15 Uncomfortable Feelings That Indicate You Are on the Right Track 

Changing and evolving are difficult things to do. In fact, they are so difficult that doing so or even planning to do so can drum up all types of feelings that aren’t very pleasant at all.

Unfortunately, many people interpret these uncomfortable feelings as signs that they shouldn’t proceed. So, they stop and so does the progress they were making.

If you are in the midst of making important changes in your life, here are 15 uncomfortable feelings that are actually telling you that you are on the right track.

1. Feeling Isolated from Others

Undergoing change at a deep and personal level is a lonely task. It’s something you must go through on your own. As a result, it is normal to feel isolated from others, and as if they couldn’t possibly understand what you are going through.

2. Having Difficulty Focusing on Tasks

Life change requires a lot of involvement and engagement on the part of your right brain. That doesn’t leave much energy left for your left brain. The left hemisphere is the side of your brain you use to perform practical tasks. The fact that you forget phone numbers and names, misplace things, or feel as if you must do everything twice to get it right is perfectly normal. It is a sign that the changes you are undergoing are deep and meaningful.

3. Feeling Restless and Anxious

Whether you are making a job change, a spiritual change, a relationship change, or something else, your emotions are in a continually stimulated sense. In addition to this, there is a good chance that your brain, including your imagination, is constantly in high gear. This can result in stress, which can lead to feelings of restlessness and anxiety.

4. Irritability at Those You Are Close To

If you are making or undergoing positive changes, why do you feel so irritated at the people you love? There’s a reason for these uncomfortable feelings. The people that you care about are often the reasons why you don’t change. They may unconsciously discourage you from changing out of fear of losing you, or they may simply follow the same behavior patterns that you are trying to break, e.g., financial irresponsibility. This can result in subtle resentments that can really come to the surface during this time.

5. Feeling Gripping Fear at Times

Change is frightening. Big change is terrifying. This is so true that you may find yourself in a near state of panic at times. This just means that the change you are undergoing is very real, very meaningful, and very permanent.

6. A New Tendency to Be Confrontational

Chances are, if you are taking action to grow and change, you were really dissatisfied with many aspects of your life. Now, you have decided you deserve better, not just from yourself, but also from others. Because of this, you may find yourself ‘calling people out’ in situations where you would normally let things go.

 7. Becoming More Dissatisfied

Just like you may find yourself becoming more confrontational with people, you may also experience and act on dissatisfaction in other ways. This too is a result of wanting better things for yourself and being more and more willing to demand them.

8. Feeling Lost

If you feel lost in the midst of making a change or growing, it doesn’t mean that you are on the wrong path. What it means is that you are dealing with new experiences, new emotions, new expectations, and ultimately a new reality. That’s a lot to deal with. It should come as no surprise that you find yourself questioning whether or not you know what to do next or even know who you are anymore.

9. Feeling a Strong Desire to Be Alone More Often

This one is especially true for introverts who are making life changes and taking action to grow. You are spending so much emotional energy on the changes you are making that human interaction can be a major drain. You may also have an increasing desire to spend more time in solitude meditating, writing in a journal, doing yoga, or engaging in other solitary activities to help yourself get centered.

10. Beginning to Question Your Friendships

When you make changes, you are essentially questioning your life. This includes your relationships with your friends. You may find yourself questioning whether or not you are still compatible with your friends, and whether or not your relationships with your friends are healthy ones. It may be that your changed self just needs time to adjust before you can renew old friendships, or it could be that you will see that you have friendships that are no longer sustainable. The latter can be difficult to accept, but it is still a sign that you are on the right track.

11. Feeling Intense Sadness

No major change or growth happens without loss. Sometimes the loss is more tangible, such as the loss of a job or the ending of a relationship. Other times the loss is less tangible. For example, you may have decided to drop some negative habits and behaviors, and while you know making the change is for the best, you are still sad at the loss.

12. Dreading the Future

It is completely normal to dread the future. After all, you have taken what was a known, good or bad, and turned it into an unknown. You have no idea where your new path will eventually lead. That can make the future feel like a scary place. If you feel dread, that is perfectly normal.

13. Desiring for Things to Be Like They Used to Be

Familiarity is one of the safest feelings that they are. Even negative familiarity can temporarily feel better than change. There will be points in your journey where all you want is for things to be the way they were. In addition to this, when life becomes complex and difficult, it is perfectly normal to regress a bit and seek past comforts, people, and simplicity.

14. Having Strange and Intense Dreams

Strange and intense dreams, even negative ones, are the cumulative result of new experiences, new emotions, and internal and external conflicts. They are your subconscious mind’s way of working out a lot of heavy stuff while you sleep.

15. Desiring to Cut off Romantic Relationships

Emotionally, while you are making a change, you may begin to doubt your ability to give the time and emotional effort needed to keep romantic relationships going. You may feel as if your partner deserves more, or you may also feel as if it is you that deserves more. The important thing is to not make these kinds of decisions prematurely.

As you can see, some seemingly uncomfortable feelings can actually be a sign that you are on the right track towards your life purpose. Next time when you feel lost or sad or have a strong desire to be alone, maybe it’s time to listen to your inner self to better understand what you really want.

7 steps to Positive Self Talk

 

 

Most of us are in constant mental chatter. We talk to ourselves all day long and, unfortunately, this self talk is frequently negative. Often it is tainted with guilt about our past or anxiety about our future. This negativity can destroy any seed of hope that we may otherwise have in striving for our dreams.
Our actions are inspired by our thoughts. If we can change the way we think, we can begin to change the actions we take. It is human nature to seek personal growth; whether financially, emotionally, physically or spiritually. Practicing positive self talk can help us set in motion actions that will bring us greater rewards.
The following are seven steps to positive self talk. By following these steps you will begin to rid your inner conversations of negativity and instead have empowering thoughts.

