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		<title>Genius till Proven Otherwise</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 00:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well it may surprise you to hear anyone say this, but Einstein got it wrong a lot of the time. The fact is, he got it wrong not once in a blue moon, but during countless phases of countless moons.]]></description>
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<p>Remember when Einstein was worshiped so completely that the common person thought him infallible?</p>
<p>Remember when his legacy of information about matter and energy was considered to be a chapter in the Bible of Modern Physics?</p>
<p>Well it may surprise you to hear me say this, but <a href="http://discovermagazine.com/2004/sep/the-masters-mistakes/" target="_blank">Einstein got it wrong a lot of the time</a>. The fact is, he got it wrong not once in a blue moon, but during countless phases of countless moons.</p>
<p><a href="http://discovermagazine.com/2008/sep/01-einstein.s-23-biggest-mistakes" target="_blank">Sometimes his goofs were  subtle, and other times they bordered on the ridiculous.</a> The point is, our modern day hero was wrong wrong dead wrong!  &#8212;About the  universe, about its contents, about the workings of atoms, about his own ability to get it right 100% of the time.</p>
<p>And yet without the benefit of Einstein’s mistakes, we wouldn&#8217;t have made as much progress in modern physics. “Most scientists  would give their eyeteeth to make even one of Einstein’s mistakes,” says  theoretical physicist Fred Goldhaber of the State University of New  York at Stony Brook.</p>
<p>But that doesn&#8217;t change the fact that they were mistakes.  From how gravity works in space, to his silly theory that the cosmos was standing still, Einstein was way off base.  He even manufactured bogus equations to prove the cosmos was standing still. Naughty! Naughty boy!  At least he gave other physicists something to push on, though.  <a href="http://www.mindoverchatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/physics.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4846" title="dark matter" src="http://www.mindoverchatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/physics-300x249.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="249" /></a>If necessity is the mother of invention, then resistance is the father.</p>
<p>Einstein’s  blunders reveal the prejudices that affected his perception and the uniqueness of a mind that resisted the thought that it might be better if he didn&#8217;t refer to every idea he came across as the &#8216;definitive solution&#8217;.</p>
<p>In all fairness to this fellow, things such as dark matter had not been postulated yet, though.  There&#8217;s only so far the next mind can go, apparently, without the building blocks of dark matter.  And that&#8217;s my point.</p>
<p>Minds that can stand the heat will not bother with how they are perceived by others .  They have a unique fearlessness that makes them impervious to judgment from their peers even.  It allows them to blunder full speed ahead.</p>
<p>(And blundering full speed ahead is a good thing, to paraphrase ex-con Martha Stewart.)</p>
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		<title>Faces of Pluto: Interesting Surprises Await!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pluto, the planet with obvious separation anxiety, has decided to send us a sign. It's changing colors and lightening up in places, and no one knows why.  Molasses-colored splotches are appearing on Pluto's surface. Watchers have their suspicions, suspicions in this case being very intriguing reasons.   Could this be the beginning of primordial life in the farthest reaches of our solar system?]]></description>
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<p>Pluto, the planet with obvious separation anxiety, has decided to  send us a sign. It&#8217;s changing colors and lightening up in places, and no one knows why.  Molasses-colored splotches are appearing on Pluto&#8217;s surface.  Planet Watchers have their suspicions, suspicions in this case being very intriguing reasons.   Could this be the beginning of primordial life in the farthest reaches of our solar system?</p>
<p>The reason no one really knows is because this lonely dwarf planet resides so far away from us that even the Hubble Space  Telescope has trouble  making out what&#8217;s going on.</p>
<p>A team of researchers led by Marc Buie of the Southwest Research   Institute recently released the best Hubble images to date (see above).   Even the fuzziness has revealed a surprising amount of never-before-seen activity.</p>
<p>When Hubble images of Pluto from 1994 were compared to images of 2003, it was discovered that Pluto’s northern hemisphere had brightened while the   southern hemisphere had dimmed.  Observations from planet Earth suggest that   Pluto’s atmosphere doubled in mass during approximately the same time   period.</p>
<p>So, what in the world is happening to Pluto’s atmosphere?  “Pluto, right now, has the best atmosphere it’s had in our   lifetime,”  say the experts.</p>
<p>There are at least two compelling things about Pluto that might make it&#8217;s fine atmosphere go through periodic changes.</p>
<p>Compelling thing #1. Until the  mid-1980s, Pluto’s northern hemisphere was tilted away   from  the sun  for over 100 years, causing a substantial amount of   frost to  accumulate on the surface. Because the tilt of the planet has changed, the northern hemisphere is coming into sunlight.</p>
<p>Compelling thing # 2. The atmosphere might also be responding to Pluto’s  highly  eccentric orbit. During the late 1980s, Pluto approached as close  to  the sun as it ever gets (about 2 1/2 billion miles) and gradually   started warming, bringing the temperature on Pluto up to a balmy -385   degrees Fahrenheit! Surface frosts exposed to such “warmth” may be   subliming—that is, changing back into a gas.</p>
<p>And about that molasses…drum roll&#8230;&#8230;.Researchers think these dark areas might be primordial organic  matter.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t ask me how, but the experts know there’s methane on Pluto. They think Sunlight hitting the methane breaks it apart into its   chemical components — hydrocarbons.  Over time (millions of years) this process might make a dark reddish-brown oil or tar like substance that sticks to the   ground of Pluto. These darker areas spread larger as they absorb more sunlight   and cause additional frost to change to gas.</p>
<h3>Uh oh, hold on a minute, folks. Something is happening that totally debunks all the theories about Pluto&#8217;s atmosphere:  Pluto is headed away from the sun.  It&#8217;s atmosphere should be refreezing and becoming part of its surface, but it&#8217;s not&#8230;&#8230;</h3>
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<p><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/14apr_molasses/" target="_blank">NASA’s New Horizons probe is en route to investigate.</a> The  spacecraft  left Earth in January 2006 and has been racing towards Pluto  for an  encounter in July 2015, hopefully before the atmosphere  refreezes.</div>
