Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Why Gratitude Isn't For Wimps 


Why Gratitude Isn't For Wimps

Psychologist Robert Emmons says his 10 strategies can help anyone cultivate a more grateful approach to life. But he warns that the exercises are not for the "intellectually lethargic."

Source: Futurity.org

A research team studying the positive effects of daily gratitude says it can change people's lives -- but it takes mental toughness and discipline.

The payoff, however, can be significant.

Compared with those who dwell on daily hassles, people who take time instead to record their reasons for giving thanks exercise more regularly, complain of fewer illness symptoms, and feel better about their lives overall. They also feel more loving, forgiving, joyful, enthusiastic, and optimistic about their futures, while their family and friends report that they seem happier and are more pleasant to be around.

"Gratitude is literally one of the few things that can measurably change people's lives," Robert Emmons writes in his book Thanks! How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier. The book outlines 10 strategies for cultivating a feeling of thanksgiving throughout the year.

Emmons, a psychology professor at the University of California, Davis, and Michael McCullough, a psychology professor at the University of Miami, are gathering a large body of novel scientific data on the nature of gratitude, its causes, and its potential consequences for human health and well-being.

"Scientists are latecomers to the concept of gratitude," Emmons says. "Religions and philosophies have long embraced gratitude as an indispensable manifestation of virtue, and an integral component of health, wholeness, and well-being."

Gratitude was unexplored terrain for psychologists when Emmons began studying it in 1998. His first research subjects were students in his health psychology class at UC Davis.

Then, the professor assigned some students to write down five things they were thankful for each day and others to record five complaints. Three weeks later, the grateful students reported measurable improvements in psychological, physical and social well-being compared with their complaining classmates.

Since then, Emmons has conducted variations of the experiment in dozens of other study populations, including organ transplant recipients, adults with chronic neuromuscular disease, and healthy fifth-graders.

"We always find the same thing," he says. "People who keep gratitude journals improve their quality of life."

Emmons says his 10 strategies can help anyone cultivate a more grateful approach to life. But he warns that the exercises are not for the "intellectually lethargic." And he stresses that gratitude is incompatible with feelings of victimhood or entitlement, or with the inability to recognize one's shortcomings or to admit one is not self-sufficient.

"Far from being a warm, fuzzy sentiment, gratitude is morally and intellectually demanding," he says. "It requires contemplation, reflection, and discipline. It can be hard and painful work."

Here are Emmons' evidence-based prescriptions for becoming more grateful:

Keep a gratitude journal. Write down and record what you are grateful for, and then when you need to reaffirm your good lot in life, look back on the journal.
Remember the bad. If you do not remind yourself of what it was like to be sick, unemployed, or heartbroken, you will be less likely to appreciate health, your job, or your relationship.
Ask yourself three questions every evening. Fill in the blanks with the name of a person (or persons) in your life. What have I received from ___? What have I given to ___? What troubles and difficulty have I caused ___?
Learn prayers of gratitude. One Emmons suggests in his book from the Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh: Waking up this morning, I see the blue sky. I join my hands in thanks; for the many wonders of life; for having 24 brand-new hours before me.
Appreciate your senses. One approach: Practice breathing exercises.
Use visual reminders. For example, Emmons has a refrigerator magnet in his home bearing this quote from Eleanor Roosevelt: "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery... today is a gift."
Make a vow to practice gratitude. "Swearing a vow to perform a behavior actually does increase the likelihood that the action will be executed," the psychologist notes.
Watch your language: It influences how you think about the world.
Go through the motions. Research shows that emotions can follow behavior.
Be creative. Look for new situations and opportunities in which to feel grateful, especially when things are not going well.
Though he practices these techniques, Emmons acknowledges that maintaining an attitude of thanksgiving is hard work even for him.

"Most psychologists study what they're bad at," he says.

However, his long study of the subject has convinced him that Cicero had it right centuries ago. The Roman philosopher ranked gratitude as the chief virtue, parent of all the others.

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Dear Sir/madam,

Before observing this world AIDS day on 1st Dec2010, pls read this mail &
pray for those 18000 HIV positive childrens, who could have been definitely saved.
India's first AIDS awareness campaign has completed 25 years and the AIDS epidemic is in 30th year of its devastating presence on this globe. Though India ranks three in HIV numbers, because of its affordable anti-HIV drugs it plays a savior globally by preventing deaths and ameliorating the sufferings of millions of HIV+ people, much more than the original inventors of these drugs. Ironically we save millions globally but loose thousands to HIV nationally. Admittedly, the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) says India recorded 18,000 children getting HIV from 65,000 HIV+ mothers in 2009, where as there are strategies to prevent eachof them. HIV+ women received only single-dose nevirapine, a outdated strategy meant for Africa. Who should be held responsible and hanged for this gross neglect?

Peoples Health Organisation (India)- the first NGO that raised alarm against AIDS in India in 1985 and championing the cause of 'Increasing Access to ART' believes that today India has emerged as an asset and not a liability vis-à-vis HIV. This fact has been grossly ignored by the experts and the powers that be in the melee of the 'number game' December 1 - the World AIDS Day is indeed an opportune time to look at the past, present and future of
this epidemic. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon suggested strategy of the "three zeros" - zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths. Let us pledge to work together to realize this
vision for all of the world's people.

To mark this occasion PHO has organized a Press Conference to be addressed by:

*Padmabhusan Dr.R D Lele, *diagnosed the first Indian AIDS case

*Prof. K C Mohanty,* Executive Chairman of PHO and renowned TB/Chest Physician

*Dr. I S Gilada,* Secretary-PHO& AIDS Society of India, crusade against HIV
since 1985

*Ms. Kunika Lall,* PHO Executive Member, Social activist and Cine
personality

*Mr. Rahul Roy,* Cine Personality


Tuesday, 30th Nov. 2010 at 12 noon

Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh, Azad Maidan,

Theme: 25 years of HIV Awareness in India and our future challenges.

The media needs to spread this message as part of its social responsibility.
Being a celebrity with good social image, you can help us to spread it
strongly. We request you to be a part of this PC.

The global AIDS Epidemic is completing 30 years of its devastating presence. India's first AIDS awareness campaign has completed 25 years and the first
AIDS case was diagnosed in 1986, yet all is not hunky-dory in HIV
management. AIDS has always been maddening. The virus moves more slowly than any infective organisms that ride sneezes or coughs or rats or mosquitoes.
HIV permits years of symptom-free infectivity and only kills, like a
sluggish-torturer at leisure. Though India ranks three in HIV numbers,
because of its affordable anti-HIV drugs it plays a savior globally by
preventing deaths and ameliorating the sufferings of millions of HIV+
people, much more than the original inventors of these drugs. Just imagine the world without India vis-à-vis AIDS? Ironically we save millions globally but loose thousands to HIV nationally. Admittedly, the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) says India recorded 18,000 children getting HIV from 65,000 HIV+ mothers in 2009, where as there are strategies to prevent each of them. HIV+ women received only single-dose nevirapine in an outdated strategy meant for
Africa. Who should be held responsible and hanged for this gross neglect?

A ghastly-devastating disease of early 1990s has become a chronic manageable disorder now. Treatment for only richer countries and the rich in poorer countries has become affordable to most countries. India is at crossroads
vis-à-vis HIV that it makes imperative to look back in the recent past, take stock of what has been achieved and what has been amiss in order to decide future plan for a better tomorrow. UNAIDS has termed India as the third worst HIV-affected country after South Africa (5.5 million) and Nigeria (2.9
million). How can one compare India to a nation less than the size of one of her states and a 30 times more HIV prevalence? India can never be 'Africa' vis-à-vis HIV and even at highest peak in worst case scenario, HIV rate will not cross 2%.Though the past acts and achievements generally haven't been very impressive, yet the anticipated medico-socio-economic impact for the foreseeable future is certainly not as bleak as we collectively contemplated earlier! What has saved the larger Indian population from HIV is the Indian culture, the responsiveness of its youth, efforts of voluntary NGOs and medical caregivers and yeomen contribution of our pharma lobby. We certainly
have reasons to rejoice and project India as a powerful (not a poor,
gullible 3rd rate) country – at least in relation to HIV/AIDS.

