I discovered the theta brain waves today.
Reaching a theta state allows you to command your subconscious.
In the theta state, I can access the entirety of universal knowledge and know that my requests will be granted.
In the theta, I am beyond quantum laws.
I feel good now. right now.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
When it's time to pay the piper
When it's time to pay the piper, you have to choose which piper you want to listen to.
I'm middle aged with a young family.
Already had a sarcoma.
BMI is 27, doctor wants it to be 23-24.
Good heart, cholesterol, BP, etc.
Got depression and take meds.
Beginning to forget things. On maternal side, 3 died from Alzheimer's. Don't think that doesn't occupy my mind.
So, which piper will play for me?
Defeatist? or Optimist?
It's my choice. How do I conduct this midlife dance?
Exercise and diet are the key. And this will be my record.
5.10 1/2
208 lbs
I want to try a ketonic diet for memory. Some have said Alzheimer's is diabetes of the brain. It's a function of glucose intolerance, but doesn't necessarily play out as diabetes of the body.
The ketonic diet reduces carb intake to less than 100 per day. The body, for energy, begins to chew it's own fat.
There is nausea, headaches, etc. But there is health afterwards.
I once ate only raw foods for 21 days and felt great and remember thinking how sharp my memory was. I bet I was close to ketosis, but didn't know about it then.
I also began seeing a shrink to help me keep things in check.
He's a talking shrink, and MD, the real Freudian type. Should be an experience.
Wish me luck.
Good luck.
I'm middle aged with a young family.
Already had a sarcoma.
BMI is 27, doctor wants it to be 23-24.
Good heart, cholesterol, BP, etc.
Got depression and take meds.
Beginning to forget things. On maternal side, 3 died from Alzheimer's. Don't think that doesn't occupy my mind.
So, which piper will play for me?
Defeatist? or Optimist?
It's my choice. How do I conduct this midlife dance?
Exercise and diet are the key. And this will be my record.
5.10 1/2
208 lbs
I want to try a ketonic diet for memory. Some have said Alzheimer's is diabetes of the brain. It's a function of glucose intolerance, but doesn't necessarily play out as diabetes of the body.
The ketonic diet reduces carb intake to less than 100 per day. The body, for energy, begins to chew it's own fat.
There is nausea, headaches, etc. But there is health afterwards.
I once ate only raw foods for 21 days and felt great and remember thinking how sharp my memory was. I bet I was close to ketosis, but didn't know about it then.
I also began seeing a shrink to help me keep things in check.
He's a talking shrink, and MD, the real Freudian type. Should be an experience.
Wish me luck.
Good luck.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Authentic Happiness -- U of Penn Questionairres
Dr. Martin Seligman's main mission has been the promotion of the field of Positive Psychology. This discipline includes the study of positive emotion, positive character traits, and positive institutions. Dr. Seligman is now turning his attention to training Positive Psychologists, individuals whose practice will make the world a happier place, parallel to the way clinical psychologists have made the world a less unhappy place.
wabi:sabi -- Working with Uncertainty as an Artist
The beauty of imperfection and understated elegance...
Honoring the Creative Process -- Eric Maisel
Abuncance model: you have a lifetime of work to do. 80% of it might be great, but perhaps not all of it will. Understand that you will make mistakes and that is OK.
Goal-Oriented Process -- Eric Maisel
An unkempt garden will grow weeds and perhaps rotten tomato. But a goal-oriented garden will produce what you plant and cultivate.
Create first thing each day. Make use of your sleep creativity. Even before you start to think about breakfast.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Hunting the Hidden Dimension -- Fractals
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/programs/ht/tm/3514.html?site=34&pl=qt&rate=hi&ch=1
5-Part series
NARRATOR: In 1978, at Boeing Aircraft in Seattle, engineers were designing experimental aircraft.
LOREN CARPENTER (Pixar Animation Studios): Exotic things, with two wings or two tails or two fuselages, and just weird stuff because, "who knows, it might work."
NARRATOR: A young computer scientist named Loren Carpenter was helping them visualize what the planes might look like in flight.
LOREN CARPENTER: I would get the data from them and make pictures from various angles, but I wanted to be able to put a mountain behind it, because every Boeing publicity photo in existence has a mountain behind it. But there was no way to do mountains. Mountains had millions and millions of little triangles or polygons or whatever you want to call it, and we had enough trouble with a hundred. Especially in those days when our machines were slower than the ones you have in your watch.
