Hypnozzis

2012-02-05T14:29:00.000-08:00

Brian Eno - "Big Ship"

2011-05-13T16:35:00.001-07:00

Why do senseless things happen to people?

2010-09-09T07:15:00.000-07:00

"Secret Powers of Time"

2010-08-03T03:57:00.000-07:00

Thank you, Pedro

Slave to choice

2010-08-03T03:40:00.000-07:00

Sometimes on a good original interesting variations arise.
We may call that evolution, we may call it redundancy...
Or we just can enjoy…

Slave to love. Aren´t we all?
This is just a poetic way to remind ourselves that we have a duty.The duty to love. Ourselves and the others.

2009-12-01T06:45:00.001-08:00

Dog training techniques applied to children

2009-11-27T03:07:00.000-08:00

Recently parents in the US started to use dog training techniques with their own children.

Read more in
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/fashion/22dog.html

2009-07-14T07:19:00.000-07:00

"We don´t see things as they are.

We see them as we are."
Anais Nin

Opportunities

2009-06-29T03:17:00.000-07:00

Accept every opportunity/time of your life not as an experience of pleasure or pain, but as a learning experience, development of your being.
I do not want to imply that you should put yourself in situations of suffering in a deliberate way, but that you will observe those situations that come to you in a quiet and contemplative way.

Please observe your life and grow with it, you will need these lessons for this and other lives ...

Try now and observe this moment, notice if you have learned or thought of something important. Even if you think that you learned nothing or thought of anything, you will reinforce your learning posture as an observer of yourself.

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"It´s not the size of the task that matters. What matters is the size of the courage."
Matthieu Ricard

2009-06-29T03:16:00.001-07:00

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Mankind is no island

2009-05-07T01:37:00.000-07:00

2009-03-25T08:27:00.000-07:00

2009-01-13T02:07:00.000-08:00

Wish you an increasingly enlightened path.
MRS

2008-11-17T06:04:00.000-08:00

"Don´t judge those who try and fail but those who fail by not trying."

Wear sunscreen

2008-08-20T02:31:00.000-07:00

2008-07-29T05:03:00.000-07:00

Thanks, Rita !

Crying - by Edward Willett

2008-06-19T14:14:00.000-07:00

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who cry at movies and those who don't. I freely admit I'm one of the former. I even cry during TV sitcoms. Heck, sometimes I even cry during commercials (only the really good ones, though).

Just why some people cry more easily than others isn't well understood. In fact, why we cry at all isn't well understood, especially since, so far as we know, only human beings release tears in response to strong emotion. In other words, all animals tear up in response to pain, but only humans get dewy-eyed in response to It's A Wonderful Life.

Charles Darwin closely studied crying children, and noted that they contract the muscles around their eyes during prolonged screaming. He thought that involuntary behavior helped to protect the eyes, and tears were just a by-product.

Dr. William Frey of Minnesota, on the other hand, suggests that crying makes people feel better because emotional tears help rid the body of chemicals that build up as a result of stress. Irritant tears (which Frey produced in his subjects with onion vapors) are chemically different from emotional tears (which he produced by showing sad movies).

Emotional tears have more protein in them, including various stress hormones. Other researchers theorize that crying may stimulate the release of endorphins, substances that elevate our mood and relieve pain.

Frey also determined how often people cry. He found that crying frequency for womenaverages 5.3 times a month, while crying frequency for men ranges averages 1.4 times a month.
In addition, women's crying is far more likely to send tears rolling down their cheeks. When men cry, 70 percent of the time all that happens is their eyes fill with tears.

This difference crops up around age 12 or 13, which supports the idea that hormones are involved. Prolactin, for instance, involved in the menstrual cycle, breast development and lactation, may also help stimulate tears: drugs that reduce prolactin levels have can reduce excessive crying caused by neurological disease. Male hormones, such as androgen or testosterone, may have the opposite effect, actually inhibiting crying. Differences in the levels of these hormones among individuals could help explain why some people cry more than others.

None of this really explains why humans cry emotional tears when other animals don't. The most likely explanation is that we've discovered crying is a powerful form of communication: specifically, it makes other people want to help us.

Most people say they feel better after they cry. Some researchers feel that's only true if other people comfort you when you cry; they say you probably won't feel better after crying by yourself. Frey doesn't buy that, but other research, in which 150 women were shown brief tear-jerking clips from the movie Steel Magnolias, discovered that, far from reducing the level of stress, seemed to enhance it, as measured by heart rate, sweat gland activity and skin temperature: the more the women cried, the more upset they became. That would seem to indicate that, indeed, crying is more important as a signal to others that we need help than as a means of relieving stress.

It's definitely true that we cry more readily some places than others. Few people cry at work, instead, they save it for between 7 and 10 p.m., when they're home with their "significant other."
Children instinctively use crying as a form of communication. Everyone has seen children fall down and bump their head who don't cry when they think there's no one around, but burst into tears the moment someone looks at them. It's not as manipulative as it seems: they're on the verge of crying anyway, and the presence of someone just encourages them to let go.
For some people, the fact that crying is seen as a plea for help is reason enough not to cry: it shows vulnerability. But not crying has its own consequences. Whether you cry or not, your stress level still goes up. If you cry and get help or sympathy from those around you, you calm down faster than if you don't cry. Stewing in your own stress juices can harm your health in the long run.

