This is absolutely amazing and long anticipated technology that will change preventative medicine. Imagine going for a physical (what is a physical anyway?) and obtaining a 3D, interactive map of your entire body. Computers and software haven't, as of yet, met their full potential when it comes to "catching" illness early; But, I foresee them fast approaching... Big hats off to Anders Ynnerman and everyone who helped him create this technology.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Saturday, September 24, 2011
TED: Contagious Cancer
Incredibly thought-provoking talk by Elizabeth Murchison. We've been looking at cancer all wrong...
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Thought: Light
There is an article (here) that talks about a particle moving faster than the speed of light.. Which got me thinking about what the speed of light is, and granted scientists have figured this out, but I'm not a scientist, so I can still hypothesize... Nothing concrete; But light needs particles to be seen.. light waves traveling across webs of atoms in a sort of chain reaction... not a diffusion, as in other waves (i.e. sound, vibration). Light seems to have a unique property of holding intensity through space... Does light get trapped in anything? A circle of particles... The speed of light is the speed of lightning.. the speed of our neurons, the speed of automatic response within the particle, not the disruption caused by movement.. Is it the transferring of electrons? Or hitting electrons, like in tetherball... Makes more sense to me in these terms how light creates life.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
A short story about compassion
A man came and spat on Buddha's face. He was very angry. He was a Brahmin, "Just give me permission to put this man right, This is too much! I cannot tolerate it."
Buddha said, "But he has not spat on your face. This is my face. Second, just look at the man! In what great trouble he is- just look at the man! Feel compassion for him. He wants to say something to me, but words are inadequate. That is my problem also, my whole life's long problem- and I see the man in the same situation! I want to relate things to you that I have come to know, but I cannot relate them because words are inadequate. This man is in the same boat: he is so angry that no word can express his anger- just as I am in so much love that no word, no act, can express it. I see this man's difficulty- just see!"
Buddha is seeing, Amanda is also seeing. Buddha is simply collecting a factual memory; Ananda is creating a psychological memory.
The man could not believe his ears, what Buddha was saying. He was very much shocked. He would not have been shocked if Buddha had hit him back, or Ananda had jumped upon him. There would have been no shock; that would have been expected, that would have been natural. That's how human beings react. But Buddha feeling for the man, seeing his difficult... The man went, could not sleep the whole night, pondered over it, meditated over it. Started feeling a great hurt, started feeling what he had done. A wound opened in his heart.
Early in the morning, he rushed to Buddha's feet, fell at Buddha's feet, kissed his feet. And Buddha said to Ananda, "Look, again the same problem! Now he is feeling so much for me, he cannot speak in words. He is touching my feet. Man is so helpless. Anything that is too much cannot be expressed, cannot be conveyed, cannot be communicated. Some gesture has to be found to symbolize it. Look!"
And the man started crying and said, "Excuse me, sir. I am immensely sorry. It was absolute stupidity on my part to spit on you, a man like you."
Buddha said, "Forget about it! The man you spat upon is no more, and the man who spat is no more. You are new, I am new! Look- this sun that is rising is new. Everything is new. The yesterday is no more. Be finished with it! And how can I forgive? because you never spat on me. You spat on somebody who has departed."
Consciousness is a continuous river.
-OSHO
Buddha said, "But he has not spat on your face. This is my face. Second, just look at the man! In what great trouble he is- just look at the man! Feel compassion for him. He wants to say something to me, but words are inadequate. That is my problem also, my whole life's long problem- and I see the man in the same situation! I want to relate things to you that I have come to know, but I cannot relate them because words are inadequate. This man is in the same boat: he is so angry that no word can express his anger- just as I am in so much love that no word, no act, can express it. I see this man's difficulty- just see!"
Buddha is seeing, Amanda is also seeing. Buddha is simply collecting a factual memory; Ananda is creating a psychological memory.
The man could not believe his ears, what Buddha was saying. He was very much shocked. He would not have been shocked if Buddha had hit him back, or Ananda had jumped upon him. There would have been no shock; that would have been expected, that would have been natural. That's how human beings react. But Buddha feeling for the man, seeing his difficult... The man went, could not sleep the whole night, pondered over it, meditated over it. Started feeling a great hurt, started feeling what he had done. A wound opened in his heart.
Early in the morning, he rushed to Buddha's feet, fell at Buddha's feet, kissed his feet. And Buddha said to Ananda, "Look, again the same problem! Now he is feeling so much for me, he cannot speak in words. He is touching my feet. Man is so helpless. Anything that is too much cannot be expressed, cannot be conveyed, cannot be communicated. Some gesture has to be found to symbolize it. Look!"
