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Why An AIM Business?

Why an AIM business?

An AIM network marketing business is the ideal business. AIM offers you the opportunity to provide answers to two of the most pressing needs facing people today: economic stability and good health.

Economic stability:

Today, for many people around the world, economic uncertainty reigns. Prices are rising for basic goods such as food and basic services such as water and electricity. At the same time, corporations are downsizing, and many of the newly created jobs do not provide the same benefits—many provide only a salary, and no benefits! People are finding that they are working more for less.

In opposition to the need to work more to earn more is the universal desire for time—time to spend with the family, and time for oneself. There is a great demand for "flextime"—scheduling work hours more in sync with family obligations—and time off, sometimes in lieu of overtime.

This all points to the need for a business that rewards you well for your work and for a business that fits today’s balancing act between work, family time, and personal time. Home-based businesses are one answer.

Home-based network marketing businesses are a dynamic and rapidly growing trend across the United States and Canada. Fueled in large measure by dramatic innovations and cost efficiencies in communications technologies—from cellular phones to laptop computers to low-priced fax machines to the Internet—one-person offices are springing up across North America, producing the same professional-looking work as those located in downtown high rises.

More than 50 million people today are running full-time or part-time home-based businesses in the United States, and growth estimates peg their increase at 10 percent annually. While these businesses run the gamut from consultants to programmers, hundreds of thousands of home-based business owners manage network marketing organizations.

A home-based network marketing business lets you control the hours you work. If it is better for you to work nights, fine, or if mornings are ideal, fine. They allow spontaneity, and you are your own boss—if something comes up, there is no chain of command to follow for permission to do what you want. Finally, many home-based businesses can be lucrative.

An AIM network marketing business is a home-based business where you call the shots. You set your own goals, design your own plan to achieve them, and determine your own hours. No one can hold you back: your reward at AIM is commensurate with the effort you make. If you are looking for the flexibility, convenience, and rewards of a home-based business, AIM is the answer.

Good health:

An AIM business also provides you with the opportunity to address another great concern of North Americans: health and health care. There is a new awareness of the importance of health, and this is illustrated in consumer habits: "health food" and supplements are one of the fastest growing segments in the business world. This is because people are getting wiser; people are beginning to realize that they need to take responsibility for their own health, and that living a healthy lifestyle is one of the best ways to stave off potential health problems.

For more than 21 years and in more than 30 countries, AIM has been a leader in providing whole food and nutritional supplements of the highest quality. AIM provides only the finest cellular-focused products, and all products must meet stringent quality standards, a process that includes rigorous research and laboratory testing.

The opportunity to take charge of your own health, and to help others, by using AIM products and introducing them to others provides a solution to the health dilemma of millions worldwide.

Why an AIM business? Because an AIM business is where good health and economic opportunity merge.

Independent AIM Member, Marilyn Wilson Price

Breast Cancer Stamp

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We need those of you who are great at forwarding information to your e-mail network. Please read and pass this on. It would be wonderful if 2004 were the year a cure for breast cancer were found! This is one e-mail you should be glad to pass on. The notion that we could raise $35 million by buying a book of stamps is powerful! As you may be aware, the US Postal Service recently released its new "Fund the Cure" stamp to help fund breast cancer research. The stamp was designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Maryland. It is important that we take a stand against this disease that affects so many of our mothers, sisters and friends. Instead of the routine 37 cents for a stamp, this one costs 40 cents. The additional 3 cents will go to breast cancer research. A "normal" book costs $7.40. This one is only $8.00. It takes a few minutes in line at the Post Office and means so much. If all stamps are sold, it will raise an additional $35,000,000 for this vital research. Just as important as the money is our support. What a statement it would make if the stamp outsold the lottery this week. What a statement it would make that we care.

I would urge you to do two things TODAY:

1. Go out and purchase some of these stamps.
2. E-mail your friends to do the same. We all know women and their families whose lives are turned upside-down by breast cancer. It takes so little to do so much in this drive. I think we can all afford the additional 60 cents for this new book of stamps. Please help & pass this on.

Independent AIM Member - Marilyn Wilson Price

A History of Joseph H. Pilates

A History of Joseph Hubertus Pilates

Joe was born in Mönchengladbach, a small town near Dusseldorf, Germany, in 1880. He was a small and sickly child who suffered from asthma, rickets and rheumatic fever. His name had been spelled "Pilatu" and was of Greek derivation but was changed to Pilates. This caused him much grief because, as a child, older boys taunted him calling him "Pontius Pilate, killer of Christ". He was so skinny that he couldn't fight back and it was these conditions that caused him to begin the journey to fitness and health. His father was a prizewinning gymnast and his mother a naturopath. A family physician gave him a discarded anatomy book and as he put it "I learned every page, every part of the body; I would move each part as I memorized it. As a child, I would lie in the woods for hours, hiding and watching the animals move, how the mother taught the young." he said. He studied both Eastern and Western forms of exercise including yoga, Zen, and ancient Greek and Roman regimens. By the time he was 14 he had worked so hard he had developed his body to the point that he was modeling for anatomy charts.

