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Pain is never permanent.
– Teresa of Avila –
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Meditation More Effective Than Morphine?
Meditation has long been touted as a holistic approach to pain relief. And studies show that long-time meditators can tolerate quite a bit of pain. Now researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have found you don’t have to be a lifelong monk to pull it off. Using a special type of brain imaging, researchers saw significant brain changes even in novices who hadn’t meditated before. Their conclusion? “A little over an hour of meditation training can dramatically reduce both the experience of pain and pain-related brain activation,” said Dr. Fadel Zeiden. While morphine and pain-killers typically reduce pain ratings by 25%, Wake Forest study found a 40% reduction with meditation! { read more }
Submitted by: Sunil S.
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Meditate. 🙂 Try out Samatha meditation that researchers experimented with. { more } |
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| Apr 10, 2011 |
| “A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.” — Author Unknown |
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 “When I got married, I told my wife that every year, at Christmas, I love to give an anonymous gift. I feel that’s the true meaning of Christmas – it is about giving and not receiving. My wife had a friend that she had grown close to over time. Just before Christmas one year, her friend lost her job. She had very few savings and no where to turn for help, and she has two young children. My wife and I decided to help her, but to do it anonymously. We purchased a money order from a store and mailed it to her with no return address and we mailed it from a city outside of our area so the postmark was unknown. Well 4 years later, also at Christmas time, my wife told her who the money was from and when she did her friend just smiled and said from that Christmas on she has been helping others who are in need every Christmas. It just goes to show you a little help can have a lot of ripples.” — Jarhead
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| “When I joined [this website] a few weeks ago, I had no idea how good it would make me feel when complete strangers added smiles to what I share. Now I understand that sharing what I do is not bragging. Thanks all!” — jab15 |
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Bliss does not come from outside. It comes from inside, from serving the people.
– Anna Hazare –
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82 Hour Hunger Fast
Anna Hazare, a 73-year-old Gandhian, sat fasting in the burning sun, and he promises to stay until death — unless his Indian government agreed to consider a powerful law that could rid Indian politics of the scourge of corruption. A tall order. Yet, after single-handedly provoking a people’s revolution that galavinized millions of his countrymen, the 72-year-old activist who launched what he calls “India’s second freedom struggle” is likely to end his four-day hunger strike tonight. It took Anna Hazare about 82 hours of fasting to accomplish every point of an agenda that seemed preposterously ambitious when the week began. { read more }
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Learn about this inspiring hero that many in India refer to as the Modern Mahatma. { more } |
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Those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.
– Tony Robbins –
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Nine-year-old Saves Her Sister’s life
Nine-year-old Anaiah Rucker is being hailed as a hero after saving her sister from being hit by a truck last month. Anaiah didn’t think twice before pushing her little sister out of the path of the vehicle as the pair crossed the street to get to the school bus stop. She took the hit instead. After a round of CPR from their mother, her first words upon regaining consciousness were: “Am I going to chorus today?” { read more }
Submitted by: Varsha M.
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Show love through selflessness today. |
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In a world where everybody is out for himself, the winning strategy is to be forgiving.
– Martin Nowak –
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The Mathematics of Being Nice
Cooperation is interesting because it essentially means that you help someone else, someone who is a potential competitor. You reduce your own success in order to increase the success of somebody else. Why should you do that? Why should natural selection favour such behavior? To answer these questions, Martin Nowak highlights 5 types of humans cooperation via evolutionary dynamics and experimental tests of human behavior. His ultimate conclusion? The ability to cooperate is the secret of humanity’s success. { read more }
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Like working alone? Make an extra effort to collaborate with others or partner with a potential competitor toward a shared goal. { more } |
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Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.
– Peter Nivio Zarlenga –
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Trading Wall Street for the Simple Life
He was a successful currency trader handling a $15 billion portfolio. But something wasn’t right. So Henry Quinson walked away from his comfortable life, gave his savings to charity, and joined a rural monastery in France. “I thought the spiritual part of my human life was more important than a career or making money,” he explains. For six years, Quinson spent his days in silence and prayer, following the 7th-century teachings of St. Benedict. Today, he lives in a humble inner-city neighborhood, teaching immigrant children, freelancing, and even serving as a monastic advisor for a recent film! His story echoes the beauty that transpires when we listen to that inner voice. { read more }
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Reflect on your values. Do they align with your actions? |
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I’m a vegan — you’re not. But if your chicken’s burning, I’ll flip it on the grill.
– Chris Bornstein –
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Pedaling For Peace
“I grew up in Lancaster, PA, joined the Navy and ended up on an aircraft carrier doing intelligence work in Japan, got married to my first wife in the Czech Republic, sold health club memberships (got to hang out with Magic Johnson almost everyday for a few months :)), started a screenplay competition, made a million in real estate and let it go in my second divorce, was a lifeguard in Australia at a waterpark in Ballarat, promoted nightclubs in LA and Miami and got to accept “Best Nightclub in the US” award for Spundae, was a chef at a Cuban/Hebrew catering, studied Kung Fu, Chinese medicine and perma-culture farming/landscaping in Hawaii for the last 4.5 years. In the 35 years of my life, I’ve done my very best to map out who I am by doing as many things as possible, but now I want to do my part to save humanity. I am currently riding my bicycle around the world to promote peace and environmental awareness. I’m doing my very best to be the change I wish to see in the world.” Such is how the journey of Chris Bornstein starts. { read more }
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Send a note of encouragement to Chris. { more } |
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
– Camille Pissarro –
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The Good News Effect
Good news begets better people. That’s the conclusion of researchers at the University of British Columbia. In four separate studies, results showed a direct link between a person’s exposure to media stories of extraordinary virtue and their yearning to change the world. “If more attention was devoted to recounting stories of uncommon acts of human virtue, the media could have a quantifiable positive effect on the moral behaviour of a significant group of people,” says lead author Karl Aquino, who studies forgiveness and moral behavior. The more positive and powerful stories we put into the world, the more good people we may start to see. { read more }
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| Apr 3, 2011 |
| “Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love…Kindness is good will. Kindness says, ‘I want you to be happy’.” — Randolph Ray |
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 “I wanted to use one of my Smile Cards today, so I went to the bank and withdrew $20. I went out on my lunch break, and walked around looking out for someone to give the money and the Smile Card to. I spotted a couple of people who I thought about giving it to but then I remembered that the Smile Card says to do it anonymously. So I decided to find a way to give away the $20 without the person knowing where it came from. I got in my car and drove to the mall and walked around praying for God to show me what to do. As I walked passed a dollar store I saw five pay phones by it. I took the $20 and neatly wrapped it around the Smile Card. I left if by the first pay phone and prayed that someone who really needed it, or just needed to be encouraged, would find it. If I had more time I would have liked to stand off in the distance and try to see the look on the person’s face when they found the $20. As I drove back to work I had a big smile on my face just thinking about who might have found it and how they must be feeling. This kindness stuff sure is fun!” — Happy7
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