1. Eliminate Internal Negative Chatter
The first step is one of awareness. It will be hard to make a change to positive thinking without being acutely intimate with the thoughts that run through your mind. Recently, I was amazed to discover deep buried emotions from negative thoughts that I had for fewer than 10 minutes. Without awareness, I would have carried the hurt and anger inside. Awareness helped me to bring them out to the open for me to deal with.
Undoubtedly it will not be easy to make a switch if you have a long history or negative self talk. Your talk became negative over the years due to various factors. For instance, if your first grade teacher repeatedly told you that you were “stupid”, you might believe it to be truly the case. You would find that your inner chatter would often be filled with talk of “I am so slow” and “it is so hard to learn”. If you constantly tell yourself such negative stories, your actions are going to reflect your low self esteem. It will be difficult to get very far if you are always putting yourself down.
A common negative talk involves telling yourself “I can’t”. When you say to yourself “I can’t” or “it is too difficult”, you are creating a resistance. Having such a mental block will prevent you from achieving a task you could otherwise succeed at.
Anytime you catch yourself saying “I can’t…”, turn around and challenge your own claim with, “Why can’t I?” Research shows that most geniuses became the people they are also because of the hard work they put in. So if you would like to be successful, you need to start saying “I can” a lot more.
A great method that I have also found useful is to say “Cancel Cancel” each time I find myself saying something negative, whether in the mind or verbally. The method works if you sincerely have the intent of becoming a positive thinker.
2. Positive Affirmations
Affirmations are positive statements of a desired outcome or goal. They are usually short, believable and focused. By repeating them over and over again, you build inroads into your subconscious mind, opening up the possibility of a new state of thoughts.
An important step when repeating affirmations is that you need to read your affirmations aloud with feeling. The mere reading of the words bears no consequence unless you put some emotions behind them. Of significant fact is that your subconscious mind takes any orders given in complete faith and after repeated self talk. So the daily practice of repeating affirmations is important.
Initially you may be skepticism toward the statement of your positive affirmation. However, if you follow this simple set of instructions your skepticism will soon give way to a new set of beliefs and then crystallized into absolute faith.
3. Positive Scripts
One thing that you may observe is on how easy it is for your mind to build negative thought upon negative thought. The chatter not only does not stop but it spins a drama that traps and limits you.
From now on, regularly do this exercise instead. Spin an uplifting story that runs like a movie script. Some visualization will be helpful. You build on a story with a positive outline. The longer you can tell this story to yourself the better. It is also best if you can make this story one about having all your goals achieved. When you do this, you start to internalize your goals and dreams, as if they are something that you have already achieved.
4. Replace Negative Influences with Positive Ones
It is important that you identify external negative factors in your life which may be holding your thoughts hostage. For instance, your mental state can become toxic by being around friends who are negative. If you are not vigilant enough, you will start to adopt their thoughts as your own. Hence, be alert to what your negative influences are. If they come from certain friends, limit your exposure to them as much as you can. Refrain from discussing your plans with people who will be unsupportive of your dreams and goals.
Instead surround yourself with thoughts and actions from people who will empower you.
From being uninspired and de-motivated, you will begin to feel uplifted and driven to greater self growth. The positive energy that they vibrate will start affecting the self talk that you engage in as well.
5. Present Tense Messages
You may find yourself daunted by the many things you need to do in order to reach your goals. It just seems overwhelming to become the success that you secretly desire for. Your mind gets caught up in an endless stream of worry.
What may be helpful is to concentrate on steps you can take in the present. If you find yourself becoming stuck, stop and say, “What can I do right now?” Change your internal talk from a future anxiety ridden one to one that is about the more manageable present. You cannot control what will happen in the future but you can take the necessary steps now that will build a better tomorrow. Taking the necessary steps require you to focus your thoughts and inner talk on Now.
6. Confront Fears
Fear is often what holds you back from your success. You are scared of taking chances because you fear losing the security that you enjoy now. You try to convince yourself that you are happy in your current state when in fact, you are not. Your self talk may sound positive in your attempt to lie to yourself. But somehow, there is an inner knowing that you are short changing yourself.
Ask yourself what you are afraid of. What can be the worst that can happen? Take a step-by-step approach in breaking down your fears and see if there is any way round to looking at things more positively. When you confront your fears, you will often realize that the worst case scenario is not as bad as you think. In fact, the benefits of change are worth the risk. Your inner talk begins to change at this point.
7. Focus on Enjoyable Moments
It is much easier to have a positive attitude if you focus on the enjoyable moments in life rather than the difficult ones. While there will inevitably be challenges, you need to remember that life consists of ups and downs and the good times are forged through the bad.
So choose to fill your mind with positive images and thoughts. Make it a conscious habit. Simply bring your mind back every time it goes astray in its thoughts. For a start, if you can be grateful for what you have presently, your self talk will also change to be in alignment with one of joy. A state of gratitude does wonders to your psyche.
Conclusion
Replacing self talk from a negative to a more positive one is not going to happen overnight. If your mind has ingrained habits of thinking negatively, it will take some work and time. However, if you find yourself often struggling, unable to achieve your goals and talking yourself down, then you should grit your teeth and commit to the process of change.
By following the above tips to positive self talk, you will experience an improvement in the quality of your life. The rewards are plentiful with greater happiness, peace and joy. Best of all, you feel empowered. With the change in energy, you are more likely to reach your highest potential and achieve success.

Child’s Autistic Symptoms Miraculously Disappear!!!!!

“There is No Better Feeling:” Child’s Autistic Symptoms Miraculously Disappear after His Doctor Does THIS

Recent estimates predict the cost for autism care in America will rise to a staggering $461 billion (if not a trillion dollars) by 2025, and the current costs are already more than double the combined costs of stroke and hypertension.
But what if doctors have been treating autism all wrong, and simpler, more effective solutions are within reach for thousands of parents?
In a short YouTube video below Jackson is acting like a normally functioning smiling 6-year-old, but it was not always this way. Jackson was diagnosed on the autism spectrum at 22 months old. Instead of listening to the mainstream medicine critics that autism is incurable, his father found a functional medicine doctor, Dr. Mark Hyman, who worked to address major health issues that Jackson had: gut inflammation, heavy metal toxicity – especially mercury, and nutritional imbalances.
After these conditions were treated, the autistic symptoms miraculously disappeared.

“There is really no better feeling than to bring a child back from the terrible place,” Mark said.

Dr. Hyman believes we treat autism completely wrong. Instead of a brain disorder, he calls it a body disorder that affects the brain and treats it accordingly.

“Treating autism as a body disorder that affects the brain gives us many treatment choices. Children treated in this way can often have dramatic and remarkable — if not miraculous — recoveries,” he writes.

Can Autistic Symptoms Be Reversed?
The mainstream medical system is quick to label autism irreversible and incurable. But how can we honestly say that, when we are still learning more about the human body and its enormous healing abilities every day?
Research points out that there likely are multiple of causes for autism, both internal and external. But with the rapid rise of autism since the 1990s — a 600% increase over the last two decades — many doctors have begun to wonder if most of the autism cases these days are caused by outside sources: heavy metals, especially in food, vaccinations, the environment, and other potential sources.
The first one, heavy metals, has raised red flags in a lot of doctors’ eyes, and most naturopathic doctors will immediately recommend a heavy metal detoxification for children who were diagnosed on the autistic spectrum.
As in the case of the young Jackson, heavy metal detoxification has shown to produce amazing results. Even though the proof is anecdotal, for now, it is important to take into account because heavy metal toxicity and autism have many similar symptoms.

