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Derek’s Thought for The Day:

Take a look around you today, and refresh yourself, your bedroom, your bathroom counter, your kitchen counter. You. Thank your God, however, as the saying goes, Whom Ever You Conceive Him to Be. Allow yourself a sense of inner grace and be what you wish you were.

Healthy Lifestyles- Meditating Away a Bloody Accident

We all keep replaying old negative scripts till it kills us, a new study has shown. Studies of nine thousand British Civil Servants were tracked long enough that it was found that people could die of a broken heart. They kept replaying the same old script that failed until it broke their hearts, literally. This study appeared in the Archives of Internet Medicine. They found that the stress and anxiety of hostile, angry relationships can boost the risk of developing heart disease. Chances of a heart attack or chest pain rose by 34 percent for those in stressful relationships in contrast to people on good terms with their spouse.

The researchers noted that negative aspects of close relationships are associated with coronary heart disease. Is that why henpecked Uncle Basil and bullied Aunt Beth both died at 48? Previous studies have shown the protective value of a nurturing relationship, but this was the first to study the ill effects of a non nurturing relationship. The research team followed these subjects over a 12 year period, and reported that those who stayed together but reported a high degree of hostile arguments, criticism and other types of conflict had that 34 percent greater risk of heart attacks or chest pain.

When the researchers deleted risk factors such as obesity, smoking, drinking and family history, the chance of a heart attack in a hostile relationship was still 23 percent higher, said Dr Roberto De Vogli, an epidemioligist at University College London, the leader of the study. If you have good people around it is good for your health. If you have negative people around it is much worse for your health.

The danger is that for all the positive effect of social relationships are having a significant protection effect, the negative impact seems far stronger, said Dr. De Vogli. People continually replay negative experiences. I have been since 1968 a meditator, one who once sat at the feet of the Maharishi, now famous from his teaching the Beatles the previous year, and the writer was once introduced, in a very holy experience, to the Dahli Llama.  At the same time, I was a Psychology Major. And while it is true that negative can overpower positive, you can also work through those negatives, and retrain yourself, gradually, hopefully, through those moments.

My personal experience is an example.When I was 13, a halloween bonfire rocket slipped in the sand as it was lit and shot through the crowd into the face of a woman standing behind me. She fell on me, I turned, people pulled away from us both and she stared at me until she died, with this large rocket sizzling into her left eye, blood pumping out, and her baby laying next to her, alive but singed.

I no longer waking up dreaming of that, but it took self hypnosis and therapy. And for you, too, there may be a moment you wish to forget, hopefully not a permanent negative situation. For me, it took years of meditation for 20 minutes a day allows inner self healing, somehow, some circuits can be quieted, more positives placed in the way.

Soldiers, police, everyone in the line of fire knows how powerful such a negative can affect, over time. The elders know rockets and poor marriages can kill, while innocent children only see but exciting sparklers, enchanting engagements, happily ever after marriages, a life of joy and excitement. Whether a rocket, or a failing marriage, it may take therapy and positive living to realize what was rare, was is ongoing pain. If you are both not good for each other, therapy is best, healing better, separation if necessary. When children involved, more lives to be considered. But an unhealthy home is a killer, science now shows. Let us kiss, make up, do something good, go plant a tree.

At times some horrible accident happens that can haunt us, such a any incident that involves blood and death. This was one such case in my early teens that I learned to put to rest.

Derek Dashwood. Good luck, God bless you with putting it to rest.

We had discussed the issue of the search for happiness and bliss before, and it seems appropriate to discuss this further given events out of Tibet. We know that disciples of Guatama Buddha (560-480 B.C.E.) had found their way north into Tibet east down through Asia and up into China, and west as far as Greece and Egypt during the life of Buddha, say around 500 B.C.E. We have discussed how amazing the arrival of the usual three wise men from the east would bring offerings, and search for others with the eyes of diamonds. This is still the practice in Tibet when the holy leader approaches, and enters death. They may spend years, each three must agree after they have looked in the eyes of the new babies of Tibet.

