You know that exercising to music is great for stronger hearts and harder bodies -- but did you know it boosts brainpower, too? Ohio State University Researchers found those who tuned in and toned up scored higher on post-exercise verbal fluency tests than those who worked out without music. Study author Charles Emery monitored 33 men and women participating in a cardiac rehabilitation program to see whether working out to music had a therapeutic effect. Both the music/exercise group and the no music/exercise group reported feeling better emotionally, post-workout -- but those who exercised to music doubled their scores on verbal fluency tests (the control groups scores remained flat). "The combination of music and exercise may stimulate and increase cognitive arousal while helping to organize cognitive output," said Emery, who used Vivaldis "The Four Seasons" for the experiment, citing the symphonys moderate tempo and positive effects in previous research. Will Zeppelin or 70s compilations work just as well? I sure hope so! Though Emery is more conservative: "Given the range of music preferences among patients, its especially important to evaluate the influence of other types of music on cognitive outcomes." Given the complexity of that sentence structure, maybe Id better switch to classical
I was in a canoe with other men. We were hiding behind trees. Anyone could shoot at any time. I was ready to defend myself. I wanted the whole canoe to be covered with a blanket with holes in it so the enemy couldn't see me, but I could see them. Later, I remember being around some peaceful Vietnamese. One of them stuck out in my mind. He was playing a 15 foot long branch like (twisted with leaves at the end) bamboo stick instrument with a flame floating in the air.
Hundreds of young activists, inspired by Nader's work, came to DC to help him with other projects. They came to be known as "Nader's Raiders" and, led by Nader, they investigated corruption throughout government, publishing dozens of books with their results:
Nader's Raiders (Federal Trade Commission) Vanishing Air (National Air Pollution Control Administration) The Chemical Feast (Food and Drug Administration) The Interstate Commerce Omission (Interstate Commerce Commission) Old Age (nursing homes) The Water Lords (water pollution) Who Runs Congress? (congress) Whistle Blowing (punishment of whistle blowers) The Big Boys (corporate executives) Collision Course (Federal Aviation Administration) No Contest (corporate lawyers) Destroy the Forest (Destruction of ecosystems worldwide) Operation:Nuclear (Making of a Nuclear Missile) In 1971, Nader founded the NGO Public Citizen as an umbrella organization for these projects. Today, Public Citizen has over 140,000 members and numerous researchers investigating Congress, health, environmental, economic, and other issues. Their work is credited with helping to pass the Safe Drinking Water Act and Freedom of Information Act and prompting the creation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
Evolution dictates throughout the animal kingdom monogamy between male and female parents is dictated by the amount of time required to raise the young. The longer it takes to raise the young and the more complicated the method of survival is the more monogamy is dictated. For example, herbivores don’t have a complicated method of survival. Carnivores do. The human species evolved over many millions of years. One thing we have achieved in order to survive is we have developed collective activity. Without that, it was impossible for us to survive. We don’t have claws,fangs,we don’t have complex digestive systems, we can’t eat leaves, etc. The way we survived is by collective endeavor. Collective endeavor became integral to the way we survived. This affected the way our brains grew. It changed us. We are not the same as we were before 20 million years ago. We have become a collective species. The way we will live together is very important to us. Culture is not just some sort of abstract thing. It is us. Cultural adaptive rules of behavior: One of the things we realize is the very long period taking care of young really became a tribal or collective effort to protect all in the species for survival. Natural Selection: By about 500,000 years ago, with fire, man began to share thoughts and began to talk. That was the primordial birth of religion. Religion came along and reinforced all of these natural necessities that we have and developed instincts; instincts of protectiveness, instincts of fidelity, instincts that are basically linked to monogamy. That’s what’s necessary for taking care of young. The mother would take care of the young. The mother would take care of planting and harvesting herbal parts of the diet and the father would take care of hunting and protein parts of the diet. Each parent was at risk. If both parents died, the child might not survive. Both parents had to survive. Both parents had to stay together for the child to survive. That became the rule of monogamy. There was no such thing as "the pill" in the Neanderthal era. Religions came