An Assortment of Ways to make a Better World
Thoughts and ideas of Yeremiah and his views of the world. These are only views and opinions, they shouldn't be looked at as factual in any way.

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Welcome and Thank-You for viewing my blog. These are a portrayal of my ideas and thoughts as well as my dreams. I hope you enjoy what you read and leave comments fso I can improve upon my writings. Thanks again for taking the time to read my thought.

Friday, January 24, 2014

Memories

Memories are good to keep but not to dwell on. You can remember how to walk while you are still, but if you have so much conflict you may lose the ability.

Odds change and people change. We all have choices to change how we want. So in essence we change hiw we want. Change changes everything. Everything is up if the air, so what will happen?

Life should always be fun and ssporadic, but how much is up to you. 

Creativity needs to be charished in School

Schools are one of the reasons the world economy isn't where it should be. In Ken Robinson TED presentation of, "However Schools Kill Creativity," it gives examples of this.

At birth we start off with extroadinary level of human creativity. We have no idea whats going to happen. Children have extroadinary capacities for innovation. Unpredictability of what work there would be is not known when this generation graduates in 2065.

All children are born with tremendous talent and we squander them. Creativity should be treated as important as literacy. Children will take more chances that is why they both get in trouble and are happier than their adult counterparts. They are not prepared to be wrong which makes them original.

We are actually educating people out of their creative capacities because all children are born artists. The biggest problem is to remain artists, however they are taught that being different is wrong. We don't grow into creativity we grow out of it. Professors are what schools make. They live in their heads.

We can't afford to go on where creativity is the lowliest form of education. More people worldwide will be graduating with a degree in history, technology and medical science's, which is not nessarily a bad thing, but their have to artistic talent to weigh them out as well. A few years ago if you had a degree you had a job, however if you had no degree no job.

These are the ways intelligence is viewed.

If you are dynamic you are able to do many things, and are percieved as gifted. Now diversity means you are musically or inclined to dance. Distinct means you are unique and do not fall into the above catagories.

What education has done now, since the early nineteenth century is mined our minds as we mine the Earth which we see doesn't work. Here is a quote from Jonas Salk a medical researcher, "If all the inscects were to disappear from the Earth, within 50 years all life on earth will end. If all human beings would disappear from the Earth all life would flourish."

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Self-Esteam

You need a high self esteem. If you do not you can not accept gifts that are given to yourself. This issue means it is extremely difficult to trust yourself and others. You have to learn to trust in order to be happy. Love yourself first and you will eventually have others to love.

Monday, January 20, 2014

Deep Within

Just as the highest tower needs a deep foundation so to are higher thinking is based on going deep within.

Its time


It's your time: time to relax, time to think, time to contemplate. You are free to do all you are capable of, and you are resiliant more then you ever know.

Beauty cannot recognize its own beauty within. It seldom looks at itself, for it is too busy and wants to create likeness of itself. It is miraculous and spreads so rapidly from a small drop and that is where it begins.

It battles many times, mostly winning, but always learning from all the battles it partakes in. Beauty can be found in anything. However it only needs to be recognized. This recognition causes growth beyond belief.

You have to only take the time to recognize. It grows so much because of this.

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Views


Views are basically interpretations of the outside world. These interpretations mold you in unforeseen ways. You have to slow down sometimes and just look and relax to remain healthy. Take a minute to enjoy the wonders because therr are no schedules except the ones we place on ourselves. We are very powerful entities. We should enjoy all we can. There always is an extension.

Points of view are easier to manipulate than view points. Views points are babies  in the creation process. However there are some ingrained points are very difficul to play around with.

The more petrified these points are, tje more difficult it is to coerce with them. Rejuvenation of views is always a difficult task. However it is of great importance to transform these views to make them relevant to other aspects.

Curiosity Never Leaves

Curiosity is fundemental in life. It never fully vacates from our humanity. It leads us to the discovery of new adventures. It grows access to new situational attributes.

It never fully vacates. It causes growth and acceptance. No matter what it causes it is your choice ho you are willing to view it. Curiosity is one of the driving forces of life. It causes us to change the structure of the old..

Without curiosity we would have little pain or pleasure. In taking the negative you also take the positive.

Love of being curious is very powerful. Love aquires the energy needed to give curiosity the strength it needs to last for all time.

Friday, January 17, 2014

The Day Never Seems As Bad

We now have people who predict weather and the like, and their say is usually right, or is it? You can always produce your own internal and external weather pattern.

This may be difficult, but it is always done. Every interaction, everyday can change your mood and thus your outlook on life: tje same way as every gust of wind can create a storm.

Colors

Whatever mood yoy are in, there is a colr for it.  These colors represent a lot more than is possibly imagiable.

They are constantly being created and recreated. These recreations may be as much as a shade to the mix of the totality of the colors. Colors are living entities and should be treated as such. You could see many different colors dependimg on how you observe the life that you are in as well as the life you want to lead.

The Changing Brain

The greatest ability we have to change with is the brain.  It has the most energy that is ever known to be.

Passions

We have so many passions and all the time in the world to pursue them. We just have to believe, because when we believe we see whatever we want. We have to trust in ourselves enough to folliw through with our beliefs and make them a reality.

Just slow down, there isn't any reason to be in such a rush. Life is yours, take as long as you want. There is no reason to frustrate yourself even more than you probably are. For life is yours.

Training

Why are we trained as a youth to tackle life as well as to be aggressive in all aspects of existence. This really screws us up.

In order to really change we have to start examining our formative training. Our youths are ourselves after all. The age is just different, but they are just as wise as are adult selves

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Blessings, blessings everywhere

Blessings are all over. We just have t mo open our eyes. There are actually many more than we perceive.  We just have to keep hope alive, and stay as positive and upbeat throughout.

Anything is Possible

Anything is possible, if you just believe in yourself. The level of your belief is extremely important as well. You have to strongly believe in something you want to happen soon. The cosmos will align itself to your desires.

The main thing is to believe in yourself throughout existance. A strong mind does wonders in that realm of possiblities. A momentous sense pushes the boundries of realities even more.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

12-Step Program for Simplifying Your Life

My 12-Step Program for Simplifying Your Life
Here are 12 very specific tools for simplifying your life. Begin using them today if you’re serious about hearing that ultimate call to inspiration.

Unclutter Your Life. You’ll feel a real rush of inspiration when you clear out stuff that’s no longer useful in your life: 

If you haven’t worn it in the past year or two, recycle it for others to use. Get rid of old files that take up space and are seldom, if ever, needed. Donate unused toys, tools, books, bicycles, and dishes to a charitable organization. 

Get rid of anything that keeps you mired in acquisitions that contribute to a cluttered life. In the words of Socrates, “He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.” So the less you need to insure, protect, dust, reorganize, and move, the closer you’ll be to hearing inspiration’s call.

Clear your Calendar of Unwanted and Unnecessary Activities and Obligations. If you’re unavailable for Spirit, you’re unlikely to know the glow of inspiration. God will indeed work with you and send you the guidance—and the people—you need, but if you’re grossly overscheduled, you’re going to miss these life-altering gifts. So practice saying no to excessive demands and don’t feel guilty about injecting a dose of leisure time into your daily routine.

