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Facts about our eyes

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

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!


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What has a terminal ill person to do with a winner?

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

Do you feel sentenced to death because your doctor diagnosed a terminal illness? Do you therefore feel crushed by suffering and pain? Or is there any way out of this depressive circle?

Haven’t we heard that some people survived their terminal illness? Is this possible? And if so, what did they do to overcome it? Could I do this as well?

We will have to understand that illness is the result of a mind set that gave us erroneous thoughts about reality and our behaviour. Therefore we will have to change this mind set, to get rid of the blockades.

To find out why terminal illness survivors overcame there threat, science has analysed many histories and identified the following “winning” behaviours:

• Positive attitude: Terminal illness survivors constantly talk themselves into good health, positively and proactively, and their mind and body finally adopt this vision as reality.
• Avoid negative exposure: Negative thoughts don’t affect terminal illness survivors and they try to stay away from negative influences of their surrounding. They simply ignore negative influences and vision themselves into a healthy condition.
• Visions and Faith: Terminal illness survivors usually vision a plan for their future and to fight for to get there. They are convinced to overcome their disease and never surrender.
• Support: The positive and encouraging attitude of family and friends is a major support to the terminal ill person to fight for survival.
• Winner-attitude: Terminal illness survivors show the attitude of sportsmen: they never give up and don’t get discouraged. A winner never quits.

Reality has proven that our mind can dominate matter and that the challenges of life are given to make us grow. A challenge requires acceptance and doesn’t pardon retreat. It often starts with facing the pain.

We should also keep in mind: Living the moment made it also easier to terminal ill people. Living and enjoying the moment gave them a new feeling and quality of life. This should serve us as an example during all our time. We would feel much better, healthy or with illness, and would be much better neighbours.


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