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The creators of Sally’s Salon have made us a great gift and released the second part of the game most of us have enjoyed so much. Welcome to Sally’s Spa, a place where you can try your hand at giving your customers real relaxation and yourself have several hours of time-management fun. The game has all the great features of the first part – and much more.

Sally, the successful owner of a network of salons, hears that her friend Nell who runs a spa products shop is experiencing hard times due to the closing of a Spa Villa next to the shop.

Sally is willing to help her friend, and a great idea comes to her head. Guess what? Absolutely right, she decides to buy the Villa and start a new business. You are invited to share this venture with the girl.

There is nothing much to say about the story. But there is much to say about the game play. You start with Azure Coast Spa and will travel all over the world to ten beautiful locations, 5 levels each. In each set of locations (America, Europe, etc.) you are given freedom to choose where to go next. In each spa you are provided a number of stations, such as Sauna, Esthetician Chair or Massage Table. Later on the variety of stations will grow, and you’ll be able to offer your customers a Spa Bath or treatment at a Mani Pedi Chair. Each of the stations has its color which helps quickly distinguish customers’ requests, and each has its sequence of actions to perform. You first drag the customer to the corresponding station, then turn on the station, if it’s Sauna or Spa Bath, choose mask or bath bomb, if we speak about facial treatment or bath, clip fingernails or apply hot stones for manicure and massage. Most of the actions come as pop-ups which sometimes prevent you from setting the sequence of Sally’s actions interfering with your clicks. That is a bit irritating at the beginning, but as you play you get accustomed to it. After a customer has received all the treatment he/she desired, you go to the cash register and take your well deserved money. That’s the essence of the game play. But there is much more about it.

First, each type of customers has its peculiarities, namely, level of patience and tipping. For example, Fashionista is good tipper, but very impatient, while Athlete is moderately patient and an average tipper. Thinking whom to serve first can help a bit, for the amount of your tips also depends on the number of hearts your customer has when leaving.

There are also upgrades which are definitely worth dwelling on a bit. On the total you will have a possibility to purchase more than 65 upgrades for your shop, including additional chairs, station upgrades, pacifiers and treats, helpers and upgrades for Sally herself. Choosing which one to buy first can be quite a challenge sometimes, but I would advise to balance everything so that your spa would have all aspects developed at approximately the same level. Gradually you’ll be able to give your customers herbal tea or magazines, to fill your spa with calming aroma and move faster, and your stations will become more efficient. One great thing about the upgrades is that they are kept from one spa to another and you don’t have to buy them all from the start in each new location.

Tip: watch for recommendations when choosing upgrades – they are quite reasonable.

There is also one more service your spa will offer to its customers: selling cosmetic products of Nell’s Naturals brand. They help you maximize your profit once you select your assortment wisely. Demand for preparations for Split Ends, Stress, Dryness etc. fluctuates daily, so watch the market and make a career in this sphere also. AS your rank will grow you’ll have more options to choose from – and to attract your customers with.

On the whole the game play proves to be extremely addictive. I couldn’t make myself stop playing and write the review for you. Now you can join me in this fun, and I’m going to continue enjoying the game, its pleasant visuals and meditative music.

Have a nice relaxation!

The decision to take an upscale world cruise will likely be the best decision you make in your life. Such a cruise will take you to all parts of the globe and to ports of call you only saw in pictures or read about in books and magazines.

The average family can now afford to take a five star world cruise (http://www.amttravel.com/cruise-lines/5-star-world-cruises.html) with just about all of the cruise lines offering this opportunity. The increased competition has also brought down the prices and provides discounts to certain groups of people.

Seniors, teachers, members of clubs, etc. are just some of the people who can get lower prices on the rates. Booking as a group will also enable you to receive discounted rates for the cruise.

You may ask what the difference is from a regular cruise to an upscale world cruise. The difference is evident in the smaller ships and the luxurious settings on board. You are surrounded by luxury with amenities you would only expect to find at a five-star resort.

The accommodations are out of this world with nightly turn down service and chocolates left on your pillow. The bed linens and towels are of the finest material. The accommodations are quite spacious so that you have plenty of room in your home away from home for the duration of the cruise.

Luxury around the world cruises (http://www.amttravel.com/cruise-lines/luxury-world-cruises.html) are the perfect way to celebrate a milestone in your life, whether it is a wedding, an anniversary or retirement or another momentous occasion.

You may just want to get away from the humdrum of your daily chores and spend a relaxing vacation where you can be tended on hand and foot. This type of cruise offers you a one-of-a-kind experience where you will make memories that will last for a lifetime.

Every detail of an upscale world cruise is planned for you. You only have to make one reservation and while there are choices to be made at that time, you can always change your plans when you board the ship.

You will have to decide what type of accommodations you want as this is reflected in the price of the cruise. Most of the ships that do cruise the world have all outside cabins with either a balcony or a picture window, although a few do have inside cabins, which are cheaper.

