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Is There a Congress, Drug, Food, & FDA Conspiracy?
Posted by: | CommentsNatural News reports on the FDA’s newest intention to make vitamin and supplements difficult to market.
Going retro to a 1994 law passed by Congress, the FDA is announced its intentions to regulate ingredients which would make supplements difficult to market and sell.- Natural News
http://www.naturalnews.com/032912_FDA_dietary_supplements.html
Who would benefit if people cannot use nutrition to stay healthy?
By the same token, the government (Congress) is cracking down on people growing organic products. So if you would like locally grown food not exposed to pesticides and perhaps grown by farmers into sustainability, it is getting more difficult as government agencies raid these farms.
Who would benefit by organic products disappearing? The large food cartels that control most of the food distribution in the U.S.? Do they need more control?
How about the Congressman that can run great campaigns from the money received for knocking out something as meaningless as organic food and supplements?
Are we continuing down the road of extreme supervision and regulation for our better good? The government decides we need health care, shouldn’t eat organic food nor take vitamins, super foods, or supplements?
While we are concerned about wars, taxes, global warming, energy, and jobs, the distractions are also allowing other monopolies to chip away at our quality of life and maybe the longevity of life. What happens to our cost of living when the only beneficial supplements are controlled by big pharma?
The real issue is that lobbyists need to be eliminated so that it is a government by the people and for the people.
Too bad food and nutrition are so far down the list of priorities that they can’t become political issues that count.
Losing 10 Pounds a Month Without Dieting
Posted by: | CommentsReal weight loss comes from food selection not deprivation
The problem with calorie counting and starving is most people can’t sustain it for very long. They usually lead to quitting or binging. Any 10 pounds lost on a diet is soon regained because you haven’t really changed your permanent eating habits.
What choice do you have when you have finished your diet but to go back to your regular routine? Maybe you start cutting down on a few desserts, but you don’t really know anything else but what you were doing.
Losing weight is not about exercising it off. Very few mostly sedentary people can exercise enough to burn off a pound of fat. Most people who start exercising hard feel they need some food to reward them selves and put the pound back on.
The way to lose the pound is to have the body release the fat and not just burn it off. To burn off a pound you have to burn approximately 3300 calories. A jog is worth about 600 calories an hour, giving you the benefit of the doubt. If you jogged everyday your body would increase its metabolism which would help burn more calories.
The best way to lose weight is to eat foods that the body recognizes causing it to release the food encapsulated in fat that it did not recognize. Most of your fat is holding onto foods that are acidic that would poison the organs if they were released. Those are the bad foods that lead to obesity, heart problems, disease, and early death.
The answer to weight loss, health and looking good is very simple. Eat the right foods and eliminate the bad foods. The only real trick is if you can get your mind to accept the regimen. Your mind has its own ideas about what you should be eating. It thinks you should be eating food to reward yourself for all the trouble and pain you experience.
The mind does not care if you eat healthy until you start eating healthy and it realizes this is a good thing. Then it will be your ally in eating the right foods and avoiding the bad ones. The mind enjoys the body having more energy, feeling healthy, and having better mental capacity.
So what do you eat? Fruits, vegetables, lean meats, grains, seeds, nuts, eggs and good fats 85% of the time. What do you eliminate? Sugar, white flour, processed foods, and bad fats. It’s that easy. If you can start with 70% to 85% compliance it is a good first step. I don’t eat dairy because it usually has fats and I am mostly lactose intolerant.
If you jump into 100% compliance the fat will leave your body like rats fleeing a sinking ship. If you add an hour of exercise a day, you will certainly accelerate the process.
What can you eat? For breakfast you can have eggs, oat meal, fruit, and meat. For lunch you can have salads, tuna, chicken, soups, and fruit. For dinner you can have meat, rice, beans, salads, soups, avocados, and wheat pasta without cream sauces.
What are you eliminating? Mexican food, Italian food (pizzas), hamburgers, desserts, sandwiches, sweet rolls, sodas, and as much alcohol as you can live without.
But once you change, you are likely to change for life. Then the pounds you lose don’t come back. Over a period of years I have lost 45 pounds and am at my high school weight of 175. When I moved to the beach, I lost the last 25 pounds on a raw diet regimen in a few months.