 Heavy Metal Toxicity and Autism Symptoms Often Align
Two prevalent heavy metals that contaminate our world today are mercury and aluminium. Both are toxic and are responsible for some difficult health challenges.
The symptoms of inorganic mercury poisoning  are: emotional changes, headaches and insomnia, muscle twitching, muscle atrophy, and decreased cognitive functions.
The symptoms of organic mercury include neurological impairment, loss of coordination, and muscle weakness.
The symptoms aluminum toxicity is associated with: mood changes, muscle weakness, seizures, delayed growth in children and often mimic symptoms of other diseases.
And what symptoms do children on the autistic spectrum experience?

developmental delays
problems expressing their emotions
speech problems
aggression
behavior problems
mood swings
problems or unusual walking
cognitive issues

Many parents have reported all these symptoms, along with seizures, muscle weakness, and vomiting, following a childhood vaccination. The controversial documentary movie ‘Vaxxed’ shows many such transformations in video footage provided by parents, and while it may be disturbing in some cases, this footage drives home the point that vaccine additives really are capable of changing children for the worse overnight.
Are Vaccinations, Heavy Metals and Autism Connected?
Now that we see the astounding similarities between heavy metal poisoning and autism symptoms, one last detail that many believe seems too real to be a coincidence, is the numbers of autism diagnoses by age compared to the childhood vaccination schedule.
Most children diagnosed on the autism spectrum show symptoms of developmental issues between the ages of 13 to 18 months.

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This is also the age when the children receive the most vaccinations. The official CDC schedule recommends nine vaccinations between 12 and 18 months: HepB, DTaP, Hib, PCV, IPV, MMR, Varicella, HepA, and a flu shot.Some doctors have been known to give many of them in one visit to save time (one parent recorded his son receiving six shots at once at the age of 2).

The highly controversial MMR vaccine. Photo via Who.Int

Most of the childhood vaccinations contain aluminum, and flu shots contain mercury.

HepB, depending on manufacturer, contains either aluminum hydroxide, or aluminum sulfate and amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate. All different forms of it are toxic.
DTaP contains either aluminum phosphate or aluminum hydroxide.
Hib named PedvaxHIB contains aluminum hydroxphosphate sulfate.
PCV named PCV13 – Prevnar 13 contains aluminum phosphate.
IPV, when administered together with DTaP contains aluminum hydroxide.
HepA contains either aluminum hydroxide or amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate.
Most flu shots contain thimerosol (mercury).

Aluminium salts used in vaccines have been shown to have adverse long-term neurological reactions.
By the age of 22 months (when Jackson was diagnosed), a child will receive up to 26 vaccinations when following the CDC schedule.
No matter where you stand on the vaccine debate, the amount of links between heavy metal poisoning, autism, and vaccination reaction symptoms are starting to look less and less coincidental with each new case (the government has paid out over $3 billion in damages since 1986 on behalf of vaccine companies that have been granted immunity from lawsuits).
Dr. Hyman himself is pro-vaccination, but is urging the heavy metals, specifically mercury, to be removed from vaccinations after seeing the damage they can do to children first-hand.
Thankfully, because of advances in the holistic autism field, those who do suffer such damage (like Jackson in this case) may finally have ways to reverse it.

The Most Successful People In Life Live By This Crucial Philosophy

The Most Successful People In Life Live By This Crucial Philosophy According to Neil deGrasse Tyson

Scroll this Sometimes you stumble across an inspirational quote and it just makes sense. That’s what happened to me when I read quote this from Neil deGrasse Tyson. Check it out:
“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson
Many of us look to gurus or experts to help us find meaning in life. While there’s nothing wrong with this, the truth is that love, motivation and the meaning life come from inside us.
We have the power to create our own meaning and motivation. The above quote from Neil deGrasse Tyson is brilliant because it gives power back to the individual.
We’re all looking for our purpose, but instead of turning to religion or books to find it, perhaps it’s more fruitful to search within. Connect what you’re doing with your values and you’ll inevitably find your ‘why’.

World Renowned Heart Surgeon Speaks Out On What Really Causes Heart Disease

We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to being wrong.. As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries,today is my day to right the wrong with medical and scientific fact.
I trained for many years with other prominent physicians labelled “opinion makers.”  Bombarded with scientific literature, continually attending education seminars, we opinion makers insisted heart disease resulted from the simple fact of elevated blood cholesterol.

The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake. The latter of course we insisted would lower cholesterol and heart disease. Deviations from these recommendations were considered heresy and could quite possibly result in malpractice.


It Is Not Working!
These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible. The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is the real cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a paradigm shift in how heart disease and other chronic ailments will be treated.
The long-established dietary recommendations have created epidemics of obesity and diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historical plague in terms of mortality, human suffering and dire economic consequences.

Despite the fact that 25% of the population takes expensive statin medications and despite the fact we have reduced the fat content of our diets, more Americans will die this year of heart disease than ever before.

Statistics from the American Heart Association show that 75 million Americans currently suffer from heart disease, 20 million have diabetes and 57 million have pre-diabetes. These disorders are affecting younger and younger people in greater numbers every year.
Simply stated, without inflammation being present in the body, there is no way that cholesterol would accumulate in the wall of the blood vessel and cause heart disease and strokes. Without inflammation, cholesterol would move freely throughout the body as nature intended. It is inflammation that causes cholesterol to become trapped.

Inflammation is not complicated — it is quite simply your body’s natural defence to a foreign invader such as a bacteria, toxin or virus. The cycle of inflammation is perfect in how it protects your body from these bacterial and viral invaders. However, if we chronically expose the body to injury by toxins or foods the human body was never designed to process,a condition occurs called chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation is just as harmful as acute inflammation is beneficial.

  

What thoughtful person would willfully expose himself repeatedly to foods or other substances that are known to cause injury to the body?  Well,smokers perhaps, but at least they made that choice willfully.
The rest of us have simply followed the recommended mainstream diet that is low in fat and high in polyunsaturated fats and carbohydrates, not knowing we were causing repeated injury to our blood vessels. This repeated injury creates chronic inflammation leading to heart disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity.

Let me repeat that: The injury and inflammation in our blood vessels is caused by the low fat diet recommended for years by mainstream medicine.

What are the biggest culprits of chronic inflammation? Quite simply, they are the overload of simple, highly processed carbohydrates (sugar, flour and all the products made from them) and the excess consumption of omega-6 vegetable oils like soybean, corn and sunflower that are found in many processed foods.

Take a moment to visualize rubbing a stiff brush repeatedly over soft skin until it becomes quite red and nearly bleeding. you kept this up several times a day, every day for five years. If you could tolerate this painful brushing, you would have a bleeding, swollen infected area that became worse with each repeated injury. This is a good way to visualize the inflammatory process that could be going on in your body right now.

Regardless of where the inflammatory process occurs, externally or internally, it is the same. I have peered inside thousands upon thousands of arteries. A diseased artery looks as if someone took a brush and scrubbed repeatedly against its wall. Several times a day, every day, the foods we eat create small injuries compounding into more injuries, causing the body to respond continuously and appropriately with inflammation.

While we savor the tantalizing taste of a sweet roll, our bodies respond alarmingly as if a foreign invader arrived declaring war. Foods loaded with sugars and simple carbohydrates, or processed withomega-6 oils for long shelf life have been the mainstay of the American diet for six decades. These foods have been slowly poisoning everyone.

