Perfection is hard to achieve in any walk of life and persuasion is no different. It relies on many things going just right at the crucial moment; the perfect synchronisation of source, message and audience. But even if perfection is unlikely, we all need to know what to aim for.
To bring you the current series on the psychology of persuasion I've been reading lots of research, much more than is covered in recent posts. As I read, I noticed the same themes cropping up over and over again.
Here are the most important points for crafting the perfect persuasive message, all of which have scientific evidence to back them up.
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Monday, May 30, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
You Create and Control Everything In Your Life
By Enoch Tan / Source: Mind Power Secrets Package
Lack of control is an illusion. If you are the creator, all things are under your control. Some people say that control is an illusion but the opposite is the real truth.
How can you not be in control when all things are under your control? Realize the aspect of yourself that is divine, your Godhood. God is in control of all things, and God is the Self of all, which is your Higher Self. You are the Higher Self. You create all of your reality. There is no aspect of your reality which you do not create. Therefore you control all.
You are not a victim. All power is within and is absolutely under your control. To say that things happen through another cause other than yourself is to say that you are a victim.
Nothing happens outside of you. Everything is happening within you. You are Consciousness, and Consciousness encompasses All That Is. Whenever you feel not being in control, you are experiencing an illusion. You created the illusion of not being in control, of not being God. You are the director of the script and can control at will.
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Lack of control is an illusion. If you are the creator, all things are under your control. Some people say that control is an illusion but the opposite is the real truth.
How can you not be in control when all things are under your control? Realize the aspect of yourself that is divine, your Godhood. God is in control of all things, and God is the Self of all, which is your Higher Self. You are the Higher Self. You create all of your reality. There is no aspect of your reality which you do not create. Therefore you control all.
You are not a victim. All power is within and is absolutely under your control. To say that things happen through another cause other than yourself is to say that you are a victim.
Nothing happens outside of you. Everything is happening within you. You are Consciousness, and Consciousness encompasses All That Is. Whenever you feel not being in control, you are experiencing an illusion. You created the illusion of not being in control, of not being God. You are the director of the script and can control at will.
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Saturday, May 28, 2011
The Six Million Dollar Bionic Brain
By Judith Horstman / Source: Fox News
The six-million dollar man was pure fantasy in the 70s -- but largely realistic technology today. And the future of this tech is even wilder: Implantable brain electrodes may be just around the corner.
Futurists and science-fiction writers have long speculated about merging human and machine, especially human brains and computers. These dreams are slowly becoming reality: The deaf are hearing with bionic "ears," the blind see with the aid of electrodes, an amputee is moving a prosthetic arm by thought, a man paralyzed with locked-in syndrome is "speaking" through a brain electrode connected to a computerized synthesizer.
One such bionic advance -- thought-driven neural implants -- could change the lives of millions of people, including the many thousands conscious but now entombed within their own bodies in what's called locked-in syndrome, and the thousands of wounded warriors returning from battle with missing limbs and devastating brain injuries.
And it could open tremendous opportunities for people in the future who would like to take their minds where no man's body has gone before -- into deepest space or the deepest of ocean depths, for example, through the "senses" of a thought-driven robot.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE...
The six-million dollar man was pure fantasy in the 70s -- but largely realistic technology today. And the future of this tech is even wilder: Implantable brain electrodes may be just around the corner.
Futurists and science-fiction writers have long speculated about merging human and machine, especially human brains and computers. These dreams are slowly becoming reality: The deaf are hearing with bionic "ears," the blind see with the aid of electrodes, an amputee is moving a prosthetic arm by thought, a man paralyzed with locked-in syndrome is "speaking" through a brain electrode connected to a computerized synthesizer.
One such bionic advance -- thought-driven neural implants -- could change the lives of millions of people, including the many thousands conscious but now entombed within their own bodies in what's called locked-in syndrome, and the thousands of wounded warriors returning from battle with missing limbs and devastating brain injuries.
And it could open tremendous opportunities for people in the future who would like to take their minds where no man's body has gone before -- into deepest space or the deepest of ocean depths, for example, through the "senses" of a thought-driven robot.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE...
