Jazz Thoughts for the Day – January
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The Mind CAN Affect Matter – A New Meaning to Thought Power!
The Mind CAN Affect Matter – A New Meaning to Thought Power!
In my work on the dynamics of smoking, I have found that a smoker exerts a strong mind over matter effect on the body to allow themselves to smoke which in turn makes it difficult to simply stop smoking. Smokers have created a Psychological Smoking Mechanism to mentally suppress the normal body defenses to hot polluted smoke entering their delicate lungs. How is this possible?
It is well established in psychology that attitudes and beliefs affect thoughts. Thoughts in turn, affect our behavior, our bodies and even our state of health. But what if thought was more powerful than just affecting behavior and our personal well-being? What if thought actually affected matter outside ourselves?
Sounds like science fiction doesn’t it? We tend to believe that our thoughts are our own and have no force outside ourselves but research in Quantum Physics suggests that this notion is not correct. We are electromagnetic beings and our thoughts radiate out from us like a broadcast signal impacting things inside us and around us. Although we would like to believe that our thoughts are “private”, research has shown that thought DOES affect matter outside of ourselves. This gives a whole new meaning to “watch what you think!”
A very exciting body of scientific research has demonstrated the effects of thoughts on water! In this article, we will explore a characteristic of water that is not usually considered. Water stores thought energy and this energy impacts whoever or whatever uses the water.
Water is Dull and Wet!
When most people think of water, they think of it as a dull, uninteresting liquid. I don’t know how many people over the years have told me that they don’t like to drink water. Yet, water is necessary for life. In fact, our bodies are made up of about 70 percent water. A person can go a long time without eating but not without water.
Rather than being dull, there appears to be a great deal more to water than a simple combination of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. Water appears to be a storage device and can be programmed by thought.
Water Gets a New Publicist
Research on the effects of thought on water has been around for a long time. But no one outside of scientific circles knew about it. It wasn’t until 2004, when the public was introduced to the impact of thought on water with the release of a movie called What the BLEEP Do We Know!? This movie was an introduction to concepts of Quantum Physics and presented some very fascinating ideas. The movie also introduced the work of Masaru Emoto, a Japanese man who discovered a way to visibly demonstrate the effects of thought on water!
Why was Masaru Emoto so interested in water? He had suffered from foot pain and a friend at his office had given him some water that had been specifically programmed with thought energy to heal his pain. Mr. Emoto, rather skeptically used the water and the pain went away. He was intrigued and had to know more.
Mr. Emoto was not scientifically trained but he knew there had to be a way to demonstrate the impact of thought on water. One day, he had the inspiration that the quality of water could be determined by crystallization.
The Method
Although Mr. Emoto was not trained in science, he knew a coworker that did have this training. When he told the coworker he wanted to take pictures of water crystals, the man said based on his experience, it was not possible. However, Mr. Emoto was confident it could be done and determined to do it. He kept encouraging the doubting researcher and eventually convinced him it could be done.
After two months of struggle, the first water crystal picture was taken. Over time, the method was improved and many water crystal pictures have been taken some of which were shown in the movie, What the BLEEP Do We Know!?
What Did Emoto Find?
Masaru Emoto discovered that water subjected to positive thoughts formed beautiful crystals and water exposed to negative thoughts formed either no crystals or deformed ones. He concluded that the water was affected by thought.
His further research showed that different thoughts could be stored in water and have a positive effect on the human body just as he experienced with the removal of his foot pain. Of course, many people may think this ridiculous but research shows the properties of water ARE affected by thought and other forms of energy such as magnetic fields.
Scientific Research Demonstrates Emoto is Correct!
Lynne McTaggart wrote an excellent book called The Field. This book deals with research findings in Quantum Physics. A body of research presented in the book that clearly supports Mr. Emoto was conducted in the 1960′s by biologist Dr. Bernard Grad of McGill University in Montreal.
Dr. Grad wanted to see if people can actually transmit healing energy to others. Rather than using person to person contact, he decided to use plants. This was a control method to eliminate the placebo effect.
In the first part of his study, he decided to make plants ill by soaking their seeds in salty water which retards growth. He had two experimental conditions. In the first, the control, he just had a container of salt water. In the second, he had a person known for “psychic” healing lay hands on the salt water container. Afterwards, the seeds were divided into two groups and soaked in the plain salt water or the treated salt water.
