The Connection Between Self-Worth and Bad Habits

If you struggle with your feelings of self-worth and confidence, you may want to examine your habits. You could have some behaviors that are contributing to your feelings of low self-esteem and learning to identify and then change these can help raise your opinion of yourself as well as improve your overall confidence. 

You may engage in some seemingly innocent behaviors that are contributing to your problems with self-worth. Or, you may allow others to treat you in ways that discount your strength and contributions. Knowing how your habits affect how you think about yourself as well as act toward others is essential to improving your sense of self and bolstering your confidence in your capacities. 

Bad Habits that Damage Your Self-Worth

Treating Yourself Too Harshly

You have an inner monologue that is continually running through your mind. Whether you are consciously paying attention to it or not, it’s always there. This constant stream of words can either lift you up or tear you town, depending on what you are saying to yourself. Are you continually criticizing yourself? Are you always the first to put yourself down? 

The words you say, especially to yourself, matter. Your mind hears them and internalizes them. Listen to how you talk to yourself and make an effort to make these words positive and uplifting. Focus on your strengths and give yourself compliments. 

Not Having Clear Boundaries

If you want people to respect you, your time, your belongings, and your space, you have to create boundaries. When your boundaries are unclear, though, it allows others to take advantage of you, which in turn leaves you with a lack of self-worth and respect. The bad habit of unclear boundaries means others are more likely to place their needs above yours.

Don’t allow people to disrespect you by taking advantage. Make your boundaries clear to others, and when those are not respected, stand up for yourself. This will provide you with a sense of empowerment and strength that can help build your esteem. 

Comparing Yourself To Others

Comparing yourself to others in real life and on social media is a destructive habit that can be draining your self-worth. Whether you are judging others to bolster your own confidence, or you judge yourself based on your perceptions of others’ lives, living through comparisons is not healthy for your sense of self. Focus instead on your own values, beliefs, and needs. Measure your successes against your own goals, not those of someone else. Comparison is very hard on your self-worth, so avoid it all costs. 

Surrounding Yourself with Negative People

You may not even realize that who you choose to spend time with can have a significant impact on your self-worth. While the negativity of others represents their own bad habit, your poor behavior choice is continuing to spend time with people who offer very little positive energy to your life. These people will drain you of your confidence and optimism, so break the bad habit now and release the toxic people from your life if you want to improve your self-confidence. 

Final Thoughts

These are just a few of the negative behaviors you may have that could be contributing to your low sense of self-worth. Examples of others include always saying yes to others, doubting your instincts, avoiding taking chances, not forgiving yourself, and apologizing when you’ve done nothing wrong. 

Any behavior that doesn’t lift you and support your emotional, spiritual, intellectual, and physical growth and health should be critically examined for revision. Learning to change these bad habits can help improve your sense of self. 

You Are What You Think

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right.” - Henry Ford

Forget believing that you are what you eat. The larger truth is that you are what you think. There is only one person responsible for your thoughts and that’s you. In truth, you are capable of changing your life for the better, just by getting your thinking under control. 

What type of self-talk do you indulge in? Troubling thoughts regarding a situation may be your instinct telling you there’s danger. However, your negative thinking may be an act of self-sabotage. 

We all have an inner voice leading up. Many people imagine the inner voice as two warring shoulder advisors. Whether you consider it to be your conscience or not, that inner voice seems to be taking everything it. 

You wake up in the morning and the voice is there, whether it starts speaking immediately or not. It follows you throughout your day and it’s that voice that has a nasty habit of keeping you awake as you toss and turn at night. 

 Conversations With Your Inner Voice

What does your inner voice say to you? Does it tell you that you’re good looking and wonderful as you gaze in the mirror getting ready in the morning? 

Or, do you notice every flaw and exaggerate it? Do you see the weight gain after a rough few months? 

Does it hone in on the gray hairs peeking through? Those may sound like little things, but it speaks to the tone that your inner voice takes. 

The negative tone can derail your motivation and destroy your resilience. It’s the quickest ticket to sap your energy. 

It can make pretty much every situation seem much worse than it truly is. The ability to take the tiniest problem and turn it into the worst case scenario is a gift that sadly, many of us possess. It’s the voice that keeps whispering to you that the worst case scenario is the most likely one. 

Before you reached that conclusion, though, you stopped off at all of the other dark timelines. The imagination is a wonderful thing, but it can easily turn on you to create nasty situations. How can you overcome a challenge that your own mind has created? 

More importantly, how can you respond adequately to a threat that your mind has blown out of proportion? Your response is likely to be a gross overreaction to the true situation. For example, you have been laid off. This would be a difficult situation for anyone to experience, especially if it comes from nowhere. 

