Benefits of Exercise and Sport
Regular exercise means longer and health years for you. It is accepted that it is never late to begin exercising. Even simple and regular walking increases the life standard of you. There are benefits of exercise over all the body. With exercise the thickness and durability of muscles change. The joints are stronger. It is an essential way to protect bones. Regular exercise is recommended especially for osteoporosis disorder. Exercise reduces the backbone, knee and other bone related pains. These are the major benefits of exercise and sport.

In addition to these benefits, exercise and sport has good impacts on heart and heart related illnesses. First of all, regular exercise and sporting regulates the heart system. It is also effective on blood circulation. One of the benefits of exercise and sporting is regulating hypertension. As metabolism becomes faster, the body gives out unnecessary things more easily.

Exercise Sport and Beauty Relationship
Exercise and sport improve the body. They do not make you lose weight. However, it is undeniable that sport and exercise make you look fit, beautiful and energetic. If you make the muscles work regularly, they look better and they are stronger. There is a close relationship between exercise, sport and beauty.

There are exercise and sport types aiming to make the persona lose weight. If you lead such a way along with a proper diet, you can lose weight and look better. This is one of the aspects of exercise, sport and beauty relationship.

Psychological Benefits of Exercise and Sport
Exercise and sport are not only useful for health and beauty. It is a well known fact that exercise and sport also affect your psychology. There are many psychological benefits of exercise and sport. Exercising and sporting persona feels more confident and ambitious. The body is discovered. The oxygen need of the body is provided more decently and this increases the mental activities. Empathy, love, human relationships become well. With the hormones released, the persona is aware of the things that give her/him pleasure.

After Regular Exercise and Sport What Change in Your Life and Body?
In addition to health and beauty benefits of exercising and sporting, exercise and sport change many things in human body and life. First of all, they become inseparable parts of your life. It is a life style. Such a life style keeps the persona from bad habits such as smoking, alcohol consumption, drug addiction etc. Your body and life are pure. One of the biggest changes that come after exercising and sporting is elasticity. Your body is much more elastic. It is stronger and healthy.

Medical Control before Exercise and Sport
It is true that exercise and sport are good for people. However, you should go through a medical control before starting regular exercise and sport. If you have heart related illnesses, rhythm disorder, tension problems and hypertension, consult to a doctor and learn the suitable exercise and sport way for you.

Any kind of fear can not be classified as phobia. There are some major reasons and results of phobias. It is the extreme feeling and reaction. There is not treatment of fear, but there are treatment ways for phobias.

Causes of Phobias
The major causes of a phobia are classified into two categories: External and internal causes. Something can make you react extremely, this is the internal cause. Then external factors increase the level of reaction. For instance; you are afraid of dogs. Coming across with dogs increases your anxiety. If a dog barks to you, the situation can turn into to be a phobia. Seeing a dog, even thought of that makes you irritated. That is the phobia.

Symptoms of Phobias
When the object, person, situation that cause fear is seen, there are some common signs of phobia. Some of the symptoms of phobias are palpitation, nausea, sudden tension changes, fainting, conscious loss, shaking, perspiration, shortness of breath, blushing and dryness of mouth.

Phobia Treatment
Generally for the treatment of phobias medicine and psychotherapy are given together. When medicine is not adequate, antidepressant is given. The most common treatment way of phobias is making the persona face the fear. The person should learn to face the fear object. Learning living with it will bring the relief.

Phobia Types
There are lots of phobia types. Phobias can be classified into three major categories. These categories are specific phobias, social phobias and function phobias. Here some phobia examples:

