The mind is something that helps up to think and take decisions and this is present in all living animals and the most advanced in human being, we all know that. The question is what else can it be used for? I had seen and read about people using their brain to its extent and was intrigued with this object that we call mind or brain. Recently i had come accross some articles and informations and here in i am about to share them with you all taking help of some articles i found online. In an article related to mind energy, read an interesting case where a Polish citizen living in Germany named Miroslaw Magola does something which is a rare human capacity of paranormal nature which is something like this :
Simply by concentrating thoughtfully it is possible for him to lay the flat of his hand upon an upturned object such as wooden boards or heavy ceramic objects, and lift them up into the air. Through the same concentration he can also lift these objects into the air attached to his forehead. He can stick to his skin, various metallic and non-metallic implements like plastic, wood and ceramic some weighing more than a pound. After a performance, he asked some of bewildered spectators to come on stage for further experiments. This is when he sticked a metal object to the forehead of a woman, while he supported the back of her head with his hand. The miracle happened: Although she moved her head wildly up and down, the object kept stuck to her and dropped on the ground as Mr. Magola taken his hand off the back of the woman's head.
Not many people are known to have produced this, ostensibly paranormal phenomenon that, in the very inadequate parapsychological nomenclature, has to be classified as Psychokinetic.
The terms "human magnetism" or "animal magnetism" came into use around 150 years ago, in the time of such well known figures as Franz Anton Mesmer, the famous healer and hypnotist and later other experimental research scientists like Hector Durville and Albert de Rochas. Although it is not a magnetic force in the usual sense of the word. It would be much more accurate to say it is a concentrated will power that results in such fascinating phenomenon such as magnetism among other strange effects. Moreover this phenomenon deals with overcoming the power of gravity, which according to the known and generally accepted laws of physics should not be possible, and yet, as can be clearly seen by people who have witnissed Mr. Magola, is absolutely possible. In various lectures and TV shows, Magola brings these "supernatural" abilities to the interested public and explains his ideas of what lies behind them. This ability is transferable, so that the same effects can also be seen in others and this is supposedly called "switching the brain", which means activating the pineal gland which, exists between the ears, in the center of the head, creating a magnetic force from ionized electrochemicals. But HOW? is something that needs meditation and as Mr. Magola himself had said in an interview with the author of the article, mind energy, he had been busy practicing Qigong (pronounced like chee-kong), an ancient Chinese system of working with the Qi (Chi) energy, which is a system of exercises involving postures, movement, breathing, meditation and mind body interaction.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Telepathy and Clairvoyance
Here i would like to put some light on the most talked about subject in Para-Phychology, Telepathy and as well something similar by the name Clairvoyance, which we mostly talk about as 6th sense. I had been reading an article of Jane Henry, a senior lecturer at the Open University. Chairman of BPS Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section and as well as OU MBA Creative Management and Creativity, Innovation and Change programmes and the Editor of Consciousness and Experiential Psychology, recently which was named as Telepathy and Clairvoyance. This article puts across the meaning of these terms in the following ways:
TELEPATHY refers to mind-to-mind communication without the intervention of the senses, e.g knowing what somebody is about to say.
CLAIRVOYANCE refers to the mind picking up information from the environment, e.g knowing which card is about to be turned over or what horse will win a race.
They are both forms of ESP (Extra- Sensory Perception), a term which covers any communication between an organism and the environment that is essentially psychic in nature, which means that cannot be accounted for by sensory contact. ESP is well knows and very widely reported throughout history. Around the turn of the century the early psychical researchers collected numerous accounts of psychic phenomena including telepathy and clairvoyance. One common type of telepathy experience is so called CRISIS telepathy, where individuals suddenly become conscious that someone they are mentally close to has died, even though they are physically distant.
There had been a lot of different types of experiments carried on by the early phychologists and their instances and records can be found in the following books out of which Henry and Radin are particularly recommended.
Henry, J. (2000) A-Z of Parapsychology, London: Routledge
Designed to provide a reliable but accessible introduction to research in and explanations for ESP. Contains chapters describing the parapsychological phenomena in question, the research that has been done in the area and explanations for the phenomena.
Radin, D. (1997) The Conscious Universe, San Francisco: Harper Edge
Offers an introduction to parapsychology by one of the leading researchers in the field. Chapter 5 concerns telepathy. Chapters 4, 6 and 7 are also relevant.
Edge, H., Morris, R.L., Palmer, J. and Rush, J. H. (1986) Foundations of Parapsychology, London: Routledge
A text of parapsychology, more advanced reading containing further details of ESP experiments.
Honorton, C. (1985) 'Meta-analysis ofpsi Ganzfeld research: A response to Hyman.' Journal of Parapsychology, 49, p51-91
A key researcher discusses the important meta-analysis of the Ganzfeld data base and attempts to refute sceptics' criticisms and suggest a way forward.
