From meditation, I learned how to control my breathing. After meditating for many years — almost 25 years now mdash; it dawned on me that controlling my breathing works for recovery from a cold over two years ago.
One day, the tickle in my throat preceding a cough almost overcame me, which was overcome by controlling my breathing until the cough went away.
Today I have practice these breathing exercises consistently. To the average person, breathing is overlooked as unimportant and hardly necessary.
For myself, I find that on days when I do not practice my breathing exercises, I am not as calm as I am when I do practice these exercises.
So rather than simply breathing, I instead count out my breaths while feeling thankful to the Buddha and to God. However, it is important for me to point out that being thankful to a person you admire (a mother or suitable substitute) is also equally useful during breath meditation.
Furthermore, my years of meditation must have paid off because my heart rate ranges from 50-96 beats per minute. which I attribute to meditation and also regular exercise.
It is due to regular exercise and positive thinking that the benefits of breath meditation become amplified.
People sometimes wonder why meditate. My answer is, meditation will help you control your mind and your body, so that you may better serve other people as a friend, a lover or a worker. Indeed, meditation truly is the only mind control tool to help your master your mind and body for your benefit and to benefit society.
Breathe deeply and master body and mind!
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20140226
Are You A Chronic Alcoholic? (satire)
Attention booze lovers! Whether you answer yes or no really makes no difference, for alcoholism consists of a set of behaviors that range from acute to chronic.
If you love booze so much, this is what awaits the chronic alcoholics among you...
One of the disputed signs of alcoholism is more than a drink a day until you get the giggles and start projecting your inner angst as foul-mouthed tirades like a child having a tantrum.
Perhaps the worse thing than this are blackouts during which the chronic alcoholic harms other people yet has no memory of it when sober.
Basically chronic alcoholism leads to a psychosis named for the doctor that described it in detail and what is called "wet brain".
Even though booze is legal, overindulging in drink is known to damage your brain by depleting your body of health in order to ensure that you die very slowly of poisoning caused by alcohol.
One of the signs of such alcoholism is the psychotic rage with a wide range of emotions from melancholy to mania, complete with raging anger to giggly glee. This is what is known as the mean drunk as opposed to the hilarious life of the party drunk. While the sober person is unlikely to encounter harm from the latter, the main harm from the mean drunk consists of gaslighting by an experienced narcissist whose sole means of existence is to make your life hell for daring to ignore his constant need of attention. If he could make you question your sanity, then he is WINNING.
In short, the mean drunk will never strike the first blow but by all intents, tries to goad you into attacking him. While this tactic always works with the drunk people, it never works with trained professionals who have to deal with them day in and day out. This includes temporary shelter workers at homeless shelters and associated building attendant staff and the rare security staff.
If you want to avoid the embarrassment of falling before your pride, then taper down your drinking consumption. Otherwise, you are destined for homelessness or the other forms of self-induced hell the foolish pride themselves in making.
YMMV
Reference:
ALCOHOL’S DAMAGING EFFECTS ON THE BRAIN - Alcohol Alert:
http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa63/aa63.htm
If you love booze so much, this is what awaits the chronic alcoholics among you...
One of the disputed signs of alcoholism is more than a drink a day until you get the giggles and start projecting your inner angst as foul-mouthed tirades like a child having a tantrum.
Perhaps the worse thing than this are blackouts during which the chronic alcoholic harms other people yet has no memory of it when sober.
Basically chronic alcoholism leads to a psychosis named for the doctor that described it in detail and what is called "wet brain".
Even though booze is legal, overindulging in drink is known to damage your brain by depleting your body of health in order to ensure that you die very slowly of poisoning caused by alcohol.
One of the signs of such alcoholism is the psychotic rage with a wide range of emotions from melancholy to mania, complete with raging anger to giggly glee. This is what is known as the mean drunk as opposed to the hilarious life of the party drunk. While the sober person is unlikely to encounter harm from the latter, the main harm from the mean drunk consists of gaslighting by an experienced narcissist whose sole means of existence is to make your life hell for daring to ignore his constant need of attention. If he could make you question your sanity, then he is WINNING.