And when they find those diamond eyes, they bow to their new leader on earth. And since Buddha died in 480 B.C.E. and Socrates far to the west was born in 469 B.C.E. this does seem to indicate that when Socrates became the blossoming of democratic, more thoughtful modern ideology about free speech and a belief in a serene divinity over looking all. At his death by a poisoned chalice of hemlock, Socrates spoke gently to his students Aristotle and Plato the he felt he was going to a better place.

And he was sure those who had done this to him for speaking his honest thoughts, and seeing too well, would not be there. Aristotle told this to his student and prize pupil Alexander of Macedonia, who incorporated this into his life. In fact, Alexander risked his life while his soldiers built Alexandria to be the first port at the Nile, to become greater than Athens, yet the supply depot for never ending tropical foods for Greece and north which knew winters.

In contrast, the Rome that evolved after Alexander, held no concept of holy men from the east. And up until they returned with a diamond eye check and then gifts to baby Jesus, they caused not a fuss. So the charlatan behavior of any studies we see of Rome lacks the depth, the soul, the heart and divinity that any holy men they came by, meditating peacefully at some north African oasis as from Eden, his head was soon on a tray. Oh dismay. Have we evolved to this day? Athens again? Or Rome around the world, again and again.

Will we evolve? Is that really what happened? Alexander found that holy man. We know that Egypt owes it to the Isrealites to at least allow them to capture that fresh Nile at Alexandria, you all plenty thrive. Like the River Colorado, if you pass through a desert, you do not splash wastefully into the salty sea. No way, Jose. And as here, Sam, you parted the salty sea, wandered a hopeless triangle for forty years, got ten rules but no map. Sam, we have the map for you. You black hatted ants went right out of a sand storm into a red ant’s nest. And there you itch, calling them a bitch, until into Armaggaden you twitch.

So, science proves Buddha, that the most blissful lives are experienced by those who count their blessings, do acts of kindness daily, savor the joys of life, thank a mentor, learn to forgive, ask for forgiveness, stay close to friends and family, take care of your body, develop strategies to cope with stress and hardship. Those to me, brought up Christian, now more inclined to the quiet gentle Buddha, creates in a person someone deeper to doing good, and seeing self gratifying people as rather pathetic, usually frantic and quite deeply lost.

Like all those hollow Romans in contrast to those thoughtful, noble Greeks, one must go deeper inside, and be much more a boy or girl scout than a corrupting selfish doomed shell of a deeply evolved, happy, blissful kind of person. We choose, and live with our thoughts, words and deeds. And the diamonds, or coal in our eyes, tells it all. I doubt St Peter goes through a list, he looks into your eyes and says Nirvana Door One or Hell’s Elevator Down. PS-the elevator floor is missing,I hear.

Examples of happiness as being deeper than self gratification can be seen in the lifestyles between more God loving democratic Greece with self centered Romans with horses as gods.

As a remarkable example of diamond souls affecting people beyond what we might imagine, is this true story of Winston Churchill, a bog, and Penicillin. The story seems to speak to the eight most common virtues that researchers in California recently found in people who they studied in search of happiness. The researchers found that those who share these eight virtues have been found to be those who tend to live the longest, report best health in their age and income groups.

These life winners report a more complete sense of a life well lived and that their good life assures them a good death and after life. Truly soft soul loose diamonds . These eight virtues are usually shared by people who are also active in their community, report a belief in a faith, and believe their good deeds and lives will have them welcomed into Heaven or Nirvana or a Happy Hunting Ground.

These virtues are to count your blessings, do acts of kindness, savor the joys of life, thank a mentor, learn to forgive, stay close to family and friends, take care of your body, and develop strategies to cope with stress and hardship. You can almost count them off in this story. This is a story of human Brilliant Diamond Souls . In this case the name of the good man was a poor Scottish farmer name Fleming.

One day while working in his field, he heard a scream for help coming from the bog next to his farm. Fleming dropped his tools and ran to the bog. Here he saw a frightened boy, already sunk to his waist in the swampy black bog. Fleming waded in and grabbed the lad and dragged him to the firm ground, helped him to clean off, and saw him on his way as his family was visiting nearby.

