REFRESH OUR MIND -- PART-- 31

COLOURS CAN RELAX AND ENERGIZE A TIRED MIND

A SPLASH OF COLOURS CAN RELAX AND ENRGIZE A TIRED MIND, BESIDES EASING THOSE STRESS LINES ON OUR FOREHEAD.


Imagine a world without colours. Impossible! For it would look a dull, pallid canvas. To drive the drabness out of life, we need to make a happy splash of hues in our day-to-day usual business.
A rainbow of seven shades adds beauty to the sky and lifts our spirits. Noted English physicist Sir Isaac Newton's colour-disc proves this phenomenon. Similarly, a palette of chromes decks up a pretty painting. Hop into any art gallery and you will see a window of diverse dyes open out before you. “After a brainstorming session at work or a rough ride down a clogged road, a visit to an art exhibition is a great stress reliever. It invokes a sense of serenity and is always joyfully exciting," prescribes clinical psychologists.
It is justified to assume, that colours add a zing to the daily humdrum. Science tells us that colour is simply a light of varying wavelengths and frequencies. Exercising a strong impact on the minds, colours reveal tell-tale signs of our mood swings and body vitality.
Pigments help perk up our moods in hard-pressed situations. So, can colours really help to keep the blues at bay?
Often we choose colours to depict our emotions. According to colour therapy experts, colours not only affect sentiments, but also help tackle illnesses though healing properties.
Nature spreads out a charming carpet of colours. Enter a garden, stroll along its stony path or soak in the beauty of dew drenched meadows -- all our worries are washed away in a flash. "I walk a mile every morning for that burst of fresh oxygen. It is healthy to gaze at a spot of greenery. It not only relaxes your mind but also improves your vision," espouses a morning walker.
Take films, for example. A grand, colourful marquee always appears stunning to the weary mind. It instantly transports the mind to a different time-zone, detached from the present reality.
Even lessons at kindergarten become colourful as teachers introduce tiny tots to the world of doodling with crayons and colour pencils. A picture is worth a thousand words. Teach a nursery child with the aid of colourful props and drawings and the child will respond promptly, as opposed to mere writing or blackboard lessons.
Colours by far tingle a child's creativity and interest in learning at a preparatory stage. So whatever the stage of growth of scale of stress we are at, we could all use a dab of colour to wipe away our blues.

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company…………George Washington

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them………………. James Fallows

I guess that’s how death works. It doesn’t matter if we’re ready or not. It just happens……………Randy K.Milholland

These days an income is something you can't live without-or within…………..TOM WILSON

REFRESH OUR MIND -- PART -- 30

WEIGHT LOSS MOTIVATION IS HAVING LOVE FOR SELF


Weight Loss Motivation

Motivation is the primary element among all the other factors, which determine our success and confidence in whatever we do. Motivation to lose weight is so important that it can be correctly said in absence of motivation, weight loss failure is guaranteed. Motivation is defined as the driving force that gives the performer the needed resolve to accomplish a specific objective and lets him become successful finally.

We all have problems with motivation at one time or another and weight loss motivation is no exception. One of the first rules of successful weight loss motivation is always make decisions, make them logically, make them quick, but most important, and change them slow.

Lack of weight loss motivation is one of the top reasons why you fail in losing weight successfully and permanently. Once you have discovered what your weight loss motivation is, you can then create a plan to achieve your desired weight.

Fat Loss Secret

I'm guessing you have tried to lose weight before, and in your attempt to do so you may have failed. The truth is that it's not your fault and you must know what the true cause of weight gain is and how you can overcome it.

The real reason that you are still overweight and unhealthy after trying every fad diet, exercise program, diet supplement, and piece of exercise equipment under the sun is because you have deadly parasites and life shortening plaques inside of your body that will not allow you to ever achieve the results you desire as long as they exist in you.

Anyone who is thinking of starting a diet or a weight reduction program of any kind would love a fat loss secret that works. But you should be aware of this: If you are working out trying to get 6 pack abs without the fat loss secret, you are losing out.

Always remember the ultimate goal of the weight loss motivation is to achieve a self-sustaining healthy lifestyle that comes naturally to you. Perhaps you would like to know the fastest and easiest way to drop those unwanted pounds, but is there really a fat loss secret that works. When it comes down to it, weight loss motivation is your ticket to both looking and feeling better for a long time to come.
REFRESHMENTS:
Associate yourself withmen of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.............GEORGE WASHINGTON
Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them........JAMES FALLOWS

REFRESH OUR MIND -- PART -- 29

CONFUSION IS SYMBOLIC OF INTELLIGENCE AND GROWTH

Confusion simply means you have started thinking; you have started being an individual on your own. Confusion is not a bad state at all. Every seeker has to start with confusion. It is good that you are feeling a little confused. That shows the beginning of intelligence, because unless you have some intelligence you cannot be confused. The heart never gets confused; it simply knows.