Ullman, M., Krippner, S. and Vaughan, A. (1973) Dream Telepathy, New York: MacMillan
Describes the Maimonades dream telepathy experiments Targ, R. and Harary, K. (1984) The Mind Race, New York: Villard Books Describes the SRI remote viewing experiments.
Sinclair, U. (1962) Mental Radio, Springfield.
Charles Thomas Describes Sinclair's mental radio experiments with his wife. An easy read.
Honorton, C. and Ferrari, D. (1989) 'A meta-analysis of forced-choice pre-cognition experiments', 1935-87, Journal of Parapsychology, 53, 281-308
An analysis of precognitive ESP experiments. Rather technical.
Meta-analyses of all these telepathy and clairvoyance experiments have often shown strikingly positive results. In addition the effect found is consistently much larger in ESP than that found in psychokinesis or mind-over-matter experiments. The effect for ESP experiments is also much greater than that found in many medical experiments, for example the well-known effect of aspirin on heart attack reduction (Radin 1997). Sceptics can discount positive ESP results in less well-controlled experiments as being due to sensory leakage, inference or fraud. However where, as is normally the case now, experimenters announce in advance that they intend to do an ESP experiment and use automated target selection, coding and judging, it is hard to write off the extraordinarily significant effects found in meta-analyses of telepathy and clairvoyance experiments as nothing more than chance.
TELEPATHY refers to mind-to-mind communication without the intervention of the senses, e.g knowing what somebody is about to say.
CLAIRVOYANCE refers to the mind picking up information from the environment, e.g knowing which card is about to be turned over or what horse will win a race.
They are both forms of ESP (Extra- Sensory Perception), a term which covers any communication between an organism and the environment that is essentially psychic in nature, which means that cannot be accounted for by sensory contact. ESP is well knows and very widely reported throughout history. Around the turn of the century the early psychical researchers collected numerous accounts of psychic phenomena including telepathy and clairvoyance. One common type of telepathy experience is so called CRISIS telepathy, where individuals suddenly become conscious that someone they are mentally close to has died, even though they are physically distant.
There had been a lot of different types of experiments carried on by the early phychologists and their instances and records can be found in the following books out of which Henry and Radin are particularly recommended.
Henry, J. (2000) A-Z of Parapsychology, London: Routledge
Designed to provide a reliable but accessible introduction to research in and explanations for ESP. Contains chapters describing the parapsychological phenomena in question, the research that has been done in the area and explanations for the phenomena.
Radin, D. (1997) The Conscious Universe, San Francisco: Harper Edge
Offers an introduction to parapsychology by one of the leading researchers in the field. Chapter 5 concerns telepathy. Chapters 4, 6 and 7 are also relevant.
Edge, H., Morris, R.L., Palmer, J. and Rush, J. H. (1986) Foundations of Parapsychology, London: Routledge
A text of parapsychology, more advanced reading containing further details of ESP experiments.
Honorton, C. (1985) 'Meta-analysis ofpsi Ganzfeld research: A response to Hyman.' Journal of Parapsychology, 49, p51-91
A key researcher discusses the important meta-analysis of the Ganzfeld data base and attempts to refute sceptics' criticisms and suggest a way forward.
Ullman, M., Krippner, S. and Vaughan, A. (1973) Dream Telepathy, New York: MacMillan
Describes the Maimonades dream telepathy experiments Targ, R. and Harary, K. (1984) The Mind Race, New York: Villard Books Describes the SRI remote viewing experiments.
Sinclair, U. (1962) Mental Radio, Springfield.
Charles Thomas Describes Sinclair's mental radio experiments with his wife. An easy read.
Honorton, C. and Ferrari, D. (1989) 'A meta-analysis of forced-choice pre-cognition experiments', 1935-87, Journal of Parapsychology, 53, 281-308
An analysis of precognitive ESP experiments. Rather technical.
Meta-analyses of all these telepathy and clairvoyance experiments have often shown strikingly positive results. In addition the effect found is consistently much larger in ESP than that found in psychokinesis or mind-over-matter experiments. The effect for ESP experiments is also much greater than that found in many medical experiments, for example the well-known effect of aspirin on heart attack reduction (Radin 1997). Sceptics can discount positive ESP results in less well-controlled experiments as being due to sensory leakage, inference or fraud. However where, as is normally the case now, experimenters announce in advance that they intend to do an ESP experiment and use automated target selection, coding and judging, it is hard to write off the extraordinarily significant effects found in meta-analyses of telepathy and clairvoyance experiments as nothing more than chance.