The results were unexpected. The seeds soaked in the water treated by intense thought grew taller than the untreated batch. It was a tightly controlled experiment and the results demonstrated that whatever the “healer” did to the water, was reflected in the improved health of the plants!
What Happens with Negative Thoughts?
In his first study, Dr. Grad demonstrated the effects of positive thoughts on water which had a positive effect on the plants that used it. He hypothesized that if the effect in the first study was accurate, that the opposite would occur with negative thoughts.
Dr. Grad decided that the best source of negative thoughts was disturbed psychiatric patients. One patient in his experimental group was diagnosed with psychotic depression and was noticeable more depressed than the other patients. He had each patient hold containers of plain water and marked them to know which patient held which container. He also used untreated water as a control. When Dr. Grad used the water to sprout seeds, all the water samples held by the psychiatric patients produced poor growth but the water from the extremely depressed person suppressed growth!
Again, these were plants and not subject to the placebo effect. They were being affected by the water that had been simply held by psychiatric patients. In other words, the patients were doing nothing more than being themselves and the water was affected!
Test Equipment Confirms Change in Water
Dr. Grad had much more scientific resources available to him than Masaru Emoto. Using infrared spectroscopy, he discovered that the water treated by the healer had minor shifts in its molecular structure and decreased hydrogen bonding between the molecules. This is the same thing observed when water has been exposed to magnetic fields. Thought DID affect the water!
This fits in nicely with the beautiful crystals (Positive Thoughts) versus the deformed or no crystals (Negative Thoughts) found by Emoto.
Conclusion
Research demonstrates that thought affects water and water retains this change. The water in turn, affects whatever uses it. Since our bodies are about 70% water, it is likely that our thoughts, both positive and negative, affect this water which in turn reflects back to us.
It’s been well demonstrated in psychology that negative thoughts adversely affect health. Perhaps the effect on the water in our bodies is one way this happens.
The important lesson to learn from this research is that thoughts are powerful and affect us. It is important to make sure our thoughts are positive thoughts!
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The trouble with meditation
The trouble with meditation
The trouble with meditation!
The trouble with the word ‘meditation’ is that today it is a catch all for a diverse range of mental and physical activities to achieve on the one hand calmness and relaxation or altered states of consciousness and on the other hand to attain spiritual awareness. How one chooses what kind of meditation to do from the myriad of choices is a problem.
For followers of a specific belief system, the type of meditation to be used may already be defined by their code of practise. But for the rest of us, there needs to be serious consideration of what type of meditation to follow. It may be helpful to look at various systems and what they do before embarking on any particular one.
Physical meditations can include walking meditation, tai chi, qigong and yoga. These are generally carried out in a slow, measured way so that each aspect of the activity can be fully experienced gradually to the point of awareness at a cellular level. These practises take concentration, focus and physical effort to attain such awareness. The mind and body are honed to focus on the physical activity to block out any other thought, sensation or movement other than the action in progress.
Contemplation on a fixed inanimate object such as a candle flame, a flower or a crystal also requires a level of concentration and focus. This method certainly quietens down the activity of the mind and body, but it is easy to feel distracted and disappointed in one’s ability to stay focussed. Again it takes regular practise to attain a state of unity with the object, and it can be disheartening and may begin to feel pointless.
Concentration on a particular theme is another form of mental activity that can be used to experience a particular type of energy. For example, you can contemplate and focus on a quality embodied in a sage or saint such as compassion, truth, love, peace, by envisioning the quality in the human form. Or you can use an energy such as light, contemplating on a sunset. This type of inner work is done with the specific intention of bringing a certain energetic quality to help one resolve a personal difficulty.
Creative visualisation is very popular and often described as meditation. These are readily available on CDs in many styles. For the most part, the listener is taken on an imaginary journey as a means of relaxing mind and body, which of course can be very enjoyable and escapist. Some creative visualisations are a journey to help the listener communicate with higher energies, or to seek the answer to a problem. If the creative visualisation is used for relaxation, then the CD can be used over and over, but if it is used for the latter, it can become limiting very quickly, as one’s imagination tends to repeat itself given the same CD. Creative visualisation work relies on someone else’s ideas to influence and stimulate your imagination. There is no right or wrong way being judged here, just that it is important to question the purpose and value of the visualisation before using it, and to recognise what is taking place.