You never have to starve. I eat as much as I want whenever I want, but I am basically eating foods without calories or fat. I have my desserts each day which are banana nut muffins or cacao squares which have nuts and seeds. Like most people on raw diets or sustainable healthy diets, I try to keep it at 85% but am closer to 90% plus alcohol.
Is Fitness Worth the Sacrifice, part 2?
Posted by: | CommentsDo we have an “on” “off” switch where we feel fitness is important and worth the sacrifice or that fitness is important, but not worth the sacrifice?
Living sedentary lives in the city make the alternatives more important. Hardly any living thing on earth was meant to “not exercise”. Secrets of the longest living disease free civilizations on earth include several key nutrients and very strenuous labor. These people, however are able to work hard and have sex into their 80’s and live disease free to over 100.
Not that this is your ideal life style, but what is it that tells each of us to get fit or live without being fit? For me, it seems I have never had the choice. Like breathing, I have always felt that exercise, not necessarily good nutrition is important. For me it has been the flexibility to do any sport or any activity whenever I so choose.
I have always loved the outdoor life style so not only do I love all sports, I love to get into the mountains and hike. Being active seems to put me in connection with my body first and then what ever I do outdoors puts me in connection with nature second.
The feeling of exercising my body to its potential makes me realize what a gift the human body is and how great it can feel when treated properly. If I have the choice of feeling great and inspired or feeling sluggish and moribund, I will take the former. I have learned that the harder I can exercise or the longer the activity, the more inspired and gratified I feel at the end. (After I have had time to catch my breath.)
Putting the right food into the system and keeping the body stretched allows me to accomplish more in a day if I choose, places few restraints on my activities, frees me from worry about sickness and disease, and makes my high quality life style a guarantee for more years.
Maybe the reasons people don’t treat their life with more respect is that they don’t have high level goals. Satisfying their body’s cravings is higher on the list than ignoring the cravings and giving the body what it should have. After a while, the body craves what it should have.
Once you reach the plateau that the body wants what it should have, you have arrived at the plain of synchronicity with nature.
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Could Poor Diet Arise from Negative Views about the Future?
Posted by: | CommentsDo we kid ourselves about what we expect from our lives?
Could we have two voices ringing in our heads? One is the upbeat go get’m rah rah that says let’s work hard and reach all our goals. The other is the quiet little murmur that says it is unlikely we are going to get the break we need to really achieve happiness and financial prosperity.
If everyone had great expectations of having all the achievement and money they ever wanted, wouldn’t they be getting prepared to look and perform their very best so that they could take advantage of the opportunity when it broke?
An athlete that knows he has talent and expects to compete with the best in his field is eating and training to someday be number one. The surfers in tournaments all seem to be incredible and capable of winning any tournament given they are on top of their game and get the good rides.
Then I see the average person living their everyday lives by going to work, coming home, having a few drinks and getting obliterated on the weekends. Their nutrition is rarely special and they seem to be resigned to a less than desired fate. Even if they are athletic they are not training extra to be extra special.
It seems that the general mentality is that we have been whipped by over powering forces of resistance to prevent us from really getting on top of the world. True, everyone cannot be Bill Gates. But everyone could have equal gratitude and appreciation for being here and being blessed with a mind and body that can deliver ecstatic results.
I am personally dedicated to build on a long term perspective that creates true gradual gains. I feel I am always in training. I eat the best I can and add as much physical activity to my schedule that I can manage without over training or exhausting myself.
I have enjoyed my progress and can see myself distancing my capabilities from some of the people around me who are doing the same old same old. I have patience and don’t try to accomplish everything in a week. I don’t set goals that will cause me to be disappointed and give up the ghost.
I listen to the voice that says we can be everything we want to be if we make the investment. We have to be realistic and have faith that the Japanese motto of “kaizen”, a little improvement at a time, makes us much happier with our personal state each year.
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Most People Suffer and Eat to Feel Better
Posted by: | CommentsI think it is a sign of the times that people are not realizing their expectations.
