Recent research on meditation

Recent research results

After a wonderful yoga&meditation retreat in Spain last November I practised relaxation using the Silva centering exercise (download from here) for a while, but not even tried meditation. Somehow it doesn't want to come to me yet =(
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Meditation for novices video

Installing Love on the Human Computer:

Tech Support: Yes, how can I help you?

Customer: Well, after much consideration, I've decided to
install Love. Can you guide me through the process?

Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?

Customer: Well, I'm not very technical, but I think I'm ready. What do I do first?

Tech Support: The first step is to open your Heart. Have you located your Heart?

Customer: Yes, but there are several other programs running now. Is it okay to install Love while they are running?

Tech Support: What programs are running ?

Customer: Let's see, I have Past Hurt, Low Self-Esteem, Grudge and Resentment running right now.

Tech Support: No problem, Love will gradually erase Past Hurt from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory but it will no longer disrupt other programs. Love will eventually override Low Self-Esteem with a module of its own called High Self-Esteem. However,you have to completely turn off Grudge and Resentment. Those programs prevent Love from being properly installed. Can you turn those off ?

Customer: I don't know how to turn them off. Can you tell me
how?

Tech Support: With pleasure. Go to your start menu and invoke Forgiveness. Do this as many times as necessary until Grudge and Resentment have been
completely erased.

Customer: Okay, done! Love has started installing itself. Is that normal?

Tech Support: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other Hearts in order to get the upgrades.

Customer: Oops! I have an error message already. It says, "Error - Program not run on external components." What should I do?

Tech Support: Don't worry. It means that the Love program is set up to run on Internal Hearts, but has not yet been run on your Heart. In non-technical terms, it simply means you have to Love yourself before
you can Love others.

Customer: So, what should I do?

Tech Support: Pull down Self-Acceptance; then click on the following files: Forgive-Self; Realize Your Worth; and Acknowledge your Limitations.

Customer: Okay, done.

Tech Support: Now, copy them to the "My Heart" directory. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching faulty programming.
Also, you need to delete Verbose Self-Criticism from all directories and empty your Recycle Bin to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back.

Customer: Got it. Hey! My heart is filling up with new files.Smile is playing on my monitor and Peace and Contentment are copying themselves all over My Heart. Is this normal?

Tech Support: Sometimes. For others it takes awhile, but eventually everything gets it at the proper time. So Love is installed and running.
One more thing before we hang up. Love is Freeware. Be sure to give it and its various modules to everyone you meet. They will in turn share it with others and return some cool modules back to you.

Customer: Thank you, God.

God/Tech Support: You're Welcome, Anytime.

Sprouter and sprouts

On sprouts read here


A.Vogel's bioSnacky germinator

Buckwheat

Lentils

Mung beans

White and black sesame, flax seeds to be sprouted soon

EFT

I came across the emotional freedom technique (EFT) a month or so ago and I liked it very much. No idea how it works, but it makes me feel better =) Positive affirmations with tapping certain acupuncture points for several minutes. The best online resources I've seen so far are by David Childerley.

Tapping points

Articles

Articles on raw foods (answering all those questions on why-what-how)

Vitamin D

On vitamin D:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH1rB-Ya2UQ (1 hour interview)

Summary:

~vitamin D deficiency leads to all kinds of disorders and illnesses

~we need UVB to produce vitamin D by our skin

~the window glass blocks UVB, but lets in UVA which can cause us harm

~20 minutes full body exposure to the sun daily is what we need to get our necessary dose

~there are special supplements made of animal particles

~everybody living to the north of the 30th parallel should do something (she suggests taking that supplement)

As I'm against supplements, I really understand why many raw foodists move down to Thailand, Singapore, Ecuador... =)

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So, just to have one list of things that make our life better in one place:

• Good nutrition (at least vegetarian, ideally raw mono diet)
• Exposure to the sun
• Good air
• Good water to drink and to wash
• Hygiene, body, clothes and flat, as natural as possible
• Regular physical activity
• Positive thinking
• Feeling gratitude
• People you feel good with around and no people you don't like around
• Harmonious sounds and music
• Having an aim and going for it
• Minimum plastic and bottles with chemicals around, natural furniture, cosmetics (if any), detergents (if any)

I'll add smth else when it comes to my mind. Any ideas? Please let me know!

March 2010

~After coming back from Thailand I decided to try and continue being fruitarian for some time. My food list is so short right now!

grapes (usually dark)

oranges

tangerines

apples

tomatoes

cucumbers

I know it's all not seasonal in my area and I'm really looking forward to June-July-August-September, when there are cherries, good tomatoes and cucumbers, and peaches, mmm.

I don't think I'm ready to stop eating the greens completely and after just 1 month without them I feel like having some lettuce and dill.