*Treasure India's Asset: *India's clinically oriented, conservative,
comprehensive and holistic care has earned accolades. Its *wait-n-watch
approach* in starting anti-retroviral treatment (ART) is indeed blessing
disguise for HIV patients (as against 'Hit-Early, Hit-Hard'approach of the West). It improves quality of life, increases survival, reduces cost and spares them of impending drug-resistance. *Indian culture* of joint families and lasting marriages with integrity in women folks have been an asset in providing psycho-social support and reduced transmission. The age at the first sex is higher in India.* **Kama-Sutra*- an Indian art and science of making love has a lot to offer - adds sensuality to sexuality and reduces HIV transmission with its prescription 'Many positions with one, better than one with many!'

"One Tablet a Day: Keeps HIV at Bay!" treatment invented in India made ART cheaper, safer and easier. The west copies India! ronically, the MNCs made hue and cry, calling Indian Generics *copy-cats*! When the 'West copies the East' in making 'three-in-one' medicines, why apply different yardsticks?
Indian pharma took a lead and risk of inviting litigations, circumvented
patents by producing generic copies using reverse engineering and brought down the prices to 1%, with 100% bio-equivalence (quality). The yearly cost of three-in-one cheapest first-line combo has come down from US$ 11452/- per patient to $69. Indian Pharma must be lauded for saving millions and keeping
our tri-colour flying high.

*What is amiss?*: Shamefully enough less than 10% of the pregnant women received PPTCT and that too only single-dose nevirapine; only 56% of sex
workers are reached with HIV prevention program and 38% of them identify correct ways of prevention methods. Only 20% of the infections are recorded
at NACO, due to inherent flaws in the reporting system. More than half of
the infected people do not know their HIV status. Our efforts to make the risk-takers understand their vulnerability have been inadequate. Most of the national energy and funds were wastefully spent on 'surveillance' without
'interventions'; while only 30% adults with advanced HIV infection are receiving ART (up from 6% in 2005); while 20% patients at free roll out are dead, 12.5% have lost to follow-up or stopped ART in 2 years. Thanks to the Supreme Court order of 1998, India's total blood supply is HIV screened and is safe.

*What India needs to learn? *Critically evaluate the state-run and NGO programs, replicate best practices and shun the unsuccessful ones, provide three tiered (not free for all) ART with quality care, move from 'Donor-dependence' to 'Self-reliance', reduce vulnerability of women and children, PPTCT as a national emergency with 100% coverage and strong focus
on Youth and de-addiction. If our foreign reserves are over 300 billion US$ and we pre-paid the ADB loans, why should we run our NACP on clutches of foreign aid? If Bill Gates contributed 268 million US$ for India, where is the matching response from Indian giants? High 'political will' is needed to
contain HIV beyond tokenism/lip-service.

We are facing an extremely challenging situation with Multi-drug resistant and extremely drug resistant (MDR/XDR) Tuberculosis and HIV, Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome (IRIS) – a serious disease situation caused by regaining the lost immunity following successful ART, HIV+
alliances, jobs for recovered people and medical Insurance for HIV/AIDS
patients. What is not yet discovered is effective Vaccine and vaginal
Microbicide to prevent its transmission.

*BUT Model for India*: *B*razil - role model for state-run ART; *U*ganda and *T*hailand - model for Prevention. Uganda's 15% rates in 1995 is down to <5% - with political will and ABC (Abstinence, Be faithful, Condom) approach.
Thailand – topped Asia in 1993, with >2% HIV rate. Control was achieved with AIDS Ministry concept, high-profile awareness, condom campaigns. Scientists and politicians should make India - lead the show for the next decades in HIV care.

There is no other disease that has triggered such a fast and quality
research in short span of time. As regards to AIDS, we know enough on
pathogenesis and epidemiology front. Knowledge on HIV/AIDS is fast evolving and that necessitates timely update of doctors providing HIV care. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon suggested strategy of the "three zeros" - zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related
deaths. Let us pledge to work together to realize this vision for all of the world's people.

*What we have gained?* Whenever any epidemic hits- rarely do we discuss its positive impact.

• Sanity about morality, sexuality and sensuality, Importance of Sex
education, Kamasutra, non-penetrative sex, masturbation etc. Pre-marriage counseling and health checks
• Blood-Blood Products safety: >20 Transfusion-Transmitted Diseases are under scanner
• Safe barber practices - only after HIV arrived; though Barbers can
transmit 15 infections
• Lab./Hospital safety - Universal precautions, exposing indifference of
medical caregivers
• Importance of Safe Pregnancy and preventing Parent to Child Transmission (PPTCT)
• Clean needles practices for Injection Drug Users (IDUs)
• Importance of Indian Pharma saving millions and exposing MNCs with >1000% profits
• Knowledge of prevention and treatment patterns of several Opportunistic Infections
• Role of condom in preventing 22 STDs: colour, flavours, textures; and
Female condom
• Mainstreaming marginalised communities like Sex Workers, Hijras, Men sex with men (MSM)
• No. of sex workers-sinking-all time low,80% in Mumbai, STDs down by 80 to 90%

Dr. I S Gilada,Hon. Secretary, PHO and AIDS Society of India


Dr. I S Gilada,

Consultant in HIV/STDs

Secretary General, AIDS Society of India (ASI)

Unison Medicare & Research Centre,

Maharukh Mansion, Alibhai Premji Marg, Grant Road (E), Mumbai - 400007

Tel +91-22-23061616; Fax: 23000016;

E-mail: gilada@usa.net / ihoaids@vsnl.com;

Website: www.asicon2010.com / www.aidssocietyofindia.com


Deepak Tiwari
deepak@fametrick.com
09321148090
www.fametrick.com

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Your Brain Is More Powerful Than All The Computers On Earth 


Your Brain Is More Powerful Than All The Computers On Earth

Source: Cnet News

The human brain is truly awesome.

A typical, healthy one houses some 200 billion nerve cells, which are connected to one another via hundreds of trillions of synapses. Each synapse functions like a microprocessor, and tens of thousands of them can connect a single neuron to other nerve cells. In the cerebral cortex alone, there are roughly 125 trillion synapses, which is about how many stars fill 1,500 Milky Way galaxies.

These synapses are, of course, so tiny (less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter) that humans haven't been able to see with great clarity what exactly they do and how, beyond knowing that their numbers vary over time. That is until now.

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have spent the past few years engineering a new imaging model, which they call array tomography, in conjunction with novel computational software, to stitch together image slices into a three-dimensional image that can be rotated, penetrated and navigated. Their work appears in the journal Neuron this week.

To test their model, the team took tissue samples from a mouse whose brain had been bioengineered to make larger neurons in the cerebral cortex express a fluorescent protein (found in jellyfish), making them glow yellow-green. Because of this glow, the researchers were able to see synapses against the background of neurons.

They found that the brain's complexity is beyond anything they'd imagined, almost to the point of being beyond belief, says Stephen Smith, a professor of molecular and cellular physiology and senior author of the paper describing the study:

One synapse, by itself, is more like a microprocessor -- with both memory-storage and information-processing elements -- than a mere on/off switch. In fact, one synapse may contain on the order of 1,000 molecular-scale switches. A single human brain has more switches than all the computers and routers and Internet connections on Earth.

Smith adds that this gives us a glimpse into brain tissue at a level of detail never before attained: "The entire anatomical context of the synapses is preserved. You know right where each one is, and what kind it is."

While the study was set up to demonstrate array tomography's potential in neuroscience (which is starting to resemble astronomy), the team was surprised to find that a class of synapses that have been considered identical to one another actually contain certain distinctions. They hope to use their imaging model to learn more about those distinctions, identifying which are gained or lost during learning, after experiences such as trauma, or in neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's.

In the meantime, Smith and Micheva are starting a company that is gathering funding for future work, and Stanford's Office of Technology Licensing has obtained a U.S. patent on array tomography and filed for a second.

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Monday, November 29, 2010

World's Luckiest Woman Reveals Her Winning Mind Tricks


World's Luckiest Woman Reveals Her Winning Mind Tricks

Source: The Winning Sage

No, this is not a scene from Leave it to Beaver, or The Brady Bunch.
This is the family of Helene Hadsell, enjoying their new home in 1969.
The 4300 sq ft home was built in Irving, Texas at an estimated cost of
$50,000, which back then was a lot of house. What makes this family
and their new home so interesting, is they won it.

In the New York World's Fair of 1964, the Formica Corporation sponsored a nationwide contest, with the grand prize being a copy of the World's Fair Home, plus the lot, built anywhere in the US the winner chooses. Of course, out of 1.5 Million entries, Helene and Pat Hadsell won.

"For God's sake, act surprised!"

