tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44779823007529372602024-03-13T07:50:43.115-07:00Reform UK Politics NowThe Thames got cleaned up - now its time for cleaning up our political system.Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.comBlogger1165125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477982300752937260.post-2510233844648208252013-01-24T23:44:00.001-08:002013-01-24T23:44:36.106-08:00A beautiful presentation on 'Sensing Disability in Buddhism'<div class='posterous_autopost'>A beautiful presentation on '<i>Sensing Disability in Buddhism</i>' is to be found <a href="http://www.academia.edu/1785704/_Sensing_Disability_in_Buddhism_-_Pppt_Presentation_in_PDF_ONLY">HERE</a><br /> <p><p /></p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/a-beautiful-presentation-on-sensing-disabilit">sunwalking's posterous</a> </p> </div>Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477982300752937260.post-25132744730184444112013-01-24T00:22:00.001-08:002013-01-24T00:22:28.618-08:00What's in your gut? - the American project<div class='posterous_autopost'>Go <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/americangut">HERE</a> to read the full article<br /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><div><p style="color: rgb(34,34,34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <p /> *Note this is a "Flexible Funding" campaign so the project and all analysis will go forward regardless if the funding goal is reached. So join us, you are in no matter what</p><p style="color: rgb(34,34,34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong> </strong></span></p><p style="color: rgb(34,34,34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <span style="font-size: 19px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">What is American Gut?</span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">You’ve probably heard by now that the </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/19/science/studies-of-human-microbiome-yield-new-insights.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&src=dayp&pagewanted=1&adxnnlx=1353522081-ogMuBvNLoUuFP8z4oeHgbQ" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(30,185,193); text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(17,85,204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">trillions of microbes </span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">living on and in our bodies are changing both the way we think about health and disease and even how we define </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">Self</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">. Ever wonder what’s in your gut? Ever wonder how your diet might shift your gut microbes (for better or worse), or how simple lifestyle decisions may have a dramatic impact on your gut and overall health? Ever wonder which microbes on your husband sometimes make him smell funny?</span><p /> <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">The gut is our main focus, but it is also interesting to look at oral, skin and even vaginal communities for several reasons. It might be possible to develop biomarkers--canaries in our corporeal coal mines that let us predict aspects of your gut health based on a spit sample or a reading (swabbing) of your palm. We know, for example, that arterial plaque shares microbes with the mouth but not with the gut. Could we use plaque samples to predict features of our hearts? Maybe. (Questions? <a href="mailto:americangut@humanfoodproject.com" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(30,185,193); text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold;">americangut@humanfoodproject.com</a>)</span><p /> <span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">The developing gut ecosystem:</span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"> Different human body habitats like the mouth, the skin, the vagina, and, of course, the gut are very different from one another. However, our gut changes profoundly during the course of our development. This image and the movie <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb272zsixSQ" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(30,185,193); text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold;">linked below</a> show the Human Microbiome Project from the $173 million NIH-funded project (each dot represents one body site from one person), along with the developmental trajectory of one infant’s gut from birth (where it resembles the mother’s vaginal community) over the first 2.5 years of life. At the end, it resembles the adult gut, shown here in a color Crayloa should have called fecal brown.</span><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/4HLAmBZ9FZx2w3MtoLmABIZe8ZUCx-LjvArXq51740CED-gz8oTtJTqaDZW8pwHz9PywvCaomOMQoOBn4yvezJktfFb0LOw3nisNAAtgCTWfpeRnZdk" height="297" alt="" style="border: 0px;" width="506" /><br /> <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><p /><span style="font-size: 19px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">Does diet matter? If so, who has the best diet from the perspective of your gut microbiome?<br /> </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes, definitely, at least if you are a mouse (though if you are a mouse and can read you have bigger worries). We can completely transform a mouse microbiome in one day by starving them or switching them to a high-fat diet. But people are not mice -- researchers are great at curing diseases in mice, but with people it’s a bit harder. In humans, even a year on a different diet has relatively subtle effects on who’s in your gut (but larger effects on their relative abundances). In the elderly, people with better diets also </span><a href="http://humanfoodproject.com/what-can-a-100-year-old-irish-grandmother-teach-us-about-school-lunches/" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(30,185,193); text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(17,85,204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">have much better health outcomes</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">, but we don’t know what part of this, if any, is due to microbial activity. Human diets vary to the extreme, from complete herbivory (vegans) to something close to pure carnivory. By reaching out to people with all types of diets, whether voluntary due to personal beliefs or to enhance athletic performance, or required by conditions such as celiac disease, we can reach a much broader range of eaters and potentially a much broader range of microbiomes -- but American Gut needs all comers. We will also be able to cross-reference your data with those living traditional lifestyles such as hunter-gatherers and farmers across the globe (see below), from Peru to Namibia. However, to do this, good diet information (and other possible influences from smoking to antibiotics) is critical, and so we’ll ask you to fill in detailed information about these factors in the questionnaire with your kit. Your diet and other health information are essential to the project, so please plan on bringing it along! So how does your diet and lifestyle shape your gut microbiome? And how does it compare to folks following different diets - and does it even matter? Most likely yes. Only one way to find out.</span><br /> <img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/ri36eUM2NILZ6uowPWwHxwTSibDKHHdx3xt6GSG1eK4IADt75NdisuDSfgFMC3bjjS_LRWHtIBGqbUpx09qZ2xl72ZOVjm_0j9EgfBpfdopu-Fu-k0g" height="335px;" alt="" style="border: 0px;" width="682px;" /><p /> <br /><span style="font-size: 19px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">American Gut - all the cool kids are doing it</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /> Lots of great and interesting microbiomes are joining the project. We know that </span><a href="http://www.robrdunn.com/2011/01/the-top-10-life-forms-living-on-lady-gaga-and-you/" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(30,185,193); text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(17,85,204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Lady Gaga is covered in microbes</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">. Wouldn’t you love to know how your gut compares to hers? Well, Lady Gaga hasn’t agreed to participate (yet. If you and she are buddies, you might give her a nudge), but author <strong>Michael Pollan is giving it up for science</strong> and will be writing about his participation in American Gut (and his microbiome) for the New York Times in the New Year - so don’t miss it! Also, Dean Karnazes (world’s most famous ultramarathon runner, 50 marathons in 50 days - yeah, that guy!) is joining as well, and along with and Shannon Ford (Mrs. United States 2011, gluten-free eater and Paleo Diet advocate), will be sharing their results with the community. But most people will participate privately, and your privacy will be protected (see below).</span><p /> <br /><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">On the science side, we have assembled <a href="http://humanfoodproject.com/the-people/collaborators/" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(30,185,193); text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold;">a world-class team</a> of experts on the human genome, microbiome, and microbiome in human disease susceptibility and evolution, including many of the key players in the </span><a href="http://commonfund.nih.gov/hmp/" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(30,185,193); text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(17,85,204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Human Microbiome Project</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">, the </span><a href="http://www.earthmicrobiome.org/" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(30,185,193); text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(17,85,204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Earth Microbiome Project</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">, and </span><a href="http://www.yourwildlife.org/" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(30,185,193); text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(17,85,204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Yourwildlife.