The natural response is anger, anxiety, sadness, and frustration. What is your inner voice telling you, though? The right response is to start looking for a new job. If your inner voice is telling you that you are hopeless and unemployable, this will be much more difficult.

Why?

It shows, especially in interviews. It started as a thought, but it spiraled beyond that and had an impact on everything. That’s the power of thought. 

There is only one day to handle this and that is to change your attitude, which means you need to improve your self-talk. That means that you have to be aware of your self-talk, listen to your inner voice and when you hear it taking you down the wrong path, you need to correct it immediately. You are the victim of your own negative self-talk. 

When negative thoughts start to creep in, it isn’t about laying blame or finding someone else who did this to you. It’s about correcting your inner voice and steering it to more positive thoughts. 

You really are what you think. So, what do you think?

Capt. Sarab Sandhu

https://topsuccesssolutions.com/blog-category

Switzerland beats Turkey to keep chances alive

Lemon water + Turmeric (fat-burning tonic)

Drinks can be delicious and drinks can be refreshing, but did you also know certain drinks can straight up BURN FAT?

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 To your success.

Captain Sandhu

Top 10 skin care tips

Healthy skin is really one of the most important ingredients for beauty-enhancement. This article on skin care tips is an effort to bring the 10 best skin care tips to you.  The list of skin care tips has been restricted to 10 because anything more that that would not only be difficult to remember, but also shadow the more important skin care tips. So letís see what these top ten skin care tips are:

* Knowing your skin type is one of the most important skin care tip. This is important because not every skin care product suits everyone. In fact, all the skin care products specify the type of skin they cater too.

* Drink a lot of water. This will not keep your skin moist but will help in overall upkeep of your health (and in turn your skin). It might seem a bit awkward to some, however, this is an important skin care tip.

* Cleanse your skin regularly (1-2 times everyday).  A very effective skin care tip that helps in getting rid of the dirt and other harsh elements from your skin. Cleansing is especially important when you have been out of your house (and hence exposed to pollutants, dust etc). This skin care tip also advocates the use of Luke warm water for cleansing (hot and cold water, both, cause damage to your skin)
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* Be gentle, after all it is your skin. Don't scrub/exfoliate too hard or too often. Similarly, don't apply too much or too many skin care products. A must-to-follow skin care tip.

* Keep your skin moist at all times. This is one of the most important skin care tip.  Don't let your skin get dry. Dryness causes the outer layer of your skin to break, leading to a rough and unattractive appearance. Use moisturisers/ emollients. Moisturisers work best when applied while the skin is still damp.

* Avoid the use of soap on your face. Soap should only be used from below the neck. A small but important skin care tip.

* Use sunscreen to protect yourself from sun's harmful UV radiations. You can use day-time moisturisers that have sunscreen built into them. Use them even when itís cloudy. UV radiations are known to cause skin cancer, so follow this skin care tip without fail.

* A bit of exercise and good sleep are essential too, not just for skin care but for your health as a whole. Lack of sleep can lead to formation of wrinkles below your eyes and lack of exercise can cause your skin to slack. Moreover, exercise and sleep also help in beating stress.  So besides being a skin care tip, this is also a health care tip.

* Treat skin dilemmas with care.  This skin care tip is about not ignoring any skin dilemmas. Consult your dermatologist before you go on to use a skin care product (lest you do end up harming your skin even more).

* Beat the stress. The harmful effects of stress are known to everyone, however, sometimes stating the obvious is essential too (and hence this skin care tip found its place here). Yes, stress harms skin too. So, take a break or indulge in a warm bubble bath or just get good sleep.

Love and Light

Sarab Sandhu
CaptainWB
www.sarabsandhu.com

Should you take the largest mortgage possible?

Be it at the home purchase stage which means making the smallest down payment possible, or refinancing and taking out the maximum amount of equity, many Canadian today believe that they should have the largest possible mortgage.



It seems that gone are the days of working to retire debt free, and to own your home out-right.  It is this exact reason that the government has restricted the rules around mortgage lending, to try to curb the attitude that our homes are ATM machines.

We tend to forget that a mortgage is essentially assigning title to the home or granting ownership of the home to a lender.  Yes, equity remaining in the home is ours and we benefit from increased value, but we do not truly own that home until it is debt free.  If we do not pay the mortgage, the lender has the ability to remove us from the home.  For people who took advantage of 100% financing, until they are in a positive equity situation, they are in truth renting that home as the money they are 'investing' is paying off debt.

In some situations maximizing the equity in your home might make sense.  With a structured investment plan in place, you can make that equity work for you.  But it is also important to remember that mortgage interest is calculated as compounded interest.  I have yet to see an investment plan that so favours the investor by paying a return that is compounded at the same rate.  That is not to say that using equity as an investment tool is not smart, it just means that we have to be careful to place our funds in the right investment.

