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!
I just read an article of Marilynn Marchione about natural cures. Her basic statement about the effectiveness of alternative medicine is simply “I believe”, or just the placebo effect. The editors of the article even underline this with an introductory comment, that 10 years and $ 2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine.
Who’s statistics is this? Who made an account for the investments with positive outcome?
Let’s have a deeper look to those statements. If they wanted to stress the positive effect of placebos in medicine we all agree that they always had their share in any kind of medicine – modern “Western”, natural or alternative, or “traditional” indigenous medicine. Belief is a not to underestimate power of our mind. We are getting ill because of beliefs and we also get cured through beliefs. How many of our diseases are psychosomatic? There are no clear numbers about this, but even modern medicine is aware of the strong interrelation of behavioural aspects with diseases.
If we got ill by stress or because our mind “tricked us”, so we should be able to reverse this effect through influencing our mind. This could be through a placebo given by a doctor or shaman, or it can be done through (self)hypnosis or other psychological treatment. At least, the mentioned article confess that about one third of any treatment – even of carefully tested medicine – rely on the placebo effect!
The other statement that alternative medicines didn’t prove to cure looks like the propaganda of the pharmaceutical industry. Didn’t they always try to tell us that only their extensively tested chemical products are the only cure for any ailment? They forgot to tell us that many of their recipes and pills stem from research of traditional indigenous or natural remedies, applied for generations by shamans and natural healers all over the world. They just synthesized the active ingredients and reproduced the formula in their pills. And in this very moment the natural medicine gets banned or even demonised – to make us run to the Western doctor and the pharmacy instead of to the specialist for natural medicine and alternative treatments.
And what are the results of pharmaceutical treatments vs. alternative treatments? Nobody gives us exact figures. Many pills make disappear the symptoms. But did they cure on the long run? Did they cure the reason of the disease? What’s about the side effects (we often got not just one prescription but two or three together, in order to combat the secondary effects of the specific treatment)?
Why are going more and more patients for an alternative treatment? Here we close the circle: It’s because of the placebo effect. The “Western” pill didn’t work or the patient lost confidence in modern medicine – and is now looking for some treatment that takes into considerations his complete (holistic) situation and seeks for treatment of the root causes of the symptoms.
A recent study on patients´ preference for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM, as just an example of alternative medicine vs. Western Medicine) shows that consumers prefer TCM when uncertain about the cause of the illness and because the belief that a holistic medicine tolerates uncertainty better than Western Medicine. They also show lay beliefs that TCM offers an underlying cure – vs. symptom alleviation by Western Medicine.
Beliefs can move mountains. So there are cured illnesses like cancer and chronic illnesses with Western Medicine as well as with alternative treatments – and there are also reports about failures on both sides. Is it just a question of the available budget for PR of a specific product to tell which medicine is the right one? Shouldn’t it be the free decision of the patient which treatment to choose for his case?
Did you get impressed about all those predictions about the pandemic swine flu, the deaths to be expected from this apocalyptic virus? Well, everybody important is telling us that the general vaccine will be our salvation and the Government has to take all measures to prevent us of this damage. And of course the pharma industry is telling us that they got already the adequate vaccine that will safe us from this pandemic.
Do you belief all these proclamations? What’s about the other voices opposed to this ordered vaccination campaign? It’s your life that you will have to defend, against health attacks and economically driven assaults. So you should seriously consider to be informed and take your fate into your own hands. Weren’t made our democracies out of the conscious will of our ancestors? Our leaders are elected by us – but we will have to tell them what we would like and what not.
Let us see just some few facts about the myth of the swine flu:
- Closer CBS News investigations with the swine flu statistics of the CDC offices in various states of the US revealed that only between 3 to 17% of the reported cases were finally identified as swine flu infections and the other 83 to 97% to other non-flu illnesses.
- As of October 11, 2009 the World Health Organization reported worldwide more than 399,232 laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic influenza H1N1, and over 4,735 deaths. Most of these deaths occurred in immunocompromised individuals. In comparison, CDC in old and never updated statistics reports about 36,000 annual deaths by common flu (influenza).
- Swine flu infections are predicted to peak in late October (now) and by the end of the year it’s estimated that 63 percent of the U.S. population will have been infected with H1N1. This will mean that those parts of the population will have acquired immunity to this type of virus. CDC confessed that the vaccination will be available too late for those and thus not have the expected effect. But they still recommend to apply for the swine flu jab even to those immune people!
- The U.S. government has granted vaccine makers total legal immunity from any lawsuits that result from the new swine flu vaccine. Drug manufacturers got a major boost in protection and were granted unprecedented powers to experiment on the population with the passing of the 2006 Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (the PREP Act).
Is this a guarantee for well tested and safe vaccines?
So, who’s business is this? Why are governmental institutions blowing the horn of the pharma industry? Why is the responsible citizen obligated to get the shot without his consent? There are so many open questions with the swine flu “pandemic” and the respective “solutions”.