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"> to do the sequencing, analyze your data, and deliver the results back in a comprehensible way (like the National Geographic Genographic project, we understand how important it is to you to have some information about your information that you can show off to your friends and family). With the number of subjects and diversity of ages, backgrounds and lifestyles we can encompass in American Gut, we will be able to make progress in a way that is difficult with smaller, more targeted studies on individual diseases or diets. Additionally, we are using a truly open model based on the Earth Microbiome Project: all sequence data will be released as soon as it comes off the sequencer so that anyone can look at it (but not, of course, at your personally identifying information, which will be protected), and the data analysis will be performed openly and with everyone invited to participate. Because of our collaborations we will also be able to compare a subset of our results to the </span><a href="http://www.yourwildlife.org/projects/wild-life-of-our-homes/" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(30,185,193); text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(17,85,204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">microbes living in people’s houses</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">, the genes of the sampled folks (maybe you) and more. </span><p /> <span style="font-size: 19px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">Why it's important and what we hope to learn</span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">We know that many factors can affect the gut microbiome -- how old you are, what you eat, whether you have kids or pets, whether you smoke or drink and how much, where you live and have lived before -- but we don’t know which of these is most important or what specific microbes are involved. Nor do we know when these factors are important. Does their importance depend on the climate (maybe), on your genes (almost certainly) or something else (who knows). By enrolling everyone who wants to participate, we can look for people who look unusual and test whether there is anything they share. (Take a few minutes to watch Jonathan Eisen’s </span><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_eisen_meet_your_microbes.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(30,185,193); text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(17,85,204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">TED Talk</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"> and a Year in the Life of </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4p3JI7s1dw" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(30,185,193); text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(17,85,204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Eric Alm’s microbiome</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"> - very much worth the time). You might also check out (though it will take more minutes), Rob Dunn’s book, </span><a href="http://www.robrdunn.com/books/the-wild-life-of-our-bodies/" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(30,185,193); text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(17,85,204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">The Wild Life of Our Bodies</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span> <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">(Questions?<a href="mailto:americangut@humanfoodproject.com" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(30,185,193); text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold;">americangut@humanfoodproject.com</a>)</span>.</p> <p style="color: rgb(34,34,34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><br /></p><p style="color: rgb(34,34,34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Go </span><a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/americangut" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">HERE</a><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"> to read the full article</span></p> </div> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image" height="400" src="http://getfile0.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/sunwalking/nk2bSgvENf19TQM4zGSpvhdqtC23ncdrFxIHqEaVdoerkBEbzLZzN9ChR9d6/image.png" width="600" /> </div> </p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/whats-in-your-gut-the-american-project">sunwalking's posterous</a> </p> </div>Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477982300752937260.post-50053912514457488642013-01-23T01:07:00.001-08:002013-01-23T01:07:33.455-08:00UK has a 'Supermarket Watchdog' - about time too!<div class='posterous_autopost'>Along with many others I was pleased to see that the UK Govt has appointed a 'supermarkets Watchdog'. I wonder if the Tories would have done this without the Lib Dems and will they keep the function I wonder?<br /> <p /><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div><div class="headlineWrapper" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <h1 class="headline" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16px; float: left; display: inline-block; color: rgb(72,72,72);"><i>Government hires first supermarket watchdog</i></h1> </div></div></div><div><div class="headlineWrapper" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <div class="publication_date" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline-block; float: right;"><span class="paramv" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(133,133,133);"><i>22 January, 2013</i></span></div> </div></div><p /><div><div class="article_author" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <i><span class="paramn" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(133,133,133);">By</span> <span class="paramv" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(133,133,133);">Samantha Edwards</span></i></div> </div><div><div class="photo first" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; float: right; clear: right; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <table style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px;"><tr style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <td style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><img src="http://www.bakeryinfo.co.uk/images/11154.photo.2.jpg" height="323" alt="" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="242" /></i></td> </tr></table></div></div><div><div class="summary" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <div class="fancy" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(72,72,72); line-height: 15px; clear: left;"> <strong style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>The government has appointed Christine Tacon as its first regulator for the UK supermarket industry.</i></strong></p></div></div> </div><div><div class="content" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <p style="border: 0px none; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(72,72,72); line-height: 15px; clear: left;"><i>It comes eight months after the <a href="http://www.bakeryinfo.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/10153/Mixed_reaction_as_the_Queen_confirms_Groceries_Code_Adjudicator.html" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(197,14,31);">Queen welcomed the move</a> to introduce a Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) in a bid to crack down on the treatment of supermarket suppliers.</i></p> </div></div><div><div class="content" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <p class="Default" style="border: 0px none; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(72,72,72); line-height: 15px; clear: left;"><i>Her role will be to enforce the Groceries Supply Code of Practice (GSCOP), which regulates interactions between the 10 largest supermarkets, accumulating an annual turnover of £1bn and their direct suppliers.</i></p> </div></div><div><div class="content" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <p class="Default" style="border: 0px none; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(72,72,72); line-height: 15px; clear: left;"><i>Tacon said: “Being the GCA is a significant responsibility, and I am honoured to have been given the chance to make a permanent and enduring difference to the groceries sector. Coming from a commercial background, I am sure that if we can increase trust between retailers and their direct suppliers, it will lead to greater efficiency and can only have a beneficial impact on the rest of the supply chain.”</i></p> </div></div><div><div class="content" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <p class="Default" style="border: 0px none; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(72,72,72); line-height: 15px; clear: left;"><i>She will also have the power to launch investigations into suspected breaches of the Code, including confidential complaints from any source, in which she will then be able to make recommendations against a supermarket, require them to publish details of their breach, or, in the most extreme cases, to impose fines.</i></p> </div></div><div><div class="content" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <p class="Default" style="border: 0px none; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(72,72,72); line-height: 15px; clear: left;"><i>Tacon, who previously ran The Co-operative’s farming business for 11 years, was awarded a CBE for her services to agriculture in 2004</i>.</p> </div></div></blockquote><div><div class="content" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <p class="Default" style="border: 0px none; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(72,72,72); line-height: 15px; clear: left;"><br /></p><p class="Default" style="border: 0px none; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(72,72,72); line-height: 15px; clear: left;"> Go <a href="http://www.bakeryinfo.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/11154/Government_hires_first_supermarket_watchdog.html">HERE</a> to read the full story.</p></div></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/uk-has-a-supermarket-watchdog-about-time-too">sunwalking's posterous</a> </p> </div>Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477982300752937260.post-4944190784090912802013-01-21T04:10:00.001-08:002013-01-21T04:10:13.693-08:00Omid Djalili and interfaith - inter-religious humour<div class='posterous_autopost'>I came across this article by 'Delaine' - to read the article go <a href="http://www.interfaithing.com/infidel-comedy-interfaith-proportions-271/">HERE</a><p /><br /><p /><div class="article cms_clear restore postcontainer" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; clear: both; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(86,86,86); text-align: justify; line-height: 19px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <div align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.interfaithing.com/content/attachments/217d1270832705-1-jpg.html" rel="Lightbox_0" style="color: rgb(51,51,51);"><br /><img class="align_center size_fullsize" src="http://www.interfaithing.com/content/attachments/217d1270832705-1-jpg.html" border="0" alt="" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block;" /></a><br /> </div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="article cms_clear restore postcontainer" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; clear: both; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(86,86,86); text-align: justify; line-height: 19px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <i>They say laughter is the best medicine. But can it help fight religious prejudice and heal intercultural wounds? It’s true; comedy and religion rarely mix well together. However, there’s one film up for the challenge, and much to my surprise, I must admit, it looks very promising.