Growing up in Germany, he achieved some success as a boxer and a gymnast in addition to being a skilled skier and diver. There are 2 versions of how he traveled to England. One version has it that in 1912 he decided to go there to work as a boxer and another, that by 1914 he had become a star circus performer and toured England with his troupe. In this version he and his brother were performing a Greek statue act! In 1914 after WWI broke out he was interned along with other German nationals in a "camp" for enemy aliens in Lancaster. There he taught wrestling and self-defense, boasting that his students would emerge stronger than they were before being interned. It was here that he began devising his system of original exercises that later became "Contrology". He was transferred to another camp on The Isle of Man where he became something of a nurse and worked with many internees who suffered from wartime diseases and incarceration. He then began devising equipment to rehabilitate them, taking the springs from the beds and rigging exercise apparatus for the bedridden! In 1918, a terrible epidemic of influenza swept the world, killing millions of people, tens of thousands in England. None of Joe's followers succumbed even though the camps were the hardest hit!

After the war Joe returned to Germany and began training the Hamburg Military Police in self defense and physical training as well as taking on personal clients. He said, "I invented all these machines. Began back in Germany, was there until 1925 used to exercise rheumatic patients. I thought, why use My strength? So I made a machine to do it for me. Look, you see it resists your movements in just the right way so those inner muscles really have to work against it. That way you can concentrate on movement. You must always do it slowly and smoothly. Then your whole body is in it." It was at this time that he met Rudolf von Laban, a famous movement analyst, who is said to have incorporated some of Joe's theories and exercises into his own work. Mary Wigman, a famous German dancer and choreographer was a student of Joe's and used his exercises in her dance class warm-up.

In 1925 he was invited to train the New German Army but because he was not happy with the political direction of Germany he decided to leave. On the urging of boxing expert, Nat Fleischer and with the aid of Max Schmelling he decided to come to the U.S. It was en route to America that Joe met his future wife, Clara. She was a kindergarten teacher who was suffering from arthritic pain and Joe worked with her on the boat to heal her. Upon arriving in New York City they opened a gym at 939 Eight Ave, in the same building as several dance studios and rehearsal spaces. It was this proximity that made "Contrology" such an intrinsic part of many dancers' training and rehab work and many were sent to Joe to be "fixed". George Balanchine, the famous choreographer, studied with Joe and sent many of his dancers to Pilates for strengthening and "balancing" as well as rehabilitation, as did another famous dancer/choreographer, Martha Graham. From 1939 to 1951 Joe and Clara went every summer to Jacob's Pillow, a well known dance camp in the Berkshire Mountains. He was a friend and teacher to such renowned dancer/choreographers as Ted Shawn, Ruth St. Denis, Martha Graham and Jerome Robbins and many required their dancers to go to Joe. Hanya Holm even incorporated Joe's exercises into her students' lessons. However, Joe counted many socialites as well as plumbers and doctors, to list a few, as his clients as well.

Joe felt his work was "50 years ahead of (his) time". Joe's definition of physical fitness was: "the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneously zest and pleasure". Joe believed in "natural movements" with the emphasis on doing and being. He has stated, " Everything should be smooth, like a cat. The exercises are done lying, sitting, kneeling, etc., to avoid excess strain on the heart and lungs." Romana Kryzanowska, the heir to Joe's work and Amy and Rachel's teacher is quoted as saying " The key to working with the apparatus is they make you do the work yourself. The fewer springs, the harder the exercise. The springs provide or create endurance, not excess strength. The method is based on the movement of animals, everything about the method is based on moving naturally." Carola Trier, a longtime student of Joe's and teacher of his work said " The method emphasizes restoring the body to true balance, ease and economy of movement and a channeled flow of energy."

Although Joe Pilates was a health guru, he believed in fitness supporting your life's rich goals. He was renowned for liking cigars, whiskey, and women and was to be seen running on Manhattan streets, in the dead of winter, in a bikini!

In January 1966 there was a fire in their building. Joe returned to his studio to try and save anything possible and fell through the burnt out floorboards, hanging by his hands from a beam for quite some time until rescued by the firefighters. It is assumed that this incident directly led to his death in October 1967, at the age of 87. Clara, regarded by many as the more superb teacher, continued to teach and run the studio until her death 10 years later, in 1977. At this time Romana took over the business and has dedicated her life to teaching Joe's work as he himself devised it.

Pilates said,

"Physical Fitness Can Neither Be Achieved By Wishful Thinking Nor By Outright Purchase." Joseph Hubertus Pilates (1880-1967)

After Ten Sessions You Will Feel Better, After Twenty Sessions You Will Look Better, After Thirty Sessions You Will Have A New Body." Joseph Hubertus Pilates (1880-1967)

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