What makes this story rather unusual -- besides the fact they won -- is that she KNEW she was going to win. Without a doubt. In fact, she had her husband take the day off work, because 'she knew' the Formica People were coming over that day to tell them they had won. She told her husband, "For God's sake, act surprised!"

The phone did ring later that day, the Vice President for the company
was waiting for Mr. Hadsell to get home from work, because he had some 'interesting news' for them. Imagine his surprise when Helene told him that her husband was already home. "Oh yes, he's here, he took the day off. " Soon after the representatives arrived, and informed the lucky couple they had indeed won the home, they were even more surprised when the Hadsells presented them with the plans for their new home.
"Uh...you have plans?" the VP asked. "Oh yes" said Helene, "We been
planning a new home". She just left out the part where they were
expecting Formica to pay for it.

You might say that Helene was very lucky to win that home. But -- you
would be mistaken -- in that 'luck' had nothing to do with it. Like I
said, Helene KNEW she was going to win. She always wins. Every contest
she has entered - she has won.

She has won cars, furniture, stereos, musical instruments, clothing,
groceries, trips to Europe... Whenever Helene sees something that she wants, she finds a contest that is giving that particular something away, and she wins it. She told her husband that she wanted to be sitting in a sidewalk cafe, in Paris, sipping a glass of wine on her 40th birthday. Several months before her birthday she entered a contest sponsored by a cola company, "Where in the World do you Want to Go, and Why?" Helene won...... 3rd prize, a Hammond Organ. Nice, but not what she wanted.

Not giving up, she entered another contest sponsored by a Men's
Sportsware Company giving away trips to Europe. This time she entered twice, her entry was for Paris, and her husband's entry was for Venice. While she waited, her and her husband went out and got their shots and passports. Talk about belief! One month before her birthday, she won the trip to Venice, with a stopover in Paris.

"You can have anything you want, provided you know what you want."

Helene's lucky streak began in 1958 while she was reading "The Power
of Positive Thinking", by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. She became excited
when she read, "You can have anything you want, provided you know what you want".

Her husband was reading a popular fishing magazine and she excitedly
told him, "We can have whatever we want!" He replied while pointing to the magazine, "Fine, I'd like this outboard motor..." She entered a
contest and won it.

Today, Helene is 84yrs old and is still as feisty as ever. Her list of personal friends include the late Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, the late Dr. Joseph Murphy (The Power of Your Subconscious Mind), the late Jose
Silva (Silva Mind Control), and even Joe Vitale from the blockbuster
movie, The Secret.

How to Win Contests Like a Pro

According to Helene, the key is a well know, although mysterious
concept in Positive Thinking: Picture the thing you desire as having
already happened or taken place.

"They practically hit you over the head with it in all the motivational and inspirational books", Helene says, "and still not that many people actually do it. See clearly in your mind how the Rose Bowl Parade is going to look on that new color TV. Savor the sizzle of that Roast as you take it out of that shiny new microwave oven."

Her formula is simple, and catchy.

Select It (know what you want)

Project It (see it as already happened)

Expect It (believe it is already yours)
Collect It.

It seems to have worked for Helene, who is now the author of several
books, "Contesting: The Name it and Claim It Game", and "Confessions
of an 83yr Old Sage". Her complete training program can be found at
The Winning Sage.

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Gifts from the creator of The Secret and The Power: Rhonda Byrne!

The process, called 'The Point of Creation', uses a powerful
ancient symbol, and helps to dissolve the idea in your mind that
your desire is 'big' and that it will therefore take a long time to
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'big' and 'long time' in your subconscious mind.

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want, think of it as the size of a dot, because for the force of love, what you want is smaller than a dot!"

"If you find your faith wavering, just put a dot in the center of a large circle and next to the dot write the name of your desire. As often as you like, look at your drawing of your dot in the circle, knowing your desire is the size of that dot for the force of love!"

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Every day, or at the very least once or twice a week, take a few
minutes and focus on seeing yourself in joy. Feel yourself in joy.
Imagine only joy ahead in your life and see yourself basking in it.
As you do this the Universe will move all people, circumstances,
and events to bring you that joy. You can't be in joy if you have
money worries, or health worries, or relationship problems with
friends or family. So deposit some joy in the bank of the Universe
as often as you can. There isn't an investment that is more worthwhile.

Imagine writing an email of what you want to the Universe. When you
are happy that your email is very clear, you hit "Send" and you
know your request has gone into the ethers. You also know that the
Server of the Universe is an automatic system, and it doesn't
question email requests. Its job is simply to fulfil every request.

If you begin to worry and stress that you haven't got what you wanted, then you have just sent another email to the Universe to stop your order. And then you wonder why you haven't received what you asked for.

Once you Ask, know that the Server of the Universe is an automatic
infallible system that never fails, and expect to receive your request!

Whether you know it or not, today you are placing an order for your
tomorrows from the catalogue of the Universe. Your predominant
thoughts and feelings today are creating a frequency that is
automatically determining your life tomorrow.

Feel good now and for the rest of the day, and make your tomorrows
magnificent.

Use the power of the Universe by intending before every car trip
that the traffic will flow effortlessly, that you will be relaxed and happy, and that you will arrive in perfect time.

Any words you speak have a frequency, and the moment you speak them they are released into the Universe. The law of attraction responds to all frequencies, and so it is also responding to the words that
you speak. When you use very strong words, such as "terrible",
"shocking" and "horrible" to describe any situation in your life,
you are sending out an equally strong frequency, and the law of
attraction must respond by bringing that frequency back to you.

The law is impersonal, and simply matches your frequency. Do you
see how important it is for you to speak strongly about what you
want, and not to use strong words about what you don't want?

Do not worry at all about negative thoughts, and do not try to
control them. All you have to do is begin to think good thoughts
each day. Plant as many good thoughts as you can in each day. As
you begin to think good thoughts you will attract more and more
good thoughts, and eventually the good thoughts will wipe out the
negative thoughts altogether.

We can never bring anything to us unless we are grateful for what
we have. In fact, if somebody was completely and utterly grateful
for everything, they would never have to ask for anything, because
it would be given to them before they even asked.

That is the power of Gratitude.

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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Master Your Fears

Master Your Fears
By Brian Tracy
Perhaps the greatest challenge you will ever face in life is the
conquest of fear and the development of courage. Fear is, and always has been, the greatest enemy of mankind. When Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," he was saying that the emotion of fear, rather than the realty of what we fear, is what causes us anxiety, stress, and unhappiness. When you develop the habit of courage and unshakeable self-confidence, a whole new world of possibilities opens up for you. Just imagine-what would you dare to dream or be or do if you weren't afraid of anything in the whole world?

Develop the Habit of Courage

Fortunately, the habit of courage can be learned just as any other habit is learned, through repetition. We need to constantly face and overcome our fears to build up the kind of courage that will enable us to deal with the inevitable ups and downs of life unafraid. The starting point in overcoming fear and developing courage is to look at the factors that predispose us toward being afraid. The root source of most fear is childhood conditioning, usually associated with destructive criticism.
This causes us to develop two major types of fear. These are the fear of
failure, which causes us to think "I can't, I can't, I can't," and the
fear of rejection, which causes us to think "I have to, I have to, I have to." Our fears can paralyze us, keeping us from taking constructive action in the direction of our dreams and goals.

The More You Know, the Less You Fear

Fear is also caused by ignorance. When we have limited information, our doubts dominate us. We become tense and insecure about the outcome of our actions. Ignorance causes us to fear change, to fear the unknown, and to avoid trying anything new or different. But the reverse is also true. The very act of gathering more and better information about a particular subject increases our courage and confidence in that area.
You can see this in the parts of your life where you have no fear at all
because you know what you are doing. You feel competent and completely capable of handling whatever happens.

Analyze Your Fears

Once you have identified the major factors that cause you to feel
afraid, the next step is to objectively define and analyze your personal
fears. At the top of a clean sheet of paper, write, "What am I afraid
of?" Remember, all intelligent people are afraid of something. It is
normal and natural to be concerned about your physical, emotional, and
financial safety and that of the people you care about. A courageous
person is not a person who is unafraid. As Mark Twain said, "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear."

Action Exercise

Begin your list of fears by writing down everything, major and minor,
that causes fear, stress, or anxiety. Think about the parts of your work
or personal life where your fears might be holding you back or forcing
you to stay in a job or relationship in which you are not happy. Once
you have written down your fears, arrange them in order of importance, and then pick them apart one by one.