And the man started crying and said, "Excuse me, sir. I am immensely sorry. It was absolute stupidity on my part to spit on you, a man like you."
Buddha said, "Forget about it! The man you spat upon is no more, and the man who spat is no more. You are new, I am new! Look- this sun that is rising is new. Everything is new. The yesterday is no more. Be finished with it! And how can I forgive? because you never spat on me. You spat on somebody who has departed."
Consciousness is a continuous river.
-OSHO
Friday, February 11, 2011
Distorted Thinking
Do you have any of these '15 Styles of Distorted Thinking'? I've got more than one & this will become my next conscious project.. going down the checklist, one by one. Practice. Mindfulness.
1. Filtering: You take the negative details and magnify them, while filtering out all positive aspects of a situation. A single detail may be picked out, and the whole event becomes colored by this detail. When you pull negative things out of context, isolated from all the good experiences around you, you make them larger and more awful than they really are.
2. Polarized Thinking: The hallmark of this distortion is an insistence on dichotomous choices. Things are black or white, good or bad. You tend to perceive everything at the extremes, with very little room for a middle ground. The greatest danger in polarized thinking is its impact on how you judge yourself. For example-You have to be perfect or you're a failure.
3. Overgeneralization: You come to a general conclusion based on a single incident or piece of evidence. If something bad happens once, you expect it to happen over and over again. 'Always' and 'never' are cues that this style of thinking is being utilized. This distortion can lead to a restricted life, as you avoid future failures based on the single incident or event.
4. Mind Reading: Without their saying so, you know what people are feeling and why they act the way they do. In particular, you are able to divine how people are feeling toward you. Mind reading depends on a process called projection. You imagine that people feel the same way you do and react to things the same way you do. Therefore, you don't watch or listen carefully enough to notice that they are actually different. Mind readers jump to conclusions that are true for them, without checking whether they are true for the other person.
5. Catastrophizing: You expect disaster. You notice or hear about a problem and start "what if's." What if that happens to me? What if tragedy strikes? There are no limits to a really fertile catastrophic imagination. An underlying catalyst for this style of thinking is that you do not trust in yourself and your capacity to adapt to change.
6. Personalization: This is the tendency to relate everything around you to yourself. For example, thinking that everything people do or say is some kind of reaction to you. You also compare yourself to others, trying to determine who's smarter, better looking, etc. The underlying assumption is that your worth is in question. You are therefore continually forced to test your value as a person by measuring yourself against others. If you come out better, you get a moment's relief. If you come up short, you feel diminished. The basic thinking error is that you interpret each experience, each conversation, each look as a clue to your worth and value.
7. Control Fallacies: There are two ways you can distort your sense of power and control. If you feel externally controlled, you see yourself as helpless, a victim of fate. The fallacy of internal control has you responsible for the pain and happiness of everyone around you. Feeling externally controlled keeps you stuck. You don't believe you can really affect the basic shape of your life, let alone make any difference in the world. The truth of the matter is that we are constantly making decisions, and that every decision affects our lives. On the other hand, the fallacy of internal control leaves you exhausted as you attempt to fill the needs of everyone around you, and feel responsible in doing so (and guilty when you cannot).
8. Fallacy of Fairness: You feel resentful because you think you know what's fair, but other people won't agree with you. Fairness is so conveniently defined, so temptingly self-serving, that each person gets locked into his or her own point of view. It is tempting to make assumptions about how things would change if people were only fair or really valued you. But the other person hardly ever sees it that way, and you end up causing yourself a lot of pain and an ever-growing resentment.
9. Blaming: You hold other people responsible for your pain, or take the other tack and blame yourself for every problem. Blaming often involves making someone else responsible for choices and decisions that are actually our own responsibility. In blame systems, you deny your right (and responsibility) to assert your needs, say no, or go elsewhere for what you want.
10. Shoulds: You have a list of ironclad rules about how you and other people should act. People who break the rules anger you, and you feel guilty if you violate the rules. The rules are right and indisputable and, as a result, you are often in the position of judging and finding fault (in yourself and in others). Cue words indicating the presence of this distortion are should, ought, and must.
11. Emotional Reasoning: You believe that what you feel must be true-automatically. If you feel stupid or boring, then you must be stupid and boring. If you feel guilty, then you must have done something wrong. The problem with emotional reasoning is that our emotions interact and correlate with our thinking process. Therefore, if you have distorted thoughts and beliefs, your emotions will reflect these distortions.
12. Fallacy of Change: You expect that other people will change to suit you if you just pressure or cajole them enough. You need to change people because your hopes for happiness seem to depend entirely on them. The truth is the only person you can really control or have much hope of changing is yourself. The underlying assumption of this thinking style is that your happiness depends on the actions of others. Your happiness actually depends on the thousands of large and small choices you make in your life.
