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A sense of humour doesn’t only increase life expectancy (over 30%) with severe diseased, but also lowers blood pressure, reduces allergic reactions of breastfed babies, reduces risk for heart attacks and hypertension, improves the body immune system, increases body’s morphine (10 minutes of laughing can allow up to 2 hours of pain relief), and let you live on average 10 years longer.
There are many scientific studies proving those and many more positive effects on us.
So what’s the moral of those findings? Take your daily dose of laughing! Learn to laugh and enjoy your life!
There are many ways to get into the mood: Read books or take a laughing yoga course, watch funny videos or movies. We have combined some material for you. Have a look at it!.
Please laugh! It’s YOUR life!
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The saying “you’re only as old as you feel” is proving accurate, according to Markus H. Schafer, co-author of a study from Purdue University that compared people’s chronological age and their subjective age to determine which has more influence on cognitive ability in older adults.
Participants aged 55 to 74 were surveyed about aging and initially asked, “What age do you feel most of the time?” The majority identified with being 12 years younger than they actually were. Those closing lines to Frank Sinatra’s hit song “Young at Heart” seem to apply here.
The people who felt young for their age were more likely to have greater confidence about their cognitive abilities a decade later, Schafer reported in the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, and subjective age had a stronger effect than chronological age.
Do you feel young at heart?
Youthfulness is an attitude and a way of life. Researchers characterize it as the need to love and be loved and the need to experiment and learn. Youthfulness includes traits such as curiosity, inquisitiveness, imagination, creativity, open-mindedness, joy, spontaneity, enthusiasm, sense of humour, playfulness, optimism, and flexibility.
Our bodies and brains are designed to continue delighting in these traits throughout life, but programming from society, television, advertising, parents, teachers, and friends–even our own self-talk–can lead one to feel old.
So how can you maintain a sense of youthfulness?
• Recognize that you have a choice in your life. You do not have to blindly accept society’s typical norms about aging.
• Continually learn new skills and activities to stimulate your curiosity and thirst for knowledge. Here you find some help in this mind training.
• Socialize with others, and embrace new technologies like social networking websites. Extraversion was a defining personality characteristic in the offspring of centenarians in a Boston University of Medicine study on personality and aging. (The average age of the children studied: 75!)
• Nurture youthful traits. You can do this anytime with this simple visualization exercise:
Close your eyes and relax. Select a trait of youthfulness you want to integrate into your personality. You might have to think back to your childhood when you had an ample supply of imagination, spontaneity, or resiliency. Use rich imagery (Joe Vitale might help you with this reawakening) to immerse yourself in this trait, expressing it as a fun-loving child. Tap into the visualization daily until you truly inhabit this trait.
And finally: Forget about your real age and enjoy your abilities, physical and mental, as if you had NO age!
Terminal illness is a broad term for many unpleasant diseases. If you got one of your own, you know how difficult it is sometimes to get help or to find the best treatment. And each day new cancer types are appearing and challenging science, the doctors and the patients. Who takes care for those? Who makes the investment to study those new and rare illnesses?
There is an initiative that does exactly this: collecting funds and invest them into research and help for those rare cancers. Tunes to TargetCancer is a series of concerts, events, and music download opportunities to help raise funds for rare and underfunded cancers. Every month, local, independent, and national artists donate unreleased songs for download exclusively on The Right Track. Check it out. For a lousy $ 0.99 you can download those songs and contribute to the good cause. Isn’t it worth it?
You surely heard of the movie The Secret (you probable have seen it or read the book). All the people featuring in it were talking about the Law of Attraction (LoA) and what good it could do for you. I saw the movie three times and immediately afterwards had a feeling of enthusiastic emotions. Of course I stumbled on many other material about the LoA during the time after – this is also part of the LoA. But after some time I had the feeling that things didn’t really work out for me as I expected: just affirm you desires and they will come. It didn’t really happen! And I’m sure the same happened to more then 80% of the listeners of The Secret.
So what is the secret behind The Secret? Or is it just a scam?
Well, each of the “gurus” featuring in the movie, and many more, tell us that they know the missing link. They would sell us their program to get the results.
Reading and analyzing all those “solutions” they mostly come to the same: our brain is tricking us, with negative beliefs, the super-potent unconscious mind overriding our conscious thoughts and wishes, our blockades that hinder to free our good wishes and give the right orders to the Universe.
So how to get rid of them and make us free to finally get what we really want?
It is really so easy! You just have to release all those negative thoughts in your brain! But it’s not just done in a minute, you will have to do it constantly until you have released them all. Negative thoughts will come up by the time and with specific situations. So you will have to get used to the procedure of releasing the negative thoughts and apply it at the very moment. And you will see coming abundance, peace, love, health and grace into your life.
The best orientation for this process was developed from the experience of Lester Lovenson by Hale Dwoskin who made out of this the famous Sedona Method. Did you know that more then one third of the people featuring in The Secret apply this method?
Here are some simple but amazing facts about our eyes:
• They are the most complex organs you possess except for your brain.
• They are composed of more than two million working parts. (Amazing!)
• They are the only part of the human body that can function at 100% ability at any moment, 24 hours a day without rest.