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5 Rules of Mind-Body Healing

The 5 Rules of Mind-Body Healing

By Laura Silva/ Source: Silva Mind Body Healing

The breakthrough you're about to discover on this page has been used by over 6 million people in 111 countries. It has helped many of them reduce symptoms and aid in healing, from minor ailments to serious illnesses. It's a process of relaxation and imagery therapy called The Silva Method.

The Silva Method is based on the idea that the mind-body connection is extremely powerful in healing and with the right mental attitude and with specific practices, you can dramatically speed up healing while working with your doctor.

So has it been proven by science? Yes!

Dr. William Braud was one of the pioneers of studying the mind's effect on healing. After hundreds of experiments performed at the San Antonio Mind Science Research Center, Dr. Braud outlined five major mental techniques that he believed have important effects on the self-healing processes.

The Five Mental Techniques Are:

The need for relaxation and quietude.
Learning to focus your attention on one thing (e.g. breathing), which allows you to develop mental self-control and avoid distractions. (The above two points are achieved through meditation). Learning visualization or imagery techniques since pictures are the preferred language of the mind.
Incorporating intent into the process, a wish for some goal to be reached and an expectation that it will.
The evocations of strong positive emotions during the healing process.
It sounds simple right? But it's much harder in practice before we have been trained to react to bad healthy and illness in the wrong way – by forgetting to observe the effect our mind has on the disease.

Do you believe in the power of meditation and the mind? Are you aware that your mind is the single most effective tool for benefitting your physical health?
If your answer is 'yes', keep on reading—because what I'm about to give you will turn that belief into tangible results.

In 2003, the World Changed. The Mind-Body Connection Entered Public Consciousness.

Time Magazine – Aug 4, 2003
Not only do studies show that meditation is boosting their immune system, but brain scans suggest that it may be rewiring their brains to reduce stress. It's recommended by more and more physicians as a way to prevent, slow or at least control the pain of chronic diseases like heart conditions, AIDS, cancer and infertility.

The Washington Times – Aug 14, 2003
A new study shows [that] people who underwent meditation training produced more antibodies to a flu vaccine than people who did not meditate. Those who took part in the meditation study also showed signs of increased activity in areas of the brain related to positive emotion, as compared to people who did not meditate.

CBS News – Aug 27, 2003
People who meditate these days come from all walks of life and aren't necessarily weird New Agers or pretentious actors. Students, lawyers, West Point cadets,athletes, prisoners, and government officials all meditate. It's supposed to help depression, control pain, increase longevity, slow down cancers, invigorate the immune system, and significantly reduce blood pressure. Time magazine recently reported that "meditation can sometimes be used to replace Viagra."

As you read, meditation provides many benefits even when done by a beginner. When you combine this with creative visualization and the right mental attitude (called Positive Expectancy), you can make dramatic leaps in your health.

A Revolutionary Breakthrough In Mind-Body Health

Before I continue, allow me to introduce myself.

My name is Laura Silva, and I'm the daughter of the late Jose Silva, the founder of the world-famous Silva Method.

Throughout his lifetime, my father invested over 50 years of research and millions of dollars into understanding the innermost workings of the human mind.

What He Discovered Was Mind-Blowing

After collaborating with some of the world's leading scientists, doctors and alternative healers, he found that anyone – and yes, I mean anyone – has within them the power to accelerate the body's natural ability to heal itself.

Before his passing, my father worked with thousands of Silva Method practitioners, showing them how to use the power of the mind-body connection to improve their health and well-being.

At Silva, we call this Mind Body Healing. The process is similar to the process outlined by Dr. William Braud in his famous work on Healing. In fact Jose Silva and William Braud were friends who worked together to bring awareness of Mind Body Healing to the world.

Introducing The Silva Healing Mind Exercise

The Silva Healing Mind Exercise is a scientifically-tested, empirically proven guided meditation that allows anyone to enter the alternate state of mind known as the Alpha Level, so you can:

Put your mind and body in a state conducive to healing, where your cells repair, your immune system strengthens, and physical symptoms are reduced.
Instantly melt away stress, giving you a healthier, calmer state of mind.
Reprogram your mind to eliminate unhealthy habits like smoking, drinking and overeating—with little to no resistance.
Transform negative thought patterns into positive ones, so you can reap the rewards of a positive mindset.
Use the art of creative visualization to set health-related goals for yourself, and achieve them with ease.
This is the exact same exercise that has been used by over 6 million people across the world to relieve stress and reduce pain and accelerate their body's natural ability to heal itself.
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Edited by: Lawyer Asad

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Can Science Explain the Soul? 


Can Science Explain the Soul?

By Stuart Hameroff and Deepak Chopra
Source: San Francisco Gate

The soul has never lacked for believers, including around 90% of the American public, according to pollsters. But science has remained aloof, basically for two reasons. First, the soul has been assumed to be a matter of personal belief, not objective knowledge. Second, science deals in visible, concrete things using objective data. But since the era of quantum physics began over a century ago, invisible things and fleeting events have entered science, so subtle that the realm from which they emerge is almost a matter of faith.

Now some scientists are willing to venture into the once forbidden territory of the soul, attempting to extract a theory that will allow for its existence.

Redefined by the new field of quantum biology, the soul could be the link that connects individuals to the universe, a dynamic connection that could explain how consciousness came about, and why the cosmos itself seems to mirror our own intelligence and creativity. Below are components of an argument for a secular soul based on quantum physics and biology.

Consciousness and the Soul

The concept of life after death, or more specifically conscious awareness after bodily death, is generally referred to in the context of the 'soul'; it is a staple of many religions and innumerable anecdotes over thousands of years.

In addition, countless subjective reports of conscious awareness seemingly separated from the subject's brain and physical body occur in conjunction with so-called near death experiences (NDEs), whose phenomenology include a white light, being in a tunnel, life review and, in some cases, floating out of the body.

Somewhat similar experiences have been reported in various types of meditative and altered states. The drug ketamine, used as a 'dissociative' anesthetic, can produce subjective reports of conscious awareness outside the body, as can various other psychoactive drugs.

The same phenomenology has been reported in various cultures including medieval Tibet. And since every Eastern tradition is based upon pure consciousness as the ground of existence, there is nowhere to go when you die. Individual consciousness loses its boundaries and returns to the field of consciousness to be recycled. In Eastern traditions, the soul comes naturally.

There are literally thousands of other types of experiences that depend on the mind or its components existing outside the brain, from telepathy and clairvoyance to premonitions, synchronicity, and the perception of subtle domains of reality.

Unable to fathom a rational explanation for out-of-body and/or after-death consciousness, modern science ignores such reports. Short-sighted skeptics reinforce the assumption that they are either subjective folly, hallucinations, or outside the scope of scientific proof.

The central weakness here is that modern science can't explain normal, in-the-brain consciousness. Despite detailed understanding of neuronal firings and synaptic transmissions mediating non-conscious, 'auto-pilot' perception and behaviors, there is no accounting for conscious awareness, free will or 'qualia' — the essence of experienced perceptions, like the redness, texture and fragrance of a rose. Philosopher David Chalmers refers to this as the 'hard problem' — explaining qualia and the subjective nature of feelings, awareness, and phenomenal experience — our 'inner life'.

Unable to explain consciousness in the brain, it is easy to see why conventional science ignores out-of-body, or after-death consciousness, if they do indeed occur. However one controversial theory of in-the-brain consciousness can also in principle explain possible out-of-body and after-death consciousness. That is the Penrose-Hameroff 'Orch OR' theory of consciousness as sequences of quantum computations inside brain neurons.

Most approaches to brain function consider neuronal firings and synaptic transmissions as fundamental information states (e.g. 'bits') in computational networks of neurons. But neurons are complex, not simple on-off switches representing either 1 or 0.

For example the lowly single cell paramecium can swim around, avoid obstacles, find food and mates, learn and have sex -- all without a single synapse. Paramecium activities are organized by their microtubules, cylindrical polymers of the protein tubulin. In brain neurons, microtubules are the structural scaffolding, organizing movement, transport, neuronal growth and synaptic plasticity. Their lattice structure and seeming intelligent functions have prompted suggestions that microtubules are also the nervous system of each cell, capable of molecular-level computation and information processing. In each and every neuron, millions of tubulins coherently vibrate in the megahertz frequency range, providing potentially quadrillions of operations per second per neuron. That may be bad news for artificial intelligence prospects for brain equivalence anytime soon, but increased information capacity per se doesn't explain consciousness.