The same applies to using equity in your home for home improvements.  A renovation can dramatically increase the value of your home, but then also consider a few things before you proceed.  Are you doing the renovations in order for the home to better function for you and your family or are you doing it simply to increase value?  What are your plans with the home - live out your days there, or sell in the next five years?  All of these questions and many others need to be taken into account before you make the decision to move forward.

If you want to renovate your home because you want to improve functionality or better enjoy the aesthetics of the home; your choices in finishes might be very different then if it is to get the home ready for sale.  For instance: I once saw a home for sale in a middle class neighbourhood which proudly advertised that the kitchen sink was a unique high end designer brand.  Out of curiosity I went online and looked it up... I was shocked to discover that the sink came with a price tag of just over $10,000.00 Canadian.  I also found a sink that looked almost identical for $900.00.

I can't speak for everyone but I just can't justify in my mind paying ten thousand dollars on a sink, as I am sure most people would agree.  The point is, renovations need to make sense and need to fit the home and the neighbourhood if it is your intention to simply increase the value.

This is where speaking to professionals comes into play and illustrates the need to have someone who is truly Looking out for your best interest.  Be it consulting with a design professional, a realtor, investment advisor or a mortgage broker - we need to make sure that our decisions make sense for our own personal situations.  It is why shopping for a mortgage by only comparing interest rate can seriously impact our financial situation in the future.

Home ownership needs to be about much more than having the biggest and best home or a mortgage with the lowest interest rate, it has to make sense and align with our lifestyle and financial goals.  We need to be smart about the decisions we make today to better prepare for our future.  It is why at CENTUM we encourage you to look beyond just getting a mortgage and getting a home ownership solution, the CENTUM Solution.

5 Ways to Energize Your Day

Straight to the Five best routines to energize you day.


1.      Gratitude Prayer      (Benefits – Triggers your auto immune system)

Wake up 15 mins before your normal wake up time. A quick trip to freshen up, drink a glass of warm water ,then find a place to sit erect with neck and spine in a straight line,  Be still, close your eyes and say a Gratitude prayer and instructions to send fresh energy on each organ and sense.

Take a deep breath where you take fresh energy and exhale through the object, the body part, of your intention – taking away the impure energy (on your exhale). 

• For your consciousness and perception faculties

• For your sense of Hearing- try to hear something internally

• For your sense of Touch – imagine feeling something internally

• For your sense of Sight – Imagine seeing a pleasant sight with your eyes closed.

• For your sense of Taste – Imagine tasting something you like – does your mouth salivate.

• For your sense of Smell – Imagine smelling a rose if you can

• For your Throat energy centre and all organs associated with the- Respiratory System

• For your strong and healthy heart – the Circulatory System

• For your healthy Solar Plexus area , two inch above the navel, Digestive system (stomach, intestines, gall bladder, pancreas, liver)

• For your healthy Sacral Centre  - the Reproduction Organs, Kidneys

• For your healthy Root Centre – the system looking after all waste from the body

• For your healthy hips,thighs, knees, shin and foot.

• For your healthy shoulder, arms, elbow , wrist and hands.

• Tell the Mind with intention that if you have missed any part to correct it also.

• Say Thank You Thank you Thank you and now open your eyes

You can have as many breaths at each point, with time your entire Gratitude Prayer should take 5 to 6 min. 

You have ensured that each and every part of your body was bathed in new energy which ensure that reproduction of new cells will be healthy as per your DNA instructions. 

2.     Meditation  (Benefits – You are consciously finding the calm state of mind while awake. This is the wellbeing state of  mind)

• Can play some pleasant instrumental or meditation music – it will help

• Close your eyes again, while sitting erect with neck in line with the spine.

• Make a sound while inhaling through your nose. 4 to 5 secs

• Hold your breath for 5 secs.

• Make a humming sound while exhaling through nose- 7 to 10 secs

• Repeat this inhale, hold and exhale 24 times

• Open your eyes and take a big stretch. YOU are READY for what you have to offer this DAY
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You can do both #1 and #2 in continuation and allow 15 mins.  

The humming sound while inhaling and exhaling is to prevent any coherent thought being processed by you.

3.     Exercise   (Benefits – You help your auto immune system.)

• Do any exercise which will stretch or use your muscle groups by rotation for 15 Mins daily.

• Do gentle stretching of your neck and spine – 5 stretches.

4.     Breakfast    (Benefits – With optimum blood               sugar levels you make better decisions.)

• Have a healthy breakfast- Egg white, Bran/Oat cereal, Grapefruit, Tea/Coffee, Skimmed milk, High Fibre Bread – suggestion, avoid -  egg yolk , butter and bacon unless you exercise 2 hours a day.

