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9 Irresistible Flirting Tips – How To Sizzle and Dazzle the Opposite Sex
by Joshua Goh

You don’t have to be a movie star look-alike to sizzle and dazzle the opposite sex. All you need is a genuine sweet looking smile plus a few irresistible flirting tips.

1. For women, we preen or groom ourselves subconsciously when we are attracted to someone – by smoothing down our hair or clothes, checking our lipstick, or straightening a tie. Combine your grooming gesture with a smile and a gaze. You can also toss your hair to one side – a combination 1-2 punch of preening and a flash of neck.

2. A genuine, friendly smile is you’re most powerful. Behavior experts agree that a smile makes you more attractive and approachable. Guys, if a woman lock eyes and smiles with you three or more times in an evening, you have been given an unmistakably clear signal that she’s interested. Make your move, if you don’t, somebody else will.

3. Gaze the eyes with the person you’re flirting with for a full five to six seconds, smile and then drop your fix. Do this at least three times in a ten to fifteen-minute period. Your target needs to know you are flirting with him; making eye contact is a universal signal of openness.

4. One of the more successful flirting techniques a woman can employ is to expose her neck. A head tilt, the classic hair flip, or the over-the-shoulder glance attracts men’s attention, exposes your neck, and gives you the opportunity to lock eyes. The over-the-shoulder move is extra-effective because it’s sexy and sends a signal to your target that they are worth a second look.

5. Members of both sexes are subconsciously attracted to red, moist lips because they signal youth, sex and fertility. Red also increases a man’s heart rate. How to capitalize on it? Wearing a red lipstick gives women’s lips not only a youthful color but also a more obvious smile and whiter teeth. Using a super-shiny lip gloss makes your lips look moist and kissable. Men or women should lick their lips subtly (you don’t want to look like you’re trying out for a porno flick) or bite the lower lip – both are extremely effective flirting behaviors.

6. Men should stand tall with the shoulders pulled back and squared; women are biologically attracted to more dominant men. Feel free to take up some space.

7. For women, crossing and uncrossing their legs is a surefire flirting technique, especially if you’re wearing high heels. A woman crossing her legs appears seductive to men and it makes them desire to see more. Slipping the heel out of your shoe and dangling it on your toes is another trick. The arch of a foot sends a sexual message and mimics a woman’s curves, and makes a man’s heart race.

8. Once you and your flirting target start talking, the next step is to intensify the attraction. How? Smile and maintain eye contact, focus all of your attention on what they say. No one is more attractive than someone who gives you an undivided attention. Employ the nod and head tilt techniques. Smiling and laughing are crucial at this point – it the quickly puts the other person at ease. Making low-level contact by brushing the shoulder or elbow is another effective flirting technique.

9. People mirror each other’s body language – gestures, voice volume, posture, etc when they are attracted. Very subtly mirror your flirting target’s behavior – if she leans forward, lean forward; if he scratches his head, scratch your head. When you mirror someone’s behavior, they’ll begin to feel, think and believe as though the two of you are connected.

Men’s flirting styles go a little further, they demonstrate their social status with moves that may include flashing cash, talking about their occupations, cars, and other toys for the big boys aside from the signs mentioned above.

Look for the signs above, especially extended eye contact, low-level touching, laughing, and you will surely know that a woman is flirting with you.

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Joshua Goh is dating & relationship expert, prolific writer and avid internet marketer.Currently runs Cupidwave.com, which is blazingly becoming one of the highly sought-after online dating review site. He is also passionate about human peak performance, golf, fitness and travelling. For more information on up-to-date dating reviews and litle tips & tricks, please visit http://www.cupidwave.com

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The Mysterious Valentine’s Day
by Eric V. Allen

February 14th, the holiday of Love! Every February, across the country, candy, flowers, and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine. Who is this mysterious saint and why do we celebrate this holiday? The history of Valentine’s Day — and its patron saint — is shrouded in mystery. St. Valentine’s Day, as we know it today, contains vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition. The Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom were martyred - none of whom were associated with roses OR chocolate.

Most scholars believe that the St. Valentine of the holiday was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. During this time, around 270 A.D., emperor Claudius ll prohibited marriages for young men, claiming that bachelors made better soldiers. Valentine continued to secretly perform marriage ceremonies but was eventually apprehended by the Romans and ordered by Claudius to be put to death. But his courageous blessing of the bonds of love may have earned him a notable place in history.

Another legend has it that Valentine, imprisoned by Claudius; fell in love with the daughter of his jailer who visited him during confinement. Before he was executed, he allegedly sent her a letter signed “from your Valentine” an expression that is still used today. We could say this marked the very first Valentine’s Day.

Possibly the most plausible story surrounding St. Valentine and his day is one not focused on Eros(passionate love) but on agape (Christian love): he was martyred for refusing to renounce his religion. Subsequently, his love for his god may have gone down in history.

Our final possiblity for the origins our our holiday: It could be that we celebrate Valentines Day on the 14th because this is the day that St. Valentine died. However, some believe that the celebration of Valentines Day was an attempt by the Church to civilize the celebration of the pagan Lupercalia festival - held on the 15th of February. Lupercalia was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus. Pope Gelasius declared February 14 St. Valentine’s Day around 498 A.D. The Lupercalia festival was deemed un-Christian and outlawed.