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<p>The plan is for New Horizons to map the entire sunlit portion of Pluto. And as it swings closer, it will get very detailed images, maybe   as good as 50-100 meter resolution.</p>
<p>We might even finally see what&#8217;s causing those hydrocarbons.</p></div>
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		<title>Volcano Formerly Known as Eyjafjallajokull!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gritty, abrasive micro particles from the erupting Icelandic volcano can severely damage aircraft engines, literally grinding them to a halt by turning the dust into volcanic glass. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.mindoverchatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/volcanoaurora2_shssmall.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4732" title="volcanoaurora" src="http://www.mindoverchatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/volcanoaurora2_shssmall-300x196.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="196" /></a>News Flash from REYKJAVIK:  Monumental blasts of lava and ash are shooting out of a volcano in southern Iceland.</p>
<p>Eyjafjallajokull has been dormant for 200 years, give or take, but it&#8217;s really causing a stir lately.  The nearly unpronounceable volcano, Eyjafjallajokull, last erupted in 1821, with the fireworks lasting about 2 years, give or take a few months.</p>
<p>The first order of business would be to learn to pronounce the name of something that threatens to be hanging around for the next couple of years and making life inconvenient for many planet dwellers.  It&#8217;s a matter of pride.</p>
<p>Number of syllables is 7: <a href="http://live-blogs.fayobserver.com/faytoz/April-2010/News-of-Icelandic-volcanic-proportions--numbers,-p" target="_blank"> &#8220;Eyjafjallajokull&#8221; </a>&#8212; &#8220;ay-yah-FYAH&#8217;-plah-yer-kuh-duhl.&#8221;   <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jq-sMZtSww" target="_blank">Follow this link to UTube for the multiple attempts to say it aloud.</a></p>
<p>Along with the explosive blasts, small tremors  have been rocking the ground, tremors as in earthquakes.  This surge in activity raises<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35988484/ns/technology_and_science-science/" target="_blank"> fears of a larger  explosion </a>at the nearby Katla volcano.</p>
<p class="textBodyBlack">History has proven that when the  Eyjafjallajokull volcano erupts, <a href="http://iceland.vefur.is/iceland_nature/Volcanoes_in_Iceland/katla.htm" target="_blank">Katla</a> follows suit — the only question being <strong><em>when</em><em>.</em></strong></p>
<div id="attachment_4741" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 245px"><a href="http://www.mindoverchatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/myrdalsjokull-katla_ps.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4741" title="myrdalsjokull-katla_ps" src="http://www.mindoverchatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/myrdalsjokull-katla_ps-294x300.jpg" alt="" width="235" height="240" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Mýrdalsjökull icecap. Photo by Páll Stefánsson.</p></div>
<p class="textBodyBlack">Katla ia located under the massive <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BDrdalsj%C3%B6kull" target="_blank">Myrdalsjokull icecap, </a>and an eruption would cause disastrous flooding.</p>
<p class="textBodyBlack">Saturday&#8217;s eruption at  Eyjafjallajokull forced at least 500  people to evacuate and the cancellation of many European flights.</p>
<p class="textBodyBlack">The ash plume from Eyjafjallajokull volcano continues to drift across parts of Britain and Northern  Europe. Gritty, abrasive micro particles from the erupting Icelandic volcano can severely damage aircraft engines. (see explanation below)</p>
<p class="textBodyBlack">That&#8217;s why events all the way up in Iceland have been  <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=Katla+volcano&amp;hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;hs=6tq&amp;sa=G&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;channel=s&amp;source=univ&amp;tbs=nws:1&amp;tbo=u&amp;ei=tazIS_bUPIuKswONipGZCw&amp;oi=news_group&amp;ct=title&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CA4QsQQwAA" target="_blank">canceling airline</a> flights across much of the continent. Follow the link to a UTube video of stranded passengers with no immediate hope of going anywhere in the sky.</p>
<p class="textBodyBlack">The Ash plume, according to experts, is likely to drift further south and eastward, causing even more flight cancellations to and from Europe.</p>
<p class="textBodyBlack"><a href="http://www.mindoverchatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/px00187_9.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4745" title="px00187_9" src="http://www.mindoverchatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/px00187_9-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a></p>
<p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="articleText">The volcanic ash cloud could make much of northern Europe a no-fly zone. This news has hurt the prices of airline stocks, paralyzed air cargo delivery and disrupted business and leisure travel. </span><span id="articleText">The disruption is reported to be costing airlines more than $200 million a day. </span><span id="articleText">Around 17,000 flights were expected to be canceled on Friday, with airspace closed across much of Europe.</span></p>
<p class="textBodyBlack">Energy sectors have also been affected. Assuming an estimated 80 percent of Europe&#8217;s airports are shut for 48 hours, the disruption will cut <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE63F1NL20100416?type=usDollarRpt" target="_blank">1.87 million barrels</a> of demand. <span id="articleText">European oil, gas and electricity production, however, is not expected to suffer in the long run.<br />
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<p class="textBodyBlack">Follow this link to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plT2qFCwSB4&amp;feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">an animated plume show of Eyjafjallajokull</a>, complements of the European Space Agency.</p>
<p class="textBodyBlack">If you can get to Iceland, you can stand really close to the volcano.  The problems there are relatively slight&#8211;some mud flows, flooding and buckled roadways. To the east is where the problems lie&#8212;specifically Europe  You have to see the eruption from the top (space) to understand its significance.</p>
<p class="textBodyBlack">The size of the no-fly airspace full of volcanic ash is massive with predictions of more space to be affected in the next few days:  Ash is now blowing into Sweden, Denmark and the Urals. It&#8217;s not the smoke that poses the danger. It&#8217;s the particles in the smoke.</p>
<p class="textBodyBlack">Here&#8217;s some basic geology, folks.  Ash gets transformed into obsidian in airplane engines.  The jet engine is hot enough to melt the ash into teeny tiny pieces of obsidian which in turn grinds the jet engines to a halt.  There&#8217;s no way to know how long this ash filled airspace will be closed.</p>
