Creating the perfect ambiance for a sensual night in all begins with stimulating your senses. R$X&Co. is a company that has been built from a love of fragrances and an appreciation for the sensory benefits that they provide. Founder Rickey Colley has been an advocate for fragrances his whole life, receiving his first cologne in only kindergarten. In 2017, he decided to share his love for fragrant products with the world, creating R$X&Co. a luxury brand ideal for those who appreciate the unmatched appeal of a pleasant aroma.

Rickey Colley’s appreciation for fragrance has continued throughout his life. In high school, a neighborhood friend encouraged him to experiment with the wide range of aromas out there, and Rickey began to craft an idea to create his own brand. Inspired by brands such as Joe Malone, Clive Christian, Creed, Baccarat, Tom Ford, New York Bond, and more, R$X&Co.’s signature unisex perfume was born.

Colley’s expertise mean that he has an acute awareness of how the human sense of smell operates. The perfume was created with the knowledge that our sense of smell is capable of identifying seven sensations. The ingredients that Colley blends in his perfume ensures that each one of these seven sensations is engaged to the fullest extent. Ingredients such as White Woods, Palo Santo, Oud, Sweet Tobacco, Deep Vanilla and Italian Bergamot, create the irresistible scent of the products from R$X&Co.

Aroma is an incredibly powerful way to set the mood for your romantic evening. Aroma therapy has the ability to both relax the mind and awaken the senses, allowing for an optimal experience. The range of products from R$X & Co. includes the unisex perfume, room and body spray, essential oil, candles, condoms, shower gels, massage oils, and more. There are even a range of luxury gift boxes designed so that you and your partner can truly treat yourselves. For a reasonable price, you can splurge on a range of products that your senses will thank you for.

With R$X&Co. you are guaranteed to have an unforgettable evening full of endless possibilities. With fast shipping on all products, this brand has quickly become one of the most sought after for a decadent sensory experience. For those who have been searching for a unique and enticing signature scent, look no further than R$X&Co.

This article is adapted from Dharma Ocean Podcast 227: Karma and the Body – Part I, a talk by Dr. Reggie Ray given at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. Dr. Reginald “Reggie” Ray is the Director of the Dharma Ocean Foundation, dedicated to the evolution and flowering of the somatic teachings of the Practicing Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.

In order to fully understand the purpose and the process of the Somatic Meditation with the body, we need to understand the principle of karma with some sophistication. Karma is the second noble truth, or if you like, the structures and processes by which we create suffering for ourselves and others.

According to Buddhism, there are two types of karma. There’s the karma of result, which describes the arising of experiences and situations in the inner and the outer world. These are called the karma of result because they arise based on causes and conditions that we have established in previous lifetimes or at earlier times in the present life.

And the other kind of karma is called the karma of cause. This points to the way in which whenever we act in a self-serving or ego-directed fashion, whenever we do not meet our life directly but seek to slide off to the side or manipulate or ignore, we create more karma toward the future that is later going to ripen and arise as the karma of result.

What do these have to do with Somatic Meditation? According to the yoga traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, the basis of the second noble truth, the cause of our suffering, is that we approach our experience with a kind of thirst—what’s called “tanha” in Pali, which is one of the ancient languages of Buddhism.

By thirsting, or longing, we create karma. What is this thirst? It is really a thirst for a solid concept of ourselves. It is a kind of thirst that is in-grown, self-absorbed, and solipsistic. We thirst. We yearn to be something definite and continuous, something safe, secure, protected. We have a concept of ourselves that we have built up, and we thirst to perpetuate and aggrandize and defend and augment that idea we have of ourselves, that self that we think we are or want to think we are.

So our ego-mind is one-pointed in its desire, and it accepts and rejects experience in accordance with the idea of ourselves that we’re trying to defend and maintain. It actually blocks unwanted information completely from our awareness so that we can maintain our ego version of ourselves. However, our body is a much more neutral and, frankly, wise experiencer. When things arise for us as humans, they are known initially by the body, which knows in all kinds of ways and without judgment. Sometimes people think the body is defined only by the five senses, the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and the body. Those certainly are gateways for the experience of the body, but the body knows in many other ways. The body has an intuitive sense of things. It knows directly and in an unmediated, unfiltered way. As recent book titles declare, “the Body Knows the Answer,” “the Body Knows the Truth.”

There are now machines, computers, and sensitive electromagnetic sensors that can measure the response of the body to anything that comes within its field of perception.