Yes, we have had a meltdown that affected everyone. We are a prosperous nation and as poor as people think they are in relation to their rich Ferrari driving friends, most people are eating and have shelter.
People are often more poor in not reaching the expectations they have for themselves or their families. It has continuously cost more to do everything and labor does not buy what it used to.
Even a man with four great children, a beautiful wife, a nice home, and a good job has pressure. He has to provide equal to the most affluent examples his family is exposed to in their circle. He has to provide cars and higher education. He will have to pay for some weddings and eventually save enough for a golden year’s retirement.
Having enough is not clearly defined. It is always more than we have. Getting there is never easy. There is always lots of resistance. Everyone we know wants to do and have lots of things. Every budget is strained regardless of the level of income. More income means higher aspirations.
One of the few pleasures we can have is eating. No one judges the silent secret pleasures of satisfying the mind that creates so much yearning. Food is the one thing that buys respite for a few hours.
The mind is devious. We know what is healthy food and what is not. We have all sorts of excuses why we can’t create good meals instead of the often fast ones. We know that certain desserts and snacks are not what makes our body strong, but they make our mind happy.
It begin with the fact we are not happy with what we have. We do not have enough connection with nature and gratitude that we are here to celebrate the bodies with which we were born. There is more pleasure possible in the yield of our minds and the strength and stamina of our bodies than in any great car. Things are temporary and lead to the desire for more things.
Gratitude is happiness and leads to the desire to make other people also feel happy. This creates a circle of eternal feed back. The better we can make ourselves feel, the more likely we are to be gratified that we have been blessed with all we need.
Eating healthy and exercising to make our body fit, makes our mind happier than any other gift. If we also have a few passions that require peak performance leads us to living in the “flow” as defined most recognizably by Daniel Goleman.
Pursuing activities that we love and that create a challenge, but because of our practice are not above our capabilities, we and enter into “flow” or “being in the zone”. So if we find and pursue passions, we have a target for our minds.
If we want to reach peak performance in these passions we often need minds, bodies, and spirits that are developed to our greatest potential. Seeking to push ourselves requires vision, ambition, courage and discipline. Nothing speaks discipline and courage like self control in eating and exercise.
So a nation that wants to flee the culture of obesity and pursue productivity with passion and discipline must learn not to use food as a drug. Develop a love for our body and minds as gifts to be developed for the pursuit of achieving our highest potential and leave the Twinkies behind.
Eat All You Want
Posted by: | CommentsOf course there is a caveat.
Everything you eat has to be something your body recognizes and has to be natural.
Then, it’s pretty true. Most people won’t over indulge on natural food because it doesn’t satisfy cravings like chocolate cake where you are trying to settle emotions as opposed to just fueling your body.
Emotional eating can even be satiated if you eat natural food like carrots. After dinner and TV eating can be satiated if once again you eat something natural like another salad or homemade vegetable soup or oat meal.
You could eat all the apples you wanted each day and your body would not store the extra like it would do if you ate a Twinkie. In fact, your body will encapsulate in fat most anything that it doesn’t recognize. It thinks you are trying to starve it so it wants to save everything in case you approach death.
If you want your body to release everything stored in fat including the fat, make it feel like you are going to supply it with all the nutrition it needs to run your body factory. If you eat fruit, vegetables, grains, seeds, nuts, protein, and good fats, your body will be so happy it will start releasing everything in storage.
People on raw diets have reported incredible fat loss amounts rather quickly, but I don’t recommend extreme change. Change should occur over a long period of time. If you don’t change gradually, your mind will win the battle and make you binge or quit. Most people don’t have the will power to battle their mind.
Start by eliminating the most harmful foods. Start by eliminating one harmful food. Test your ability to battle your mind. See if you can eliminate one unnatural harmful food a week. In its place, put anything. If you are addicted to something like a fast food hamburger, you might have to use something else harmful to break the addiction.
Once you have made the first change, change the food again. At a certain point, your mind will have forgotten both foods. For example, I live close to a Dairy Queen and needed the soft ice cream most nights. I changed to Snickers bars. After awhile I changed that to a granola bar. Now I had forgotten the ice cream and the Snickers so I could change to most anything and I was cured.