</i></div> <div class="article cms_clear restore postcontainer" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; clear: both; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(86,86,86); text-align: justify; line-height: 19px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <i>The Infidel tells the story of Mahmud Nasir, played by Omid Djalili. Mahmud is a loving husband and father, and somewhat of a “relaxed” Muslim living in the United Kingdom. Although Mahmud isn’t the most observant Muslim, deep down, he is as Muslim as it gets. However, Mahmud’s life is turned upside-down upon learning after his mother’s passing that not only was he adopted, he isn’t even Muslim. His real name is Solly Shimshillewitz. That’s right, Mahmud is a Jew. The discovery leads to a full scale identity crisis and the only person he can turn to is his friend Lenny, a drunken Jewish taxi driver. Lenny agrees to give him lessons in “Jewishness”, from dancing, to dressing, to everything else in between.</i></div> <div class="article cms_clear restore postcontainer" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; clear: both; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(86,86,86); text-align: justify; line-height: 19px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> This body-swap movie has everything you would expect in a Muslim-Jewish comedy.............................................</div></blockquote><div class="article cms_clear restore postcontainer" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; clear: both; text-align: justify; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <span style="line-height: 19px;">The article raises some interesting questions about inter-</span><span style="line-height: 19px;">religious</span><span style="line-height: 19px;"> comedy - not the least because the star playing a Moslem who finds out he is a Jew is actually a Baha'i!</span></div> <div class="article cms_clear restore postcontainer" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; clear: both; text-align: justify; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><span style="line-height: 19px;">TRAILER: <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9D9OKhg_kDI?wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe></span></div> <div class="article cms_clear restore postcontainer" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; clear: both; text-align: justify; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><span style="line-height: 19px;">TAGS: Omid Djalili, The Infidel, spirituality, religion, interfaith, interspirituality, peace, peace-building, Baha'i,</span></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/omid-djalili-and-interfaith-inter-religious-h">sunwalking's posterous</a> </p> </div>Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477982300752937260.post-65789104556074226472013-01-20T01:38:00.001-08:002013-01-20T01:38:18.276-08:00Eckhart Tolle - Cumulated Emotional Pain (Pain Body)<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><iframe allowfullscreen="true" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/14125850" frameborder="0" height="375" width="500"></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/14125850">Eckhart Tolle - Cumulated Emotional Pain (Pain Body)</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/gangajivideos">Gangaji Videos</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></div> <p /><div>-0-</div><p /><div><b style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">ECKHART TOLLE - THE PAIN BODY - A TRANSCRIPTION FROM </span><a href="http://sammyangels.blogspot.co.uk/2008/02/dying-before-you-die.html"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">HERE</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"> - </span><a href="http://vimeo.com/14125850"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/14125850?portrait=0" frameborder="0" height="393" width="696"></iframe></span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">It goes deeper than that and we are not running away from the fact that in you there lives a field of residue of past Human pain.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">On a personal level, pain from childhood that leaves residues, Energetic residues….different things painful things have happened to you in your childhood and of course far beyond that in time. But lets just talk from the level of your present existence in this form.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">The pain that is carried over from your childhood and beyond and leaves residues …doesn't go away completely, it leaves residues of pain, Energy fields, everything is Energy. And then those Energy Fields get together, because they feel, they vibrate at the same frequency. So emotional pain gathers into one mass of pain, contracted Energy, that is not flowing freely. An energy that I call the “Pain Body”, that humans carry inside them.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">An energy field of pain.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">And if you don’t recognize that, no matter how much Spiritual Practice you do and even what we are doing here if you do not see, if you do not recognize how the Pain Body operates, it will trick every time and you will lose consciousness through it.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">First we realize “there is an Energy Field of pain in me”, that may manifest either as turbulence, anger, heaviness, depression, tightness, fear. Whatever way it manifests its not pleasant its painful its past pain but very much alive still.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">You carry it inside. But you are not always conscious of it and I talk about it briefly in one Chapter of the book, so we go a little bit more deeply now, and now that the added Energy of Presence that we take into the Pain Body.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">The Pain Body is sometimes dormant and sometimes active. It becomes active when you suddenly feel it very strongly, when it needs to feed on further experience of pain. As it always has to do regularly like, it’s a little entity almost, it needs Feeding, temporarily on the experience of further pain, and you will know this has happened when a relatively insignificant trigger produces an Incredible outburst, reaction of Pain. A minor thing goes wrong or somebody say something, or your partner says something or does something and there is suddenly a deep or even a thought come in, and suddenly it serves as a trigger for an immense, the arising of deep emotional pain.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">At that moment the Pain Body this Energy Field has come up out of its dormant state, it is ready to feed on more Pain. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">I haven’t put it that clearly in the First Book I will explain it in the next book (Laughter) </span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">There are two ways in which it feeds, because that is all it can feed on .Pain Body consists of that energy of pain its needs (ET says) “please where can I get more Pain”.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">It feed on your thoughts, when it’s ready to rise up, it will control your thinking, it rises into the mind and your mind, which is your thought activity, because with the Pain Body every thought you think is destructive and painful.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">And the Pain Body loves it!!! It gobbles up the Energy of every thought that you think every destructive and deeply negative thought, it eats it up, so to speak, (ET makes chomping sounds while all laugh) And it’s having a Good Time! It’s feeding and, at that moment, one way of putting it is, one could say “the addictive quality of Human Pain". Addictive because it loves it’s pain.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">When the Pain Body has taken you over and has succeeded in pretending that that’s '</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">Who you are</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">', all your thinking is completely aligned with it. And it’s feeding on it. At that very moment the last thing you want is to be free of pain. At that moment pain IS what you want because at that moment, You are the Pain Body.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">And if I came into your life at that moment and gave you this message, “that Life free from Pain IS possible” You would hit me over the Head!!! (Laughter). Because the Pain Body would be there and I would be talking to the Pain Body and the Pain Body would be talking back at me.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">So the pain body needs to come in periodically and we all have experienced it with partners now the pain body will use you thinking, it will feed on you negative and destructive thinking.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">How long the feeding time lasts of any particular pain body varies greatly from person to person, I could be a brief one, it could be an hour or two; some pain bodies have a feeding time of several weeks, even months. That is the extreme and in very extreme cases there are some pain bodies that have virtually no dormant stage that are continuously feeding and active.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">But that’s more rare but you sometimes meet people and the pain body is looking at you through their eyes and they are waiting for an excuse to have more. They want you to give them a painful reaction. They want you to be angry with them; they want you to attack them. That’s people totally possessed by the Pain Body.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">So Level One: the pain body feeds on your thinking. Level Two: The pain body feeds on the feedback of the emotional pain from other people</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">So it might not only use your own thinking it might even predominantly use somebody else’s reactions. So the Pain Body feeds on thinking. The Pain Body feeding on others reactions. Now I mentioned last night the “unhappy me” a mind pattern that people are identified with an unhappy sense of self. This mind pattern, when the pain is active it becomes amplified, the Energy of the Unhappy me when the Pain Body moves into that mind pattern that already is telling you “your life has not been good enough” and so on and you may not make it, “life has passed me by”, and so on.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">Now the Pain Body moves into that mind pattern and its Energy gets amplified, 10 times, 20 times, 50 times, 100 times in other words the “unhappy me”; the Pain Body arises, it flows into that mind structure, the emotion flows into that mind structure, the Unhappy sense of me becomes dreadfully Unhappy and Loves it’s Unhappiness because that’s what it consists of.