NARRATOR: Carpenter didn't want to make just any mountains. He wanted to create a landscape the planes could fly through. But there was no way to do that with existing animation techniques. From the time movies began, animators had to draw each frame by hand—thousands of them—to make even a short cartoon.
THUMPER (Bambi/Filmclip): That's why they call me Thumper.
NARRATOR: But that was before Loren Carpenter stumbled across the work of a little-known mathematician named Benoit Mandelbrot.
LOREN CARPENTER: In 1978, I ran into this book in a bookstore: Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension, by Benoit Mandelbrot, and it has to do with the fractal geometry of nature. So I bought the book and took it home and read it, cover to cover, every last little word, including the footnotes and references, twice.
NARRATOR: In his book, Mandelbrot said that many forms in nature can be described mathematically as fractals: a word he invented to define shapes that look jagged and broken. He said that you can create a fractal by taking a smooth-looking shape and breaking it into pieces, over and over again.
Carpenter decided he'd try doing that on his computer.
LOREN CARPENTER: Within three days, I was producing pictures of mountains on my computer at work.
The method is dead simple. You start with a landscape made out of very rough triangles, big ones. And then for each triangle, break it into, into four triangles. And then do that again, and then again and again and again.
NARRATOR: Endless repetition—what mathematicians call iteration—it's one of the keys to fractal geometry.
Michael Moschen: Juggler, Scientist, Motion Artist
"What I love is that I never know what I'm working on. They're not ideas; they're instincts. And that's good. I like to not know as long as possible. Well, because then it tells me the truth, instead of me imposing the truth."
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Friday, July 2, 2010
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Cycling Wednesdays: #7: How many pegs do you hang your self-esteem on?
Dr. John Mandrola is a cardiac electrophysiologist (heart rhythm specialist) practicing in Louisville KY, and an amateur cyclist. (Posted: 30 Jun 2010 08:28 PM PDT)
"Older" athletes often ask me what else they can do to prevent heart disease. As, by virtue of their athletic lifestyle, most have none of the usual cardiac risk factors. High blood pressure, smoking, diabetes and obesity are infrequent concerns for the competitive athlete.
A more vexing, and highly intangible problem for those who compete is the notion of self-worth. And this is important for the heart, as those who reach inner peace with themselves clearly have less inflammation--less chronic unremitting stress. The heart at peace just rolls on rhythmically, like a cyclist with an endless tailwind.
A wise friend, on a long car ride, once taught me about the metaphor of the pegs in your coat rack. That is, the notion that one's self-esteem, self-worth or whatever we call that which gives us comfort in our own skin, needs to be hung on pegs, in a coat rack per say. Self-esteem gets to be a heavy load sometimes, so the wise man suggests not hanging too much on one peg, rather, it is much safer for the heart (soul) to spread one's self-worth over many pegs.
For cyclists, an important question to ask ourselves, is how much of our self-worth do we hang on just one peg, the cycling peg for instance? If the answer is a lot, the peg had better be a strong one.
The most obvious example of having a strong cycling peg is Lance. Eventually, though, even his cycling peg will wear down and break. Like his peers, Michael Jordan, Roger Clemons, Brett Farve, to name just a few of many, did Lance return to competition after retirement because as a highly focused professional athlete there are few other pegs in which to hang self-worth upon?
But Lance is Lance, and his cycling peg is amongst the strongest. In the master's cycling world, populated by middle-aged humans on the cusp of heart disease, it is too often the case that the cycling peg holds the heavy load of self-esteem. This is unhealthy, and even inflammatory, as amateurs are amateurs for a reason.
For me, I could consider myself an outstanding cyclist, an average cyclist and a terrible one all at the same time. In racing over-trained triathletes, I would be outstanding, against the local bike racers, I am a tick above average, and against world-class competition, I would fail miserably. And no matter how much I focus on one race, or one discipline, this pattern is impossible to change. But it would be possible to mess up my heart, or life trying to be world-class, or even just trying too hard to win a local criterium--and the fifty dollar prize.
The peg metaphor works in all aspects of life. In doctoring, there are still single-minded, work-obsessed doctors who round early in the morning and late into the night--although many fewer these days. Also, sadly, some doctors, like athletes that persist past their prime, keep working past their retirement age, again, in no small part because they have no other pegs in their coat rack on which to hang their self-worth. How many times have I seen the elderly doctor finally retire, only to be felled by a heart attack, or cancer. A result of chronic inflammation, perhaps? If only they had other pegs, retirement would surely be much less fearsome.