In short, the mean drunk will never strike the first blow but by all intents, tries to goad you into attacking him. While this tactic always works with the drunk people, it never works with trained professionals who have to deal with them day in and day out. This includes temporary shelter workers at homeless shelters and associated building attendant staff and the rare security staff.
If you want to avoid the embarrassment of falling before your pride, then taper down your drinking consumption. Otherwise, you are destined for homelessness or the other forms of self-induced hell the foolish pride themselves in making.
YMMV
Reference:
ALCOHOL’S DAMAGING EFFECTS ON THE BRAIN - Alcohol Alert:
http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa63/aa63.htm
20130509
Debunking Two Myths about Coconut Oil
In this article, two myths about coconut oil are addressed. Then referenced statements about coconut oil, unhealthy food consumption, the relationship between cheap food and obesity and malnutrition, and the high risk of cancer that fast food workers may be exposed to.
Most people who haven't heard about coconut oil are familiar with coconut. So they often ask, "Does it taste like coconut?" No, because all the taste is in coconut "meat".
Health authority tells us "saturated fats" are bad for us. So, a naîve consumer may ask, "Is the saturated oil in coconut oil unhealthy too?" No, because the saturated fatty acids in coconut are medium-chain fatty acids, compared to fatty acids in canola oil, which are mainly long-chain fatty acids.
In fact, few of the calories in coconut oil will turn into fat in the body when you reduce carbohydrate consumption.
It has always been carbohydrates and cheap vegetable oils that have contributed to the majority of unhealthy food consumption.
No doubt the food industry wouldn't be making a profit from cheap foodstuff that has been confirmed to cause obesity and malnutrition.
Fast-food joints cook in canola oil, which is known to cause breathing problems in food workers who are sensitive to the fumes.
Health authorities in the US recommended that the erucic acid content in canola oil be lowered to 2%, which led rapeseed being bred for low erucic acid content.
However, the 2% trace of euricic acid may still affective sensitive workers.
Coconut oil information:
List of food with low carbohydrates: http://www.livestrong.com/article/25154-list-carbs/
8 Foods to Never Eat: http://www.introduce.trimdownclub.com/intro1.html?utm_expid=59518127-27&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livestrong.com%2Farticle%2F25154-list-carbs%2F
Obesity is about poverty and cheap food: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/14/obesity-diabetes-cheap-food-poverty
Cooking oil fumes and risk of lung cancer in women in rural Gansu, China, 2002: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11804682
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erucic_acid
Most people who haven't heard about coconut oil are familiar with coconut. So they often ask, "Does it taste like coconut?" No, because all the taste is in coconut "meat".
Health authority tells us "saturated fats" are bad for us. So, a naîve consumer may ask, "Is the saturated oil in coconut oil unhealthy too?" No, because the saturated fatty acids in coconut are medium-chain fatty acids, compared to fatty acids in canola oil, which are mainly long-chain fatty acids.
In fact, few of the calories in coconut oil will turn into fat in the body when you reduce carbohydrate consumption.
It has always been carbohydrates and cheap vegetable oils that have contributed to the majority of unhealthy food consumption.
No doubt the food industry wouldn't be making a profit from cheap foodstuff that has been confirmed to cause obesity and malnutrition.
Fast-food joints cook in canola oil, which is known to cause breathing problems in food workers who are sensitive to the fumes.
Health authorities in the US recommended that the erucic acid content in canola oil be lowered to 2%, which led rapeseed being bred for low erucic acid content.
However, the 2% trace of euricic acid may still affective sensitive workers.
Coconut oil information:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_oil
- http://www.coconutketones.com/
List of food with low carbohydrates: http://www.livestrong.com/article/25154-list-carbs/
8 Foods to Never Eat: http://www.introduce.trimdownclub.com/intro1.html?utm_expid=59518127-27&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livestrong.com%2Farticle%2F25154-list-carbs%2F
Obesity is about poverty and cheap food: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/14/obesity-diabetes-cheap-food-poverty
Cooking oil fumes and risk of lung cancer in women in rural Gansu, China, 2002: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11804682
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erucic_acid
20130319
Being (A Meditation)
Neither distress nor depression is caused by thoughts. What causes the distress?
