Saturday 31 October 2015
Second darts are the ones we throw at ourselves as we consciously respond to first darts, such as getting angry at the person who accidentally spilt your coffee
Second darts are the ones we throw at ourselves as we consciously respond to first darts, such as getting angry at the person who accidentally spilt your coffee
DISATER BY QUAKE VS UERROR-ANGER AT HUMAN AGENCY
T helper 17 cell (Th17) and the regulatory T-cell (Treg), and more particularly the balance between these two subsets, might play a significant role in the pathogenesis of the RSV infection.
T helper 17 cell (Th17) and the regulatory T-cell (Treg), and more particularly the balance between these two subsets, might play a significant role in the pathogenesis of the RSV infection.
people who did low or high levels of physical exercise both had better mental health than those who were relatively inactive.
people who did low or high levels of physical exercise both had better mental health than those who were relatively inactive.
Evolutionary theorists suggest that this tendency to attribute events to an entity with agency might explain beliefs in ghosts, angels, demons — and even God
Evolutionary theorists suggest that this tendency to attribute events to an entity with agency might explain beliefs in ghosts, angels, demons — and even Gd
SHADOW IN THE WOODS- RUN
SAFE THAN SORRY EVOLN MECH
SHADOW IN THE WOODS- RUN
SAFE THAN SORRY EVOLN MECH
Drink less beer. Read more (and Reddit does not count as reading). Write more. Watch more movies. Get better sleep. Eat better food. Exercise more.
- Drink less beer.
- Read more (and Reddit does not count as reading).
- Write more.
- Watch more movies.
- Get better sleep.
- Eat better food.
- Exercise more.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. - Nelson MandelA
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. - Nelson MandelA
Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, 'Never take candy from strangers.' And then they dressed me up and said, 'Go beg for it.' I didn't know what to do! I'd knock on people's doors and go, 'Trick or treat.' 'No thank you.'" -- Rita Rudner
Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, 'Never take candy from strangers.' And then they dressed me up and said, 'Go beg for it.' I didn't know what to do! I'd knock on people's doors and go, 'Trick or treat.' 'No thank you.'"
-- Rita Rudner
-- Rita Rudner
Thursday 29 October 2015
Wednesday 28 October 2015
GREYSON NDE SCALE
Greyson NDE Scale
Quantifying the phenomenon
Professor & Psychiatrist Bruce Greyson developed this scale to measure the depth of an individual’s near-death experience. The following is a copy of the scale as presented in an article entitled "Altered States" by Lee Graves in the Summer 2007 edition of the University of Virginia Magazine.
1. Did time seem to speed up or slow down?
0 = No
1 = Time seemed to go faster or slower than usual
2 = Everything seemed to be happening at once; or time stopped or lost all meaning
0 = No
1 = Time seemed to go faster or slower than usual
2 = Everything seemed to be happening at once; or time stopped or lost all meaning