As you eliminate foods, start adding vegetables in the way of salads and soups. Start adding fruit as a bowl in the morning for breakfast. I even put a scoop of peanut butter in it. Peanut butter has protein, good fats, and potassium. It is better than a sweet role or donut. Have an apple after lunch or in the afternoons.
Have a fruit smoothie without sugar and add some protein. My smoothies have protein, a banana, some peanut butter, and a little chocolate syrup. It satisfies my sugar need and gives me protein and carbohydrates.
If you have carbs and protein in each meal your hunger will be staved longer, you will stay awake, and you will have energy. The next big secret is if you eat just a little, you will find in ten minutes, it was more satisfying than you would have thought.
I have dinner in several courses. I only add another course if I am still hungry. The courses also take me through the evening so my after dinner eating is just another healthy course. I might have salad, then soup, then spaghetti or chicken and rice and then oat meal. My dessert is a banana walnut muffin that is mostly natural. I might also have some peanuts and I drink lots of tea.
You can eat just about as much as you can hold if you give time after meals, eat natural food and eliminate foods your body doesn’t recognize like processed foods, sugar, bad fats, fried foods, and white flour.
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Read “The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth” by Jonny Bowden
Are Greens Better than Caffeine?
Posted by: | CommentsPeggy Hall is a an active surfer yogi and wellness counselor. Surfers face rigorous contortion while in the water from riding and getting thrown and then pain and soreness while recovering from paddling and getting pounded by waves on the way out. 
I have subscribed to her advice about yoga and surfing. She also has great tips about eating for energy. I want to surf once or twice a day and increase my training workouts. I have to increase the potency of my fuel while following my preferred healthy diet.
As a surfer she knows the importance of yoga to maintain flexibility and prevent injury. She also understands the need for energy. Surfing is a full body workout that can be aerobic and anaerobic. If you want to stay in the water because of a great set of waves, you can become exhausted. You need the fuel for energy in the first place and then for recovery.
I find that my mostly vegetarian diet maintains my energy because I am never full and my digestive processes do not have to rob my brain of blood to take care of what I have eaten. Along those lines, Peggy has a good tip for a little pick me up when you are tired.
Peggy:
“Instead of reaching for junk food, eat something green! That’s right — the green pigment found in plants is chlorophyll, which is actually stored energy from the sun!
I’ve actually been known to nibble on a handful of mini salad greens for quick energy! But slices of cucumbers, celery sticks work just as well. Green Foods boost energy!”
Many great athletes are vegetarians not to mention elephants, bears, and gorillas who seem to have plenty of strength and stamina.
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Live Longer, Live Stronger, It’s the Right Food Again
Posted by: | CommentsThe underlined words are from the quote from the Natural News article.
“Research suggests that flavonoids, the most diverse group of phytochemicals, may be a key phytochemical group that contributes to the reduced mortality rates observed in people consuming high levels of plant-based foods, according to the UC Davis report. In the Zutphen Elderly Study, myocardial infarction was found to decrease as falvonoid intake increased.
Phytochemicals are thought to be responsible for much of the disease protection granted by diets high in fruits, vegetables, beans, cereals, and plant-based beverages such as tea and wine, according to a University of California, Davis report (http://chnr.ucdavis.edu/content/Fac…).
Although it has become widely accepted that a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, legumes, and grains reduces the risk of cancer, heart disease, and other illnesses, scientists have only recently begun researching the effects of the different phytonutrients those foods contain.” Natural News.com Neeve Arnell
I have started up on my mostly raw diet again. I call it raw because I don’t eat or cook any meat other than canned tuna. I can eat as much as I like because nothing I eat hurts me. I feel excellent and it seems to create a positive mental outlook.
I think much of people’s negativism is caused by what they put in their bodies.
I have fruit in the morning and usually a big salad for lunch with a little tuna in it. I may also have eggs in the morning or oat meal. I may have my salad for dinner followed by my own 15 ingredient vegetable soup and/or spaghetti. I have banana nut muffins for dessert. I often have a bowl of oatmeal or a protein shake before I go to sleep.
I also throw plenty of flaxseed for the omega-3’s into my shakes; much more potent, cleaner, and cheaper than fish oils and fish. Olive oil is also important and can be used in making a salad dressing.