How does eating a simple sweet roll create a cascade of inflammation to make you sick?
Imagine spilling syrup on your keyboard and you have a visual of what occurs inside the cell. When we consume simple carbohydrates such as sugar, blood sugar rises rapidly. In response, your pancreas secretes insulin whose primary purpose is to drive sugar into each cell where it is stored for energy.
If the cell is full and does not need glucose, it is rejected to avoid extra sugar gumming up the works.
When your full cells reject the extra glucose, blood sugar rises producing more insulin and the glucose converts to stored fat.

What does all this have to do with inflammation? Blood sugar is controlled in a very narrow range. Extra sugar molecules attach to a variety of proteins that in turn injure the blood vessel wall. This repeated injury to the blood vessel wall sets off inflammation. When you spike your blood sugar level several times a day, every day, it is exactly like taking sandpaper to the inside of your delicate blood vessels.

While you may not be able to see it, rest assured it is there. I saw it in over 5,000 surgical patients spanning 25 years who all shared one common denominator — inflammation in their arteries.
Let’s get back to the sweet roll. That innocent looking goody not only contains sugars, it is baked in one of many omega-6 oils such as soybean. Chips and fries are soaked in soybean oil; processed foods are manufactured with omega-6 oils for longer shelf life. While omega-6’s are essential -they are part of every cell membrane controlling what goes in and out of the cell — they must be in the correct balance with omega-3’s.

If the balance shifts by consuming excessive omega-6, the cell membrane produces chemicals called cytokines that directly cause inflammation.
Today’s mainstream American diet has produced an extreme imbalance of these two fats. The ratio of imbalance ranges from 15:1 to as high as 30:1 in favor of omega-6. That’s a tremendous amount of cytokines causing inflammation. In today’s food environment, a 3:1 ratio would be optimal and healthy.

To make matters worse, the excess weight you are carrying from eating these foods creates overloaded fat cells that pour out large quantities of pro-inflammatory chemicals that add to the injury caused by having high blood sugar. The process that began with a sweet roll turns into a vicious cycle over time that creates heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and finally, Alzheimer’s disease, as the inflammatory process continues unabated.

There is no escaping the fact that the more we consume prepared and processed foods, the more we trip the inflammation switch little by little each day. The human body cannot process, nor was it designed to consume, foods packed with sugars and soaked in omega-6 oils.

There is but one answer to quieting inflammation, and that is returning to foods closer to their natural state. To build muscle, eat more protein. Choose carbohydrates that are very complex such as colorful fruits and vegetables. Cut down on or eliminate inflammation- causing omega-6 fats like corn and soybean oil and the processed foods that are made from them.
One tablespoon of corn oil contains 7,280 mg of omega-6; soybean contains 6,940 mg. Instead, use olive oil or butter from grass-fed beef.

Animal fats contain less than 20% omega-6 and are much less likely to cause inflammation than the supposedly healthy oils labelled polyunsaturated. Forget the “science” that has been drummed into your head for decades. The science that saturated fat alone causes heart disease is non-existent. The science that saturated fat raises blood cholesterol is also very weak. Since we now know that cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease, the concern about saturated fat is even more absurd today.

The cholesterol theory led to the no-fat, low-fat recommendations that in turn created the very foods now causing an epidemic of inflammation. Mainstream medicine made a terrible mistake when it advised people to avoid saturated fat in favor of foods high in omega-6 fats. We now have an epidemic of arterial inflammation leading to heart disease and other silent killers.

What you can do is choose whole foods your grandmother served and not those your mom turned to as grocery store aisles filled with manufactured foods. By eliminating inflammatory foods and adding essential nutrients from fresh unprocessed food, you will reverse years of damage in your arteries and throughout your body from consuming the typical American diet.

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10 Fascinating Viking Religious Beliefs that Make Them Even More Hardcore

By Lyra Radford
Viking religious beliefs were highly complex due to the intricate mythology involved. Instead of one central god, in the Viking religion, there were many gods and each had their own history and a unique way to pay tribute to them.

Prior to Christianity sweeping the land and converting the Vikings and other Germanic peoples, they had their own indigenous religion in place, but it didn’t have a formal name. Christians called this religion “Paganism” and referred to its practitioners as heathens, but to the Vikings, it was merely a tradition based on myths revolving around various deities. Characters such as Odin, Thor, Freya, and Loki fill old Norse mythology texts.

Norse mythology was treated much like the Christian Bible is, in that it was viewed as a collection of history, parables, and cautionary tales. What Vikings believed was that everything had its place and purpose – there was a deity for practically everything. Their religion was polytheistic, animistic, and pantheistic; in their belief system, even inanimate objects had souls. They held old-world magic in high regard and there were elements of shamanism in their religion. This list explores the key elements of what Vikings believed.

There Were Nine Underworlds

The Vikings believed death was a transition into one of the nine realms that existed alongside them.
The two main places the dead would spend eternity were Valhalla, a place for fallen warriors where banquets were held and Odin reigned, or Helheim, which was filled with those who died “dishonorable deaths.”

A dishonorable way to die for Vikings was illness or old age; only those who died in battle were considered honorable warriors deserving of Valhalla.

Funeral Rites Were Very Important

The Vikings practiced both burial and cremation for their dead.
The strong belief in various realms brought with it the desire to take personal objects and companions with them.
Vikings would spend a great deal of time gathering possessions and ensuring the funeral rites for their fallen brothers were the perfect transition into the afterlife.

In the case of chiefs, they’d use a slave girl as a human sacrifice to follow him into his afterlife.
These cremation rituals involved performing sex rites with the woman that was to be sacrificed prior to killing her and cremating her body with the chief.

Ritual Sacrifice Was a Part of Their Belief System

Sacrifice was a way to appease the gods and the offerings could comprise of humans, animals, or inanimate objects.
Human sacrifices were performed at funerals to accompany the fallen into the next world and at regularly occurring religious festivals like Yule.

The Norse god Odin was associated with hanging and strangulation, and it’s believed that Vikings would use those methods in human sacrifices directed to him.

Since Nature Played a Big Part in Viking Religion, Vikings Worshiped Outside

Much like the other Pagan religions, Vikings worshiped their gods out in the elements. Wooded areas with unusual trees, natural landmarks, waterfalls, oversized rocks, or anything in nature with an otherworldly feel would be a worthy place of worship.

There were many gods, but the gods of most importance Odin, the god of knowledge, Freya, the goddess of ruled fertility, and Thor, the god of thunder and a symbol of strength and metalwork.
All of these deities were representations of the aspects of life most important to the Viking people.