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">Now it is not a foreign body, which lives in you. There is nothing that is not Life Energy.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">Even your pain body is life Energy except it is not flowing freely. It’s got stuck somewhere.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">And when Energy gets stuck and cannot flow freely pain arise like a river. If a river cannot flow the water accumulates and pressure accumulates. But really it's beautiful Life Energy.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">The water is still beautiful there is pressure accumulating, inside. That’s what the pain body is.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">Now, as we bright Presence, this consciousness in o the Pain Body, it can no longer fool you into completely identifying with it.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">The presence, as the pain arises, from now on, and many of you are already practicing that. The Pain body comes up and at that moment you will recognize it as the Pain Body. That is the Beginning of Freedom from it. The recognition, when it comes, slight trigger, provocation, even a thought, deep Pain arises, in whatever form, in some people it is a very active pain, active aggressive pain, in other persons it is a Passive form of Pain, “poor little me” victim pain, does not matter which, pain bodies have different qualities in different people.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">It maybe turbulence or tightness or constriction, it does not matter what it is. As it arises you will know there is a witnessing presence, and you watch.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">Where is the pain body and where do you feel the energy field of it?</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">In your body.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">You can feel it in the solar plexus or stomach area, as a dreadful sense of heaviness. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">Some people perceive it as a big hole, a gaping hole inside. Or intense anger.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">But whatever it is you watch it, this is why it is so helpful, you sitting here witnessing, is witnessing Presence which is part of this new state of consciousness. It gets so much strengthened by sitting in this Energy Field.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">So the Watcher will be there watching the pain so the pain can not use your mind anymore it can not feed on your thinking because you are watching it directly it cannot creep into your mind and then become an “unhappy me”.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">All that’s left of the pain is an energy field of turbulence, or a heavy feeling inside you. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">But the pain has not become an “unhappy me” a sense of self, of who you are. That’s the beginning of the end of the pain. But our practice is allowing “what is” to be. And that also applies as long as the Pain Body it there in you allowing the Pain that is there in you Also to be. That is a very powerful practice.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">So I am not saying, we are not fighting the pain we are not even trying to get rid of it. You bring the consciousness, which is a very compassionate state of allowing “what is”. It is a very powerful state it implies you are Present. As the one who is able to allow.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">You are the one who is able to allow the pain to be. You know you are not creating this pain at this moment because you are practicing accepting “what is”. So it is not pain you are creating, it is old pain.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; background-color: rgb(252,254,255); vertical-align: baseline;">You bring the “acceptance” to the old pain.</span></b></div><p /><p /><div><div><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/14125850?portrait=0" frameborder="0" height="393" width="696"></iframe></div></div><p /><p /><p /><p /><div><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">TAGS: eckhart tolle, consciousness, liberation, freedom, awakening, pain body, you are not your thoughts, healing, energy, spirit, </span></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/eckhart-tolle-cumulated-emotional-pain-pain-b">sunwalking's posterous</a> </p> </div>Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477982300752937260.post-41874837863209759432013-01-18T23:40:00.001-08:002013-01-18T23:40:28.873-08:00Exquisitely Beautiful Chanting - Hein Braat<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><div><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;"><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/N10A8wKlGAs?wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe></span></div></div> <p /><p /><div><span style="">SEE: <a href="http://www.heinbraat.com/en">http://www.heinbraat.com/en</a></span></div> <p /><div><span style="">Astonishing artistry.</span></div> <p /><div><span style="">-0-</span></div><p /><div><span style="">As one commentator said - "There's no place like aum!"</span></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/exquisitely-beautiful-chanting-hein-braat">sunwalking's posterous</a> </p> </div>Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477982300752937260.post-90318306030046303102013-01-18T23:01:00.001-08:002013-01-18T23:01:39.025-08:00The mantra Om Mani Pädme Hum<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><br /><div><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iG_lNuNUVd4?wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe></div> </div><p /><div><b style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); vertical-align: baseline;">EXPLANATIONS VARIOUS:</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); vertical-align: baseline;">The mantra Om Mani Pädme Hum is easy to say yet quite powerful, because it contains the essence of the entire teaching. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); vertical-align: baseline;">When you say the first syllable </span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Om</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); vertical-align: baseline;"> it is blessed to help you achieve perfection in the practice of </span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">generosity</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); vertical-align: baseline;"> , </span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Ma</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); vertical-align: baseline;"> helps perfect the practice of </span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">pure ethics</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); vertical-align: baseline;"> , and </span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Ni</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); vertical-align: baseline;"> helps achieve perfection in the practice of </span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">tolerance</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); vertical-align: baseline;"> and </span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">patience</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); vertical-align: baseline;"> . </span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Päd</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); vertical-align: baseline;"> , the fourth syllable, helps to achieve perfection of </span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">perseverance</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); vertical-align: baseline;"> , </span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Me </span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); vertical-align: baseline;">helps achieve perfection in the practice of </span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">concentration</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); vertical-align: baseline;"> , and the final sixth syllable </span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Hum</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); vertical-align: baseline;"> helps achieve perfection in the practice of </span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">wisdom</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); vertical-align: baseline;"> .</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); vertical-align: baseline;">So in this way recitation of the mantra helps achieve perfection in the six practices from generosity to wisdom. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); vertical-align: baseline;">The literal translation can be broken down into 6 syllables each focusing on 6 Buddhist traditions. 1: Om=Generosity, which purifies Ego/Pride, the color is white. 2: Ma=Ethics, Jealousy/Lust, Green. 3: Ni=Patience, Passion/desire, Yellow. 4: Pad= Diligence, Ignorance/prejudice, Blue. 5: Me= Renunciation, Poverty/Possessiveness, Red 6: Hum, Wisdom, Aggression/Hatred, Black. The mantra is old old old, I like this translation of meaning best because it shows belief in man’s good side.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); vertical-align: baseline;">Om and hung are the sounds of creation, mani pemme means the jewel in the lotus. it´s about a clear state of mind, respect for all living creatures and enlightenment.</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /> <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(243,255,251); vertical-align: baseline;">Vietnamese spelled it this way Úm ma ni bát ni hồng.</span></b></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/the-mantra-om-mani-padme-hum">sunwalking's posterous</a> </p> </div>Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477982300752937260.post-15711040789170041872013-01-18T22:51:00.001-08:002013-01-18T22:51:15.280-08:00Confucian Virtues<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image" height="403" src="http://getfile2.