Because I surf and am adding to my surf specific exercises during the day, I fill in with one or two protein shakes. Eating as much as I want, I have still lost 25 pounds this year. I am at my high school weight and had to lose my college and post college poundage.
Eating right has all the benefits and could help me live longer.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032463_phytochemicals_health_benefits.html#ixzz1MtlmZJlH
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The Value of Optimism and Pessimism
Posted by: | CommentsNo one likes to be a Pollyanna and yet no one wants to be a fool.
We are on the precipice of a big fall or on the large plateau before an eventual climb. The scale has respectable weights on each side. We could head for deflation or we could eventually see hyper inflation. So many governmental entities are waging to keep the balance.
Short term reports are not always good long term indicators. Where as in the past we normally looked to see how leading companies were fairing as bell weathers of future prosperity, there are much larger forces in play.
Now we have to look at how Portugal, Spain and the Euro will fair in case of bank defaults. We have to consider how global investors will evaluate the dollar as the U.S. tries to spend its way to growth.
As individuals we cannot function at our optimum if we harbor negative thoughts. We need energy to create advancement. We need a positive outlook to fuel passion. We have to stand out among others to attract the good fortune we deserve.
This does not mean we should be egocentric and try to step on others in our climb. It means that we can only depend on ourselves to carry us through what ever we may be facing. We must marshal our own resources and focus our energy.
Since governments have a larger impact on the economy than Wall Street, I think it would be best to follow their model of increased austerity. When future income is in doubt it is probably better to reduce expenses.
We should follow the lead of prospering businesses. Use all our resources and focus to be more competitive. Each company and individual would do well to inventory their strengths, weaknesses, and capabilities.
For the individual, we can create a positive mental outlook by improving our energy through fitness and health. If you are feeling better everyday, it cannot help but create a feeling of optimism about what you could create given the chance.
“Getting to Peak Performance” should be a strategy of every individual as their trump card to play in the new game. Some of the areas that could be natural resources for individuals are healthy eating, fitness, creativity, innovative capabilities, whole brain thinking, and emotional intelligence.
If you are focused and rapidly developing your own capabilities you are creating both a great offense and defense. You could be in the Super Bowl of personal performance. It would be hard to be pessimistic if you are personally growing. At least some of your negative thoughts would get balanced and hopefully over whelmed by the positive transformation you are personally creating.
In the near future, I will be further developing resources for these personal transformation areas and invite you to tune in.
Weight Watchers Gives Raw The Nod
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I have never been a Weight Watcher follower but I know they give points to foods depending on the calories. As I understand all calories are the same.
Now they claim after years of scientific research and field studies they have changed their point system. They now say fruits and vegetable have no points.
Part of what their study revealed is that foods create different energy results.
Something vegetarians and raw foodies have known is that if your digestive system is busy with foods it doesn’t recognize, it takes much more energy to digest. It has to take some of the foods and encapsulate in fat so they can’t circulate.
The body maintains a very fine alkaline/acidic balance. A few degrees to the acidic can kill you. If the body maintains a constant acidic balance you will get sick frequently and eventually get diseased as the body’s defenses eventually wear out.
If your body maintains an alkaline balance, you will have a good immune system and most likely never get diseased from food ingestion. The body can’t do much about inherited proclivities.
Nature’s raw foods give you an alkaline balance. Red meats and processed foods give you an acidic balance. So if you stick to fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, and positive fats, you should be very lean and healthy.
The added bonus is that if your body is not working on digestion, the blood and oxygen can be used by your brain. Half the reason people want to nap is that digestion has robbed them of energy and the brain of its vitality.
The other very positive additive is hydration. Right now I have a schedule that I like that begins with hydration in the morning. I work at home so it’s easy for me. I am usually up at 5 a.m. so I start with a cup of coffee and two glasses of water with a little orange juice so that I can drink it easier.
I drink while I work; a sip of coffee and a sip of water. Then I have two glasses of my protein shake that contains water, orange juice, a banana, and my powder. So by nine I may have had at least 50 ounces of water.