2. Were your thoughts speeded up?
0 = No
1 = Faster than usual
2 = Incredibly fast
0 = No
1 = Faster than usual
2 = Incredibly fast
3. Did scenes from your past come back to you?
0 = No
1 = I remembered many past events
2 = My past flashed before me, out of my control
0 = No
1 = I remembered many past events
2 = My past flashed before me, out of my control
4. Did you suddenly seem to understand everything?
0 = No
1 = Everything about myself or others
2 = Everything about the universe
0 = No
1 = Everything about myself or others
2 = Everything about the universe
5. Did you have a feeling of peace or pleasantness?
0 = No
1 = Relief or calmness
2 = Incredible peace or pleasantness
0 = No
1 = Relief or calmness
2 = Incredible peace or pleasantness
6. Did you have a feeling of joy?
0 = No
1 = Happiness
2 = Incredible joy
0 = No
1 = Happiness
2 = Incredible joy
7. Did you feel a sense of harmony or unity with the universe?
0 = No
1 = I felt no longer in conflict with nature
2 = I felt united or one with the world
0 = No
1 = I felt no longer in conflict with nature
2 = I felt united or one with the world
8. Did you see, or feel surrounded by, a brilliant light?
0 = No
1 = An unusually bright light
2 = A light clearly of mystical or other-worldly origin
0 = No
1 = An unusually bright light
2 = A light clearly of mystical or other-worldly origin
9. Were your senses more vivid than usual?
0 = No
1 = More vivid than usual
2 = Incredibly more vivid
0 = No
1 = More vivid than usual
2 = Incredibly more vivid
10. Did you seem to be aware of things going on elsewhere, as if by extrasensory perception (ESP)?
0 = No
1 = Yes, but the facts have not been checked out
2 = Yes, and the facts have been checked out
0 = No
1 = Yes, but the facts have not been checked out
2 = Yes, and the facts have been checked out
11. Did scenes from the future come to you?
0 = No
1 = Scenes from my personal future
2 = Scenes from the world’s future
0 = No
1 = Scenes from my personal future
2 = Scenes from the world’s future
12. Did you feel separated from your body?
0 = No
1 = I lost awareness of my body
2 = I clearly left my body and existed outside it
0 = No
1 = I lost awareness of my body
2 = I clearly left my body and existed outside it
13. Did you seem to enter some other, unearthly world?
0 = No
1 = Some unfamiliar and strange place
2 = A clearly mystical or unearthly realm
0 = No
1 = Some unfamiliar and strange place
2 = A clearly mystical or unearthly realm
14. Did you seem to encounter a mystical being or presence, or hear an unidentifiable voice?
0 = No
1 = I heard a voice I could not identify
2 = I encountered a definite being, or a voice clearly of mystical or unearthly origin
0 = No
1 = I heard a voice I could not identify
2 = I encountered a definite being, or a voice clearly of mystical or unearthly origin
15. Did you see deceased or religious spirits?
0 = No
1 = I sensed their presence
2 = I actually saw them
0 = No
1 = I sensed their presence
2 = I actually saw them
16. Did you come to a border or point of no return?
0 = No
1 = I came to a definite conscious decision to “return” to life
2 = I came to a barrier that I was not permitted to cross; or was “sent back” against my will.
0 = No
1 = I came to a definite conscious decision to “return” to life
2 = I came to a barrier that I was not permitted to cross; or was “sent back” against my will.
A score of 7 or higher is considered a NDE for research purposes. The mean score among a large sample of near-death experiences is 15.
The following appendage on scoring was not included in the above article - see references listed below.
SCORING:
Sum of all 16 items = total NDE Scale score
Among a criterion group of NDErs, the mean score on this scale was 15 with a standard deviation of 7.84; we therefore use a score of 7 or greater (1 standard deviation below the mean) as the cut-off point for identifying an experience as an NDE.
Sum of items 1-4 = cognitive component
Sum of items 5-8 = affective component
Sum of items 9-12 = paranormal component
Sum of items 13-16 = transcendental component
SCORING TYPE OF NDE:
Cognitive type = cognitive component score 5 or higher
Transcendental type = cognitive component score less than 5 and transcendental component score 5 or higher
Affective type = cognitive and transcendental component scores each less than five, and affective component score 5 or higher
Paranormal type = cognitive, transcendental, and affective component scores each less than 5, and paranormal component score 5 or greater
Unclassifiable = no component score 5 or greater
REFERENCES:
Greyson, B. (1983). The Near-Death Experience Scale: Construction, reliability, and validity. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 171, 369-375.
VS-“focused on the top killers during this period: heart disease, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [COPD], accidents, stroke and diabetes,” they “found that all the leading causes of death, with the exception of...COPD claimed fewer lives in 2013 than in 1969.”
“focused on the top killers during this period: heart disease, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [COPD], accidents, stroke and diabetes,” they “found that all the leading causes of death, with the exception of...COPD claimed fewer lives in 2013 than in 1969.” VS
some preterm infants, intermittent tube feeding resulted in large intraday glucose fluctuation at 31-35 postconceptual weeks, but the pattern disappeared before discharge (36-38 postconceptual weeks).
some preterm infants, intermittent tube feeding resulted in large intraday glucose fluctuation at 31-35 postconceptual weeks, but the pattern disappeared before discharge (36-38 postconceptual weeks).