Socially, crying is more acceptable now than it once was. Edmund Muskie lost the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination in 1972 after he cried in public; Bill Clinton cries all the time and nobody seems to care.
So go on, have a good cry. It's all right.
Wonderfully written science columns have that effect on me, too.

Battle at the Kruger

2008-05-26T08:31:00.000-07:00

No comments !

Installing love

2008-03-27T06:53:00.000-07:00

Tech Support: Yes, ... how can I help you?

Customer: Well, after much consideration, I've decided to install Love. Can you guide me though the process?

Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?

Customer: Well, I'm not very technical, but I think I'm ready. What do I do first?

Tech Support: The first step is to open your Heart. Have you located your Heart?

Customer: Yes, but there are several other programs running now.
Is it okay to install Love while they are running?

Tech Support: What programs are running ?

Customer: Let's see, I have Past Hurt, Low Self-Esteem, Grudge
and Resentment running right now.

Tech Support: No problem, Love will gradually erase Past Hurt from your current
operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory but it will no longer
disrupt other programs. Love will eventually override Low Self-Esteem with a
module of its own called High Self-Esteem. However, you have to completely
turn off Grudge and Resentment. Those programs prevent Love from being
properly installed. Can you turn those off ?

Customer: I don't know how to turn them off. Can you tell me how?

Tech Support: With pleasure. Go to your start menu and invoke Forgiveness. Do this as many times as necessary until Grudge and Resentment have been completely erased.

Customer: Okay, done! Love has started installing itself. Is that normal?

Tech Support: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program.
You need to begin connecting to other Hearts in order to get the upgrades.

Customer: Oops! I have an error message already. It says, "
Error - Program not run on external components ." What should I do?

Tech Support: Don't worry. It means that the Love program is set up to run on
Internal Hearts, but has not yet been run on your Heart. In non-technical terms,
it simply means you have to Love yourself before you can Love others.

Customer: So, what should I do?

Tech Support: Pull down Self-Acceptance; then click on the following files:
Forgive-Self; Realize Your Worth; and Acknowledge your Limitations.

Customer: Okay, done.

Tech Support: Now, copy them to the "My Heart" directory. The system will
overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching faulty programming.
Also, you need to delete Verbose Self-Criticism from all directories and empty
your Recycle Bin to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back.

Customer: Got it. Hey! My heart is filling up with new files.
Smile is playing on my monitor and Peace and Contentment are copying
themselves all over My Heart. Is this normal?

Tech Support: Sometimes. For others it takes a while, but eventually everything gets
it at the proper time. So Love is installed and running. One more thing before we hang up.
Love is Freeware. Be sure to give it and its various modules to everyone you meet.
They will in turn share it with others and return some cool modules back to you.

Customer: Thank you, God.

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(unknow author. Thanks, Pilar)

2008-03-12T15:24:00.000-07:00

“Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw

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"Road to nowhere" - Talking Heads

JIll Bolte´s stroke

2008-03-11T17:59:00.000-07:00

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229

(thanks Barbara)

MENTAL HOSPITAL PHONE MENU

2008-02-07T02:04:00.000-08:00

Hello and thank you for calling The State Mental Hospital.

Please select from the following options menu:

If you are obsessive-compulsive, press 1 repeatedly.

If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2 for you.

If you have multiple personalities, press 3, 4, 5 and 6.

If you are paranoid, we know who you are and what you want, stay on the line so we can trace your call.

If you are delusional, press 7 and your call will be forwarded to the Mother Ship.

If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a little voice will tell you which number to press.

If you are manic-depressive, it doesn't matter which number you press, nothing will make you happy anyway.

If you are dyslexic, press 9696969696969696.

If you are bipolar, please leave a message after the beep or before the beep or after the beep. Please wait for the beep.

If you have short-term memory loss, press 9. If you have short-term memory loss, press 9. If you have short-term memory loss, press 9.

If you have low self-esteem, please hang up. Our operators are too busy to talk with you.

If you are menopausal, put the gun down, hang up, turn on the fan, lie down and cry. You won't be crazy forever.

If you are blonde, don't press any buttons , you'll just mess it up.

This coming week is National Mental Health Care week.

You can do your part by remembering to contact at least one unstable person to show you care.