For breakfast I often have oat meal with cinnamon, apple, raisins, walnuts, maybe more banana. You can put in whatever you like. For lunch I might have my home made vegetable soup or a salad or a tuna sandwich on thin wheat bread or whole grain sandwich rounds I get from Wal-Mart.
Dinner may have more soup and a salad. For desserts and snacks you want to try and contain the damage by minimizing harmful foods. Now and then I go to my favorite sports bar and have beer and a slice of pizza so its not all toil.
I have lost 20 pounds in the last few months and do not starve. I have plenty of energy. I can write, read, and study as much as I want. You don’t necessarily need to pay to get weight loss assistance. Just eat what is natural.
What is Your World Like if We Get into Hyper Inflation or Deflation?
Posted by: | CommentsNeither is good and we are threatened on more than one front. We have debt and currency issues. We have metal resources and food crisis issues. We could get a mixture of deflation and inflation.
In the U.S. we are heading for one or the other even if we were in global isolation. If the government did not spend the money to try and stimulate the economy and was not currently supplying funds to prop up the financial system we would be in deflation.
Bonds are the under pinning of global government financing and a loss of confidence in bonds causes an increase in governments’ debt cost and a bigger squeeze on budgets. Watch for more headlines like today’s:
“This confusing ‘pea soup’ of indecision, vacillation and disunity by the E.U. is beginning to create unnecessarily seismic waves of fear in international bond and money markets,” said David Buik, markets analyst at BGC Partners.
What happens to jobs? In deflation jobs can disappear. Because consumerism disappears fewer employees are needed. However, inflation creates a disparity between the money earned and the money needed to purchase necessities.
Both create difficulties for businesses to value goods and services and keep current with the value of exchange. Both require greater ingenuity to make ends meet. The stress on executives and personnel to not only be competitive but to solve problems becomes twice the issue as in normal economies.
We are already witnessing riots in Greece and France just over the prospect of changing the rules. Two years ago we had riots when we had a world shortage of wheat. You can imagine that when we start facing currency problems compounded by unemployment problems, there will be even greater pressure on government and civil order.
This is the calm before the storm. Governments acting responsibly that have not speculated on housing backed securities and have kept government spending in check will be greatly influenced by the countries that have done the opposite.
The global economy is interconnected and as one government starts to fail the investors in bonds become more nervous. The debtor countries are needed by the exporting countries to import their goods and pay back the debt on monies borrowed.
So for example, Ireland owes money to Spain and imports goods from England. Ireland has to create extreme austerity measures and get bailout money so they can’t pay loans to Spain and import from Britain. As soon as we have four or five countries in this situation, all the systems become stressed.
What should you do? Don’t assume because you are in good shape today, you will be in good shape in two years. Your job could be stressed, your property values could be stressed, and your ability to purchase necessities may be more difficult.
Even though we think we are in recovery, the Fed just announced that employment will not recover for at least ten years and economic growth will be anemic.
What are your personal skills? What is your ability to be flexible? What is your ability to be a creative problem solver? The next ten years will require skills not as necessary in the last ten years.
Innovation is the key to solving small and large problems in the future. For example the EU is looking to bolster its needs for rare metals which China controls and is looking for policies to recycle even basic metals.
“We need an innovative industrial policy that reduces the use of resources,” said Reinhard Bütikofer, a German member of the European Parliament and vice president of the Greens/European Free Alliance Group.
We need innovation in food production. As China continues to seek control of the supply and production is stressed to meet world demand, we need fresh thinking:
In a NY Times report:
“The fall in production puts the world “dangerously close” to a new food crisis, Abdolreza Abbassian, an economist with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, said at a news conference last week
“Just normal production will not do anymore,” he said.”
You should start investing time in placing your affairs in order by minimizing debt and preparing to downsize. Downsizing is necessary for deflation or inflation when compounded by high unemployment.
Your mental abilities should be trained or retrained to ascertain and solve rapidly occurring dysfunctions for B2B and B2C commerce.
You should be in the best possible health and fitness to handle stress and develop your own peak performance.
The time to start expanding your mind and improving your body is now. The world will be tested in many arenas and great ideas are needed at every level. This spells crisis and opportunity.