Onboard the cruise ship on an upscale world cruise you can experience the best of everything. You will spend a day or two at sea before entering an exotic port of call. You can spend the time on board the ship in any way you wish.

Relax with friends on the pool deck, take a few laps of the pool, watch the sunrise and sunset from your balcony, indulge in a treatment at the spa or continue your daily workout in the gym.

Keep in touch with those at home via the Internet and dine on food prepared by world renowned chefs. You can learn a new hobby or take a cooking class on some of the cruises, depending on where your interests lie.

Shore excursions offered on an upscale world cruise are just as luxurious as the ship itself. The cruise lines include only the best attractions allowing you to gain the full experience of each port of call and offer you the opportunity to engage in activities that you could only dream of doing.

More than ever before research is proving the fundamental responsibility played by stress in triggering or aggravating a lot of physical and emotional afflictions. In the June 6, 1983 issue of Time Magazine, the cover story called stress “The Epidemic of the Eighties.” The article also claimed that stress is a major health issue. Indeed there is no doubt whatsoever that our world has become even more complex and stressful in the past two decades since that article was published.

Numerous surveys indicate that most adults perceive themselves as being subject to a lot of stress. Authorities in the field estimate that 75 to 90 percent of the visits to primary care doctors are for stress related problems.

Most adults say their stress is for the most part due to their job. The levels of stress have also soared in children and the elderly population because of several reasons including: Peer pressures that often push people to everything from cigarette smoking to alcoholism and drug abuse; the wearing away of family and religious values and ties; growing crime rates; fear for personal safety; and last but not least social isolation and loneliness.

Stress can cause and aggravate problems such as diabetes, ulcers, low back and neck pain, high blood pressure, strokes and heart attacks. This is because of the augmented sympathetic nervous system activity and a high level of cortisol, adrenaline, and other hormones. Chronic stress is often associated with weakened immune system resistance. Stress can cause anxiety, depression, and its various impacts on the body’s organs.

The American Heritage Dictionary defines “stress” as follows:

“To subject to physical or mental pressure, tension, or strain”

The same dictionary defines “tension” as follows:

“Mental, emotional, or nervous strain”

The following is the definition of “anxiety”:

“A state of uneasiness and apprehension, as about future uncertainties”

And the following is the definition of “depression”:

“The condition of feeling sad or despondent”

The following is the definition of “clinical depression”:

“A psychiatric disorder characterized by an inability to concentrate, insomnia, loss of appetite, anhedonia, feelings of extreme sadness, guilt, helplessness and hopelessness, and thoughts of death.”

What we can be sure of is that our thoughts are the major cause of our experience of stress, anxiety and depression. In other words, what we think about, and our attitudes and the way we view our experiences create our feelings. So if we can learn how to alter our thoughts, attitudes, and points of view, we can release our feelings of stress, anxiety, and depression and change them for a better state of being.

Since the beginning of time, people have tried to find methods that would allow them to eliminate stress. With the pharmaceutical industry there seems to be a drug for everything. For that the industry has developed a large line of anxiolytics from Valium to Xanax. If you choose to utilize these pills for relief, please make sure that you pay attention to the fine print and learn about the side effects, which often are, among others, addiction and dependency. Indeed these types of drugs aim at treating the symptoms, instead of the cause. So as soon as one stops taking them, the symptoms can come back.

A smarter method to get rid of tension, stress, anxiety, and depression is to treat its actual cause, which as I said previously, is most often our thought processes. There is the good news. The heart of hypnosis is relaxing. The AMA recognized hypnosis in 1958 as an effective way to cure stress and stress related symptoms. And unlike anxiolytics, there are categorically no negative side effects.

When you enter hypnosis, you are in the Alpha level of consciousness. It’s the daydream like temporary psychological frame of mind which we feel as we’re just about to fall asleep in the evening. And we feel it again when we awaken again. There are many different ways we can guide ourselves into this state of tranquility, from step-by-step relaxation to visual imagery to listening to hypnosis CD’s.

Once in the hypnotic state, we can interact with our unconscious mind, which is the seat of our emotions. And one can more easily admit new points of view and ideas which will help us to eliminate anxiety, or even prevent anxiety from occurring in the first place.

NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), which is a new sort of hypnosis, has many great techniques for dissipating stress. Perhaps the most effective technique is called the “swish” pattern – or the “flash” pattern. When you use the “flash” pattern, your unconscious will automatically use negative, stress triggering mental pictures, to generate relaxing mental pictures. In other words, what generally makes you feel stress will automatically make you feel more relaxed!

TO SUM UP

Tension, stress, anxiety, and depression can be triggered by our thoughts. So by changing our attitude and the way we perceive our situation and our experiences, we can eliminate these feelings at the root. Hypnosis and NLP are natural tools that allow us to change our attitude and point of view to rapidly eliminate the root cause of our negative feelings.