Friday, May 27, 2011
Artificial Telepathy - The Perfect Torture
Source: MindTech Sweden
The experience of “Artificial Telepathy” is really not that extraordinary. It’s as simple as receiving a cell-phone call in one’s head.
Indeed, most of the technology involved is exactly identical to that of cell-phone technology. Satellites link the sender and the receiver. A computer “multiplexer” routes the voice signal of the sender through microwave towers to a very specifically defined location or cell. The “receiver” is located and tracked with pinpoint accuracy, to within a few feet of actual location.
But the receiver is not a cell phone. It’s a human brain.
Out of nowhere, a voice suddenly blooms in the mind of the target. The human skull has no “firewall” and therefore cannot shut the voice out. The receiver can hear the sender’s verbal thoughts. The sender, in turn, can hear all of the target’s thoughts, exactly as if the target’s verbal thoughts had been spoken or broadcast. For this reason, the experience could be called “hearing voices” but is more properly described as “artificial telepathy”.
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The experience of “Artificial Telepathy” is really not that extraordinary. It’s as simple as receiving a cell-phone call in one’s head.
Indeed, most of the technology involved is exactly identical to that of cell-phone technology. Satellites link the sender and the receiver. A computer “multiplexer” routes the voice signal of the sender through microwave towers to a very specifically defined location or cell. The “receiver” is located and tracked with pinpoint accuracy, to within a few feet of actual location.
But the receiver is not a cell phone. It’s a human brain.
Out of nowhere, a voice suddenly blooms in the mind of the target. The human skull has no “firewall” and therefore cannot shut the voice out. The receiver can hear the sender’s verbal thoughts. The sender, in turn, can hear all of the target’s thoughts, exactly as if the target’s verbal thoughts had been spoken or broadcast. For this reason, the experience could be called “hearing voices” but is more properly described as “artificial telepathy”.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Orgasms Unlock Altered Consciousness
By Kayt Sukel / Source: New Scientist
With a click and a whirr, I am pulled into the scanner. My head is strapped down and I have been draped with a blanket so that I may touch my nether regions - my clitoris in particular - with a certain degree of modesty. I am here neither for a medical procedure nor an adult movie. Rather, I am about to stimulate myself to orgasm while an fMRI scanner tracks the blood flow in my brain.
My actions are helping Barry Komisaruk at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, and colleagues to tease apart the mechanisms underlying sexual arousal. In doing so, not only have they discovered that there is more than one route to orgasm, but they may also have revealed a novel type of consciousness - an understanding of which could lead to new treatments for pain.
Despite orgasm being a near-universal human phenomenon, we still don't know all that much about it. "The amount of speculation versus actual data on both the function and value of orgasm is remarkable," says Julia Heiman, director of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction in Bloomington, Indiana.
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With a click and a whirr, I am pulled into the scanner. My head is strapped down and I have been draped with a blanket so that I may touch my nether regions - my clitoris in particular - with a certain degree of modesty. I am here neither for a medical procedure nor an adult movie. Rather, I am about to stimulate myself to orgasm while an fMRI scanner tracks the blood flow in my brain.
My actions are helping Barry Komisaruk at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, and colleagues to tease apart the mechanisms underlying sexual arousal. In doing so, not only have they discovered that there is more than one route to orgasm, but they may also have revealed a novel type of consciousness - an understanding of which could lead to new treatments for pain.
Despite orgasm being a near-universal human phenomenon, we still don't know all that much about it. "The amount of speculation versus actual data on both the function and value of orgasm is remarkable," says Julia Heiman, director of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction in Bloomington, Indiana.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Unlock the Power of Your Subconscious Mind to Get Things Done
By Greg Frost, Creator of Universal Life Secrets
Today I will be sharing with you some tactics on how you can leverage off your subconscious mind to get things done better.
The key to making your subconscious mind work for you is in your attitude. Having a positive self-esteem and confidence in yourself can go a long way towards achieving the goals that you have set out for your mind.