Tuesday 27 October 2015
FRANKL-TRAGIC OPTIMISM
remains, optimistic in spite of the “tragic triad,” as it is called in logotherapy, a triad which consists of those aspects of human existence which may be circumscribed by: (1) pain; (2) guilt; and (3) death.
Existential Loneliness has entered the literature and “is understood as an intolerable emptiness, sadness, and longing, that results from the awareness of one’s fundamental separateness as a human being.”
Existential Loneliness has entered the literature and “is understood as an intolerable emptiness, sadness, and longing, that results from the awareness of one’s fundamental separateness as a human being.”
TRMINAL PT- Existential distress at the end of life has been defined as hopelessness, burden to others, loss of sense of dignity, desire for death or loss of will to live [1] and threats to self identity.
Existential distress at the end of life has been defined as hopelessness, burden to others, loss of sense of dignity, desire for death or loss of will to live [1] and threats to self identity.
From all this we may learn that there are two races of men in this world, but only these two — the “race” of the decent man and the “race” of the indecent man. Both are found everywhere; they penetrate into all groups of society. No group consists entirely of decent or indecent people.” ― Victor Frankel
From all this we may learn that there are two races of men in this world, but only these two — the “race” of the decent man and the “race” of the indecent man. Both are found everywhere; they penetrate into all groups of society. No group consists entirely of decent or indecent people.”
― Victor Frankel
“Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.” ― Richard Dawkins
“Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.”
― Richard Dawkins
― Richard Dawkins
“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.” ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it" --- Benedictus Spinoza, quoted by Viktor Frankl in Man’s Search for Meaning
"Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it"
--- Benedictus Spinoza, quoted by Viktor Frankl in Man’s Search for Meaning
ZEN OF BAD HABIT RELAPSE-There is no past, only this step. All the relapses, all the failures, all the troubles … these now exist only in your head.
There is no past, only this step. All the relapses, all the failures, all the troubles … these now exist only in your head.
"Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale." -- Lauren DeStefano
"Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale."
-- Lauren DeStefano
-- Lauren DeStefano
Monday 26 October 2015
Stop trying to ‘fix’ yourself; you’re not broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.” ~Steve Maraboli
Stop trying to ‘fix’ yourself; you’re not broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.” ~Steve Maraboli
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” ~Nelson Mandela
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” ~Nelson Mandela
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” ~C.S. Lewis
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” ~C.S. Lewis
You have been criticising yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens!” ~Louise Hay
You have been criticising yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens!” ~Louise Hay
Sunday 25 October 2015
HIE-Increasing seizure burden is associated with more severe brain injury and significantly lower performance scores on Bayley Scales of Infant Development III.
Increasing seizure burden is associated with more severe brain injury and significantly lower performance scores on Bayley Scales of Infant Development III.
number of opiate receptors in brain increases to combat severe pain in arthritis sufferers, a finding that may lead to a way to increase the brain's pain threshold.
number of opiate receptors in brain increases to combat severe pain in arthritis sufferers, a finding that may lead to a way to increase the brain's pain threshold.
“As Aristotle put it, the beginning of philosophy is wonder. I am simply amazed to find myself living on a ball of rock that swings around an immense spherical fire. I am more amazed that I am a maze—a complex wiggliness, an arabesque of tubes, filaments, cells, fibers, and films that are various kinds of palpitation in this stream of liquid energy.” ― Alan W. Watts, Does It Matter
“As Aristotle put it, the beginning of philosophy is wonder. I am simply amazed to find myself living on a ball of rock that swings around an immense spherical fire. I am more amazed that I am a maze—a complex wiggliness, an arabesque of tubes, filaments, cells, fibers, and films that are various kinds of palpitation in this stream of liquid energy.”
― Alan W. Watts, Does It Matter
― Alan W. Watts, Does It Matter
MMarcus Aurelius started each day telling himself: ‘I shall meet with meddling, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, and unsociable people’
Marcus Aurelius started each day telling himself: ‘I shall meet with meddling, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, and unsociable people’
STOIC-Joy and grief are still there, along with all the other emotions, but they are tempered – and, in their temperance, they are less tyrannical.
