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10 Essential Tips to Maintain Strong Security for Your PC

noreply@blogger.com (BodylonNetworks) — Wed, 5 Mar 2025 08:42:00 -0800

In today’s digital age, protecting your PC from cyber threats is as crucial as locking your front door. Hackers, malware, and phishing scams are constantly evolving, making it essential to stay proactive about security. Whether you use your computer for work, banking, or personal tasks, these tips will help you safeguard your data and maintain peace of mind.

1. Keep Your Software Updated

Outdated software is a goldmine for hackers. Enable automatic updates for your operating system (Windows, macOS, Linux), apps, and antivirus tools. Updates often include patches for vulnerabilities that cybercriminals exploit.

- Turn on auto-updates in your OS settings.

- Regularly check for updates in programs like browsers, Adobe, or Microsoft Office.

2. Use Strong, Unique Passwords

Weak passwords like “123456” or “password” are easy targets. Create complex passwords with a mix of letters, numbers, and symbols (e.g., `Sunshine@Mountain7!`). Better yet, use a password manager (e.g., LastPass, Bitwarden) to generate and store passwords securely.

Enable Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)

Add an extra layer of security with 2FA. Even if someone steals your password, they’ll need a second verification step (e.g., a code from your phone) to access your accounts.

- Enable 2FA for email, banking, and social media accounts.

- Use apps like Google Authenticator or Authy instead of SMS for better security.

4. Install Reputable Antivirus Software

Antivirus software acts as a first line of defense against malware, ransomware, and spyware.

- Choose trusted tools like Bitdefender, Norton, or Windows Defender (built into Windows).

- Schedule regular scans and keep the software updated.

5. Be Wary of Phishing Scams

Phishing emails or messages trick you into revealing passwords or downloading malware.

- Verify sender addresses before clicking links or attachments.

- Look for typos, urgent language, or mismatched URLs (e.g., “amaz0n.net” instead of “amazon.com”).

6. Back Up Your Data Regularly

Ransomware can lock your files, and hardware failures happen. Regular backups ensure you never lose critical data.

- Use the 3-2-1 rule: 3 copies, 2 local (external drive + PC), and 1 offsite (cloud storage like Google Drive or Backblaze).

- Test backups periodically to ensure they work.

7. Secure Your Network

An unsecured Wi-Fi network is an open invitation to hackers.

- Change your router’s default password and use WPA3 encryption.

- Avoid public Wi-Fi for sensitive tasks. If necessary, use a VPN (e.g., NordVPN, ExpressVPN) to encrypt your connection.

8. Avoid Suspicious Downloads

Free software or pirated content often hides malware.

- Download apps only from official websites or trusted stores (Microsoft Store, Apple App Store).

- Scan files with antivirus software before opening them.

9. Encrypt Sensitive Files

Encryption scrambles data so only authorized users can read it.

- Use BitLocker (Windows) or FileVault (macOS) to encrypt your hard drive.

- For individual files, try tools like VeraCrypt or 7-Zip.

10. Stay Informed About Security Trends

Cyber threats evolve constantly. Follow tech news, subscribe to security blogs (e.g., Krebs on Security), and educate yourself on new scams like deepfakes or AI-driven attacks.

Bonus Tip:

Limit User Privileges - Use a standard user account for daily tasks instead of an administrator account. This limits damage if malware infects your system.

Conclusion

PC security isn’t a one-time task—it’s an ongoing habit. By combining these practices (updates, strong passwords, backups, and vigilance), you’ll build a robust defense against most threats. Start small: enable 2FA today, update your software, and back up your files. Your future self will thank you!

Stay safe and secure!🔒

Got questions or tips of your own? Share them in the comments below! 💬

Miraculous Graviola Tree: A Natural Cancer Killer

noreply@blogger.com (BodylonNetworks) — Sat, 1 Mar 2025 14:59:00 -0800

Imagine a world where cancer is no longer a death sentence. A world where a natural, non-toxic treatment can selectively target and kill cancer cells, leaving healthy cells untouched. Sounds like science fiction, right? But what if I told you that such a treatment already exists? Enter the Graviola tree, a miraculous natural cancer killer that has been hiding in plain sight.

What is Graviola?

Graviola, also known as the Sour Sop, is a tropical tree native to the Amazon rainforest. For centuries, the indigenous people of the region have used the tree's leaves, bark, and fruit to treat a variety of ailments, including cancer. The tree's scientific name is Annona muricata, and it's a member of the Annonaceae family.

The Story Behind Graviola

In the 1970s, a major drug manufacturer began researching Graviola's anti-cancer properties. The company spent millions of dollars and several years conducting laboratory tests, and the results were nothing short of astonishing. Graviola was found to be 10,000 times more potent than Adriamycin, a commonly used chemotherapy drug. But when the company realized that they couldn't patent Graviola, they shelved the project and chose not to publish their findings.

The Science Behind Graviola

So, how does Graviola work its magic? The tree contains a group of compounds called annonaceous acetogenins, which have been shown to have potent anti-cancer properties. These compounds work by inhibiting the production of ATP (adenosine triphosphate), which is the energy source that cancer cells need to grow and multiply. By cutting off the energy supply, Graviola effectively starves cancer cells to death.

Studies on Graviola

The research on Graviola is nothing short of remarkable. Here are some of the highlights:

A study published in the Journal of Natural Products found that one chemical in Graviola was found to selectively kill colon cancer cells at 10,000 times the potency of Adriamycin.

A study at Purdue University found that leaves from the Graviola tree killed cancer cells among six human cell lines and were especially effective against prostate, pancreatic, and lung cancers.

A study published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry found that Graviola's annonaceous acetogenins were able to inhibit the growth of cancer cells in vitro.

Health Benefits of Graviola

Graviola's health benefits don't stop at cancer treatment. The tree has been found to have a range of other health benefits, including:

Anti-inflammatory properties: Graviola has been shown to have anti-inflammatory properties, which can help to reduce pain and swelling.

Antimicrobial properties: Graviola has been found to have antimicrobial properties, which can help to prevent the spread of infection.

Cardiovascular health: Graviola has been shown to have cardiovascular health benefits, including lowering blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

How to Use Graviola

So, how can you start using Graviola to improve your health? Here are some tips:

Drink Graviola tea: Graviola tea can be made by steeping the leaves of the tree in hot water.

Take Graviola supplements: Graviola supplements can be found in health food stores and online.

Eat Graviola fruit: Graviola fruit can be eaten fresh or used in juices and smoothies.

Conclusion

The Graviola tree is a miraculous natural cancer killer that has been hiding in plain sight. With its potent anti-cancer properties and range of other health benefits, Graviola is a game-changer in the fight against cancer. So, spread the word about Graviola and let's make this natural wonder a household name.

Discovering Your very Self

noreply@blogger.com (BodylonNetworks) — Sat, 29 Oct 2016 14:19:00 -0700

No doubt some times you have felt inspired to act - to make or say or do something. There is an extraordinary rush of energy and clarity that accompanies this. You feel excited, can't wait to begin and everything seems possible. But putting the vision into effect can be a sobering process. Spirit meets the resistance of materiality and the vision fades. We may fall back into habitual, limiting thought and behavior patterns and the new perspective becomes obscured. But if we can hold on to the spiritual connection and integrate it with the mental, emotional and behavioral aspects of our self, we can 'makes things happen' and experience our creative potential.
As we get to know and trust our inner intuitive awareness, this produces a clarity of thought that illuminates the areas where we have created blocks - it throws light on patterns of thought and behavior that are now seen as inappropriate. It becomes easier to make decisions and act spontaneously.

On the other hand, if we lose touch with the creative source that is our inner being, we identify with negative thoughts, emotions and behavior patterns. We can't see them for what they are because we are being them. So at the other end of the spectrum we see self-conscious people with low self-esteem, hiding, either in frantic activity or in withdrawal. Imagine yourself in the following situations:

You are at a party and you don't know anyone except for the host. You have returned an article of clothing that has split along the seam, but the shop assistant tells you they have a 'no returns' policy. Your doctor is evasive about answering your questions properly.

In each case, what would you do? How would you feel? What would you be thinking (underlying your emotions)? And what would be your true desire in that situation?

When our true desires inform our thinking and our feelings then we are being true to ourselves and this enhances self-esteem. When our true desires are submerged by distorted thinking and painful emotions then the resulting behavior is in conflict and our self-esteem lowers.

To Know Yourself
Try to set aside some time, each day, to fulfill solely your own needs and for your own personal enjoyment. This may include doing this course or it may be with other people, but it is for you. The willingness to be self-nurturing plays a vital part in the development of your 'beingness'. As you start looking at your own needs and stop playing the victim of other people's demands you will be treated with more respect because you will gain more self respect.

