Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Tuesday, February 1, 2011

How To Deal With Depression

By Lula T. Parry


Research have shown that receiving paychecks and looking beautiful infront of the mirror only accounts 10 percent of your overall happiness in life. It is the small things you do that puts a smile on your face that really stacks up to the overall percentage of happiness.

The photo album is a treasure chest waiting to be opened. There are wondrous treats that await you when you open an old photo album of yourself or with your family and friends. You can even take a photo and put it in a frame and carry it with you on your desk at the office.

Break the ice by taking a break from work and enjoy the smell of fresh fruits or essential oils. Take a deep breath and close your eyes. It will help you calm down and you will find yourself smiling again especially at days when you are beating the deadline.

Feel free to let the sun's rays touch your skin for a few minutes. Place your exercise equipment where the sun is shining and you will feel an extra amount of energy and happiness. Exposing yourself to bright light especially the sun will have effects on your mood and your sleep.

If you feel moody or not yourself when you wake up, get out of the house and enjoy a walk around the neighborhood. By the time you reach your doorstep, you will feel invigorated and slightly in tune with yourself than moments ago.

When your boss is making you crazy with all the demands, get away from it all by doing a 30 second race to put a list of things that you want to do after work. This will take your mind off from the things that are worrying you and instead re-invigorates your mood.

When stress builds up inside you and you simply need a mere 2 minutes to escape, head out to youtube and search for a funny video. This will instantly lighten up your mood and help you cope with stress.

The worse thing about money is that you end up regretting on spending them. So, the next time you went shopping, grab a friend with you and shop for things that you want to give to your other friends. This will help you bond with your friend and give something to someone else.




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Monday, January 31, 2011

Anomalies and Revolutionary Knowledge

By Jake Shannon


Knowledge changes over time. Lamarck's worldview over-took the Creationist's view of biology, which, in turn, was replaced by Darwin's. Quantum mechanics has superseded Newton's classical mechanics. The cognitive revolution in psychology has left the behaviorists in the dust. Every time, a new model, offering more intension, control, predictability and falsifiability replaces the old, less scientific one. At the heart of these revolutions is anomalistics.

Anomalistics has two central features. First, its concerns are purely scientific. It deals only with empirical claims of the extraordinary and is not concerned with alleged metaphysical, theological or supernatural phenomena. As such, it insists on the testability of claims (including both verifiability and falsifiability), seeks parsimonious explanations, places the burden of proof on the claimant, and expects evidence of a claim to be commensurate with its degree of extra ordinariness (anomalousness). Though it recognizes that unexplained phenomena exist, it does not presume these are unexplainable but seeks to discover old or to develop new appropriate scientific explanations.

As a scientific enterprise, anomalistics is normatively skeptical and demands inquiry prior to judgment, but skepticism means doubt rather than denial (which is itself a claim, a negative one, for which science also demands proof). Though claims without adequate evidence are usually unproved, this is not confused with evidence of disproof. As meteorologists have noted, an absence of evidence does not constitute evidence of absence. Since science must remain an open system capable of modification with new evidence, anomalistics seeks to keep the door ajar even for the most radical claimants willing to engage in scientific discourse. is approach recognizes the need to avoid both the Type I error - thinking something special is happening when it really is not - and the Type II error - thinking nothing special is happening when something special, perhaps rare, actually occurs. While recognizing that a legitimate anomaly may constitute a crisis for conventional theories in science, anomalistics also sees them as an opportunity for progressive change in science. Thus, anomalies are viewed not as nuisances but as welcome discoveries that may lead to the expansion of our scientific understanding.

The anomalist tries to avoid both Type I and II errors, errors in deductive reasoning, as well as informal fallacies and cognitive biases. It is this balance between dismissing nonsense while being open-minded that the anomalist constantly strives for. The thin line separating protoscience from scientism (that is, pseudoscience) is where the anomalists find themselves drawn to. Marcello Truzzi, a former professor of sociology at Eastern Michigan University, has written extensively on the anomalistic perspective.

