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Sunday, 16 December 2012
Monday, 10 December 2012
Emotional eating is when people use food as a way to deal with feelings instead of to satisfy hunger. We've all been there, finishing a whole bag of chips out of boredom or downing cookie after cookie while cramming for a big test. But when done a lot — especially without realizing it — emotional eating can affect weight, health, and overall well-being.Not many of us make the connection between eating and our feelings. But understanding what...
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
ARE YOU ADDICTED TO BUSYNESS ARE YOU A SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICT
ARE YOU ADDICTED TO BUSYNESS ARE YOU A SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTYou may be lost in the addiction to busyness if…Your usual response to “how are you?” is “so busy”, “crazy busy” or “busy but good”You spend time worrying about how busy you are going to be tomorrowYou get angry when your spouse or friends aren’t as busy as youYour busy life keeps you up at night thinking about everything you didn’t get doneYou make a point of letting people know that you stay at the office after hoursYou check email several times a dayYou zone out during conversations thinking...
The joy of life for my Spanish Rainbow
The joy of life is living it and doing things of worth,In making bright and fruitful the entire desert spots of earth.In facing odds and mastering them and rising from defeat,And making true what once was false, and what was bitter, make sweet.For only you know perfect joy whose little bit of soilIs richer ground than what it was when you began to to...
Sunday, 2 December 2012
: People don't really want to grow up, people don't really want to change, people don't really want to be happy
Do you think I am going to help anybody? No! Oh, no, no, no, no, no! Don't expect me to be of help to anyone. Nor do I expect to damage anyone. If you are damaged, you did it; and if you are helped, you did it. You really did! You think people help you? They don't. You think people support you? They don't. There was a woman in a therapy group I was conducting once. She was a religious sister. She said to me, "I don't feel supported by my superior." So I said, "What do you mean by that?" And she said, "Well, my superior, the provincial superior,...
The Four Steps To Spiritual Wisdom
The first thing you need to do is get in touch with negative feelings that you're not even aware of. Lots of people have negative feelings they're not aware of. Lots of people are depressed and they're not aware they are depressed. It's only when they make contact with joy that they understand how depressed they were. You can't deal with a cancer that you haven't detected. You can't get rid of boll weevils on your farm if you're not aware of their existence. The first thing you need is awareness of your negative feelings. What negative feelings?...
And where is this heaven
To a disciple who was obsessed with the thought of life after death, the Master said, "Why waste a single moment thinking of the hereafter?" "But is it possible not to?" "Yes." "How?" "By living in heaven here and now." "And where is this heaven?" "In the here and no...
Saturday, 1 December 2012
more important than "asking for" things and "getting for" things and "getting" things.
Celebration and praise, loving attention to the presence of God, become more important than "asking for" things and "getting for" things and "getting" things. Contemplation in a World of Action: ...
Thursday, 29 November 2012
the long, slow, boring and often painful route
When it comes to our development, when it comes to real change, the long, slow, boring and often painful route is quite reliably, the most dire...
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Meade, was an American cultural anthropologi...
Monday, 26 November 2012
Rule of Life is an intentional pattern of spiritual disciplines that provides structure and direction for growth
Rule of Life is an intentional pattern of spiritual disciplines that provides structure and direction for growth in holiness. A Rule establishes a rhythm for life in which is helpful for being formed by the Spirit, a rhythm that reflects a love for God and respect for how he has made us. The disciplines which we build into our rhythm of life help us to shed the “old self” and allow our “new self” in Christ to be formed. Spiritual disciplines are means of grace by which God can nourish us. Ultimately...
Practicing a Rule of Life with others moves us against the grain of our individualistic culture.
Practicing a Rule of Life with others moves us against the grain of our individualistic culture. However, I believe that a Rule should grow from the positive aspects of our life, not what we perceive to be our failings. We should discern it in conversation with God and others in our community, and we must make God the focus of our Rule (don't focus on negative images of ourselves) and then we move in the directions in which we feel God's calling. A Rule of Life should be a response to being loved by God in the first place, and feeling...
To live in communion, in genuine dialogue with others is absolutely necessary if man is to remain human.