Well, my job is done .....Your turn.
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(author: unknown - thanks Dr.Cocco)

The Deal

2008-01-17T01:38:00.000-08:00

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Emotional Nutrition

2007-12-12T09:21:00.000-08:00

Some time ago, since I started working with people who wanted to control their weight, I have been introducing the concept of emotional nutrition.
This emotional nutrition has nothing to do with what you eat. Nor would on the contrary, because it is not.
This emotional nutrition relates to the need of pleasure that we have in life. Pleasure is needed, in this level of terrestrial existence.
The emotional nutrition makes us rest in these stages of suffering or sacrifice that life brings us.
Buddha said: "There is pleasure and there is bliss. Renounce the first to create the second."
I suggest not, in an initial phase, such sacrifice. What I suggest is the creation and activation of other pleasures, superior to other more carnal and primitive pleasures.
What I suggest is to seek and activate other pleasures as the pursuit of smile, the encounter with nature, the meeting with the culture and with the intelligence, and the voluntary assistance, the creation of good moments ...
If you like to go to the movies go, if you like to walk through the mountain walk, if you like to write write, if you like to sing sing, if you like to help help, if you like to be with your friends be, if you like to read a good book read ...
Nourish yourself emotionally. With a big advantage: the emotional nutrition is not parasitic but symbiotic, when you nourish yourself emotionally you nourish your system/environment.
Nourish yourself now !

2007-12-12T09:20:00.000-08:00

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>> "Hipnose - De Observador a Criador de Pensamentos" - 13 de Dezembro - 21h00 - Lisboa CHCI Centro de Hipnose Clínica Ibérico

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>> 15th November - 10h-17h - Sintra (Quinta dos Lobos) - Portugal

> 17th and 18th December - 19h00/22h00 - Porto - (MRS Porto - Sá da Bandeira)

> 27th and 28th December - 19h00/22h00 - Lisboa CHCI Centro de Hipnose Clínica Ibérico

> 29th December - 10h-17h - Lisboa CHCI Centro de Hipnose Clínica Ibérico
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A new dream

2007-11-22T07:42:00.001-08:00

Dare !

2007-11-22T07:14:00.001-08:00

How to handle with fears (I)

2007-11-10T07:59:00.000-08:00

If you have fears, follow the instructions:
1-choose the most important fear
2-see it well, in your mind, or see it really
3-face it
4-flecte the knees
5-open up your eyes - almost staring at it
6-prepare yourself to hit your chest, arms and legs
7-prepare yourself to jump, to bang your feet on the ground and to stick your tongue out
8-begin to present it your voice high and severe, telling something like: (choreography by your account)

Ka mate Ka mate
It is the death It is the death

Ka ora Ka ora
It is life It is life

Ka mate Ka mate
It is the death It is the death

Ka ora Ka ora
It is life It is life

Tenei Te Tangata Puhuruhuru
This is the great hairy man
(Tribal leader)

Nana i tiki May whakawhiti te ra
The one who has caused the Sun to shine again for me

Upane Upane
Go up Go up

Upane Kaupane
To the top !

Whiti te ra
And the sun shines!

(See explanatory video)

9 - if after this the fear is still in front of you, repeat the above procedure.

Does your problem have a solution ?

2007-11-07T16:28:00.000-08:00

"Does your problem have a solution ? If it does... why worry ?
Doesn´t have a solution ? Why worry ?"
Chinese Proverb

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Eels - "Fresh feeling"

The procrastination sofa (Reebok)

2007-11-07T16:27:00.000-08:00

procrastinate verb [I]
to keep delaying something that must be done, often because it is unpleasant or boring: I know I've got to deal with the problem at some point - I'm just procrastinating.
postpone doing something: to postpone doing something, especially as a regular practice

Condition to courage

2007-11-06T02:54:00.000-08:00

I often hear from some people who I work with, something like: "I have no courage to do so." Very often.
But it is interesting to note the courage they have to suffer the consequences of not doing so. They are the brave silents.
The braves who prefer to suffer in silence, inflicting themselves the consequences of not acting for change.
Braves that have the strength or will to accept in silence what worries them. That have the power to accept an alternative to action, which allegedly will cause suffer to another person. Although it will probably continue perpetuating suffering to them and to others.
Braves who have the "bravery" to project their frustrations on others that have nothing to do with the source of these frustrations.
Braves who prefer to get sick because they repress their feelings. Because the alternative would be talking about something that could disturb someone else.
Braves who prefer tolerate instead of drawing attention to something that is not right.
Braves who prefer to criticize rather than suggesting what can be done better.

The courage is an innate quality that normally people use in the most demanding way: against themselves.
Using it for their own good and for the good of those around them is a liberating exercise, which brings more responsibility but also makes us more happy, more attentive to life and the good things life has to give.
The courage is in our matrix, in our being, in our cells, but we often misuse it. And we also make a big effort on misusing it.

That is why people that most of his life suffered in silence, have the conditions to talk without shouting. And to accept that can make changes.
People who are frustrated, can create and produce the well-being.
Who is patient by repressing feelings, can speak and have the conditions to be healthy.
Who tolerated, can draw attention to what is not being welldone.
One who criticized, can suggest and help to build.
One who used his courage against himself, can use it in a liberating way.

One who for years have exercised his courage against himself, has the condition and the responsibility to let flow the courage to his own well-being.

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"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change
The courage to change the things I can
And the wisdom to know the difference. "
Reinhold Niebuhr