Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving Day

            Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving Day

       Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. Several other places around the world observe similar celebrations. It is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and on the second Monday of October in Canada. Thanksgiving has its historical roots in religious and cultural traditions and has long been celebrated in a secular manner as well. Prayers of thanks and special thanksgiving ceremonies are common among almost all religions after harvests and at other times. The Thanksgiving holiday’s history in North America is rooted English traditions dating from the protestant Reformation. It also has aspects of a harvest festival, even though the harvest in New England occurs well before the late-November date on which the modern Thanksgiving holiday is celebrated. In the English tradition, days of thanksgiving and special thanksgiving religious services became important during the English Reformation in the reign of Henry VII and in reaction to the large number of religious holidays on the Catholic calendar. Before 1536 there were 95 Church holidays, plus 52 Sundays, when people were required to attend church and forego work and sometimes pay for expensive celebrations. The reforms reduced the number of Church holidays, including Christmas and Easter.

Dental assistant

                         Dental Assistant                                                       

Duties and Responsibilities: The duties of a dental assistant are among the most comprehensive and varied in the dental office. The dental assistant preforms many tasks requiring both interpersonal and technical skills. Although state regulations vary, responsibilities may include: assisting the dentist during a variety of treatment procedures, taking and developing dental radiographs (x-rays), asking about the patient’s medical history and taking blood pressure and pulse.

Salary: $34,000-$47,580

Education: It takes a relatively short period of time to become a dental assistant. Dental assistant receive their formal education through academic programs at community collages, vocational schools, technical institutes, universities or dental school. Graduates of these programs usually receive certificates. Although the majority of academic dental assisting programs take nine to eleven months to complete, some schools offer accelerated training, part-time education programs or training via distance education.

Dental Lap Technicians

                    Dental Lab Technician

Duties and Responsibilities: Dental Laboratory Technology is both a science and art. Since each dental patient’s needs are different, the duties of a laboratory technician are comprehensive and varied. Although dental technicians seldom work directly with patients, except under the direction of a licensed dentist, they are valuable members of the dental care team. They work directly with dentists by following detailed written instructions and using impressions (molds) of the patient’s teeth or oral soft tissues to create full dentures for patients who are missing all of their teeth and removable partial dentures or fixed bridges for patients who are missing only one or few teeth.

Salary: $25,000-50,000

Education: Dental laboratory technicians may receive their education and training through a two-year program at a community collage, vocational school, technical collage, university or dental school. Graduates of these programs receive either an associate degree or a certificate. There also are a few programs that offer a four-year baccalaureate program in dental technology. In most cases , an interested individual needs a high school diploma or its equivalent to apply to an accredited dental laboratory technology programs. Contact the dental technology program of interest to you for specific requirement.

Chicken or Eagle?

                                                                                    Chicken or Eagle?                                                    If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck, and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly."                      

                                                                                            

Yoga Therapy

                            Yoga Therapy

Duties and Responsibilities:

Integrative yoga therapy is a style of yoga that synthesizes the ideas and practices of all other school of yoga. Integrative yoga therapy must complete a 200-hour certification process that enables them to be hired by a yoga studio, gym, school, hospital, large company or even jails or rehabilitation clinics. Integrative yoga therapy plan workout regiment, teach concisely and keep their clients comfortable and healthy.

Salary: $36,000-$66,530

Education: Over 3000 of our graduates around the world have developed a variety of Yoga, wellness and stress management programs to meet the needs of people in hospitals, mental health setting, corporations, wellness centers, education, seniors care, community centers. Many Yoga practitioners choose our approach because it gives them the flexibility to teach in a wide variety of settings including the Yoga classroom as well as going beyond it into the community. Body workers, educators, nurses, physical therapists, pyschotherapists, physicians and other professionals with a mind-body focus have chosen our programs in order to incorporate Yoga based wellness into their professions.   

Chromotherapy or Color Therapy

       Chromotherapy or Color Therapy

Duties and Responsibilities:

Chromotherapy sometimes called color therapy, colorology or cromatherapy, is an alternative medicine, which is considered pseudoscience. Chromotherapists claim to be able to use light in the form of color to balance energy lacking from a person’s body, weather it be on physical, emotional, spiritual, or mental levels. Research has shown it is ineffective.

Salary: $28,560

Education: As a bodywork professional, you probably like to stay abreast of newer techniques to provide reliefs to your clients. One such technique, is called chromotherapy. While it is not a massage or shiatsu technique, it can be used in conjunction with any therapy technique you offer, providing additional benefits for your clients.

Student Success Statement

                                                                       Student Success Statement                                                        A good name is rather to be chosen than great  riches.                                                                                 Proverbs 22:1 

                                                                   Reflection: I think this means that a good person with a name will be a great person in the future.