Whilst many people believe that confidence and esteem comes with your personality, which is determined at birth, it is not true. It is never too late to start cultivating and improving your inner image and resources, primarily that of your subconscious mind.
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Today I will be sharing with you some tactics on how you can leverage off your subconscious mind to get things done better.
The key to making your subconscious mind work for you is in your attitude. Having a positive self-esteem and confidence in yourself can go a long way towards achieving the goals that you have set out for your mind.
Whilst many people believe that confidence and esteem comes with your personality, which is determined at birth, it is not true. It is never too late to start cultivating and improving your inner image and resources, primarily that of your subconscious mind.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE...
Monday, May 23, 2011
How to Manipulate Your Body to Wake the Hell Up
By Matthew Rogers / Source: LifeHacker
Say it's Friday, you've had a long week, and you keep nodding off at your desk. Coffee's just not getting the job done on its own, and you really don't feel like dumping vials of miniature energy drinks into your system just to get through a few hours of work. The good news is that you don't need to: Here are a few simple tricks to wake yourself up naturally, quickly, and without spending more money.
For the coffee addicts: When you feel like your coffee isn't giving you the jolt you need, try reducing the amount of milk and sugar that you put in it. When every sip is more bitter than what you're used to, you might just feel more awake in drinking it.
Grab a few minutes of direct sunlight, outside: It doesn't matter if you've got a corner office that gets sun all day, light passing through windows just isn't the same as the real deal. Step outside and let your skin grab some untouched sunlight, soak up some Vitamin D, breathe some fresh air and let your ears feel the openness of an unmuffled, non-office world.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE...
Say it's Friday, you've had a long week, and you keep nodding off at your desk. Coffee's just not getting the job done on its own, and you really don't feel like dumping vials of miniature energy drinks into your system just to get through a few hours of work. The good news is that you don't need to: Here are a few simple tricks to wake yourself up naturally, quickly, and without spending more money.
For the coffee addicts: When you feel like your coffee isn't giving you the jolt you need, try reducing the amount of milk and sugar that you put in it. When every sip is more bitter than what you're used to, you might just feel more awake in drinking it.
Grab a few minutes of direct sunlight, outside: It doesn't matter if you've got a corner office that gets sun all day, light passing through windows just isn't the same as the real deal. Step outside and let your skin grab some untouched sunlight, soak up some Vitamin D, breathe some fresh air and let your ears feel the openness of an unmuffled, non-office world.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE...
Wake Up and Transform Your Life
By Steve Pavlina
What does it mean to wake up and become more conscious?
Let me share some perspectives that should make it easier to understand the process of waking up.
The Cellular Perspective
From the cellular perspective, you can see yourself as an individual person interacting with other individuals. You’re like a single cell in the larger body of humanity, which is comprised of billions of other people-cells.
For example, I could say that I’m a guy (a cell) who’s dedicated to helping people (other cells) live more consciously. I may communicate with many people during my lifetime, but each person is a unique individual, so the impact is different for everyone. We may all be part of some larger body of humanity, but our interactions mainly occur at the individual cellular level.
This is similar to one of the cells in your body noticing the other cells around it and deciding to do what it can to be of service to those cells. It may help a lot of cells, but it still regards itself as an individual cell helping other individual cells. And it won’t help all cells equally, nor could it do so even if it tried.
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What does it mean to wake up and become more conscious?
Let me share some perspectives that should make it easier to understand the process of waking up.
The Cellular Perspective
From the cellular perspective, you can see yourself as an individual person interacting with other individuals. You’re like a single cell in the larger body of humanity, which is comprised of billions of other people-cells.
For example, I could say that I’m a guy (a cell) who’s dedicated to helping people (other cells) live more consciously. I may communicate with many people during my lifetime, but each person is a unique individual, so the impact is different for everyone. We may all be part of some larger body of humanity, but our interactions mainly occur at the individual cellular level.
This is similar to one of the cells in your body noticing the other cells around it and deciding to do what it can to be of service to those cells. It may help a lot of cells, but it still regards itself as an individual cell helping other individual cells. And it won’t help all cells equally, nor could it do so even if it tried.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE...