Meditation using sounds, as in chanting and mantras, spans the centuries and are used by many different cultures. The most frequently used mantras, like ‘Om mani padme hum’, come from the Vedic tradition and are written in Sanskrit. Repeating the words of a mantra is one very helpful way of developing meditation practise, as it can be carried out in any situation without any ‘props’ and a state of inner quietness can be achieved quite easily. Some mantras have no meaning, so the mind cannot get distracted by thoughts about the words. The sound of the mantra creates an inner vibration which is said to clear the body of negativity and is used in self healing. Thomas Ashley-Farrand’s book ‘Healing Mantras’ is an excellent reference for anyone interested in this form of meditation. There are thousands of different mantras to be intoned for different spiritual purposes. Some are used for sending love and healing energy to others, and to the planet. For example, the Buddhist meditation called Metta (Loving Kindness) meditation is derived from the Vedas, and is a form of meditation frequently used for oneself and others.
Meditation on the breath is a technique found mostly in the many traditions of Yoga and Buddhism. There are various methods used in breathing meditations and interpretations to go with them. For example, breathing in through one nostril and out through the other, alternating mouth breathing with nose breathing, or holding the breath and counting. It is quite surprising the number of variations there are, and so it can be confusing for a beginner to understand the purpose of the techniques.
I have worked with many styles of meditation and do use various techniques for different purposes. But I always start the day with the simplest meditation of all which is sitting in silence, noticing my breathing pattern that takes me to stillness within. The benefit of this meditation technique is there is no effort, or concentration required, just simply conscious awareness.
This overview of meditation techniques, with no doubt many omissions, has been given to stimulate your curiosity to find out more about meditation and which style will best suit you. Now you may need to know where and how to learn to meditate.
Until fairly recently, there were only exclusive groups teaching meditation; these were brought to the West by Masters who charged large sums for the privilege of sharing their system, or by individuals attached to religious organisations. These are still available, but in truth there is nothing exclusive about meditation. It is as ancient as mankind! If you look in your local paper or locals complementary therapy magazine you will find a meditation group you can join. Before you go along check out the style of meditation being taught and avoid religious based methods (unless that is definitely your path).Meditation in a group setting can be really beneficial. The energetic rapport of the group increases over and above the sum of the individuals taking part. It is also an opportunity to ask questions about your own meditation experience. The downside is the possible element of competition among members, and the tendency for the group to use each meeting to try different styles.
When you first learn to meditate it is better to stick to one basic style for at least a month before trying other techniques. Of course, the mind loves to be entertained by different ideas and experiences, but in order to achieve inner calm, you have to let your mind and thoughts settle, and one basic style is the best way to achieve this.
You may prefer to learn meditation on an individual basis with a teacher. This is also a good way of learning because you are able to validate your experiences with someone else to reassure you that you are doing okay. In the beginning all sorts of doubts can arise and it is so helpful to get these checked out with an experienced meditator. As with the group, find out beforehand what method is being taught, what time is involved and the cost before you commit to it.
There are thousands of books, CDs, and websites selling meditation techniques. Some of my clients have bookshelves full of instructions on how to meditate in this style and that. Unless you are really committed or have had some previous experience of meditating it can be really difficult to learn from a book especially when the technique seems complicated. It’s a bit like learning to ballroom dance from reading a series of foot positions in a book. You have to keep stopping to see what the next steps are! Using a CD is a better way to learn to meditate as long as you don’t come to depend on it .The aim is to be able to meditate without any aids. Avoid CDs with music as this can lull the listener into a dream like state. Choose a CD that avoids explanations and be sure you like the voice of the teacher or you’ll soon give up. Even if your choice is to go to a group or a teacher, you will be meditating at home on your own in between meetings. So whatever way you choose to learn, developing a meditation routine at home is the key to success in order to establish meditation as part of your daily life. In my experience it is most beneficial to meditate for twenty minutes early morning and early evening. But if your schedule will only allow ten to fifteen minutes a day, choose the morning; for two reasons. Firstly, the morning meditation, when you are fresh and alert, sets you up for the day and secondly there is always a tendency to make excuses to miss the early evening session! Choose a place in your home where you can meditate everyday. Make this little area feel pleasant, perhaps some flowers, a candle or an oil burner. Use an upright chair so that when you sit down your back is straight and your head and neck are unsupported. If you prefer, sit crossed legged on a cushion (but only if you feel comfortable like this). Have a little clock in view so you can check how long you have been meditating. Then begin your daily meditation and enjoy it! What could be simpler than this? The hardest thing about meditation is making the commitment and turning up to do it.