5.     Pre Pave your day. ( Benefits – You have a path to follow otherwise you may go in circles !)

• Make your intention as to the flow of activities you wish to accomplish during the day. When you achieve your small milestones you feel empowered.

You now spend the rest of the day giving your best.



CaptainWB
http://mortgagewise.info

Five Horsemen

Some truths.

 If your body is healthy the mind is healthy, your thoughts are positive, your actions are complementary, generally you are in Joyful state of mind and hopefully the people around you are also in that state. Your state of health is one of the important cogs in the wheel of wellness.

When you are tense there is constriction of the muscles and the blood vessels thus needing the heart to pump more – increased  pulse.

In the above case LESS oxygen enriched reaches all the organs and extremities.

With age all organs in the body are subject to decay and malformation of cells , this is due to decreased oxygen enriched blood flow to the organs and tissues.

When you have a fever, you have muscle constriction, thus causing vasoconstriction- the constriction of all blood carrying veins and arteries, like a garden hose stepped on - the body’s natural response to correct the condition is to increase heart rate to improve good flow to organs and extremities to bring you back to normalcy.

If in a relaxed state of mind when also the muscle tone is relaxed, there is less constriction. Thus in this state body organs and extremities are now irrigated more efficiently   Now when you further improve vasodilation of blood vessel by induced hypercapnia, increase of CO2 in the bloodstream, you send more oxygen enriched blood to your organs and extremities. There is temporary  increase in the blood pressure during this period. Overall  this causes less degeneration  of cells and healthy generation as per DNA specifications.

Vasodilation can be explained as ,when we inhale air which comprises of 21% Oxygen, 78.9% Nitrogen and some traces of there gases. When we exhale the composition is 16%  O2 and 5% CO2 , with the Nitrogen still at 78.9%. If we exhale slowly there is more absorption of O2 with respect to time and more production of CO2 – and when we exhale slowly twice that of the Inhalation, the CO2 in the arterial system causes the arteries to overall dilate – called Vasodilation. Example – your veins are always larger than your arteries – because the veins have blood returning back to the heart for further purification.

When you are sick the auto immune system of the body does all this to correct the imbalance by increasing the blood flow by pumping more. This happens by default. The increased heart rate causes fever to be present.

Now you can deliberately create this condition for improved overall good health – longevity. Your are mimicking the Auto Immune system of your body!

So how do we deliberately create a condition in which we place our body’s complex matrix so as to enhance consumption of oxygen enriched blood by the organs and extremities within the same base of time.

Let us explore how to get 20 – 30 more years of loving life in the most healthy manner.

The FIRST mechanism in the method is the process of Meditation . If you do 15 mins minimum twice a day you achieve a calm state of mind, less muscle tone, less constriction,less blood pressure, more blood flow. There are many ways to achieve meditation for best results neck and spine should be in a straight line.

Meditation by itself produces good results in overall improvement of oxygen absorption. Daily meditation improves overall health and increases longevity.

The SECOND mechanism is the method to induce minor hypercapnia. 15 mins once a day on a empty stomach.

This can be induced by breathing in one unit of time and breathing out in  two or more unit of time.

You can easily induce it by holding your breath long enough till you have to breath again. Like breathing in 4 seconds and holding the breath for 16 secs. All the oxygen is absorbed by the lungs and the increased CO2 causes vasodilation. All you blood vessel, that is arteries, are more dilated.

Did you notice that your veins, which carry CO2 enriched blood, are always bigger than your arteries. There will be a spike in blood pressure but is is offset by FIRST mechanism.

You will observe how we are using our body’s respiratory system to affect the body’s circulatory system

Now the THIRD Mechanism is the method is to introduce more than required oxygen into the lungs. 15 mins in conjunction with the second mechanism. Alternate 5 mins each routine x 6 rounds.

This causes the oxygen enriched blood to flow further to organs and to the extremities due to increased transportation passage created by the SECOND mechanism.

This is achieved by hyperventilating rapidly for a prescribed duration. This is the same action like coughing where you use use your diaphragm  to expel all the air from your lungs. – but without the noise. You should expel your air at least once every second and let the air naturally aspirate into your lungs. This way you are breathing by a different process and give your lungs, an involuntary muscle, a rest. All involuntary muscles specially heart and lungs are always in action with out rest from the first time they start functioning till they cannot. All time spent breathing in this way is added to your lifespan as a bonus.

The FOURTH mechanism is eating whole foods. This is whole new subject by itself. Life style change required.

