Meditation to Improve Concentration
Today, there are a lot of things that help in keeping us
entertained. In the internet alone, there are a multitude
of websites that do such that like video sharing sites,
gaming sites and other websites which cater to our
interests.
While there is nothing wrong with entertaining ourselves, a
problem arises with our constant need for distractions.
Because of that, it becomes difficult for us to focus on
one thing.
We do not need to take extreme measures to help us focus.
There are practices which can do the job for us. It
includes the practice of meditation.
People take up meditation for different purposes and
improving concentration is one of them. There are several
methods by which meditation does its job.
One is through breathing exercises. Even an exercise that
is as simple as being aware of the times we inhale and
exhale can do wonders to our ability to concentrate.
While it may sound easy, it can be quite difficult
especially if one has to deal with distractions such as
outside noise.
Another method is by reciting a mantra. A mantra is a
phrase or a sound that is recited repeatedly. For
Catholics, praying the rosary is a form of a mantra.
The repetition becomes the center of the meditation to
which the person’s attention becomes focused.
There are other more methods by which meditation can help
improve concentration. However, the two mentioned above are
the most basic and could help beginners start out with the
practice.
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Personal Transformation: Spiritual Awakening
Spiritual awakening and enlightenment seems to be part of religious practices. Spiritual awakening is a religious experience where the person who is enlightened had contact with the divine and supernatural. It has been part of different traditions and practices, encompassing different religions.
Enlightenment is subjective since it fits on the individual’s perception and understanding divinity and religion. It is also something which other people who do not share the same views may find different and sometimes frightening. Even though, different religions have different understanding of the divine and supreme being, awakening experiences seem to have commonalities, as well as their differences.
Different religions and traditions share that spiritual awakening and other religious experiences includes the person to detach from the world and unite with God or gods and goddesses. The person would have deeper connection to the world after the awakening. They would also attain innate knowledge and understanding of the world and other people.
Spiritual awakenings are not only experienced through religious activities and methods. It can also be experienced through peak experiences, life and death experiences and situations, psychic openings and past life experience. Those who have awakened would say that they would experience physical, mental, emotional and spiritual changes and difficulties. But the awakening, even with its turmoil and difficulty, has been called blissful by some people.
It is a personal transformation and the awakened can experience different changes on their actions, habits and way of life.
William James in The Varieties of Religious Experience, states that a spiritual awakening brings certainty and insight to truth which is unfathomable by usual sensory and intellectual means. The experience can change the outer behavior, attitude, character and outlook of the person who have experienced the awakening.
For example, people who have a spiritual awakening would experience sudden waves of emotions. Food intolerances and allergies develop after the religious experience. Some traditions say that because the human mind and body is opening to the divine and the spiritual, it gets more sensitive. Getting more sensitive means that your body can have lower tolerance level to some things compared to how it was before the religious journey and completion.
The senses are in a high and can be extra-sensitive. Enlightened people would see auras around living things and some glittery particles. The colors would appear more vivid and even see shapes and brilliant colors with eyes closed. Hearing is also sharper than before. But some would testify that they would experience a decrease in hearing since they would hear different kind of sounds and have difficulty identifying the different sounds.
Smell, taste and touch are also enhanced. Which is why, some would be sensitive with food and smell. Rashes can happen on the skin that can happen in the same time with healing moments or completion of some memories or anything that could have happened in the past.
There would also be moments when the awakened person would feel a sudden rush of power. Some people would say that they would experience hotness running from their head to toe, while there are others who would say the feeling was cold.
Just to stress on the point, the transformation that a person undergoes upon a spiritual awakening depends on the how they see and understand divinity and religion. Not all of these personal transformations could happen to everybody who has experienced enlightenment. In some religion, some of these transformations are not acceptable while other traditions and religions would foresee these transformation essential.
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What Is Power
What Is Power?
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If power begins in
controlling something, then are we powerless prior to controlling?
Yes and no.
We have potential, which is a power in itself, but unused and
undirected potential is NOTHING.
Are we powerless prior to controlling?
I would say we are not powerless, but ignorant (Which is a version of
powerlessness, I guess.)
We don't know that we have power and don't know to know to test it.
The end of all powerlessness begins with awareness.
A Samurai Warrior would learn this by practicing a meditation of
sitting on the top of a mountain with his arm extended and sword
pointing skyward in a position ready to fall. He would meditate on that
fleeting moment when a balanced piece of metal would turn into an
unpredictable falling/killing weapon. His awareness was on the
potential of the weapon. When he learned that then he could study the
application of it's power.
What is power?
What is power like?