The anomalist tries to avoid both Type I and II errors, errors in deductive reasoning, as well as informal fallacies and cognitive biases. It is this balance between dismissing nonsense while being open-minded that the anomalist constantly strives for. The thin line separating protoscience from scientism (that is, pseudoscience) is where the anomalists find themselves drawn to. Marcello Truzzi, a former professor of sociology at Eastern Michigan University, has written extensively on the anomalistic perspective.

This echoes Wittgenstein's admonishment that "[w]hereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." Sadly, today new ideas (perhaps revolutionary ones) are often subject to ridicule, ad hominem attacks, and scientism, instead of being granted a respectful agnostic silence. Type I errors are commonly debunked (which is great), while Type II errors are mostly ignored or ridiculed, ultimately remaining uninvestigated (which is not so great).




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Grievance: Coping with Loss

By Ryan Crest


It's normal to lose someone dear to us in this lifetime. And because of this special bond and memories that they have had with this person or persons, it may take a while for them to get over their death. Normally, it would take up to about six months to grieve or to cope up with a death. However for some, it takes much longer even up to a year. The longer this last it gives a negative impact on the emotion to the point of no return.

People have many ways of coping up when someone special to them dies. Some people would develop new habits like smoking, cigarettes or electronic ones they can get with a green smoke cigarette. Some grievers would smoke packs and packs of these cigarettes, hoping to forget that feeling of emptiness and sadness due to the loss of someone dear to them. As it is, it is not advisable to smoke because one may get certain conditions like cancer and many others.

Art is a great outlet to grieving. Through art, they get to express what they're feeling deep inside. Friends and relatives who get to see their pieces should not be shocked if their paintings appear sad, angry, lifeless and the like. Since this person is in grief, expect their output or their work to be something near this feeling.

Those who have lost someone want to forget the pain and the sadness which is why they turn to alcohol. Their thinking is that alcohol numbs their mind and body from the feelings they get from losing someone. This is not entirely true but the minds of these grievers are already set. Some accompany alcohol drinking with smoking. While drinking the nights and days away, they smoke with a e-cigarette they got from a green smoke cigarette or real tobacco.

It is also important to take note of ones health, whatever coping mechanism you may use. Some of these mechanisms can harm you and you don't want to reach the point where you need to be taken care of. During this period of sadness and mourning, it is okay for them to be like this. This moment will just pass when they have finally accepted their loss and understood everything else around them. This is a temporary moment so you should not become too worried.




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Sunday, January 30, 2011

The Asian Culture: The Culture Of Success

By Jayde Johanssen


The Asian continent is the greatest in population and the biggest in area. It is also very rich in resources, technologically advanced and a base of science and knowledge. The secret behind this success comes from the wise Asian culture which treats the human force as a top priority.

It's not quite surprising that the continent of Asia has established the world's manufacturing foundation for all kind of simple products. It also advanced machines and complex technological items as well. And it includes automobiles, computers, mechanical parts, in-home tools, construction equipment, ships, revived and atomic energy.

There is a significant interest and obvious amount of care given to human force. That is the reason why Asian educational facilities are multinational. Lots of Asian universities are nominated each year between the top 200 world universities. For example, Peking, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Malaya, Shanghai Jiao Tong, Singapore and Tsing Hua universities. Also Indian Institute of technology in Bombay, Institute of technology in Madras and Institute of Technology in Bandung are all in the top 200 best world universities regarding educational quality, researches done, accomplishments and employment.

By looking at Asia, countries in the region other than Japan and China are also developing. From the world view, the Chinese Republic economy is the second in place and over a few decades it is anticipated to get the biggest share, Japan is the third in place after losing the second place to china in 2010 as International Monetary Fund list stated.

The black horse of Asia is India, in 2010 it holds the eleventh position in economy and it's anticipated that India will earn a position in the top ten in a short while. Although India might be considered as a developing country, it is a base of IT and computer software industries.