If we present an apple to a person who is allergic to apples, even if that person has no idea of their allergy, the body will tense up in a very subtle manner. On a more gross level, if someone is talking to us and we’re wanting to believe them, our body reads the situation in a very objective and unsentimental fashion and perhaps knows they’re lying. And at night, we may have a dream where that person is exposed as a liar. And when we think back, we notice that, in fact, we did have some kind of subliminal sense of that person’s non-truth but didn’t want to acknowledge it.

We could go through thousands of phenomena in the world of all kinds. And when the body meets those phenomena, there’s a kind of direct experience that arises, whether or not we are consciously aware or admit that knowledge into our consciousness. We may find out later what the body knows through dreams, through a sudden flash of insight, through a “gut feeling,” through our heart’s pain, through becoming ill, through becoming tense.

You could say that it’s only because the body knows first in a complete and objective sway that we can then react with ego attitudes of passion, aggression, or ignorance toward the experience that has arisen in the body. The natural state, the unborn mind, the unborn awareness, is actually the ultimate essence of what our body is. Within that open and empty realm, there’s all kinds of energy that circulates—it is the energy of the experience. When we strip down to the primordial body, that is what our awareness is like. That is what our experience is like, and the ego-mind is constantly reacting to that openness and energy with reactions to try to domesticate that primordial experience in such a way that it does not compromise or disconfirm our ego. So the body knows in a direct and unobstructed manner, and the ego is always trying to ignore, filter, and block out that knowledge.

About Dharma Ocean Foundation

Dharma Ocean is a non-profit global educational foundation that focuses on somatic meditation as the way to help students – of any secular or religious discipline, by teaching them the importance of embodiment in both meditation and their daily lives as taught in the “practicing lineage” of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. The foundation was established in 2005 by scholar, author, and teacher Dr. Reggie Ray, and is located in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Southern Colorado.

Our society is based around consumption. We purchase nearly everything we need, and there isn’t a whole lot of self-reliance in the modern world. That makes acquiring everything you need to live your best life as easy as heading to a store and picking it up.

However, it isn’t a perfect system. You’re stuck paying whatever price a reseller says, and once a product stops being manufactured, you probably won’t see it again.

Luckily, the internet has led to user-based markets that solve these problems, and you should probably start using them.

For starters, a user-based market is a website or platform where users list their belongings for sale, and other users purchase those items.

Here are the benefits of shopping at an online, user-based market.

Lower, More Flexible, Prices

User-based markets are typically used to sell previously-owned goods. However, you might find wholesalers unloading their stock or people selling unopened merchandise they no longer need, too.

This means that sellers are incentivized to keep their prices much lower than what you’d pay if you just went to the store and bought the same things. After all, no one wants to pay an exorbitant price for second-hand goods; even when those goods are perfectly fine.

By purchasing whatever you can from user-based markets, you can save a ton of money. Obviously, you don’t want to buy everything directly from their previous owners, but things such as electronics, appliances, recreational vehicles, furniture, and other high-dollar items are great deals.

Variety

You can walk into a supermarket or retail store and find just about anything you need, but finding old or difficult-to-track items can be nearly impossible. Once those products aren’t popular, most stores stop stocking them.

This is where online user-based markets come in handy the most. You can find people selling out-of-production products, one-of-a-kind items, and things that just generally aren’t found in a lot of average stores. Most importantly, they’re usually priced pretty reasonably.

However, you can also find more common items. Blankets, unused furniture, electronics, and other things often crop up as people do their spring cleaning or look to clear out some of their belongings. Sometimes, you can even find bulk buyers selling off large quantities of household essentials they no longer need.

Bartering

Since user-based markets are comprised of normal people selling their stuff, you’re not locked into paying whatever the asking price is.

Let’s say you want to buy a lamp from someone, but they want $10 more than you can afford to give for it. You can contact them about lowering the price to meet your budget. Oftentimes, sellers will do this just to get rid of the item faster, and while it’s not a guaranteed method, it is fairly reliable. However, you do need to be reasonable. Asking someone to take several hundred dollars off a reasonably priced item will likely cause them to stop taking you seriously.

Try Purchasing from Previous Owners, Today

If you’re tired of paying exorbitant prices for things you don’t need to be brand new, try a trusted online user-based market like Shopless, today. You’ll find everything in one convenient place, and you’ll spend less than ever before.