To live in communion, in genuine dialogue with others is absolutely necessary if man is to remain hum...
Sunday, 25 November 2012
Friday, 23 November 2012
Benedict (like Bill W) realized we must understand our dependence on God before being restored to sanity.
Benedict (like Bill W) realized we must understand our dependence on God before being restored to sanity. “We are like a child on its mother’s lap,” Benedict writes, “cut off from nourishment, helpless, left without the resources we need to grow in the spirit of God.”&nb...
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Amber Gold affair is one of the biggest financial scandals to hit Poland since the fall of communism in 1989.
It was pretty much all the money Bozena Oracz had after a working life as an accountant: the equivalent of $15,000. She placed it in a fund investing in gold, with the hope of paying for her daughter's studies and getting treatment for a bad knee.Those dreams were dashed when she discovered she had fallen victim to an elaborate fraud scheme that has left thousands of Poles, many of them elderly, facing financial ruin.The so-called Amber Gold affair is one of the biggest financial scandals to hit Poland since the fall...
Monday, 27 August 2012
Miguel Angel Trevino Morales new leader is emerging at the head of one of Mexico's most feared drug cartels.
This undated image taken from the Mexican Attorney General's Office rewards program website on Aug. 23, 2012, shows the alleged leader of Zetas drug cartel, Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, alias âZ-40.â (AP Photo/Mexican Attorney General's Office website)Mexico's Violent Zetas Cartel Sees New Leader Miguel Angel Trevino Morales A split in the leadership of Mexico's violent Zetas cartel has led to the rise of Miguel Angel Trevino Morales,...
Laurence Kilby, 40, of Cheltenham, who built and raced cars, was arrested after police seized cocaine with a street value of £1m.
Laurence Kilby, 40, of Cheltenham, who built and raced cars, was arrested after police seized cocaine with a street value of £1m.A "privileged" racing driver has been jailed with 11 other drug smugglers. Crown Court heard he was head of a gang moving drugs from Eastern Europe along the M4 corridor to London, western England and south Wales.Kilby was heavily in debt and turned to crime to maintain his lifestyle of fast cars and high living.Raids...
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Artist Draws 8,628 Self-Portraits Under the Influence of Love and Other Drugs
This self-portrait by Bryan Lewis Saunders shows his "normal face," but the other 8,000-plus images he's created over the past 16 years go into some pretty strange territory. Drugs: Psilocybin Mushrooms "I wanted to see how drugs changed my self-perception," Saunders said. "So I drew myself under the influence of a wide variety of them." Drugs: Bath Salts A self-portrait of Saunders after taking bath salts. Third Ear...
Addiction Books For relaxation When 50 Shades of Grey doesn’t cut it.
The Science of Addiction: From Neurobiology to Treatment Carlton K. Erickson312 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton and Company (2007)Amazon Overview: Neuroscience is clarifying the causes of compulsive alcohol and drug use––while also shedding light on what addiction is, what it is not, and how it can best be treated––in exciting and innovative ways. Current neurobiological research complements and enhances the approaches to addiction traditionally...
WHEN YOUR HIGHER POWER FAILS YOU
It happens every time. Without fail. Without exception. I bet it's happened to you also. Just think about it. How often has your god failed you? Every single time. Every single time I have turned a human being into a god, or turned something man-made into an idol, or placed my trust, expectation, hope, and confidence in anything else but the one true God, my god has failed me. Some people are slow learners. I am one of them. I have made the same mistake countless times. And every single time, that's right, you've got it. It happens every time....
Monday, 20 August 2012
Researchers completing a new study on alcohol consumption have discovered that college-age students who binge drink are happier than those who don't.
Those who engaged in binge drinking tend to belong to so-called high-status groups: wealthy, white, male and active in fraternity life. And those who did not belong to the high-status groups could achieve similar levels of social acceptance through the act of binge drinking. In fact, the study results suggest that students engaged in the heavy drinking practice to elevate their social status amongst peers rather than to alleviate depression or anxiety."The present study offers another insight into the nature of a seemingly intractable social...