The Quantum Plunge

The Penrose-Hameroff Orch-OR theory ('orchestrated objective reduction') proposes that microtubules perform not just molecular-scale computation, but also, specifically related to consciousness, quantum computations.

Quantum means the smallest fundamental unit of energy and matter, usually considered at very small scales. But the laws governing the quantum world are bizarre and exotic, quite different from our everyday world of classical physics governed by Newton's laws and Maxwell's equations. For example in the quantum world, particles can exist in multiple locations or states simultaneously — quantum superposition. Another quantum feature is nonlocal entanglement — quantum particles separate but still remain mysteriously connected (what Einstein referred to as 'spooky action at a distance'). And multiple quantum particles can condense to a unified state — quantum coherence.

Quantum entanglement tells us that the universe is somehow nonlocal, that instantaneous hidden connections occur between spatially and temporally separated particles, objects and energies. Despite the complete lack of any explanatory mechanism, entanglement has been repeatedly demonstrated and, along with quantum superposition, used in new technologies including quantum cryptography, quantum teleportation and quantum computing.

In quantum computing, information may be represented not only as bits of either 1 or 0, but also as superpositioned quantum bits (qubits) of both 1 AND 0. Qubits interact with other qubits by nonlocal entanglement, and then collapse/reduce to specific output states as the solution to the quantum computation.
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But we don't see quantum superposition and entanglement in our everyday classical world. It seems there's an edge, or boundary between two phases of reality — the quantum and classical worlds, and that consciousness may have something to do with that edge, also known as 'quantum state reduction', or 'collapse of the quantum wave function'.

Quantum pioneer Niels Bohr found that measuring a quantum superposition caused it to reduce, or collapse to specific values. Because a conscious observer was required to complete the measurement, Bohr and colleagues proposed that consciousness caused collapse of the quantum wave function. This 'Copenhagen interpretation' (after Bohr's Danish origin) was pragmatic, but put consciousness outside science. Erwin Schrodinger thought it so bizarre he invented his famous thought experiment — a cat is both dead and alive until consciously observed.

Another view — the multiple worlds hypothesis — suggests that each and every superposition is a bifurcation of the fabric of reality, each branching off to form its own new universe, resulting in an infinite number of coexisting universes. There is no collapse, and no implicit consciousness.

Decoherence theory suggests any interaction with a classical environment degrades quantum superpositions. But isolated superpositions remain unexplained, as does the precise nature of quantum isolation.

There are other interpretations, e.g. Bohm, Cramer's Transactional, Stapp, weak measurement etc. And then there is Penrose 'objective reduction' (OR) which puts consciousness emphatically into the picture, precisely on the edge between the quantum and classical worlds.

Edited by: Lawyer Asad

2012: Our Enlightened New World 


2012: Our Enlightened New World

By Jafree Oswald
Co-creator of The Manifesting Super Gold Pack

You may have already sensed that a New World is coming into each of our personal lives. If you stop and truly pay attention, you can feel it.

As everything continues moving faster and faster we cannot help but wake up and realize our divine infinite potentiality. We are each being pulled, cajoled, and summoned to spiritually awaken by the people and global events around us.

Our planet's economic, political and environmental shifts are our "wake up calls", forcing us to individually turn inwards, and create a more sensitive, loving, and conscious approach to life.

This deeper sensitivity has in turn awakened a new kind of human being inside all of us. A being who is attuned to their natural divine state within, guided by their intuition, and enlightened by their own individual consciousness.

"The roses bloom so beautifully because they are not trying to become lotuses. All effort is futile. You have to be just yourself." ~Osho

As the world continues to wake us up, the number of enlightened beings will naturally multiply and collectively in time create a New World. This global enlightenment will create a foundation of peace for this planet for the first time in many millennia. Our planet is about to give birth to billions of heart centered open minded people, and nobody is going to miss this massive enlightening ride!!

The experience of world peace is only created by a massive movement of individual inner peace. This global feeling of peace occurs when the "hundredth monkey" wakes up to recognize that inside is something exquisite, unlimited in potential, and truly Divine.

The massive spiritual awakening is also based on a scientific evidence of a true energetic shift in our physical environment. Astronomers have calculated that by Solstice on December 21st 2012, there will be a cosmic perfect alignment of our planet Earth, our Sun, and the very center of our Milky Way galaxy. This is the exact date that the ancient 26,000 year Mayan calendar predicted that the New World will "officially" begin. Many of you are already awake, and are here to simply assist the rest of the planet by being a guiding light for their spiritual awakening.

This outer alignment of our stars or celestial bodies creates an inner alignment within our physical flesh bones and mental/emotional bodies. This divine configuration allows you to become "synchronized" with your world.

As we move closer to this grand alignment, you will automatically be pulled towards this inner alignment of your mind, body, and soul, and rediscover a deeper spiritual alignment with your Divine Source. This bio-energetic centering causes all energy centers (chakras) in your body to open and allow you to simply trust life completely. When peace is found within you, it is seen and experienced all around you. The outer peace you project will allow everyone to relax more deeply and consciously explore every aspect of their being.

"Being content with what you have is priceless. Sun moon and the truth can not be hidden. Happiness is the greatest wealth. Health is the greatest gain. Trustworthy is the best relative. Nirvana is the ultimate bliss." ~Buddha

Our world is already filled with millions of highly intelligent, sensitive, loving and super-psychic beings. Many are radiating love with such a boundless, welcoming soft warm energy that you will be pulled in vibrationally and shift into this higher loving way of naturally operating daily. By 2012 you will "have to" open up to the highest form of love just to survive this intense outer/inner alignment.

The conscious energy on the planet will continue to grow exponentially each year. By the time we approach the end of 2012, there will be over 8000 enlightened beings on this planet which is the tipping point number and enough to create the 100th monkey wave of awakening. Perhaps the most interesting news I've heard is that there already are many highly evolved beings from other planets in our galaxy who will be coming here to watch this grand finale show!

The ideas about a New Enlightened World is very contagious and will grow exponentially. The more we think about it, the more energy is invested into manifesting it. However, the momentum is already there and this world is about to have a massive spiritual awakening that cannot be stopped.

Yet, you can jump on the boat sooner rather than later. To realize what is still asleep, resistant, or righteous in you is the first step to awakening out of the old dream. Waking up first begins with realizing that you are the co-creator of your reality, and that your imagination is the only limit you have. So be aware of the thoughts you are having in each moment, and cultivate a presence that is the witness of these thoughts.

The thoughts you have are like clouds passing through the sky. Let them float on by. Know that you are the vast, spacious, and infinite boundless sky! Be that throughout your day and you will truly recognize this vast freedom that always dwells inside of you.

"Look within, see the Self. Then there will be an end of the world and its miseries." ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

I have found that one of the greatest ways to prepare yourself today for this New World is to find peace within yourself and within every relationship you have. The more intimate you can become, the more juicy the awakening is.

When you start recognizing the divine within yourself and in everyone, then everyone you meet becomes a divine teacher showing you exactly what you need to learn next on your life journey. The people that you struggle with are in your life to give you the opportunity to deepen in compassion and awareness for they are the slower ones getting on the ride. It may be your job to assist them in becoming more open, awake, and loving. When you vibrationally step up to the plate, you will help them create this shift and at the same time open up even more to your highest Self.


Every person you struggle with will only be forcing you to dig deeper into your inner wellspring of lightness, love, and inner peace. The gems you find inside yourself will breed an even higher awareness, allowing others to respond from a more empowered loving space. This will enable you to FEEL connected with the millions of highly intelligent, sensitive, loving, and super-enlightening beings that are already on the planet today.

"Love is not a quantity, it is a quality, and a quality of a certain category that grows by giving, and dies if you hold it. If you are miserly about it, it dies. So really be a spendthrift! Don't bother with whom." ~Osho

A very important step to prepare for this new world spiritual awakening is to learn how to quiet the mind. You can do this easiest by sitting with a conscious "enlightened" master, teacher, or someone who radiates pure love, lightness of being, and absolute acceptance of who you are. You can meet a few of our favorite enlightened beings on our website. We recommend that you learn something from every different being and experience as many teachers as you can. Let your body feel the difference and let it decide which one truly resonates with who you want to become next year. And as they say, when the student is ready the teacher will magically appear.