Saturday, May 21, 2011
We Are All Inattentive Superheroes
By Bradley Voytek
One of the more interesting parts about being a neuroscientist is when I'm suddenly struck by how absolutely weird our brains are.
And I'm not even talking about the super trippy stuff like free-will; even the mundane things are really mind-boggling.
For example: what does it mean to experience the world around us? We "see" things because photons that manage to pass through the inside-out design of our retinal cells cause a molecular change in the photoreceptors such that 11-cis-retinal isomerizes... etc.
(Tons of way overly detailed biology cut from here...)
When we "hear" things, the sound pressure waveform hits the tympanic membrane (eardrum) and ultimately causes the basilar membrane in your cochlea to vibrate. The basilar membrane is stiffer at one end (the basal end) and less stiff at the other end (the apical end). This fact was observed by Georg von Békésy (and earned him the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine).
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One of the more interesting parts about being a neuroscientist is when I'm suddenly struck by how absolutely weird our brains are.
And I'm not even talking about the super trippy stuff like free-will; even the mundane things are really mind-boggling.
For example: what does it mean to experience the world around us? We "see" things because photons that manage to pass through the inside-out design of our retinal cells cause a molecular change in the photoreceptors such that 11-cis-retinal isomerizes... etc.
(Tons of way overly detailed biology cut from here...)
When we "hear" things, the sound pressure waveform hits the tympanic membrane (eardrum) and ultimately causes the basilar membrane in your cochlea to vibrate. The basilar membrane is stiffer at one end (the basal end) and less stiff at the other end (the apical end). This fact was observed by Georg von Békésy (and earned him the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine).
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How to Buy Happiness
Money can buy happiness, but only if you spend it on someone else, researchers reported on Thursday.
Spending as little as $5 a day on someone else could significantly boost happiness, the team at the University of British Columbia and Harvard Business School found.
Their experiments on more than 630 Americans showed they were measurably happier when they spent money on others -- even if they thought spending the money on themselves would make them happier.
"We wanted to test our theory that how people spend their money is at least as important as how much money they earn," said Elizabeth Dunn, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia.
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Spending as little as $5 a day on someone else could significantly boost happiness, the team at the University of British Columbia and Harvard Business School found.
Their experiments on more than 630 Americans showed they were measurably happier when they spent money on others -- even if they thought spending the money on themselves would make them happier.
"We wanted to test our theory that how people spend their money is at least as important as how much money they earn," said Elizabeth Dunn, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
The 20 Smartest Foods on Earth
By Sara Ost / Source: Ecosalon
Simply put, your brain likes to eat. And it likes powerful fuel: quality fats, antioxidants, and small, steady amounts of the best carbs.
On a deadline? Need to rally? Avoid the soda, vending machine snacks and tempting Starbucks pastries and go for these powerful brain boosters instead. The path to a bigger, better brain is loaded with Omega-3 fats, antioxidants, and fiber.
Give your brain a kick start: eat the following foods on a daily or weekly basis for results you will notice.
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Simply put, your brain likes to eat. And it likes powerful fuel: quality fats, antioxidants, and small, steady amounts of the best carbs.
On a deadline? Need to rally? Avoid the soda, vending machine snacks and tempting Starbucks pastries and go for these powerful brain boosters instead. The path to a bigger, better brain is loaded with Omega-3 fats, antioxidants, and fiber.
Give your brain a kick start: eat the following foods on a daily or weekly basis for results you will notice.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE...
Monday, May 16, 2011
How to See the Future with Meditation
By Owen Waters / Author of The Shift
One of the great advantages of regular meditation is that it enhances your sense of intuition. The more you practice meditation, the more you gain insight into every aspect of your life. Insights can relate to present or past events, leading to a greater understanding of your life's path, or they can relate to future events.
Insights into future events can be challenging in four ways:
1. The future is not fixed. Until you experience it, the future remains as an array of possibilities with a "most likely" scenario based on what holds the greatest energy.