Be Sure to Keep Your Free Time  Be on the lookout for invitations to functions that may keep you on top of society’s pyramid, but which inhibit your access to joyful inspiration. If cocktail parties, social get-togethers, fund-raising events, or even drinking-and-gossiping gatherings with friends aren’t really how you want to spend your free time, then don’t. Begin declining invitations that don’t activate feelings of inspiration. I find that an evening spent reading or writing letters, watching a movie with a loved one, having dinner with my children, or even exercising alone is far more inspiring than getting dressed to attend a function often filled with small talk. I’ve learned to be unavailable for such events without apologizing, and consequently have more inspired moments freed up.

Take Time for Meditation and Yoga. Give yourself at least 20 minutes a day to sit quietly and make conscious contact with God. I’ve written an entire book on this subject called Getting in the Gap, so I won’t belabor it here. I will say that I’ve received thousands of messages from people all over the world, who have expressed their appreciation for learning how to simplify their life by taking the time to meditate. I also encourage you to find a yoga center near you and begin a regular practice. The rewards are so powerful: You’ll feel healthier, less stressed, and inspired by what you’ll be able to do with and for your body in a very short time. 

Return to the Simplicity of Nature. There’s nothing more awe-inspiring than nature itself. The fantasy to return to a less tumultuous life almost always involves living in the splendor of the mountains, the forests, or the tundra; on an island; near the ocean; or beside a lake. These are universal urges, since nature is created by the same Source as we are, and we’re made up of the same chemicals as all of nature (we’re stardust, remember?).

Your urge to simplify and feel inspired is fueled by the desire to be your natural self—that is, your nature self. So give yourself permission to get away to trek or camp in the woods; swim in a river, lake, or ocean; sit by an open fire; ride horseback through trails; or ski down a mountain slope. This doesn’t have to mean long, planned vacations that are months away—no matter where you live, you’re only a few hours or even moments away from a park, campground, or trail that will allow you to enjoy a feeling of being connected to the entire Universe.

Put Distance between You and Your Critics. Choose to align yourself with people who are like-minded in their search for simplified inspiration. Give those who find fault or who are confrontational a silent blessing and remove yourself from their energy as quickly as possible. Your life is simplified enormously when you don’t have to defend yourself to anyone, and when you receive support rather than criticism. You don’t have to endure the criticism with anything other than a polite thank-you and a promise to consider what’s been said—anything else is a state of conflict that erases the possibility of your feeling inspired. You never need to defend yourself or your desires to anyone, as those inner feelings are Spirit speaking to you. Those thoughts are sacred, so don’t ever let anyone trample on them.

 Consider that the number one health problem in America seems to be obesity. How can you feel inspired and live in simplicity if you’re gorging on excessive amounts of food and eliminating the exercise that the body craves? Recall that your body is a sacred temple where you reside for this lifetime, so make some time every single day for exercising it. Even if you can only manage a walk around the block, just do it. Similarly, keep the words portion control uppermost in your consciousness—your stomach is the size of your fist, not a wheelbarrow! Respect your sacred temple and simplify your life by being an exerciser and a sensible eater. I promise that you’ll feel inspired if you act on this today!

Play, Play, Play! You’ll simplify your life and feel inspired if you learn to play rather than work your way through life. I love to be around kids because they inspire me with their laughter and frivolity. In fact, if I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times: “Wayne, you’ve never grown up—you’re always playing.” I take great pride in this! I play onstage when I speak, and I’m playing now as I write. 

Many years ago I was given a tremendous opportunity to appear on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. The man who took a chance on me, booking me even though I was an unknown at the time, was a talent coordinator named Howard Papush. It was my first big break, and I went on to appear on The Tonight Show 36 additional times. Now it’s my turn to say thank you to Howard. He’s written a wonderful book titled When’s Recess? Playing Your Way Through the Stresses of Life, which I encourage you to read. (Howard also conducts workshops that teach people how to play and have fun in life.) In the book, Howard shares this great quote from Richard Bach: “You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.” I couldn’t agree more—by all means, get back in touch with your real, playful self, and take every opportunity to play! Notice how it makes everything so sweet, and so simple.

Slow Down. One of Gandhi’s most illuminating observations reminds us that “there is more to life than increasing its speed.” This is great advice for simplifying your life—in fact, slow everything way down for a few moments right here and now. Slowly read these words. Slow your breathing down so that you’re aware of each inhalation and exhalation...

When you’re in your car, downshift and relax. Slow down your speech, your inner thoughts, and the frantic pace of everything you do. Take more time to hear others. Notice your inclination to interrupt and get the conversation over with, and then choose to listen instead. Stop to enjoy the stars on a clear night and the cloud formations on a crisp day. Sit down in a mall and just observe how everyone seems in a hurry to get nowhere.

By slowing down, you’ll simplify and rejoin the perfect pace at which creation works. Imagine trying to hurry nature up by tugging at an emerging tomato plant—you’re as natural as that plant, so let yourself be at peace with the perfection of nature’s plan.

Do Everything You Can to Eschew Debt. Remember that you’re attempting to simplify your life here, so you don’t need to purchase more of what will complicate and clutter your life. If you can’t afford it, let it go until you can. By going into debt, you’ll just add layers of anxiety onto your life. That anxiety will then take you away from your peace, which is where you are when you’re in-Spirit. When you have to work extra hard to pay off debts, the present moments of your life are less enjoyable; consequently, you’re further away from the joy and peace that are the trademarks of inspiration. You’re far better off to have less and enjoy the days of your life than to take on debt and invite stress and anxiety where peace and tranquility could have reigned. And remember that the money you have in your possession is nothing but energy—so refuse to plug in to an energy system that’s not even there.

Forget about the Cash Value. I try not to think about money too frequently because it’s been my observation that people who do so tend to think about almost nothing else. So do what your heart tells you will bring you joy, rather than determining whether it will be cost-effective. If you’d really enjoy that whale-watching trip, for instance, make the decision to do so—don’t deny yourself the pleasures of life because of some monetary detail. Don’t base your purchases on getting a discount, and don’t rob yourself of a simple joy because you didn’t get a break on the price. You can afford a happy, fulfilling life, and if you’re busy right now thinking that I have some nerve telling you this because of your bleak financial picture, then you have your own barrier of resistance.

Make an attempt to free yourself from placing a price tag on everything you have and do—after all, in the world of Spirit, there are no price tags. Don’t make money the guiding principle for what you have or do; rather, simplify your life and return to Spirit by finding the inherent value in everything. A dollar does not determine worth, even though you live in a world that attempts to convince you otherwise. 

Remember  Spirit. When life tends to get overly complex, too fast, too cluttered, too deadline oriented, or too type A for you, stop and remember your own spirit. You’re headed for inspiration, a simple, peaceful place where you’re in harmony with the perfect timing of all creation. Go there in your mind, and stop frequently to remember what you really want.