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/sunwalking/213VVHBJ8wIrrXhiL8vTFVoho2U3oNtQyqhbdBiEawK0EZ29yWOZH8AQ4TpP/image.png" width="220" /> </div> <br /><p /><div><br /><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"></p><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="WEBON_COLOR" style="background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"></span></span></span><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"> </p><strong style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="WEBON_FONT"><em><span class="WEBON_SIZE" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="WEBON_COLOR" style="background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"></span></span></em></span></strong><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"> </p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"> <span class="WEBON_FONT"><em><span class="WEBON_SIZE" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="WEBON_COLOR" style="background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Confucius taught these virtues which a person should practice every day to live a healthy, harmonious life: <br /> </span></span></em></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"> </p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"> <span class="WEBON_FONT"><i><span class="WEBON_SIZE" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="WEBON_COLOR"><strong>Ren</strong> i</span></span> </i></span><span class="WEBON_FONT"><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><em><span class="WEBON_SIZE" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="WEBON_COLOR">s the virtue of benevolence, charity, and humanity; </span></span></em></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></span><i><br /> </i></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"> </p> <p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><span class="WEBON_FONT"><em></em></span><span class="WEBON_FONT"><em><span class="WEBON_SIZE" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="WEBON_COLOR"><strong>Yi</strong> , of honesty and uprightness; Yì may be broken down into</span> </span></em></span><span class="WEBON_FONT"><em></em></span><span class="WEBON_FONT"><em><span class="WEBON_SIZE" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="WEBON_COLOR">zhong, doing one's best, conscientiousness, loyalty;<br /> </span></span></em></span></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"> </p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"> <i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><span class="WEBON_FONT"><em><span class="WEBON_SIZE" style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><span class="WEBON_COLOR"><strong>Shu</strong> , reciprocity, altruism, consideration of others, and Confucius' early version of the Golden Rule: " What you don't want yourself, don't do to others." </span><br /> </span></em></span></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"> </p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"> <span class="WEBON_FONT"><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><em><span class="WEBON_SIZE" style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><span class="WEBON_COLOR"><strong>Zhi</strong> , knowledge;</span></span></em></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></span></p> <p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"> </p> <p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"><span class="WEBON_FONT"><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><em><span class="WEBON_SIZE" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="WEBON_COLOR" style="background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><strong>Xin</strong> , the virtue of faithfulness and integrity. </span></span></em></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></span></p> <p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"><span class="WEBON_FONT"><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><em><span class="WEBON_SIZE" style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><br /> </span></em></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em;"></p><span class="WEBON_FONT" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><em><span class="WEBON_SIZE" style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><span class="WEBON_COLOR"><strong>Li</strong> </span><span class="WEBON_COLOR">, correct behavior or propriety, good manners, politeness, ceremony, & worship.</span></span></em></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></span></div> </div><p /><div><span class="WEBON_FONT" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><em><span class="WEBON_SIZE" style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><span class="WEBON_COLOR">-0-</span></span></em></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></span></div> <p /><div><span class="WEBON_FONT" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><em><span class="WEBON_SIZE" style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><span class="WEBON_COLOR">SOURCE = </span></span></em></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></span><span style="font-size: 14.40000057220459px; line-height: 18px;"><i><a href="http://www.sourceoflightmonastery.com/">http://www.sourceoflightmonastery.com/</a></i></span></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/confucian-virtues">sunwalking's posterous</a> </p> </div>Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477982300752937260.post-31846276547527592792013-01-18T22:29:00.001-08:002013-01-18T22:29:01.429-08:00"Breathing with Life, Death, and Fear of Failure" - Thich Nhat Hanh<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><br /><div><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2zA_5Mibc5Y?wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe></div> </div><p /><div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent;"> <br />This is the first talk of Thay in the second week of the Summer Opening Retreat, offered in the Lower Hamlet of Plum Village on Saturday, July 4th, 2012.<p />Thich Nhat Hanh's website is called "Plum Village", available at: <a href="http://www.plumvillage.org">www.plumvillage.org</a> <p /> Free Buddhist eBooks can be downloaded at: <a href="http://www.sourceoflightmonastery.com/">www.sourceoflightmonastery.com/</a></p><p /></div><div style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"> <ul class="watch-extras-section" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; clear: both; line-height: 1.2;"> </li></ul></div></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/breathing-with-life-death-and-fear-of-failure">sunwalking's posterous</a> </p> </div>Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477982300752937260.post-60530436332685587252013-01-18T22:17:00.001-08:002013-01-18T22:17:34.673-08:00Dissolve the pain-body with EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)<div class='posterous_autopost'><br /><div><iframe allowfullscreen src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BI1nAXA0PxU?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/dissolve-the-pain-body-with-eft-emotional-fre">sunwalking's posterous</a> </p> </div>Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477982300752937260.post-18398961089860618572013-01-18T04:30:00.001-08:002013-01-18T04:30:59.812-08:00Philosophy Matters - Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr - RIS 2012<div class='posterous_autopost'><span style=""><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qAgGB407FHs?wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe></span> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/philosophy-matters-dr-seyyed-hossein-nasr-ris">sunwalking's posterous</a> </p> </div>Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477982300752937260.post-38662236545092437492013-01-18T04:24:00.001-08:002013-01-18T04:24:11.561-08:00"Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran"<div class='posterous_autopost'><iframe allowfullscreen src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fVYANcJ7fsI?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe><br /><p><div><span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">BETWEEN TWO WORLDS: My Life and Captivity in Iran (HarperCollins) by Roxana Saberi is the harrowing chronicle of an Iranian-American journalist's arrest, sham trial, and sentencing to eight years in prison, as well as stories about the struggles and courage of the Iranians she met along the way.</span><p> <span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Available in paperback, hardcover, e-book, and audio book in English:</span><br style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);" /> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ap7wugr" title="http://tinyurl.com/ap7wugr" class="yt-uix-redirect-link" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); color: rgb(67,139,197); text-decoration: initial; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">http://tinyurl.com/ap7wugr</a></p></div> </p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/between-two-worlds-my-life-and-captivity-in-i">sunwalking's posterous</a> </p> </div>Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477982300752937260.post-49887261474422048552013-01-17T10:52:00.001-08:002013-01-17T10:52:36.067-08:00Meditation Nourishes the Brain<div class='posterous_autopost'><br /><p><div><div class="title" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 36px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; overflow: hidden; height: 27px; color: rgb(117,106,94); font-family: Tahoma,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(245,246,240);"> <h2 style="padding: 0px 50px 2px 0px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; height: 25px; font-size: 1.8em; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(75,66,57); line-height: 1.2em;">Meditation Nourishes the Brain</h2></div><div class="text-box" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 38px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; clear: both; background-color: rgb(245,246,240);"> <p style="color: rgb(117,106,94); font-family: Tahoma,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px 0px 19px; margin: 0px;"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"></strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-629" title="office meditating woman" src="http://balanceyourlife.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/office-meditating-woman-e1317160453554-150x150.jpg" height="150" alt="" width="150" style="padding: 0px; margin: 3px 25px 5px 0px; border: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; float: left; display: inline;" />What is it about meditation that invokes so much mystery? When asked, people conjure images of difficult lotus positions, strange beliefs and exotic settings. Of course, none of that is necessary and the realities of a person sitting comfortably on their living room floor for a few minutes isn’t quite as interesting.</p> <p style="color: rgb(117,106,94); font-family: Tahoma,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px 0px 19px; margin: 0px;"><span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"></span>Confounding public perceptions even more are the religious connotations that are sometimes connected to meditation. This only serves to further alienate people who could potentially benefit. This is unfortunate since it can easily be argued that prayer in any religion is a form of meditation. The practice of meditation has a long history in almost every major historical civilization and religion, yet there is so much that is not known.