I am keen to make meditation mainstream and accessible to everyone.Meditation has been part of my daily life for 25 years and since 2002 I have been teaching meditation to individuals and groups. In 2008 I was encouraged to produce a CD and book about meditation by my students. The title is “Just Turn Up”. There is no other CD/book that explains the technique in plain language, and removes the myths and mystery surrounding the subject.The book, CD and website have reached many people, and I hope it has changed their life for the better.
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Benefits Of Goal Setting Software Compared With Goal Setting On Paper
Benefits Of Goal Setting Software Compared With Goal Setting On Paper
In the last few years, goal setting software is becoming more and more popular. Offering ease of use, goal setting software looks like it may transform the way goal setters set goals. But, how does goal setting software compare with setting goals on paper? As you read this article, you will find the benefits of both goal setting systems.
Paper based goal setting systems are used more often than not. There are benefits and negatives to using a paper based goal setting system. Some goal setters like to write goals down on paper, and it can seem like a great idea.
After all, goal setting on paper, allows you to easily refer back to your goal. This is important, because more often you see your goal, more often your focus will be on it.
However, this benefit can work against us. For example, you write your goal on paper. Now that is an extra piece of paper, which often will get into piles of other papers. Now the goal is hidden. It is time to bring it out, but where is it!
Goal setting software is a good alternative, and it allows you to have your goals all in one place. There are many different goal setting software available today. They basically all do the same thing, help you to set goals.
When you look for goal setting software, you will find a difference in focus with some of the goal setting software. Some may focus on a project management system, while others are dedicated to an alternative to ‘To Do’ lists. And yet others focus on actual goal setting which goal setters focus on.
Finding goal setting software to achieve this balance is difficult. Some focus on certain areas, and there is also the fact of trying to figure out which goal setting system is best for your needs. The good point is that many goal setting software companies will have trial versions, allowing you to test to see if the software meets your needs.
Many of these goal setting software packages allow you to print up some form of summary for your goal. This can be ideal, because goal setting often requires setting several goals – some big, some small, and some in between. And you may not want to have all your goals on paper, just the big ones.
One of the biggest problems you will find with goal setting software is that of focus. Having software is great, but it can become like a book in a library – hard to find. Self discipline then must come into focus, so you can enter the software, and keep looking at your goals and working forward on them.
Overall, we have many different ways of working. You may like working your goals on paper, it may seem more like you are setting the goal, whereas some may prefer a software based goal setting software. Either way, it can be hard getting used to a new goal setting system. Either way, you will have the tools for goal setting and goal accomplishment.
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Skepticism and Critical Thinking
Skepticism and Critical Thinking
Skepticism and critical thinking
What if what you think you know are mostly untrue? Are you ready to accept a paradigm shift of knowledge?
Heard of nutritional supplements, detoxification, energy levels, modern day healing, and the phrase “boost your immune system”? Well, I’m not surprised. All these methods of improving health are as common as computers, but do you know the real deal about these kinds of methods? Recently, I stumbled upon an interesting video in clearbits.net, which is an open licensed digital media for file sharing. I was scrolling through the weekly contents when a short movie entitled “Here Be Dragons” caught my eyes. In short, it is a movie about critical thinking, pseudoscience, and skepticism all meshed into one big logical video. Believe me, you’ll find many surprises in this video that would make you go “Hey, I’m using that” or “Oh my God, I didn’t know that, and its definitely good to know”. For those naturally skeptical, you may think that this is one of the bull’s product (if you don’t get this, read my second post). If you have 40 minutes to spare, watch this interesting movie below, or else, take some time off to watch it.