"I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."-- Eric Roth

Sunday, December 22, 2013

A Few Calming Methods

1. Meditate at least 20 minutes a day.  Set aside at least 20 minutes to sit quietly and observe the mind. Making this a priority in your life lets the mind know that you are in charge of it, instead of that it's in charge of you. Daily meditation is the key to getting deeply in touch with your innermost feelings, beliefs, memories, and thought patterns. When you meditate, the most important information from the bottom of the mind tends to bubble up for you to see it and release it.  As you let it go, you become even more available to the present moment, able to see what is totally here now, instead of being trapped in the ego's desires from yesterday. When we meditate long enough, and deep enough, we stop being trapped in the game the mind is playing with us.  We become more conscious of who we truly are, and the unlimited power that is inside us. 

2. Randomly notice if you're conscious or unconscious.How often do you think you operate like a robot and go on automatic pilot throughout your day? Randomly take a few moments each day to reflect on how present you are to being here now. You have the ability to be super conscious and surrendered to every moment, and this is absolute ecstasy! The more aware you are of what is happening in the Now, the more enlightened you become, and the easier it is to choose the life you want to create.  This super conscious aware energy allows you to completely focus all of your energy in one direction, so you become a magnet to effortlessly attract the life you want in the outer world.

3. Visualize and feel exactly what you want to manifest. Spend a few minutes each morning visualizing what you truly want to manifest. See yourself doing the thing you most want to be doing.  Imagine that it has already occurred and you're just experiencing it in the physical world.  You can use the support of one of the many guided meditations in our Super Manifesting Program to support you with this. The key here is that through training your mind to consciously visualize something, it creates an energetic blueprint for the Universe to follow.  This acts as your main guide for your entire day, where your mind and body automatically align with your dream, and result in magnetizing whatever it is that you heart desires.

4. Question your reality and know what your heart truly desires. Every so often ask yourself this powerful question, "What am I focusing my mind on and why?" You will be astounded at how this simple question can awaken you and transform your life. It will help you to refocus on what your heart is truly after.  Often as kids we get programmed with our parent's desires, and end up thinking that these are ourdesires.  What we truly want gets squashed by our parents unmet hopes, dreams, and needs.  When the mind returns to the heart and questions what it really truly wants, we begin to get more energy and enthusiasm to live our life instead of theirs.

Asking this question deeply will re-center you, ground you, and support you greatly in your manifesting journey. Use the mind as often as you can to become more conscious of the kind of experiences, interactions, feelings, and events that make your heart sing!  It's the best investment you'll ever make in your life, and the result is total fulfillment and satisfaction of who you are year after year.

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Monday, December 16, 2013

Change

Change begins with one person's courage and perseverance to stand up and voice their opinion. Opinions cannot be correct or incorrect. This person encourages others to join them and speak their mind. It begins a tidal wave of voices and something gets done. The movement changes a bit with every person that joins it.

Sunday, December 1, 2013

 3 basic forgiveness steps:

1. Recognize your Attachment to your Story - When you hold onto a grudge, you are actually holding onto the story about what happened along with heavy feelings attached to your story.  When you fully feel those heavy feelings that arise when you think about your story, you then can move through them and underneath them.  Be curious about what is there underneath your feelings, as it will be something you never thought of before.  Notice how you played your part in the drama and take responsibility for the role you stepped into.  When you understand what the "payoff" of benefit you received by playing this role, no matter how horrible it was, you can then let go of the pattern completely. 

2. Release those Repressed Feelings - When someone mistreats or hurts us, we may either express this pain or repress it.  If you were taught to repress your feelings, put on a brave face, and go on with our life, you'll have many heavy feelings inside you rotting away at your core.  All repressed feelings fester deep inside of us, and cause us to continue to carry a burden about life, relationships, people and the world. The first step in forgiving is letting go of these heavy feelings, allowing them to turn into lighter feelings. There are many techniques that can help you release pent up emotions from the past. One simple way you can do this on your own is emotional release journaling. Just write about the past event without censoring it.  Write from your most emotional place and keep writing until you have emptied everything out. Do not read it once you have finished. Wait a few days or weeks before you read it.  You can burn what you have journaled and proclaim out-loud "I let this go". If your repressed emotions are very strong or feel overwhelming, it may be best to get the support of a trained professional to help you let them go. 

3. Continuously Choose Forgiveness -  In every moment, you have the opportunity to choose forgiveness.  Once you release that holding onto the past only harms you, you can consciously choose to let it go instead of returning to resentment.  Choosing forgiveness is a constant process.  This means you will always choose to feel feelings of lightness, freedom and healing from the past event. Once you have decided to forgive someone, visualize the person is in front of you, and say it out loud to them, "I forgive you completely for what happened.  I love you and thank you for the lesson.  Please forgive me for what I've done."  Notice how it feels just reading this proclamation in your body.  By stating this message out loud you create an instant energetic shift in your body. The person can be on the phone, in the room or simply there in your mind.  If you do this in your mind, the secret is that it must FEEL real to you.  You will be amazed out how this declaration starts opening up your entire world in ways you never dreamed were possible.  You'll soon see how it sparks the manifestation of more positive and desired experiences into your life.

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Technology

We are too reliant on technology. Now more than ever,  without these technological devices we would be lost. Around us technology is everywhere.

Friday, September 6, 2013

You are a great Masterpiece

We are all masterpieses with all our different attributes.  When we take this into consideration, we shall live in harmony. In true harmony the good ideas and actions co-exist. When these co-exsist intentions are of a new balence. These intentions are made of great things get formed within realities we haven't even knew exided.