You are 'going inside yourself' and this requires that you break your identification with worldly links - you are going beyond your thoughts, feelings and desires. You will have found that the mind keeps on chattering and trying to stop it doesn't work, you have to become a detached observer of it, and then it starts to fade away. What you resist persists.

When we are truly being ourselves, without the barrier of mind chatter and negative emotions, it is easier to make direct connection between you, the spiritual being, and the world around you. This is an aesthetic experience, one of truth. Have you ever become totally absorbed by a project, a picture, a piece of music, a landscape? The mind becomes concentrated and still and you feel 'at one'.

A shift in awareness - an awakening - can be triggered by such things as a dream, a memory, an evocative smell, falling in love, being afraid. It is only necessary for our defenses to be down (which means we are holding no preconceived ideas) in order that we can experience something more intensely, as if for the first time, in a new moment. Can you recall such an experience of connecting, and the feeling of it?

To experience connection rather than separation, we need to break all attachments with our thoughts and desires and so learn to suspend our judgment. It is possible to connect and experience your spiritual self at any time, whatever you are doing. With Gurdjieff's technique of 'self remembering' we adopt the role of witness as we go about our everyday lives. The witness observes all your doings but is non-evaluative; it does not judge your actions (remember, you are not your actions). For example, you might eat a chocolate cake and then get annoyed with yourself for having eaten it. The witness (if and when it arrives) would note: "He is eating a cake; he is annoyed at himself for doing so". The witness is dispassionate and does not care what you do, think and feel but simply notes it.

Of course, like stopping thoughts, this is easier said than done. You might be driving down the street and the witness notes that; you feel content and that is noted; then someone cuts right in front of you causing you to slam on the brakes. You forget about witnessing and immediately identify with your emotions of anger or frustration. Only much later do you remember that you were attempting to witness! But with practice you find it is possible to 'wake up' in the middle of a drama and observe a part of yourself hooked by an emotion; to that degree you have then learned that you are not your emotions, you have differentiated your real self, the spiritual being that has intrinsic worth and cannot be judged in the same way that the inappropriate or self-defeating emotions and behaviors may be. And because you stop judging your self, you notice that the same applies to others, so you can cease judging them too.

You notice that as you dramatize various thoughts, emotions and behaviors it is as though you were different people at the time, other little personalities that come and go as appropriate, but usually reactively, according to patterns of behavior rather than consciously.

How many 'yous' are there inside you? Very many. By lunch time today you may have been thoughtful, serious, annoyed, lustful, tired, forgetful, and have had many fleeting intentions and purposes toward others or ideas about what you want or don't want. You may have been acting like some person you admire or not like another who you don't want to be associated with. And many, many other ways of being. Each 'sub-personality' is all-consuming while it lasts, and some of these sub-personalities may play a major role in your make-up. Who you think you are may even actually be a sub-personality and not the real essence of you.

Gurdjieff points out that sometimes one 'you' does something for which every other 'you' must pay, maybe for the rest of your life. Our 'yous' are numerous and ephemeral and all are evaluative and judgmental, and have plenty of irrational thoughts and beliefs, harmful intentions and painful emotions attached to them. Each is actually a solution to past problems that is retained and replayed in the present. To break this ceaseless train of identifications with the technique of self remembering is to give ourselves some inner freedom.

The more you use this technique the more powerful it becomes. Each 'you' is a reflection of a link with a desire, feeling or thought - these are our links with the material world. By taking on the role of witness we can objectify these 'yous' and so break our identification with them.

When we experience our spirituality we recognize our true place in the world and we know that we have our own vital role to play. This feeling of truly belonging creates a sense of worthiness that enhances our self-esteem.

POWER UP YOUR BRAIN

noreply@blogger.com (BodylonNetworks) — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 06:05:00 -0700

How to Improve Your Memory

A strong memory depends on the health and vitality of your brain. Whether you’re a student studying for final exams, a working professional interested in doing all you can to stay mentally sharp, or a senior looking to preserve and enhance your grey matter as you age, there are lots of things you can do to improve your memory and mental performance.

A. Eat a Brain-Boosting Diet
Just as the body needs fuel, so does the brain. You probably already know that a diet based on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, "healthy" fats (such as olive oil, avocados, nuts, fish) and lean protein will provide lots of health benefits, but such a diet can also improve memory. But for brain health, it’s not just what you eat—it’s also what you don’t eat. The following nutritional tips will help boost your brainpower and reduce your risk of dementia:

1.Get your omega-3s.
More and more evidence indicates that omega-3 fatty acids are particularly beneficial for brain health. Fish is a particularly rich source of omega-3, especially cold-water "fatty fish" such as salmon, tuna, halibut, trout, mackerel, sardines, and herring. In addition to boosting brainpower, eating fish may also lower your risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. If you’re not a fan of seafood, consider non-fish sources of omega-3s such as walnuts, ground flaxseed, flaxseed oil, winter squash, kidney and pinto beans, spinach, broccoli, pumpkin seeds, and soybeans.

2.Limit calories and saturated fat.
Research shows that diets high in saturated fat (from sources such as red meat, whole milk, butter, cheese, sour cream, and ice cream) increase your risk of dementia and impair concentration and memory. Eating too many calories later in life can also increase your risk of cognitive impairment. Talk to your doctor or dietician about developing a healthy eating plan.

3.Eat more fruit and vegetables. Produce is packed with antioxidants, substances that protect your brain cells from damage. Colorful fruits and vegetables are particularly good antioxidant "superfood" sources. Try leafy green vegetables such as spinach, broccoli, romaine lettuce, Swiss chard, and arugula, and fruit such as bananas, apricots, mangoes, cantaloupe, and watermelon.

4.Drink green tea.
Green tea contains polyphenols, powerful antioxidants that protect against free radicals that can damage brain cells. Among many other benefits, regular consumption of green tea may enhance memory and mental alertness and slow brain aging.

5.Drink wine (or grape juice) in moderation.
Keeping your alcohol consumption in check is key, since alcohol kills brain cells. Red wine appears to be the best option, as it is rich in resveratrol, a flavonoid that boosts blood flow in the brain and reduces the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Other resveratrol-packed options include grape juice, cranberry juice, fresh grapes and berries, and peanuts.

For mental energy, choose complex carbohydrates
When you need to be at the top of your mental game, carbohydrates can keep you going. But the type of carbs you choose makes all the difference. Carbohydrates fuel your brain, but simple carbs (sugar, white bread, refined grains) give a quick boost followed by an equally rapid crash. There is also evidence to suggest that diets high in simple carbs can greatly increase the risk for cognitive impairment in older adults. For healthy energy that lasts, choose complex carbohydrates such as whole-wheat bread, brown rice, oatmeal, high-fiber cereal, lentils, and whole beans. Avoid processed foods and limit starches (potato, pasta, rice) to no more than one quarter of your plate.

B. Keep Stress in Check
Stress is one of the brain’s worst enemies. Over time, if left unchecked, chronic stress destroys brain cells and damages the hippocampus, the region of the brain involved in the formation of new memories and the retrieval of old ones.

The stress-busting, brain-boosting benefits of meditation
The scientific evidence for the mental health benefits of meditation continues to pile up. Studies show that meditation helps improve many different types of conditions, including depression, anxiety, chronic pain, diabetes, and high blood pressure. Meditation also can improve focus, concentration, creativity, and learning and reasoning skills.

Meditation works its "magic" by changing the actual brain. Brain images show that regular meditators have more activity in the left prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with feelings of joy and equanimity. Meditation also increases the thickness of the cerebral cortex and encourages more connections between brain cells—all of which increases mental sharpness and memory ability.

Get depression and anxiety in check
In addition to stress, depression, anxiety, and chronic worrying can also take a heavy toll on the brain. In fact, some of the symptoms of depression and anxiety include difficulty concentrating, making decisions, and remembering things. If you are mentally sluggish because of depression or anxiety, seeking treatment will make a big difference in your cognitive abilities, including memory.

C. Harness Brain Power

Stress is one of the brain’s worst enemies. Over time, if left unchecked, chronic stress destroys brain cells and damages the hippocampus, the region of the brain involved in the formation of new memories and the retrieval of old ones.

NATURAL WAY TO INCREASE YOUR HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE

noreply@blogger.com (BodylonNetworks) — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 06:05:00 -0700

Have you ever marveled at how fast a child heals after getting a scrape? How they seem to have limitless energy? Or the smoothness of a toddlers skin?

Why is this?

Turns out they have naturally high levels of HGH -- our #1 youth hormone. HGH regenerates and repairs your cells. It makes your muscles firm, skin tight, bones strong and joints healthy.

And it helps you maintain an attractive body shape by maximizing lean muscle and minimizing body fat. (That means a nice hourglass shape for women and a powerful superman-style V-shape for men.)