The very next day a grand carriage pulled up to the Scotsman’s small hut. An expensively dressed gentleman stepped out. He shook hands and said he was the father of the lad that the farmer saved. He wanted to pay Fleming, who thanked him but refused. The reward was all in the good deed. And although their life was simple, it was good. At that moment the son of the farmer, about the same age as the young rich lad, appeared at the door.

The gentleman asked if that was the son of the farmer, who proudly confirmed that it was. And the gentleman proposed a deal that the farmer did agree to. And that was to take the lad and pay for the finest education that his own son would enjoy. The farmer agreed and young Fleming did become a famed physician. Fleming later moved to Canada, and there with the help of others discovered Penicillin, which has been a boon to humanity in curing diseases.

Previously incurable diseases were now being cured thanks to Penicillin. The name of the nobleman was Lord Randolph Churchill. His son’s name became Sir Winston Churchill, who became seriously ill with pneumonia later in life, and again a Fleming saved his life, this time by Penicillin. Two great families, two small and great deeds that display how a wave effect of good or ill can create other waves later elsewhere. And we applaud these fine examples of humanity at it’s best here. This amazing and true story tells of how a small good act can send out waves of goodwill that change some lives twice.

Winston Churchill, for example, who was truly a Lion Among Diamond Souls http://www.diamondsandgemstonesshop.com

Healthy lifestyles were a challenge during the lifetime of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). Events that unfolded during these years created general boundaries for the modern world new and old. By then a fellow citizen of what would become Italy had opened up a new world, while Leonardo was some times forced to move to Avignon in France while armies of Florence fought off Venice who fought them all off. In fact in one of these flights for a more healthy lifestyle than dying, he brought along a painting, which he offered the King of France, who was also one of several Popes at that time, safe harbor.

So we should all stop our frowns that the Mona Lisa was war booty by some Napoleon, who did take much from many. But the Mona Lisa, we now learn, was as payment for several years protective custody, where he lived in secure luxury and created much. So, dear France, I take back my fierce glance: your Mona is yours, as if payment to Rome, for healthy lifestyles to Leonardo, until a nicer Borgia said it you can come home. The True Diamond in That Grotto of Coal

And my leap to the present is to touch on the point, about how Leonardo would discover a body in it’s complete sense, including doing autopsies to peel away a dead corpse of a human, skin through muscle to organs and bone. He did this once at an old home when he asked questions of a man in his nineties some of his ways. The gentle man talked as our wisdom today, he was poor but he counted his blessings. He tried to be kind and thoughtful to others. He could savor the joys of his long life during famines and plagues. He thanked everyone, was a forgiving soul. He was still close to his family, and he ate well, and walked. He was careful to not fall, as he saw many people end this way.

And then he died. Leonardo was so overwhelmed he requested, and was allowed to do a complete autopsy of this wonderful man. He found a body still inside so unusually young, while he had lived through so much.

So we do know that Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa as his inner eye saw her. He created her skeletal structure, and then filled in the organs and over them the layers of muscle. And over those layers he pulled on her skin, and popped in her eyes, and worked on her smile. There are many layers of muscle under that skin and those lips, and that is one of the magic of her eyes as well. They are rounded with layers, as people can see, that when you walk right to left, her eyes follow you. And her smile changes too. That is Leonardo for you. One Rare Diamond in a sea of coal.

My wonderful large book on Leonardo, I have mentioned before, was given to me by a wonderful man named John. He had been a navigator during World War Two, and his caution for air flack had him one of the few to have flown so many missions and made it back each time. They were usually the last to arrive, and always the other half of the mission to make it back had landed earlier, and had the best seats at the bar.

The other pilots, while mourning those did not return, could always tease the pilot of John’s aircraft, late again. But as always, John had kept them alive, and was evading killer fighters and every shooting site he could see. And if he had to zig zag them from Bavaria to Denmark he was taking them home in their same skin. But they were not heroes, as they were not first. But they did still survive, still were alive. And to me John was one Rare Diamond . Some times it is wise not to rush, but observe. Then orient yourself, decide, and then act on your nerve.