They Believed in Giants

The giants in Norse religion were called Jotun.
The Jotun lived in one of the nine realms known as Jotunheim.
A menace to both gods and humans, these massive forces of nature were too big in size and numbers to destroy so they were banished to Jotunheim by the Norse gods.
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10 Life Lessons From Albert Einstein That Will Blow Your Mind Wide Open

  Everyone is familiar with the work of Albert Einstein, and he has long been regarded as one of the greatest scientists in recorded history.
While his ground-breaking scientific discoveries helped to redefine our understanding of the natural world, his contributions to society go far beyond his theories of relativity. More than 60 years after his death, Einstein’s unique perspectives continue to inspire generations of people to open their mind to the possibilities of the universe.
These 10 life lessons from Albert Einstein highlight how his philosophical ideals can change your life for the better, starting today.

1. We are all Equal

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”

In the grand scheme of the universe, we are all one. By respecting others, we respect ourselves.

2. There is Great Value in the Wonder of a Child

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”

By looking at the world through a child’s eyes, we can rediscover the spark of our own imagination.

3. Failure is a Necessary Part of Success

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

Some of the greatest discoveries in history were a result of mistakes. Never give up.

4. Curiosity is the Key to Innovation

“The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”

Curiosity is the driving force behind innovation and discovery. Never be afraid to question the world around you.

5. Your Thoughts Create Your Reality

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”

Thoughts are powerful, and what we choose to focus on manifests the reality we live in.

6. Don’t be Afraid to Stand out from the Crowd

“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”

You have a unique voice to share with the world. Don’t let the beliefs of others hold you back from your true potential.

7. Violence is Never the Answer

“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”

We will never know peace until we learn to set down our weapons, both in the world and in our own lives.

8. Embrace the Moments of Solitude

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”

By finding solitude in the company of yourself, you will reconnect to the creativity within your own mind.

9. Genius is Only a Matter of Perspective

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

Our differences make us who we are, and by embracing our unique nature we can begin to release the judgements that separate our world.

10. Live in the Here and Now

“I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough.”

All we have is this moment in time. There is no peace in remaining trapped in the past or worrying about what is to come in the future.

It Could Always Be Worse: The Power of Gratitude and Perspective

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” ~Marcus Aurelius
So, yesterday wasn’t the best day. I backed up into my husband’s car in the dark, on my way to a meeting. I didn’t see it in the mirrors. It was dark. (Did I mention that?) Well, it left a healthy size dent in the front, and needless to say, the tension began.
I felt bad. I honestly didn’t see it. Whenever I put my car into reverse, the mirrors automatically adjust and seem to point down, which makes it difficult to see out of them. Then, I have to look on this little screen when I back up, and in the dark, it’s hard to distinguish obstacles in the way. I just can’t get used to it.

So I tried. I put the car in reverse, slowly backed up, and then… crunch. I heard it. Ouch.
Afraid of the destruction I had caused, I reluctantly opened the door, looked back, and assessed the damage. Instantly, I knew he wouldn’t be happy.

I imagined steam pouring out of his ears after I gently broke the news to him.
Throughout the rest of the evening, a giant rift began forming between us. Worries about finding money for the deductible, battling higher insurance rates, and paying for repairs spiraled into distress. We went to bed without speaking, which sent me into a fit of self-pity accompanied by tears of guilt and sorrow.

How much worse can things get? First the septic problems, then the furnace, then the electric problem, now the car. Wow, when it rains, it pours. Why can’t things just be easy for us for once? Is that too much to ask?

Our thoughts are powerful things. They can instantly set off a chain reaction of overflowing, overwhelming emotions.

And then this morning, I learned of a friend—a dear woman, wife, and mother in our community—whose young adult child had just passed away in a car accident.
Rapidly, all my worries about denting the car seemed ridiculous.
Perspective came rushing back to me in a moment’s notice, bringing me back to reality.


I had been there. I had been that mom whose child died. I had made that dreaded phone call, as I lay helpless in our mangled and demolished car. 

It has been eight years now since she was flown from the accident scene to the trauma center, and I, transported in an ambulance, was rushed to a local hospital. The last day we had hugged, talked, and touched each other. Sometimes, it seems just like yesterday.

My eyes welled up with tears, as I knew exactly how this newly bereaved mother was feeling. I swallowed that forming lump in my throat as memories of the accident with my children came surging back, bringing me back to that life-altering day.

After a few moments, I caught myself holding my breath as I abruptly stopped in my tracks to say a prayer for her and her family.
To be told your beloved child has died is the worst pain. It’s a paralyzing and debilitating state that leaves you feeling like you are suffocating, making you scream in terror and disbelief.
And this can last for months, even years, as you desperately try to wake up from such a horrifying dream.

My heart is heavy. It’s not fair, this arduous, frightening journey that was forced upon this mother this snowy winter morning.

Today it was her child, tomorrow it will be someone else’s father, mother, brother, sister, son, or daughter.
It knows no discrimination. No one is exempt. Loss. Grief. They will find us at some point in our lives when we least expect it, pulling us into an abyss of heartbreak and despair. And then what?
My point: Among the daily stress, tension, and challenges of life, stop and search for gratitude. What a gift it is to even be alive.

For that car that is broken, give thanks that you have a car to fix.
For that necessary and expensive home repair, give thanks and realize what a gift it is to even have a home.

For that taxing job, give thanks that it pays the bills.
For that exhausting child, give thanks for their strong personality and recall how wonderful it was the day they were born.

Find perspective. Embrace it. Look with eyes of wonder and hope for tomorrow.

Take time to enjoy the rainbow of colors in that sunset, appreciate being able to hear those birds singing or see the wildlife out your window. Smile with joy when you’re able to build that snowman with your child.

Unfortunately, many of us are clouded in our judgment until we experience a rock bottom tragedy. Our daily challenges can be upsetting, but we’re fortunate to not to be standing where someone else is standing right now. Someone who is grieving, for they have lost a part of themselves and are struggling with a gaping hole deep in their soul. An unforgettable void that can never be filled, nor replaced.
So try it with me.

Stop what you’re doing. Take a step back, and try to imagine walking in someone else’s shoes. Someone you may know who has suffered the loss of a loved one. While you may not understand, acknowledge their loss and the road of profound sorrow they must now travel. It’s not easy.

Inhale deeply, absorb some sunshine, and remember, there are many others who would be incredibly thankful to be where you are today. Despite it all, you are blessed.
Let us all find perspective when facing struggles that are minuscule in the grand scheme of things, and recognize the gifts we have been given. Let’s not take this beautiful life for granted.

Don't let teachers educate your children.

‎Suraj Jha‎ to Catalysts Of Change

Nice line from Ratan Tata's Lecture- in London
👉1.
Don't educate
your children
to be rich.
Educate them
to be Happy.
So when
they grow up
they will know
the value of things
not the price

👉2.
"Eat your food
as your medicines.
Otherwise
you have to
eat medicines
as your food"

👉3.
The One
who loves you
will never leave you
because
even if there are
100 reasons
to give up
he will find
one reason
to hold on

👉4.
There is
a lot of difference
between
human being
and being human.
A Few understand it.