2. Viewing the future can change the outcome. Even a 100% accurate view of the most likely scenario will trigger questions about whether you want that scenario to manifest, and that change can influence the outcome. This can give the illusion of inaccuracy in the original prediction.
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One of the great advantages of regular meditation is that it enhances your sense of intuition. The more you practice meditation, the more you gain insight into every aspect of your life. Insights can relate to present or past events, leading to a greater understanding of your life's path, or they can relate to future events.
Insights into future events can be challenging in four ways:
1. The future is not fixed. Until you experience it, the future remains as an array of possibilities with a "most likely" scenario based on what holds the greatest energy.
2. Viewing the future can change the outcome. Even a 100% accurate view of the most likely scenario will trigger questions about whether you want that scenario to manifest, and that change can influence the outcome. This can give the illusion of inaccuracy in the original prediction.
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Sunday, May 15, 2011
How to Tell If Someone Is Lying
By Stuart Wolpert / Source: UCLA Newsroom
When someone is acting suspiciously at an airport, subway station or other public space, how can law enforcement officers determine whether he's up to no good? The ability to effectively detect deception is crucial to public safety, particularly in the wake of renewed threats against the U.S. following the killing of Osama bin Laden.
UCLA professor of psychology R. Edward Geiselman has been studying these questions for years and has taught investigative interviewing techniques to detectives and intelligence officers from the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, the Marines, the Los Angeles police and sheriff's departments, and numerous international agencies.
He and three former UCLA undergraduates - Sandra Elmgren, Chris Green and Ida Rystad - analyzed some 60 studies on detecting deception and have conducted original research on the subject. They present their findings and their guidance for how to conduct effective training programs for detecting deception in the current issue of the American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, which is published this week.
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When someone is acting suspiciously at an airport, subway station or other public space, how can law enforcement officers determine whether he's up to no good? The ability to effectively detect deception is crucial to public safety, particularly in the wake of renewed threats against the U.S. following the killing of Osama bin Laden.
UCLA professor of psychology R. Edward Geiselman has been studying these questions for years and has taught investigative interviewing techniques to detectives and intelligence officers from the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, the Marines, the Los Angeles police and sheriff's departments, and numerous international agencies.
He and three former UCLA undergraduates - Sandra Elmgren, Chris Green and Ida Rystad - analyzed some 60 studies on detecting deception and have conducted original research on the subject. They present their findings and their guidance for how to conduct effective training programs for detecting deception in the current issue of the American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, which is published this week.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE...
Saturday, May 14, 2011
How to Live Forever (results may vary)
By Amara D. Angelica / KurzweilAI.net
I love the premise: take off on a global trek to interview the world’s oldest people, top health and fitness gurus, and smartest life-extension scientists, and ask one question: what’s your secret?
In How To Live Forever, a new film from Variance Films, producer/director Mark Wexler (Seeing Double, Me & My Matchmaker, Air Force One on PBS-National Geographic) does just that.
Ya gotta love Buster, a 101-year-old chain-smoking, beer-drinking marathoner in London, Marge Jetton, a 104-year-old iron-pumping Seventh-day Adventist in Loma Linda, California, and Edna Ruth Parker, 115, the then-oldest person in the world, in Indiana.
I love the premise: take off on a global trek to interview the world’s oldest people, top health and fitness gurus, and smartest life-extension scientists, and ask one question: what’s your secret?
In How To Live Forever, a new film from Variance Films, producer/director Mark Wexler (Seeing Double, Me & My Matchmaker, Air Force One on PBS-National Geographic) does just that.
Ya gotta love Buster, a 101-year-old chain-smoking, beer-drinking marathoner in London, Marge Jetton, a 104-year-old iron-pumping Seventh-day Adventist in Loma Linda, California, and Edna Ruth Parker, 115, the then-oldest person in the world, in Indiana.
The Million Dollar Meditation
Source: The Manifesting Super Gold Pack
This meditation can be used for attracting anything you want, or just increasing your financial situation beyond what you have dreamed possible. A friend of Jafree and Margot’s used this technique and created $10,000 in 3 days! One of their clients manifested $75,000 in just a few weeks with it, and another was offered $3 million for his new business.