Impulse Control Disorder - Call for therapy
I would love to draw your attention to a very interesting subject of psychology which is called Impulse Control Disorder and i am pretty sure that all of us know atleast a couple of people among our social circle with this disease. This disease or disorder is normally taken by our society as a shade of ones character and because of which we start avoiding and neglecting the patients of this disease that can be cured by proper psychotherapy. I am posting this blog as i find it very interesting to read typical behaviors of people and seek root cause of them. I took help of an online article that i came across recently that mentions about many psychological problems which are characterized by a loss of control or a lack of control in specific situations and usually, this lack of control is part of a pattern of behavior that also involves other maladaptive thoughts and actions, such as substance abuse problems or sexual disorders like the paraphilias (e.g. pedophilia and exhibitionism). When loss of control is only a component of a disorder, it usually does not have to be a part of the behavior pattern, and other symptoms must also be present for the diagnosis to be made. At the same time, there are several psychological disorders that are defined primarily by loss of control. These impulse control problems are described herein briefly and i hope this information may be of some help to those who need a little care :
Intermittent Explosive Disorder
Domestic Violence
Kleptomania
Pyromania
Pathological Gambling
Trichotillomania
.
INTERMITTENT EXPLOSIVE DISORDER - Episodes of aggressive outbursts resulting in either destruction of property or physical assaults on others. Typically, this problem results in legal problems as well, because the individual is often charged with assault, or a domestic violence charge.
Loss of control is an essential feature of this disorder. The individual, usually male, has had several incidents of losing control of anger, resulting in aggressive acting out, either by assaulting others, or destroying property. The degree of aggression is always out of proportion to any precipitating factors that might be present (within an argument, for example). Typically, these individuals will not take responsibility for their loss of control, instead blaming the victim, other circumstances in their life, or some third party who may have told them something or said something that "caused" their uncontrolled anger. Lack of control is a central part of the problem, and inability to accept responsibility for the aggression helps to alleviate guilt. It also prevents the individual from making any changes.
This calls for anger management techniques as well as discovering a way to deflect the anger so that it can be controlled.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE - Domestic violence is a particular form of Intermittent Explosive Disorder, because often these individuals only lose control within the context of a close interpersonal relationship. However, many of these individuals have a generalized anger management problem, but control it better outside their own home. The criteria for a diagnosis of intermittent explosive disorder are almost always present in domestic violence situations, except when the violence occurs only in conjunction with substance abuse or intoxication. In those situations, the individual usually meets the criteria for a substance abuse diagnosis. Sometimes, intoxication is also a form of not accepting blame. The individual may choose to become intoxicated prior to a confrontation. This may be because of an inability to confront others. The intoxication removes normal social restraints, and also gives the individual an excuse for loss of control.
Individuals who only lose control within relationships often attach tremendous emotional ultimatums to those relationships. If a person believes that loss of a relationship will doom them forever, then their reaction may be consistent with that belief, even if the belief is false. There are other factors influencing domestic violence that do not always occur in other social conflicts. Within a relationship, each spouse may have specific role expectations for the other spouse. That is, a man may expect his wife to behave a certain way, to think a certain way, and to respond a certain way to him. These expectations may be immature and/or irrational, although commonly held within his social group. These expectations may also serve to increase the emotional tension in the relationship, so that it surpasses his level of control. Since these expectations may not exist in other relationships, he may be able to maintain control outside of the marital relationship.
This is found that the victims of domestic violence rarely receive adequate psychological treatment, because they are viewed as criminals, rather than individuals with psychological problems. Because denial is often a major component of this problem, the power of the courts may act as a motivating factor to move the person into treatment, but will seldom stop the behavior without treatment. The men who cannot control their anger have a number of psychological issues that require treatment, and that this is a mental health issue, not a criminal one. It calls for stress management, and cognitive therapy to change the irrational belief system that triggers the violent behavior.
KLEPTOMANIA - This impulse control problem involves the compulsive stealing of items not needed for their monetary value. Usually, the items are not stolen to express anger or vengeance. There is usually a feeling of tension before stealing, and a sense of pleasure at the time of the theft.
A common misconception is that kleptomania is present in career thieves. This is generally not the case. Some people steal because they have no regard for the laws of society (Conduct Disorder in children and adolescents or Antisocial Personality Disorder in adults). Others may steal out of need or desperation (Adjustment Disorder with conduct disturbance). Still others steal to support a substance abuse problem (the diagnosis would be Substance Abuse).
This is a relatively rare problem, and occurs with a much higher incidence in women than in men. It is also out of character, or as psychologists describe it, ego dystonic. This means that the person does not want to steal, and feels guilty about the behavior. In fact, other than the focus on an illegal act, this disorder has many features in common with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. The essential difference is that, in addition to functioning as an anxiety release, the compulsive behavior in kleptomania also results in a temporary gratification.
PYROMANIA - This psychological problem primarily involves setting fires for pleasure, and experiencing a sense of relief or gratification from the experience. This does not include fires set for monetary gain, to hide criminal activity, or to express anger. The individual usually has a significant fascination with fire.