How you deal with your thoughts determines the level of distress.
What causes the depression?
Not having dealt with your thoughts determines how depressed you are.
During meditation, be impartial and observe with detachment your thoughts, your feelings and your emotions — do not evaluate, do not make comparisons or judgment on them.
Just be with the thoughts, while stepping back from your stream of consciousness.
If you get caught by it, and inevitably you will, then gently refocus on the object of your meditation, be it breath, sound, object.
Mindfully dealing with thoughts acts to desensitize your reaction to thoughts.
With repeated training you will be able to observe the difficult emotional state coming to you without getting overwhelmed with it in seconds. The formerly charged emotions will lose their power over you.
It does not mean you will feel nothing, but you will not add unnecessary and self-destructive feelings to an already annoying experience.
How you deal with your thoughts determines the level of distress.
What causes the depression?
Not having dealt with your thoughts determines how depressed you are.
During meditation, be impartial and observe with detachment your thoughts, your feelings and your emotions — do not evaluate, do not make comparisons or judgment on them.
Just be with the thoughts, while stepping back from your stream of consciousness.
If you get caught by it, and inevitably you will, then gently refocus on the object of your meditation, be it breath, sound, object.
Mindfully dealing with thoughts acts to desensitize your reaction to thoughts.
With repeated training you will be able to observe the difficult emotional state coming to you without getting overwhelmed with it in seconds. The formerly charged emotions will lose their power over you.
It does not mean you will feel nothing, but you will not add unnecessary and self-destructive feelings to an already annoying experience.
20121015
10 Solutions to Reduce Stress
- Ask a friend or family member for a hug
- Breathe deeply
- Dance it out
- Discuss what's stressing you out with a friend
- Focus on what you can control
- Go for a walk to freshen your mind
- Go to bed earlier
- Look for opportunities in life's challenges
- Reminisce about good times
- Smile
20091201
Proper Nutrition Prevents AIDS
Here's the un-cut footage of the conversation with Luc Montagnier which Brent Leung took as part of the interview for his film House of Numbers.
Reference: http://www.naturalnews.com/027631_AIDS_House_of_Numbers.html
Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQoNW7lOnT4
In the above video, Dr Luc Montagnier makes the following points about a person's health and AIDS:
• You can be exposed to AIDS without getting infected.
• A strong immune system can protect you against AIDS.
• With the help of good nutrition, you can fight off AIDS.
• The importance of AIDS vaccines is exaggerated.
• AIDS can be approached with low-cost, highly-effective alternatives to vaccines.
• What the African people really need is better nutrition to protect themselves from AIDS.
• The facts about nutrition and AIDS are being neglected (by the medical establishment).
This film only confirms to me that Africa needs better nutrition and access to clean water to build the strong immune system to protect a person against AIDS.
IMHO a well nourished mind and body is able to live a healthy life, and the person who owns it will not engage in risky sexual behavior.
Check out the House of Numbers website for more information.
http://www.houseofnumbers.com/
*** note: Apart from the youtube link, I am not posting clickable links to prevent bots from bogging down the Internet.
It's easy just to mark and copy the link, then past it into the URL entry window which begins with http.
If any reader does not know how to do this, then ask your local system administrator, computer guru etc. for help.
Update:
There is also a hypothesis that runs counter to the argument that only the AIDS virus causes the disease.
In that hypothesis, the AIDS virus is the market. AIDS is actually the result of low immunity (immune compromised).
As well, that compromised immunity causes Human Endogenous Retrovirii (HERV) to be created from human DNA in a fashion similar to neurotransmitter receptors which grow in response to neurotransmitter levels fluctuating in response to stimuli (stress, emotional response, etc).
Immunity can be compromised by insomnia, anxiety, depression, mania and psychoses, due to increased cortisol levels.