Let it be said that any ingress of material into the body by way of mouth is considered a foreign body. The body processes it but the ability to efficiently do so diminishes with time. Now if you eat only whole foods,no sugars, no fats and no salt you should help you digestive system from overwhelm and work efficiently like a well oiled machine. Also you have to prescribe to the belief that the sense of taste was created primarily  to reject bad tasting food, and food is like refuelling a car – we can only put a certain grade for best operation try putting diesel in a gasoline engine.

Question most asked is what am I going to do with the added lifespan ? For that we need a another talk . Now i would simply say that the Final mechanism could be the answer to your question.

The FIFTH mechanism is the expending of love. New Way of life.

In this matrix of what we call real is really imaginary. So deliberately introduce feeling which are higher on the emotional scale to achieve real time joy. Love, gratitude, appreciation are some of the emotions which are there on the top. They are illusions too but they were created by you for the people around you and collectively for the universe around you.

It is the state of mind of joy which you should always have irrespective of the manifestations. It is not that certain manifestations are required to bring about a joyous state of mind. That is short lived.

In conclusion

What you have heard so far are actually the 5000 year old yogic methods used. What you should be doing now has a scientific basis to it.

Personally I use these mechanism on a regular basis with the desired effects.

So if you take the longevity challenge the following five horseman are to be remembered.

First – Meditation – To bring body and mind to a calm state with less muscle tone – should be floating.

Second – Hypercapnia – Increase co2 in blood temporally so as to create vasodilation

Third – Hyperventilation – to increase O2 enriched blood to reach organs and extremities via the improved transportation conditions.

Fourth – Simple whole foods – Life style change required

Fifth – Love Love and love – If all the world had that highest emotion it would be single living entity.

So I hope to see you all  at my next talk in 40 years from now.

- CaptainWB
http://mortgagewise.info

Gloria

The Senses are greater than the Body , and Greater than the Senses is the Mind, and greater than the Mind is the Intellect and greater than the Intellect is the SELF the Spirit.

  - Bhagvad Gita

We live and perceive our world within the two extremes of Body and Spirit.

Capt. Sarab Sandhu
www.siriussuccess.com

YOUR GUIDANCE SYSTEM

By Adelina Maria Micu

If our thoughts create our experience, then what does that say about a person that is not aware of where he/she is beating the drums?

Each thought moves us closer to or farther from our desired outcome! It just takes our attention to the way we FEEL (feel our feelings!) so that we can guide ourselves steadily toward our own goals. It is amazing how our built-in emotional guidance system helps us travel the distance from where we are to where we want to be, exactely as a GPS!

It is really important to get clear about which is our goal, which are the steps that must be taken for to achieve it and where we are in relationship with the ultimate outcome. This represents a „bring you back on track” when we are distracted by those that may interfere and ask us to act in a different way for to positively affect their experience and so get lost and go off track.

Which Direction to go.

Sexy action steps and of course sexy goal! This is what got me personally to another level on my journey to my goals. If our goal does not feel attractive to us, then how much willingness, perseverance would we have during our journey? Let`s be sincere, with the first blow of wind, we would even forget that there was something that made us dare for more! So, make it sexy, attractive to you, try to see the benefits in each and every step and connect to that good feeling. This will be fuel for us!

Ancient Wisdom

On a piece of paper, write down your goal and on a scale 1-10 determine what you have to do to get there, what you are willing to do. Decide what actions would take you to the next level. If for example you are on the fouth level on your scale, decide what actions would take you to a five, then to a six, to a seven, to an eight, to a nine and finally to your goal. I experienced the benefits of doing this, so make all of it feel sexy to you!

Feel and experience!

-
Adelina Maria Micu
www.siriussuccess.com

YOU ARE ENERGY

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By Adelina Maria Micu

Everything is energy. Everything! Including us!

It is good to remember this as our tendency is to focus so much on the solid, palpable things that we forget that there is much more than that.

We are Source Energy in a physical body! We are not just this physical body, but also energy, spirit (however you want to call it). I love the comparison with the electricity that passes through the walls of my house up to my toast. I do not see the electricity inside it but it is there working perfectly together for to get my toast.

Energy Centers

All energy vibrates and all these vibrational waves carry a bit of information about us. Our thoughts determine emotions within us that are our indicators of the vibrational content of our Being and the signal that we transmit as electromagnetic vibrating info energy waves.

People didn`t have this understanding form the beginnings but they observed the relationship between the way they were feeling and their experience. (You know those moments when something bad happens to you and then it gets worse and worse until you can find some relief and begin to feel better and so your physical experience begins to improve.) The feeling precedes the experience!

On one hand, there were people with positive, healthy beliefs about life in general, therefore experiencing good life, on the other hand, there were people with negative beliefs and therefore experiencing a hard life, none on them being aware of why they were experiencing what they were experiencing, but just accepting it or feeling a victim. We now know that we can become aware of the feeling of your emotions, therefore we get to know what is our vibrational offering.