<p class="textBodyBlack">Two Years is how long Eyjafjallajokull erupted the last time!  No worries, folks,  the <a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/iceland-volcano-eruption-too-effect-climate-0376.html" target="_blank">Union of Concerned Scientists</a> has already met and declared the eruption too small to change the weather significantly.  We&#8217;re still moving towards global warming.  Here&#8217;s a question:  How many volcanoes would it take to reverse global warming?</p>
<div id="attachment_4774" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.mindoverchatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/fimmvorduhals_ali_2010083.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4774" title="fimmvorduhals_ali_2010083" src="http://www.mindoverchatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/fimmvorduhals_ali_2010083-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Eyjafjallajokull from space!</p></div>
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		<title>Non Physical Cause of Lower Back Pain</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, I went to a seminar with Dr. Kam Yuen, a Shaolin Kung Fu Grandmaster, retired chiropractor and aerospace engineer. Back in the Seventies, he was the consultant for the Kung Fu TV Series and often played non-speaking roles in a TV episode that needed a flying, leaping grandmaster of Kung Fu to liven up the action. (Follow the above link to see an old Kung Fu candle lit clip of Dr. Yuen fighting with David Carradine.)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.mindoverchatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/backpain1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4684" title="backpain1" src="http://www.mindoverchatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/backpain1-185x300.jpg" alt="" width="185" height="300" /></a>One of the first things I learned about back pain is that it has the unique power to paralyze you with pain. I was only 5 years old when I came upon this life lesson, complements of my Uncle Harrison&#8212;a <a href="http://www.william-shakespeare.org.uk/shakespeare-insults-s.htm" target="_blank">scurvy knave </a>who drank too much and couldn&#8217;t hold down a job for more than a month.</p>
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<p>I liked him, though. He once chased some wild baby chickens just for me. For about two hours he ran like a man possessed, cutting corners trying to head them off, crisscrossing a small barnyard that backed up to his apartment on the outskirts of town.  Finally, out of breath and near collapse, he managed to capture 3 of the little feathered cuties so I could bring them home as my cherished pets.  Already, I had a picked my favorite and was sure it would let me cuddle it in time.</p>
<p>I remember my father got pretty ticked off when he had to spend one of his precious Saturdays building my babies a coop.  We lived in the suburbs of Memphis and chickens couldn&#8217;t run loose and unattended.  There were predators afoot:  Everything from copperheads to indigent two-legged creatures from the<a href="http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-creek-update,0,6402750.story"> Nonconnah Creek</a> bottoms.  Humanoids from that part of town were prone to eating whatever game they could find.</p>
<p>Speaking of which, two of my babies met an untimely end, munched down by a fence-climbing, black<a href="http://dogand.com/" target="_blank"> cocker spaniel</a> from next door.  That old fella got so excited at the sight of lively, bird tenders that it literally scaled the wire fence by inserting its four paws into the chain link openings one at a time, making it&#8217;s way up about 4 feet of fence just like any human would do.  It was a scary sight and I&#8217;ll never forget his pink spotted under belly.</p>
<p>I was being a dutiful pet owner at the time, cleaning out the chicken coop, but Sparky from next door had been waiting for his chance to show someone how well he could live up to his name. This story doesn&#8217;t have a totally dreadful ending. My daddy and I returned one remaining live chickie to its little barnyard habitat from whence it had been plucked by my wildly, devolving Uncle Harrison.</p>
<p>But now I&#8217;m off track entirely. This particular Uncle Harrison story I&#8217;ve dredged up is the not the one I wanted. It was the one about back pain I was aiming for:  Once, when I was visiting and my uncle and aunt at their apartment on the outskirts of Memphis I had an encounter with back pain.</p>
<p>Uncle Harrison was taking turns flipping my 2 year old sister and me onto a soft couch landing.  That last flip must have been a doozy, &#8217;cause it sent sharp stabbing pains into my lower spine and knocked my breath out. I was momentarily paralyzed while my aunt looked down on me, as if I were faking it just for the attention.  Not a happy moment for either of us. Even my sister burst out crying.</p>
<p>The worst of the pain went away within the next hour, thankfully, with the help of a chocolate milkshake, but along with it, went all future fun with Uncle Harrison.</p>
<p>My father&#8217;s sister got a divorce from Uncle H. three months later, and three years later the &#8216;poor bastard&#8217; wound up dead drunk in the literal sense of the term.  He was found lying in a ditch along side a country road in Mississippi&#8211;not exactly the kind of ending John Denver pictured when he wrote the song, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN86d0CdgHQ" target="_blank">&#8216;Country Road</a>&#8216;.  Or maybe it was, judging from how Mr. Denver met his own untimely end.</p>
<p>And now, back to my original goal before I get further side tracked:  What are some of the causes of lower back pain?  Though the topic sounds rather bland at the moment, just stick with me,&#8217;cause there&#8217;s a happy ending here somewhere.</p>
<p>Most people don&#8217;t have an Uncle Harrison flipping them around at an early age, but many people do experience injury related back pain.  With some, though, the back pain just sneaks up on them over time, till it becomes the thing that won&#8217;t leave, as in &#8216;chronic&#8217;.   Still others get symptoms of back pain when the pressing life issues mount up.</p>
<p>Last year, I went to a seminar with Dr. Kam Yuen, a Shaolin Kung Fu Grandmaster, retired chiropractor and aerospace engineer. Back in the Seventies, he was the consultant for the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5bSUZqggzw" target="_blank">Kung Fu TV Series</a> and often played non-speaking roles in a TV episode that needed a flying, leaping grandmaster of Kung Fu to liven up the action. (Follow the above link to see an old Kung Fu candle lit clip of Dr. Yuen fighting with David Carradine.)</p>
<p>Anyway, it was the first day of the Yuen seminar and time to put into practice what we had learned. Keep in mind, please, that this is a seminar designed to teach you how to use your own energy to resolve any life issues, no physical movement involved. Grandmaster Yuen had spend the morning energetically &#8216;correcting&#8217; us, teaching and showing us how easy it was to resolve painful issues, and all  in front of the class. It was now our turn to use what we had been taught on each other,  i.e.  resolve some painful issues for a fellow student.   As we paired up, I was praying, <em>please, don&#8217;t let me get someone in real pain</em>.</p>