Agoraphobia: Fear of open or crowded place
Anglophobia: Fear of English language or culture
Arachnophobia: Fear of spider
Photophobia: Fear of light
Hematophobia: Fear of blood
Hydrophobia: Fear of water, swimming or drowning
Claustrophobia: Fear of close place
Radio phobia: Fear of x rays and radiation
Sky phobia: Fear of sky
Xenophobia: Fear of strangers
Zoophobia: Fear of animals
Thermo phobia: Fear of heat
Thanatophobia: Fear of death
Technophobia: Fear of technology
Puppet phobia: Fear of puppets
Pant phobia:  Fear of everything
Negrophobia: Fear of black people
Homophobia: Fear of homosexuals
Ailurophobia: Fear of cats
Androphobia: Fear of men
Bibliophobia: Fear of books
Brontophobia: Fear of thunder
Dataphobia: Fear of data
Dentophobia: Fear of dentist
Electrophobia: Fear of electricity
Pharmaphobia: Fear of medicine
Philophobia: Fear of love
Heliophobia: Fear of sunlight
Gametophobia: Fear of marriage
Hippophobia: Fear of horses
Islamphobia: Fear of Islam and Muslims
Cancer phobia: Fear of cancer
Carnophobia: Fear of meat
Kymophobia: Fear of dogs
Logophobia: Fear of some certain words
Monophobia: Fear of loneliness
Necrophobia: Fear of corpse
Christian phobia: Fear of Christianity and Christians
Obesophabia: Fear of obesity
Neophobai: Fear of anything new
Paper phobia: Fear of paper
Topophobia: Fear of certain places
Tokokphobia: Fear of childbirth

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Soul quotient is basically identified as the soul intelligence. It is the soul balance, and it is claimed that SQ is the combination of IQ and EQ. In order to have high SQ score, we should have good IQ and EQ, if you lack something mentally or emotionally how can your soul be healthy? They go along together, when score of a side is upgraded, the other one also increases.

Soul quotient makes you notice the other sides of a situation; you can see the inner side, search for causes of it and adapt to it easily. If you are sophisticated, you can lead your destiny, you are aware of the details that form all your life; you notice that the events, we think as coincidence, are planned. Our future is lead not from outside but from inside of ourselves. Soul quotient is what we are!

People having high soul quotient score;

- Have rich spiritual world.
- Question everything.
- Have objective perspective.
- Are aware of the fact that other people have choices, thoughts.
- Are strong in their beliefs.
- Are emotional but they also find logical ways of life.
- Are rational.
- Imagine a lot.
- Are good leaders and guides.
- Have emotionally satisfied life.
- Do not give up when they come across with a problem.
- Are curious.
- Generally believe in a religion, group and mystic things.
- Are ready for personal development.
- Are consistent in mind and in actions.
- Have the belief after a defeat and they can continue.
- Are loved by other people, because they are generally positive people.
- Are analytic, they compare and contrast things and find a way out from a situation, they are quick minded.
- Have strong love for anyone or anything, they have deep emotions.
- Empathy is essential for them, as feelings and thoughts of other people are important for high scored SQ people.

The Relationship between IQ, EQ and SQ
Quotient types are different, but they are also closely related to each other. Imagine that you are feeling bad, your studies go bad, your soul is hurt, they are all related, the human is combination of many things and these things work well if they are coherent. This summarizes the basic relationship between IQ, EQ, and SQ.

The best way to understand this type of quotient is comparing it with other types. If there is a problem of us, IQ does not react, EQ is confused but does not know what to do and SQ solves it as it is the combination of both IQ and EQ. If you want something IQ asks for the logical side of it, EQ asks for the way of desiring it and EQ looks for the acceptability of this thing. With IQ you can only predict the future, with EQ you can feel it, and with SQ you predict more accurately and you see. SQ brings you to the correct conclusion.

Psychology

Terms Ego, Superego, ID
You can wonder where these concepts are coming from; Freud did not originate all these, his original terms were in German: “das Es,” “das Ich,” and “das Über-Ich”, they can be translated into English directly as: “the it”, “the I”, and “Over I”.

What is ID?
I want food! I want to pee! I want to have sex! Do you hear these sentences from your soul? Is your soul like a naughty child? And you want all these at the same time without waiting? Nothing can prevent you! This is your primitive side and Freud calls it as ID. No social rules, morality, authority, psyche only wants. Babies have the dominant ID, but with age, we have less “primitive” ID.

What is Superego?
Superego is the controlling part of human psyche. While our souls say do that, take it, make it, superego limits our desires. Morality, rules, clichés, authority is essential and if you do anything, it should be in the frame of all these. Do not you ever experience such things: You want to go out with your boyfriend, but first of all your parents do not approve it, they also say “Think the thoughts of other people!”, so you always think what other people say, what I should do, what the general rule is. This is your dominant superego.