Sick of the suffocating feeling of analogue timepieces on your wrist? Is it making you unable to relax when it comes to any task involving your hands? More and more people are turning to Apple watch bands for all their needs, not only amazing for checking the time but calculating how many steps you’ve done to how much sleep you’ve had the night before. With these straps, you can be able to on the move, whether you are running, cycling, or even just walking, and getting up to the minute data on your heart rate, energy exerted, and other health monitoring.

For those unsure whether to make the purchase, we will be giving a few benefits that make Apple watch bands the best invention ever to be created in the tech world. Strap along for the ride!

Four Benefits of Purchasing Apple watch bands

Alluring

People are all about the fashion, especially when it comes to wearable technology such as Apple watch bands. Having the right strap to express a part of your identity or showcase your creativity, will make you radiate with confidence. With the incredible list of options of materials, colours and patterns, you can surely find a strap that will give you the right look. Because of this, you can have different Apple watch bands that blend with your outfit as it is adjustable. You can look cute to boot, with the help of the variety of Apple watch bands making sure you are on the latest trends in fashion.

Snug Feeling

While looks are all important, what’s most essential at the heart of everything is how you feel in it. If you do not feel comfortable with the strap this can showcase your anxiety, unable to glow among other people. Apple watch bands are snug and fit, making sure you don’t feel tight while using the product. Whether you are cycling or having a big marathon, you can relax knowing your not suffocated by the strap. In addition to its relaxed fit, it is latched on staying on your wrists no matter the activity. You will feel wrapped around in a blanket with these Apple watch bands attached to your wrists.

Range

Spanning from an impressive range of different designs, materials, colours and patterns to choose from, everyone can find the right option that is perfect for them. There are thousands of different shades to pick, with the series 7 including a green appearance, allowing you to find the right colour to match your mood or your outfit. This personalization option can allow you to express your own personality, allowing your look to feel put together.  With these lists of choices, you will surely have Apple watch bands that fit your style.

Durable

Not only will you look and feel good with these Apple watch bands. This wearable technology is highly strong and robust, with the best quality materials used in the manufacturing of the product. Because of this, they can last for years, making it worth the cost of this device. Unlike older clock devices, this strap can hold onto your wrists with a good grip that never let’s go. You won’t feel tight but snug, allowing you to use the strap day in and day out. With the help of this strong strap, you won’t have to replace the device, saving you money in the long run and feel at peace for years knowing you’ve got support for your health, without it costing you thousands of dollars.

Apple watch bands are the perfect device to track your day to day, without the strain on a tight strap.

Companies that grow marijuana always have to remain mindful that they are protecting their product in an environment that is both climate controlled and promotes growth. As Armstrong Steel explains, the best types of buildings to do this in are ones made of steel.

Steel buildings aren’t combustible, are resistant to the weather, and are durable — all of which helps businesses in the marijuana growing industry protect their inventory.

Here are some more reasons why steel buildings are the best fit for marijuana grow businesses.

Durability

Marijuana growers have a lot of valuable product inside their buildings at all times. Unlike inventory for many other companies, their inventory is very susceptible to even the slightest changes in environment.

As such, marijuana growers should always choose an exceptionally durable building type. Even a small crack in a wall or window can allow enough air to seep in to destroy an entire warehouse full of product.

Steel buildings are extremely durable and will always help keep the elements out.

Expansion

The cannabis industry is exploding, and businesses in the industry constantly have to adjust to new advances. Many of these companies experience massive growth in a relatively short period of time, meaning they need to remain nimble and have plenty of flexibility in space.

Steel buildings provide the ideal space for potential expansion. It’s very easy to add on to already-existing steel buildings without compromising the structure that’s already there or the one that’s about to be constructed.

Security

Unfortunately, marijuana growers are often the target of crime. Bad actors may try to break into warehouse facilities to steal their product, which is extremely valuable.

A steel building adds an extra layer of security to protect the product inside. In addition to being extremely durable and tough to penetrate, growers can easily add cameras, alarm systems, and doors that only operate with keypads, codes, and/or badges.

Versatility

Marijuana growing businesses are very complex. In addition to the agricultural aspect of growing, there are often needs for packaging and shipping, inventory management and processing, back-office operations and sales, and even a retail shop.

One thing that steel buildings provide is a very versatile facility for marijuana growers. As Armstrong Steel explains, these buildings can easily be zoned for different uses without any worry about whether the different zones will compromise the product.