Are You Ignoring Collective Intelligence on How to Be Optimized?
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Businesses are now spending $250 million a year to grow intelligence.
Corporations use software to harness the collective intelligence of its personnel to make their company more competitive.
In our private lives we also have collective intelligence in Social Networking and the Internet. Networks like Face Book, the Internet, and Email connect us with more collective intelligence than we can consume.
We therefore filter out what we don’t want to hear.
Most people would like to operate at their optimum. There is every advantage to being seen as energetic, attractive, sociable, and productive.
It is very difficult to know who to believe. Our cars have an advantage over us. They are made almost perfectly in the factory and they can operate for 50,000-100,000 miles or at least to the end of their lease.
They come with a few instructions; use the right gas, change the oil, lubricate, rotate the tires and don’t abuse. What if we were born with a label that gave our parents operating instructions?
They would say this baby was born perfectly just as babies have been born for the last few million years. Collective intelligence says this baby will operate perfectly for a long life if you give it the right ingredients.
Would our parents purposely ignore that label? My parent’s generation did not have collective intelligence on how to optimize their physical beings. Most of my dad’s family including the women died of heart attacks. Their motto was if you like it, eat it.
Now we know that if you eat the right food, ignore the wrong food, get some exercise in our sedentary lives, and don’t abuse ourselves, we can operate like Ferraris. Tri Athletes, long distance runners, and Olympic athletes to name a few operate on the collective intelligence on how humans can perform if properly treated.
Why are we not motivated to create the greatest vitality for our short stay on the planet? Humans seem to have problems connecting with their inspiration, passions, and happiness as well. These are also available and can be sourced in our collective intelligence.
In fact, if we started optimizing our vessels the many advantages would include understanding how the human form operates at its peak. We would get connected to more natural energies that exist outside of our busy city lives.
We would start having an appreciation of who we are and our capabilities. We might become inspired to push the envelope and test what we can do. We might begin the passionate pursuit of discovering our limits. This would make us happy.
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Inspiration Can Out Perform Technology
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Productivity is the bottom line value in assessing whether to employ more humans or more technology.
The resource that most greatly leverages its self is in highest demand. This means that either technology performs the task of several humans or humans determine the most productive use of technology.
The two together rule the earth.
Governments seem to bracing for tougher times. They have insight into which forces are being utilized to prop up the economies until the boom falls. Some are rapidly cutting budgets while ours is rapidly printing money.
Many forces point to tougher times for humans in the future.
We had better brace for a time when humans had better leverage themselves rather than just have skills. If you don’t have high tech skills, you need to have the imagination that can put technology to work.
If everything hits the fan with either deflation or inflation, what sort of contribution can you make if your current situation or employment deteriorates?
How creative, innovative, flexible, adaptive, sensitive, discerning, and inspired are you?
This is a time when you close your eyes, take a deep breath and search deep for your highest potential. This is a time when humans need to be a force onto themselves in either a company structure or on their own.
Highest rewards will go to humans who can tap into a steady flow of ideas, solve problems, and a sensitivity to what people need and are demanding.
My unhidden agenda is humans have to reach their highest potential to prosper or survive in the troubled waters of the future. Most signs say we are in a twenty year cycle, not a two year cycle. So we might as well start reinventing ourselves.
We can prosper even as times get to be more difficult. We have to have control of our own mental process and use it to evaluate what is happening around us. We need to have calm, confidence, energy, and courage.
We can create the self confidence that we are capable by optimizing our own human mechanism. We need to put our body and brain in high gear with the highest energy foods and exercise.
We must tap into our creative powers.
Getting our body to its optimum state will generate more calm which will give rise to more creativity. We can accelerate this process by reducing the amount of stimulus we continuously feed our brains and find more time to slow down and even meditate.
Focus on what you can best bring to the table in good times and bad. What talents can you unleash for your own prosperity or for flourishing in your in employment.
If you had to compete on your own or to keep your job, where would you classify your expertise? Are you a creator or a maintainer? Can you find new opportunities or are you one that can manage existing situations?
What inspires you and creates a passion for your life and work? Your greatest energies will be found in your passion to express yourself. Can you combine them in your work? Happiness will make you more productive. Can you combine your inspiration and your life’s purpose to find happiness?