<p>You know how you often get what you fear most, and this was one of those times.  The lady, my partner, had flown three thousand miles to get to the seminar,had not slept the night before and had some nasty lower back pain. It hurt when she stood, sat or walked.  Plus, she made it clear that she had little faith in me being able to resolve anything for her.   She preferred another working partner with more experience and, believe me, I was on the same page.  I was ready to bolt and get an experienced Yuen practitioner to deal with her.</p>
<p>Instead, though, I corrected myself to be strong to her disappointment and misgivings, not to mention my fear.  In other words, I made myself neutral to all the negative emotions.  Next, using my intuition that Grandmaster Yuen had just separated from logic and emotion, I tested to see if her back pain was physical or non-physical.</p>
<p>Non-physical felt weak, so I posed the question silently as to what was the true source of her back pain.  Then I paused, and a picture of the woman all bent over, kind of like Charles Atlas, came to mind with the words, &#8216;carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders&#8217;.  I remembered, though, how Dr. Yuen had said don&#8217;t think that just anything pops into your head is an answer for your question. Test it.</p>
<p>So I tested those words that had popped in my head for weakness&#8211;all within a split second, of course, and said to her. Let&#8217;s make you strong to &#8216;carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders&#8217;.   She visibly straightened up taller and a smile broke through.   &#8220;It&#8217;s gone,&#8221; she said with astonishment.  &#8220;The pain is completely gone!&#8221;</p>
<p>Believe me, I was just as astonished as she, but I finished up with some corrections for her relationship and job.  The next day, she made a point to find me and reiterate her gratitude. &#8216;My back pain is still gone, Laura.  I feel great!&#8221;</p>
<p>Those words gave me a weak buzz, though, so I tested her for expectations of the pain coming back and found a weakness there. As she was walking away, I made her strong to any expectations of the back pain returning, along with all other unwelcome things coming back in her her past present and/or future.</p>
<p>Now, some might ask how do you make yourself and others strong to any weaknesses, much less to the weaknesses of the past present and/or future?  And those would be good questions.  I could give you a linear answer that would wind up being a book or two, but the quickest way to learn is to attend one of Grandmaster Yuen&#8217;s<a href="http://www.ymseminars.com/" target="_blank"> Yuen Mastery Seminars</a>.   By first break, you&#8217;ll know how.</p>
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		<title>Bipolar, Manic Depressive&#8230;the Harm of the Diagnosis</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why did the mental health experts change the clinical diagnosis from manic/depressive to bi-polar? A wacked out human, cycling between extreme highs and lows by any other name is still a wacked out human.  Treatment success rate didn't get any better with the name change.

The problem with any so called mental disorder is that naming it doesn't help.  In fact, other than providing a starting place for strengthening purposes, a diagnosis only hinders.

So, one of the first of orders of business with any mental, spiritual and or physical reaction that a person is having to his life is to separate the poor bastard from the diagnosis. (poor bastard is non gender specific) In general, if a diagnosis doesn't immediately make a person better, we need to get rid of the effects of everything attached to that diagnosis on the person and all who are privy to it.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.mindoverchatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/vincent-van-gogh-paintings-from-arles-221.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4649" title="vincent-van-gogh-paintings-from-arles-221" src="http://www.mindoverchatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/vincent-van-gogh-paintings-from-arles-221-300x238.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="238" /></a>Why did the mental health experts change the clinical diagnosis from manic/depressive to bi-polar? A &#8216;wacked out&#8217; human cycling between extremes is still a &#8216;wacked-out&#8217; human.  The pain didn&#8217;t go away with the new name. Treatment success rate didn&#8217;t get any better with the name change.  A wacked-out and suffering human by any other name still stinks!</p>
<p>The problem with any so called mental disorder is that naming it doesn&#8217;t help.  In fact, other than providing a starting place for strengthening purposes, a diagnosis only hinders.</p>
<p>So, one of the first of orders of business with any mental, spiritual and or physical reaction that a person is having to his life is to separate the poor bastard from the diagnosis, &#8216;poor bastard&#8217; being non gender specific.</p>
<p>In general, if a diagnosis doesn&#8217;t immediately make a person better, we need to get rid of the effects of everything attached to that diagnosis of the person and all who are privy to it.</p>
<p>Diagnoses, in general, weaken.  They do not strengthen.  So you make the individual with the diagnosis of bipolar or manic depressive strong to the diagnosis and separate the person from the energy of all others who carry this label.</p>
<p>Along with a diagnosis comes the baggage of much misinformation&#8212;the more studies, the more baggage. The more you read about the diagnosis, the worse it gets. You find out there are pre-conditions and pre-pre-conditions ad infinitum. Finding all the symptoms to a diagnosis and insisting something is the problem when it most definitely is not makes the problem so much worse.  Insisting you are bipolar, having your family or a doctor insist you are bipolar is weakening beyond anything imaginable.</p>
<p>The fact is, imagination pretty much shuts down with insistence, along with intuition and logical thinking, so that no real source of truth to the discomfort a person is having can be accessed.  It is by getting to the source of the symptom that you relieve the symptom.</p>
<p>A medical diagnosis is never a direct path to the source.  It is a direct path to meds which further weaken. it is a direct path to a prognosis that is carried to the grave and beyond.  Diagnose a person Bipolar and you weaken the offspring and the ancestors.</p>
<p>This is the age of information <strong>and </strong>misinformation.  At the touch of our fingertips is easy access to both.  Sad to say, there&#8217;s more misinformation out there, than information.  And misdiagnoses abound!</p>
<p>In the case of bipolar and most mental diseases, diagnosis is based on the self-reported experiences of an individual, as well as so-called abnormalities in behavior reported by family members, friends or co-workers.  First strike diagnosis is then followed up with &#8216;analysis&#8217; by a psychiatrist, nurse, <span class="mw-redirect">social worker</span>, <span class="mw-redirect">clinical psychologist</span> or other clinician in a clinical assessment.</p>