Joy and grief are still there, along with all the other emotions, but they are tempered – and, in their temperance, they are less tyrannical.
Friday 23 October 2015
Thursday 22 October 2015
matcha green tea takes it to a whole new level,” says Kristen Carlucci Haase RDN. “It has far more EGCG (an antioxidant that boosts levels of CCK, a hunger-quelling hormone) than standard green tea, and one study also found that drinking the stuff after exercise can increase your fat burn by up to 25%,”
matcha green tea takes it to a whole new level,” says Kristen Carlucci Haase RDN. “It has far more EGCG (an antioxidant that boosts levels of CCK, a hunger-quelling hormone) than standard green tea, and one study also found that drinking the stuff after exercise can increase your fat burn by up to 25%,”
Eggs are one of the best sources of choline, a major fat-burning nutrient that helps turn off the genes responsible for belly-fat storage.
Eggs are one of the best sources of choline, a major fat-burning nutrient that helps turn off the genes responsible for belly-fat storage.
Studies suggest a cup of broth-based vegetable soup consumed just prior to a meal can help curb appetite and reduce the total amount of calories
Studies suggest a cup of broth-based vegetable soup consumed just prior to a meal can help curb appetite and reduce the total amount of calories
Lean proteins and cruciferous vegetables are more thermogenic than other types of foods meaning your body burns more calories digesting them
Lean proteins and cruciferous vegetables are more thermogenic than other types of foods meaning your body burns more calories digesting them
PARKINSON-Moussa thinks nilotinib can free up these lysosomes, which he calls the brain’s “garbage disposal system”, to do a better job of clearing out the accumulation of proteins in the brain that is associated with Parkinson’s disease
Moussa thinks nilotinib can free up these lysosomes, which he calls the brain’s “garbage disposal system”, to do a better job of clearing out the accumulation of proteins in the brain that is associated with Parkinson’s disease
Globally, around 7 million people died in 2012 due to bad air quality, according to recent estimates from the World Health Organizatio
Globally, around 7 million people died in 2012 due to bad air quality, according to recent estimates from the World Health Organizatio
Wednesday 21 October 2015
mainstream formula for success that includes going to school, earning good grades, graduating from college, landing a high-paying job, and earning lots of money—or at least enough money to provide for your family. The ultimate goal of this formula for success is survival—making enough money to get by.
mainstream formula for success that includes going to school, earning good grades, graduating from college, landing a high-paying job, and earning lots of money—or at least enough money to provide for your family. The ultimate goal of this formula for success is survival—making enough money to get by.
Tuesday 20 October 2015
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." -- Buddha
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
-- Buddha
-- Buddha
Monday 19 October 2015
Sunday 18 October 2015
Saturday 17 October 2015
LF CHNG
Think about it:
- Being grateful about 1 thing rather than victimized by 10,000 things
- Saving 15% of your income (having financial peace of mind)
- Getting up early every day for meditation and exercise
- Eating vegan
- Train to do diaphragmatic breathing by default
- Doubt your judgmental thoughts and emotions to look for other possibilities
Those who know others are intelligent; those who know themselves are truly wise . Those who master others are strong; th ose who master themselves have true power. -Lao-Tzu
Those who know others are intelligent; those who know themselves are truly wise . Those who master others are strong; th ose who master themselves have true power. -Lao-Tzu
SIESTA PRN-A study that involved 24,000 people suggests those who have a regular snooze are 37% less likely to die from heart disease than those who rarely steal a few winks.
A study that involved 24,000 people suggests those who have a regular snooze are 37% less likely to die from heart disease than those who rarely steal a few winks.
Not to understand dukkha and its cessation is far more fearsome than to be born in the Parilaha niraya. S.v.450.
PARILAHA-MENTAL BURNING-VEXATION-MENTAL DISTRESS-UPSET-DAMGING OWN SELF
Friday 16 October 2015
Teeth from a cave in south China show that Homo sapiens reached China around 100,000 years ago—a time at which most researchers had assumed that our species had not trekked far beyond Africa.