How great is power?
Where is power now?
To Know. To Will. To Dare. To Keep Silent.
These were the powers of the Sphinx and they remain dormant in all of
us to one degree or another.
You don't know what you don't know. Thus you must seek knowledge in
whatever realm you wish to control.
You must Will and Dare to use that knowledge.
To keep silent. This is where power turns to craft. It is the most
subtle application of power. So subtle it may seem that things are all
happening in your favor when in fact they happen by your design.
A bolder resting precariously on a cliff, a bow string pulled tight,
these have a quality of potential force, What the Chinese strategist,
Sun Tsu, called "shih". With just the right action and the force is
unleashed.
The silent art of power and control is to see the potential force in
everything and arrange it so that, if released, it works in your favor.
The keys to this power are first to know what you want far into the
future and to know it in rich and glorious detail. The next step is to
develop a presice and detailed plan to your goal and to meditate upon
it day in and day out. By having this constantly on your mind you will
function with the greatest efficiency toward your goal.
You will see the world about and know "This action will lead me to my
goal. This action will lead me nowhere."
This task that is unnatural for most of us because of our natural
tendency to focus on the thoughts of the present and to respond to the
urgencies at hand. To master this skill we must alter our thinking and
see every action that we perform as an act of manipulating "shih".
To do this is the height of Sphinx-like power and makes mere men to
seem magical as if they controlled the forces of nature.
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controlling something, then are we powerless prior to controlling?
Yes and no.
We have potential, which is a power in itself, but unused and
undirected potential is NOTHING.
Are we powerless prior to controlling?
I would say we are not powerless, but ignorant (Which is a version of
powerlessness, I guess.)
We don't know that we have power and don't know to know to test it.
The end of all powerlessness begins with awareness.
A Samurai Warrior would learn this by practicing a meditation of
sitting on the top of a mountain with his arm extended and sword
pointing skyward in a position ready to fall. He would meditate on that
fleeting moment when a balanced piece of metal would turn into an
unpredictable falling/killing weapon. His awareness was on the
potential of the weapon. When he learned that then he could study the
application of it's power.
What is power?
What is power like?
How great is power?
Where is power now?
To Know. To Will. To Dare. To Keep Silent.
These were the powers of the Sphinx and they remain dormant in all of
us to one degree or another.
You don't know what you don't know. Thus you must seek knowledge in
whatever realm you wish to control.
You must Will and Dare to use that knowledge.
To keep silent. This is where power turns to craft. It is the most
subtle application of power. So subtle it may seem that things are all
happening in your favor when in fact they happen by your design.
A bolder resting precariously on a cliff, a bow string pulled tight,
these have a quality of potential force, What the Chinese strategist,
Sun Tsu, called "shih". With just the right action and the force is
unleashed.
The silent art of power and control is to see the potential force in
everything and arrange it so that, if released, it works in your favor.
The keys to this power are first to know what you want far into the
future and to know it in rich and glorious detail. The next step is to
develop a presice and detailed plan to your goal and to meditate upon
it day in and day out. By having this constantly on your mind you will
function with the greatest efficiency toward your goal.
You will see the world about and know "This action will lead me to my
goal. This action will lead me nowhere."
This task that is unnatural for most of us because of our natural
tendency to focus on the thoughts of the present and to respond to the
urgencies at hand. To master this skill we must alter our thinking and
see every action that we perform as an act of manipulating "shih".
To do this is the height of Sphinx-like power and makes mere men to
seem magical as if they controlled the forces of nature.
To learn how to use the power of language to attain power click here:
'http://www.mindcontrolpublishing.com/book_MCLP.html?a_aid=69dfaa99&a_bid=9b2b0314'
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How To Make Yourself Miserable
How to Make Yourself Miserable
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How to make decisions that
make you feel miserable.
Being miserable is quite simple:
* Ask a series of miserable questions of yourself like
"What could go wrong about today?"
"What do I have to feel guilty about?"
"Why do bad things always happen to me?"
"Why am I feeling so terrible?"
* Make vague and unreasonable expectations and goals.
By making a goal or expectation unreasonable you'll make it impossible
to achieve. By making them vague you'll never know exactly if you
achieve them and you'll always be able to say "No, that's not what I
meant."
* Think the worst first.
For any event that occurs you have a million ways of thinking about it.
Go for the worst possible interpretation. For example, if you walk into
a store and teenagers are outside laughing and smoking cigarettes they
are probably laughing at you.
* Cling to past hurts.
Progress can be easily inhibited when you use past hurt of slow you
down. These can take the form of lingering on why your life has been so
terrible or even by saying “We've never done it that way
before. Why start now?”