Another step to awakening is to be conscious of each choice that you make. Every being in the New World will understand that there are no "accidents." Every experience is synchronistic and divine. You are waking up to the fact that you are The Creator of your every experience. Take responsibility now for what is in your life today and be thankful for it before you focus on what you want to be, do, and have tomorrow. By approaching today with gratitude, you open your heart and mind in each situation and relationship you have.

"Since everyone is one's own Self, whoever does whatever to whomever is doing it only to himself." ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

As far as the physical state of the New World, the best choice is to be at-one with your environment. Embody the most natural state of compassion and understanding by being ONE with the earth, air, plants, oceans, animals, sea creatures, and fellow human beings. In the future we will be forced to recycle everything to survive. We will have to use other sustainable resources of energy to create electricity. There will be new advanced technology available for us to create a pollution-free world where we are using free-energy and water-fueled cars will become the norm.

Every man and woman of this New World will know how to live in harmony with others, not because it is the "right" thing to do, but because they will know that any harm done to the other on any level is merely doing harm to their own selves. This global brother/sisterhood will create a more conscious, healthy, and harmonious world for all to enjoy. As each human being becomes more conscious of their thoughts, actions, and how they want to impact their environment the outer world will reap those benefits.

"See the perfection in the seeming imperfection that seems to be." ~ Lester Levinson

The interesting thing is that the more conscious, awake, and open-hearted you become now, the more you will see, feel, and experience that this New World is already here now and happening today. Of course our news and media cannot dictate this perception since they can only relay a small pigeonhole of information about what is actually happening on the planet in each moment.

Yet, the bigger truth is that there is a momentum of deeper spiritual awareness that is blossoming everywhere. The more realistic picture of our future is that our consciousness is like a flower whose petals are blossoming naturally on its own accord. If you take a big whiff you can already smell the fragrance. This world is waking up and your job is to relax and remain open and receptive to what is happening here now.

In the New World everyone comes equipped with the Universal understanding that we are each conscious manifestors of our individual realities. As this understanding deepens and becomes a common household way of being on the planet, the awesome miraculous synchronicities we experience will multiply. Sure we can take them personally and say WE are individually manifesting our outer experiences, or we can take them impersonally and see that we are merely a drop in the Universal ocean that is blossoming this new existence. Either way, there will be a much deeper more personal freedom found in everyone that will truly satisfy our souls!

"We are more free than any thought conceived of what defines freedom. Who we are is far more vast than any thing the mind thinks we are." ~Angela Walker

In order to jump on this global train ride to enlightenment sooner (than later), it is imperative to know yourself intimately. Start with learning how to quiet the mind and find absolute stillness inside. Then, you can be conscious and know the true power behind each choice that you make. Every being in the New World will understand that there are no "accidents." That each person, each interaction, every situation is absolutely synchronistic and divine. You are waking up to the fact that we are all powerful conscious co-creators of our world.

Take responsibility now for what is in your life today and focus on what you want instead of what you do not want. You'll consciously create the reality you want and be able to approach all beings with an open heart under any circumstances. When you can rest in that stillness for 3 minutes each day, you will truly understand the vast unlimited potentiality you have inside to offer the world.

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Edited by: Lawyer Asad

Psychic Panda No Match for Paul the Octopus

'Psychic' Panda No Match for Paul the Octopus

Paul's popularity has led to a spate of copycat "prophetic" animals, albeit with far less success.

Source: Time.com

Who couldn't have seen this coming?

The world of predictions is such a fickle place. If you thought that 2010 was going to be remembered for Paul the Octopus's psychic World Cup predictions then you were wrong. For we have a new player on the scene and he ain't gonna be turned into paella anytime soon.

China is currently enthralled by the exploits of a panda who goes by the name of Bo Si. He plumped for a Chinese athlete to be the first gold medal winner of the Asian Games, which are taking place in Guangzhou in Bo Si's home nation. Lo and behold, the sportsman Yuan Xiaochao promptly won for the martial art of wushu.

How did Bo Si do it? He was given two choices: a bamboo shoot, which represents a Chinese winner, or an apple, which equates to a foreigner. The fact that pandas exist on a bamboo diet and that the host nation are firm favorites to top of the medals table and have the biggest squad at the Games are clearly coincidental factors that must never be mentioned again.

And if anything untoward were to happen to Bo Si, fear not as he has 11 panda pals at Guangzhou's Xiangjiang Safari Park, who are also taking part in these predictions proceedings.

"The pandas have tended to favor Chinese athletes," wrote the China Daily without a hint of irony. NewsFeed remains ever so slightly skeptical but if Bo Si can let us know when Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding will take place, we'll never question the Chinese again.

Edited by: Lawyer Asad

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Friday, November 26, 2010

When're you getting started?

Getting Started

Chris's parents were proud of him when he graduated from college. But
it's been six months and he hasn't gotten a job yet. In fact, he hasn't
looked seriously. He has no idea what he wants to do and he's thinking of grad school.

He's living at home with his parents and things are getting tense,
especially with his father, who accuses Chris of being lazy and afraid
to enter the real world.

Chris thinks his dad is being totally unreasonable. After all, he's only
young once and he needs some "space." During a recent argument, Chris said, "I'm not you, Dad. I have my own way of doing things. I want a job I enjoy."

His dad replied, "That's a nice idea, but in the end they call it 'work'
because it's about making a productive living - not having fun."

There are many youngsters like Chris who are having trouble getting
started with a serious job and becoming self-reliant. Some, like Peter Pan, just don't want to grow up. Some are afraid of making a wrong decision or of being rejected. Others are victims of what psychologists call "magical thinking." They believe that when the time is right, everything will fall into place. So they wait for opportunity to come knocking or until they feel inspired or excited about their next step.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. What's crucial is to begin.
Things happen and opportunities appear most often when we're moving, not standing still.

Momentum is vital. Basic physics says it's easier to alter the course of
a moving object than to start movement initially. In the end, it's not really about finding yourself. It's about making yourself.

The first steps are the hardest, but the key to success in anything is
getting started.

Michael Josephson

Edited by: Lawyer Asad

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Take one small cup of this water every day early morning when your stomach is empty.
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Luck, Coincidence, or Synchronicity?

Luck, Coincidence, or Synchronicity?
By Jim Francis
Source: Mind Power: Remote Influence Techniques

Many see coincidences as embedded in a higher, transcendental force, a
cosmic "glue," as it were, which binds random events together in a
meaningful and coherent pattern. The question has always been: could
such a harmonizing principle actually exist?

Or are skeptics right in regarding this as a product of wishful
thinking, a consoling myth spawned by the intellectual discomfort and
capriciousness of chance?

Mathematician Warren Weaver, in his book, Lady Luck: The Theory of
Probability, recounts a fascinating tale of coincidence that stretches
our traditional notions of chance to their breaking point.

The story originally appeared in Life magazine. Weaver writes:
All fifteen members of a church choir in Beatrice, Nebraska, due at
practice at 7:20, were late on the evening of March 1, 1950.

The minister and his wife and daughter had one reason (his wife
delayed to iron the daughter's dress) one girl waited to finish a
geometry problem; one couldn't start her car; two lingered to hear the end of an especially exciting radio program; one mother and daughter were late because the mother had to call the daughter twice to wake her from a nap; and so on.

The reasons seemed rather ordinary. But there were ten separate and quite unconnected reasons for the lateness of the fifteen persons. It was rather fortunate that none of the fifteen arrived on time at 7:20, for at 7:25 the church building was destroyed in an explosion.

The members of the choir, Life reported, wondered if their delay was "an act of God." Weaver calculates the staggering odds against chance for this uncanny event as about one chance in a million.

Coincidences such as these, some say, are almost too purposeful, too
orderly, to be a product of random chance, which strains somewhat to
accommodate them. But then how do we explain them?

Another definition for Synchronicity

Synchronicity at this point can be defined as a series of seemingly
unrelated events which are connected via a hidden agenda.

The recent publication of the Superstring theory indicates that there may well be ten dimensions in existence, not merely the four that ones senses are currently aware of. (Length, breadth, width, time)

There is now considerable mathematical proof to indicate that ten dimensions exist. And most quantum physicists have given serious consideration to this theory. It would appear that the "hidden agenda" of synchronistic events may be transparent and obvious in one or more of these ten dimensions, but become opaque and difficult to fathom when viewed in our current restricted four dimensions.

And there is now at last a small amount of evidence to indicate that
when an individuals subconscious mind-set is modified to encourage
positive PK synchronistic events (luck) then synchronistic elements
may be set into play which materialistic as PK Luck events in our
"real time" dimension.