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Psychic Self-defense

Keith Randolph

What is your chance of being psychically attacked at some point in your life? It is fairly high, the evidence suggests. That does not necessarily mean that you will be victimized in a dramatic, life-threatening way, but it is distinctly possible that at some time or another you will incur the wrath of someone whose anger at you will find paranormal expression, whether your attacker realizes it or not. (If he does realize it and knows exactly what he is doing, you could be in for a very harrowing time.) But fierce, concentrated anger can trigger malevolent psychokinesis or bring an evil elemental into the picture, even if the human agent doesn’t know that such things are possible. Ours is an intensely stressful, violent, competitive age. There is much negative energy polluting our psychic environment, and growing numbers of people are turning to the occult. Most of them, fortunately, are doing it with the best of motives—to enhance their own spiritual development and to play their own small parts in the evolutionary betterment of the human race. As in any human endeavor, however, there are those who use their powers for destructive ends. The occasional press accounts of ritual killings of people and animals represent only the tip of the iceberg. Much of the negative occultism is not occurring on a physical level. In a society that officially rejects the "psychic" as superstitious foolishness, practitioners of occult evil have virtually free rein to prey on helpless persons who have no idea how to protect themselves. Most of all, remember: You don’t have to be a victim. You have the power. It is in your aura. All you have to do is to recognize and tap it. You will be astonished at what happens to you. You will be able to draw on two worlds: the material world and the spiritual world—and you will never be the same again. Protection from psychic attack is merely the first step on the path to new worlds of adventure and enlightenment. Are you ready for the journey? While psychic self-defense is just one element of a total program of psychic well-being that involves daily exercises to channel spiritual energies and strengthen your aura, there is no reason that you should remain without psychic protection … starting right now! Take an object that you can wear or keep with you at all times. A ring or wrist watch will do, but a bracelet, necklace, or waist-chain is better. Clean the chosen object in some way: the feeling that it is really clean should culminate what you’ve done. Seat yourself comfortably, preferably with your back straight, your feet together, and the chosen object held loosely in your strongest hand. Close your eyes and physically relax your body. Breathe slowly and evenly. With each in-breath feel a flow of energy rise from your feet to the top of your head, and with each out-breath feel that energy flow from the top of your head to your feet. Feel yourself calmly growing in strength as the energy flows through your body. After ten or more breaths, when you feel strong and alert, visualize a sphere of pure white light just above your head and know that this is your own Highest Self—free of all fear and pain, pure in the Divine Force that is everywhere. Visualize that sphere forming an egg-shape of intense blue light all around you, and know that this is your psychic shield that will protect you from harm as it grows in strength. Continue breathing gently and evenly, feeling the strength in your body while holding this image. Grasp the chosen object tightly in your hand, and feel that strength suddenly surge into your hand and into the object. Hold that object, hold that feeling, and hold the image of your psychic shield all around you. Project that fully charged battery, constantly energizing your psychic shield. You are protected! But psychic well-being depends on a daily program. Start that as soon as possible so that you grow in strength and spiritual.resources.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Hands On

Clenching Your Right Fist Improves Memory
So often we take our hands for granted. Consider how many portraits and photographs focus on out head while a majority of what we do and who we are -- our work and expression -- is the result of our contact with the outside world through our hands. More than any other part of our body, our hands are anatomical structures that create and maintain civilization. Before there was spoken language, there were gestures and hand signs.
What do we really know about our hands?
Ruth Propper and colleagues from Montclair State University have just published a paper in the journal, PLOS ONE (April 2013), which demonstrates the previously unknown use of hands in improving memory.
Participants in the research study were split into groups and asked to first memorize, and later recall words from a list of 72 random words. It's a daunting task under normal circumstances, unless you are a trained memory expert, which the participants were not.
In the experiment there were 4 groups who clenched their hands; One group clenched their right fist for about 90 seconds immediately prior to memorizing the list and then did the same immediately prior to recollecting the words. Another group clenched their left hand prior to both memorizing and recollecting. Two other groups clenched one hand prior to memorizing (either the left or right hand) and the opposite hand prior to recollecting. A control group did not clench their fists at any point.

So what happened?
The group that clenched their right fist when memorizing the list and then clenched the left when recollecting the words performed better than all the other hand clenching groups.
According to Ruth Propper, lead scientist,

"The findings suggest that some simple body movements -- by temporarily changing the way the brain functions -- can improve memory. Future research will examine whether hand clenching can also improve other forms of cognition, for example verbal or spatial abilities." [1]
The authors say that further work is needed to test whether their results with word lists also extend to memories of visual stimuli like remembering a face, or spatial tasks, or where keys, iPhone or the TV remote were placed. Based on previous work, the authors suggest that this effect of hand-clenching on memory may be because clenching a fist activates specific brain regions (left prefrontal cortex) that are also associated with memory formation.
But we can all try this experiment for ourselves. Here's how:

  • Get a any magazine or newspaper article and black out any names or places in the text.
  • Select a number, say 5, and then copy every 5th word to a paper until you have a few dozen. The experiment used 72 words but your list can vary.
  • Use this list as your more-or-less "random" list and try the above experiment with your friends and family.
Some interesting questions are how the test results vary in left-handed v. right-handed individuals... maybe you can find a difference. But remember to have a control... someone who performs the test without making a fist. Compare the results. Let me know what you find.

Clenching Left Hand Helps Athletes Avoid Choking Under Pressure
Some athletes may improve their performance under pressure simply by squeezing a ball or clenching their left hand before competition to activate certain parts of the brain, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.
One doesn't have to be an athlete to have stress in today's world so this research should interest anyone who has to "get it together" and function at their peak levels.
In three experiments with experienced soccer players, judo experts and badminton players, researchers in Germany tested the athletes' skills during practice and then in stressful competitions before a large crowd or video camera.
Right-handed athletes who squeezed a ball in their left hand before competing were less likely to choke under pressure than right-handed players who squeezed a ball in their right hand. The study was published online in theJournal of Experimental Psychology: General (September 2012).
Juergen Beckmann, PhD, chair of sport psychology at the Technical University of Munich in Germany, explains the phenomenon

"Rumination (i.e. thinking too deeply about their performance) can interfere with concentration and performance of motor tasks. Athletes usually perform be
Essentially, Dr. Beckman is saying that athletes should trust their muscle memory and clear their minds by squeezing a ball.
Previous research has shown that rumination is associated with the brain's left hemisphere, while the right hemisphere is associated with superior performance in automated behaviors, such as those used by some athletes. The right hemisphere controls movements of the left side of the body, and the left hemisphere controls the right side. The researchers theorized that squeezing a ball or clenching the left hand would activate the right hemisphere of the brain and reduce the likelihood of the athlete's choking under pressure.
The study focused exclusively on right-handed athletes because some relationships between different parts of the brain aren't as well understood for left-handed people, according to the authors.
In fact, there is quite a spectrum of left-handedness. Some "lefties" only write with the left hand but play golf, hold a bat and do other activities with their right hand. Some left handed people can read backwards or upside down, some can not. what their coaches told them during practice. While it may seem counterintuitive, consciously trying to keep one's balance is likely to produce imbalance, as was seen in some sub-par performances by gymnasts during the Olympics in London."

Essentially, Dr. Beckman is saying that athletes should trust their muscle memory and clear their minds by squeezing a ball.
Previous research has shown that rumination is associated with the brain's left hemisphere, while the right hemisphere is associated with superior performance in automated behaviors, such as those used by some athletes. The right hemisphere controls movements of the left side of the body, and the left hemisphere controls the right side. The researchers theorized that squeezing a ball or clenching the left hand would activate the right hemisphere of the brain and reduce the likelihood of the athlete's choking under pressure.
The study focused exclusively on right-handed athletes because some relationships between different parts of the brain aren't as well understood for left-handed people, according to the authors.
In fact, there is quite a spectrum of left-handedness. Some "lefties" only write with the left hand but play golf, hold a bat and do other activities with their right hand. Some left handed people can read backwards or upside down, some can not.

"The research could have important implications outside athletics. Elderly people who are afraid of falling often focus too much on their movements, so right-handed elderly people may be able to improve their balance by clenching their left hand before walking or climbing stairs."
"Many movements of the body can be impaired by attempts at consciously controlling them," he said. "This technique can be helpful for many situations and tasks." -- Beckmann

This ball-squeezing technique probably wouldn't help athletes whose performance is based on strength or stamina, such as weightlifters or marathon runners. The effects apply to athletes whose performance is based on accuracy and complex body movements, such as soccer players or golfers.