Another great Asian country to take an example from is South Korea. Despite its small area, Koreans have a great ambition that they have become the 15th biggest economy on the world. The country has top notch educational facilities and a tourist attractions as well as a huge industrial capability

The whole world should learn from the Asian experience. Instead of investing on structures, items or resources as a first priority, investment on man is more useful valuable on societies. So the planet as well as your life will be stronger.




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How To Exploit Your Time Productivity

By Mila Parker


When it comes to work rate and efficiency, you will notice that you never stand on flat ground. There are times when it will take you forever to get a simple task done where as there are times when you will do it in a short time. What matters is output.

Time is a precious thing. Still, many people will take so much time doing their work to completion.

Despite all the hard work, I have with time learnt how to be more efficient and in that sense more productive. This came by learning how to observe other people's techniques around me. I have found these three tips that stood out.

1) Start with the most important work first. If there is something that really needs to be done, you should not postpone this. You better do it and forget about it. It is in that sense going to prevent you from Mac timing by doing work that is not important.

2) You should not multi task important things. This will slow you down as much as you think that you are saving on time. Instead, set some time apart for each task. For example, if you select a certain hour as article writing time, you are not supposed to be catching up on your emails.

When you dedicate time it is wonderful to experience how much difference it makes to how you achieve targets with separate tasks.

3) Whenever you are doing some job and you get a feeling that you are not quite getting your mojo, you can always step back and relax a bit before you continue. That will normally be able to give you some relaxation and some new energy.

For you to get your work complete in the right schedule, try out these simple tips, you will be surprised.




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Saturday, January 29, 2011

The Power Of Subconscious Mind Is Simply Incredible!

By Kevin J Lockwood


Let's face it; the human mind is more than likely one of the most powerful things in all creation and as such, one shouldn't ever under estimate the power of the subconscious mind. Irrespective of what you do or what you say, it all comes from your mind, and in certain circumstances, your actions take place on a conscious level.

A perfect example of this can be witnessed when we sit down to watch TV. In some cases we don't like what we're watching and so we decide to change channels and watch something else instead. This is an action of the conscious mind. On other occasions, we reach for the remote and we flick through the different channels for no apparent reason. This of course is an action on the subconscious level, but have you ever stopped to think about what made you do it? Because this was an action on the subconscious level you probably never gave it a second thought.

How does something like this actually happen? In all probability, something came on TV which you don't really like and your subconscious mind, knowing it was something you don't like, triggered a reaction so that you wouldn't have to endure it. This just goes to show how much of an impact your subconscious mind can have on the way a person behaves. This type of occurrence also helps to emphasize the importance of training yourself to use the power of your subconscious mind so that you can use it to improve the quality of your life to an extent you probably never believed to be possible.

Providing you can learn how to harness and control the power of your subconscious, you'll be able to live the type of life you long for. Unfortunately, most people are brought up believing that there are many dangers lurking in the subconscious mind. Admittedly, mankind needs to understand the undesirable side of human psychology but if we spend too much time focusing on the negative aspects, we're bound to encounter negative experiences.

This is exactly why it is so important for people to focus on the positive aspects of their mind, and why they should look for ways in which they can use the power of the subconscious mind in order to improve their life. Contrary to what you may be thinking, this doesn't necessarily have to be a complex process, but instead, it's a series of simple processes which make it all possible. Providing you follow these simple processes, you'll discover that it is in fact possible to put the power of the subconscious mind to work, so that you in turn can develop to your full potential. Let's go ahead and take a quick look at some of the things you can do in order to achieve this.

One of the easiest ways to gain control over the subconscious mind is by using affirmations. Essentially, affirmations require you to remind yourself consistently of a certain aspect of your life in order to bring about a desired change.

If for example you found yourself in a situation where you were required to complete a task for which you believed you were not ready, you would more than likely experience a feeling of fatigue. This is essentially the way your body responds to a stressful scenario, but unfortunately it can leave you feeling drained and without energy. By using affirmations, it is possible for a person to overcome this condition which in turn would allow them to complete the task as it should ideally be completed.