Are you one of those people who wonders how to get over the block of not being able to manifest money, and therefore not being able to purchase things you desire? Well, congratulations… you just manifested this wonderful tool to help you out.
The entire meditation should take at least 15 minutes, and be done every day if you want to reap profound results in attracting financial prosperity…
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This meditation can be used for attracting anything you want, or just increasing your financial situation beyond what you have dreamed possible. A friend of Jafree and Margot’s used this technique and created $10,000 in 3 days! One of their clients manifested $75,000 in just a few weeks with it, and another was offered $3 million for his new business.
Are you one of those people who wonders how to get over the block of not being able to manifest money, and therefore not being able to purchase things you desire? Well, congratulations… you just manifested this wonderful tool to help you out.
The entire meditation should take at least 15 minutes, and be done every day if you want to reap profound results in attracting financial prosperity…
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Thursday, May 12, 2011
Can Psychedelics Make You Happier?
Mike is hunched over a pile of soggy wood chips at the bottom of a glade in Golden Gate Park. It’s a clear winter afternoon and sunlight filters through the eucalyptus trees, landing on grass still damp from a recent storm. Mike sifts through the wood chips, slowly and deliberately examining the soil beneath. Two paper bags fill a pocket of his Patagonia fleece jacket.
Mike is a 28-year-old engineer at a prominent software company in San Francisco. He is soft-spoken and self-possessed; on weekends he drives his Subaru Forester to his time-share in Tahoe to ski. He donates to public radio, and he has made himself into an aficionado of the city’s Indian restaurants. He is, or seems, like a well-adjusted member of society.
But what he is doing — sifting through wood chips in a damp, obscure corner of the 1,000-acre park that bisects the western portion of San Francisco — is a felony.
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Mike is a 28-year-old engineer at a prominent software company in San Francisco. He is soft-spoken and self-possessed; on weekends he drives his Subaru Forester to his time-share in Tahoe to ski. He donates to public radio, and he has made himself into an aficionado of the city’s Indian restaurants. He is, or seems, like a well-adjusted member of society.
But what he is doing — sifting through wood chips in a damp, obscure corner of the 1,000-acre park that bisects the western portion of San Francisco — is a felony.
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Monday, May 09, 2011
Free eBook -- 40 Sleep Hacks: A Geek's Guide to Optimizing Sleep
Other topics include the psychology of sleep and research into lucid dreaming, meditation and reviews of various technological gadgets which may help you in your quest for a proper night's sleep. Just right-click on the link below to download the book to your computer.
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Thinking Positive Doesn't Work for Asians
Focusing on positive emotions does not help Asians cope with stress and depression, according to a survey of college students.
For European-Americans, however, the more stress and depression they felt, the fewer positive emotions they reported. The findings suggest psychotherapies emphasizing positive emotions, which can relieve stress and depression in white populations, may not work for Asians, who make up 60 percent of the world population.
The study, published in the journal Emotion, could have implications for helping the Japanese recover from natural disasters and subsequent nuclear crisis in March, and for Chinese coping with post-traumatic stress following the 2008 Sichuan province earthquake.
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For European-Americans, however, the more stress and depression they felt, the fewer positive emotions they reported. The findings suggest psychotherapies emphasizing positive emotions, which can relieve stress and depression in white populations, may not work for Asians, who make up 60 percent of the world population.
The study, published in the journal Emotion, could have implications for helping the Japanese recover from natural disasters and subsequent nuclear crisis in March, and for Chinese coping with post-traumatic stress following the 2008 Sichuan province earthquake.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE...
Sunday, May 08, 2011
Change Your Life While You Sleep
Source: Sleep Programming
The average human brain requires 7-10 hours of nightly slumber.
Over your lifetime, that adds up to between 22 and 31 YEARS of your life spent snoozing, unconscious to the world.
But the latest research has revealed that much of this time may be *entirely wasted*.