Additionally, pyromania is not diagnosed when the fire setting activity is part of another psychological problem, such as Conduct Disorder in children, or part of a psychotic process in Schizophrenia or Bipolar Disorder. This is a very rare problem, and it is usually episodic, occurring infrequently.
PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING - This impulse control problem consists in persistent maladaptive gambling that creates serious life problems for the individual. This is different from recreational gambling, and is diagnosed by the impact it has on your life, and by the lack of control, rather than the amount of money gambled or lost.
Individuals with this problem engage in recurrent maladaptive gambling that usually disrupts their personal life, and frequently interferes with their work as well. Some individuals develop severe financial problems, resulting in personal bankruptcy, and others engage in criminal activity to cover their financial losses (such as embezzlement). This does not include uncontrolled gambling that occurs as part of a manic episode.
There are some social differences in the pathological gambling patterns of men and women. Men usually begin a pathological gambling pattern during their teen years, while women are more likely to develop the problem when they are older.
Pathological gamblers frequently need to increase their risk to stay involved. They have often tried to stop without success, and tend to gamble as an escape from problems. In particular, they may gamble to relieve depression. They may commit illegal acts to hide their losses, and frequently "chase" their losses by making bigger bets to "get even." They may endanger their job or their family relationships because of this problem, and they will probably lie about the extent of their gambling.
This calls for psychotherapy, especially for the underlying depression.
TRICHOTILLOMANIA - Pulling out your own hair habitually, to the point of seeing noticeable hair loss, and experiencing pleasure or tension relief from the behavior. This does not include hair loss as a result of medical conditions, and the disorder must result in clinical distress or impairment in life functioning.
Intermittent Explosive Disorder
Domestic Violence
Kleptomania
Pyromania
Pathological Gambling
Trichotillomania
.
INTERMITTENT EXPLOSIVE DISORDER - Episodes of aggressive outbursts resulting in either destruction of property or physical assaults on others. Typically, this problem results in legal problems as well, because the individual is often charged with assault, or a domestic violence charge.
Loss of control is an essential feature of this disorder. The individual, usually male, has had several incidents of losing control of anger, resulting in aggressive acting out, either by assaulting others, or destroying property. The degree of aggression is always out of proportion to any precipitating factors that might be present (within an argument, for example). Typically, these individuals will not take responsibility for their loss of control, instead blaming the victim, other circumstances in their life, or some third party who may have told them something or said something that "caused" their uncontrolled anger. Lack of control is a central part of the problem, and inability to accept responsibility for the aggression helps to alleviate guilt. It also prevents the individual from making any changes.
This calls for anger management techniques as well as discovering a way to deflect the anger so that it can be controlled.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE - Domestic violence is a particular form of Intermittent Explosive Disorder, because often these individuals only lose control within the context of a close interpersonal relationship. However, many of these individuals have a generalized anger management problem, but control it better outside their own home. The criteria for a diagnosis of intermittent explosive disorder are almost always present in domestic violence situations, except when the violence occurs only in conjunction with substance abuse or intoxication. In those situations, the individual usually meets the criteria for a substance abuse diagnosis. Sometimes, intoxication is also a form of not accepting blame. The individual may choose to become intoxicated prior to a confrontation. This may be because of an inability to confront others. The intoxication removes normal social restraints, and also gives the individual an excuse for loss of control.
Individuals who only lose control within relationships often attach tremendous emotional ultimatums to those relationships. If a person believes that loss of a relationship will doom them forever, then their reaction may be consistent with that belief, even if the belief is false. There are other factors influencing domestic violence that do not always occur in other social conflicts. Within a relationship, each spouse may have specific role expectations for the other spouse. That is, a man may expect his wife to behave a certain way, to think a certain way, and to respond a certain way to him. These expectations may be immature and/or irrational, although commonly held within his social group. These expectations may also serve to increase the emotional tension in the relationship, so that it surpasses his level of control. Since these expectations may not exist in other relationships, he may be able to maintain control outside of the marital relationship.
This is found that the victims of domestic violence rarely receive adequate psychological treatment, because they are viewed as criminals, rather than individuals with psychological problems. Because denial is often a major component of this problem, the power of the courts may act as a motivating factor to move the person into treatment, but will seldom stop the behavior without treatment. The men who cannot control their anger have a number of psychological issues that require treatment, and that this is a mental health issue, not a criminal one. It calls for stress management, and cognitive therapy to change the irrational belief system that triggers the violent behavior.
KLEPTOMANIA - This impulse control problem involves the compulsive stealing of items not needed for their monetary value. Usually, the items are not stolen to express anger or vengeance. There is usually a feeling of tension before stealing, and a sense of pleasure at the time of the theft.
A common misconception is that kleptomania is present in career thieves. This is generally not the case. Some people steal because they have no regard for the laws of society (Conduct Disorder in children and adolescents or Antisocial Personality Disorder in adults). Others may steal out of need or desperation (Adjustment Disorder with conduct disturbance). Still others steal to support a substance abuse problem (the diagnosis would be Substance Abuse).