The lifetime of Leonardo of the town of Vinci was a time of turbulence and violence, yet also the flowering of the great enlightenment of the Renaissance, which began all around where ever Leonardo seemed to be. http://www.diamondsandgemstonesshop.com

Welcome. My name is Derek Dashwood, and I hope you get a good feeling of the range of human issues that we discuss. We try to discuss what we perceive as the news behind the news. I hope you enjoy the discoveries and discussions. Please let us know. Here we say who we are, and include a kind of mission statement of the science findings we try to bring to your attention: how to light a candle rather than bemoan the darkness.

Antique history books discuss happiness and the state of joy that can be created on earth, and in the mind. As one who meditates and as a follower of Transcendental Meditation, the recent demise of Maharishi has been a week of reflection among those who meditate. Maharishi was not perfect, no man was, but to follow his way to meditation was modern and perfect for the times. So when he visited my city in 1968, his fame through the Beatles had me at his feet and I have meditated since 1969.

And since then, so many studies have shown it does lessen strain, place one in a more contemplative open framework for clear thought. This scientific finding is no surprise to those who meditate or were alert during Sunday School. It is worth contemplating. With all the coal dust in the air, some fresh rare diamond thinking would help the hope to blue skies, nothing but blue skies, all day long.

Happiness is always elusive to feel in a consistent state, as depression can be so difficult to shake off. We know more quickly when we see happiness in others: a laughing couple, a tender holding of hands between an elderly couple, a child on a swing in the park with adoring family nearby with their arms out. Within our own lives, it can be obvious as well: a meeting with a long unseen loved one, almost any time with a grand child, a sense of achievement at completing an overdue task.

When we bask in the warm praise of one we respect, or enjoy the smile of a loved one, the tail wage of a dog or the purr of a cat, we know we are happy. How to maintain that state is unlikely over a lifetime given inevitable tragedies ahead no matter how carefully we and our loved ones live. But some research has been done by University of California psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky and others.

Their findings confirm wisdom back to Socrates, Aristotle, and up through the ages to a young man still 27 who began to publish Poor Richard’s Almanac which became an instant success and created fame for Benjamin Franklin and notice of America as a brave free new land. This research found that we would all be happy if we followed what we learned in Sunday school or kindergarten, or any of the antique history book genius found in there.

The first virtue is to count your blessings, then practice acts of kindness, and savor the joys of life. Thank a Mentor, learn to forgive, ask for forgiveness. Invest time and energy in your friends and family. Take Care of Your Body, and develop strategies for coping with stress and hardships.
Each of these elements science has found exists among those who live longest and report highest rates of personal inner happiness. Living rare diamonds .

We can find ourselves wiping our brow, sweating, with grand children at their school or getting them some urgent thing they need and you were there. Receive because you have earned, as I have done, and make amends as you can. Savor your Best Grandpa Ever award and look at it and whistle while you work, and realize that science can predict some pretty predictable things that is so good to know. For when the crabby lady makes a rude comment, you somehow can really sense she may not have practiced these eight great ways to be happy.

And so we will gather around the fire here again shortly, and talk some more on this. The words stand so well, I thought they should be savored, in case my additional words on this may take it away. When I was first rising (I was a mail boy at Head Office) I found I could remember all the eight names of the vice presidents. Their names followed when I stepped off the elevator and thought their initials, “mebssbsm”.

So, each day you prepare to step off your elevator and face the bosses or the clients, make them think you are clever by saying all names as your circle that floor. Or change the key letters to fit you. So, for now, you can see it’s as easy as Later Alligator, In a While Crocodile. While you do your good deed and smile.
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Men measure twice as likely as women to be in the top or lower ten percent of the intelligence tiers.

Males may the smarter and the dumber gender. A new University of Edinburgh study measured the intelligence of 2,500 males and females. They did not find an overall difference in average intelligence between males and females.

What they did find was more stability of the intelligence averages among women. Whereas there was a wider range of intelligence among men. Men were twice as likely as women to be in the top or lower ten percent of the intelligence tiers.

Further research will surely come out of this. But for women in particular and for us all, it does make it easier to understand why it is only that lower tier of men who think eye gouging in the Three Stooges is hilarious. And next door a young Albert Einstein is trying to explain to his wife his idea about how light might bend while she makes dinner.