Unfortunately, as we age past 25, our HGH levels plummet. By age 40, HGH dips to 40% of what it was at 20. And by age 55 it shrinks to a measly 20%!

This dramatic plunge exposes us to the horrors of aging -- thin skin, age spots, wrinkles, gray hair, low energy, slower thinking, lack of romantic interest.

Plus our drive and motivation to get things done evaporates.

Making the situation worse, cortisol -- known as the "death hormone" -- actually INCREASES.

It wears you down, makes bones and joints brittle and turns muscle into fat, adding an extra layer of padding all-over, ESPECIALLY around your middle. Frustrating!

While reducing cortisol is notoriously difficult, fortunately there are 3 specific ways you can increase HGH naturally at no cost.

In fact, research shows one of these can boost HGH by up to 352% and slash your risk of death from heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

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HGH Booster #1 -- A Simple Daily Habit...
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First up is something anybody can do, but most people completely mess up.

I'm talking about sleep. But not just ANY sleep the right amount, quality and timing of sleep is crucial.

Your brain releases HGH during sleep to rejuvenate, repair and recover from the wear and tear of the day.

That's why you don't get enough sleep you look TERRIBLE -- ragged, burned out, stressed, plump...and...no coincidence here -- OLDER!

When you go to bed late, get up too early or have interrupted sleep it completely throws off your natural HGH release.

Plus, since poor sleep also causes your "death hormone" cortisol to skyrocket, not only are you not recovering properly, your body is being worn down even MORE!

That makes you fatter, older and more tired even faster.

The Recommendation: Go to bed at the same time every night, no later than 10-11 pm ideally, keep your sleeping area as dark as possible and get AT LEAST 8 hours of sleep.

You'll wake up feeling 10-20 years younger!

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HGH Booster #2 -- Remove HGH Blocks...
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People get confused by this one because of all the so-called "experts" who spout conflicting information.

But the research is clear on how this powerful HGH booster:

Eat better. Eat less. Eat earlier.

Fast-digesting carbs boost insulin, which BLOCKS HGH.
Eating protein boosts an amino acid called glutamine which increases HGH.
Intermittent fasting has been shown to skyrocket HGH.
Eating carbs too late at night raises insulin, BLOCKING the release of HGH while you sleep.

So unless you want to age faster, feel worse and get fat around the middle, do this:

The Recommendation: Eat slow-digesting carbs like leafy green vegetables and cut out fast-digesting ones like pasta and bread at your last meal of the day. Eat plenty of healthy protein like grass-fed beef and pasture raised chicken. Experiment with fasting occasionally (assuming you don't have adrenal fatigue). And have your last meal at least 3 hours BEFORE bedtime...this allows your blood sugar and insulin to normalize before bed so that you can max out HGH while you sleep.

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HGH Booster #3 - The Most Powerful Anti-aging Method Ever Tested...
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This last one is my favorite, but also FRUSTRATES me the most because I see so many people screw it up, robbing them of the opportunity to turn back the clock.

That's a shame because research shows this method to be THE most effective anti-aging protocol ever tested.

I'm talking about exercise... but not just ANY kind, the kind that triggers HGH. Most people push TOO hard, TOO long, TOO frequently, wasting hours at the gym or on long runs.

Not only does this barely move the HGH needle, it can backfire by spike cortisol. That grinds down your body, kills cell growth, stimulates belly fat accumulation AND speeds aging.

Worse still, many people shy away from exercise entirely, thinking they are too out of shape or too old, which is just NOT true.

The answer is actually to exercise less -- MUCH less.

But that's ONLY possible by using incredibly efficient and effective movements that stimulate a huge surge in HGH in a VERY short period of time. In fact, studies have shown as little as 15 minutes of this super-efficient exercise results in an HGH spike of up to 352%.

That's why I'm so excited to share this remarkable new type of training that makes the tremendous youth-enhancing, fat-burning, muscle-shaping properties of exercise accessible to ALL people, of ALL ages, regardless of what shape they are in.

It was developed at an exclusive clinic that specializes in metabolic optimization and you can read more about it here:

=> Boost HGH 352% in Only 15 Minutes by Doing This

Remember, the key to slowing aging, keeping your physique in check and your energy levels high to keep youth-enhancing HGH levels high.

This also will offset the wear-and-tear effects of the death hormone cortisol.

So get more sleep, modify your eating habits and MOST importantly, take 15 minutes to do this super-efficient routine that you can read more about

CANCER KILLER - JUST NATURAL

noreply@blogger.com (BodylonNetworks) — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 06:49:00 -0700

Graviola: "CANCER KILLER – Natural Cancer Cell Killer

The Sour Sop or the fruit from the Graviola tree is a miraculous natural cancer cell killer 10,000 times stronger than Chemo.

Why are we not aware of this? Its because some big corporation want to make back their money spent on years of research by trying to make a synthetic version of it for sale.

So, since you know it now you can help a friend in need by letting him know or just drink some sour sop juice yourself as prevention from time to time. The taste is not bad after all. It’s completely natural and definitely has no side effects. If you have the space, plant one in your garden. The other parts of the tree are also useful.

The next time you have a fruit juice, ask for a sour sop.

How many people died in vain while this billion-dollar drug maker concealed the secret of the miraculous Graviola tree?

This tree is low and is called graviola in Brazil, guanabana in Spanish and has the uninspiring name “soursop” in English. The fruit is very large and the subacid sweet white pulp is eaten out of hand or, more commonly, used to make fruit drinks, sherbets and such.

The principal interest in this plant is because of its strong anti-cancer effects. Although it is effective for a number of medical conditions, it is its anti tumor effect that is of most interest. This plant is a proven cancer remedy for cancers of all types.

Besides being a cancer remedy, graviola is a broad spectrum antimicrobial agent for both bacterial and fungal infections, is effective against internal parasites and worms, lowers high blood pressure and is used for depression, stress and nervous disorders.

If there ever was a single example that makes it dramatically clear why the existence of Health Sciences Institute is so vital to Americans like you, it’s the incredible story behind the Graviola tree..

The truth is stunningly simple: Deep within the Amazon Rainforest grows a tree that could literally revolutionize what you, your doctor, and the rest of the world thinks about cancer treatment and chances of survival. The future has never looked more promising.

Research shows that with extracts from this miraculous tree it now may be possible to:

* Attack cancer safely and effectively with an all-natural therapy that does not cause extreme nausea, weight loss and hair loss

* Protect your immune system and avoid deadly infections

* Feel stronger and healthier throughout the course of the treatment

* Boost your energy and improve your outlook on life

The source of this information is just as stunning: It comes from one of America ‘s largest drug manufacturers, the fruit of over 20 laboratory tests conducted since the 1970′s! What those tests revealed was nothing short of mind numbing… Extracts from the tree were shown to:

* Effectively target and kill malignant cells in 12 types of cancer, including colon, breast, prostate, lung and pancreatic cancer..

* The tree compounds proved to be up to 10,000 times stronger in slowing the growth of cancer cells than Adriamycin, a commonly used chemotherapeutic drug!

* What’s more, unlike chemotherapy, the compound extracted from the Graviola tree selectively hunts down and kills only cancer cells.. It does not harm healthy cells!

The amazing anti-cancer properties of the Graviola tree have been extensively researched–so why haven’t you heard anything about it? If Graviola extract is

One of America ‘s biggest billion-dollar drug makers began a search for a cancer cure and their research centered on Graviola, a legendary healing tree from the Amazon Rainforest.

Various parts of the Graviola tree–including the bark, leaves, roots, fruit and fruit-seeds–have been used for centuries by medicine men and native Indians in South America to treat heart disease, asthma, liver problems and arthritis. Going on very little documented scientific evidence, the company poured money and resources into testing the tree’s anti-cancerous properties–and were shocked by the results. Graviola proved itself to be a cancer-killing dynamo. But that’s where the Graviola story nearly ended.

The company had one huge problem with the Graviola tree–it’s completely natural, and so, under federal law, not patentable. There’s no way to make serious profits from it.

It turns out the drug company invested nearly seven years trying to synthesize two of the Graviola tree’s most powerful anti-cancer ingredients. If they could isolate and produce man-made clones of what makes the Graviola so potent, they’d be able to patent it and make their money back. Alas, they hit a brick wall. The original simply could not be replicated. There was no way the company could protect its profits–or even make back the millions it poured into research.

As the dream of huge profits evaporated, their testing on Graviola came to a screeching halt. Even worse, the company shelved the entire project and chose not to publish the findings of its research!

Luckily, however, there was one scientist from the Graviola research team whose conscience wouldn’t let him see such atrocity committed. Risking his career, he contacted a company that’s dedicated to harvesting medical plants from the Amazon Rainforest and blew the whistle.