Teeth from a cave in south China show that Homo sapiens reached China around 100,000 years ago—a time at which most researchers had assumed that our species had not trekked far beyond Africa.
Thursday 15 October 2015
Chronic exposure to socioeconomic disadvantage in childhood may alter neural circuitry involved in rewardanticipation in adolescence, which in turn may confer risk for depression
Chronic exposure to socioeconomic disadvantage in childhood may alter neural circuitry involved in reward
anticipation in adolescence, which in turn may confer risk for depression
biophilia
E.O. Wilson: "we’ve come all the way around and are beginning, especially through studies in brain science, and psychology, including social psychology, and archaeology and biology, we’re coming to realize that there’s something a lot more complicated and deep and wondrous in the development of the human mind, than what we had imagined even. So there is a new trend and biophilia is part of that, because we know that all other animals — mobile animals, that are able to move around — are programmed to go to the right environment. They do it with no training whatsoever or anything. They just know exactly where to go and what to do when they get there. Why should human beings not have at least a strong residue of those environments in which we evolved? And those are natural environments, we originated in wildlands with certain characteristics."
eosinopenia during infant bronchiolitis predicted low asthma risk and eosinophilia outside infection predicted high asthma risk up to the age of 28–31 years.
eosinopenia during infant bronchiolitis predicted low asthma risk and eosinophilia outside infection predicted high asthma risk up to the age of 28–31 years.
Wednesday 14 October 2015
Tuesday 13 October 2015
Monday 12 October 2015
Sunday 11 October 2015
precocial and altricial developmental processes are extremely varied in that one requires intense protection and mothering (altricial development) and the other requires very little care (precocial development) and the young are relatively independent soon after birth.
precocial and altricial developmental processes are extremely varied in that one requires intense protection and mothering (altricial development) and the other requires very little care (precocial development) and the young are relatively independent soon after birth.
HUMAN BRAIN
1. Early humans evolved, via natural selection, toward increased mental survival skills, and also high mobility.
2. Mental skills benefited from a bigger brain, and mobility favored small hips. So there were conflicting tendencies.
3. The conflict favored brains that were not too big for birth but could develop skills thereafter.
4. We ended up with brains that both grow after birth and learn a lot. Hence our high intelligence.
Comment: I hope our learning turns out to be enough to get us through the trouble that intelligenc
2. Mental skills benefited from a bigger brain, and mobility favored small hips. So there were conflicting tendencies.
3. The conflict favored brains that were not too big for birth but could develop skills thereafter.
4. We ended up with brains that both grow after birth and learn a lot. Hence our high intelligence.
Comment: I hope our learning turns out to be enough to get us through the trouble that intelligenc
If we’d stayed on all fours, women’s pelvises could have remained bigger. Without the pelvis limiting brain size, our intelligence might have had more built-in, “brittle” smarts, specific to a particular environment, but less fluid intelligence
If we’d stayed on all fours, women’s pelvises could have remained bigger. Without the pelvis limiting brain size, our intelligence might have had more built-in, “brittle” smarts, specific to a particular environment, but less fluid intelligence NAUTILUS
Saturday 10 October 2015
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves --- slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves --- slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh 
Friday 9 October 2015
"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." -- Thomas Jefferson
"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."
-- Thomas Jefferson
-- Thomas Jefferson
Thursday 8 October 2015
Increased blood lactate concentration (hyperlactatemia) and lactic acidosis (hyperlactatemia and serum pH < 7.35) are common in patients with severe sepsis or septic shock and are associated with significant morbidity and mortality.
Increased blood lactate concentration (hyperlactatemia) and lactic acidosis (hyperlactatemia and serum pH < 7.35) are common in patients with severe sepsis or septic shock and are associated with significant morbidity and mortality.
Challenging a person’s faith or belief in times of crisis may result in a severing of the therapeutic alliance or relationship which will have the opposite effect to what the health professional may desire.
Challenging a person’s faith or belief in times of crisis may result in a severing of the therapeutic alliance or relationship which will have the opposite effect to what the health professional may desire.
Wednesday 7 October 2015
Tuesday 6 October 2015
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