👉5.
You are loved
when you are born.
You will be loved
when you die.
In between
You have to manage...!
If u want to Walk Fast,
Walk Alone..!
But
if u want to Walk Far,
Walk Together..!!
Six Best Doctors in the World-
1.Sunlight
2.Rest
3.Exercise
4.Diet
5.Self Confidence
&

6.Friends
Maintain them in all stages of Life and enjoy healthy life
If you see the moon ..... You see the beauty of God ..... If you see the Sun ..... You see the power of God ..... And .... If you see the Mirror ..... You see the best in yourself.... So Believe in YOURSELF..... :) :) :).

  So!
Trust him & Enjoy the "Trip" called LIFE...

— feeling thoughtful.

8 cleansing herbs that will open up your airways and clear mucus from your lungs

8 cleansing herbs that will open up your airways and clear mucus from your lungs

These plants have been used for centuries, from Traditional Chinese Medicine to Native American Remedies, to clear the respiratory system and have it working properly. These herbs not only boost your health but have the ability to heal infections and repair damage to your lungs.

8 Herbal Lung Remedies

1. Licorice Root

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, licorice root is in most formulas because of its harmonizing actions. It is very soothing and softens and cleanses your throat’s mucus membranes by clearing out the inflamed matter.
Saponins loosen phlegm so your body can get rid of the mucus normally. Other compounds relieve bronchial spasms and are antibacterial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, and have flavonoids that can help protect against lung cancer.

2. Coltsfoot

Long used by Native American populations to keep lung health strong. This plant clears out excess mucus and soothes the lungs and bronchial tubes. It has been used to treat asthma, coughs, bronchitis, and other lung ailments. Use dried coltsfoot as tea or as a tincture.

3. Thyme

Antiseptic, antibiotic, and antifungal properties come from thyme’s essential oils. Thyme tea destroys viruses and bacteria, so it works well against most ailments. Use time to treat respiratory tract infections and bacterial infections, or as a daily tool to strengthen your lungs.

4. Oregano

Containing immune-boosting vitamins and nutrients, oregano’s main benefit lies in its decongestant ability. Carvacrol and rosmarinic acid contents are high, and both are histamine reducers that have direct benefits on your nasal passage airflow and respiratory tract.

5. Lobelia

Used in Appalachian folk medicine, lobelia is known as one of the most valuable herbal remedies around. Extracts contain lobeline, an alkaloid that helps fight drug-resistant tumor cells, loosen phlegm, and stimulate the production of epinephrine, which when combined relaxes your airways letting you breathe easy.

6. Eucalyptus

The refreshing aroma of eucalyptus is a common ingredient in cough lozenges and syrups because of its ability to soothe the throat. Cineole the reason – it’s an expectorant that eases coughs, fights congestions, and makes your nasal passageways feel back-to-normal. Eucalyptus also has antioxidants making it a great immune-booster.

7. Sage

Sage essential oils and sage tea are what to look for here. Sage tea is a traditional treatment for sore throats and coughs. Inhaling the tea vapors helps to cleanse lung disorders and sinusitis.

8. Peppermint

Peppermint has menthol, a soothing compound that relaxes the smooth muscles in your respiratory tract and help your breathe better. Even peppermint oil has menthol. Combined with the antihistamine effect of peppermint, menthol is a great decongestant, helping to break up mucus and relieve your throat. Chest balms and inhalants use menthol to break-up congestion.
Peppermint is also a great source of antioxidants.

How to Use These Herbs

A lot of these herbs can probably be found dried up in your kitchen, or fresh, which is even better. Most can be brewed into teas, bought as essential oils, or combined into your daily diet to help bust-up congestion issues and clean out your lungs.
So get out in the garden, or at least to the fresh herbs section of the grocery store, and get your hands on these herbs. You’ll be breathing easy in no time.

How to Trick Your Brain for Happiness

How to Trick Your Brain for Happiness

 

  

This month, we feature videos of a Greater Good presentation by Rick Hanson, the best-selling author and trailblazing psychologist. In this excerpt from his talk, Dr. Hanson explains how we can take advantage of the brain’s natural “plasticity”—it’s ability to change shape over time.

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There’s this great line by Ani Tenzin Palmo, an English woman who spent 12 years in a cave in Tibet: “We do not know what a thought is, yet we’re thinking them all the time.”
It’s true. The amount of knowledge we have about the brain has doubled in the last 20 years. Yet there’s still a lot we don’t know.

In recent years, though, we have started to better understand the neural bases of states like happiness, gratitude, resilience, love, compassion, and so forth. And better understanding them means we can skillfully stimulate the neural substrates of those states—which, in turn, means we can strengthen them. Because as the famous saying by the Canadian scientist Donald Hebb goes, “Neurons that fire together, wire together.”

Ultimately, what this can mean is that with proper practice, we can increasingly trick our neural machinery to cultivate positive states of mind.
But in order to understand how, you need to understand three important facts about the brain.


Fact one: As the brain changes, the mind changes, for better or worse.
 

Resources
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Watch clips from Dr. Hanson's Greater Good last talk.
Learn more about Dr. Hanson's work, including his books Buddha's Brain and Just One Thing, on his website.

For example, more activation in the left prefrontal cortex is associated with more positive emotions. So as there is greater activation in the left, front portion of your brain relative to the right, there is also greater well-being. That’s probably in large part because the left prefrontal cortex is a major part of the brain for controlling negative emotion. So if you put the breaks on the negative, you get more of the positive.

On the other hand, people who routinely experience chronic stress—particularly acute, even traumatic stress—release the hormone cortisol, which literally eats away, almost like an acid bath, at the hippocampus, which is a part of the brain that’s very engaged in visual-spatial memory as well as memory for context and setting.

For example, adults who have had that history of stress and have lost up to 25 percent of the volume of this critically important part of the brain are less able to form new memories.
So we can see that as the brain changes, the mind changes. And that takes us to the second fact, which is where things really start getting interesting.

Fact two: As the mind changes, the brain changes.
These changes happen in temporary and in lasting ways. In terms of temporary changes, the flow of different neurochemicals in the brain will vary at different times.

For instance, when people consciously practice gratitude, they are likely getting higher flows of reward-related neurotransmitters, like dopamine. Research suggests that when people practice gratitude, they experience a general alerting and brightening of the mind, and that’s probably correlated with more of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine.

Here’s another example of how changes in mental activity can produce changes in neural activity: When college students deeply in love are shown a picture of their sweetheart, their brains become more active in the caudate nucleus, a reward center of the brain. As the mind changes—that rush of love, that deep feeling of happiness and reward—correlates with activation of a particular part of the brain. When they stop looking at that picture of their sweetheart, the reward center goes back to sleep.
Now the mind also can change the brain in lasting ways. In other words, what flows through the mind sculpts the brain. I define the mind as the flow of immaterial information through the nervous system—all the signals being sent, most of which are happening forever outside of consciousness. As the mind flows through the brain, as neurons fire together in particularly patterned ways based on the information they are representing, those patterns of neural activity change neural structure.