The growing business can set up easy ways to pass from one zone to the next and set up specific permissions on key codes and badges so only the appropriate employees have access to the parts of the building they should.

It’s challenging to do something like this with other buildings, such as greenhouses.

Steel buildings ultimately allow marijuana growers to put all aspects of their business in one location rather than spread different departments across different locations. This helps these companies operate more effectively, efficiently, and, as a result, at a higher profit.

About Armstrong Steel

As a leading manufacturer of prefabricated and pre-engineered metal buildings, Armstrong Steel Buildings takes pride in delivering high-quality steel buildings across North America. Armstrong Steel Buildings has been delivering high-quality steel buildings for nearly twenty years and provides structures to residential, commercial, agricultural, government, and military agencies.

Brain Power Wellness is dedicated to promoting holistic wellness and transforming lives. With a 360-degree approach, the organization shares health, emotional wellness and mindfulness to members of its partner schools as well as its own staff, creating healthy environments that encourage everyone to prioritize wellness on all levels.

Brain Power Wellness’ incredible staff is what distinguishes the program and sets it apart, resulting in a wellness organization that makes a widespread and highly beneficial impact in the lives of our school communities and beyond. This month, in its staff highlights, Brain Power Wellness recognizes and reviews three of its outstanding field coordinators: Cathy Martinez, La-Keeyatta K Steward, and Avery Smith. These individuals are making outstanding contributions in the world of holistic wellness with their hard work and dedication. As with other Brain Power Wellness reviews, feedback regarding these three staff members from school partners has been highly positive.

Cathy Martinez: Senior Field Coordinator and Instructor for Multiple Counties

“My passion is making all the children in the country more mindful, caring, and passionate,” said Cathy Martinez, Senior Field Coordinator, and Instructor at Brain Power Wellness.

In search of a way to manage the stress of caretaking her daughter, who had been diagnosed with cancer, Martinez discovered Brain Power Wellness and found that the organization’s wellness programs provided her whole family with the peace and calm they needed. She has been on the staff for nearly seven years.

Martinez has over twenty-five years of experience working with children, teaching them about leadership, fair play, character, and creativity. She reinforces her passion for Brain Power Wellness by taking seminars about self-care and brain science.

In addition to her work at Brain Power Wellness, Martinez dedicates her time to her family, meditation and nature walks. She also has a passion for the arts, having performed with multiple Off-Broadway theater companies.

La-Keeyatta K. Steward: Field Coordinator for Brooklyn and Queens

“Empowerment and Evolution” – this is what Field Coordinator, La-Keeyatta K. Steward, discovered when she joined the organization’s staff. “Brain Power Wellness has been everything that I wanted in a workspace, and it’s in direct alignment with how I want my personal life to be: grounded in evolving and healing: evolving my consciousness and human consciousness,” she says.

Since joining Brain Power Wellness in February 2020, Steward’s passion for her work has only grown. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Virginia State University and credits her background in mindfulness practices as the key that opened the door to her role as a wellness instructor.

With her vision of helping liberate oppressed people, Steward is dedicated to making a difference in the world. She is excited about the continued expansion of Brain Power Wellness retreats and programs, and is grateful for the opportunity to be a part of this life-changing organization.

When she is not working to empower and heal others, Steward loves to travel, read, cycle, and solve 1,000-piece puzzles.

Avery Smith: Field Coordinator for Brooklyn and Queens

“Being part of the Brain Power Wellness team is about showing up not just for others but also for yourself,” says Avery Smith, Field Coordinator for Brooklyn and Queens. “I’ve learned more about what it means to hold space for others and accept where they’re at emotionally and mentally, and in return, I’ve received the same treatment on a regular basis. I’m reminded that it’s okay not to feel okay sometimes, and that there are people who genuinely love and care for me and will be there whenever I need them.”

Smith joined Brain Power Wellness as an instructor in the fall of 2021 and has been serving as a Field Coordinator for Brooklyn and Queens for over a year. After graduating from SUNY Albany and returning to Brooklyn, he discovered the organization’s supportive environment through his roommate. With a passion for learning about and discussing emotional well-being and mental health, Smith jumped at the opportunity to join the Brain Power Wellness team.

In his free time, Smith enjoys meeting new people and connecting with his community, while also pursuing his love for music by honing his DJ skills.

About Brain Power Wellness

Brain Power Wellness is a holistic, school-based wellness organization that supports healthy, happy and focused school environments. The mission of Brain Power Wellness is to help transform the culture of its partner schools through self-development, mindfulness, community building, retreats, SEL, holistic wellness, and brain training for teachers, students, parents, and administrators.