Miracle unleashed When researchers at the Health Sciences Institute were alerted to the news of Graviola,! they began tracking the research done on the cancer-killing tree. Evidence of the astounding effectiveness of Graviola–and its shocking cover-up–came in fast and furious….….The National Cancer Institute performed the first scientific research in 1976. The results showed that Graviola’s “leaves and stems were found effective in attacking and destroying malignant cells.” Inexplicably, the results were published in an internal report and never released to the public…

….Since 1976, Graviola has proven to be an immensely potent cancer killer in 20 independent laboratory tests, yet no double-blind clinical trials–the typical benchmark mainstream doctors and journals use to judge a treatment’s value–were ever initiated….

….A study published in the Journal of Natural Products, following a recent study conducted at Catholic University of South Korea stated that one chemical in Graviola was found to selectively kill colon cancer cells at “10,000 times the potency of (the commonly used chemotherapy drug) Adriamycin…”

….The most significant part of the Catholic University of South Korea report is that Graviola was shown to selectively target the cancer cells, leaving healthy cells untouched. Unlike chemotherapy, which indiscriminately targets all actively reproducing cells (such as stomach and hair cells), causing the often devastating side effects of nausea and hair loss in cancer patients.

…A study at Purdue University recently found that leaves from the Graviola tree killed cancer cells among six human cell lines and were especially effective against prostate, pancreatic and lung cancers…. Seven years of silence broken–it’s finally here!"

WORDS OF WISDOM

noreply@blogger.com (BodylonNetworks) — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 01:12:00 -0800

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LAWS OF POWER

noreply@blogger.com (BodylonNetworks) — Wed, 4 Dec 2013 02:57:00 -0800

48 LAWS OF POWER

1. NEVER OUTSHINE THE MASTER.

ü Transgression of the Law.

Finance Minister Fouquet unintentionally outshone his master, King Louis XIV, making the King feel insecure by throwing a lavish party that would show off Fouquet’s connections, cultivated manner and charm. Thinking this move would make him an indispensable asset to the king, Fouquet had actually offended his master who did not like the fact people were more charmed by his finance minister than by him. The King found a convenient excuse to get rid of Fouquet.

ü Observance of the Law

Galileo was clever in observing this law by giving glory to his patrons. In order to solve his perennial problem of funding, he dedicated his discovery of the moons of Jupiter to the Medicis, since the royal symbol of the Medici family was the planet Jupiter. He then commissioned an emblem for them, with each moon representing one of the sons who revolved around the patriarch. The Medici family became his major patron, appointing him their official court mathematician and philosopher, thereby giving him a more comfortable life and a steady salary.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Present your ideas in such a manner that they may be ascribed to your master, or could be viewed as an echo of your master’s thoughts.

2. If you are more intelligent than your master, act as if you are not.

3. Never take your position for granted.

4. Never let favors you receive go to your head.

5. Discreet flattery is much more powerful. Make it seem like you want to seek his expertise and advice.

2. NEVER PUT TOO MUCH TRUST IN FRIENDS, LEARN HOW TO USE ENEMIES.

ü Transgression of the Law.

Michael III of the Byzantine Empire in the mid-ninth century A.D. placed too much trust in his friend, Basilius. This was a young man who had once saved his life, and in return, was given all the privileges an emperor could bestow on a friend. Michael turned the peasant Basilius into a sophisticated and educated courtier. Basilius later on became greedy for more wealth and power and had his former benefactor and best friend Michael III murdered.

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Emperor Sung of China in 959 A.D. was able to turn all his enemies into loyal friends.

He persuaded his generals to retire to a life of nobility and give up their dreams of grabbing his throne one day. He spared those who conspired against him, and was able to win over enemies with his generosity.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Do not rely on friends. They will never be totally honest with you. They will not openly disagree with you in order to avoid arguments.

2. Enemies expect nothing so they will be surprised when you are generous.

3. An enemy spared the guillotine will be more grateful to you than a friend.

4. When you decide to hire a friend you will discover qualities she has kept hidden.

5. Skill and competence are more important than friendly feelings.

6. Hiring friends will limit your power.

7. All working situations require a kind of distance between people.

8. You destroy an enemy when you make a friend of him.

9. An enemy at your heels keeps you sharp, alert, and focused.

3. CONCEAL YOUR INTENTIONS.

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The Marquis de Sevigne was young and inexperienced in the art of love. He confided in the infamous courtesan of seventeenth-century France, Ninon de Lenclos, to instruct him on how to seduce a difficult young countess. She made him follow a plan over a number of weeks, where the Marquis would be appearing in public always surrounded by beautiful women, in the very places the countess would be expected to see him. He was supposed to assume an air of nonchalance. This increased the jealousy of the young countess, who was not sure of his interest in her. One day the Marquis, unable to control his passion, broke from Ninon’s plan, and blurted out to the countess that he loved her. After this admission, the countess no longer found him interesting and avoided him.

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Otto von Bismarck was a deputy in the Prussian parliament at a time when many fellow deputies thought it was possible to go to war against Austria and defeat it.

Bismarck knew the Prussian army was not prepared, so he devised a clever way to keep the war at bay. He publicly stated his praises for the Austrians and talked about the madness of war. Many deputies changed their votes. Had Bismarck announced his real intentions, arguing it was better to wait now and fight later, he would not have won. Most Prussians wanted to go to war at that moment and mistakenly believedtheir army to be superior to the Austrians. Had he gone to the king his sincerity would have been doubted. By giving misleading statements about wanting peace and concealing his true purpose, Bismarck’s speech catapulted him to the position of prime minister. He later led the country to war against the Austrians at the right time, when he felt the Prussian army was more capable.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Use decoyed objects of desire and red herrings to throw people off scent.

2. Use smoke screens (a poker face) to disguise your actions.

3. False sincerity is one powerful tool that will send your rivals on a wild goose chase.

4. Publicly declare your false intentions to give misleading signals.

5. A noble gesture can be a smoke screen to hide your true intentions.

6. Blend in and people will be less suspicious.

4. ALWAYS SAY LESS THAN NECESSARY.

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Coriolanus was a great military hero of ancient Rome. People held him in awe, until he opened his mouth. He spoke his mind, hardly able to control his arrogance and boastfulness. He slandered and insulted people. The more speeches he made, the less people respected him. He suffered the people’s wrath and was eventually banished from the city.

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Masters of enigma Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp knew the power of saying less and keeping people guessing. The less Duchamp talked about his work, the more it was talked about in the art circles. Andy Warhol recognized it was hard to talk people into doing what you wanted, so when interviewed, he would give vague and ambiguous answers and let the interviewer find his own interpretation.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Saying less will keep you from saying something foolish or even dangerous.

2. Once the words are out you cannot take them back.

3. Keeping silent makes people reveal more about themselves. This is information you may be able to use against them later on.

5. SO MUCH DEPENDS ON REPUTATION – GUARD IT WITH YOUR LIFE.

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During China’s War of the Three Kingdoms (A.D.207-265), General Liang was able to fool his rival Sima Yi simply by letting his track record for being an undefeated leader in battle do the work for him. Liang’s troops were far outnumbered by Sima Yi’s, yet he devised a clever last resort plan. Liang donned a Taoist robe and played the lute upon the wall of the city he was defending. His soldiers opened the gates and hid.

When Sima Yi’s troops advanced upon the unguarded city, Yi recognized his opponent sitting alone upon the wall. Fearing a trap, Sima Yi called his soldiers to retreat.

P.T. Barnum was an expert at destroying his competitor’s reputation. He published letters in newspapers, warning the public against buying his opponent’s stock. He was a master at poking mockery at the tactics of his rivals.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Sow doubt and spread rumors about your rival. Even if they vehemently deny it, people will still be wondering why they are so defensive.

2. Use humor or gentle mockery at your rival’s expense.

3. A solid reputation increases your presence and exaggerates your strengths without your having to spend much energy.

4. Never appear desperate in your self-defense against the slander of others.

5. Be careful not to go too far in attacking another’s reputation, it draws more attention to your vengefulness than to the person you are slandering. Use subtler tactics like satire and ridicule.

6. COURT ATTENTION AT ALL COST.

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P.T. Barnum learned about courting attention to his favor. Any form of publicity would benefit his entertainment business, no matter if it were bad publicity. He promoted his shows of curiosities to audiences with all kinds of gimmicks. He would offer Free Music for Millions, but hire bad musicians, so the crowd would end up buying tickets to the show so they could avoid the bands. He planted articles in newspapers and even sent anonymous letters to keep his name in the limelight.

Margaretha Zelle was able to use this law to make a name for herself as the mysterious exotic dancer Mata Hari. It was rumored she was from India and danced in private parties, in an Eastern manner never before seen in Europe. She would slowly discard her veils and sarongs for the most prominent people in Paris who came to see her. Many years later it would be discovered she was just a native of Holland and had worked for the Germans as a spy.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Surround your name with the sensational and the scandalous.

