Category Archives: Awareness
You Are What You Eat
Dr. Terry Wahls learned how to properly fuel her body. Using the lessons she learned at the subcellular level, she used diet to cure her MS and get out of her wheelchair.
Schedule Negative Time & Worry Less | Health Freedom Alliance
Pencil in 30 minutes a day to wallow in your anxieties, study suggests
For those concerned with shedding some of their anxieties, it seems planning a certain time every day to worry may help stop the stress-out cycle.
When people with adjustment disorders, burnout or severe work problems used techniques to confine their worrying a single, scheduled 30- minute period each day, they were better able to cope with their problems, a new study by researchers in the Netherlands finds.
The study made use of a technique, called “stimulus control,” that researchers have studied for almost 30 years. By compartmentalizing worry — setting aside a specific half-hour period each day to think about worries and consider solutions, and also deliberately avoiding thinking about those issues the rest of the day — people can ultimately help reduce those worries, research has shown.
“When we’re engaged in worry, it doesn’t really help us for someone to tell us to stop worrying,” said Tom Borkovec, a professor emeritus of psychology at Penn State University. “If you tell someone to postpone it for a while, we are able to actually do that.”
via Schedule Negative Time & Worry Less | Health Freedom Alliance.
TED Talks: VS Ramachandran on your mind
Interesting talk about the brain by the man who developed the idea for mirror box work for phantom pain. Mirror boxes can help you fool your brain and create new brain patterns and have also been used to help people with injuries, focal dystonia, and stroke. He’s a good speaker and fun to listen too. Enjoy!
Would you notice?
It’s early Friday morning on a cold January day at a metro station in Washington D.C. A violinist is playing classical music as people stream past on their way to work. During his 43 minute performance 1,097 people walk past. 63 people and three minutes later, a middle aged man notices there is music playing, slows for a moment his head turned slightly, then keeps walking.
4 minutes: He gets his first donation, a woman tosses in a dollar and walks off.
6 minutes: A man stops to listen, he’s three minutes early for work.
10 minutes: A three year old tries to stop and listen, but is propelled along after his mother, rushed for time to get him to class and get back to work.
43 minutes: The musician played continuously. Only 6 people stopped and listened for a short while. Some gave money, but kept walking. The man collected a total of $32.17. Yes, some people gave pennies.
As he finished playing, there was silence. No applause, no acknowledgment.
The violin player was Joshua Bell, playing a 3.5 million dollar Stradivari violin. One of the world’s finest violinist’s, playing some of greatest music ever written on one of the world’s best violins. And almost total ignored while he played. Even the people waiting in line to buy lottery tickets didn’t turn to pay attention to the fiddler behind them.
Jashua Bell was making a lot of noise. If we can ignore this kind of beauty when it’s singing out loudly for attention, what sorts of other things are we missing as we hurry through life?
You can read the original article Pearls Before Swine at The Washington Post.