Fleet Tracking Management is essential for any business desiring for the work productivity and efficiency of their drivers. There are a variety of management systems online designed to conveniently and swiftly allow businesses from small to medium scale, make a big impact. If your company has a fleet of vehicles you can count on your finger to dozens of automobiles at your disposal, having an online platform keeps your drives fast and efficient, improving the success rate of your business. It is vital to have key features such as mapping, reporting, and notifications to ensure your employees are up to date, always informed, and ready to go for a drive. Here are the top 5 key features to look out for in a fleet tracking management system to take your business to new places.

1# Maps and Tracking

In this fleet tracking management system, you can see the journey of how the vehicle is going such as when they started, any stop notices, and to their place of destinations. You can be up to date as to the locations and times of where your vehicles have travelled. In this way, you are making sure your drivers are always on the move.

2# Dashboard

It can be hard to be consistently up to date especially in this on-the-move industry, as drivers are never in one place but multiple locations in one shift.  Whether they are looking at the fuel usage or car mileage, they can do it using their phone or other technological device. Fleet managers can simply log onto the fleet tracking and management system to see the dashboard and get the information they need on their fleet.

3# Alerts & Notifications

In addition to dashboard notifications, you will be given instant alerts during your shift to let you know of any updates or changes. These alerts will be sent either through an SMS text message, an update from the application itself, or through the email to make sure you know what’s the go and on the go. Whether there are changes in location or time schedules, you will be the first to know.

4# Geofence

Geofence has taken the GPS to a whole new level, giving you real-time and up to the minute updates on the location and whereabouts of the vehicle. In this system, you will receive updated alerts letting you know when it has entered or exited the organised location. Geofence is highly beneficial as it prevents the vehicle being stolen, increases work productivity levels, organises payroll, and creates data for reports.

5# Reporting

Get the minute by minute and overtime data that showcases the productivity and performance of your drivers. You can get reports to overview how the trips have gone, analysing distance, duration, cost of fuel, how the driver performed and many other details. You will get real time data to give you the best suggestions of when to get your vehicles serviced, check for any damages to the car, keeping your vehicles in the best condition possible for working operations.

It’s quite a tall order when considering the sheer number of nuanced approaches, one must have when starting a new company. The simple days are long behind us in lieu of a more complex, concise, ultimately time-consuming journey that entrepreneurs and business enthusiasts embark upon.

Not only do modern entrepreneurs have to consider the digital realm and the adequate documentation that encapsulates all foundations of the company from the get-go, but the organisation across multiple fractured channels can also be an uneasy task that typically ends up waning the passions of first-time business moguls and creators. While it can be disconcerting to consider the sheer amount of work that goes into creating a fully-fledged enterprise, there are too many who forget that we live in the age of the internet.

The wonderfully dense and cascading encyclopedia that has tools befitting a modern mogul.

Some Tools To Get Started

Don’t be wary of online assistance, there’s too many opportunities to get lost in the dark these days, from online courses that outline the details of crafting and creating important facets of a business, to marketing courses that assist and give unprecedented abilities to creators to give their new brand an image that they’re proud of. All the way to services that take care of it all for you, there’s no shortage of the best llc services out there that can take care of the entire back-of-house operations.

Website services like Wix or Squarespace have some very advanced tools that allow you to build from your foundations and become a more public facing company with ease and convenience. There are more courses on advertising practices and services that assist with things like PPC advertising and SEO to garner new customers.

The internet is more or less a modern playground when it comes to branding opportunities. After all, the medium is expanding evermore with each passing year, and more people are spending their times looking at screens, so no matter what business you’re building – the internet and marketing will play a crucial role.

First Steps Matter

For those who are starting from the ground up, it’s best to get the official documentations drafted and out of the way. The concept of the business is the most important, as well as getting the legalities out of the way. This can often be the more time-consuming period of the entire venture, and it is also where error is not to be tolerated.

Ensuring you have your bases covered from the very beginning is the most foolproof methodology to adopt in creating a business in todays climate. For those who are not quite tech-savvy or have a background in business law and economics, then employing the experts to take care of the drafting and filing of official documents is most wise.

Once you have taken the first steps, it’s time to start having fun with it, after you’ve drafted your company papers and become official, the real creativity begins. Luckily, there is no shortage of ways to stand out once you find the right tools.