They decided to take advantage of it and practice the alignement of their thoughts and beliefs therefore they could reach a level of good feeling (joy, love, freedom, appreciation) on purpose for to attract and experience good things in their lives. It worked!

They saw the connection between thoughts, emotions and physical experience. They observed how their experience changed according to their thoughts and believes and they knew there was no exception to this.

That was something universal, a universal law. They realized that was similar to the Law of Gravity. The ball that you throw up in the air comes back to you; the emotion that represents the signal you send out in the universe comes back to you as a physical experience. So, they gave it a name: The Law of Attraction.

How could I find out about this law just now? Shouldn`d this have been one of my first lessons about life? Where have I been living until now that I have not heard anything about it!?” these were my questions a few years ago when I first found out about this universal law.

I specialized as Law of Attraction Couch as I experienced on my own skin how challenging it can be to literally take the responsibility of being the creator of my life and not a victim of circumstances. How empowering that can be!

Don`t get me wrong! You do not have to be a Law of Attraction coach or even know about it for to live a great live, but if you don`t live the life you want, if you struggle then it should be your tool. I don`t say it from books, but from my own experience!

All is energy…

Brandon Buchard said: “Life itself is energy, so if you have no energy, what does that say about your life?”

Please, ask yourself right now: “What is my energy level?” Become aware of that (on a scale of 1 to 10) and see if that energy level satisfies  you or if you feel like rather taking action and increase it. (you could do that several times a day!)

Feel and experience!

-Adelina

July 18th 2014

State of Mind - SOM

If one’s State of Mind is always happy and positive your have fulfilled your mandate of the gift of your life. 

Coupled with the desire to be in selfless service to humanity you have absolutely made good use of the physical life gifted to you.

All the rest is an Illusion.

To achieve the ultimate truth you have to tread through many falsehoods-illusions. Do you recognize the falsehoods ? 

Real direct knowledge is gained by introspection and meditation which helps to dispels darkness.

Let us attempt to define Happiness mathematically ;

Happiness =  What you Have  /  What you Need   ( A Ratio)

Happiness is a ratio where any thing greater than or equal to one means Positive and less than one is not.

In the equation the Numerator = What you have, depends on many external circumstances not all in your control.

Say you prosper and increase the numerator to a high number. Good luck.

Denominator = What you need,  again depends on your thought process and ego. This number will increase with you desires.

Keeping this number in check helps immensely in the overall Ratio.

Pursuit of wealth, name and fame, is the blueprint most want to follow. Truth is that ultimately it is not fulfilling as your denominator also increase causing the ratio to be less than one.

Happiness is an inner state not an outer accomplishments.

What is required is a good balance between the Inner and Outer worlds.

Good Health,  Peace of Mind and contentment are treasures to be cultivated and cherished.

Use your own methods to balance the Happiness ratio. 

Meditate to improve Direct Experiential Knowledge to guide you.

Life is actually simple but we all make it unusually complicated. 

You now know what is required- Execute . You will Honour the Gift of your Life given to YOU.

CaptainWB

MediCation - C replaced by T - MediTation

Meditation Meditation  Meditation - What is it ?

“Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate, meditate."     -Swami Sivananda

"There is no time for Meditation - in the time available I will medicate, medicate, medicate "  - Todays Majority Thinking

Actually the act of doing and thinking nothing - is meditation. Unlearning what you have learnt is a process of meditation. The indirect advantage of meditation are many and when done regularly are more powerful than medication.

Medication is a short time quickfix to physical or mental afflictions with the hope that the body's auto immune system will then take over. 

Meditation if done porperly and regularly will prevent those physical or mental afflictions from occuring.

Is it a religious act of some kind ?  NO.

Have you ever done meditation in your life ? 

To all those who have not done meditation ever I have news for you.

We all meditate every day whether we know it or not. This the best type of meditation says the Dalai Lama. 

At night when your body instructs you to sleep and in due course your body muscle tone is loosened, heart rate comes down, there is improved blood circulation, blood pressure is normalized , your endocrine system endeavours to stabilize, overall it resets your physical, electrical and chemical systems All this while you are in deep sleep state - unconscious state. 

What was so religious about the above fact ?

We will quantify the rest and rejuvenation one achieves by sleeping 8 hours as One Unit of wellness. This is assuming this was a sound sleep without any interruptions.

Now if you Meditate while your mind is in the  conscious state the advantages your receive during meditations is THREE times more effective than what you receive during sleep.

To put it in another way, if you could meditate, in the conscious state, for 3 hours - it is equivalent to 9 hours of sleep. You now have 6 additional hours to do any activity of choice - write a book perhaps or mediate some more !