Is Your Left Hand More Motivated Than Your Right Hand?
According to Mathias Pessiglione, of the Brain & Spine Institute in Paris (Sepember 2010) motivation doesn't have to be conscious. Your brain can decide how much it wants something without input from your conscious mind! This new study shows that both halves (hemispheres) of your brain don't even have to agree. Motivation can happen in one side of the brain at a time.
Once again, we are reminded that the brain is actually TWO brains that cooperate, or not, to perform different tasks in our daily life. Which half does which job is largely what determines our personality.
Here are the traits of each hemisphere per Roger Sperry (1973):

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS

uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe
RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS

uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous

Psychologists used to think that motivation was a conscious process. You know you want something, so you try to get it. But a few years ago experiments showed that motivation could be subconscious; when people saw subliminal pictures of a reward, even if they didn't know what they'd seen, they would try harder for a bigger reward.
Back in the 1950s, cinemas across the coulnry were successfully inserting frames into their shows that were viewed for only a fraction of a second (1/16th) but were able to prompt viewers to buy Coca-Cola or popcorn. So-called subliminal advertising showed the strength of sub-conscious motivation.




In an earlier study, volunteers were shown pictures of either a one-Euro coin or a one-Cent coin for a tiny fraction of a second. They did not perceive it consciously. Then they were told to squeeze a pressure-sensing handgrip. The harder they squeezed the grip, the more of the "coin" they would get. The image was subliminal, so volunteers didn't know how big a coin (or its value) they were squeezing for, but they would still squeeze harder for one euro than one cent. That result showed that motivation didn't have to be conscious.
The New Study
For the new study, researchers wanted to know if one side of the brain could be motivated at a time.
The test started with having the subject focus on a cross in the middle of the computer screen. Then the motivational coin -- one euro or one cent -- was shown on one side of the visual field. People were only subliminally motivated when the coin appeared on the same side of the visual field as the squeezing hand. For example, if the coin was on the right and they were squeezing with the right hand, they would squeeze harder for a euro than for a cent. But if the subliminal coin appeared on the left and they were squeezing on the right, they wouldn't squeeze any harder for a euro.

Are Emotions Reversed in Left-Handers' Brains?

According to Daniel Casasanto and Geoffrey Brookshire of The New School for Social Research in New York (May 2012), the way we use our hands may determine how emotions are organized in our brains.
In a recent study published in PLoS ONE, psychologists explain how emotions are classified as either "approach motivated" (i.e. wanting something) or withdraw (avoid) motivation. Consider your feelings about having a good meal verses, say, paying taxes.
Motivation, the drive to approach or withdraw from physical and social stimuli, is a basic building block of human emotion and socialization. For decades, scientists have believed that approach motivation is computed mainly in the left hemisphere of the brain, and withdraw motivation in the right hemisphere.
A new study challenges this idea, showing that a well-established pattern of brain activity, found across dozens of studies in right-handers, completely reverses in left-handers.
The study used electroencepahlography (EEG) to compare activity in participants' right and left hemispheres during rest. After having their brain waves measured, participants completed a survey measuring their level of approach motivation, a core aspect of our personalities.

In right-handers, stronger approach motivation was associated with greater activity in the left hemisphere than the right, consistent with previous studies. But... Left-handers showed the opposite pattern: approach motivation was associated with greater activity in the right hemisphere than the left.
Why is this so weird?
Most cognitive functions do not reverse with handedness. Language, for example, is mainly in the left hemisphere for the majority of right- and left-handers. But these results were not unexpected.

"We predicted this hemispheric reversal because we observed that people tend to use different hands to perform approach- and avoidance-related actions... Approach actions are often performed with the dominant hand, and avoidance actions with the non-dominant hand.""Approach motivation is computed by the hemisphere that controls the right hand in right-handers, and by the hemisphere that controls the left hand in left-handers ... We don't think this is a coincidence. Neural circuits for motivation may be functionally related to circuits that control hand actions -- emotion may be built upon neural circuits for action, in evolutionary or developmental time."
Daniel Casasanto, co-Author
Implications for the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders
To treat depression and anxiety disorders, brain stimulation is used to increase neural activity in the patient's left hemisphere, long believed to the 'approach motivation hemisphere'.

"Given what we show here, this treatment, which helps right-handers, may be detrimental to left-handers -- the exact opposite of what they need.""The discovery that approach motivation reverses with handedness may lead to safer, more effective neural therapies for left-handers. It's something we're investigating now."
--Brookshire, co-Author [4]

Right-Handedness Prevailed 500,000 Years Ago!
According to a report in ScienceDaily, right-handedness is a distinctively human characteristic, with right-handers outnumbering lefties nine-to-one. But how far back does right-handedness reach in the human story? And how would you determine this?

Researchers have tried looking at ancient tools, prehistoric art and human bones, but the results have not been definitive. Ancient imprints of hands, such as produced by spattering pigment around the fingers, raises the question of which hand was dominant -- the hand being outlined or the hand doing the spatter?
Now, David Frayer, professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas, has used markings on fossilized human front teeth to show that right-handedness goes back more than 500,000 years.
A study published in the British journal Laterality shows that distinctive markings on fossilized teeth correlate to the right or left-handedness of individual prehistoric humans.

Just imagine yourself chewing on a bone. The angle of your bite marks would be different depending upon which hand held the bone.
"The patterns seen on the fossil teeth are directly and consistently produced by right or left hand manipulation in experimental work."
-- Frayer, Author of study
The oldest teeth come from a more than 500,000-year-old cave chamber known as Sima de los Huesos near Burgos, Spain. It contains the remains of humans believed to be ancestors of European Neandertals. Other teeth studied by Frayer come from later Neandertal populations in Europe.

"These marks were produced when a stone tool was accidentally dragged across the labial face in an activity performed at the front of the mouth. The heavy scoring on some of the teeth indicates the marks were produced over the lifetime of the individual and are not the result of a single cutting episode."
Overall, Frayer and his co-authors found right-handedness in 93.1 percent of individuals sampled from the Sima de los Huesos and European Neandertal sites.

"It is difficult to interpret these fossil data in any way other than that laterality was established early in European fossil record and continued through the Neandertals. This establishes that handedness is found in more than just recent Homo sapiens." [5]
Frayer said that his findings on right-handedness have implications for understanding the language capacity of ancient populations, because language is primarily located on the left side of the brain, which controls the right side of the body, there is a right handedness-language connection.