This is a relatively rare problem, and occurs with a much higher incidence in women than in men. It is also out of character, or as psychologists describe it, ego dystonic. This means that the person does not want to steal, and feels guilty about the behavior. In fact, other than the focus on an illegal act, this disorder has many features in common with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. The essential difference is that, in addition to functioning as an anxiety release, the compulsive behavior in kleptomania also results in a temporary gratification.
PYROMANIA - This psychological problem primarily involves setting fires for pleasure, and experiencing a sense of relief or gratification from the experience. This does not include fires set for monetary gain, to hide criminal activity, or to express anger. The individual usually has a significant fascination with fire.
Additionally, pyromania is not diagnosed when the fire setting activity is part of another psychological problem, such as Conduct Disorder in children, or part of a psychotic process in Schizophrenia or Bipolar Disorder. This is a very rare problem, and it is usually episodic, occurring infrequently.
PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING - This impulse control problem consists in persistent maladaptive gambling that creates serious life problems for the individual. This is different from recreational gambling, and is diagnosed by the impact it has on your life, and by the lack of control, rather than the amount of money gambled or lost.
Individuals with this problem engage in recurrent maladaptive gambling that usually disrupts their personal life, and frequently interferes with their work as well. Some individuals develop severe financial problems, resulting in personal bankruptcy, and others engage in criminal activity to cover their financial losses (such as embezzlement). This does not include uncontrolled gambling that occurs as part of a manic episode.
There are some social differences in the pathological gambling patterns of men and women. Men usually begin a pathological gambling pattern during their teen years, while women are more likely to develop the problem when they are older.
Pathological gamblers frequently need to increase their risk to stay involved. They have often tried to stop without success, and tend to gamble as an escape from problems. In particular, they may gamble to relieve depression. They may commit illegal acts to hide their losses, and frequently "chase" their losses by making bigger bets to "get even." They may endanger their job or their family relationships because of this problem, and they will probably lie about the extent of their gambling.
This calls for psychotherapy, especially for the underlying depression.
TRICHOTILLOMANIA - Pulling out your own hair habitually, to the point of seeing noticeable hair loss, and experiencing pleasure or tension relief from the behavior. This does not include hair loss as a result of medical conditions, and the disorder must result in clinical distress or impairment in life functioning.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Subconscious brain and Hypnosis
I was checking out the articles on the way the subsonscious brain works and found out the intersting writings from Loretta Peters-Martin, a certified Clinical hypnotherapist and Life coach which points towards the situations when you missed an exit off the freeway or taken a wrong turn because your mind wandered somewhere else. She mentioned Daydreaming as a form of hypnosis that can happen to us any point of time during the day or night and a fresh idea comes in mind or remember to calendar something that we had forgotton. She mentioned that hypnosis is not a form of mind control. No one can hypnotize anyone into doing anything that is against his or her morals or ethics, and no one can be hypnotized into doing something that they do not want to do. We all experience some form of hypnosis every day - chopping veggies, driving or exercising. When we are in a state of hypnosis, our conscious mind is relaxed and our subconscious mind is susceptible to suggestion, while simultaneously we are very aware of our surroundings and what is happening.
We have a left-brain and a right-brain. The left brain is our logical mind - the one that says: "Don't touch the stove; you'll get burned," "I have to go to work today," or "Pick up the dry cleaning." The right brain is the creative mind - the subconscious mind and the place where the inner child resides. Our subconscious mind has a 10 year-old mentality. It stops growing by the age of 10, and that is why our dreams can be strange and symbolic. It is so the subconscious brain (the inner child) can understand and process. Like kids do take in everything literally.
Here is an example given by Loretta Peters-Martin of how children (and our subconscious minds) take things literally and she said, when she was a little girl, she was an Army brat and used to moved around a great deal to places like Germany, Texas and Georgia. When she was 5 and her younger brother was 4, she lived in Ft. Benning, Georgia and played with a friend their age - a little girl whose mom was Caucasian and whose dad was African-American. That was her first experience around a "mixed" child - i.e., the beautiful olive skin, the green eyes and the curly blonde hair. One day her mom said to her brother and her that the child was hateful. As an adult, she knew what her mom meant by that, as the little girl had some sneaky, vindictive ways about her. However, her little 5 year-old mind understood that to be: "Mixed children are hateful." For a long time after that, she used to think all "mixed" kids were hateful.
That is how the little child's mind works? The right brain - the subconscious mind - is where all of our experiences and memories are stored from childhood.