In fact -- scientists have discovered that during sleep, a "unique" window of learning opens that allows your brain to absorb and assimilate new information like a sponge.
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The average human brain requires 7-10 hours of nightly slumber.
Over your lifetime, that adds up to between 22 and 31 YEARS of your life spent snoozing, unconscious to the world.
But the latest research has revealed that much of this time may be *entirely wasted*.
In fact -- scientists have discovered that during sleep, a "unique" window of learning opens that allows your brain to absorb and assimilate new information like a sponge.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE...
Friday, May 06, 2011
The 48 Laws of Power
By Robert Greene and Joost Elffers
The 48 Laws of Power is a 1998 book by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers. The book shares thematic elements with Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince and has been compared to Sun-Tzu's classic treatise The Art of War.
Law 1: Never Outshine the Master
Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity. Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are and you will attain the heights of power.
Law 2: Never put too Much Trust in Friends, Learn how to use Enemies
Be wary of friends-they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
Law 3: Conceal your Intentions
Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense. Guide them far enough down the wrong path, envelope them in enough smoke, and by the time they realize your intentions, it will be too late.
READ THE FULL LIST HERE...
The 48 Laws of Power is a 1998 book by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers. The book shares thematic elements with Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince and has been compared to Sun-Tzu's classic treatise The Art of War.
Law 1: Never Outshine the Master
Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity. Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are and you will attain the heights of power.
Law 2: Never put too Much Trust in Friends, Learn how to use Enemies
Be wary of friends-they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
Law 3: Conceal your Intentions
Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense. Guide them far enough down the wrong path, envelope them in enough smoke, and by the time they realize your intentions, it will be too late.
READ THE FULL LIST HERE...
Thursday, May 05, 2011
Is Semen an Antidepressant?
By Jennifer Abbasi / Source: Popular Science
Back in 2002, psychologists at the State University of New York at Albany published a study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior looking at the potential role of semen in alleviating depression in women.
The researchers presented evidence supporting an earlier hypothesis that the hormones in semen have a mood-boosting effect on women. For any woman who has had sex -- and enjoyed it -- this may not come as a huge surprise.
Cut to this past February. Lazar Greenfield, the incoming president of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), wrote a short Valentine's Day-themed editorial about mating in Surgery News. In it, he discussed the sex lives of fruit flies, rotifers and humans. He cited the SUNY Albany study before concluding: "So there's a deeper bond between men and women than St. Valentine would have suspected, and now we know there's a better gift for that day than chocolates." That gift, of course, being semen.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE...
Back in 2002, psychologists at the State University of New York at Albany published a study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior looking at the potential role of semen in alleviating depression in women.
The researchers presented evidence supporting an earlier hypothesis that the hormones in semen have a mood-boosting effect on women. For any woman who has had sex -- and enjoyed it -- this may not come as a huge surprise.
Cut to this past February. Lazar Greenfield, the incoming president of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), wrote a short Valentine's Day-themed editorial about mating in Surgery News. In it, he discussed the sex lives of fruit flies, rotifers and humans. He cited the SUNY Albany study before concluding: "So there's a deeper bond between men and women than St. Valentine would have suspected, and now we know there's a better gift for that day than chocolates." That gift, of course, being semen.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE...
Did Psychic Spies Help Find Osama bin Laden?
By Gary S. Bekkum
Multiple sources claim to have been approached by US government officials concerning a 21st Century post-9/11 paranormal program, allegedly housed within the secretive National Security Agency (NSA).
An independent source affiliated with the Washington Post confirmed some of the information previously provided to STARstream Research (SSR) and STARpod.org.
According to various accounts, shortly after al Qaida launched attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, US and UK based intelligence agencies approached persons known for their 'extraordinary human performance' capabilities. Among the self-proclaimed 'psychics' contacted by intelligence sources were Uri Geller, who had previously worked with the US CIA, and Chris Robinson, who had provided warnings of terror events to British authorities.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE...
Multiple sources claim to have been approached by US government officials concerning a 21st Century post-9/11 paranormal program, allegedly housed within the secretive National Security Agency (NSA).