So busy regions of the brain start stitching new connections with each other. Existing synapses—the connections between neurons that are very busy—get stronger, they get more sensitive, they start building out more receptors. New synapses form as well.

One of my favorite studies of this involved taxi cab drivers in London. To get a taxi license there, you’ve got to memorize the spaghetti-like streets of London. Well, at the end of the drivers’ training, the hippocampus of their brain—a part very involved in visual-spatial memory—is measurably thicker. In other words, neurons that fire together wire together, even to the point of being observably thicker.


This has also been found among meditators: People who maintain some kind of regular meditative practice actually have measurably thicker brains in certain key regions. One of those regions is the insula, which is involved in what’s called “interoception”—tuning into the state of your body, as well as your deep feelings. This should be no surprise: A lot of what they’re doing is practicing mindfulness of breathing, staying really present with what’s going on inside themselves; no wonder they’re using, and therefore building, the insula.

Another region is the frontal regions of the prefrontal cortex—areas involved in controlling attention. Again, this should be no surprise: They’re focusing their attention in their meditation, so they’re getting more control over it, and they’re strengthening its neural basis.

What’s more, research has also shown that it’s possible to slow the loss of our brain cells. Normally, we lose about 10,000 brain cells a day. That may sound horrible, but we were born with 1.1 trillion. We also have several thousand born each day, mainly in the hippocampus, in what’s called neurogenesis. So losing 10,000 a day isn’t that big a deal, but the net bottom line is that a typical 80 year old will have lost about 4 percent of his or her brain mass—it’s called “cortical thinning with aging.” It’s a normal process.

But in one study, researchers compared meditators and non-meditators. In the graph to the left, the meditators are the blue circles and the non-meditators are the red squares, comparing people of the same age. The non-meditators experienced normal cortical thinning in those two brain regions I mentioned above, along with a third, the somatosensory cortex.

However, the people who routinely meditated and “worked” their brain did not experience cortical thinning in those regions.
That has a big implication for an aging population: Use it or lose it, which applies to the brain as well as to other aspects of life.

That highlights an important point that I think is a major takeaway in this territory: Experience really matters. It doesn’t matter only in our moment-to-moment well-being—how it feels to be me—but it really matters in the lasting residues that it leaves behind, woven into our very being.
Which takes us to the third fact, which is the one with the most practical import.


Fact three: You can use the mind to change the brain to change the mind for the better.

This is known as “self-directed neuroplasticity.” Neuroplasticity refers to the malleable nature of the brain, and it’s constant, ongoing. Self-directed neuroplasticity means doing it with clarity and skillfulness and intention.

The key to it is a controlled use of attention. Attention is like a spotlight, to be sure, shining on things within our awareness. But it’s also like vacuum cleaner, sucking whatever it rests upon into the brain, for better or worse.

For example, if we rest our attention routinely on what we resent or regret—our hassles, our lousy roommate, what Jean-Paul Sartre called “hell” (other people)—then we’re going to build out the neural substrates of those thoughts and feelings.

On the other hand, if we rest our attention on the things for which we’re grateful, the blessings in our life—the wholesome qualities in ourselves and the world around us; the things we get done, most of which are fairly small yet they’re accomplishments nonetheless—then we build up very different neural substrates.

I think that’s why, more than 100 years ago, before there were things like MRIs, William James. the father of psychology in America, said. “The education of attention would be an education par excellence.”

The problem, of course, is that most people don’t have very good control over their attention. Part of this is due to human nature, shaped by evolution: Our forbearers who just focused on the reflection of sunlight in the water—they got chomped by predators. But those who were constantly vigilant—they lived.

And today we are constantly bombarded with stimuli that the brain has not evolved to handle. So gaining more control over attention one way or another is really crucial, whether it’s through the practice of mindfulness, for instance, or through gratitude practices, where we count our blessings. Those are great ways to gain control over your attention because there you are, for 30 seconds or 30 minutes, coming back to focus on an object of awareness.


Taking in the good
This brings me to one of my favorite methods for deliberately using the mind to change the brain over time for the better: taking in the good.
Just having positive experiences is not enough to promote last well-being. If a person feels grateful for a few seconds, that’s nice. That’s better than feeling resentful or bitter for a few seconds. But in order to really suck that experience into the brain, we need to stay with those experiences for a longer duration of time—we need to take steps, consciously, to keep that spotlight of attention on the positive.

So, how do we actually do this? These are the three steps I recommend for taking in the good. I should note that I did not invent these steps. They are embedded in many good therapies and life practices. But I’ve tried to tease them apart and embed them in an evolutionary understanding of how the brain works.


1. Let a good fact become a good experience. Often we go through life and some good thing happens—a little thing, like we checked off an item on our To Do list, we survived another day at work, the flowers are blooming, and so forth. Hey, this is an opportunity to feel good. Don’t leave money lying on the table: Recognize that this is an opportunity to let yourself truly feel good.

2. Really savor this positive experience. Practice what any school teacher knows: If you want to help people learn something, make it as intense as possible—in this case, as felt in the body as possible—for as long as possible.

3. Finally, as you sink into this experience, sense your intent that this experience is sinking into you. Sometimes people do this through visualization, like by perceiving a golden light coming into themselves or a soothing balm inside themselves. You might imagine a jewel going into the treasure chest in your heart—or just know that this experience is sinking into you, becoming a resource you can take with you wherever you go.

 

 

 

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About The Author

Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times best-selling author. His books are available in 26 languages and include Hardwiring Happiness, Buddha’s Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother Nurture. He edits the Wise Brain Bulletin and has numerous audio programs. A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA and founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, he’s been an invited speaker at NASA, Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, and other major universities, and taught in meditation centers worldwide. His work has been featured on the BBC, CBS, and NPR, and he offers the free Just One Thing newsletter with over 115,000 subscribers, plus the online Foundations of Well-Being program in positive neuroplasticity that anyone with financial need can do for free.

  

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This is a very good article, good job.  I have been studying the brain, meditation, and well being for quite some time and it is good to read a more science based approach towards those topics. 
Some of the areas you were focusing on reminded me a lot about the new aged teachings of “The Law of Attraction”. 

Basically where you put your focus and attention is what you are attracting into your life.  These studies also focus a great deal on expressing gratitude for what you have been blessed with in your life.  What I like about your article is how it relates these things to the brain and explains how the brain is being affected.
Very nice!

 

Something that isn't on here is the equal but opposite way of meditation threw outside t internal recorces such as psychedelic drugs such as LSD or Dissociative drugs such as Ketamine. I noticed a profouned difference in my life after I grew up and stopped using these tools simply for the reason of getting high and or f***** up. To get high and get f***** up is to loose ones self.

I found that u can build a form of comfortably in these places and just like in the normal subjective reality, u can find your self all over again. These same regions of the brain are being activated. the regions for love, happiness and understanding.