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Here Be Dragons – a critical thinking video by Brian Dunning
What are your thoughts about the movie?
Personally, I think that “Here Be Dragons” is a very informative and powerful movie as a whole. The host, Brian Dunning gets straight to the point about how pop phenomena is actually making us believe things that have no solid scientific foundation – things which are labeled as pseudoscience. All of his arguments are based on logic and critical analysis. So, according to this video, if something doesn’t have any scientific proof to it, then it’s a busted pseudoscience and a product of the bull.
However true all of these critical thinking stuff might be, it is wise to disregard the hidden knowledge of the ancients. Yes, it’s undoubtedly true that the ancient knowledge is archaic, arcane, and not fully understood by modern era scientists as yet, but is it not a tat ignorant to disregard fully the knowledge of the past and think of them as useless, baseless human imaginations?
Most of the issues he touched upon are genuinely reasonable, but he’s putting everything that is not fully understood by science in the “nonsense” category. And he is certainly careful to avoid hinting about anything that is religion related. If you noticed, the only blow he landed is on Buddhism, and that’s because he mentioned that knowledge is to be sought after and not pre-possessed by humans.
To use critical thinking to counter the arguments in the movie, it doesn’t make any sense to deny something that is not fully understood because of our limitation in total comprehension of the world or universe. Those areas of knowledge could have a scientific basis in the future, even if it may sound totally non-intuitive now. If it is not proven to work under the scientific method, that doesn’t mean it does not work in reality, for there are some aspects of these phenomena that are difficult to manipulate and control in the lab. In most cases, there are no specific apparatus to measure what is needed to be measured too. An example of factors that can lead to possible inaccurate lab results is the effect of emotion.
As science cannot answer all the questions in our minds, it is a process of learning more about what we do not know, like what Brian said. Science is a tool to discover and rediscover the veiled knowledge of the world, but only up to a certain extend. There is always gonna be that certain something that we still could not grasp, even if the next kingdom comes. To know everything means that we have nothing left to learn, and that lucky day will never come.
Who knows, in the future, that certain “extend” might be extended, resulting in the unlocking of different branches of science that specifically deals with the supernatural or inexplicable phenomena of today’s world, very much like how science had broken up into niche fields like nanotechnology and quantum physics, in which some laws of physics actually break down and cry.
The ancients had passed down significant ancient relics to us, the modern generation. And without those knowledge, especially those of math, science, and biology, we wouldn’t get to enjoy the prosperity we have today or breathe the polluted air today for that matter. Just take the Pythagoras Theorem for example, note the impact and development this past knowledge have brought us. It could be the same for other past discoveries or assumed knowledge like “energy” and the like, albeit requiring extra time.
I find that what this video should really portray is to make us think critically about whatever that is presented before us before accepting those facts besides doing some unbiased researches, which is a good thing. Nowadays, cases of fraud are all too common, to state the obvious. Not forgetting that people nowadays, no matter which profession there are in or how smart they are, fall for advertisements or information that are too influential.
Also, I find that this video is also trying to influence the public to support his idea of all things scientific, which is another good thing to disseminate. Since that is the main purpose of the video, I feel that there is no need to go beyond that and saying how absurd Feng Shui and “energy” really are, for who knows what scientific potential the future might hold for them?
In a nutshell, I find this video enlightening despite my having some minor skepticism in some parts of the movie. It is an eye-opener, I kid you not. However, like anything that comes from the web, we should also take the movie and its subtle and obvious messages with a pinch of a salt.
For your information, the man behind the video is Brian Dunning, a computer scientist by profession. Skeptoid.com is the brainchild of the same man. He also hosted in the Skeptoid podcast and has a blog related to the same topic.
For further understanding about critical analysis of modern pop phenomena, please do visit his website.
You can find tons of cool and useful stuff there plus a whole lot of facts and truths about the world as we know it.
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Finding True Magic is the primary training text for the Transpersonal Hypnotherapy/NLP Certification Program offered by the Institute for Therapeutic Learning. Finding True Magic and the Transpersonal Hypnotherapy/NLP training are appropriate for laypeople seeking personal growth, as well as for therapists and other professionals intent on advancing their therapeutic skills. In fact, about 50 per cent of ITL students take the training primarily for personal development. This book explores t
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