</p> <p style="color: rgb(117,106,94); font-family: Tahoma,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px 0px 19px; margin: 0px;">When we look at the past philosophies and beliefs associated with meditation, we can understand the perspectives of the ancients according to contemporary science. Science has not replaced the old views; so far it has mostly served to strengthen many of the ancient beliefs. However, modern science has been able to fill in essential details of underlining processes.</p> <p style="color: rgb(117,106,94); font-family: Tahoma,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px 0px 19px; margin: 0px;">It has been shown that meditation can increase pain tolerance (see below for sources). One study, published in the <em style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Journal of Neuroscience</em> (2011), showed that meditation caused a 40% lowering of pain intensity and a 57% lowering of pain unpleasantness. That is impressive when you consider that morphine and other pain relieving drugs only lower these symptoms by about 25%. This relief came from subjects with no previous meditation experience who were taught basic meditation in a total of four 20 minute classes.</p> <p style="color: rgb(117,106,94); font-family: Tahoma,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px 0px 19px; margin: 0px;">A number of studies that have utilized modern imaging technology, such as fMRI, have clearly shown that meditation increases blood flow to the brain and, with extended practice, actually makes significant changes to the brain’s physical structure. These changes can lead to increased efficiency and function in certain parts of the brain, such as heightened visuospatial processing and increased focus.</p> <p style="padding: 0px 0px 19px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.4em;">Click <a href="http://balanceyourlife.ca/archives/628#more-628">HERE</a> to </span><span style="font-size: 15.600000381469727px; line-height: 21.840002059936523px;">read</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.4em;"> the article in full</span></p> </div></div></p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/meditation-nourishes-the-brain">sunwalking's posterous</a> </p> </div>Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477982300752937260.post-51922326473846386512013-01-16T23:40:00.001-08:002013-01-16T23:40:38.840-08:00I defy you to not be moved FULL VERSION young poet via autism - stunning<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VcEM-lsAgf8?wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe></div> <p /><div><div><span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Virginia Breen tells about the discovery that her daughter, Elizabeth Bonker, was a poetic prodigy, despite being unable to speak due to autism.</span></div> <p /></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/i-defy-you-to-not-be-moved-full-version-young">sunwalking's posterous</a> </p> </div>Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477982300752937260.post-52771878356576516912013-01-16T22:30:00.001-08:002013-01-16T22:30:50.276-08:00E O Wilson on Einstein -"think like a poet and work like a bookkeeper"<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><br /><p /><div><span style=""><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/LkLXp3QJ6qE?wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe></span></div> </div><p /><div><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent;">Published on <span class="watch-video-date" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent;">17 May 2012</span></strong></p> <div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent;"> Renowned biologist E.O. Wilson offers advice to young scientists, exhorting them to "think like a poet and work like a bookkeeper" and to "step away from the blackboard," among bits of wisdom.</p></div> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/e-o-wilson-on-einstein-think-like-a-poet-and">sunwalking's posterous</a> </p> </div>Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477982300752937260.post-76634455441999209202013-01-16T21:46:00.001-08:002013-01-16T21:46:44.125-08:00Joyous news for chocolate lovers<div class='posterous_autopost'>Is chocolate a super food? Take a look at this article I found;<br /><div><p class="photo_credit" style="padding: 1px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; color: gray; text-indent: 1em; float: left;"> <a href="http://www.anniesremedy.com/chart_remedy.php?rem_ID=354"><img src="http://www.anniesremedy.com/images/groups/iStock_childcough.jpg" border="0" height="300" alt="" width="200" style="border-style: none;" /> </a><br /> <span class="photo_credit" style="padding: 1px;">Chocolate's theobromine calms <br />children's coughs safely</span></p><p style="padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; text-indent: 1em;"> Chocolate is made from the fermented, roasted and ground beans taken from the pods of the tropical cacao tree. <em>Cacao Theobroma</em>, named for the Latin 'food of the gods', contains oleic acid which may raise good cholesterol. There is plenty more good news for those of us who are chocolate lovers. Dark chocolate's cacao content has been shown to have positive effects on mood swings, coughing, <a href="http://www.anniesremedy.com/chart_remedy.php?tag=hypertension" class="tag" style="font-size: 1em; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255,127,80);">high blood pressure</a><sup><a href="http://www.anniesremedy.com/herb_detail247.php#n119">119</a></sup> and even contains antibacterial agents that <a href="http://www.anniesremedy.com/chart_remedy.php?tag=teeth" class="tag" style="font-size: 1em; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255,127,80);">fight tooth decay</a>. Chocolate contains stearic acid, which does not raise bad <a href="http://www.anniesremedy.com/chart_remedy.php?tag=cholesterol" class="tag" style="font-size: 1em; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255,127,80);">cholesterol</a> levels, and cocoa butter which is in chocolate, contains oleic acid, which actually may raise good cholesterol.</p> <p style="padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; text-indent: 1em;">There are over 350 known chemicals found in chocolate, including stimulants like caffeine, theobromine, phenylethylamine and anandamide. Theobromine, the alkaloid contained in the beans, resembles caffeine in its action, but its effect on the central nervous system is less powerful and does not have the sleep disturbing effects of caffeine. It may actually be a more effective <a href="http://www.anniesremedy.com/chart_remedy.php?tag=cough" class="tag" style="font-size: 1em; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255,127,80);">cough medicine</a> than traditional remedies making it a safe nighttime calmer for children. <sup><a href="http://www.anniesremedy.com/herb_detail247.php#n120">120</a></sup></p> <p style="padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; text-indent: 1em;"><br /></p><p style="padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; line-height: 24px; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; text-indent: 1em;"> Click <a href="http://www.anniesremedy.com/herb_detail247.php">HERE</a> to read the full delicious article</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/joyous-news-for-chocolate-lovers">sunwalking's posterous</a> </p> </div>Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477982300752937260.post-16163035815596622532013-01-15T23:05:00.001-08:002013-01-15T23:05:45.178-08:00I defy you to not be moved by this<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><div><span style=""><iframe allowfullscreen src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/88xnDSnVRA8?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe></span></div> </p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/i-defy-you-to-not-be-moved-by-this">sunwalking's posterous</a> </p> </div>Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477982300752937260.post-28641759772492582942013-01-14T21:38:00.001-08:002013-01-14T21:38:26.411-08:00RUMI A commentary by Kabir Helminski<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><br /><div><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rNrmNqZKqdA?wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe></div> <p /><div><span style="">Go <a href="http://sufism.org/articles/collectedness">HERE</a> to see the beautiful translation and learn much more.</span></div> </div><p /><div><span style="">This was my favourite section;</span></div> <p /><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><i><span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,252,248);">Hence the Seal of the Prophets has related</span></i></div> <div><i><span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,252,248);">the saying of the everlasting and eternal Lord—</span></i></div> <div><i><span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,252,248);">“I am not contained in the heavens or in the void</span></i></div> <div><i><span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,252,248);">or in the exalted intelligences and souls;</span></i></div> <div><i><span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,252,248);">I am contained, as a guest, in a faithful heart,</span></i></div> <div><i><span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,252,248);">without qualification or definition or description,</span></i></div> <div><i><span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,252,248);">so that through the medium of that heart everything,</span></i></div> <div><i><span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,252,248);">above and below, may win from Me sovereignties and fortune.</span></i></div> <div><i><span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,252,248);">Without such a mirror neither Earth nor Time</span></i></div> <div><i><span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,252,248);">could bear the vision of My beauty.</span></i></div></blockquote> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/rumi-a-commentary-by-kabir-helminski">sunwalking's posterous</a> </p> </div>Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477982300752937260.post-8061057468210445182013-01-12T06:06:00.001-08:002013-01-12T06:06:58.692-08:0021 reasons learning English is a challenge<div class='posterous_autopost'> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image" height="240" src="http://getfile2.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/sunwalking/zAxxIIoCkJ10y99brnDBkGbMJk0Byk5WX0j3Gwayxahu3wTjPd3XlHBWsVdO/image.png" width="317" /> <img alt="0image" height="395" src="http://getfile6.