And conversely when a person becomes aware of a series of
synchronistic events they can use this special knowledge to trigger a
burst of luck.

What has been definitely proven however is that the mind-set of an
individual influences their interaction with the environment, to an extent which can leave a person "stunned" at the positive results.

What I have discovered over the past 4 years is that if I call up a
dream program to "induce" synchronistic events in my waking life….then instruct my mind to consciously recognize these events as a synchronistic train….I can usually recognize where they are leading to and be there at the right time and place to take advantage of them.

I have personally had at least a dozen of these recognizable
synchronicity trains in the past 3 years and each one has bought me
sometimes quite incredible luck. So much so that friends here in
Vanuatu keep telling me how lucky I am!!

Edited by: Lawyer Asad

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Electric Shock Treatment Cures Memory Loss


Electric Shock Treatment Cures Memory Loss
Source: The Telegraph

Giving a person an electric shock can help improve their memory,
scientists have discovered.

Researchers found that a tiny surge of power to parts of the brain can
improve recall memory by 11 per cent.

The treatment stimulates certain neurons in the brain so when a person tries to retrieve a name from their brain, they suddenly start
working,

If developed it could provide treatment for stroke victims as well as people whose memory fades through other ailments or even old age.

The study, from Temple University, Philadelphia, could also offer
solutions to those who suffer the embarrassing situation of forgetting
a person's name.

"We know a lot about how to make people's memory worse, but we don't know very much about how to make people's memory better," said Ingrid Olson, a psychologist who led the study.

"These findings hold promise because they point to possible
therapeutic treatments for memory rehabilitation following a stroke or
other neurological insult.

"As we age, the connections between the neurons in our brains weaken."

Researchers found the amount of current needed was a fraction used in controversial electric shock treatment on mentally ill patients.

In their study, published in the journal Neuropsychologia, researchers used a current of 1-2 milliamps via electrodes to the scalp of volunteers to stimulate the anterior temporal lobes of the brain.

This is the section which deals with the memory of proper names –
those with a capital letter at the front like people and places.

The subjects were given photos of famous faces to look at and were
tested before, during and after the process.

Recognising the face but not being able to recall the name is a common
phenomenon for almost everyone but worse for those suffering
neurological disorders.

They found the electrical stimulation increased memory by 11 per cent
but only for up to an hour after the treatment was given.

The study did not say how the treatment could be administered on a regular basis.

Edited by: Lawyer Asad

Flavoured Crystals & Losing Weight!

Source: Yahoo News
Flavoured crystals can 'trick' you into losing weight Mon, Nov 8 01:26 PM
London, Nov 8 (IANS) A newly developed crystal, sprinkled on food for added flavour, can help you lose those extra pounds by tricking your brain into believing that you have consumed more food than the actual quantity.

The result of using the crystals is that smaller portions are eaten and the pounds just roll away, their creators say.

They have already been tested in the US as part of a weight-loss regime, and are set to hit Britain next year.

Initial trials on 1,400 people showed that the flavour enhancing crystals may act as an appetite suppressant, reports the Daily Mail.

The recipe for the crystals is not known. But one of its ingredients is maltodextrin - a carbohydrate made from corn starch, silica, tricalcium phosphate and soy and milk ingredients.

The makers say the crystals are sodium, sugar, calorie and gluten free and contain no stimulants, according to a Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation statement.

In tests, obese participants who used 'Sensa Tastant' crystals lost an average of 28 pounds in six months, compared to just two pounds for others.

Alan Hirsch, neurologist at the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, US, said aroma makes up between 75 and 90 percent of what we experience as food taste.

'The scientific principle behind Sensa is remarkably simple,' he said. 'As you eat, smell and taste receptors send messages to your brain which release hormones that tell your body it's time to stop eating.'

'Because Sensa works with your body's natural impulses, rather than against them, there are no feelings of hunger or intense cravings.

'Exercise is the biggest tool for weight loss, but if you help people lose weight in the first place, they automatically begin to take more exercise,' he said.

However, Dominic Dwyer, neuropsychologist from Cardiff University, UK, cautioned: 'A mouth-watering smell from food can simply make us eat more. This stuff would have to be very carefully used.'

Edited by: Lawyer Asad

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Six Ways to Attract Bad Luck

Six Ways to Attract Bad Luck

By Steve Gillman
Excerpt from Secrets of Lucky People

There are two ways to improve the good luck / bad luck ratio in your life. One is to take steps to do those things that lead to more good luck. The other is to stop doing the things that cause bad luck. This lesson is about the latter. It is an examination of the actions, habits and thinking of unlucky people, so that you can learn what to avoid.

The last chapter covered a couple of the worst bad habits that unlucky people have. Those are blaming and making excuses. Here are some more to watch out for.

1. Unlucky People Wait For Good Luck

Those who are unlucky commonly say things like, "I'm waiting for my ship to come in." They are very passive in their approach to life. Meanwhile, while they wait, others are out there building ships. Work invites opportunities - waiting doesn't.

Why not search out opportunities and create your opportunities? Training yourself to see them can be as simple as looking for them every day. To train yourself to take advantage of them, always taking some small step the moment you recognize an opportunity.

2. Unlucky People Act On Destructive Impulses

The other day, a man mentioned to me that he had bought a $200 hat. A moment later he said he was hoping they would approve his welfare application. Is this a problem with impulse control, or what? Is it perhaps possible that his bad habits lead to a place on the welfare rolls?

Wait a day before taking any action that commits time, energy or money towards something which isn't a major goal in your life. Do this until it becomes a habit. Probably you'll change your mind by the next day. On the other hand, if you have the impulse to eat something healthy, get some exercise, or pursue an opportunity to better your life - those are the impulses to act on.

3. Unlucky People Concentrate On The Unpredictability Of Life

Random events happen, but unlucky people place too much importance on this. They see lottery winners and take that to mean they should wait for their "lucky break" to come. They see random misfortunes befall themselves and others, and take that to mean that outside factors are to blame for their situation. What they don't see clearly, is the predictability within the chaos, and their own role in creating good and bad luck.

Think of a casino. Inside, people are randomly winning and losing money. You can't say who will win or lose on a given day. That is unpredictability. On the other hand, the casino will almost always be a winner, because the rules put the odds in their favor. They can have their ups and downs, but at the end of the year they will have taken in more than they paid out. That's predictability.

There is always some way to improve the odds, some way to introduce more predictability into a situation. Lucky people are putting the odds in their favor. That's what this book is about.

4. Unlucky People Don't Learn From Mistakes

I have a friend who had $30,000 of credit card debt. The payments on this debt alone amounted to almost $1,000 per month. Then there were his other debts, for cars, snowmobiles, and other toys. He only avoided bankruptcy by tapping into the equity in his home and getting the credit card companies to accept as little as 50% of the balances as payment in full.

What did he do then? Well, with the pressure off, it soon felt comfortable to get a new credit card, and to buy a new car. Within a year or two he had a couple credit cards. Soon he was deep in debt all over again.

Some people just don't learn from their mistakes. They are typically described by themselves and others as unlucky.

Oh, there are always "reasons" why doing the same things didn't work the second or third time around. But the bottom line is that if you do the same things over and over, you will likely get the same results. "Reasons" at this point are excuses, and you can make excuses or you can make your own luck, but you can't do both.

Learn from your mistakes. In fact, always assume that you have some role in the disasters or irritations that befall you, and look for what it is. Identify what you are doing that either causes your bad situations or makes them worse. Then change your approach accordingly.

Even better, learn from other's mistakes and you can avoid making many of your own. See how others create bad luck and don't do those things. That is what this lesson is about.

5. Unlucky People Only Think Short-Term

A young man I know paid $750 per month in rent when a nicer place was available for $600. Why would he do that? Because the expensive apartment required no deposit. The cheaper place required a $400 deposit, so he would have had to save $1,000 total to move in. Now he pays $1,800 more for rent each year - and probably complains about his bad luck and shortage of cash.

Plan a little further into the future. How would things be now if you had done the right things in the past? Do them now, and the future can be that bright. Consider the long-term consequences of your actions, and write them down whenever you make an important decision. By the way, if this young man had borrowed the extra $250 he needed and paid 100% annual interest, he would still be much further ahead.