Cortisol also leads to metabolic syndrome due to insulin tolerance, both of which affect the immune system.
Again, I urge those gentle readers who want to connect the dots may use Google to research "HERV Human endegenous Retrovirus".
Reference: http://www.naturalnews.com/027631_AIDS_House_of_Numbers.html
Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQoNW7lOnT4
In the above video, Dr Luc Montagnier makes the following points about a person's health and AIDS:
• You can be exposed to AIDS without getting infected.
• A strong immune system can protect you against AIDS.
• With the help of good nutrition, you can fight off AIDS.
• The importance of AIDS vaccines is exaggerated.
• AIDS can be approached with low-cost, highly-effective alternatives to vaccines.
• What the African people really need is better nutrition to protect themselves from AIDS.
• The facts about nutrition and AIDS are being neglected (by the medical establishment).
This film only confirms to me that Africa needs better nutrition and access to clean water to build the strong immune system to protect a person against AIDS.
IMHO a well nourished mind and body is able to live a healthy life, and the person who owns it will not engage in risky sexual behavior.
Check out the House of Numbers website for more information.
http://www.houseofnumbers.com/
*** note: Apart from the youtube link, I am not posting clickable links to prevent bots from bogging down the Internet.
It's easy just to mark and copy the link, then past it into the URL entry window which begins with http.
If any reader does not know how to do this, then ask your local system administrator, computer guru etc. for help.
Update:
There is also a hypothesis that runs counter to the argument that only the AIDS virus causes the disease.
In that hypothesis, the AIDS virus is the market. AIDS is actually the result of low immunity (immune compromised).
As well, that compromised immunity causes Human Endogenous Retrovirii (HERV) to be created from human DNA in a fashion similar to neurotransmitter receptors which grow in response to neurotransmitter levels fluctuating in response to stimuli (stress, emotional response, etc).
Immunity can be compromised by insomnia, anxiety, depression, mania and psychoses, due to increased cortisol levels.
Cortisol also leads to metabolic syndrome due to insulin tolerance, both of which affect the immune system.
Again, I urge those gentle readers who want to connect the dots may use Google to research "HERV Human endegenous Retrovirus".
20090222
The Smart Way to Beat the Cold and/or Flu
I believe that this Polish food actually helped with my cold: kapusta or sauerkraut. In addition, rhodiola rosea got rid of the coughing because of its stimulant effect due to balancing of the neurotransmitters.
Now that I am on the following healthfoods products consisting of omega-3 fish capsules (anti-inflammatory & brain food), açai (az'eye) (anti-oxidants), rhodiola (augments my espresso habit), and vinpo-15 (used as sedative), I feel great.
In fact, I feel really GOOD! It's easier to get over the blues of a recent romantic breakup, and as for the cold i got last month, it's like a memory.
Though, I'm almost ready to give up women again... Ain't no pill in the world can replace 'em tho. Just sayin'... :p
Now that I am on the following healthfoods products consisting of omega-3 fish capsules (anti-inflammatory & brain food), açai (az'eye) (anti-oxidants), rhodiola (augments my espresso habit), and vinpo-15 (used as sedative), I feel great.
In fact, I feel really GOOD! It's easier to get over the blues of a recent romantic breakup, and as for the cold i got last month, it's like a memory.
Though, I'm almost ready to give up women again... Ain't no pill in the world can replace 'em tho. Just sayin'... :p
20080920
Rubenesque is the reality for women, not the exception
Thin was never the norm.
Indeed, starvation was never considered healthy, while overeating was considered showing respect for one's mother and the person who cooked the majority of meals in homes since prehistory.
Traditionally, men hunted and fished while women gathered roots, tended to both the garden and the hearth.
Hence, a healthy figure is the rubenesque one.
Today, it is known as BBW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBW)
20071127
Suffering in Samsara Leads to Enlightenment in Nirvana
At the age of 29, the Buddha stopped praying to the gods to end his suffering and the suffering of others. He left his family and friends, went to the edge of the forest, took off all his clothes and jewelry, covered his naked body with rags of cloth, cut off his hair and started to meditate.