"The general correlation between handedness and brain laterality shows that human brains were lateralized in a 'modern' way by at least half a million years ago and the pattern has not changed since then. There is no reason to suspect this pattern does not extend deeper into the past and that language has ancient, not recent, roots."
Left Handedness in Sports and Athletics
Studies have found that there are fewer left handed athletes in sports that require teamwork and cooperation. Sports like basketball and football are excellent examples. Left handers make up only about 17% of these teams. But if we look at sports requiring individual skills, things like boxing and baseball, left handers make up a majority of 50%. [6]
There must be a good reason that evolution has allowed people to be left handed -- and at a fairly consistent rate of about 10% -- in the general population. Perhaps they can do some useful things that right handed people cannot do... or maybe the fact that they are right-brain dominant is the factor that makes them unique. More research is needed to answer these questions.
Notes: [2] Jurgen Beckmann, Peter Gropel, Felix Ehrlenspiel. Preventing Motor Skill Failure Through Hemisphere-Specific Priming: Cases From Choking Under Pressure, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2012; DOI: 10.1037/a0029852
[3] Mathias Pessiglione
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Saturday, April 13, 2013

SOME RULES OF LIFE

SOME RULES OF LIFE

1. Life is uncertain--Eat dessert first!

2. Never say never.

3. Eliminate try from a sentence and it becomes a positive statement.

4. Say won't instead of can't which makes you honest.

5. Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do!

6. "I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I and if by chance we find each other; It's beautiful." Frederick S. Perls

7. Promises are made to be broken.

8. When you feel guilty you are spending time in the past, when you are worrying you are spending time in the future and when you do either you are not dealing with the here and now.

9. "There is good in everyone." Anne Frank

10. When love is gone I will not stoop to become your friend.

11. What goes round comes round.

12. Most people don't learn from past mistakes and keep repeating them.

13. I do not need another to validate or approve of me.

14. It's human to err, divine to forgive but harder to do the latter.

15. When a person lies it is usually to make them look better in your eyes.

16. Being alone doesn't mean you are lonely.

17. People will do what they want to do even though they say they won't/don't.

18. Some people believe that negative attention is better than no attention at all.

19. "If you really love me you will..." should not be said to someone you love.

20. Eliminate negative people from your life.

21. Live as if today is the last day of your life.

22. Do stop to smell the roses, look at nature.

23. Appreciate what you have.

24. Another way of putting #17--people are selfish

26. I am a very happy, positive person and become more so as I get older!

27. The people I am most disappointed in are those that call themselves christians and the people I admire most are those who live their life as Christians.

28. It is possible to make real friends after meeting them on cyber space.

29. Yes, what mother said is still true: do not discuss religion and/or politics.

30. Children know it all or so they think--adults realize how little they know."

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Life is about

No matter what disadvantages I have, I stay as positive as I can, which helps me a great deal in living my life to the excellence, I believe it should be lived. I am losing the ability to speak clearly so I take my time and reapeat myself and text on my phone as much as possible. The fact that one of my legs can not move as quickly as the other one do to my hemi-parasis cause me to just walk slowly. I accept the fact that I bump into stuff easily so I just take extra care where I walk. My Personal Care Manager helps me in my daily routine and helps keeps my mind active.

Monday, January 21, 2013

Protection of life

At the end of this Email is a quote of the month by Jay Leno.. If you don't read anything else, Please Read what he Said. Very well stated, Mr. Leno. TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!

First, we survived being born to mothers Who smoked and/or drank while they were Pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, Tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-base paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, Locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode Our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.

As infants & children, We would ride in cars with no car seats, No booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.

Riding in the back of a pick-up truck on a warm day Was always a special treat.

We drank water From the garden hose and not from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, From one bottle and no one actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter and bacon.. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And, we weren't overweight. WHY?

Because we were Always outside playing...that's why!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, As long as we were back when the Streetlights came on.

No one was able To reach us all day. And, we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps And then ride them down the hill, only to find out We forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, No video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, No cell phones, No personal computers, no Internet and no chat rooms.

WE HAD FRIENDS And we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth And there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, And the worms did not live in us Forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, Although we were told it would happen, We did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and Knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just Walked in and talked to them.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal With disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law Was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best Risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever.

The past 50 years Have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

If YOU are one of them?CONGRATULATIONS! You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good .

While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it ?

The quote of the month is by Jay Leno: "With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of swine flu and terrorist attacks. Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?'

For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us.. ..go ahead and delete this.

For the rest of us...pass this on. A Small Prayer!

God determines who walks into your life....it's up to you to decide who you let walk away, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go.

I need this back. If you'll do this for me, I'll do it for you.

When there is nothing left but God, that is when you find out that God is all you need. Take 60 seconds and give this a shot! All you do is simply say the following small prayer for the person who sent you this.

Father, God bless my friend in whatever it is that You know they may need this day! And may their life be full of your peace, prosperity, and power as he/she seeks to have a closer relationship with you. Amen.

Then send it on to five other people, including the one who sent it to you Within hours you will have caused a multitude of people to pray for other people. Then sit back and watch the power of God work in your life.

P. S... Five is good, but more is better.

IN GOD WE TRUST

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Ripple Effect

You may not realize this, but by every action we take at the present moment effect and forms the future into existence. In fact while I am writing this, new ideas are forming in my head, much like water that ripples out when a stone is thrown. The stone is a physical manifestation of our thoughts and the actions they set in motion are the ripples.

If I choose this, a certain consequence will be set in motion. Whatever choice we make a different future is created. There are countless paths which can be created from one choice. Every choice has a thousand other choice leading from it.

So life, you see is a big ripple, off another ripple. My question is what started the ripples, and how long can they last? Personally my thoughts and hopes are that they will last forever.

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Life is....

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

Life is beauty, admire it.

Life is a dream, realize it.

Life is a challenge, meet it.

Life is a duty, complete it.

Life is a game, play it.

Life is a promise, fulfill it.

Life is sorrow, overcome it.

Life is a song, sing it.

Life is a struggle, accept it.

Life is a tragedy, confront it.

Life is an adventure, dare it.

Life is luck, make it.

Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

Life is life, fight for it.

- Mother Teresa

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Got life


Where does life exist? How does life evolve? Are we alone? Gale Crater, which is on Mars, found on August 6, 2012. Curiosity Rover is searching for micro-biotical life around Saturns moon Enceladus. This was discovered. It is an icy plume with complex organic chemicals, heat and potential liquids.

The search for life outside the Solor System was started by Spitzer Telescope and the Hubble space telescope. Spitzer is examining interest molacules. Hubble measures atmospheres of distant worlds detecting elements of.life.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Weapons

Weapons don't make you strong, on the contrary they make you weak. You rely on action when you use weapons. When you use words you rely on thought as well as reasoning.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Crutches

We all have crutches. They support our day to day activities. They help you up, but you shouldn't constantly use them, because you wip get dependant.

Define life

What defines life? Movement is one definition. Growth is  yet another.

Anything that grows is alive, but all some things that are alive don't need to grow.

Friday, January 20, 2012

Exploration

Life is a vast amount of exploration. We explore day to day in every way. You may get hurt, but you always learn. You have to have drive and move forward to every day in every way. Everyone wants to explore life in uniquely vast degrees.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Game of Life

Life is a game. We have to know the rules, then we will all have fun.

You have to have a good skill no matter what games of life you find yourself in. You find yourself in situations and you have to believe in yourself that you always will prevail. Just take into account who is around. It is like playing poker, I guess. You have to slowly delve into the different situations you find yourself in, for you will always prevail as you wish.