What is Ego?
Ego balances the desires of superego and ID. ID keeps on wanting, superego looks for right thing and ego tries to find a common way. Ego is the realistic level, the main function of it providing security and making some of the wishes of ID true. It is like a judge deciding what is true, what should be done. Ego is affected by superego, ID and other external factors, after examining all these points, the exact decision is given by it.

Categories of Maslow’s Theory
If you are hungry you do not think security, if you are safe you look for more, you want love, after getting all these, your personality gains importance, and in the end you try to find true self. That is an example to Maslow’s chain of needs, there is a hierarchical form as the necessities increases. Hierarchy of Needs consists of five levels, all connected to each other. These levels are like that:

1. Physiological needs: Human kind needs some basic things, such as breathing, food, water, sex, health. If one of them is not provided, body tries to cover it and there is no extra effort for other necessities, so the first step should be fulfilled. A man who is hungry, ill does not want anything rather than health and food, for him having a good statue is not important, first of all, he must be healthy and have food.

2. Safety needs:  If you do not need food, and you are healthy, what do you look for? A house maybe? Shelter and emotion of safety? If you feel secure at your home, if you are healthy, have a job, money and family, it means the second level is fulfilled.

3. Love and Belonging: Who does not want true love and the belonging feeling? Do not take it only the love between two people, this level is about friendship, family relationships, and human communication. After providing basic needs and having security, love and the belonging feeling come in the chain of Maslow.

4. Esteem: Self confidence, respect, being successful and believing in success, empathy, all these are in the fourth step of theory. With this step, human is closer to true self. Think of a person who has food, shelter, good relationships, and security, what comes next? Doesn’t s/he search for herself/himself?

5. Self Actualization: It is the peak point of the persona. This level comes true after all these four ones, physical, security, love and belonging, and esteem. If you have all these, it is easy for you to make the best of something. In this level, creativity, morality, acceptance, being true is important points. For a person reaching this level, morality is important, s/he accepts the world as it is, ideas and movements go along together, creativity plays a key role, human relationships are intimate, objectivity is a life perspective.

Body Language: Speaking with Body

Common Body Language Signs
Body language may differ from country to country, a movement meaning a good thing can have a very different meaning in another country, it is a cultural issue; however there are some general body language signs. Crossing arms across chest is one of these common signs, it is perceived as the barrier between people; if the persona even looks like s/he is listening, you should keep in mind that s/he has the possibility to pretend to listen, be aware of it! Touching the face while speaking can be an indication of lying or deceiving, persona is under stress. Non stop eye contact shows the positive idea of the speaker about you, and trying not to have eye contact is the sign of negativity. Dealing with objects such as glasses, hat or something else show that the person looks for comfort and safety. Smoking indicates the search for relief. While you are speaking, if you examine the reactions of the listener, this means you look for approval. Looking perspective is one key sign of body language. The more certain your perspective is, the more you are sure of yourself.

Why Do People Use Body Language?
There are many psychological searches about why people use body language; there are many different and reasonable reasons of it:

- Intentional movements to affect the listener.

- Persona is unaware of the action and has no intention to affect or prove, it is the psychological side of using body language. These unaware made actions reveal the real mood of the speaker. A liar can be understood by analyzing her/his gestures, movements, etc.

- It is a way of sending signals to other people.

- Body language can be the purest form of communication as human use whatever word s/he wants, however body language is inevitable, human use it inevitably.

- Listener has a key role during communication, body language user may want to be understood not easily, a hard way is chosen and listener has to spend effort to understand.

- Using body language in working life is very important, no matter how successful, intelligent you are, without having an effective personality, communication skills you are nothing.

- Verbal language is not enough, so people look for something else to support it.

What is EQ?

IQ and EQ
The concept goes with IQ; however they are very different, EQ is a current studying field compared with IQ, and they deal with different things. IQ shows the intelligence level with some problems and rules, EQ is quite different, and it is about the psychological side of human. IQ gives a certain result that can not be changed with time, EQ score can be changed, developed, the relationship between emotional data and intelligence is quite unclear, so there are many different claims on emotional intelligence. Some scientists claim that EQ is changeable, while some others claim just the opposite.