6. Unlucky People Are Too Critical

You probably know a person who is an expert in why things won't work. These people can point out the flaws in every plan. They are mostly right too, which makes them all the more dangerous to themselves and others. Their "insight" is a poison that kills dreams.

Lucky Person: "If I do this right, there is a 99% chance of success."
Unlucky Person: "So you're saying you could fail?"

It is good to think critically, to see the truth, and so reduce risk. The problem comes when a person sees only the risk and the flaws. For example, this kind of thinking only sees the fact that 80% of restaurants fail, but ignores the other 20%. If you want to move forward, see the weaknesses in your plan, but to each one add, "And this is what I can do about it..."

Not Everyone Can Be Lucky

The above is just a sampling of the worst things that unlucky people commonly do. Most of us have a little bit of some of these traits and habits. Fortunately they can all be changed in time, but are you willing to do the work necessary? If not, you fall into one of the two categories of people that researcher Richard Wiseman found could not improve their luck: those not willing to make the effort to change.

What can I say, except that I don't know of anyone who has suffered greatly from forcing themselves to get up and do something. Try something easy first. If low energy is part of the problem, start learning a few techniques for boosting it, like deep breathing and singing. Not much in this book can help improve your luck if you don't apply it.

Wiseman also found a second category of people who couldn't improve their luck: those for whom bad luck is an important part of their identity. It may seem hard to believe, but some people like being unlucky. They say things like, "If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all." They go out of their way to demonstrate how unlucky they are. They are even proud of their bad luck.

Unless they radically change their view of themselves, these individuals cannot become lucky, according to Wiseman. If you identify at all with bad luck, and feel a bit like, "If I didn't have bad luck, I don't quite know who I would be," you need to do some serious work in this area. Believe me, you'll like being lucky even more.
I don't entirely agree with Wiseman's observation, however. Experience tells me that even a person who is proud of her bad luck can become luckier - at least a little bit. This is because some of the techniques in this book work even if you just play around with them.

If you simply spend more time with people, for example, you have a better chance of learning something useful. If you start working in an area that interests you, you are more likely to succeed. Finally, if enough good things happen, you can't help but notice and that will weaken your identification with bad luck.


This articles is an excerpt from Secrets of Lucky People by Steve Gillman. Learn how to create your own luck with dozens of simple exercises which will make you the luckiest person you know.

Steve Gillman is also the author of A Book of Secrets. Read Minds, Save Money, Boost Brainpower, Get Lucky, Find Treasure, Subliminally Persuade People, Buy Real Estate With No Money Down - And More!

Edited by: Lawyer Asad

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Black Money, India & Swiss Banks!

Latest update after Swiss Bank has agreed to disclose the funds&*.

Our Indians' Money - 70, 00,000 Crores Rupees In Swiss Bank

1) Yes, 70 lakhs crores rupees of India are lying in Switzerland banks. This is the highest amount lying outside any country, from amongst 180 countries of the world, as if India is the champion of Black Money.

2) Swiss G overnment has officially written to Indian G overnment that they are willing to inform the details of holders of 70 lakh crore rupees in
their Banks, if Indian G overnment officially asks them.

3) On 22-5-08, this news has already been published in The Times of India
and other Newspapers based on Swiss Government's official letter to India Government.

4) But the Indian G overnment has not sent any official enquiry to
Switzerland for details of money which has been sent outside India between 1947 to 2008.. The opposition party is also equally not interested in doing so because most of the amount is owned by politicians and it is every Indian's money.

5) This money belongs to our country. From these funds we can repay 13 times of our country's foreign debt. The interest alone can take care of the Center s yearly budget. People need not pay any taxes and we can pay Rs.1 lakh to each of 45 crore poor families.

6) Let us imagine, if Swiss Bank is holding Rs. 70 lakh Crores, then how
much money is lying in other 69 Banks? How much they have deprived the Indian people? Just think, if the Account holder dies, the bank becomes the owner of the funds in his account.

7) Are these people totally ignorant about the philosophy of Karma? What will this ill-gotten wealth do to them and their families when they own/use such money, generated out of corruption and exploitation?

8) Indian people have read and have known about these facts. But the
helpless people have neither time nor inclination to do anything in the
matter. This is like "a new freedom struggle" and we will have to fight
this.

9) This money is the result of our sweat and blood.. The wealth generated and earned after putting in lots of mental and physical efforts by Indian people must be brought back to our country.

10) *As a service to our motherland and your contribution to this
struggle,please circulate at least 10 copies of this note amongst your
friends and relatives and convert it into a mass movement.*

Edited by: Lawyer Asad

You can see the future

Is This Evidence That We Can See the Future?

By Peter Aldhous / Source: New Scientist

Extraordinary claims don't come much more extraordinary than this: events that haven't yet happened can influence our behaviour.

Parapsychologists have made outlandish claims about precognition -- knowledge of unpredictable future events -- for years. But the fringe phenomenon is about to get a mainstream airing: a paper providing evidence for its existence has been accepted for publication by the leading social psychology journal.

What's more, sceptical psychologists who have pored over a preprint of the paper say they can't find any significant flaws.

"My personal view is that this is ridiculous and can't be true," says Joachim Krueger of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, who has blogged about the work on the Psychology Today website. "Going after the methodology and the experimental design is the first line of attack. But frankly, I didn't see anything. Everything seemed to be in good order."

Critical mass

The paper, due to appear in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology before the end of the year, is the culmination of eight years' work by Daryl Bem of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. "I purposely waited until I thought there was a critical mass that wasn't a statistical fluke," he says.

It describes a series of experiments involving more than 1000 student volunteers. In most of the tests, Bem took well-studied psychological phenomena and simply reversed the sequence, so that the event generally interpreted as the cause happened after the tested behaviour rather than before it.

In one experiment, students were shown a list of words and then asked to recall words from it, after which they were told to type words that were randomly selected from the same list. Spookily, the students were better at recalling words that they would later type.

In another study, Bem adapted research on "priming" – the effect of a subliminally presented word on a person's response to an image. For instance, if someone is momentarily flashed the word "ugly", it will take them longer to decide that a picture of a kitten is pleasant than if "beautiful" had been flashed. Running the experiment back-to-front, Bem found that the priming effect seemed to work backwards in time as well as forwards.

'Stroke of genius'

Exploring time-reversed versions of established psychological phenomena was "a stroke of genius", says the sceptical Krueger. Previous research in parapsychology has used idiosyncratic set-ups such as Ganzfeld experiments, in which volunteers listen to white noise and are presented with a uniform visual field to create a state allegedly conducive to effects including clairvoyance and telepathy. By contrast, Bem set out to provide tests that mainstream psychologists could readily evaluate.

The effects he recorded were small but statistically significant. In another test, for instance, volunteers were told that an erotic image was going to appear on a computer screen in one of two positions, and asked to guess in advance which position that would be. The image's eventual position was selected at random, but volunteers guessed correctly 53.1 per cent of the time.

That may sound unimpressive -- truly random guesses would have been right 50 per cent of the time, after all. But well-established phenomena such as the ability of low-dose aspirin to prevent heart attacks are based on similarly small effects, notes Melissa Burkley of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, who has also blogged about Bem's work at Psychology Today.

Respect for a maverick

So far, the paper has held up to scrutiny. "This paper went through a series of reviews from some of our most trusted reviewers," says Charles Judd of the University of Colorado at Boulder, who heads the section of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology editorial board that handled the paper.

Indeed, although Bem is a self-described "maverick" with a long-standing interest in paranormal phenomena, he is also a respected psychologist with a reputation for running careful experiments. He is best known for the theory of self-perception, which argues that people infer their attitudes from their own behaviour in much the same way as they assess the attitudes of others.

Bem says his paper was reviewed by four experts who proposed amendments, but still recommended publication. Still, the journal will publish a sceptical editorial commentary alongside the paper, says Judd. "We hope it spurs people to try to replicate these effects."

One failed attempt at replication has already been posted online. In this study, Jeff Galak of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Leif Nelson of the University of California, Berkeley, employed an online panel called Consumer Behavior Lab in an effort to repeat Bem's findings on the recall of words.

Bem argues that online surveys are inconclusive, because it's impossible to know whether volunteers have paid sufficient attention to the task. Galak concedes that this is a limitation of the initial study, but says he is now planning a follow-up involving student volunteers that will more closely repeat the design of Bem's word-recall experiment.

This seems certain to be just the first exchange in a lively debate: Bem says that dozens of researchers have already contacted him requesting details of the work.

Edited by: Lawyer Asad