13. Global Labeling: You generalize one or two qualities (in yourself or others) into a negative global judgment. Global labeling ignores all contrary evidence, creating a view of the world that can be stereotyped and one-dimensional. Labeling yourself can have a negative and insidious impact upon your self-esteem; while labeling others can lead to snap-judgments, relationship problems, and prejudice.
14. Being Right: You feel continually on trial to prove that your opinions and actions are correct. Being wrong is unthinkable and you will go to any length to demonstrate your rightness. Having to be 'right' often makes you hard of hearing. You aren't interested in the possible veracity of a differing opinion, only in defending your own. Being right becomes more important than an honest and caring relationship.
15. Heaven's Reward Fallacy: You expect all your sacrifice and self-denial to pay off, as if there were someone keeping score. You fell bitter when the reward doesn't come as expected. The problem is that while you are always doing the 'right thing,' if your heart really isn't in it, you are physically and emotionally depleting yourself.
1. Filtering: You take the negative details and magnify them, while filtering out all positive aspects of a situation. A single detail may be picked out, and the whole event becomes colored by this detail. When you pull negative things out of context, isolated from all the good experiences around you, you make them larger and more awful than they really are.
2. Polarized Thinking: The hallmark of this distortion is an insistence on dichotomous choices. Things are black or white, good or bad. You tend to perceive everything at the extremes, with very little room for a middle ground. The greatest danger in polarized thinking is its impact on how you judge yourself. For example-You have to be perfect or you're a failure.
3. Overgeneralization: You come to a general conclusion based on a single incident or piece of evidence. If something bad happens once, you expect it to happen over and over again. 'Always' and 'never' are cues that this style of thinking is being utilized. This distortion can lead to a restricted life, as you avoid future failures based on the single incident or event.
4. Mind Reading: Without their saying so, you know what people are feeling and why they act the way they do. In particular, you are able to divine how people are feeling toward you. Mind reading depends on a process called projection. You imagine that people feel the same way you do and react to things the same way you do. Therefore, you don't watch or listen carefully enough to notice that they are actually different. Mind readers jump to conclusions that are true for them, without checking whether they are true for the other person.
5. Catastrophizing: You expect disaster. You notice or hear about a problem and start "what if's." What if that happens to me? What if tragedy strikes? There are no limits to a really fertile catastrophic imagination. An underlying catalyst for this style of thinking is that you do not trust in yourself and your capacity to adapt to change.
6. Personalization: This is the tendency to relate everything around you to yourself. For example, thinking that everything people do or say is some kind of reaction to you. You also compare yourself to others, trying to determine who's smarter, better looking, etc. The underlying assumption is that your worth is in question. You are therefore continually forced to test your value as a person by measuring yourself against others. If you come out better, you get a moment's relief. If you come up short, you feel diminished. The basic thinking error is that you interpret each experience, each conversation, each look as a clue to your worth and value.
7. Control Fallacies: There are two ways you can distort your sense of power and control. If you feel externally controlled, you see yourself as helpless, a victim of fate. The fallacy of internal control has you responsible for the pain and happiness of everyone around you. Feeling externally controlled keeps you stuck. You don't believe you can really affect the basic shape of your life, let alone make any difference in the world. The truth of the matter is that we are constantly making decisions, and that every decision affects our lives. On the other hand, the fallacy of internal control leaves you exhausted as you attempt to fill the needs of everyone around you, and feel responsible in doing so (and guilty when you cannot).
8. Fallacy of Fairness: You feel resentful because you think you know what's fair, but other people won't agree with you. Fairness is so conveniently defined, so temptingly self-serving, that each person gets locked into his or her own point of view. It is tempting to make assumptions about how things would change if people were only fair or really valued you. But the other person hardly ever sees it that way, and you end up causing yourself a lot of pain and an ever-growing resentment.
9. Blaming: You hold other people responsible for your pain, or take the other tack and blame yourself for every problem. Blaming often involves making someone else responsible for choices and decisions that are actually our own responsibility. In blame systems, you deny your right (and responsibility) to assert your needs, say no, or go elsewhere for what you want.
10. Shoulds: You have a list of ironclad rules about how you and other people should act. People who break the rules anger you, and you feel guilty if you violate the rules. The rules are right and indisputable and, as a result, you are often in the position of judging and finding fault (in yourself and in others). Cue words indicating the presence of this distortion are should, ought, and must.
11. Emotional Reasoning: You believe that what you feel must be true-automatically. If you feel stupid or boring, then you must be stupid and boring. If you feel guilty, then you must have done something wrong. The problem with emotional reasoning is that our emotions interact and correlate with our thinking process. Therefore, if you have distorted thoughts and beliefs, your emotions will reflect these distortions.