Most everyone has suppressed emotions from childhood. Even if we grew up in a functional family, we can still suppress issues and hold experiences in our subconscious minds. For instance, here are a couple of other examples that the author presented on how the subconscious mind works:
Take the African-American male who was one of the top salespeople in his company, but he couldn't make it to the number one slot. Whenever he got close, he felt something sabotaging him - pulling him back. He dreamt of making 6 digits a year and having his own company. What came up for him during hypnosis was the suppressed statement his mother made to him when he was a young boy: "Son, you'll excel at everything you do, but you'll never have what rich white men have." Do you see how the young subconscious mind can be affected?
Take the woman who has been married and divorced 5 times - in and out of relationships. Each time she was in a great relationship, she would do something to sabotage it. What came up for her during hypnosis was a memory of helping her mom with the dishes when she was a little girl. Her parents just had a little argument. It was nothing major. They were simply miffed at each other. The mother stated to her: "Don't ever trust men - they're not worth the trouble." Do you see how she was subconsciously sabotaging herself all those years just to keep from trusting men?
Hence, In order to have the lives we desire, we must release the gunk. Hypnosis is an excellent way of releasing false beliefs we accepted as children. It is a powerful tool for releasing old concepts and belief systems which no longer serve us.
We have a left-brain and a right-brain. The left brain is our logical mind - the one that says: "Don't touch the stove; you'll get burned," "I have to go to work today," or "Pick up the dry cleaning." The right brain is the creative mind - the subconscious mind and the place where the inner child resides. Our subconscious mind has a 10 year-old mentality. It stops growing by the age of 10, and that is why our dreams can be strange and symbolic. It is so the subconscious brain (the inner child) can understand and process. Like kids do take in everything literally.
Here is an example given by Loretta Peters-Martin of how children (and our subconscious minds) take things literally and she said, when she was a little girl, she was an Army brat and used to moved around a great deal to places like Germany, Texas and Georgia. When she was 5 and her younger brother was 4, she lived in Ft. Benning, Georgia and played with a friend their age - a little girl whose mom was Caucasian and whose dad was African-American. That was her first experience around a "mixed" child - i.e., the beautiful olive skin, the green eyes and the curly blonde hair. One day her mom said to her brother and her that the child was hateful. As an adult, she knew what her mom meant by that, as the little girl had some sneaky, vindictive ways about her. However, her little 5 year-old mind understood that to be: "Mixed children are hateful." For a long time after that, she used to think all "mixed" kids were hateful.
That is how the little child's mind works? The right brain - the subconscious mind - is where all of our experiences and memories are stored from childhood.
Most everyone has suppressed emotions from childhood. Even if we grew up in a functional family, we can still suppress issues and hold experiences in our subconscious minds. For instance, here are a couple of other examples that the author presented on how the subconscious mind works:
Take the African-American male who was one of the top salespeople in his company, but he couldn't make it to the number one slot. Whenever he got close, he felt something sabotaging him - pulling him back. He dreamt of making 6 digits a year and having his own company. What came up for him during hypnosis was the suppressed statement his mother made to him when he was a young boy: "Son, you'll excel at everything you do, but you'll never have what rich white men have." Do you see how the young subconscious mind can be affected?
Take the woman who has been married and divorced 5 times - in and out of relationships. Each time she was in a great relationship, she would do something to sabotage it. What came up for her during hypnosis was a memory of helping her mom with the dishes when she was a little girl. Her parents just had a little argument. It was nothing major. They were simply miffed at each other. The mother stated to her: "Don't ever trust men - they're not worth the trouble." Do you see how she was subconsciously sabotaging herself all those years just to keep from trusting men?
Hence, In order to have the lives we desire, we must release the gunk. Hypnosis is an excellent way of releasing false beliefs we accepted as children. It is a powerful tool for releasing old concepts and belief systems which no longer serve us.
Brain talks when you sleep
I had realized lately that i had some things to talk and i guess this is a good place to do that and i appreciate people to comment and share their thoughts as well.
I had realized this back in childhood that the animal (including Human) brain talks a whole lot and they talk when the rest of the flesh and blood sleep. I guess some of you know what i am talking about, the Sub-Conscious Brain and mine talks a lot. Yours do? The most importantly, they effect your conciousness. Dreams are daughter of these brain-talks that it does all through day and night and daydreams.
Anyways, i am going to talk it all out here now on and have no specific thought so i will ofcourse keep variations and would appreciate your efforts to pour in yours.
No harm is intended to anyone living or dead, its just thoughts and they fly on their own.
I had realized this back in childhood that the animal (including Human) brain talks a whole lot and they talk when the rest of the flesh and blood sleep. I guess some of you know what i am talking about, the Sub-Conscious Brain and mine talks a lot. Yours do? The most importantly, they effect your conciousness. Dreams are daughter of these brain-talks that it does all through day and night and daydreams.
Anyways, i am going to talk it all out here now on and have no specific thought so i will ofcourse keep variations and would appreciate your efforts to pour in yours.