2. Create an air of mystery.

3. It is better to be attacked and slandered than ignored.

4. Make yourself appear larger than life.

5. Any sort of notoriety will bring you power.

7. GET OTHERS TO DO THE WORK FOR YOU, BUT ALWAYS TAKE THECREDIT.

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Nicola Tesla was a Serbian scientist who never learned how this law was used against him time and again. His invention, the AC or alternating current system was associated not with his name but with that of George Westinghouse, who funded his research. Both Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse were ruthless businessmen who took credit for Tesla’s work. In the end, Tesla was living in poverty, while royalties for his life’s work went to Edison and Westinghouse. He accepted small sums as buy-outs for his work, when in reality his creations could have been worth millions. Even Marconi made use of a patent filed by Tesla in 1897. Tesla was the real “father of radio” but received no money or credit for this invention.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Save time and energy by hiring others to do the work.

2. Your helpers will be forgotten and you will be remembered.

3. Borrow from history. Use the past and profit by others’ experience.

4. You can only exploit others’ talents if your position is unshakable.

8. MAKE OTHER PEOPLE COME TO YOU – USE BAIT IF NECESSARY.

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Napoleon’s former foreign minister Talleyrand was master of this law. He knew

Napoleon loved the adoration of the masses, and this was the perfect bait to make the former ruler play into the hands of his opponents. In 1814 Napoleon was banished to a small island called Elba near Italy. Here he was given information that France would embrace him again if he escaped. From Elba he was able to escape and march back into Paris with a small army. The people bowed to him and soldierschanged sides to join him. The statesmen who had taken over his empire fled.

Talleyrand watched as his plan unfolded. Napoleon ruled France again for a hundred days, but the country was bankrupt and could not sustain Napoleon’s wars any longer. Napoleon was recaptured at the Battle of Waterloo and exiled to the barren island St. Helena, off the west coast of Africa. This was a much further place with no chance of escape, and was more to Talleyrand’s liking.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. For negotiations and meetings, it is wise to lure others into your territory, or a territory of your choice.

2. Once someone suspects you are manipulating him, it will be harder to control him. Making him come to you gives the illusion he is in control.

3. Most often the effective action is to stay back, keep calm, and let others be frustrated by the traps you set for them.

9. WIN THROUGH YOUR ACTIONS, NEVER THROUGH ARGUMENT.

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Michelangelo knew how to satisfy a patron while getting his way at the same time. Piero

Soderini, Florence’s mayor, commissioned him to transform a ruined piece of marble intoa statue. Soderini visited the studio one day and commented that the nose of the statue (that of David with a sling in his hand) was too big. Michelangelo invited the mayor to climb up scaffolding, allowing him to look at the nose from a different perspective, whilethe artist chiseled a bit, pretending to correct the size of the nose. The mayor was convinced the nose looked much better. Michelangelo succeeded in making Soderini think his comment had helped improve the work.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Demonstrate, do not explicate.

2. Arguing will only offend your superior.

3. Learn to demonstrate the correctness of your ideas indirectly.

4. Choose your battles carefully.

5. Don’t bother demonstrating if time and experience will eventually teach the other person what you are trying to say. Save your energy and walk away.

6. No one can argue with a demonstrated proof.

10. INFECTION: AVOID THE UNHAPPY AND THE UNLUCKY.

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In the 1840’s Marie Gilbert, better known as Lola Montez, came to Paris to become a dancer and performer. She had many husbands, and caused the ruin of many a powerful man. Because of her ambition to be a dancer she “accidentally” ran into Alexandre Dujarier, then the owner of France’s most popular newspaper and a drama critic himself.

Although still legally married to an Englishman with whom she eloped at 19, Lola kept her status secret from all her husband’s. Dujarier was shot dead defending her honor at a duel against another drama critic. Lola went on to have several husbands, even causing King Ludwig of Bavaria to abdicate. She left another man who later fell into a deep depression, became a drunkard, and eventually died at a relatively young age. The man who published her autobiography went bankrupt.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. In the game of power, the people you associate with are critical.

2. An infector can be recognized by the misfortune they draw on themselves, their turbulent past, a long line of broken relationships, unstable careers, the very intensity of their emotions, and the force of their character.

3. Gravitate towards prosperous, cheerful, and gregarious people.

4. Never associate with those who share your defects.

11. LEARN TO KEEP PEOPLE DEPENDENT ON YOU.

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Michelangelo was able to keep his patron Pope Julius II dependent on him. When he and the pope quarreled over the building of the pope’s marble tomb, Michelangelo left Rome in disgust. The pope sought him out and begged the artist to stay. Michelangelo knew he could always find another patron, but the pope knew he could not find another Michelangelo. Michelangelo’s power was intensive, depending on one skill. Henry Kissinger’s power was extensive. He was so involved in so many areas of the political structure that to remove him would lead to chaos. The intensive form of power provides more freedom than the extensive.

Machiavelli said it is better to be feared than loved. Fear can be controlled; love, never.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Be the only one who can do what you do. Make the fate of those who hire you so entwined with yours they cannot possibly get rid of you.

2. If you are ambitious, it is wiser to seek out weak masters with whom you can create a relationship of dependency.

3. Possess a talent or creative skill that sets you apart from the crowd.

4. By knowing other people’s secrets and holding information they wouldn’t want made public, you seal your fate with theirs.

12. USE SELECTIVE HONESTY AND GENEROSITY TO DISARM YOUR VICTIM.

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Count Victor Lustig promised Al Capone into giving him $50,000 on the terms that he would double this investment in sixty days. Lustig kept the money untouched in a safety deposit box. After the sixty days were up, he apologized to Capone saying he had failed to double the money. Capone expected either $100,000, or nothing, what he did not expect was an honest gesture of Lustig actually returning the $50,000. Al Capone was a man who lived in constant mistrust of people around him, and was so touched by the honest gesture he gave Lustig an extra $5,000.

The classic tale of the Fall of Troy is one example of hiding your ulterior motives within a gift. The Trojan Horse was designed to hold soldiers that would attack the city of Troy and recapture Helen who had been taken away from the Greeks by Paris.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. The essence of deception is distraction. An act of kindness, generosity, or honesty will distract and disarm people and turn them into gullible children.

2. Give before you take.

3. Nothing in the realm of power is set in stone. Overt deceptiveness may sometimes cover your tracks. If you have a history of deceit behind you, then play the rogue, be consistent and this will be interpreted as you simply being yourself. Your dishonesty becomes an act of honesty.

13. WHEN ASKING FOR HELP, APPEAL TO PEOPLE’S SELF-INTEREST, NEVER TO THEIR MERCY OR GRATITUDE.

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Genghis Khan was known for his greed and self-interest. When he conquered China, instead of slaughtering all the citizens, his adviser Yelu Ch’u-Ts’ai persuaded him to reap the benefits of their new territory by taxing its people. It was Ts’ai who also convinced Khan to spare the inhabitants of Kaifeng, where China’s finest craftsmen and engineers had fled. Ts’ai’s reasoning was Khan could use these people for his own benefit.

Most people are very pragmatic, and when negotiating, do not bring up the need for gratitude for what you have done for others in the past. These appeals will be ignored.

Pragmatic people look towards the future, so it is best to emphasize how they will benefit from an alliance with you.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Understand the other person’s motivation.

2. See things their way and offer suggestions that will advance their cause.

3. For others who want to feel superior and do not want to appear selfish, appeal to their need to display their charity in the public eye.

14. POSE AS A FRIEND, WORK AS A SPY.

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Joseph Duveen was the greatest art dealer of his time; from 1904-1940 he singlehandedly monopolized the art-collecting market through his ingenious spying tactics. He would place the household employees of his potential clients on his own payroll. These spies would provide him valuable information as the tastes of his mark. He would arrange “accidental” meetings in elevators, leading his prey of wealthy patrons right into his trap.

When clients came to visit his galleries, they found themselves surrounded by works they would most likely buy.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Gather information at social events when people’s guards are down.

2. Use other people to give you the information you need.

3. Mislead others by giving out false information. Watch them react and base your next action on what you discover.

15. CRUSH YOUR ENEMY TOTALLY.

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The great Empress Wu of China was ruthless in her rise to power. She started out as a concubine of an emperor, but did not want to follow the traditional path: that of living the rest of her life in a convent after the emperor’s death. She had seduced the emperor’s son in the royal urinal and befriended his wife. Because of this Wu was able to get a royal edict out of the convent. She returned to the harem, became pregnant, and murdered her own baby, knowing the prime suspect would be the jealous wife of the new emperor. The wife was charged with murder and executed. Wu took her place and her new husband handed over the reins of government to her, opting for a life of pleasure. Empress Wu ruled until the age of eighty when she was forced to abdicate. Throughout her rule she eliminated son after son, anyone who would challenge her throne.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Show no mercy. Crush your rivals or else you will give them time to regroup and plot their revenge.