Why you might want to stop feeling miserable.
* Without a doubt misery is the number one cause of suicide. If you
want to live you want to get rid of your misery.
* You will have more power (much, much more) and control over your life
if you stop all the misery producing processes and take responsibility
for your life.
How to stop making miserable decisions.
* Set reasonable goals using the S.M.A.R.T. goals process. If you don't
know what this is do a google search.
* Know when your emotions are trying to influence away from your goals
and work to keep your focus.
* Agree to take responsibility for your life and especially for your
emotions. This is very hard work but very rewarding.
What you will have to give up when you stop making miserable decisions.
* You will have to give up on the belief that your suffering makes you
unique. The fact is suffering is ordinary and boring to most people.
We've all experienced it and there is little you can say about your
suffering that will make us think of you for very long. What is
exceptional and unique is someone who makes no excuses for their life
and decides to excel and feel joy AS A CHOICE.
* You will have to give up blame. This means blaming anyone or
anything. It means even giving up blaming yourself.
* You will have to give up on fear and timidity. Only boldness and
audacity can overcome a longstanding habit of misery.
Final note.
While all of this may seem vary callus and cold it's important to point
out that this is not an essay by which you should judge other people
but only yourself. Bad things do happen to good people and it's a good
idea to help them when you can. On the other hand, if you find someone
who is persistantly and habitually miserable it's generally a good idea
to keep your distance from them lest they infect you with their misery
and, beleive me, they can do that more easily than you think.
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make you feel miserable.
Being miserable is quite simple:
* Ask a series of miserable questions of yourself like
"What could go wrong about today?"
"What do I have to feel guilty about?"
"Why do bad things always happen to me?"
"Why am I feeling so terrible?"
* Make vague and unreasonable expectations and goals.
By making a goal or expectation unreasonable you'll make it impossible
to achieve. By making them vague you'll never know exactly if you
achieve them and you'll always be able to say "No, that's not what I
meant."
* Think the worst first.
For any event that occurs you have a million ways of thinking about it.
Go for the worst possible interpretation. For example, if you walk into
a store and teenagers are outside laughing and smoking cigarettes they
are probably laughing at you.
* Cling to past hurts.
Progress can be easily inhibited when you use past hurt of slow you
down. These can take the form of lingering on why your life has been so
terrible or even by saying “We've never done it that way
before. Why start now?”
Why you might want to stop feeling miserable.
* Without a doubt misery is the number one cause of suicide. If you
want to live you want to get rid of your misery.
* You will have more power (much, much more) and control over your life
if you stop all the misery producing processes and take responsibility
for your life.
How to stop making miserable decisions.
* Set reasonable goals using the S.M.A.R.T. goals process. If you don't
know what this is do a google search.
* Know when your emotions are trying to influence away from your goals
and work to keep your focus.
* Agree to take responsibility for your life and especially for your
emotions. This is very hard work but very rewarding.
What you will have to give up when you stop making miserable decisions.
* You will have to give up on the belief that your suffering makes you
unique. The fact is suffering is ordinary and boring to most people.
We've all experienced it and there is little you can say about your
suffering that will make us think of you for very long. What is
exceptional and unique is someone who makes no excuses for their life
and decides to excel and feel joy AS A CHOICE.
* You will have to give up blame. This means blaming anyone or
anything. It means even giving up blaming yourself.
* You will have to give up on fear and timidity. Only boldness and
audacity can overcome a longstanding habit of misery.
Final note.
While all of this may seem vary callus and cold it's important to point
out that this is not an essay by which you should judge other people
but only yourself. Bad things do happen to good people and it's a good
idea to help them when you can. On the other hand, if you find someone
who is persistantly and habitually miserable it's generally a good idea
to keep your distance from them lest they infect you with their misery
and, beleive me, they can do that more easily than you think.
Click here to find out how to make GOOD decisions:
'http://www.mindcontrolpublishing.com/book_forbidden.html?a_aid=69dfaa99&a_bid=e5e1f8db'
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Posting About Health Concerns on Facebook, Twitter
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If you’re thinking about posting your health or mental health concerns on Facebook or Twitter, you may want to think twice.
According to an article published last week in The LA Times, health insurers will often turn to social networks to check out someone’s story — especially when that person is receiving medical leave or disability payments from an insurer. If you’re filing (or intending to file) a health insurance claim, be careful.
This once-hypothetical scenario is now commonplace, as insurers look for ways to keep cutting costs and payments to what they perceive as people intending to commit fraud against them. In fact, insurance companies don’t just randomly check out a social networking website when a claim comes in — it is now standard practice, according to Peter Foley, vice president of claims administration at the American Insurance Association.