Valentine’s Greetings

The oldest known valentine gift still in existence today was a poem written by Charles, Duke of Orleans to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. The greeting, written in 1415, is part of the manuscript collection of the British Library in London, England. According to the Greeting Card Association, an estimated one billion valentine cards are sent each year, making Valentine’s Day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year. (An estimated 2.6 billion cards are sent for Christmas.) The first commercial Valentine’s Day greeting cards produced in the U.S. were created in the 1840s by Esther A. Howland. Howland, known as the Mother of the Valentine, made elaborate creations with real lace, ribbons and colorful pictures known as “scrap”.

And Who is this Cupid?

Another valentine icon you may be wondering about is Cupid (from Latin cupido, “desire”). In Roman mythology Cupid is the son of Venus, goddess of love. His counterpart in Greek mythology is Eros, god of love. Cupid is often said to be a mischievous boy who goes around wounding both gods and humans with his arrows, causing them to fall in love. The Romans believed white roses grew where the tears of Venus fell, as she mourned the loss of her beloved Adonis. Her son Cupid, while being stung by a bee, shot arrows in the rose garden; the sting of the arrows became thorns. Venus pricked her foot on a thorn, and the droplets of blood dyed the roses red.

Sending Roses on Valentine’s Day

Why should you send roses to your loved one this Valentine’s Holiday? The rose is the symbol of love, of magic, of hope, and of passion….perfect to let your loved one know how you feel about him/her! The rose represents ultimate beauty and perfection. It is the messenger of Romance!

A dozen red roses remains the classic Valentine’s Day favorite (ok, it’s a toss up between roses and chocolate - but we all knwo why chocolate is). However, many women report that they adore roses in other colors just as much. There are hundreds of colors to choose from. The choices are endless and it’s easier than ever to select a rose that is as unique as your sweetheart.

Whatever your Valentine’s gift to give or receive, have fun this holiday of love - may this little bit of history add to your enjoyment!

Eric is a friend of the rose growers at rosefarm.com, where one can send flowers and long stem red roses to their friends and loved ones

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Motivate yourself with positive self-talk
by Alan Fairweather

Let me tell you a quick story. When I was working in the
Beer industry I was intrigued by our top ten successful Bar
and Hotel owning customers. The majority of them, to put it
tactfully, didn’t seem to be particularly sophisticated
business people. In other words, they didn’t seem to have
had any kind of business training or acquired any
qualifications.

I was discussing with my boss one day how these people had
become so successful and he said - “They don’t know they
can’t do it. You and I Alan see the pitfalls, we know about
business and we see all the ways we could fail. These people
only see how they’ll succeed.

As you’ll gather, this was a pretty powerful message for me
- these successful business owners were talking to
themselves in a much more positive way than less successful
people.

Your level of success in terms of your happiness, emotional
wellbeing and anything else you desire is a direct result of
how you talk to yourself. The most important relationship
you’ll ever have is the one you have with yourself.

Listen to the self-talk that goes on in your head and ask
yourself - “Is what I’m saying allowing me to be confident,
on top and going for it?” If so - great!
“Or is it holding me back and stopping me achieve my goals?”
If this is the case - STOP IT, change the program!

By talking to yourself in a positive manner, you’ll start to
feel physically better. Words have an enormous power to
create change in the chemistry of your body.
Your heart rate, blood pressure, muscles, nerves and
breathing will all react to the words you say to yourself.

Take a moment to say some words to yourself such as -
“Holidays, warm sunshine, sandy beaches, swimming, chilled
beer, delicious food. Are you starting to get good feelings?
I hope you are. Maybe words like home, family, children or
Christmas give you some good feelings. Or how about the word
“sex?” I bet that could change the chemistry of your body.

So think about the things you say to yourself and make every
statement in the present tense.
Don’t say, for example - “I’m going to make a success of
this business” or “I’m going to get organised,” or “I’m
going to be much more confident.”

Say - “I am totally in control of my life. I am totally
confident and positive. I’m achieving my goals. I have
determination and drive.”
What you’re actually doing here is re-programming your
subconscious. If you talk to yourself in a positive way,
that’s what your subconscious will focus on.

Top sports people know all this stuff; they know that they
need to talk to themselves in a positive way to be
successful. Research has proved that the success of the
world’s top golfers is determined by 20 per cent physical
ability and 80 per cent mental ability.
In the day-to-day tasks that we face in our life, we should
be no different from sports people.

If you talk to yourself in a negative way - that’s what your
subconscious will focus on. If you think illness, you’ll
become ill. If you think doom and gloom - that’s what you’ll
get. But if you think - health happiness and success -
you’re already there.

Let me finish on another short story. In the city where I
live, parking a car can be difficult. Say for example I need
to visit a bookstore and I decide to take my car. I say to
myself - “I’m going to park my car outside the bookstore.”
If I have someone with me they’ll inevitably say - “You’re
nuts Alan, you’ll never get parked there, far better to park
several blocks away in a quieter area.” And guess what -
most of the time I park outside the bookstore. It doesn’t
happen all the time but talking to yourself in a positive
way is much more likely to get you the results you want.

Put this to the test right away; for the next 7 days listen
to what you say to yourself and if it’s negative, change it
to something more positive and you’ll start to feel better,
look better and have much more success.

Alan Fairweather -”The Motivation Doctor” - is the author of
“How to get More Sales Without Selling” To receive your free
newsletter and free e-books, visit:
http://www.howtogetmoresales.com

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