• They can process 36,000 bits of information every hour (better than a computer!)
• They contribute towards 85% of your total knowledge (Better take good care of it)
• In a normal life-span, they will bring you almost 24 million images of the world around you.
So a good part of the “image” we have about our world and our life derived from our eyes. But there is another important element in this image-building: it’s our brain! Our brain receives the information and processes the data in its own way: it changes the information according to feelings, subconscious experiences and pattern, and even to our own belief as reality should be!
Consequently the pictures we “remember” to have seen sometimes are not exactly as we think they are! They are more an impression of reality.
Scientists made an experiment with some volunteers putting them on glasses (almost like swimming goggles) that turned everything upside down. Imagine you would stand on your head and look at the world around you! At the beginning (the first 2 to 3 days) the test persons saw the world like this: upside down. But then the unbelievable happened: the vision “turned around”, the world appeared normal again. Isn’t that amazing?
But what are the consequences out of this experience?
We should be careful with our vision and impressions we receive “from our eyes”. We should try to objectively see our world around us and not make interpretations immediately. Our subconscious interpretations often lead us to just reconfirm what we always were thinking about. We tend to reconfirm our prejudices and not to see objectively reconsidering our old beliefs. Our blockades block out new impressions and objective views of the reality.
How does this affect our personal development and growth? Find out here!
This year 2010 should start with just good staff. Didn’t you make your New-Year-wishes? And you surely want to come them true, right. This has a lot to do with the Law of Attraction. But…
There is the mess: we have read so much about it, we tried it so many times – and seldom got what we expected! No no, we won’t talk here about the mistakes and how to do it better. The Internet is full of Guru’s advice. We don’t want to add another one (besides the recommendations you find in our page about focussing goals ).
But what about a small exercise, a small game to try it out? There is no risk if it is a game, right? If it comes true, perfect. If not, we didn’t loose a penny.
Click on the banner below to go to your game. It’s really fun! Enjoy it!
And Happy New Year!
I just came about Dr. Jackie’s Relationship Blog where she wrote about her visit to South Africa and her impressions about it. Besides the excellent description of her impressions and the culture in this battered country she brings back some really true conclusions. Let me cite some important phrases and stimulate you to meditate about them:
“Now, more than ever it is vital for us to be our best and most brilliant passionate selves in the presence of each other and support each other in our greatness and in our humanity.”
“We have lost some of the strength of “the family.” Again I am reminded that it is so comforting to connect deeply with our innermost selves–our traditions, our beliefs, and our values; and join with our families, friends, neighbors and countrymen. We are not islands and we cannot do this alone or alienated from each other.”
“We must NOT slip into complacency or apathy. Let’s pledge to become and stay consciously aware of our gifts, skills, and talents. Let’s decide to resist fear and being led down the garden path. Let’s decide today, and together, to be proactive on our own behalf and nurture ourselves, our loved ones, friends and neighbors and not be taken off course again.”
Especially the last citation is giving us an important recommendation and this applies not only to the general life but especially to those who suffer a chronic or even terminal illness. The illness is not all in our life, if we got struck, but is one part of it besides many other aspects. We shouldn’t loose out of sight our families, friends, neighbours that support us. We will have to be proactive in this effort and should not wait for their first step. If we battle our situation and our inner conflicts we won’t be able to find and to give peace. And despite our disabilities – we still have our gifts, skills and talents we can and really should apply – for the sake of our surrounding and of ourselves!
The best good dead you can do is for yourself: stay positive! Control your mind what and how you are thinking. You heard of the Law of Attraction? This applies for your thoughts! Remember this!
The second good dead you can do – and it doesn’t cost you a penny – is going to the free rice homepage and play! Right! Just play! You don’t like playing? But you surely like training your brain? So you are right on this site. With your brain jogging you help to eliminate hunger. How? Go there and have a look!
And than give me a comment about your thoughts!
Spam and other indecent assaults
February 14th, 2010Running a blog you always appreciate comments on your own contributions. It provides feedback and makes you even more popular (and that’s one of the main reasons to run it, right).
But sometimes (and even more often) you get comments that don’t really fit into your concept. Let me give you some examples:
Some are simple intentions to abuse your blog for a backlink to their own blog or site – and those spammers don’t care about the impression they give with their comment. For example this:
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Isn’t it enlightening? (Despite of the destroyed links we made no editing on the presented examples!)
Others don’t care and don’t even try to dissimulate their assault, like this one:
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But the link doesn’t even work! So why?
And of course you get those flat propaganda like comments as this example:
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Or have you once got this one?:
“Можно и поподробней было. Но и так в принципе внятно.”
Isn’t it annoying to get all those stupid contributions on your blog and to have them filtered out? Is their no way to filter those things out before they get into the inbox of your blog? And what happens with all those comments marked as spam and sent back to your blog provider? Do they get effectively banned?
Well, this was actually not one of our usual blog posts, but surely happens to many (or even all) of us working with blogs. The only thing we can do is asking our readers and commenters to be ethical and reasonable and not to spam the world with unrelated and immoral comments. This will make our life more pleasant. Thank you!
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