12. Fallacy of Change: You expect that other people will change to suit you if you just pressure or cajole them enough. You need to change people because your hopes for happiness seem to depend entirely on them. The truth is the only person you can really control or have much hope of changing is yourself. The underlying assumption of this thinking style is that your happiness depends on the actions of others. Your happiness actually depends on the thousands of large and small choices you make in your life.
13. Global Labeling: You generalize one or two qualities (in yourself or others) into a negative global judgment. Global labeling ignores all contrary evidence, creating a view of the world that can be stereotyped and one-dimensional. Labeling yourself can have a negative and insidious impact upon your self-esteem; while labeling others can lead to snap-judgments, relationship problems, and prejudice.
14. Being Right: You feel continually on trial to prove that your opinions and actions are correct. Being wrong is unthinkable and you will go to any length to demonstrate your rightness. Having to be 'right' often makes you hard of hearing. You aren't interested in the possible veracity of a differing opinion, only in defending your own. Being right becomes more important than an honest and caring relationship.
15. Heaven's Reward Fallacy: You expect all your sacrifice and self-denial to pay off, as if there were someone keeping score. You fell bitter when the reward doesn't come as expected. The problem is that while you are always doing the 'right thing,' if your heart really isn't in it, you are physically and emotionally depleting yourself.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Eat Like OSHO
"When you eat bread, first feel it with your hand, put it on your cheek and feel it, smell it. First let it be known by your body. Then taste it... close your eyes and let the taste spread all over. And don't be in a hurry; don't simply go on stuffing it in. Enjoy it, chew it well-- because this bread is going to become your body. Don't miss this opportunity. This bread is your potential body. So receive it, welcome it, and you will have a totally different body within a few months.
If you eat with a different mind, a different attitude; drink water with a different attitude, and remember always to be more sensuous, sensitive, soon you will see that your body has been dead in many parts. You become alive, as if you were a lion sleeping and now the lion is coming back, spreading its legs, stretching its body. You will find that same sensation of arising life. It is almost a resurrection."
-OSHO
If you eat with a different mind, a different attitude; drink water with a different attitude, and remember always to be more sensuous, sensitive, soon you will see that your body has been dead in many parts. You become alive, as if you were a lion sleeping and now the lion is coming back, spreading its legs, stretching its body. You will find that same sensation of arising life. It is almost a resurrection."
-OSHO
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Soapy Toes
"Soapy Toes" It's a foot scrubber that suctions to the bottom of your tub, so no awkward bending and twisting. $15.If not for you, what a neat gift for someone else! One of those things you would looove if you had it but don't want to buy yourself.. right up there with pedicures and socks! Egh..
I was initially going to make a blog about this imaginary product.. until I found the EXACT thing I that I just made up, already existing! Lame is right... I will think of something one day :)
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Self-standing Umbrella
A self-standing umbrella... DUH.
Shit like this is why I want to invent something..
Friday, January 28, 2011
PLEASE WATCH (North Korea)
Please, Please, Please take a few minutes to see what is PRESENTLY going on in North Korea.
It is an early-stage holocaust and will most likely start a WWIII. Think I'm exaggerating?
If you have Netflix, which I hope you do so you can watch this full video. Also look up National Geographic's 'Inside North Korea' and Vice Guide to Travel: Guide to North Korea.
It is an early-stage holocaust and will most likely start a WWIII. Think I'm exaggerating?
If you have Netflix, which I hope you do so you can watch this full video. Also look up National Geographic's 'Inside North Korea' and Vice Guide to Travel: Guide to North Korea.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Banana 'Ice Cream'
I would like to see frozen banana 'ice cream' sold in stores.
Soooo much healthier and soo many less calories; I'm certain that any health, weight, or agriculturally conscious person would substitute their ice cream out for banana 'ice cream', were they given the option. The only ingredient you need is bananas. No dairy, no preservatives, no stuff you can't pronounce.. and it's creamy and just a perfect alternative.
Bananas go with just about any flavor that fits with ice cream, too; chocolate, caramel, nuts, whatever.
Here's a 'recipe', or instructions, rather, that I have used and had success with.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
The Styrofoam to-go Box
I would love to see the cheap, generic, old school styrofoam to-go box, be replaced by a cheap, generic, NEW school design, that is leak proof.
Why,
does it not exist yet?
Yes, there are bowls with plastic lids for soups, and same for cups. But, for all the Chinese food, Mexican food, Italian, that comes with- oh ya know- SAUCE, that LEAKS, given a 10 degree angle.. Surely, there must be a better way :)
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