~Since childhood my lungs have been the weakest part of my body, so whatever dis-ease is around, my lungs are affected. From the books by Batmanghelidj I learnt about dehydration and I believed Dr B. So I'm aware of the reason - my water consumption is again very low because all of a sudden I just didn't like the taste. I really hope I'll get used to distilled water.

http://www.watercure.com/

~I came across a great source of knowledge and inspiration on youtube. Starting from here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhDlXhDjjsE It's amazing (well, actually not - everything we need comes at the right time) how my thinking and my view of the world is in line with hers on so many topics. From her I learnt about quantum touch. This is something I'm going to learn!

~I downloaded a film which they say is a good continuation of The Secret. Looking forward to watching it.

~ During the last couple of weeks I walked several times for some 4 hours. At last I walked for more than 1 hour. Good.

~I usually remember to be grateful for everything in my life, I'm working on forgiving, started with myself. Oh, that's so powerful! They say it's a way to clean the emotional body. And I feel changes.

My way to thank the world for the money is basically a mix of Bob Proctor and Jasmuheen's wording. "I am so happy and grateful now that money comes to me readily and easily in increasing quantities, through multiple sources, on a continuous basis, in dollars, euros, pounds, rubles, bahts, francs, yen, pesos etc. Thank you, thank you, thank you".

Bob Proctor

3 short videos by Bob Proctor on the role of the subconscious mind and programming

http://www.bobproctor-training.net/2010/02/blcv1/

http://www.bobproctor-training.net/blcv2

http://www.bobproctor-training.net/blcv2/blcv3/

He's 75 y.o.. I wish my parents were that energetic when they are 75...

The No-Breakfast Plan by Edward Hookey Dewey

Bronnikov and his method

Official WWW: http://bronnikov.ru/

Video: http://66.147.242.166/~methodbr/films/rus/bronnikov.ru_1997_256kb.wmv

“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature .”- Joseph Campbell

Mimi Kirk

~11.01.10 Ekadashi. I drank 3l of water! And I didn't make myself do it, I was thirsty =)

~ Meet a 70+ y.o. vegan raw foodist Mimi Kirk.

In this interview she doesn't talk about eating raw, only about being vegan:

Here she talks about her raw diet:

Ice Water

My freezer isn't big enough for the plastic containers we have, but there's enough room on the balcony. So, making use of the low temperature outside, I put several containers out there in the evening and in the morning got frozen water (ice with some water in the centre of the container - this is the part to be poured away as it's not suitable for drinking due to the saline concentration). And I just loved the taste! I don't make myself drink it, I want to drink it, and that's a big difference.

(RU) Ссылочка про воду

Ecological footprint and Petroleum

Being a conscious consumer (or considering myself to be one) and trying to overcome the feeling of guilt before our dear planet, I'm on my way to lessening my ecological footprint and changing consumerism habits and I'm thinking about the (negative) impact I personally have on the world.

What I am doing or going to do:

~eat less as I am really consuming too much, enjoying a bit of this, a bit of that, and that thing over there please... while I'm already full after a couple of apples.

~make sure the lights are off everywhere when we don't need them as it's an old habit to turn on the light in the whole flat and the tv when I come home.

~try to avoid plastic bags ie try to persuade shop assistants in the supermarkets not to put each item in a separate bag but put several stickers on one bag with several items. Almost impossible: they keep telling me their boss will tell them off if they don't do that. Easier with the marketers.

~use double-sided copy and printing and scrap paper whenever possible. This is a big issue in my current job.

~transport. I move a lot around the city and use not only the underground but the marshrutkas several times a day. No solution now

~choose the greenest of the alternatives whenever possible. Here the budget constraints come into play. For example, just bought a couple of plastic containers from Ikea, not of wood or rattan nor textile mainly due to prices...

10 most surprising places to find petroleum here Comments are good as well..

Ok, in my case there's no toothpaste but tooth powder made of herbs only, but I still need the tooth brush, hm... After some months on a raw food diet one doesn't need a deodorant. No pillow is good for our health but sometimes I use it... And the glue and candles...

Service to others

I have found an organisation I trust enough to transfer some 10% of my wages. Celebrity endorsement works! Well, it wasn't an advertising campaign, I was looking for information myself, but I found their website through a LiveJournal account of a famous Russian media person. Thanks, Татьяна Лазарева!
The fact that I already contribute somehow (very little, but better than nothing) to the society invigorates me to pass by beggars in the streets light-heartedly.

Raw stuff parcel

I've received a parcel from this raw foods shop in the UK. Door to door, fast enough! Just one week since I paid, no problems with the customs (anticipated, but highly hoped not to happen to me). Raw cashews, raw chocolate, raw nuts&seeds crackers... Lovely. A wonderful transition period =) (psychologically I still want some traditional food sometimes, every week less though, but haven't completely kicked it).

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Programming

This is my favourite. I feel how true it is (как это правильно сказать по-английски?)

Eat mainly apples? No problem!

Meet Miss Appletarian

She stopped eating processed food at the age of 26, more or less my age now (I was 24 when I decided, and I guess I'll be 26 when I - eventually - say good-bye to processed food). Would love to learn more about this lady, her experience can be a real inspiration.

Some propaganda (EN, RU subtitles)

We have a choice every moment, indeed