To explain this further let me go to the very fundamentals.

There are SIX basic systems in the human mind body continuum.

The Mind System -  The Third Eye - Brain

The Nervous System - Vayana  Vayu. - Over all

The Respiratory System -Udana Vayu - Throat 

The Circulatory System - Prana  Vayu - Throat to Heart

The Digestive System - Samana Vayu -  Heart to Navel

The Elimination System - Apana Vayu - Navel to Rectum

If any one system fails the body cannot last.

Breathing rate is normally 15 breaths per minute (bpm) for a healthy person who will then live to a 100 years of age.

Now if we reduce the breathing rate to 6 bpm by consciously slowing the breathing rate - this will effect the circulatory system by reducing the number of heart beats and the consequently the blood pressure. This will have a beneficial effect on the Nervous System which in turn will provide a better ambient currents to improve the Digestive and Elimination system.

You did hear of person in stress condition (mind) does tend towards constipation

One of the fact is that the Human Body can correct it self by triggering the body’s  auto immune system. The conditions have to be right for the Auto Immune System to be effective.

What are those conditions ?

• Stillness of body. (When sleeping you can achieve it and when in a meditative pose) 
• A quite place where one can mediate or sleep.
• A calm state of mind. (When sleeping you can achieve it but you are in deep sleep - unconscious. In meditative state you can achieve the calm state while in the conscious state).
• To increase blood flow to extremities and organs.

To illustrate let us visit a newly born baby and somebody in their thirties.

The baby smells good if the pamper effect is not taken into account. The baby has all their SIX systems working efficiently and in balance. One important factor in the system is removal of toxins from cells which are dead and to bring fresh nutrients to new cells. 

In the baby this system is working most efficiently as compared to an older person who has picked up bad habits during their lifetime. If the baby is not bathed she/he still smells fresh - the older body will start smelling because of non removal of toxins. On the other extreme when flesh rots the smell is awe full.

Fact- If blood circulation is increased to organs and extremities we can have excellent toxins removal and nutrient delivery to cells of those regions.

How do we increase Blood Circulation ?

You can only use your body and their systems, no chemical or physical aids are allowed to increase blood circulation.

Lets us follow a package of air ( one Breath) which was breathed in and what difference did it make.

You took in AIR which is : NORMAL

You took in AIR which is possible during  MEDITATION

So we agree if we reduce breath per minute and breath deeply and diaphragmatically so we can increase the oxygen absorption. 

So that package of air went to the alveoli and a gas exchange takes place from the CO2 rich blood coming back to the heart. Freshly oxygenated blood  is diverted by the heart into the circulatory system.

The CO2 absorbed from the blood in the alveoli  is exhaled by the lung. So that package of air was processed so as to move fresh blood forward by a few inches. 

At this point let us say we can achieve this increased absorption of O2 and increased expulsion of toxins when meditation is achieved.  We will do a practicum to prove this.

As an analogy lets us say a human has a heart which is connected to a long pipe. The blood in the pipe irrigates a body organ and comes back to the heart. The long pipe is coiled like a garden hose in the body. So merely the process of blood circulation continues as usual.

Now when one wakes up they immediately start thinking of the day to day affairs  and also the reasons which cause stress. Due to this flight response due to stress the muscle tone of the entire body implodes. This causes a constriction in the long pipe. This causes the heart to pump harder. This stress is like a person standing on top of the coiled garden hose. Generally  STRESS is defeating the forces of longevity.

Now in this state if we achieve meditation it is very productive. For a start we request the person standing on your chest to get off. This softens the muscle tone of the body  and  automatically improving blood flow to the organs and extremities and is in cooperation with the forces of longevity.

Meditation alone  improves the blood flow considerably. Now additionally by just modulating your breath easily you can further increase blood flow by additional 30%. 

Now this is specific exercises of Yoga called Pranayama which can achieve this. Presently let us learn how to achieve meditation before we learn Pranayama. 

Learn to walk before we run !

Lets go for a leisurely walk.

Love and Light

CaptainWB

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What is LOVE.....

What is Love?

Are you happy with your definitions? 

There are two laws, the Law of Expansion and the Law of Contraction. Hate others, you are going through the Law of Contraction. Love all, you are going through the Law of Expansion.

Do you feel your State of Mind (SOM) vibrates more positively when you are vibrating in harmony with the emotion called love. One of the highest emotions on the Emotional Scale.

If one dwells or acts on the love emotion as a recipient or as a provider- one's state of mind soars towards the positive.

Let us also see from a different perspective.

Hate is a negative emotion  which is caused because of absence of Love.

Yes Hate is the dichotomy of Love.