We give you some links to revealing investigations in the above mentioned facts and we really recommend you to go through them, as well as have a look to the specific swine flu information sites of Dr. Mercola, Jane Burgermeister and Dr. Horowitz.
If you belong to the group of immunocompromised people this personal investigation should even be a must.
BBC News reports on 2009/10/12 that “Children can be taught to use their imagination to tackle frequent bouts of stomach pain, research shows. A relaxation-type CD, asking children to imagine themselves in scenarios like floating on a cloud led to dramatic improvements in abdominal pain.”
This study was actually made in the US from researchers of the University of North Carolina and Duke University Medical Center and published in the journal Pediatrics and follows on from studies showing that hypnosis is an effective treatment for a range of conditions.
But what is the interesting result of these studies? Through hypnosis or other self-induced practices of imagination we are able to influence our metabolism and even control pain. Of course children easier get positive results because they still have lower barriers, while adults already have built many blockades that inhibit that type of influencing and self-control.
But hypnosis has grown out of childhood long ago and there are many ways to apply it, even on your own! We don’t need always a hypnotherapist to overcome our fears or other emotions and reactions controlled by our subconscious. You can for example get the hypnosis-instructions of Craig Townsend and work on yourself, your mindset, your subconscious mind. If you are adult you may need some more time and effort to get there, but why shouldn’t we achieve what children can achieve in an ease? We should never give up with ourselves!
When David Garfinkel coined the word “Nevillizing”, which was widely explained in Joe Vitale´s book The Attractor Factor, he thought mainly on the mental process of thinking himself into a wished situation, mainly of economic background. Neville Goddard, a famous mystical writer had promoted his method to use the “imaginal” mind, add feeling, and create results.
Joe Vitale warmly recommends this “Nevillizing” for the achievement of your goals. It is not just enough to make affirmations for your goals, you have to anticipate the final situation in your mind, in your imagination, with all the emotions and feelings you could have in the real case of achievement of your goals. This will unleash the preparedness and openness to receive what you wished. It will dissolve your blockades in you subconscious that often hinder you doing things, accepting situations, and receive what you consciously wanted but subconsciously rejected.
But why to apply this “Nevillizing” only with economic goals, why not applying it the same way for general wellbeing, for health? When we fall ill we also have wishes, we want to recover, we want to live a normal life. So how to apply Nevillizing to help us to get there? Let’s do the exercise:
Imagine yourself (with closed eyes) vigorous and healthy, among your friends or beloved family members, enjoying this beautiful time all together, without preoccupations, just enjoying life. As you are in this healthy situation your are in the mood to plan a trip to the beach, or may be to the mountains. The breeze is rumpling your hair and nothing is holding you back to take a long walk and enjoy the sunset. You feel, you see your strength and you feel profoundly happy. Let those feelings and emotions fill and consume you. Keep on imagining the consequences of this beautiful situation: you will come back home and to work with all your strengths recovered, filled with power and enthusiasm for new projects. This will bring you appreciation by your colleagues and prosperity for your private life. What else could you wish? And until when do you expect this? (Put up some real date!)
Now that you have “lived” this situation and those feelings inside you, release them and give it to the Divine (God, Universe, whatever your credence) to fulfil it. Be confident! It will come.
The more you could fill this “journey” with emotions and feelings, the more it is likely to come. This is the basic secret behind “Nevillizing”. I warmly recommend you to read the above mentioned book of Joe Vitale to get further ideas with this method.
Despite of yet relatively little exhaustive research about the impact of pet ownership on health conditions of both children and adults there are already some effects claimed by different scientific institutions. The University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine Research Center for Human-Animal Interaction (ReCHAI) and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), with sponsorship from The WALTHAM® Centre for Pet Nutrition, have put together the following remarkable results:
• Owning a pet results in lower blood pressure, encourages exercise, improves psychological health.
• The older people who walked their dogs improved their walking capabilities by 28 percent. They had more confidence walking on the trail, and they increased their speed.
With this second result there is an interesting correlation with replacing the pet with a human companion: The older people had only a 4 percent increase in their walking capabilities. The reason behind is, the human walking buddies tended to discourage each other and used excuses such as the weather being too hot.
What works for children and elder people could also apply to ill persons. On our page about the emotional reactions on terminal illness we talked about this point, how important the company of an animal can be. It not always has to be for physical exercises. The emotional impact is also very important! The mentioned research results prove this.
As I read the article of Gary Ryan Blair http://www.everythingcounts.com/be-unreasonable/ about the outstanding people all with this attitude to be un-reasonable in their way of thinking, in having un-reasonable expectations and standards, in persisting to adapt the world to themselves, this reminds me of the result of research about terminal illness survivors. As written in my post What has a terminal ill person to do with a winner? about the winner’s attitude of illness survivors these people are also un-reasonable in there expectations to overcome their challenge.
Being un-reasonable for an ill person means not to accept the given situation as final, not to surrender to the dictate of life and the doctors diagnose, not to retire from the pleasures of life, from hope and the expectations for your own future.
This attitude gives you back your “quality” of life, as well as it does to your family and friends.