No harm is intended to anyone living or dead, its just thoughts and they fly on their own.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Namitha - The queen of million hearts
The glamour queen of Southern India
Name: Namitha Kapoor
Born: May 10, 1981, Surat, India
Occupation:Actress
Hight: 6ft
Weight:70 kg
Namitha Kapoor is a Tamil actress. Namitha also acted in Kannada, Telugu, Hindi films. Although she started out in Telugu movies, she became famous after the Tamil film Engal Anna opposite Vijayakanth. Namitha Kapoor appeared in an English film named Maya directed by Eric Manning. Namitha kapoor loves White and Black colors. White roses are her favorite flowers. Namitha swims and plays Badminton in her free time. Interestingly she used to coach swimming for kids.
Namitha Kapoor Filmography
2007 -Tamil - Malligai malare
2007 -Tamil - Billa
2007 2007 -Tamil -Kettavan
2007 -Tamil -Azhagiya Tamil Magan
2007 - English - Maya
2007 - Tamil - Vyapari
2006 - Kannada - Neelkanta
2006 - Tamil - Nee Venunda Chellam
2006 - Tamil - Thagapansamy
2006 - Tamil - Pachchak Kuthira
2006 - Hindi - Love Ke Chakker Mein
2006 - Tamil - Kovai Brothers
2005 - Tamil - Englishkaran
2005 - Tamil - Englishkaran
2005 - Tamil - Aanai
2005 - Telugu - Nayakudu
2005 - Tamil - Bambarakkannaley
2005 - Tamil - Aai
2004 - Tamil - Engal Anna
2004 - Telugu - Sontam
2004 - Telugu - Gemini
Name: Namitha Kapoor
Born: May 10, 1981, Surat, India
Occupation:Actress
Hight: 6ft
Weight:70 kg
Namitha Kapoor is a Tamil actress. Namitha also acted in Kannada, Telugu, Hindi films. Although she started out in Telugu movies, she became famous after the Tamil film Engal Anna opposite Vijayakanth. Namitha Kapoor appeared in an English film named Maya directed by Eric Manning. Namitha kapoor loves White and Black colors. White roses are her favorite flowers. Namitha swims and plays Badminton in her free time. Interestingly she used to coach swimming for kids.
Namitha Kapoor Filmography
2007 -Tamil - Malligai malare
2007 -Tamil - Billa
2007 2007 -Tamil -Kettavan
2007 -Tamil -Azhagiya Tamil Magan
2007 - English - Maya
2007 - Tamil - Vyapari
2006 - Kannada - Neelkanta
2006 - Tamil - Nee Venunda Chellam
2006 - Tamil - Thagapansamy
2006 - Tamil - Pachchak Kuthira
2006 - Hindi - Love Ke Chakker Mein
2006 - Tamil - Kovai Brothers
2005 - Tamil - Englishkaran
2005 - Tamil - Englishkaran
2005 - Tamil - Aanai
2005 - Telugu - Nayakudu
2005 - Tamil - Bambarakkannaley
2005 - Tamil - Aai
2004 - Tamil - Engal Anna
2004 - Telugu - Sontam
2004 - Telugu - Gemini
Here is a collection of the incredible pictures of this glamour queen among a couple of actresses
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Are you a fan of Nameetha? Beware
It is a known fact that Nami gets thousands of letters from her innumerable fans. One fan seems
to have got carried by it all. He sent Namitha Madam a particularly offensive e-mail, which incurred the wrath of her and boyfriend, Kapoor. So what did Namitha do? She simply asked the fawning fan to meet her in person. The guy fell into the nicely set trap. On arrival, the Gorkkha escorted the man with full 'respect' for Namitha darshan. This is the operative part of the story. Once inside, Namitha and her beau reportedly gave him such a sound thrashing that the fellow literally ran for dear life! Battered and bruised, of course! There was no way he could have lodged a complaint with the police either. After all, what he 'got' was what he asked for with his obscene e-mail! So, Nams has sent the message loud and clear: fans, you are welcome, but don't try get too close!! Now, with things like this happening to her, can you keep her off the news line? No, na?
Friday, January 4, 2008
20 Things You Didn't Know About... Death
1 The practice of burying the dead may date back 350,000 years, as evidenced by a 45-foot-deep pit in Atapuerca, Spain, filled with the fossils of 27 hominids of the species Homo heidelbergensis, a possible ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans.
2 Never say die: There are at least 200 euphemisms for death, including "to be in Abraham's bosom," "just add maggots," and "sleep with the Tribbles" (a Star Trek favorite).
3 No American has died of old age since 1951.
4 That was the year the government eliminated that classification on death certificates.
5 The trigger of death, in all cases, is lack of oxygen. Its decline may prompt muscle spasms, or the "agonal phase," from the Greek word agon, or contest.
6 Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you. Ruptured cells become food for living bacteria in the gut, which release enough noxious gas to bloat the body and force the eyes to bulge outward.