The desired goal can be achieved by means of affirmations. In other words you need to remind yourself continuously and consistently that you stand to gain numerous benefits by completing the task successfully. You could go and stand in front of a mirror and tell yourself that by the time you've finished the plans, it will be the best looking home in the world.

Affirmations can of course help you in more ways than one. In fact, if you've never been successful at giving up a smoking, then affirmations can help you do just that. Affirmations, either spoken or written, allow you to gain access to the power of your subconscious mind.

Of course affirmation is not the only way to gain control over the power of the subconscious mind. In fact, post hypnotic suggestion has also proven to be successful and as such, it is a method which is often used. Post hypnotic suggestion can be done either by self hypnosis or by using the services of a qualified hypnotherapist. Those who choose to do it by means of self hypnosis will more often than not make use of various hypnosis audio recordings.

In more recent times, a new process has surfaced which attempts to synchronize the brain waves. This process takes advantage of new technology known as by binaural beats which are essentially different sound frequencies which you listen to through a set of headphones. The two frequencies are slightly different which means that a different frequency is heard in each ear and this helps to synchronize the two hemispheres of the brain. Interestingly enough, this process helps you to achieve a meditative state of mind almost instantaneously, at which point it becomes easier for your conscious mind to communicate with your subconscious mind.

In fact, this whole process can be taken a lot further, as has been demonstrated by Buddhist monks for centuries. As you may have already have heard, some monks have so much control over their subconscious minds, that they're able to exhibit what could best be described as being supernatural powers in that they are able to levitate.

By utilizing the power of your subconscious mind you can in essence manipulate physical matter on a subatomic level, and this has been proven beyond all doubt. In fact, several movies and books have gone to great lengths to explain this in scientific terms, and as a result, this phenomenon has come to be known as the 'Law of Attraction'. Providing you are able to communicate successfully with your subconscious mind, it is possible to get whatever you want out of life. Rather than just being theoretically possible, it's is a physical law proven by means of quantum physics.

Even though this may sound quite unbelievable, quantum physics is able to show us that the ancient religions have been right all along when they say that the reality we live in the simply a product of our mind. Interestingly enough, quantum physics has also been able to help us understand other amazing powers such as how certain people can be psychic.

One thing is for certain and that is that the subconscious mind is significantly more powerful than what people tend to realize. As such, you should never overlook or ignore the potential benefits you to stand to gain once you discover how to control and manipulate your subconscious mind. Not only will it enable you to change certain behavior traits such as bad habits, but it will also allow you to live a life you never thought possible.




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Losing A Loved One: Facing Sadness

By Ellen D. Dukes


Statistics have shown that people at the age of 18 are experiencing forms of depression and even children do feel depression. Depression is a critical form of grief in which a person who has experienced grief is not able to cope well with the loss of a loved one. With that, it is very important that you know how to treat and communicate with people with grief and depression.

Acceptance is the main key to getting through grief but in order for you to accept what is right infront of you, there are stages in which you have to go through. There will be periods of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and then comes acceptance. It is much better to accept the things rather than ignore them.

Learn to live with grief. If not, learn how to cope with grief. If grief is taking over your life, it will take form into depression where you will experience disinterest to everything you find interesting before. The moment this happens, it will be tougher to manage.

Be in tune with your feelings. Do not try to suppress them. Talk to your family and friends and admit if you are having difficulties accepting the fact that a loved one is good. They will surely understand what you are feeling and would help you go through the process.

Take things one step at a time. Do not try to push things you want to do. You might end up skipping the normal process of grieving. Most of the time, taking things hard and fast would suppress your emotions.

Do the things that you really love to do. If you love going outdoors then by all means do what you need to do to cope with your feelings. Do not bound yourself inside a room and pretend that everything is okay. Be out there.

Get back to your routine if possible. You might be doing a lot of things together with your loved one who just passed away but learn to do them alone. Put yourself on a daily routine to let the days pass by.

Always remember that you are not alone and that you have family and friends who are around you that you can talk to when you feel sad. Trust in them that everything will be alright.




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