2. Banish enemies or plot for the best time to render them harmless.

3. Leave your enemies no options.

4. Sometimes enemies will destroy themselves.

5. Thoughts of reconciliation will open you up to attack.

16. USE ABSENCE TO INCREASE RESPECT AND HONOR.

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This law is most appreciated in matters of seduction and love. Make yourself too available and your presence will be taken for granted. In the Middle Ages, ladies played the game of presence and absence by sending their knights off on long arduous quests.

Sir Guillaume de Balaun wanted to taste the joy of love after reconciliation, and twice he intentionally made himself scarce, withdrawing his affections from Madame Guillelma de

Javiac. The first time he drove his lover wild with grief, the second time she became angry and cut him off. When he wrote her begging to be let back into her favor, she allowed him back only on the condition he do penance for his cruelty.

With business, an early retirement at the height of your career will keep people holding you in high regard, and waiting to see you make a comeback.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Create value through scarcity. Make yourself less accessible; otherwise the aura you have created around yourself will wear away.

17. KEEP OTHERS IN SUSPENDED TERROR: CULTIVATE AN AIR OF UNPREDICTABILITY.

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Bobby Fischer beat chess champion Boris Spassky using this law of unpredictability.

Spassky’s method of playing chess was to base his strategy on the patterns he read in his opponent’s moves. Fischer unnerved him by arriving late for the first two tournaments, even letting a match get forfeited. On the third game he made moves that were so uncharacteristic and bold Spassky was thrown off balance. Fourteen games later

Spassky claimed Fischer was probably putting drugs in the orange juice they drank while playing. Spassky resigned a few months later and never recovered from his defeat.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. A person of power instills fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initiative on his side.

2. Only the terminally subordinate act in a predictable manner.

18. DO NOT BUILD FORTRESSES TO PROTECT YOURSELF – ISOLATION IS DANGEROUS.

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King Louis XIV recognized the importance of always keeping his eyes and ears on everyone and everything around him. He built a palace in Versailles where all the nobility could keep apartments near to his. He knew that if he were to isolate himself for one moment, conspiracies would rise behind his back. The daily activities all revolved around the king, leaving no one unnoticed, hundreds of visitors and attendants were always present. There was not very much privacy for the king and he preferred this life to one of isolation.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. A fortress may be impregnable, but everyone knows you are there and it may easily turn into a prison.

2. Power depends on social interaction and circulation.

3. Isolation is deadly for the creative arts. Shakespeare was always producing plays for the masses. He was in constant touch with reality and what people wanted.

4. Mobility and social contact protects you from plotters.

19. KNOW WHO YOU’RE DEALING WITH – DO NOT OFFEND THE WRONG PERSON.

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In the early thirteenth century, Muhammad the Shah of Khwarezm made the grave mistake in offending a new tribal leader who was emerging in the east. His name was Genghis Khan. Khan offered to share the Silk Route with Muhammad, sending ambassadors to forge a deal. After his ambassadors were beheaded, Genghis Khan declared war. Eventually his forces seized the capital of the Shah’s empire, Samarkand.

Muhammad fled, and the Silk Route fell into the hands of Genghis Khan.

Learn to distinguish from opponent, sucker, and victim. The five difficult and sometimes dangerous marks are: the arrogant and proud, the hopelessly insecure, the suspicious, the serpent with a long memory, and the plain, unassuming, unintelligent man.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Measure up your opponent, but never rely on instinct. Do some research on concrete facts about that person’s character and history.

2. Never trust appearances.

20. DO NOT COMMIT TO ANYONE.

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Queen Elizabeth I managed to avoid the trap of marriage and war, by dangling the possibility of marriage to all who courted her. She forged alliances with the countries these suitors came from, all for the benefit of England. By keeping her independence above all, Elizabeth protected her power and made herself an object of worship.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. By refusing to commit, but allowing yourself to be courted, you become powerful because you are ungraspable.

2. As your reputation for independence grows, more people will desire you and want to conquer you.

3. Politely decline. You cannot allow yourself to feel obligated to anyone.

4. Seek promises from both sides, so no matter what the outcome of an election or battle, your position is secure.

5. Observe quarreling parties and stay neutral but supportive to both sides. Gain power as a mediator.

6. You may commit to one to prove you are capable of attachment, but be emotionally uninvolved. Preserve the unspoken option of being able to leave anytime and reclaim your freedom. The friends you made while being courted will help you jump ship.

21. PLAY A SUCKER TO CATCH A SUCKER – SEEM DUMBER THAN YOUR MARK.

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In what was the biggest diamond scam of the century, prospectors Philip Arnold and John Slack fooled the biggest financiers of the time, Asbury Harpending, Baron Rothschild, and William Ralston into investing their millions in a fake mine site. The two men played up their small town, scruffy image; convincing the sophisticated tycoons that they would easily be bought out for their discovery of the mines. In the end, after the legal pay-off was made to the two men, the investors realized the mine had been salted with uncut gems by Arnold and Slack. Since all the business had been legal, and experts had inspected the mines, there was no way to go after the two men.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Intelligence is an important part of people’s vanity. Subliminally reassure your opponent of his superiority.

2. Playing naïve lets you see opportunities to deceive others.

22. USE THE SURRENDER TACTIC: TRANSFORM WEAKNESS INTO POWER.

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German writer Bertolt Brecht was called to appear before the US Congress’s House of Un-American Activities Committee during the heyday of the Communist investigations.

Unlike his companions in the Hollywood 19, (other producers, directors and writers who espoused communism in their scripts) he chose to be respectful to the committee. Subtly he mocked them by offering vague but polite answers used an interpreter to run circles around them when asked about the lines from his poems, and was summarily dismissed.

He was free to leave America and continue writing as he pleased, while his friends in

Hollywood lost valuable working years as a result of being blacklisted.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Do not fight aggression with aggression. Put your opponent off-guard by yielding, and in effect have more control over the situation.

2. Surrender is a way of mocking your enemies.

3. Surrender disguises your real motives and allows time to plan your next move.

23. CONCENTRATE YOUR FORCES.

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The Rothschild banking family concentrated its wealth within a very tight-knit structure.

Five brothers each controlled a part of the empire from Paris, Frankfurt, Vienna, Naples, to London. They established themselves as a powerful force in business and politics, keeping the secrets of the family business by exchanging internal communications only in code or Frankfurt Yiddish. Family policy ruled and their children intermarried, all of them first cousins.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Single-mindedness of purpose and total concentration on one goal will overwhelm the enemy every time.

2. A single patron appreciates your loyalty and becomes dependent on your services.

3. In the arts, being too single-minded can make you an intolerable bore.

24. PLAY THE PERFECT COURTIER.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Avoid ostentation. Talk less about yourself. Modesty is generally preferable.

2. Practice nonchalance. All your hard work must come off as effortless.

3. Be frugal with flattery.

4. Arrange to be noticed.

5. Alter your style and language according to the person you are dealing with.

6. Never be the bearer of bad news.

7. Never affect friendliness and intimacy with your master.

8. Never criticize those above you directly.

9. Be frugal in asking those above you for favors.

10. Never joke about appearances or taste.

11. Do not be the court cynic.

12. Be self-observant.

13. Master your emotions.

14. Fit the spirit of the times.

15. Be a source of pleasure.

25. RE-CREATE YOURSELF.

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Julius Caesar always incorporated drama and theatrics in his speeches and daily appearances. He was a great public showman, timing his entrances and exits, sponsoring extravagant spectacles, gladiator shows and theatrical events. The masses loved him, but his rivals feared him.

Aurore Dupin Dudevant left her husband and family in the provinces to become a writer in Paris, something unheard of and almost impossible for a woman to do in 1831. For the publication of her novel Indiana, she assumed the pseudonym George Sand. She dressed in men’s breeches, smoked cigars, and expressed herself in conversation like a man. She even carried on affairs with the most famous artists of Europe - Musset, Liszt, and Chopin - living with freedom and independence unlike any other female writer before her.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Control your appearances and emotions. Play sincere, but not necessarily be sincere.

2. Create a memorable character. Do not limit yourself to the role society assigns to you.

26. KEEP YOUR HANDS CLEAN.

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Cleopatra was always able to get people to do her bidding without them realizing she was manipulating them. She was able to charm Julius Caesar into restoring her to the throne of Egypt, and playing her siblings against each other. Marc Antony was seduced by her, and had her younger sister Arsinoe executed, ridding Cleopatra of any threats to her place as Queen.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Conceal your mistakes. Your good name and reputation depends more on what you conceal than on what you reveal.