<p>As soon as a person gets saddled with a mental health diagnosis, the whole family along with his friends and co-workers jump on his back and ride.  They begin to expect certain things out of this person and, lo and behold,  they find them whether they are there or not.  This further serves to lock a diagnosed person into behavior patterns, not to mention creates the problem of being watched. ( Test for being watched weakness. If you find it, delete the cumulative effect and apply it to the pentagon.)</p>
<p>People who expect certain behavior patterns from themselves or others, leave very little room for a different behavior from themselves or others. They only notice the behaviors that fit the diagnosis box. A person with a diagnosis has &#8216;bad&#8217; things to watch out for&#8211;like not sleeping or showing small signs of excitement, for example. (Test for sleeping/not sleeping weakness. If found, make all concerned strong for having no reaction to not sleeping and no reaction to sleeping.)</p>
<p>A simple thing like not sleeping gets blown out of proportion in the mind and can trigger every behavior associated with past episodes diagnoses as manic or depressive.  The fact is, family members and friends get trained to watch for the slightest divergences from the norm and aren&#8217;t strong with different behavior from this person.</p>
<p>Strengthen all family members, loved ones and co-workers to the weakness of this poor bastard with any mental health diagnosis acting or behaving differently, and strengthen them to the person not changing.  People around a person with a mental disorder are often as &#8216;wacked out&#8217; as the person exhibiting the so called symptoms.  They sometimes purposely bring them on (consciously or non-consciously) thus creating a vicious cycle.</p>
<p>So you make the person who is diagnosed as manic-depressive or bipolar strong to the misinformation about his condition and all medical misinformation in general, then apply the pentagon.  You make the person strong to expectations from others and strong to expectations he has about himself.  Test for weaknesses in the awareness triad (subconscious, conscious and nonconscious) and strengthen.</p>
<p>If you do not perceive a change in the person with the diagnosis, test for perception weakness.  How do you test?  Use your intuition&#8211;the subject of another day.</p>
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		<title>Insisting Up the Wrong Tree!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Testosterone, though much maligned, has many benefits too.  The first time I saw my father after two years of his androgen deprivation therapy implant, I was shocked at how much he reminded me of a woman/man---the way he talked, decided things, his actual looks, his voice, his changed attitude about life, his very bent over posture....  I didn't know about the alterations to his hormones, so I just thought this was his version of getting old.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4><a href="http://www.mindoverchatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/phd042007s.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4600" title="Insisting up the wrong tree!" src="http://www.mindoverchatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/phd042007s-300x186.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="186" /></a>Wanna know how to make any problem a lot worse?</h4>
<p>(This is not a trick question.)</p>
<p>All we need to do is insist something is the answer when it isn&#8217;t and things get a whole hell of a lot worse.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s just put that habit in perspective with a simple everyday occurrence called losing your keys.</p>
<p>When you lose your keys how many times do you look in your purse, briefcase or pockets before you move on to where they really are?  Most of the time you aren&#8217;t happy until you&#8217;ve emptied everything out, even though the keys aren&#8217;t there, weren&#8217;t there and won&#8217;t get there any time soon.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a more far reaching example of insistence:  How much stronger will a microscope have to get before biochemists find those pesky, practically invisible creatures that are supposedly killing us?  How much more detail will the health experts need about the insides of our bodies before they find the causes for deterioration and pain?  (Both are trick questions.)</p>
<p>What if they&#8217;re all barking up the wrong tree&#8212;insisting that the answer to our optimal existence and longevity lies in a direction that it doesn&#8217;t, hasn&#8217;t and never will?  What a bummer that would be, especially since our economy, or what&#8217;s left of it, is dependent on the drug industry.</p>
<p>But if we keep our attention focused on the tree with the bio-chemistry fruits, for example, we&#8217;re going to engineer ourselves into something not human, at least as we know it.  Maybe that&#8217;s OK in the long run, I don&#8217;t know, but most of us don&#8217;t even suspect that this is already happening.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s fact it! We&#8217;re not looking at the long term results of much of any of our human actions: Not looking at the body from a structural standpoint, not looking at the price of rampaging through our natural unreplinishable resources, not looking at our increasing reliance on pharmaceuticals.</p>
<p>Many people are operating on daily doses of medication cocktails (yum yum) with not the slightest understanding about the effects of one medication taken long term, much less the effects of combo doses.  There is no way to figure out the effects of all the combinations except full speed ahead.</p>
<p>Look around. We&#8217;ve already engineering our biochemical and genetic makeup in big ways.  We started with the lowly vegetables who couldn&#8217;t talk back&#8212;just to give them a more eye pleasing color, a different tasting fruit (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluot" target="_blank">pluot</a>) and a longer shelf life. We moved on to animals. You have only to <em>google in </em>&#8216;cloning pets&#8217; to witness <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/17/911-hero-dog-cloned-for-c_n_216820.html" target="_blank">cloning gone wild</a>.  And we already do things to humans on a biochemical level that change them into hybrids.</p>
<p>My father, for example, has a <a href="http://www.urotoday.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view_ua&amp;id=2223766" target="_blank">testosterone blocker </a>implanted in his arm, so that he no longer lives his life with the influence of this male hormone.  He was diagnosed with a slow growing malignancy in his prostate gland years ago, and, just to be on the safe side, doctors decided to keep his body from producing testosterone&#8212;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castration" target="_blank">chemical castration, in other words</a>&#8212;the same castration used for sexual predators.</p>