Confusion means: new furniture in the house
Confusion comes only when something new comes. Whenever something new comes you have to read just yourself. Confusion means you have brought new furniture in the house; now you have to rearrange everything. Confusion is part of life. Only dead people are never confused. Confusion simply says that you are still alive, you are still growing.

Do your acts playfully
Whatsoever you are doing, do it playfully, don’t be serious about it. And then there will be no question of confusion. Whenever you are confused, that simply shows that you have come against something in yourself which needs to be changed. You have come across a block — that block has to be dissolved. Somewhere you have some habit, some pattern, and some structure that is creating trouble; that structure can be changed. Don’t be worried!

Confusion and certainty are together
When there is confusion, there can be certainty; when confusion disappears, certainty also disappears. It is the most beautiful moment in one’s life when there is neither confusion nor certainty. One simply is, a mirror reflecting that which is, with no direction, going nowhere, with no idea of doing something, with no future, just utterly in the moment, tremendously in the moment.

Life is paradox
Life has tremendous mystery in it because it is based on paradox. You are feeling confused because you have a certain fixed idea about how life should be — you don’t allow life to be as it is. The confusion is of your own creation.
The moment you accept that I don’t know, all confusion will disappear, simply evaporate – just as dewdrops evaporate in the early morning sun, leaving no trace behind them.

Meditation is a state of clarity, not a state of mind.
Mind is confusion. Mind is never clear. It cannot be. Thoughts create clouds around you. A mist is created by them, and the clarity is lost. When thoughts disappear, when there are no more clouds around you, when you are in your simple beingness, clarity happens. Meditation is clarity, absolute clarity of vision. You cannot think about it. You have to drop thinking. Let thoughts settle themselves. You just sit gazing at the wall, in a silent corner, relaxed, loose. You remain alert inside but the whole body moves into deep relaxation.
Courtesy Osho International Foundation/www.osho.com

REFRESH OUR MIND -- PART --28

THE 'PRESENT MOMENT' IS THE MIND PLAYING ITS LITTLE MANAGEMENT GAME ON YOU.................BUT THE 'PRESENT' NEED NOT BE A MOMENT AT ALL

"The timeless midst the transient, the awareness amidst the flux" Join back the little slivers of time that you have unwittingly split up with your own hands. Regain a continuing sense of the present. The so called `present moment' isn't here now and gone the next instant. Flow with nature and discover for yourself if your `present moment' can continue longer, through the hour, through the day. Allow that little fleeting instant to stretch out. Rejoin the fragments of your life that have been broken into little manageable bits of `10 AM, meeting with boss', `10.15 AM, meeting with client'. Have a `whole day meeting with self" -- no boss, no client, no computer, nothing to tell what time it is. Remove the scheduler, the task manager, the wrist watch, the little digital dial with its virtual ticks marking out an irreversible, irredeemable slice of your life that was here now this instant and gone forever the next. Reset your life, gain freedom from gadgets that have cut up your conception of time into little pieces. Let man made, machine made time fly out finally and completely, never to return again, at least not with the same manic force and strength.
Ancient man measured time by the moon and seasons. For him time was something completely different from what it is now. You can call him primitive, call him out dated, but remember this -- his present moment lasted much longer, he was more at peace, more in sync with the universe than we can ever be. Try and flow with rhythms of nature that our ancestors understood so well, and which no longer make sense to our chopped up world. There is time marked by day and night, a full twelve hours each -- something you will understand only if you find yourself in a silent remote place with nothing to do except watch the sun rise and set, watch the stars wheel around and fade, and watch the sun rise again.
There is time marked by phases of the moon, lasting twenty eight days from a full moon to a full moon. There is time marked by rhythms of seasons, and if you can ever learn to mark your time by this you will be a completely different person for the rest of your days. There are also rhythms beyond the solstice, almost beyond the ken of human grasp.There are visitations of comets, like Halley, which returns every 72 years. The human life span isn't long enough to mark time by this. Then there are longer rhythms way beyond human reference. There is the coming and going of the ice age, for instance, and even longer rhythms beyond the grasp of science.
All time is, in a sense, mind. Understand this and change forever. The `present moment' is the mind playing its little management game on you.Because the so called `present' needn't be a moment at all, it could be an hour, a day or the rest of forever. The faster time flows, the more restless your mind is, and the smaller your `moment' is. Soon a point is reached where the mind is so frayed by whirling events that the present `moment' has gone completely.
Life is then a daze where events are happening in a blur and there is no grasp of the now. Conversely, when you flow in deep meditation, time seems to stop completely, the everyday mind fades away and a deeper mind surfaces, bringing with it a different far slower sense of time.
If we choose to, all can always become now. If you can slip out of the clutches of manmade time, and slip into the rhythms of time as nature made it out to be, you sense a deep expansion of the present moment. Understanding time completely means reaching a point of stillness where time disappears. At that point, the mind also disappears. Suddenly the truth hits home. There is a part of us which is timeless. A part of us which can never be ravaged by time. Seek that timelessness amidst the transience. Feel that stillness in the storm.