2. Always have a convenient scapegoat.

3. Never do the dirty work yourself.

27. PLAY ON PEOPLE’S NEED TO BELIEVE TO CREATE A CULT-LIKE FOLLOWING.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Keep it simple; keep it vague. Create new words for vague concepts.

2. Emphasize the visual and sensual over the intellectual.

3. Borrow the forms of organized religion to structure the group. Create rituals. Use names and ranks and titles. Ask them to make sacrifices and give alms. Act like a guru or a prophet.

4. Disguise your source of income.

5. Set up an us-versus-them dynamic. Keep followers united by identifying outsiders asa devious enemy.

6. The tendency to doubt and reason is broken down when we join a group.

28. ENTER ACTION WITH BOLDNESS.

Ivan the Terrible waited five years before executing his first major bold move. After years of persecution by the Shuisky family, the poisoning of his mother Helena, and the banishment of his only friend Vorontsov, the thirteen year-old Ivan invited his rival Prince Andrei Shuisky into his room. No one feared the young boy and the boyars often ridiculed him. When the guards were suddenly ordered to seize Prince Andrei and execute him, no one saw it coming. This one swift and bold act secured Ivan’s power for decades to come.

Ivan initially lay low, showing neither ambition nor discontent. He waited until he had won over the palace guards to his side. They had come to hate the cruelty of the Shuiskys over the years, and the time was at hand to strike boldly and swiftly.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. The bolder the lie, the better.

2. Lions circle the hesitant prey.

3. Boldness strikes fear; Fear creates authority.

4. Going halfway digs the deeper grave. Do not negotiate if you opponent will more likely take the opportunity to destroy you.

5. Hesitation creates gaps. Boldness obliterates them. Move swiftly and surely.

6. Audacity separates you from the herd.

29. PLAN ALL THE WAY TO THE END.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Take into account all possible obstacles and circumstances that may prevent you from achieving your goal, and plan how you will overcome them.

2. When you see several steps ahead, you will no longer need to improvise along the way, and risk deviating from your plan.

3. Prepare alternatives and be open to adapt new routes to your goal.

30. MAKE YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS SEEM EFFORTLESS.

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Sen no Rikyu was an important tea master and adviser on aesthetic and political matters to the Emperor Hideyoshi. He despised hosts who looked like they were trying too hard. Cha-no-yu, or the Japanese tea ceremony, is an art form, from the preparation to the serving; the whole process must look natural and easy. Accidental grace and beauty were Rikyu’s specialty. On the night before the Emperor was to visit him for a tea ceremony, he artfully laid cushions in the snow on each stepping-stone to his house. In the morning, he removed the cushions revealing the pattern of the stepping-stones like a perfect mold within the snow. This was just one of Rikyu’s clever aesthetic tricks which impressed the Emperor, never calling attention to the work gone into it, but implying a polite gesture in itself.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. What imitates nature by appearing effortless and natural approximates nature’s power.

2. Never show your work until it is finished. When people see the effort and time it takes to make it, and if they witness a work-in-progress, the magic of the finished piece is spoiled.

31. CONTROL THE OPTIONS: GET OTHERS TO PLAY WITH THE CARDS

YOU DEAL.

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Seventeenth-century French courtesan Ninon de Lenclos needed to devise a way of maintaining her lifestyle while having the freedom no woman could achieve in her day. She gave her lovers and suitors three choices, a payeur would pay for her services, but she would only sleep with him when she liked, a martyr would not have to pay, and be part of her harem of men, and from the martyrs she would choose a favori, or one man to whom she would abandon herself to totally until she was tired of him. The payeurs were able to finance her needs while she enjoyed complete freedom, independence, and variety from her lovers. She had the equality to men no married woman of the time could possess.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Make people your puppets and give them options to let them feel they have control.

Force them to choose between the lesser of two evils, both of which serve your purpose.

2. Present options but color the one you prefer as the best solution.

3. Force the resister into “choosing” to do what you want by appearing to advocate the opposite.

4. Alter the playing field so the only options available are the ones you offer.

5. Shrinking options force people to buy in now or else the goods won’t be available tomorrow.

6. The weak man must be propelled into action through fear and terror.

7. Involving your victim in your scheme with the threat of their exposure later will keep them tied to you. They cannot expose you because they will be found out as well.

8. Use the horns of a dilemma: whichever way they choose, there is no escape.

32. PLAY TO PEOPLE’S FANTASIES.

ü Observance of the Law:

In the 1700s, a mysterious stranger named George Psalmanazar came to fame with his books and lectures on the language, culture and history of the island of Formosa (now Taiwan). After his death, it was revealed that he was in fact a Frenchman with a rich imagination who played on the British need for the exotic and strange. He had invented everything he had professed to be an expert on, having capitalized on it with best-selling books and having been a favorite guest at many royal dinners.

Abraham Lincoln created an image of himself as the homespun country lawyer with a beard. He played to the fantasy of the common man’s president.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. People need a fantasy to escape from the humdrum of everyday life. The more vague and exotic, the more captivating.

2. Promise a pot of gold and instant gratification, rather than a gradual improvement through hard work.

3. Keep your distance so the fantasy remains intact.

33. DISCOVER EACH MAN’S THUMBSCREW.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Every person has a weakness or insecurity you can use to your advantage.

2. Train yourself to probe for weaknesses in everyday conversation.

3. Find the childhood need that went unfulfilled, supply it, and your victim will be unable to resist you.

4. People’s weaknesses are the opposite of the qualities they reveal to you. The shy person is actually dying for attention; a prude may be hiding a lascivious soul, etc.

5. Find the weak link or the one person in a group who will bend under pressure.

6. Feed on uncontrollable emotions or motive – paranoia, lust, greed, vanity, or hatred.

7. When searching for suckers, always look for the unhappy, insecure and dissatisfied.

34. BE ROYAL IN YOUR OWN FASHION: ACT LIKE A KING TO BE TREATED LIKE ONE.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. How you carry yourself reflects what you think of yourself. Exude confidence and the feeling you were destined for greatness.

2. Do not confuse regal bearing with arrogance.

3. Dignity is the mask you assume under difficult circumstances. Act like nothing can affect you and you have all the time in the world to respond.

4. Set your price high and do not waver.

5. Deal with the highest person in the building.

6. A gift is an equalizer. You do not beg but ask for help in a dignified way.

35. MASTER THE ART OF TIMING.

Time as a human-made concept

There are three kinds of time we deal with when building power: the Long Time is the years-long period of waiting for the right opportunity while creating a strong foundation or base to work from. Forced Time is upsetting the timing of others and setting their deadlines for them. The opponent will be more likely to make mistakes because of the need to hurry, or in the case of business, will be forced to buy whatever you offer because the time to make a decision is limited. End Time is when we execute a plan with speed and absolutely no hesitation.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Never look as though you are in a hurry. It betrays a lack of control.

2. Learn to stand back and be patient. Strike only when the time is right.

3. Anticipate events and work with the spirit of the times.

4. Recognizing the prevailing winds does not necessarily mean running with them.

36. DISDAIN THINGS YOU CANNOT HAVE: IGNORING THEM IS THE

BEST REVENGE.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him. The less interest you show, the more superior you seem.

2. Remember: You choose to let things bother you. You can just as easily choose to consider the matter trivial and unworthy of your interest. That is the powerful move.

3. If it is impossible to ignore, then secretly get rid of it. Sometimes threats just go away by themselves.

37. CREATE COMPELLING SPECTACLES.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Never neglect the way you arrange things visually.

2. Associate yourself with colors, images and symbols that communicate strong messages.

3. People are always impressed by the superficial appearance of things, the grand, and the spectacular, what is larger than life.

38. THINK AS YOU LIKE BUT BEHAVE LIKE OTHERS.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Wise and clever people learn early on that they can display conventional behavior and mouth conventional ideas without having to believe in them.

2. Put on the mask appropriate to the group you are joining.

39. STIR UP WATERS TO CATCH FISH.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Anger and emotion are strategically unproductive. Make your enemies angry but stay calm yourself.

2. Angry people usually end up looking ridiculous.

3. Nothing in the game of power is personal.

4. An occasional outburst may be powerful, but use anger too often and it loses its power.

40. DESPISE THE FREE LUNCH.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. By paying your own way you stay free of gratitude. What is offered for free normally has a hidden obligation.

2. Generosity is a sign of power. Most powerful people spend freely and are not misers.

3. Use money as a way to give pleasure to others and win them over.

41. AVOID STEPPING INTO A GREAT MAN’S SHOES.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Choose a different path and personal style if you are the daughter or son of a great person. You will forever be in your predecessor’s shadow unless you find a way to shine on your own.

2. Only after the father figure has been done away with will there be space to establish a new order.

3. Do not become complacent once you reach success and security. Prosperity makes us lazy. Writers like Tennessee Williams and Fyodor Dostoyevsky preferred the struggle to security; the way poverty or emotional difficulties pushed them to create good work.