Friday, November 11, 2011

Puppy Size

'Danielle keeps repeating it over and over again. We've been back to this animal shelter at least five times. It has been weeks now since we started all of this,' the mother told the volunteer. 'What is it she keeps asking for?' the volunteer asked. 'Puppy size!' replied the mother 'Well, we have plenty of puppies, if that's what she's looking for.' 'I know..... we have seen most of them, ' the mom said in frustration...ust then Danielle came walking into the office. 'Well, did you find one?' asked her mom. 'No, not this time,' Danielle said with sadness in her voice. 'Can we come back on the weekend?' The two women looked at each other, shook their heads and laughed 'You never know when we will get more dogs. Unfortunately, there's always a supply,' the volunteer said. Danielle took her mother by the hand and headed to the door. 'Don't worry, I'll find one this weekend,' she said. Over the next few days both Mom and Dad had long conversations with her. They both felt she was being too particular. 'It's this weekend or we're not looking any more,' Dad finally said in frustration. 'We don't want to hear anything more about puppy size, either,' Mom added. Sure enough, they were the first ones in the shelter on Saturday morning . By now Danielle knew her way around, so she ran right for the section that housed the smaller dogs. Tired of the routine, mom sat in the small waiting room at the end of the first row of cages. There was an observation window so you could see the animals during times when visitors weren't permitted. Danielle walked slowly from cage to cage, kneeling periodically to take a closer look. One by one the dogs were brought out and she held each one. One by one she said, 'Sorry, but you're not the one.' It was the last cage on this last day in search of the perfect pup. The volunteer opened the cage door and the child carefully picked up the dog and held it closely. This time she took a little longer. 'Mom, that's it! I found the right puppy! He's the one! I know it!' She screamed with joy. 'It's the puppy size!' 'But it's the same size as all the other puppies you held over the last few weeks,' Mom said. 'No not size... The sighs. When I held him in my arms, he sighed,' she said. 'Don't you remember? When I asked you one day what love is, you told me love depends on the sighs of your heart. The more you love, the bigger the sigh!' The two women looked at each other for a moment. Mom didn't know whether to laugh or cry. As she stooped down to hug the child, she did a little of both. 'Mom, every time you hold me, I sigh. When you and Daddy come home from work and hug each other, you both sigh. I knew I would find the right puppy if it sighed when I held it in my arms,' she said. Then, holding the puppy up close to her face, she said, 'Mom, he loves me.. I heard the sighs of his heart!' This is the part that I would like everyone to read and do... Close your eyes for a moment and think about the love that makes you sigh. I not only find it in the arms of my loved ones, but in the caress of a sunset, the kiss of the moonlight and the gentle brush of cool air on a hot day. They are the sighs of God. Take the time to stop and listen; you will be surprised at what you hear. 'Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.' I hope your life is filled with Sighs!!! Appreciate every single thing you have, especially your friends! Life is too short and friends are too few. Life is too short to wake up with regrets. Love the people who treat you right and forget about the ones who don't.

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Lifes Moras

Some of us stumble through life, while others plan out every step. There is no right or wrong way to live, just as long as you live a good life according to you.

The only person who truly is watching your life is yourself. You have to live with yourself, no one else must. You only have to prove that you are a good person to yourself.

If you believe on a higher power, that is good. He or she wants you to be happy most of all. You should not believe otherwise because why would you have the freedom to choose.
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Gandhi’s Top 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World

by HENRIK EDBERG. Print “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”

“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problem.”

“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”

Mahatma Gandhi needs no long introduction. Everyone knows about the man who lead the Indian people to independence from British rule in 1947.

So let’s just move on to some of my favourite tips from Mahatma Gandhi.

1. Change yourself.

“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”

“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.”

If you change yourself you will change your world. If you change how you think then you will change how you feel and what actions you take. And so the world around you will change. Not only because you are now viewing your environment through new lenses of thoughts and emotions but also because the change within can allow you to take action in ways you wouldn’t have – or maybe even have thought about –while stuck in your old thought patterns.

And the problem with changing your outer world without changing yourself is that you will still be you when you reach that change you have strived for. You will still have your flaws, anger, negativity, self-sabotaging tendencies etc. intact.

And so in this new situation you will still not find what you hoped for since your mind is still seeping with that negative stuff. And if you get more without having some insight into and distance from your ego it may grow more powerful. Since your ego loves to divide things, to find enemies and to create separation it may start to try to create even more problems and conflicts in your life and world.

2. You are in control.

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a “normal” or a common way to react to different things. But that’s mostly just all it is.

You can choose your own thoughts, reactions and emotions to pretty much everything. You don’t have to freak out, overreact of even react in a negative way. Perhaps not every time or instantly. Sometimes a knee-jerk reaction just goes off. Or an old thought habit kicks in.

And as you realize that no-one outside of yourself can actually control how you feel you can start to incorporate this thinking into your daily life and develop it as a thought habit. A habit that you can grow stronger and stronger over time. Doing this makes life a whole lot easier and more pleasurable.

3. Forgive and let it go.

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”

Fighting evil with evil won’t help anyone. And as said in the previous tip, you always choose how to react to something. When you can incorporate such a thought habit more and more into your life then you can react in a way that is more useful to you and others.

You realize that forgiving and letting go of the past will do you and the people in your world a great service. And spending your time in some negative memory won’t help you after you have learned the lessons you can learn from that experience. You’ll probably just cause yourself more suffering and paralyze yourself from taking action in this present moment.

If you don’t forgive then you let the past and another person to control how you feel. By forgiving you release yourself from those bonds. And then you can focus totally on, for instance, the next point.

4. Without action you aren’t going anywhere.

“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”

Without taking action very little will be done. However, taking action can be hard and difficult. There can be much inner resistance.

And so you may resort to preaching, as Gandhi says. Or reading and studying endlessly. And feeling like you are moving forward. But getting little or no practical results in real life.

So, to really get where you want to go and to really understand yourself and your world you need to practice. Books can mostly just bring you knowledge. You have to take action and translate that knowledge into results and understanding.

You can check out a few effective tips to overcome this problem in How to Take More Action: 9 Powerful Tips. Or you can move on to the next point for more on the best tip for taking more action that I have found so far.

5. Take care of this moment.

“I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.”

The best way that I have found to overcome the inner resistance that often stops us from taking action is to stay in the present as much as possible and to be accepting.

Why? Well, when you are in the present moment you don’t worry about the next moment that you can’t control anyway. And the resistance to action that comes from you imagining negative future consequences – or reflecting on past failures – of your actions loses its power. And so it becomes easier to both take action and to keep your focus on this moment and perform better.

Have a look at 8 Ways to Return to the Present Moment for tips on how quickly step into the now. And remember that reconnecting with and staying in the now is a mental habit – a sort of muscle – that you grow. Over time it becomes more powerful and makes it easier to slip into the present moment.

6. Everyone is human.

“I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.”

“It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”

When you start to make myths out of people – even though they may have produced extraordinary results – you run the risk of becoming disconnected from them. You can start to feel like you could never achieve similar things that they did because they are so very different. So it’s important to keep in mind that everyone is just a human being no matter who they are.