REFRESHMENTS:

The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people............G.K. CHESTERTON

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet..............MAE WEST

If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it..............LEO ROSTEN

REFRESH OUR MIND -- PART 27

BRAIN TELLS YOU WHAT'S LIVING AND WHAT'S NOT

New research shows that even in people who have been blind since birth, the brain still separates living and non-living objects. "If both sighted people and people with blindness process the same ideas in the sameparts of the brain, then it follows that visual experience is not necessary in order for those aspects of brain organisation to develop," said Bradford Mahon, study co-author, University of Rochester. "We think this means significant parts of the brain are innately structured around a few domains of knowledge that were critical in humans' evolutionary history." Previous studies have shown that the sight of certain objects, such as a table or mountain, activate regions of the brain other than the sight of living objects, such as an animal or face - but why the brain would choose to process these two categories differently has remained a mystery, said Mahon. Since the regions were known to activate when the objects were seen, scientists wondered if something about the visual appearance of the objects determined how the brain would process them. For instance, said Mahon, most living things have curved forms, and so many scientists thought the brain prefers to process images of living things in an area that is optimised for curved forms.To see if the appearance of objects is indeed key to how the brain conducts its processing, Mahon and his team, led by Alfonso Caramazza, director of the Cognitive Neuro psychology Laboratory at Harvard University, asked people who have been blind since birth to think about certain living and non-living objects. These people had no visual experience at all, so their brains necessarily determined where to do the processing using some criteria other than an object's appearance. "When we looked at the MRI scans, it was pretty clear that blind people and sighted people were dividing up living and non-living processing in the same way," said Mahon. These findings were published in Neuron.

REFRESH YOUR MIND

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines........ R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

You can do anything, but not everything......DAVID ALLEN

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail....ABRAHAM MASLOW

Never play a thing the same way twice.......LOUIS ARMSTRONG

Rudeness is the weak person's imitation of strength..... ERIC HOFFER

Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.....BOB PACKWOOD

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.......OSCAR LEVANT

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.....HELEN ROWLAND

The largest living land mammal is the absent mind.....CAPT. BEEFHEART

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sypathethic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of those.........GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

Getting things done is not always what is most important.There is value in allowing others to learn, even if the task is not accomplished as quickly, efficiently or effectively.....R.D. CLYDE

It's never too late -- never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.....JANE FONDA

REFRESH OUR MIND -- PART -- 26

SWEARING CAN LESSEN THE EFFECTS OF STRESS AND PAIN

Swearing may be considered impolite, but the British researchers have found that swearing helps lessen physical pain and the related stress. Researchers at Keele University, near Newcastleunder-Lyme in Staffordshire, England, have found that swearing can lessen the effect of pain and help people endure painful situations for longer. For example put your hands in ice water for as long as you could, repeat a swear word of your choice you will be able to cope with the cold water for longer while you are swearing. Heightened aggression in people caused by swearing actually helps them cope with the pain, the swearing will induce a fight response.When people are fearful of pain, their tolerance for pain actually increases. So swearing might be a way individuals induce that response themselves.

DID YOU KNOW ?

On May 8, 1886, Dr John Stith Pemberton, a local pharmacist, produced the syrup for Coca-Cola, and carried a jug of the new product to a pharmacy. It was sampled, pronounced “excellent” and placed on sale for five cents a glass as a soda fountain drink.

If you take a diamond and crush it, the dust you get will be black .

Frank Sinatra worked in the office of The Jersey Observer newspaper. He decided to pursue a career as a singer, and in 1935 and won first prize in the popular radio talent show.

One of the seven wonders of the ancient world is the fifth century BC statue of Zeus (or Jupiter) at Olympia. It was a colossal 40-foot high figure in gold and ivory and all trace of it is lost, except for reproductions on coins.

REFRESH OUR MIND - PART - 25

THE POWER OF THOUGHT

Have you ever wondered how certain people have got to the tops of their respective professions? The answer may lie in the way they think. Remember, just as faith can move mountains, the power of thought can make you whatever you want to be! As L. Ron Hubbard, Founder of Scientology once said, “Force yourself to smile and you’ll stop frowning, Force yourself to laugh and you’ll soon find something to laugh about, Wax enthusiastic and you’ll very soon feel so, A being causes his own feelings, there is in life is creating, Splurge on it, splurge on it!” The greatest joy.

Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back......MILAN KUNDERA

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.....SAMUELMCCHORD CROTHERS

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.....SAINT THERESA OF JESUS

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy....GROUCHOMARX

Instant gratification takes too long.....CARRIE FISHER

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives....ABBA EBAN

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise....IVAN PAVLOV

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time....ROBERT HALF

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become....HAROLD TAYLOR

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some....JOSEMARTI

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.....RODNEY DANGERFIELD

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.Men will believe what they see....HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.....WILLIAM FEATHER

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won’t be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.......PEARL BAILEY