An independent source affiliated with the Washington Post confirmed some of the information previously provided to STARstream Research (SSR) and STARpod.org.
According to various accounts, shortly after al Qaida launched attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, US and UK based intelligence agencies approached persons known for their 'extraordinary human performance' capabilities. Among the self-proclaimed 'psychics' contacted by intelligence sources were Uri Geller, who had previously worked with the US CIA, and Chris Robinson, who had provided warnings of terror events to British authorities.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE...
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Red Pill or Blue Pill: How to Break Free from the Shackles of Society and Reclaim Your Status as Co-Creator
By Gerald O'Donnell / Creator of One Universal Mind
You are by far much more powerful that you can ever imagine in your present state of belief, as you all carry an innate gigantic power within yourself. This power, gifted at birth, is there for you to discover, if you only put some minimal effort at it and regain faith in yourself and our almost unlimited potential as a human family.
As Created human parts of the Creator, we can open to higher levels of ourselves - call them, if you will, Higher selves or intelligences - who operate with much more knowledge, vision, wisdom, and creative abilities that our lower limited earthly selves. They are all accessible from within the deep and almost infinite recesses of our own inner mind.
Although we do not yet know it or believe in it, we were birthed with the right, if we access these deeper Higher levels in awareness, to command them to please us and manifest our desires to us, instead or having it done the other way around, when they manifest life according to their desires, as is the case nowadays.
Yes, we can rule over our subconscious realm, instead of having it rule us. Please realize the profound implications of this truth.
It is time to let go of society's limited and restrictive opinions about yourself and what you can or should do about your life, no matter how well intentioned it is. It is high time for you to break the shackles in which society has constantly forced you into and programmed you from a very young age.
It is time for you to lift yourself out of the old repeating grooves of our old matrix. It is time to stop repeating old history over and over again with ever more destructive consequences.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE...
You are by far much more powerful that you can ever imagine in your present state of belief, as you all carry an innate gigantic power within yourself. This power, gifted at birth, is there for you to discover, if you only put some minimal effort at it and regain faith in yourself and our almost unlimited potential as a human family.
As Created human parts of the Creator, we can open to higher levels of ourselves - call them, if you will, Higher selves or intelligences - who operate with much more knowledge, vision, wisdom, and creative abilities that our lower limited earthly selves. They are all accessible from within the deep and almost infinite recesses of our own inner mind.
Although we do not yet know it or believe in it, we were birthed with the right, if we access these deeper Higher levels in awareness, to command them to please us and manifest our desires to us, instead or having it done the other way around, when they manifest life according to their desires, as is the case nowadays.
Yes, we can rule over our subconscious realm, instead of having it rule us. Please realize the profound implications of this truth.
It is time to let go of society's limited and restrictive opinions about yourself and what you can or should do about your life, no matter how well intentioned it is. It is high time for you to break the shackles in which society has constantly forced you into and programmed you from a very young age.
It is time for you to lift yourself out of the old repeating grooves of our old matrix. It is time to stop repeating old history over and over again with ever more destructive consequences.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE...
Sunday, May 01, 2011
Scientists find way to wipe out painful memories
By Danny Buckland, Daily Mirror
It sounds like something from a science fiction movie.
But researchers reckon they have found a way to erase painful memories and post-traumatic stress.
They discovered a link between a protein called PKM and recollections of disturbing incidents.
By targeting the specific brain circuit which holds the tormenting memory they believe they could weaken it or wipe it out.
The incredible study paves the way for treatment for war veterans and victims of horrific attacks. It may also help drug addicts and people with long-term memory disorders such as Alzheimer’s.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE...
It sounds like something from a science fiction movie.
But researchers reckon they have found a way to erase painful memories and post-traumatic stress.
They discovered a link between a protein called PKM and recollections of disturbing incidents.
By targeting the specific brain circuit which holds the tormenting memory they believe they could weaken it or wipe it out.
The incredible study paves the way for treatment for war veterans and victims of horrific attacks. It may also help drug addicts and people with long-term memory disorders such as Alzheimer’s.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE...
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