Some quick medical jargon. Myocardial Infarction (MI). Sound familiar? Well how about “Heart Attack”. The same. Infarction is the diseased state of a temporary (or permanent) loss of blood to tissue. The heart, composed of myocardial tissue, that doesn’t get enough (or no) blood for a period of time experiences a Myocardial Infarction, or Heart Attack. Nifty to know; not nifty to experience.
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To Puff or Definitely not to Puff
Take a drag of that cigarette (not!). Here’s what will happen if you do (so don’t!)… Hyperglycemia. Your biochemical insulin production completely shuts down so your glucose blood level balance gets out of rhythm Glucose levels rise. You become temporarily hyperglycemic. Dopamine Incease. Neurosynaptic re-uptake transporters for dopamine become blocked so the amount of dopamine in the synapses keeps flowing and the recieving cell continues recieving the neurotransmitters. Dopamine pleasure circuits keep firing, but become “abused” and will be more difficult to fire in the future. Epinephrine Release. Your brain’s [...]
Jogging and Bone Density
They say milk does a body good? Well, running does a body better! Joggers have stronger bones. Think of the astronauts in space that must vigorously exercise just to prevent ligament, cartilage, and muscle atrophy. The same is true for our bones and humans who jog on a regular basis. They have stronger bone density, and those who jog over 9 times per month, have the strongest bone density out of a study of thousands of participants. So if you can count the number of times you jog per month [...]
Commencing Peace & Smiling More
The profoundly personally uplifting and extra-personally revitalizing effects of smiling are clear. We should be interested in authentically smiling more. It makes others feel happy, but essence of a good smiling exchange lies in the motive. The intention can’t be to smile for the other person because then you’re going to want to elicit a certain reaction and set yourself up for failure. When you demand a reaction from another person (ideally a positive one) your mood automatically gets transferred to the other party. If you smile for the other [...]
Tour de France w/out Lance
The Tour de France this year is deflated. The commentators mention how the patron, the leader just isn’t there. This is a little inaccurate because it doesn’t seem like there’s a vacancy or an absence in the Tour, it just seems like the essence of the event is deflated, gone, simply non-existant. It’s shocking how much excitement, how much exhilaration, how much professionalism — professionalism, professionalism, Aye, that’s the word — Lance infuses into the Tour de France. He learned the stage courses; that commitment created competition, it created conflict [...]
Excited Breath and Friendly Foe
Dan Millman writes, “The only difference between fear and excitement is whether you’re breathing” (138). This distinction is such a fine line because the energy levels of alertness combined with flight/fight operate on such a hair-pin trigger. Doing some deep breathing, literally, restores confidence in your discovery of exhilaration and the renounciation of fear. Millman, in his brilliance also writes, “The only safe and sure way to destroy your enemies is to make them your friends” (139). This is brilliant! Way of the peaceful warrior. This is not saying, you [...]
Listen Up Fatties (Just Kidding)
People Don’t Lose Weight for three reasons. It’s question of worth, capacity or understanding. Self-Worth — You don’t believe that you deserve to lose the weight. Realm of Possibility/Capacity — You don’t believe it’s capable. Knowlede Base/Understanding — You simply don’t know what you’re doing. Diets don’t work because they’re restrictive. When you restrict yourself, you rebel. If you want to lose weight don’t diet. According to Occam’s Razor, the answer is always a simple one; dieting is no exception. The answer is not the complex Atkins, South Beach “formulaes”. [...]
Creating a Motivationalist
An accomplished motivationalist is not someone endowed with answers, but a person gifted in the art of questioning. Take Dr. Phil, for example, someone who interfaces with people as if he has a lot of answers, which he does. His, or any motivationalist’s, answers are a product of clarity which comes from seeking, which comes from questioning, which comes from motivation to discover. Therefore, a motivationalist is really simply a motivated “asker-discover” first, and a person dedicated to sharing that clarity, second.
To Panacea or Not to Panacea, that is the Question
Dreams and Non-Dreamers Of the two archetypal life trajectories — abandoning dreams for fear of residing in fantasy or accepting the risk of visions and carving a reality for seemingly wild aspirations — the former is reliable and stable, but ultimately mundane, while the latter has its own vibe and frequency, its own unique risks, and a distinct robustness. The positive outcome of abandoning dreams as hogwash drivel is that one can quickly plan their life. Without a focus on dreams, one’s life may be robotic or inhuman, but there [...]
One Craziness, Hold the Insanity, To Go, Please
Crazies can be sinkers or drowners, or they can be geniuses, affluent eccentrics. Crazy people sink to a watery grave or they can swim, generating tremendous erudition, applied intelligence, and wealth. Michael Gelb explain the avenues in which craziness can be channeled to create tremendously enriching outcomes. “Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither. productive nor rich are just plain crazy.” Clearly, the goal is to not minimize the insanity, but to channel the “non compos mentis” (Latin, [...]
Childhood Voice: The Salient Indication of Adulthood
Machiavelli: Adults and Kids are the SameChildhood and Adulthood are one and the same.Craziness for love is the natural human state. Nicolo Machiavelli, of all people — who write the “Prince”, instructing rulers to create fear and rule with fear instead of love — discusses the significance of the childhood voice, saying that “The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There does exist a distinction between children and adults, but such distinctions are specious; they are superficial [...]
Genius: One Craziness, Hold the Insanity, To Go, Please
When Confucius wrote, “better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without,” he meant that attempting to thrive, with the potential for incurring a blemishing failure, is always superior to remaining impeccable and safe by never undertaking anything. Geniuses are people who always thrive because they undertake “enterprises of great pitch and moment” by using their own lunacy for creativity, while abandoning fear (Shakespeare 32). Everyone was always a diamond in the rough at one time or another. By polishing and adroitly seizing the right opportunities, one creates successful [...]