How would we know what is Love if there was no Hate ? 

We can say love and hate are drawn from the same bucket of emotions - one causes aversion and the other attraction.

In the hierarchy of the love-hate emotions the best is  the Love of Self.

All other recipients of the emotion are secondary.

Your Mind is connected to your body with the two sentries, breath - inhalation and exhalation. All the emotions come specifically from the Four Primitive Fountains of Life, conscious mind and randomly from your unconscious mind, 95% of the total mind. 

Emotions then cause thoughts or actions with respect to a recipient to who it is targeted.  The perception of the receiver will be as per their domain of knowledge, their goodness scale. The feed back to the initiator will also be perceived as per their domain of knowledge, their goodness scale. So this is how the see saw goes on.  

Now what happens when you, alone, are present in the interaction above  which occurs.

It is a fact that you love yourself if you look after your Body the best possible way you can, improving your knowledge so as to dispel ignorance,  better you perceptive powers, eating right so it does not effect your health and generally improve your virtue count during this spell of conscious living.

110 years old, loving and childlike. 
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Simply put if you vibrate positively with the love emotion you will have a profound effect on your disposition and health. 

Do not dwell into the lower emotions of hatred, shame, fear, grief, condemnation, race prejudice for they take you away from self love. 

 "We can only love another; if we love ourselves first.” - Anonymous 

We can sure say that the absence of hate is tending towards love.

What does Lao Tzu say about Goodness and love…..

A truly good man is not aware of his goodness,

And is therefore good.

A foolish man tries to be good,

And is therefore not good.

A truly good man does nothing,

Yet nothing is left undone.

A foolish man is always doing,

Yet much remains to be done

When a truly kind man does something, he leaves nothing undone.

When a just man does something, he leaves a great deal to be done.

When a disciplinarian does something and no one responds,

He rolls up his sleeves in an attempt to enforce order

Therefore when Tao is lost, there is goodness.

When goodness is lost, there is kindness.

When kindness is lost, there is justice.

When justice is lost, there is ritual.

Now ritual is the husk of faith and loyalty, the beginning of confusion.

Knowledge of the future is only a flowery trapping of the Tao.

It is the beginning of folly.

Therefore the truly great man dwells on what is real  and not what is on the surface,

On the fruit and not the flower,

Therefore accept the one and reject the other.

Tao Te Ching, Chapter 38 ,

When the Tao is lost , there is goodness. So this is the goodness scale we talk about. In a Tao centred life there is no good or bad, there is no scale. It is what it is. All is perfect in Nature. When we deal with our own selves  we have to be Tao centred in how we act. We are not trying impress our own self!

"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves”  - Johann Wolfgang Goethe 

“He who outwardly restraining the Organs of Senses and Action (Physically restrain the Senses); sits mentally dwelling on the Object of Senses, (What the Senses will perceive as an object) that man of deluded intellect is called a hypocrite” - Bhagwad Gita.

Attachment is misery, non-attchment means love.

All of our possessions and relationships are viewed as attachments.

If we view all such with love, non-attachment rather than attachments then we will not feel the misery on their loss.

All thing and relationships are transient and should be enjoyed with non-attachment and love.

When there is non-attachment involved there is absence of hate and as such surfaces unconditional love.

On a survey conducted on people of 100 years and over guess what was the most important ingredient of longevity.

Yes you guessed it it was Love. This could be love and acceptance provided by family members, intellectual companionship by friends or generally a person of disposition where hating some  one was not part of the mind set. All the participants accepted this as the most important ingredient in their longevity.—Why ?

1 years old loving 

When you are angry which you will be when hate is part of your mental disposition, The muscle tone is constricted as in a fight/flight response, which in turn causes all the blood vessel/pipes in the body to contract ever so minutely, this causes less blood to reach the extremities or organs while keeping the blood pressure constant. - Loss of Blood irrigation to cells due to contraction.(minute effect multiplied by a lot of time!)

If the heart increases blood pressure to achieve irrigation levels previously sought ; The increase of Heart beats due to contraction.

If the muscle tone is relaxed and there is no constriction - You have maximum flow to organs and extremities where the toxins are removed efficiently and fresh food for new cell is received. — Simple logic , long lasting carbon life form. 

This actually can be witnessed when inspecting a baby. The baby breaths what is required, without constriction of blood vessels/ pipes, as they are all infused with love the natural emotion. This causes efficient exchange of nutrients and toxins at the cell level. The baby have an excellent body smell due to this efficient exchange. As part of human conditioning the baby learns how to hate at some point.

The only better way to live is with Love as the dominating emotion, hopefully with non- attachment and unconditional.

It is for you to see where you are and where want to go. You decide and go forth with love always smelling nice.

CaptainWB

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