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Calories are Only in Processed Food
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Humans are the only living creature that would have to worry about calories.
The logic is that only humans alter what nature put on the table. We refine, mix, and cook what is other wise available in a natural state.
In that process we remove or destroy the ingredients our bodies were meant to have and create ingredients that make our bodies (liver) work overtime.
In that process the body determines:
- it cannot use a lot of the ingredients
- it doesn’t recognize some of the ingredients
- some of the ingredients are harmful
- its not getting the ingredients it needs and so is starving
And its solution is to create a encapsulation of fat so the ingredients can’t circulate or it had better store them if this is all that’s coming in because starvation is in the wings.
Natural foods are recognized and used with no need to store. If the body receives lots of natural foods, it can start releasing the foods stored in fat for use in case of starvation. People who get on raw food diets record great amounts of weight loss within months; sometimes up to 75 pounds.
I was able to burn off 20 pounds without ever starving in 5 months. I only changed what I ate and didn’t have to change the quantities. The difference is there are few calories in natural food so you will want to eat more often. You actually could eat more but you don’t need to because the body is getting what it wants. It is just using the food faster.
You only need to count calories so you don’t add weight when you are having cereal for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch, meat and potatoes for dinner, and dessert. Then if you are adding chips, candy bars, ice cream, soda, pasta, bad fats, fried foods, and alcohol, you are adding to the burden.
Weight loss and health are a very simple issue. They both come in a package. One package creates weight loss and immunity from the small stuff like heart disease and cancer and the other package makes you obese and kills you.
What’s worse is the bad package often maims you long before it kills you so you suffer. Food can cause pain.
If someone gave you a deer as a pet and you fed it cheeseburgers, chocolate cake, and fried food it wouldn’t last as long as your goldfish.
95% of Americans trying to lose that 10 pounds are doing it the way their minds want them to do it, not the way their bodies want to do it.
Americans who envy those skinny movie stars and models could look the same without being anorexic or bulimic. Just imagine all those girls that are anorexic and bulimic could eat the right foods and get the results they wanted quickly. A diet of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds would make them happy “skinny bitches”.
You could look in the mirror and see half what you used to see. You might think you had turned sideways.
Why We Can’t Find Our Passions
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One reader sent me a private message wondering why she can’t find something that would make her excited to get up everyday and go to work.
Motivation to make money is the wrong start to find inspiration.
However, the reality is most of the world has to be practical. We need to make money to survive and our pursuit might not be something we love or that expresses who we are.
I call this motivation. We are paid to do something that we do not love and would not do without pay.
Inspiration is an activity we would do without money although it could lead to money. If we want to pursue an activity that we love and hopefully build a following for our passion, then that works. Of course, this might require a little independence which most people don’t have unless they start very early in life.
Getting to our passion requires we get deeper than the daily stream of consciousness that feeds our goals and worries through our mind continuously. We have to get down to the Theta level waves that hook us to the subconscious and universal energies where revelations, epiphanies, and ahas are often born.
There are three ways I know of how to do it and one way to start. The most direct path is meditation. By its definition, it is dropping your consciousness into lower level brain waves beyond your personality where you connect to broader feelings not filtered by the brain.
A second path that I have chosen, by accident, is eating healthy by eliminating harmful foods and moving to eating like the creatures on the planet. This takes you through a spiritual awakening that also gives rise to inspirations and passions.
A third way is to fall into an activity that you really love and expresses who you are by creating challenges to get better. Surfing and writing have certainly been these activities for me. Neither one earns a living.
A way to start opening your channels to find out who you are while activating either activity above is to start eliminating every addictive attachment to daily life. This is not easy and may take time.
I have eliminated carrying a watch, a cell phone, watching TV, and reading the news every morning. These activities give my brain a chance to rest and minimize the drain of focusing my thoughts on outside influences. Strangely enough, just waiting for text messages or face book messages is a drain of creative energy.
Scrubbing off the layers and finding ways to access a connection to nature creates a closer link to your appreciation of the human experience, your appreciation that you are here, and your ability to express something that is important to you.