Finally, few better examples exist for the peg metaphor than kid's sports. We want our children to be excellent at whatever they do, be it chess, swimming, math or whatever. But in striving for excellence, society seems to have convinced us (parents, coaches and teachers) that specialization is mandatory. For example, many seem convinced that Tiger's success was because he golfed before being potty trained and persisted in single-minded focus throughout his life.
Perpetual specialization brings success, and with success comes fulfillment, seems to be the current dogma in children's athletics. But the wise man knows this isn't true, and in fact, it may indeed be the opposite, primarily because specialization and single-mindedness requires hanging too much self-worth on only one peg. For all but the 0.001% of children who go on to make a living in professional sports, having many available pegs in which to hang one's self-worth is the most likely means of avoiding unnecessary inflammation of the heart (and soul.) Even the professional athlete would be served by having a few back-up pegs available for the future. Think, Eric Heiden, a former olympian, and professional bike racer, and now successful surgeon. Many pegs.
The wise man isn't suggesting one should avoid getting really good at one thing, like mastering a skill, or trade, or learning a profession, but, in the journey for excellence in a singular goal, having other pursuits--other pegs--is critically important for the inner tranquility of the heart (and soul).
To my fellow cyclists, or over-achievers of any sort, kids and adults alike, listen to the wise man who suggests having many pegs in your coat rack, as self-worth is often a heavy load. Have no fear, having numerous pegs will not impede your progress in the endeavor of the moment. And, remember, life changes quickly, pegs crack under strain, or they just wear out with age. So it seems immensely wise to not hang too much weight on just one peg, rather, sharing the heavy load of inner peace over many pegs will serve a heart (and soul) well.
Ride on, but dwell less on the results, and more on the good sensations of the moment.
JMM
"Older" athletes often ask me what else they can do to prevent heart disease. As, by virtue of their athletic lifestyle, most have none of the usual cardiac risk factors. High blood pressure, smoking, diabetes and obesity are infrequent concerns for the competitive athlete.
A more vexing, and highly intangible problem for those who compete is the notion of self-worth. And this is important for the heart, as those who reach inner peace with themselves clearly have less inflammation--less chronic unremitting stress. The heart at peace just rolls on rhythmically, like a cyclist with an endless tailwind.
A wise friend, on a long car ride, once taught me about the metaphor of the pegs in your coat rack. That is, the notion that one's self-esteem, self-worth or whatever we call that which gives us comfort in our own skin, needs to be hung on pegs, in a coat rack per say. Self-esteem gets to be a heavy load sometimes, so the wise man suggests not hanging too much on one peg, rather, it is much safer for the heart (soul) to spread one's self-worth over many pegs.
For cyclists, an important question to ask ourselves, is how much of our self-worth do we hang on just one peg, the cycling peg for instance? If the answer is a lot, the peg had better be a strong one.
The most obvious example of having a strong cycling peg is Lance. Eventually, though, even his cycling peg will wear down and break. Like his peers, Michael Jordan, Roger Clemons, Brett Farve, to name just a few of many, did Lance return to competition after retirement because as a highly focused professional athlete there are few other pegs in which to hang self-worth upon?
But Lance is Lance, and his cycling peg is amongst the strongest. In the master's cycling world, populated by middle-aged humans on the cusp of heart disease, it is too often the case that the cycling peg holds the heavy load of self-esteem. This is unhealthy, and even inflammatory, as amateurs are amateurs for a reason.
For me, I could consider myself an outstanding cyclist, an average cyclist and a terrible one all at the same time. In racing over-trained triathletes, I would be outstanding, against the local bike racers, I am a tick above average, and against world-class competition, I would fail miserably. And no matter how much I focus on one race, or one discipline, this pattern is impossible to change. But it would be possible to mess up my heart, or life trying to be world-class, or even just trying too hard to win a local criterium--and the fifty dollar prize.
The peg metaphor works in all aspects of life. In doctoring, there are still single-minded, work-obsessed doctors who round early in the morning and late into the night--although many fewer these days. Also, sadly, some doctors, like athletes that persist past their prime, keep working past their retirement age, again, in no small part because they have no other pegs in their coat rack on which to hang their self-worth. How many times have I seen the elderly doctor finally retire, only to be felled by a heart attack, or cancer. A result of chronic inflammation, perhaps? If only they had other pegs, retirement would surely be much less fearsome.