The President of Harvard had to resign because he made a generalization about male brains being more suited to the sciences. This study refines with further science that says that is not so much the point: men may sweep up higher and sink lower in their cranial capacities. Let all train to their level of skills and that is how education should evolve.

Many more women now are becoming doctors and we think that is an excellent evolution as women have superior nurturing and communication skills and the old white doctors who think they are god are retiring. Almost no new female doctor will likely want to sit around and laugh while the Three Stooges poke fingers in eyes, and we think that is a good thing. Medicine needs brilliant caring, hard science needs genius.

And if most Science Nobel Prizes go to males, that may be God’s way of making up for the sad fact that most jails are jammed with males, all who likely think the Three Stooges are really funny.

Happiness can be as elusive a state to be in, as depression can be to get out off. We know it when we see it in others: a laughing couple, a tender holding of hands between an elderly couple, a child on a swing in the park,Within our own lives, it can be obvious as well: a meeting with a long unseen loved one, almost any time with a grand child, a sense of achievement at completing a task, the praise of one we respect, the smile of a loved one.

We wrote recently about the flourishing city of Richmond in Canada and the growing diversity of this city between Vancouver and the Seattle area, 130 miles to the south. In Richmond and Canada the immigration laws have encouraged skills and education and this has seen Richmond become 57% foreign born.

And while scuffles and misunderstanding have occurred, they have been eased by all doing their fair best to leave their Buddha in their home and be more a citizen of Canada in the outside world.Local predictions since 9/11 including my own earlier comments were that ever tightening restrictions and laws being passed by America on allowing needed new immigrants, the more that would begin to squeeze America and benefit Canada. And it has begun.

Recently Bill Gates appealed before the United States Senate to make immigration more easy rather than more difficult as it was choking his company in hiring enough new brilliance. His company has been opening new branch brain factories in Ireland, India, many places around the world.

But this time, almost in direct response to being rebuffed by the Senate and hearing the tightening of the border has only begun. So Bill Gates is overseeing a large new facility being built nearby in Richmond British Columbia, where the supply of skilled brains from China and India will continue to pour.

These new citizens of Canada are in the process of being hired by offices in Hong Kong or Madras and will fit in very well, pay their good taxes in Canada/ Canada and Richmond grows, while Redmond will struggle to find local legal residential brilliance.

Pity, that. The ancestor of my father was English, come to Canada; the ancestor of my mother was Irish, came to Boston, then to Canada. Then in Boston the signs said help wanted-no Irish need apply. It seems Boston has taken over a mind set that now says no foreigner need apply.

If they keep this up, the Statue of Liberty might need melting down to complete the Fence. Our oil passes through the border much easier than some of us, any more.

A television documentary that I just watched showed amazing examples of altruism between species not before recorded, as well as a quietly remarked series of scenes of adoption, or kidnapping between species. The most dramatic was of a battle between African baboons and wild dogs: at one point the camera shows a larger elder baboon grabbing a pup dog while the helpless parents howled and barked. The pup got away, the baboon grabbed him by the tail and dragged him, very roughly, him yelping, up and down over rocks and hills. The other baboons had driven the dogs back, we hear them howling from the hills.

At this point, the baboon drops the dog, who, confused, mingles with the baboon pups, who lick and play with him. The scenes cut ahead in time, we see the pup grow, being groomed by the adult baboons, which is now a huge indication to all to treat him well.

The scene jumps forward, the baboons and the grown wild dog are all on the hunt for wild game. The dog, now a mascot to the baboons, is all ears, and wonderful as an attack dog against wild dogs to bewilder them to retreat. Ralph, is that you? And you went over to the dark side?

It is apparently happening out there under our noses, even amongst bees, raiding and taking youth back to become willing slaves. This is ancient chemistry, and we wonder how we got the wolf to become a dog?

Apparently we grabbed him roughly by the tail, dragged him so he fully understood was boss, left him half dead for his pups to lick him back to life, and you have a fully trained new member of the work team.

And we thought we invented that.