along and they reinforced this. Religions became fundamental. It is important to understand human feelings are now a reflection of thousands of years of tradition, of religion, millions of years of instinct, and the moral laws that we hear reflected are a reflection of all of this. Now, new kinds of technologies come in that can do things to promote promiscuity by preventing childbirth, but these things violate the fundamental laws and instincts that predated them thousands or millions of years and deep in the heart of the individual you can't help it. You feel the primordial instinct and primordial drive and if you disregard those things, you will feel like you're doing something wrong. Religions come along and fan the flame and support all of that because that's the fundamental moral code, but the world that we live in today goes around destroying and flounting the moral code. This is a complex dilemma and the answer can only be resolved by understanding all of the above and by being wary, thoughtful, educated, prepared, and able to deal with all of the complexity of it because there's feelings, morality, integrity, religion, and all is inside of your head. You can't get away from it. It's like a dog trying to get away from his own tail. The cultural milieu that we live in today is somewhat a reflection of the rise of contraceptive technologies and these things came along and changed some of the fundamental codes, but yet these things are not foolproof and they do cause problems. People that have these problems end up unhappy. There are other things causing people to rush to impulsive behavior, selfish thinking , and antisocial behavior and these things all lead to unhappinesses. What is this all going to do in the final end result? I don't know. We are living in a far more complex social order than the Neanderthal ever lived in. Now we live in a society that has interconnected billions of people all in one contiguous megaculture. How do we deal with the conflict between different kinds of cultures inside the megaculture, different kinds of technologies, rapid pace of social change, etc. Everything is disorienting or I wouldn't be asking the question. My question is caused by cultural shock and social disorientation.
I received your e-mail and would be happy to discuss how I could help you to reach the level of Reiki Master. You haven't told me how long you have been practicing Reiki or what level you have attained at this time, so I will assume for now that you are just starting out. Please let me know if I'm mistaken.
I have been teaching Reiki for 11 years now and teach all levels. You might want to look at my website www.myreikicenter.com to get a better idea of who I am and the many classes that I offer. I also think the idea of adding Reiki with Nursing is an excellent one. I have trained many Nurses and some Doctors in the practice and it has always been beneficial to their practice. In fact, there is scarcely a hospital in this country where you won't find at least one person on staff who has been trained in Reiki and usually many more.
I'm sure that I could answer any question(s) you have. Please feel free to call me at 516-333-7404 or e-mail me. I'm located in Westbury and Interestingly, I am a graduate of Adelphi University.
So, I slipped on the ice and a guy helped me up. I don't know what it is, but little things like that brigthen my day.
So, there's a lot to catch up on. Went to a concert with Shan and Jill. Was supposed to meet up with a geeky guy from Columbia, but he never showed up. There were so many funny things that happened last Friday. I don't even remember them all.
Kirstay drove me to Utopia for the first time. That store freaks me out.
Made a video with Marissa last week in the supermarket as week sang "I say tomato, you say tomatto" while videotaping tomato sauce. I took a bite out of a pickled mushroom and it was nasty. I wanted to spit it at this lady who said we couldn't make videos in the store.
Went to see Mata Ji and I will be getting my personal mantra in about 6 months.
So much more to say, but I have to go to statistics class. Blah.
So, I woke up at 2:30 this morning, got out of bed at 5:30, and left my grandma's house at 6:40. I got at St. John's at 9:00 and met up with Bon and Samantha. We went to the wax museum. I can't wait until the pictures come out. We were in a scary tunnel and I was screaming like hell. Lol. It wasn't even that scary. I just scared of loud sounds. Afterwards, we went to the Hard Rock Cafe and had some pina coladas. Went back to St. John's and played pool with an Asian guy named Carlos. Jimmy drove us back and now I am talking on the phone with Shan at Bon's house.
Tomorrow I'm having an edoscopy and then hopefully going to see Bon on my way to White Plains where my relatives and meditation teacher live. I've been listening to raga and doing candle meditations and yet I'm still having a difficult time focusing. Strange. I feel disconnected from the physical world yet I'm having trouble candle meditating. Walking meditation was different for me. It wasn't so hard and I don't know why.