7 So much for recycling: Burials in America deposit 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid—formaldehyde, methanol, and ethanol—into the soil each year. Cremation pumps dioxins, hydrochloric acid, sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide into the air.
8 Alternatively . . . A Swedish company, Promessa, will freeze-dry your body in liquid nitrogen, pulverize it with high-frequency vibrations, and seal the resulting powder in a cornstarch coffin. They claim this "ecological burial" will decompose in 6 to 12 months.
9 Zoroastrians in India leave out the bodies of the dead to be consumed by vultures.
10 The vultures are now dying off after eating cattle carcasses dosed with diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory used to relieve fever in livestock.
11 Queen Victoria insisted on being buried with the bathrobe of her long-dead husband, Prince Albert, and a plaster cast of his hand.
12 If this doesn't work, we're trying in vitro! In Madagascar, families dig up the bones of dead relatives and parade them around the village in a ceremony called famadihana. The remains are then wrapped in a new shroud and reburied. The old shroud is given to a newly married, childless couple to cover the connubial bed.
13(*) During a railway expansion in Egypt in the 19th century, construction companies unearthed so many mummies that they used them as fuel for locomotives.
14 Well, yeah, there's a slight chance this could backfire: English philosopher Francis Bacon, a founder of the scientific method, died in 1626 of pneumonia after stuffing a chicken with snow to see if cold would preserve it.
15 For organs to form during embryonic development, some cells must commit suicide. Without such programmed cell death, we would all be born with webbed feet, like ducks.
16 Waiting to exhale: In 1907 a Massachusetts doctor conducted an experiment with a specially designed deathbed and reported that the human body lost 21 grams upon dying. This has been widely held as fact ever since. It's not.
17 Buried alive: In 19th-century Europe there was so much anecdotal evidence that living people were mistakenly declared dead that cadavers were laid out in "hospitals for the dead" while attendants awaited signs of putrefaction.
18 Eighty percent of people in the United States die in a hospital.
19 If you can't make it here . . . More people commit suicide in New York City than are murdered.
20 It is estimated that 100 billion people have died since humans began.
Courtesy: by LeeAundra Temescu
2 Never say die: There are at least 200 euphemisms for death, including "to be in Abraham's bosom," "just add maggots," and "sleep with the Tribbles" (a Star Trek favorite).
3 No American has died of old age since 1951.
4 That was the year the government eliminated that classification on death certificates.
5 The trigger of death, in all cases, is lack of oxygen. Its decline may prompt muscle spasms, or the "agonal phase," from the Greek word agon, or contest.
6 Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you. Ruptured cells become food for living bacteria in the gut, which release enough noxious gas to bloat the body and force the eyes to bulge outward.
7 So much for recycling: Burials in America deposit 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid—formaldehyde, methanol, and ethanol—into the soil each year. Cremation pumps dioxins, hydrochloric acid, sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide into the air.
8 Alternatively . . . A Swedish company, Promessa, will freeze-dry your body in liquid nitrogen, pulverize it with high-frequency vibrations, and seal the resulting powder in a cornstarch coffin. They claim this "ecological burial" will decompose in 6 to 12 months.
9 Zoroastrians in India leave out the bodies of the dead to be consumed by vultures.
10 The vultures are now dying off after eating cattle carcasses dosed with diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory used to relieve fever in livestock.
11 Queen Victoria insisted on being buried with the bathrobe of her long-dead husband, Prince Albert, and a plaster cast of his hand.
12 If this doesn't work, we're trying in vitro! In Madagascar, families dig up the bones of dead relatives and parade them around the village in a ceremony called famadihana. The remains are then wrapped in a new shroud and reburied. The old shroud is given to a newly married, childless couple to cover the connubial bed.
13(*) During a railway expansion in Egypt in the 19th century, construction companies unearthed so many mummies that they used them as fuel for locomotives.
14 Well, yeah, there's a slight chance this could backfire: English philosopher Francis Bacon, a founder of the scientific method, died in 1626 of pneumonia after stuffing a chicken with snow to see if cold would preserve it.
15 For organs to form during embryonic development, some cells must commit suicide. Without such programmed cell death, we would all be born with webbed feet, like ducks.
16 Waiting to exhale: In 1907 a Massachusetts doctor conducted an experiment with a specially designed deathbed and reported that the human body lost 21 grams upon dying. This has been widely held as fact ever since. It's not.
17 Buried alive: In 19th-century Europe there was so much anecdotal evidence that living people were mistakenly declared dead that cadavers were laid out in "hospitals for the dead" while attendants awaited signs of putrefaction.
18 Eighty percent of people in the United States die in a hospital.
19 If you can't make it here . . . More people commit suicide in New York City than are murdered.
20 It is estimated that 100 billion people have died since humans began.
Courtesy: by LeeAundra Temescu
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