He became a mendicant, and it took him six years of hard work and much suffering, but in the end he was able to stop his suffering forever (Nirvana) and help others stop their suffering as well.
Kusala Bhikshu in Do Buddhists Believe in God?
What took the Buddha six years to achieve is still beyond me, even though I am now 49 years of age. Even so, it is easier to meditate than it used to be prior to July 13, 2004 when I suffered a concussion during an assault at work.
But this wasn't the case prior to October 2006.
While it took until about March 2006,to achieve stability, a year previous to that I had lost lots of sleep and was slowly breaking down.
Much of the rest of 2005 I felt anxious outside and nervous.
After April things started to progress, but my best friend died in May 2006. By June I needed help. So I had my current roommates move much of my stuff into storage.
As well, other friends moved out the heavier drawers and furniture.
Between July and August 2006 I improved rapidly, but the greatest changes occurred when my roomies and I moved to a new place in August. The greatest changes came when I first bought a camera this year around June 2007.
It's so easy to remain calm, and to meditate!
For I owe it all to the guy who assaulted me, thus making him, in a sense, my Buddha.
20070628
Cancer is Another Form of Autoimmune Disease
Stress + subclinical malnutrition, including Omega-6 > Omega-3 imbalance = autoimmune diseases (including cancer)
Cancer is an autoimmune disease. Reasoning: the same medications used to treat cancers are also used to treat autoimmune diseases. This includes artificial cortisol, anti-metabolites, immuno-suppressives, and antibiotics.
Possibly some forms of mental illness are side effects of autoimmune disease (including cancer) such as depression and diabetes-related schizophrenia. In the case of diabetes, the autoimmune disease (cancer) attacks the pancreas.
However artificial cortisol causes both pain and weight gain. Both anti-metabolites and immuno-suppressives may stop the immune system from working, causing infections (pneunomia and TB). Antibiotics can cause bacteria to mutate into virulent forms.
Stress + Omega 6 = Omega-3, optimal nutrition, rest & exercise = health
Health is lack of autoimmune disease e.g. a healthy immune system. It is due to optimal nutrition in the diet which consists of an equal balance of Omega-3 and Omega-6 essential fatty acids, optimal vitamins and minerals. Also included are optimal doses of tyrosine (helps produce dopamine, adrenalin and noradrenalin), 5HTP (helps produce serotonin), valeric acid (used to make GABA), and choline (used to make acetylcholine).
Cancer is an autoimmune disease. Reasoning: the same medications used to treat cancers are also used to treat autoimmune diseases. This includes artificial cortisol, anti-metabolites, immuno-suppressives, and antibiotics.
Possibly some forms of mental illness are side effects of autoimmune disease (including cancer) such as depression and diabetes-related schizophrenia. In the case of diabetes, the autoimmune disease (cancer) attacks the pancreas.
However artificial cortisol causes both pain and weight gain. Both anti-metabolites and immuno-suppressives may stop the immune system from working, causing infections (pneunomia and TB). Antibiotics can cause bacteria to mutate into virulent forms.
Stress + Omega 6 = Omega-3, optimal nutrition, rest & exercise = health
Health is lack of autoimmune disease e.g. a healthy immune system. It is due to optimal nutrition in the diet which consists of an equal balance of Omega-3 and Omega-6 essential fatty acids, optimal vitamins and minerals. Also included are optimal doses of tyrosine (helps produce dopamine, adrenalin and noradrenalin), 5HTP (helps produce serotonin), valeric acid (used to make GABA), and choline (used to make acetylcholine).
20070225
Meditation key to healing
"If one meditates on the Medicine Buddha, one will eventually attain enlightenment, but in the meantime one will experience an increase in healing powers both for oneself and others and a decrease in physical and mental illness and suffering."
—Lama Tashi Namgyal
20051106
Positive Attitude
At a time when people are so conscious of maintaining their physical health by controlling their diets, exercising and so forth, it makes sense to try to cultivate the corresponding positive mental attitudes too.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama, 1963
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