<p>The first time I saw my father after two years of his androgen deprivation therapy implant, I was shocked at how much he reminded me of a female/male crossbreed&#8212;the way he talked, decided things, his actual looks, the sound of his voice, his changed attitude about life, his very bent over posture&#8230;etc.  I didn&#8217;t know about the alterations to his hormones, so I just thought this was his version of getting old.</p>
<p>Most recently, though, my father cracked his tailbone, but not by falling down like you would imagine.  It just cracked for no apparent reason other than obesity. I say no apparent reason because most of his time is spent sitting in a recliner and it&#8217;s well padded.  You can see why this tailbone thing has not sat well with me, if you&#8217;ll pardon the pun. Plus, no doctors are looking at the cause of the crack, either, so I decided to get cracking on my own.</p>
<p><a href="http://mens-sexual-health.suite101.com/article.cfm/testosterone_has_many_benefits" target="_blank">Testosterone, though much maligned, has many benefits</a> too. Today, I looked into testosterone blocking therapy and found a reason for cracked bones.  Without testosterone, bones get soft, so does the head or mind, by the way.</p>
<p>Just last week, my poor father offered a nurse 500 dollars to bring him a gun so he could kill himself.   I&#8217;m not saying that suicide is not a perfectly viable alternative in this case. I can even overlook his only offering the night nurse $500 when she might have done it for $50,000. I&#8217;m just saying that asking a nurse for a gun is just plain idiotic&#8212;-something he never would have done had he been in his right mind.  My father was anything but a stupid man when it came to judging people and their reactions. He used to be an expert and that was only a short while ago.</p>
<p>So back to testosterone: There are those who lustily proclaim the benefits of testosterone and are adamant about its powers to prevent degenerative conditions. According to people who use and believe in testosterone, both men and women can benefit greatly from it.</p>
<h3 class="dynamic">Testosterone Benefits for Men</h3>
<p>According to Neal Rouzier, M. D. in <em>How to Achieve Healthy Aging</em> <em> </em>(WorldLink Medical Publishing, 2007) low testosterone levels in men are responsible for the bulk of men’s physical and mental decline. Rouzier claims that adding testosterone to your chemical makeup can change the course of<a href="http://health.discovery.com/centers/mens/articles/andropause.html" target="_blank"> male andropause</a>&#8212; the male version of women’s menopause.  Over 80% of our male politicians are on some form of testosterone additives and so are the <a href="http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Are+our+women+MPs+taking+testosterone+to+match+the+men%3F-a0104688607" target="_blank">women politicians</a>&#8212;-surprise surprise!</p>
<p>Besides being a powerful aphrodisiac, adding testosterone to the biochemical mix improves a man’s emotional state, keeps him from becoming a “grumpy old man.” Some forms of depression may actually be the effects of low testosterone levels. Most doctors, however, treat depressed men with antidepressants, which can lower the testosterone levels even further.</p>
<p>Guess what else happens when you don&#8217;t have sufficient testosterone! Pot bellies and spare tires happen, along with the increased risk of Type II Diabetes due to the increase in visceral and belly fat.</p>
<p>Osteoporosis is another degenerative condition that can develop because of low testosterone levels.  Bingo, folks!  There you have it&#8212;one reason my father cracked his tailbone and is now in a nursing home asking for a gun.</p>
<p>No worries. He just needs a pill to increase his bone strength and density. <img src='http://www.mindoverchatter.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> <span> Daily Boniva reduces spinal fracture risk by 50%.  Meaning one out of two times you fall on your back you won&#8217;t break anything?<br />
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<h4><a href="http://osteoporosis.emedtv.com/boniva/boniva-side-effects.html">Headache, indigestion, and diarrhea are some of the more common side  effects reported with Boniva. Side effects are  usually minor and don&#8217;t require treatment, but it is possible to  develop serious side effects. Notify your healthcare provider  immediately if you experience jaw or  tooth problems, difficulty swallowing or breathing.</a></h4>
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		<title>Feel My Pain!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First put some attention on your midline ( that line down the middle-front of your body that extends from the tip of the head to the crotch).   The midline is where you can change your world. Not kidding. This is not a mysteriously manufactured concept that some spiritual teacher pulled out of his butt to impress us with.  It's just a built-in feature that we all come equipped with, much like all cars come with breaks.  I mean how long does it take to learn where the breaks are when you're driving?  It's not going to take even that long to learn the midline.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have come to some simple conclusions about pain:</p>
<p>1. People like to share their pain.</p>
<p>2. People like to feel each other&#8217;s pain.</p>
<p>3. Most people don&#8217;t like people who have no pain.</p>
<p>This article is going to tell you there is a way to rid yourself of any pain on the spot, or, in other words, get yourself unliked by many.</p>
<p>Do you have a problem with being disliked? Or perhaps it&#8217;s &#8216;liked&#8217; and you don&#8217;t know it?  Let&#8217;s examine this issue.</p>
<p>First put some attention on your midline ( that line down the middle-front of your body that extends from the tip of the head to the crotch).   The midline is where you can change your world. Not kidding. I learned it from a <a href="http://www.YMSEminars.com" target="_blank">Grandmaster of Shaolin Kung Fu</a>.  He calls it the Yuen Mastery System.</p>
<p>This is not a mysteriously manufactured concept that some spiritual teacher pulled out of his butt to impress us with.  It&#8217;s just a built-in feature that we all come equipped with, much like all cars come with breaks.  I mean how long does it take to learn where the breaks are when you&#8217;re driving?  It&#8217;s not going to take even that long to learn the midline.</p>
<p>I repeat&#8212;the midline is where big changes can be made.  You start by putting some attention on it when you want to strengthen a weakness( or correct).  At some point, though, the energy will just go there of its own accord, because it&#8217;s so natural.  Enough said.</p>
<p>Back to the issue of being disliked:  Here&#8217;s how you can tell if you have an issue with being disliked? Does it bother you to think about i? Most think it does, but it might not.  Does it bother you to be liked? Most think it doesn&#8217;t, but it might.   So how do you truly know whether it bothers you to be liked or disliked?  It&#8217;s not what you think it is. It&#8217;s what you feel that tells you the answer.  This is where intuition comes into play in a big big way.</p>
<p>If you want to know what truly weakens you, use your intuition.  Got any?</p>