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/sunwalking/BEgDFSpkch8a9HIRdDKlM4XjRcLdMJ1IdlQjbeh16ynJaJXNWqUmq3WndHuY/0image.png" width="433" /> <div class='p_see_full_gallery'><a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/21-reasons-learning-english-is-a-challenge">See the full gallery on Posterous</a></div> </div> </p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/21-reasons-learning-english-is-a-challenge">sunwalking's posterous</a> </p> </div>Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477982300752937260.post-52071860808418636432013-01-12T02:24:00.001-08:002013-01-12T02:24:20.769-08:00TED - A genius 'comic and musician'<div class='posterous_autopost'>What would God come up with if S/He wanted to take the best of Peter Sellers, (the Balham Gateway to the South album), Beat Poets, the Goons, the UK's Bill Bailly & Omid Djalili ?<p /><div> Ladies and gentlemenmeet Reggie Watts;<br /><p /><div><i style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.200000762939453px; line-height: 16.979999542236328px;">Reggie Watts' beats defy boxes. Unplug your logic board and watch as he blends poetry and crosses musical genres in this larger-than-life performance.</i><br /> <div><br /><div><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BdHK_r9RXTc?wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe></div></div><p /><div><a href="http://www.ted.com/" class="yt-uix-redirect-link" title="http://www.ted.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); color: rgb(67,139,197); text-decoration: initial; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><i>http://www.ted.com</i></a><span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><i> </i></span></div> <p /><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255,255,255); line-height: 16.979999542236328px;">THE MAN - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggie_Watts">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggie_Watts</a></span></div> </div></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/ted-a-genius-comic-and-musician">sunwalking's posterous</a> </p> </div>Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477982300752937260.post-83792009714833362642013-01-10T14:06:00.001-08:002013-01-10T14:06:03.642-08:00TED - Dr. Terry Wahls - beating MS via nutrition<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><br /><div><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KLjgBLwH3Wc?wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe></div> </div><p /><div><span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">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.</span></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/ted-dr-terry-wahls-beating-ms-via-nutrition">sunwalking's posterous</a> </p> </div>Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477982300752937260.post-17734440294218642222013-01-10T13:37:00.001-08:002013-01-10T13:37:57.403-08:00Dr. Terry Wahls - how she cured her MS symptoms<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><br /><div><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jLPVsO8omy4?wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe></div> </div><p /><div><span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Dr. Terry Wahls about how she cured her MS symptoms using an intervention that involved intensive nutrition.</span></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/dr-terry-wahls-how-she-cured-her-ms-symptoms">sunwalking's posterous</a> </p> </div>Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477982300752937260.post-16754232066997121162013-01-09T21:57:00.001-08:002013-01-09T21:57:10.800-08:00The wisdom of balancing change and changelessness in communities of faith. Juxtaposition 3/01/03<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image" height="240" src="http://getfile9.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/sunwalking/zpXmduhkSs1xmZpzUGlwsXWVsqlJTIFdHPCDJ2H9tM3F6b2Yb4Hli5nsyIEc/image.png" width="320" /> </div> <p /> In matters of religion I'm wondering if there is a drift away from a balanced understanding. <p /><div>The balance is between the two parts of religion; the changeless and the ever-evolving.<p /> The second part is about the major prophets or Messengers changing of social laws in accordance with the exigencies of their particular time. <p /><div>The first, the changeless is what has come to be called The Perennial Philosophy, or better 'the essential mystical heart' of all of the great religions - also called the '<i>changeless faith of God</i>".<p /> The great Baha'i teacher Abdul-Baha says;<p /><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><i>I wish you to be fair and reasonable in your judgment, setting aside all religious prejudices. We<br /> should earnestly seek and thoroughly investigate realities, recognizing<br />that the purpose of the religion of God is the education of humanity and<br />the unity and fellowship of mankind. <p />Furthermore, we will establish the point that the foundations of the religions of God are one foundation.<p /> This foundation is not multiple, for it is reality itself. Reality does<br />not admit of multiplicity, although each of the divine religions is<br />separable into two divisions. <p />One concerns the world of morality and the ethical training of human nature. It is directed to the advancement of the<br /> world of humanity in general; it reveals and inculcates the knowledge of<br />God and makes possible the discovery of the verities of life. <p />This is ideal and spiritual teaching, the essential quality of divine religion,<br /> and not subject to change or transformation. It is the one foundation of<br />all the religions of God. Therefore, the religions are essentially one and<br />the same.<p />The second classification or division comprises social laws and<br /> regulations applicable to human conduct. This is not the essential<br />spiritual quality of religion. It is subject to change and transformation according to the exigencies and requirements of time and place.......<br />PUP 365-6<br /> </i></blockquote></div><p /><div>Ken Wilber's model of The Perennial Philosophy is this;<br /> <p /><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><p style="line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51,51,51); margin: 2px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"> <i>Most of the great wisdom traditions agree that:</i></p></div><div><p style="line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51,51,51); margin: 2px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"> <i>1. Spirit, by whatever name, exists.</i></p></div><div><p style="line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51,51,51); margin: 2px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"> <i>2. Spirit, although existing "out there," is found "in here," or revealed within to the open heart and mind.</i></p></div><div><p style="line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51,51,51); margin: 2px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"> <i>3. Most of us don't realize this Spirit within, however, because we are living in a world of sin, separation, or duality-that is, we are living in a fallen, illusory, or fragmented state.</i></p> </div><div><p style="line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51,51,51); margin: 2px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><i>4. There is a way out of this fallen state (of sin or illusion or disharmony), there is a Path to our liberation.</i></p> </div><div><p style="line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51,51,51); margin: 2px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><i>5. If we follow this Path to its conclusion, the result is a Rebirth or Enlightenment, a direct experience of Spirit within and without, a Supreme Liberation, which</i></p> </div><div><p style="line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51,51,51); margin: 2px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><i>6. marks the end of sin and suffering, and</i></p> </div><div><p style="line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51,51,51); margin: 2px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><i>7. manifests in social action of mercy and compassion on behalf of all sentient beings.</i></p> </div></blockquote><div><p style="line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51,51,51); margin: 2px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51,51,51); margin: 2px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51,51,51); margin: 2px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51,51,51); margin: 2px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51,51,51); margin: 2px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51,51,51); margin: 2px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51,51,51); margin: 2px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="margin: 2px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">The Bahai's quote Baha'u'llah, the Founder, on their faith being <i>"</i></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255,255,255); line-height: 22px; text-indent: 18px;"><i>the changeless Faith of God, eternal in the past, eternal in the future"</i> </span><span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); line-height: 22px;">but I'm </span><span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); line-height: 21.98000144958496px;">discovering</span><span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); line-height: 22px;"> that some are almost violently antipathetic to the idea of the Perennial </span><span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); line-height: 21.98000144958496px;">philosophy</span><span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); line-height: 22px;">. </span></p> <p style="margin: 2px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); line-height: 22px;">I'm wondering why?</span></p><p style="line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51,51,51); margin: 2px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"> -0-</p><p style="line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51,51,51); margin: 2px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51,51,51); margin: 2px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"> <br /></p></div></div> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/the-wisdom-of-balancing-change-and-changeless">sunwalking's posterous</a> </p> </div>Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477982300752937260.post-55733782766258737562013-01-09T21:33:00.001-08:002013-01-09T21:33:43.981-08:00Disconnect from electronic stimulation at least twice a day - mindfully - says Mark Sisson<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image" height="196" src="http://getfile2.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/sunwalking/RhhrgsESG40G3wIJ9k5K4Gmi0UEXH7jaZ7SOVxUanOIpsOzhFzBm7XLx1ZSN/image.png" width="592" /> </div> <br /><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Re-blogged from ZenHabits - for full article go <a href="http://zenhabits.net/primal/">HERE</a></span></div> <p /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">The following extract is from Mark Sisson , guest at Leo Babauta's ZenHabits;</span></div> <p /></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div><p style="color: rgb(34,34,34); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.200000762939453px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <strong><i>Q: How is The Primal Connection different from The Primal Blueprint?