And I think it’s important to remember that we are all human and prone to make mistakes. Holding people to unreasonable standards will only create more unnecessary conflicts in your world and negativity within you.

It’s also important to remember this to avoid falling into the pretty useless habit of beating yourself up over mistakes that you have made. And instead be able to see with clarity where you went wrong and what you can learn from your mistake. And then try again.

7. Persist.

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

Be persistent. In time the opposition around you will fade and fall away. And your inner resistance and self-sabotaging tendencies that want to hold you back and keep you like you have always been will grow weaker.

Find what you really like to do. Then you’ll find the inner motivation to keep going, going and going. You can also find a lot of useful tips on how keep your motivation up in How to Get Out of a Motivational Slump and 25 Simple Ways to Motivate Yourself.

One reason Gandhi was so successful with his method of non-violence was because he and his followers were so persistent. They just didn’t give up.

Success or victory will seldom come as quickly as you would have liked it to. I think one of the reasons people don’t get what they want is simply because they give up too soon. The time they think an achievement will require isn’t the same amount of time it usually takes to achieve that goal. This faulty belief partly comes from the world we live in. A world full of magic pill solutions where advertising continually promises us that we can lose a lot of weight or earn a ton of money in just 30 days. You can read more about this in One Big Mistake a Whole Lot of People Make.

Finally, one useful tip to keep your persistence going is to listen to Gandhi’s third quote in this article and keep a sense of humor. It can lighten things up at the toughest of times.

8. See the good in people and help them.

“I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.”

“Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.”

“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”

There is pretty much always something good in people. And things that may not be so good. But you can choose what things to focus on. And if you want improvement then focusing on the good in people is a useful choice. It also makes life easier for you as your world and relationships become more pleasant and positive.

And when you see the good in people it becomes easier to motivate yourself to be of service to them. By being of service to other people, by giving them value you not only make their lives better. Over time you tend to get what you give. And the people you help may feel more inclined to help other people. And so you, together, create an upward spiral of positive change that grows and becomes stronger.

By strengthening your social skills you can become a more influential person and make this upward spiral even stronger. A few articles that may provide you with useful advice in that department are Do You Make These 10 Mistakes in a Conversation? and Dale Carnegie’s Top 10 Tips for Improving Your Social Skills. Or you can just move on to the next tip.

9. Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”

I think that one of the best tips for improving your social skills is to behave in a congruent manner and communicate in an authentic way. People seem to really like authentic communication. And there is much inner enjoyment to be found when your thoughts, words and actions are aligned. You feel powerful and good about yourself.

When words and thoughts are aligned then that shows through in your communication. Because now you have your voice tonality and body language – some say they are over 90 percent of communication – in alignment with your words.

With these channels in alignment people tend to really listen to what you’re saying. You are communicating without incongruency, mixed messages or perhaps a sort of phoniness.

Also, if your actions aren’t in alignment with what you’re communicating then you start to hurt your own belief in what you can do. And other people’s belief in you too.

10. Continue to grow and evolve.

”Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.”

You can pretty much always improve your skills, habits or re-evaluate your evaluations. You can gain deeper understanding of yourself and the world.

Sure, you may look inconsistent or like you don’t know what you are doing from time to time. You may have trouble to act congruently or to communicate authentically. But if you don’t then you will, as Gandhi says, drive yourself into a false position. A place where you try to uphold or cling to your old views to appear consistent while you realise within that something is wrong. It’s not a fun place to be. To choose to grow and evolve is a happier and more useful path to take.
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Yeremiah Hardt

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Star of Life

You can only burn for so long. As soon as you stop growing you begin to fade, it is extremely difficult to stop fading and reenergize once you have begun to fade, but it is possible.

A way to stop your fading is by asking questions. Life, in essence is the constant search for what makes you happy. What makes you happy one moment may not another. It is extremely illusion.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

How to stay young

Every day you have to realize you get reborn to experience life in a new way within tour great saga known as life. This mindset will keep you youthful and your body will respond to it as much as it  can. You just have to experience every day as new after you are finished with them to your own standard. They serve a purpose, these memories, but once their purpose has been served let them go, do not dwell on them and make them your future. By not participating in others dwellings of the past, you will see the positives you create in your life, as well as the lives of those around you.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Staying Youthful

Every day you have to realize you get reborn to experience life in a new way within tour great saga known as life. This mindset will keep you youthful and your body will respond to it as much as it  can. You just have to experience every day as new after you are finished with them to your own standard. They serve a purpose, these memories, but once their purpose has been served let them go, do not dwell on them and make them your future. By not participating in others dwellings of the past, you will see the positives you create in your life, as well as the lives of those around you.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Life moras

Some of us stumble through life, while others plan out every step. There is no right or wrong way to live, just as long as you live a good life according to you.

The only person who truly is watching your life is yourself. You have to live with yourself, no one else must. You only have to prove that you are a good person to yourself.

If you believe on a higher power, that is good. He or she wants you to be happy most of all. You should not believe otherwise because why would you have the freedom to choose.

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Modern Life



Life is not…


Life is not Facebook that can accommodate 5000 friends

Life is not Google that can search sites to questions you are seeking with

Life is more than your notebook, you PC or the internet

Life is not the phone, the tablet or any modern gadget

And life is not the noise, the song, or the music being played


Life is more than the fast food chain that can give your order instantly

Satiate your hunger, your delight and your cravings.

Life is more than the supermarket or the neighborhood grocery.

Life is more than the physical foods or the clothes or any raiment

There’s more to life than all these things!


Life is not the can of soda that can quench your thirst

Life is not the cigarette which you presume can relieve your stress

Life is not the beer that gives a minute of forgetfulness

Life is not the ashtray or the garbage where you dump your waste

Life is more than merry making, earthly pleasure, or worldly happiness


Life is not the chocolate, cup of coffee or a mug of tea

Life is more than the jewelries or your accessories

Life is not a toilet where you visit to defecate

Life is more than the bar you go to escape life’s regrets

and life is not the pill that frees you for an hour of anxieties.


Life is not the house, the car, the money or the vacation!

Life is not the party, the extravagance, and the frivolities

So don’t be in despair you cannot get all of these or these were taken away

Don’t be contemptuous to your dear ones if they cannot give you these

There’s more to life than all of these


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Yeremiah Hardt

Lifes Potholes


Like a pothole in an otherwise smooth road,
there are also pothole-like people in your life
that you ought to avoid.
Potholes can be enemies or plastic friends
or they can be incorrect ideas
or unsolicited situations
They can be tangible or intangible
Potholes are there,
Giving you a moment of reality check
That you are traveling and not stagnating
That you are in motion and not at halt
Big or small
Potholes can be irritating or enjoying.
You can avoid them
You can cover them
Neglect them and meet them again
as you go on with your travel
in the road called life.
But sometimes it can be enjoyable
to bump with those potholes once in a while.
~Champs Ulysses Cabinatan
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Yeremiah Hardt