<p>Not so fast. Before you answer, I&#8217;ll give you a hint&#8212;everyone has intuition; few know how to use it on command.  Intuition needs to be separated from your logical mind and from your emotions.  And that&#8217;s where our friend the midline comes in. (Remember the midline?)</p>
<p>Think about separating your logical mind from your intuition. Then pause. Now put some attention on your midline.  Voila!  You have separated your logical mind from your intuition.   Think about separating your intution from your emotions. Pause.  Put some attention on your midline.  Voila again!  Your intuition is separate and able to function independently from both your logical mind and your emotions.</p>
<p>With intuition functioning independently, you are ready to test whether you are one of those people who is bothered by other people&#8217;s disliking them.   There&#8217;s no inbetween.  If you are bothered by one person&#8217;s dislike of you, then you are bothered. Period.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s enough for now.  Right now, just go to your midline and put some attention there.  Feels different, doesn&#8217;t it!</p>
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		<title>Intuition or Bust!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Intuition is an ill defined and much discussed term or concept, and most would agree that the discussion leads to no where fast. Few people who talk about intuition do so from the place of experiencing it on command. Even fewer are speaking from a place of knowing how to help people experience their own intuition.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s so much misinformation flying at us about using and developing our intuition that the worthwhile info continues to get buried under a heap of useless and impractical emotions, feelings, perceptions and sabotaging thoughts.  No doubt, this will keep happening until the correct ideas become so mainstream that all the stupid talk can finally die down.</p>
<p>Some day the only discussion about intuition will come from our friends, the Historians.   They will study the times when people did not know how to access their own intuition, and we will all shake our heads at the ridiculous antics of human beings who insisted they were only using their &#8216;pure, practical intuition&#8217;.  (Sounds funny, doesn&#8217;t it?)</p>
<p>What I&#8217;m saying is, a lot of talk about a subject usually means that no one knows what he or she is talking about.  If enough people did know, the subject of how to develop human intuition would be a thing of the past.  Sad to say, the more misinformation circulating through the ethers about intuition means the less chance people have of actually experiencing it in this lifetime.</p>
<p>For example, some experts like to qualify intuition by calling it &#8216;pure&#8217; or &#8216;practical&#8217;.  Words like &#8216;pure&#8217; and &#8216;practical&#8217; when applied to anything always bring to mind the words like &#8216;impure&#8217; and &#8216;impractical&#8217;, and I don&#8217;t think these adjectives can be applied to intuition with much success. They just further sully or confuse the concept of any noun, thus implying that without the word &#8216;pure&#8217; or &#8216;practical&#8217;, intuition can be dirty and/or frivolous.</p>
<p>There are experts galore that tell us how to train or develop our intuition&#8212;they clog up my email inbox on a daily basis. Wouldn&#8217;t the best way to &#8216;develop&#8217; intuition come from someone who actually uses intuition&#8212;someone who realizes that intuition doesn&#8217;t need developing or training?</p>
<p>Intuition is just there hanging out, waiting in our human tool box&#8211;waiting to be separated from the other mental processes.  Happy to say, the separation takes less than sixty seconds when you know how to do it.</p>
<p>Speaking of which, explore what the leading <a href="http://www.YMSEminars.com" target="_blank">Grandmaster of Shaolin Kung Fu, Kam Yuen</a>, has to say about the subject of intuition. You can even join his <a href="http://www.millionairehealer.com" target="_blank">private club </a>for a monthly teaching teleseminar.  Grandmaster Yuen not only explains in clear detail what intuition is, but his explanation comes from the place of one who uses it all the time and teaches others to do so.</p>
<p>Many experts have jumped on the intuition bandwagon without a clue about where it&#8217;s going or how to get there.  Thankfully, Dr. Yuen is different.  He watches the intuition bandwagon headed for nowhere and continues to make the internal adjustments that are required among those who ask for them.</p>
<p>Everyone is naturally endowed with intuitive ability&#8211;including men. This innate intelligence gives us the potential to expand our minds to connect with answers and answers connect with us. There is nothing spiritual or psychic about the process of intuition.</p>
<p>Contrary to popular talk, intuition does not need developing or training.  It is just one of our mental processes. If we can separate the mind from its thinking and feeling, and separate the emotions, senses and perceptions from each other intuition will function independently and the human race will finally become &#8216;human&#8217;.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;">Mind over chatter is a funny oxymoron. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;"> Oftentimes my conscious mind chatters nonstop! It&#8217;s a regular dictating bastard much of the time. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;">Making matters worse, my mind used to think itself ‘omnipotent’, and in so doing was fooled into believing that this was so.<span> </span>I remember when it raced out of control over minutiae, attacking not only itself but every other component in sight, i. e the body and the spirit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;">So I&#8217;ve come to this decision: My worst enemy is housed within.  (A worst enemy is one you don&#8217;t identify as such.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;">I suspect, though, that most everyone thinks his mind is god and I guess it sort of is.  The mind, after all, is<span> </span>fully aware of all our weaknesses and will attack relentlessly and without mercy until there is nothing left.<span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;">People who rely on their mind too much drown in the specifics of life.<span> </span>Not a very comforting thought, especially since I&#8217;ve seen it happen to people I love.<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;">I remember having a heart to heart talk about the mind vs. intuition with my friend (a male friend, of course).<span> </span>It wasn’t that heated, but we were going around the usual points over and over getting nowhere.<span> </span>And I don’t remember why I was bothering to argue about it, either.<span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;">He finally said, “It doesn’t matter what you or anyone else says, Laura.<span> </span>A long time ago I decided that my mind was the best thing about me. I value my logical mind above all else.”<span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 100%;">Well, Scott,” I answered without thinking, “You might want to remember that it was your <strong>mind</strong> who decided this about itself.