</i></strong></p></div></div><div><p style="color: rgb(34,34,34); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.200000762939453px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <i><strong>Mark</strong>: The Primal Blueprint focused almost entirely on the evolutionary underpinnings of proper human nutrition and exercise. In short, as animals, we function best eating the diet and doing the exercises that humans evolved eating and doing, so an evolutionarily concordant diet and exercise plan is a good place to start a healthy lifestyle.</i></p> </div><div><p style="color: rgb(34,34,34); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.200000762939453px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><i>The Primal Connection is about all the other environmental and social factors that shaped who we are today as a species. .............</i></p> </div><div><p style="color: rgb(34,34,34); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.200000762939453px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><strong><i>Q: What’s the most glaring deficit in the modern human psyche?</i></strong></p> </div><div><p style="color: rgb(34,34,34); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.200000762939453px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><i><strong>Mark</strong>: A lack of mindfulness. It’s ironic, because we’re inundated with information, data, and knowledge that purports to fill our brains. Everything you could ever want to know about anything is right there at our fingertips.</i></p> </div><div><p style="color: rgb(34,34,34); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.200000762939453px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><i>But what’s really going on? What are you missing with your face buried in that smartphone? ..............</i></p> </div><div><p style="color: rgb(34,34,34); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.200000762939453px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><strong><i>Q: What’s the most glaring deficit in the modern human body?</i></strong></p> </div><div><p style="color: rgb(34,34,34); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.200000762939453px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><i><strong>Mark</strong>: A lack of physical touch. Humans are social animals, as people often like to say. social contact between humans should not be sterile and stand-offish. Most social animals spend much of their days touching other members of their group. They sleep together, groom each other, wrestle with each other, and sniff each other. They need constant physical touch, and, because they’re not beholden to social norms, they get to satisfy that need.</i></p> </div><div><p style="color: rgb(34,34,34); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.200000762939453px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><i>Humans are also social animals who need physical touch, but social contact between humans tends to be sterile and stand-offish. It’s too bad, because physical touch has immense physical and mental benefits. Quite literally, the welcome touch of another person – a hug, a kiss, a massage – enacts beneficial changes in gene expression at the molecular level, changes that reduce stress, release oxytocin, and lower inflammation. Babies who experience “touch deficit” have disrupted growth hormone, stress hormone, and bonding hormone secretion.</i></p> </div><div><p style="color: rgb(34,34,34); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.200000762939453px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><i>When you see your friends, hug them. Dads, hug your children. Pet owners, pet your dog and scratch your cat behind the ears. After all, you’re their family, and they may not have another outlet for touch.</i></p> </div><div><p style="color: rgb(34,34,34); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.200000762939453px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><i>Oh, and people: have sex. Often, and with someone you care about. Sex feels good, strengthens bonds, improves our immune system, and may even boost growth in the neurocampus.</i></p> </div><div><p style="color: rgb(34,34,34); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.200000762939453px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><strong><i>Q: What is one quick tip that anyone can do to better align the expectations of their genes with the realities of modern life?</i></strong></p> </div><div><p style="color: rgb(34,34,34); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.200000762939453px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><i><strong>Mark</strong>: Make the effort to really disconnect from electronic stimulation at least twice a day. .......................</i></p> </div><div><p style="color: rgb(34,34,34); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.200000762939453px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><strong><i>Q: What don’t we get enough of, and why is it such a problem?</i></strong></p> </div><div><p style="color: rgb(34,34,34); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.200000762939453px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><i><strong>Mark</strong>: Play. People don’t play enough......................</i></p> </div><div><p style="color: rgb(34,34,34); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.200000762939453px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><i><strong>Mark Sisson’s new book The Primal Connection was released today. Visit <a href="http://marksdailyapple.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17,85,204);">MarksDailyApple.com</a> </strong><strong style="background-color: transparent;">to see how you can get a bunch of free gifts for ordering a copy today.</strong></i></p> </div></blockquote><div><p></p><div style="color: rgb(34,34,34); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.200000762939453px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">-0-</div></div><p /><div style="background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Re-blogged from ZenHabits - for full article go </span><a href="http://zenhabits.net/primal/" style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; text-align: center;">HERE</a></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/disconnect-from-electronic-stimulation-at-lea">sunwalking's posterous</a> </p> </div>Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477982300752937260.post-91807024471133681822013-01-06T21:32:00.001-08:002013-01-06T21:32:05.433-08:00Loren Cordain - Origins and Evolution of the Western Diet: Health Implications (Paleo)<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><br /><p /><div><span style=""><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5dw1MuD9EP4#"><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5dw1MuD9EP4?wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe></a>!</span></div> </div><p /><div><span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Another lecture in IHMC's award winning lecture series.</span><a href="http://www.ihmc.us/" class="yt-uix-redirect-link" title="http://www.ihmc.us" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); color: rgb(67,139,197); text-decoration: initial; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">http://www.ihmc.us</a><p /> <span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">There is growing awareness that the profound changes in the environment (e.g. in diet and other lifestyle conditions) that began with the introduction of agriculture and animal husbandry approximately 10,000 years ago occurred too recently on an evolutionary timescale for the human genome to adjust. In conjunction with this discordance between our ancient, genetically-determined biology and the nutritional, cultural and activity patterns of contemporary western populations, many of the so-called diseases of civilization have emerged. In the U.S. and most western countries, diet-related chronic diseases represent the single largest cause of morbidity and mortality. These diseases are epidemic in contemporary, westernized populations and typically afflict 50-65 % of the adult population, yet are rare or non-existent in hunter-gatherers and other less westernized people. Evidence gleaned over the past three decades now indicates that virtually all so-called diseases of civilization have multifactorial dietary elements that underlie their etiology, along with other environmental agents and genetic susceptibility. This talk will trace the origins of the Western diet and discuss the health implications.</span><p /> <span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Dr. Cordain is a Professor in the Department of Health and Exercise Science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. His research emphasis over the past 15 years has focused upon the evolutionary and anthropological basis for diet, health and well being in modern humans.</span><p /> <span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Dr. Cordain's scientific publications have examined the nutritional characteristics of worldwide hunter-gatherer diets as well as the nutrient composition of wild plant and animal foods consumed by foraging humans. Over the past five years his work has focused upon the adverse health effects of the high dietary glycemic load that is ubiquitous in the typical western diet. A number of his recent papers have proposed an endocrine link between dietary induced hyperinsulinemia and acne. Currently, Dr. Cordain's research team is exploring the connection between dietary</span><br style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);" /> <span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">elements that increase intestinal permeability (primarily saponins and lectins) and autoimmune disease, particularly multiple sclerosis.</span><p /> <span style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Dr. Cordain is the author of more than 100 peer review publications, many of which were funded by both private and governmental agencies. He is the recent recipient of the Scholarly Excellence award at Colorado State University for his contributions into understanding optimal human nutrition. He has lectured extensively world wide, and has written three popular books (The Paleo Diet, John Wiley & Sons; The Paleo Diet for Athletes, Rodale Press; The Dietary Cure for Acne) summarizing his research findings</span></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sunwalking.posterous.com/loren-cordain-origins-and-evolution-of-the-we-99643">sunwalking's posterous</a> </p> </div>Roger (Dr Roger Prentice)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188137588634139682noreply@blogger.com0