Finally, few better examples exist for the peg metaphor than kid's sports. We want our children to be excellent at whatever they do, be it chess, swimming, math or whatever. But in striving for excellence, society seems to have convinced us (parents, coaches and teachers) that specialization is mandatory. For example, many seem convinced that Tiger's success was because he golfed before being potty trained and persisted in single-minded focus throughout his life.
Perpetual specialization brings success, and with success comes fulfillment, seems to be the current dogma in children's athletics. But the wise man knows this isn't true, and in fact, it may indeed be the opposite, primarily because specialization and single-mindedness requires hanging too much self-worth on only one peg. For all but the 0.001% of children who go on to make a living in professional sports, having many available pegs in which to hang one's self-worth is the most likely means of avoiding unnecessary inflammation of the heart (and soul.) Even the professional athlete would be served by having a few back-up pegs available for the future. Think, Eric Heiden, a former olympian, and professional bike racer, and now successful surgeon. Many pegs.
The wise man isn't suggesting one should avoid getting really good at one thing, like mastering a skill, or trade, or learning a profession, but, in the journey for excellence in a singular goal, having other pursuits--other pegs--is critically important for the inner tranquility of the heart (and soul).
To my fellow cyclists, or over-achievers of any sort, kids and adults alike, listen to the wise man who suggests having many pegs in your coat rack, as self-worth is often a heavy load. Have no fear, having numerous pegs will not impede your progress in the endeavor of the moment. And, remember, life changes quickly, pegs crack under strain, or they just wear out with age. So it seems immensely wise to not hang too much weight on just one peg, rather, sharing the heavy load of inner peace over many pegs will serve a heart (and soul) well.
Ride on, but dwell less on the results, and more on the good sensations of the moment.
JMM
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Reveal Your Hearts Wisdom
What would bring me the most joy? I would be so joyful if I could relax and think, read and learn, study with masters, evolve spiritually to be a kind, loving, tolerant person, one whose presence is healing to others.
I would be so joyful if I could travel to all parts of the world, I’d smell the air of Paris, the food of Russia, the dry climate of Africa and the rice of China. I would talk with all kinds of people for hours, I would tape the sessions, and have them transcribed and listen to them again and again, learning all that I can.
I would be most joyful if I could teach my boys how to live their bliss fully and how to do what they love best without having to suffer the slings and arrows of foolish mortals who only want them for their ability to make them money. I’d want my boys to create their own futures, be healers and creators and lovers and peaceful.
I would be most joyful if I could travel and write, direct movies and plays, write movies and plays, make an impact with transformational writing.
I would be most joyful if I could spend lots of time by water and up in the mountains, if I could walk for hours, if I could maintain optimal health -- physically and mentally and spiritually. I would be most joyful if I could trust and love unconditionally.
I would be so joyful if I could travel to all parts of the world, I’d smell the air of Paris, the food of Russia, the dry climate of Africa and the rice of China. I would talk with all kinds of people for hours, I would tape the sessions, and have them transcribed and listen to them again and again, learning all that I can.
I would be most joyful if I could teach my boys how to live their bliss fully and how to do what they love best without having to suffer the slings and arrows of foolish mortals who only want them for their ability to make them money. I’d want my boys to create their own futures, be healers and creators and lovers and peaceful.
I would be most joyful if I could travel and write, direct movies and plays, write movies and plays, make an impact with transformational writing.
I would be most joyful if I could spend lots of time by water and up in the mountains, if I could walk for hours, if I could maintain optimal health -- physically and mentally and spiritually. I would be most joyful if I could trust and love unconditionally.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Toein the Line, the King ain't Naked
How many people are employed in jobs they not only hate but that actually go against their sense of decency? I'd venture to say many. We find ways to ignore our deep core of meaning, that unchangable part of us that no one nor no thing can ever touch. Viktor Frankl speaks eloquently about this part of the human being. In an ideal world, we'd all be doing the things that lead us to self actualization. The argument can be made that hardships, adversity and challenges are paths to self actualization. What happens to us is we become numb to our higher purposes, consumed with keeping a roof over our heads, feeding our selves, and taking some pleasure in "time off" and relaxation.
The key, I believe, is to never lose sight of one's higher purpose, that yearning that we can make a positive difference in the world. If we live with this on a daily, nay, moment to moment basis, then we will eventually attract what we need. The key to not losing sight of this goal is to not get frustrated and give up when instant gratification is not met.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
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