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;">He froze in place with his mouth hanging open for a full three seconds. <span> </span>I felt like I’d paralyzed him with the logic he so adored by out logic-ing him, but it was pretty much an empty victory. <span> </span>I had no idea how to correct the pitiful situation. <span> </span>It’s only recently that I found something that works. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;">Which brings me to here&#8212;<em>what to do about the mind</em>. <span> </span>Do we just point out all the stupid decisions it’s made and berate it into submission? That won’t work. I know people who do it all the time. <span> </span><span> </span>A mind will find a way to ignore its own ineffectiveness. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;">How about assigning the mind a place of equal importance along with the body and spirit?<span> </span>I mean there <strong>are</strong> two other components of us&#8212;called body and spirit. <span> </span><span> </span>Rather than letting the mind put itself in the ruling position, let’s examine the equality option. <span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;">I have to say I really like the equality option.<span> </span>Many ‘spiritual’ teachers put the Spirit at the top of the heap, but I don’t find that very helpful.  <span> </span>I had 12 years of religious schooling.<span> </span>The folks who consistently repress the flesh are incomplete and weird to the point that their personality often splits into two separate components under the pressure. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;">I don’t think most people realize how crazy the Spirit really is. Put bluntly, the spirit is one crazy <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mofo" target="_blank">mofo</a>.<span> </span>It has access to each and every experience&#8212; not only its own, but everyone else’s, especially if you choose to go the psychic <span> </span>route and open yourself to other people’s spiritual experiences. <span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;"><span> </span><em>‘<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/quotes" target="_blank">Lions and tigers and bears</a>’</em> of the past present and future are bad enough when they are your own. Expose yourself to everyone else’s lions and tigers and bears and you’ve got bedlam to the infinite. <span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;">My point is this: The spirit is a valuable and necessary component of the mind/body/spirit triad but not a reliable teacher on its own.<span> </span>More often than not it is willing to sacrifice the mind and the body just to get its own way.<span> </span>And then it has to <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glom%20on%20to" target="_blank">glom onto</a> another body/mind for the next physical go round. You’d think the Spirit would learn after ten thousand bodies or so…..I rest my case. <span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;">Let’s just say that I value my body as much as my spirit. <span> </span>Maybe when I don’t have one I’ll value it even more, or maybe less. <span> </span>That time will come soon enough on its own.<span> </span>I don’t need my spirit to hasten the process by letting in run wild and roughshod over my body and mind, trying to make up for all the karma it wears like a <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=sack+cloth&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rlz=1R1GPTB_en___US356" target="_blank">sackcloth</a>. How long are we expected to make up for our karma by suffering and creating more? <span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;">Enough said. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;">Now I come to the people like my logical friend Scott, the kind who give the mind more importance than the body or the spirit&#8212;the ‘scientific, classical philosophers amongst us. <span> </span>I’ve been there, too, so I’m not throwing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher%27s_stone" target="_blank">stones at the philosophers</a>. (Pardon the pun.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;"><span> </span>I can remember when I held my head up, balanced high on the pretense of pure logic. I’ve lived by suppressing, repressing and denying that my emotions played any role in my so-called logical decisions. <span> </span>Suppressed, forgotten emotions make for some nasty but exciting outcomes.<span> </span>If you like excitement for its own sake then be my guest.<span> </span>You can even forget your bad experiences until your good ones get forgotten too. <span> </span><span> </span>Alzheimer’s can’t be that bad if you’re the one who has it.<span> </span><span> </span>(Pause to smell the sarcasm.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;">Thankfully, I’ve found a system that can take care of the repressed, suppressed, shut down, denied and forgotten experiences, plus all the emotions they generate. <span> </span>It works like nothing else&#8212;the <a href="http://www.YMSeminars.com" target="_blank">Yuen Mastery System.</a><span> </span>The only thing you really need is the correct information and that’s where the system excels.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;">The mind is not a clean component without this system, folks. <span> </span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;">The fact is, without this system, the mind is a saboteur extraordinaire, quite capable of sabotaging itself 100% of the time. The mind needs very much to be protected from itself, or it can’t get to its own infinite potential. <span> </span>(Sigh) <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;">We shouldn’t be surprised to learn that the mind can sabotage everything else too&#8212;-everything else being the body and the spirit. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;">So we correct for that. After a few informative corrections are in place it’s a snap.<span> </span>Corrections are made on the midline (that line down the middle of the front of our bodies).<span> </span>By putting some energy or attention there, until the corrections just happen naturally, we can change most anything that was unwisely considered to be unchangeable about human beings. <span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;">In other words, in two seconds or less, we can do away with mental sabotage or at least bring it down to a minimum just by knowing what we want to do and putting some attention on our midline to strengthen or correct the weaknesses.<span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 110%;">Once the mind is corrected not to sabotage itself, we look at the body:<span> </span>Since the<span> </span>body expects the mind to sabotage it, we correct for that weakness too&#8212;once again on the midline.<span> </span>We correct the body to be strong all the way from the quantum particles up to the structure and back again. <span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 110%;">Oh the joy of the midline! <span> </span></span></p>
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