While many of us naively think, “Well, this doesn’t affect me… I would never commit insurance fraud,” this goes way beyond simply insurance fraud. Ordinary people — people suffering from depression, bipolar disorder, or anxiety disorder — may find themselves being denied their benefits because of a photo uploaded to Facebook. In once case, the photo showed a woman apparently having fun on the beach when she was supposed to be depressed.
The LA Times’ Shan Li has the story…
In the case mentioned in the article, Ms. Blanchard is suing because apparently the insurance company cut off her benefits without warning and without first talking to her doctor.
Which is even more scary, if true. Imagine that your health or mental health benefits cut off not because of a careful and considered medical review of your health and mental health data… but because of photos you uploaded to Facebook!
The challenge we have today with social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter is that people tend not to always use the best judgment in choosing what to share with others. And even if they do, they may not realize that Facebook’s sometimes-complicated and ever-changing privacy settings may allow the public to view components of your life you thought you had sealed off from public view.
The easiest and safest thing to do is to ensure your Facebook profile is locked up tight — friends only for virtually all of the information you share — and that you pick and choose what to post on any social network. Once posted, something may live a lot longer online than you ever intended. So be mindful and intentional in what you post, thinking about the worst case scenario… “What if a future employer saw this? Or my mom? Or my insurance company?”
Is that being overly conservative, cynical even? Perhaps. But at least I’ll have my insurance.
Read the full article: Insurance fraud and social media: Insurers are scouring social media for evidence of fraud
If you’re thinking about posting your health or mental health concerns on Facebook or Twitter, you may want to think twice.According to an article published last week in The LA Times, health insurers will often turn to social networks to check out someone’s story — especially when that person is receiving medical leave or disability payments from an insurer. If you’re filing (or intending to file) a health insurance claim, be careful.
This once-hypothetical scenario is now commonplace, as insurers look for ways to keep cutting costs and payments to what they perceive as people intending to commit fraud against them. In fact, insurance companies don’t just randomly check out a social networking website when a claim comes in — it is now standard practice, according to Peter Foley, vice president of claims administration at the American Insurance Association.
While many of us naively think, “Well, this doesn’t affect me… I would never commit insurance fraud,” this goes way beyond simply insurance fraud. Ordinary people — people suffering from depression, bipolar disorder, or anxiety disorder — may find themselves being denied their benefits because of a photo uploaded to Facebook. In once case, the photo showed a woman apparently having fun on the beach when she was supposed to be depressed.
The LA Times’ Shan Li has the story…
Struggling with depression, the 30-year-old [Nathalie Blanchard] from Quebec, Canada, took a medical leave in early 2008 from her job as an IBM technician. Soon after, she began receiving monthly disability benefits from her insurer, Manulife Financial Corp.Can clinically depressed people not have fun? Not according to the DSM-IV definition of depression. Nowhere does it state that a person who suffers from major depression cannot experience times where their depression temporarily lifts. Nor does it suggest that a person who is depressed can’t go on vacation and attempt to lift their spirits. Which sometimes happens… but the lift is nearly always temporary. Once a person returns home, the depression sets in again.
A year later and without warning, the payments stopped.
A representative of the Toronto insurance company told Blanchard that Manulife used photos of her on Facebook — showing her frolicking at a beach and hanging out at a pub — to determine she was depression-free and able to work, said Tom Lavin, Blanchard’s attorney.
In the case mentioned in the article, Ms. Blanchard is suing because apparently the insurance company cut off her benefits without warning and without first talking to her doctor.
Which is even more scary, if true. Imagine that your health or mental health benefits cut off not because of a careful and considered medical review of your health and mental health data… but because of photos you uploaded to Facebook!
The challenge we have today with social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter is that people tend not to always use the best judgment in choosing what to share with others. And even if they do, they may not realize that Facebook’s sometimes-complicated and ever-changing privacy settings may allow the public to view components of your life you thought you had sealed off from public view.
The easiest and safest thing to do is to ensure your Facebook profile is locked up tight — friends only for virtually all of the information you share — and that you pick and choose what to post on any social network. Once posted, something may live a lot longer online than you ever intended. So be mindful and intentional in what you post, thinking about the worst case scenario… “What if a future employer saw this? Or my mom? Or my insurance company?”
Is that being overly conservative, cynical even? Perhaps. But at least I’ll have my insurance.
Read the full article: Insurance fraud and social media: Insurers are scouring social media for evidence of fraud
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