The brain is like a muscles. If u are to work out your body and use performance enhancers such as protein, creatine, niacin or what ever it is u take. u are supposed to cycle these things properly or your body wares down quicker and its not as good for u.

The same is the way w/ these mind altering tools. I have been doing this for many years. A long time ago these practices were excepted and done in villages by native shamans. What do u think happened to those people? do u think they just went away? Ill tell u what. energy never leaves. it can not be truly created and it can not be truly destroyed. it can only change form. Well, were back…

 I my self have had tremendous experiences in feeling and witnessing large amounts of the neural happy juices being excreted in my brain cavity by doing such things as meditating while on and raising and contracting the material levels of awareness to the unfathomable size of the universe down to the small strings of reality that bind us together, where worm holes are found.

I like closing my eyes and watching plants grow in full motion right before in minds eye and them putting them inside my chest and feel them grow of putting them towards another living things or action of will i'd like to see done, all from learning to be comfortable in the dissociative state the ketamine offers, w discipline and understanding.

 As we become more conscious we see that the war on drugs is really just a war on humanity. addiction isnt a crime, its a sickness like any hoarding or ocd disorder and needs to be handles in a surprisingly similar way. All Im saying is its time to start recognizing the shamanistic methods again, because some peoples attentions are to far distractable for things like meditation. sometimes u need to trip or go into a k hole and let the meditation come to u . . . <3 br=""> 

The brain is quite amazing when you really think about it. How can it store so much information, memories, feelings, all those kinds of things. When you think about the way it works and how your whole body works and how it has evolved over time it’s unbelieveable really. It’s the same with animals. They have smaller brains obviously but they still evolve. They still have evolved over time to help them survive by ways of camouflage or mimicing predators. I think of it like the universe. When you really sit back and think about things there has to be a reason.

  I just watched the video of How to Trick Your Brain for Happiness. My 37 year old son was shot in the brain 16 years ago, so I read everything about the brain I come across.. He was shot in the top of his head as he was falling forward. (after being shot 3 times, 4 total) He was shot in the right side of the brain from the top. He cannot move his left hand and he has to wear a brace for his left foot to keep the toes up so he can walk without tripping.

His personality is pretty amazing, his speech was not affected and his memory is good.  He is always in good spirits even when I know he is having a hard time. ( stress ) He is a great son & never in 16 years has he complained about his disability. I know the human brain is changing and I see it in my 3 year old granddaughter.

  Can my son change his brains neural structure to change his abilities for the better?
  He is very happy to be alive I am sure, which could explain why he is always in a good mood & happy.  Gratitude.
                                                   

 

This Type of Cayenne Pepper Fights Cancer

This Type of Cayenne Pepper Fights Cancer Cells

Cayenne pepper has been used to add flavor, color, and a hit of heat to dishes for thousands of years. Some people love it, while others cackle at their heat-intolerant friends who chug water after they secretly doused their food in cayenne. Love it or hate it, there are many benefits to using this ancient spice, with more being discovered all the time.

6 Benefits of Cayenne Pepper

1. Prevent Foodborne Illness

The use of spices in countries with hot climates dates back hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Before refrigeration was invented, people used spices to kill bacteria and pathogens in their food. Capsicums and hot peppers, including cayenne, kill up to 75% of the bacteria they come up against, helping to prevent food-borne illness and death for generations. (1)

2. Digestive Aid

Capsaicin, the compound in cayenne pepper that makes it hot, has been found to act as a digestive aid. It does this by increasing saliva production, improving gastric motility, and may also stimulate digestive enzyme production. (2)(3)(4)

3. Anti-Inflammatory and Cancer Prevention

Studies show that capsaicin exhibits anti-inflammatory properties, making it a promising candidate for treating inflammatory diseases and cancer. It inhibits the enzyme activity of specific proteins that may cause these illnesses. (5)

4. Heal Stomach Ulcers

New research shows that capsaicin inhibits stomach acid secretion and stimulates mucus secretions and blood flow to the stomach. It activates neurons in your stomach that signal for protection against injury causing agents, and therefore prevent and help to heal gastric ulcers. (6)

5. Pain Relief

Cayenne pepper and capsaicin have shown to help with a variety of pain, including arthritis, fibromyaglia, pain from skin conditions such as shingles and psoriasis, nerve damage and pain related to diabetes, lower back pain, as well as headaches and chronic migraines. The exact mechanism for this in unknown, however it may have to do with cayenne’s anti-inflammatory properties. (7)(8) Try this cayenne pepper pain relief cream.

6. Weight Loss

Some studies suggest that cayenne pepper and capsaicin may help to decrease appetite and help people feel fuller, longer. (9) Another study done in rats shows that it may improve fat metabolism, however no human studies have been done and nothing was 100% conclusive. (10)

Classifications of Cayenne Pepper

While you may have known that cayenne is good for you, you may not have known that there are different classifications of the spice, and certain varieties have more benefits than others. There are two classifications of cayenne pepper:

1. Capsicum annumm, the American variety
2. Capsicum fastigiatum, African birdseye cayenne

They differ primarily based on heat. (11)

Scoville Heat Classification

Scoville heat units (SHU) is the most popular method of scoring peppers based on their level of spice. Cayenne pepper generally ranges from 30,000 to 140,000 SHU. American cayenne is more commonly found grocery stores and is generally in the 30k-50k SHU range. African birdseye cayenne is much more potent, extremely hot, and should be taken with caution, especially if you are new to cayenne. (11)

3 Indicators of Quality Cayenne

1. Color

Cayenne pepper can have a range of color, from yellow to a reddish-brown. For the health benefits of cayenne, you want to by pepper that is a bright orange or red color. The more orange, the more beta-carotene and vitamin A is present. (11)

2. Heat Units

In order to get the benefits of cayenne pepper, it must be minimum 30-50k SHU. The SHU score is directly related to the amount of capsaicin, which is the compound that provides the disease and inflammation fighting benefits. (11)

3. Organic

Buying organic cayenne ensures that your product is chemical-free and has not been irradiated. (12)

Where to buy Cayenne Pepper

Most American cayenne can be bought at the grocery store, however your best bet is to go to your local health food store. Both American and African birdseye cayenne can be found online. Go here for a comprehensive list of quality cayenne pepper products.

How to use Cayenne Pepper

Cayenne pepper is easy to use and can be incorporated into almost any meal or even dessert. If you are new to spice, start off small. As you build a tolerance for heat, you will be able to add more. Here is a list of easy recipes to include more cayenne in your diet:

• Salad dressing
• Egg salad
• Smoothies
• Soup
• Spiced Nuts
• Turkey Burgers
  
• Rice
  
• Fish Tacos
• Lemonade 

Good quality organic cayenne pepper is a fun spice to add to your cooking repertoire. It adds flavor and packs as many health benefits as it does heat. Try adding a little cayenne into your next meal or snack, you’ll be surprised at the extra dimension it will add to your food!

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