EQ and Life
The contribution of intelligence quotient and emotional one to the life, their impact on success of a person is always argued; but it is accepted that having high score of IQ is not the guarantee of success or happiness. Emotional quotient is a clear indication of successful life; think of a person who is self confident, happy, successful, talented, even if her/his IQ score is low s/he would most probably lead a good life. People, who know the limit of their emotions and social skills, are happier and more productive in life.

Models of EQ
There is not exact definition or model of emotional quotient; however three major models are used widespread. These are:
- Ability based model
- Trait model
- Mixed models

Ability based model: This model sees emotion as a way to personal development. Emotions make a person realize the environment. Every human being figure out knowledge differently and relates it with emotions. Perceiving, using, understanding and managing emotions are steps of this model.

Trait model: Trait model is related with ability based one, this model identifies the recognition, processing, and using emotional data.

Mixed models: There are some mixed models, ways of them are all different, Goleman model, and the bar on model are just two of these models.

Factors Affecting Intelligence Types
Biologic and cultural factors are the major points that affect intelligence types.
- Opportunities: Especially economical factors are effective, for instance if a poor child wants to be a violinist, the child may have difficulty as money will be a problem.
- Historical and Cultural Elements: Historical and cultural background and environment inevitably affect the persona.
- Family: The desire of family may lead the child’s intelligence.
- Geographical Factors: City life or country life are also effective. Different environment, circumstances have impact on the intelligence.
- Sociality: Being social or not, having interest in different fields give the opportunity to develop different intelligence types.

Multiple Intelligence Categories
Verbal – Linguistic: A person who has developed verbal – linguistic intelligence is good at languages, grammar, forms, writing and speaking is easy for the person. The mind is strong, dates, names are remembered easily.

Logical – Mathematical: Having dominant logical and mathematical intelligence means solving problems easily, having analytical mind, searching for reason and result relationship, solving puzzles, having interest in science.

Bodily – Kinesthetic: Balance, power, speed are the key features. People from this category are interested in sport activities, use body language well.

Musical: Musical intelligence describes the ability of rhythm, music, both making them and being aware of them. With a dominant musical intelligence, a person may be a good singer, composer or a good listener.

Interpersonal: This category is about the relationship with other people. Having developed interpersonal intelligence means having good relationships with people, understanding the feelings, thoughts of others, having the skill to empathize.

Intrapersonal: People having intrapersonal intelligence are fond of themselves, they are happy alone and sure that they will do anything by themselves.

Naturalistic: This category identifies the people who love nature, natural events; they prefer to live in nature.

Spatial: Vision is very important; art and painting are main areas of this category. People having spatial mind are good at art, painting, photography etc.

What is depression?

Depression is one of the most common psychological problems and people are tired of not finding right solutions to it. On the other hand, hopefully a researcher called Mark Rasenick, a professor at the University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine, explained: “We will be clearly able to say in the near future that whether you are depressed or not and in this way whether you respond a medical treatment or not.”

A new research on solutions
Rasenick and his team have researched on 16 people’s brain specimen who have never had experiences about depression and 16 people’s brain specimen who committed suicide because of depression. They deduced that in individuals who have had depression experiences a signalling protein is located in certain areas. This is called Gs Alpha and also responsible for the effects of neurotransmitters, nervous breakdown and hysteria.

This protein in the brain is believed to help researchers test out on a person to see depression symptoms and it could be used as depression biomarker. In addition to this, developing this test will determine whether the antidepressant treatment have positive effects or not and will reduce the problems of long term treatments.

Good news for patients
Mark Rasenick says that this study helps many people who suffer from malpractices and wrong diagnoses. He adds: “during our studies on rats and mature brains, we have found out that antidepressant drugs help Gs Alpha change its location and it hereby becomes more efficient communication among components of neurotransmitters.

What is more, it could explain why these drug treatments take long time to help. Surely, this study is very important and it has become a hope for the patients who are fed up with using drugs everyday, long treatments.

Rasenick and his team are improving their findings on this research to reach their goals. And bear in mind that, there is always a hope. Do not let depression blind us to see this fact.

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