Saturday, 18 August 2012
The Five Keys to Mindful Communication
The first key of mindful communication, according to Chapman (2012), is having amindful presence. This means having an open mind, awake body and a tender heart. When you have a mindful presence, you give up expectations, stories about yourself and others, and acting on emotions.You are fully in the present moment; your communication isn’t focused on the “me” and what the “me” needs, but the we.Mindful listening is the second key to mindful communication. Mindful listening is about encouraging the other person. This means looking through the...
Friday, 17 August 2012
ADDICTION charity Focus12 has received a huge financial boost after a codumentary about Russell Brand was shown last night.
The documentary Russell Brand: Addiction to Recovery resulted in an immediate boost in donations and inspired the managing director of Bury St Edmunds based Chevington Finance and Leasing to offer the charity £106,000 over three years.Russell Brand attended Focus12, the Bury St Edmunds abstinence-based alcohol and drug rehabilitation centre, in 2003 and is now a patron of the charity, describing it as ‘a really excellent example of a small cost effective rehab that can help people change in dramatic ways’.Chip Somers, Focus12’s chief...
Thursday, 26 July 2012
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is. Moderate feelings of guilt are beneficial because they encourage the individual to do the right thing
The Scottish psychologist R.D. Laing once said: True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is. Moderate feelings of guilt are beneficial because they encourage the individual to do the right thing. If nobody felt guilty about anything it would likely lead to a fearful world and it could even threaten the survival of the human species. There is also a more negative form of guilt which is excessive and harmful. This refers...
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Smokers could one day be immunised against nicotine so they gain no pleasure from the habit, according to researchers in the US.
They have devised a vaccine that floods the body with an antibody to assault nicotine entering the body.A study in mice, published in Science Translational Medicine, showed levels of the chemical in the brain were reduced by 85% after vaccination.Years of research are still needed before it could be tested on people.However, lead researcher Prof Ronald Crystal is convinced there will be benefits."As far as we can see, the best way to treat chronic nicotine addiction from smoking is to have these Pacman-like antibodies on patrol, clearing the blood...
Coke and Pepsi contain tiny traces of alcohol, reveals French research
Coca-Cola and Pepsi contain minute traces of alcohol, scientific research published in France has revealed. The revelation will cause concern among those who chose the carbonated soft drink for religious, health or safety reasons. According to tests carried out by the Paris-based National Institute of Consumption (INC) more than half of leading colas contain the traces of alcohol. Can't beat the real thing: The revelation will cause concern among those who chose the carbonated soft drink for religious, health or safety reasons These include...
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
The Global Drug War in Numbers: 270 Million Users; a $330 Billion Black Market; $100 Billion in Wasted Law Enforcement
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime released its annual report today on the state of the global drug war. Despite some concessions about the need for increased funding of rehabilitation, the report does not bode well for drug policy reform advocates. The U.N. insists that legalization, which more and more countries in Central and South America are considering, would lead to substantial increases in drug use; that crop eradication efforts need to be supplemented with market-distorting subsidies to farmers; and that international police...
Monday, 11 June 2012
NOBODY DIED FROM LACK OF SLEEP, AA MYTHs
Beyond leaving you drowsy and irritable, sleepless nights can take aserious toll on your physical and mental health."We know sleep is a critical biological function that influences a wide variety of physiological process," said Dr. Susan Redline, a sleep specialist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "Sleep deficiency can affect mood and the ability to make memories and learn, but it also affects metabolism, appetite, blood pressure, levels of inflammation in the body and perhaps even the immune response."Lack of sleep has been linked to...
Thursday, 7 June 2012
ON CLOUD NINE: BATH SALTS BY ANOTHER NAME... WITH STRONG COMPULSIONS TO REDOSE
After the recent stream of disturbing news reports of people eating others' flesh, Hornaday Manufacturing has released bullets that promise to ‘make dead permanent.’The ammunition, branded as Zombie Max offers Proven Z-Max bullets, is live ammunition, but is actually only intended for use on targets – not people.Scroll down for videosThe Walking Dead: Hornady Manufacturing has started selling Zombie bullets, 'just in case'; it is live ammunitionAttacks:...
