and acknowledge all the love around you and in you. Look for ways of spreading your love through compassion and making a practical difference to those around you. 3. The miracle of your body To experience this thing we call life, we need our bodies to function as well as possible. Our bodies somehow sustain themselves, grow, repair and fight to stay alive till the very end. There are trillions of chemical reactions and exchanges going on within us every second and everything seems to run like clockwork. Even when disease or decay sets in, our bodies continue to strive and sustain themselves almost like magic. The durability of our body is a miracle in itself – I remember when my first nephew was born a few weeks prematurely and he spent the first month of his life in an incubator. It was heart-breaking to see this little guy, a tiny bag of skin and bones fighting for dear life and getting stronger day by day, ounce by ounce. Experiencing something like that sure opens you up to the miracle of life – and also makes you realise that perhaps there really is something much bigger than us out there and indeed within us. From today onwards, why not commit to take great care of your body? You only have to take some simple and practical self-care steps and your body will begin to miraculously heal itself and sustain you for the rest of your life. 4. The miracle of nature
Where does one even begin to extoll the sheer beauty of our natural world? Let’s start with one of the main symbols of beauty in our society – the majestic flower. Have you ever looked at a beautiful flower closely and failed to be moved by its magnificence and symmetry?
A flower is but just one example of all the wonderful nature that makes up our earth and indeed beyond the earth. Look at the sky this evening and marvel at all the twinkling stars all around us. Just how do those points of light just stay there? And who put them up there? Everything in nature is so beautifully symmetrical and perfect – it is almost like a universal master craftsman or craftswoman was at work. From today onwards, please spend some time in nature daily and simply appreciate the miracle of what’s around you – from the humble ant to the majestic oak. And then for the rest of your life, be in continuous awe of the nature around you.
5. The miracle of your creativity Only a few years ago, before the advent of the internet, it would have been impossible to even envisage you and I having this conversation via the medium of the blogosphere. And yet today, we can send out a single message to thousands of people around the world in seconds. As a species, we are incredibly creative and intelligent, and sometimes there seems no end to what we are capable of. You are capable of so much – and probably a lot more than what you are currently doing. You can literally create your own miracles – if you choose to do so. From my perspective, the challenge really is to channel this creativity into something that benefits the greater good. So from today onwards, put your own creative gifts to work – and create your own miracles to make the world a better place.
It’s in your hands to see life as a miraculous experience.
Make the rest of your life a miracle Your journey of seeing the world as a miracle has only just begun. From today onwards, your eyes and the other senses have been opened up. See everything around you as the miracle that it really is – and your life will never be the same again. Photos courtesy of aussiegall, peasap, Kjunstorm, DeusXFlorida and woodleywonderworks/.. To Make It Happen for you, subscribe here and also follow Arvind on Twitter.
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Consider for a moment, what it means to live a life of detachment and what comes to your mind first? Ask yourself what do you feel at first thought?
Do you interpret detachment to mean you are disconnected from:
It’s important to measure and understand what your current belief around the idea of detachment is before you move forward with this post. Your attachment or belief around a particular definition is what ties your emotions to that particular event. Thus causing an experience whether good or bad.
So what is S.T.U.F.F.? I define stuff as, Scarcity That Undermines Freedom & Family.
I find it’s not so much the stuff that we accumulate that binds us, but the mental and emotional attachmentsurrounding the stuff that can cause us suffering such as our lack of emotional freedom and deeper connections with people.
Scarcity is a powerful human emotion that can hold us prisoner if we’re not aware of it. Our attachment to stuffis a form of scarcity that can effect our relationship with not only others but ourselves.
So what happens when you and I release any attachment to stuff and allow ourselves to live in the here and now, without scarcity on our minds? I call it emotional freedom and the opportunity to find or live our purpose. Remember the movie Pursuit of Happiness? It wasn’t called the pursuit of stuff was it? This is a form of detachment I’m going to cover.
Now I’m the first to admit I like nice stuff. I admit I have a bit of a man crush on a Bentley GT Coupé, however I don’t have an emotional attachment to the car. I simply have an appreciation for the car as I would an amazing sunset. I have the exact same appreciation of those sunsets. It’s crazy to think I’d ever actually own a sunset isn’t it? Imagine if I had an emotional attachment to the sunset? Every time the sun went down I’d be a basket case. That would be pretty nuts of me, right?
Consider your same appreciation with physical stuff in your life and imagine not being so attached to it.
You can practice detachment through meditation where you find your connection within to all that is through out. For me this anchors me in my emotional freedom. It grounds me and I realize I don’t need stuff, I just like the experiences the stuff can provide. There are other ways you can practice detachment in your life. Some small and some may seem big.
“It’s not what I’m willing to learn or gain that will move me where I want to be, but what I’m willing to let go of that will allow me the freedom to be what I am.”
I got rid of traditional TV & cable going on 2 years ago now. I was willing to let go of my emotional connection to it and release it. Many people couldn’t imagine living without their TV shows however I can’t imagine wasting that much time watching them anymore. The mental clutter that it seemed to cause was only apparent after I stopped the steady diet of it.
For example: The attachment to be in front of the TV set at a particular time and night of the week was a small freedom unto itself. When I realized I didn’t require the distraction anymore I felt an emotional freedom which felt much better than the comfort of sitting in a chair and vegging out. I still enjoy a good movie night by all means. I’m not saying entertainment isn’t important however the steady diet of TV, like food or drugs, can be and usually is abused.
When you find yourself using something like TV as a distraction it’s time to detach yourself from it. Be aware of the scarcity that comes up, be mindful of it and gently send it on it’s way.
So ask yourself what you’d be willing to detach yourself from, even if for a short while, to test the emotional freedom waters. If you have family share with them what you’re desired outcomes are, like the 7 outcomes above, and I’ll bet you can get their buy in. Image how cool that would be.
Just awesome!!!