42. STRIKE THE SHEPHERD AND THE SHEEP WILL SCATTER.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Within any group, trouble can be traced to a single source, the unhappy, chronically unsatisfied one who stirs up dissension and infects the group.

2. Recognize troublemakers by their complaining nature. Separate him from the group.

3. In every group power is concentrated in the hands of one or two people. Human nature shows people will orbit around a single strong personality.

43. WORK ON THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF OTHERS.

ü Transgression of the Law

Marie-Antoinette was put to death by guillotine in 1793, after the French monarchy was ended by the revolution. Not a single soul came to her defense. Marie-Antoinette brought upon herself the hatred of all. Her jewelry, wardrobe, hair, and masked balls, her lavish lifestyle had been more important to her than the needs of her people.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Aim at the primary emotions: love, hate, and jealousy. Be alert to people’s individual psychologies and their basic emotional responses.

2. Maintain a stable of writers, artists, or intellectuals who are very good at appealing to people’s hearts and minds.

44. DISARM AND INFURIATE WITH THE MIRROR EFFECT.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. The neutralizing effect: Do what your enemies do, follow their actions and they will not see what you are up to. When you mirror them, if mocks and humiliates them. Mimicry infuriates.

2. The Shadow effect: Shadow your opponents’ every move, gather information, and gain insight to their routines and habits without them seeing you.

3. The Mirror effect: Show you understand by reflecting their innermost feelings.

4. The Moral effect: Teach others a lesson by giving them a taste of their own medicine.

5. The Hallucinatory effect: offer a perfect copy of an object, place or person and see how people take the bait.

45. PREACH THE NEED FOR CHANGE, BUT NEVER REFORM TOO MUCH AT ONCE.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Make change and reform seem like a gentle improvement on the past. People are creatures of habit and the sudden change will cause some to rebel.

2. Disguise change by dressing it in tradition.

46. NEVER APPEAR TOO PERFECT.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. Never underestimate the power of envy. Occasionally reveal a weakness, defect, or anxiety, or find new friends. It is the people in your own circle of peers who will be the first to envy your success.

2. Envy is often a problem for people who have great natural talent. You may think you are charming people with your natural talent when in fact they are coming to hate you for it.

3. To deflect envy, employ a display of weakness, or a harmless vice.

4. Envy is disguised sometimes as excessive praise, or slander and criticism. Win your revenge by ignoring the envious.

5. Reversal: Display the utmost disdain for those who envy you. Instead of hiding your perfection, make it obvious. Make every triumph an opportunity to make the envious squirm.

47. DO NOT GO PAST THE MARK YOU AIMED FOR; IN VICTORY, LEARN WHEN TO STOP.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

1. The powerful know that the essence of strategy is controlling what comes next.

2. There is no better time to stop and walk away than after a victory.

48. ASSUME FORMLESSNESS.

Wisdom in a nutshell:

Accept the fact that nothing is certain and no law is fixed. Be as fluid and formless as water, adapting and moving with change naturally. The powerful are creative in expressing something new. This feminine, formless style of ruling as practiced by

Elizabeth of England and Catherine of Russia, allows flexibility and makes subjects feel less coerced. Play the chameleon but break your enemy from the inside. Morph and adapt but keep your long-term strategy in mind at all times.

Source: 48 Power of Power by Robert Greene

The Deji Of Akure Oba Adebiyi Adesida Is Dead

noreply@blogger.com (BodylonNetworks) — Sun, 1 Dec 2013 09:35:00 -0800

Oba Adebiyi Adegboyaga Adesida
The Deji of Akure kingdom, Oba Adebiyi Adesida has died of an undisclosed illness in Akure the Ondo State capital.

He confirmed that' Oba Adesida last attended a public function in Lagos where he celebrated the marriage ceremony of his son, Adetunji Oluwagbemiga two weekend ago.

He also confirmed that the monarch died in his palace as palace guards tried to rescue him.

Governor Babatunde Fashola Says Oduah’s Armoured Cars Will Buy 51 Police Patrol Vehicles

noreply@blogger.com (BodylonNetworks) — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 07:24:00 -0800

Lagos State governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, has said that the two armoured cars bought at the cost of N255 million for the Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Stella Oduah, will purchase 51 patrol vehicles for the Nigerian Police.
The governor said this at the 7th annual Town Hall Meeting on Security, themed: ‘Sustaining Local Responding To Rising National Security Challenges,’ held at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos.
“It is sad to know that the Federal Government that allocate three patrol vehicles for one state police command of 370, 000 police men, is unable to resolve how N255 million was used to purchase 2 saloon vehicles for one officer. It is a very grave irony.
“The cost of average vehicle needed to patrol the state is just N5 million. And with such fund, we will have put at least 51 patrol vehicles on the road, patrolling the streets of Lagos.”

“In spite of all this, they resist the idea of a state police. The money from the fund was in the last one year used to provide vehicles for the Nigerian Prison Service, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, National Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC and indeed the airport wing of the Nigerian police, is funded from this money. And it is the same aviation ministry that manage the airport that we had this very odious car scandal of N255 million.”

The governor noted that the upshot of central Government’s failure to confront security has continued for the past seven years.
“The residents of Lagos have borne the burden of that neglect, and there is no indication that anything will change soon, in spite of endless reform deliberation and proposals.”
On the crime rate in the state, Fashola said “Our crime data base now has record content of 92, 488 which helps us to keep track of all those who have been arrested, prosecuted, jailed or have any contact with the criminal justice system.”
He added that the state is preparing for a future of crime prevention, saying “it will be technologically driven, scientifically grounded and result assured.”
By Jamiu Yisa

Nigerian Judge Frees Two Lebanese Terror

noreply@blogger.com (BodylonNetworks) — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 06:51:00 -0800

An Abuja Federal High Court judge today sentenced Talal Ahmad Roda, one of the three Lebanese nationals arrested in connection with illegal possession of weapons and Hezbollah connection to life imprisonment which, the judge ordered must be run concurrently.
Two other co-accused person, Mustapha Fawaz, the owner of a popular Amigo Supermarket and Abdallah Tahini were set free by the judge.
Giving the ruling today Justice Ademola Adeniyi said that there was no room for judicial discussion as to the first and second accused persons, he subsequently ordered that they should be released immediately with their personal belongings released to them.
Regarding the third suspect, the judge ruled that the he was guilty of all the five counts of illegal possesion of weapons and conspiracy as he was found at the location of the arm cache in Kano.

Samsung aims to double its smartphone sales in Africa in 2014

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HARD Ways to Make Your Life Better

noreply@blogger.com (BodylonNetworks) — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 05:07:00 -0800

Some of the most worthwhile things in life aren’t easy. One of the things I dislike most about “power of positive thinking”-style personal development philosophies (such as “The Secret”) is the implication that if you just have the right attitude and the right state of mind, the rest will just fall into place. I think it causes a lot of hurt and disappointment in people who invest their time, effort, and of course, money into these systems and find themselves, one or two or five years down the line, exactly where they were before.

“You must not have wanted it badly enough,” the authors of these philosophies seem to be saying. “There must still be something wrong with you.”

I don’t think that, ultimately, God or the Spirits or the Universe or the world “provides”. I think a lot of times the world puts obstacles in our way, and no amount of positive thinking makes them go away. And I think that a lot of the people who are “successful”, by whatever standard you want to use, have as much “wrong” with them as a lot of the ones who aren’t successful. Maybe more.

In any case, wherever the motivation comes from, the things that really make our lives worth living can be quite difficult. (And who knows, maybe thinking positively helps take some of the edge off of doing the hard stuff?) What’s more, they can take a lot of time to do, and even more time to get right. But I think that doing is the important thing, not the result — throwing yourself into something with all your heart, mind, and soul is the success, not the “growing rich” part.

Here, then, are ten things that are really hard to do but which have an incredible power to make your life better:

HOW TO EMPOWER YOUR MEMORY

noreply@blogger.com (BodylonNetworks) — Wed, 29 May 2013 12:37:00 -0700

TIPS AND EXERCISES TO SHARPEN YOUR MIND AND BOOST BRAINPOWER

If our brains were computers, we'd simply add a chip to upgrade our memory. The human brain, however, is more complex than even the most advanced machine, so improving our memory isn’t quite so easy. Just as it takes effort to build physical fitness, so too does boosting brain power.

A strong memory depends on the health and vitality of your brain. Whether you’re a student studying for final exams, a working professional interested in doing all you can to stay mentally sharp, or a senior looking to preserve and enhance your grey matter as you age, there are lots of things you can do to improve your memory and mental performance.

HARNESSING THE POWER OF YOUR BRAIN

They say that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but when it comes to the brain, scientists have discovered that this old adage simply isn’t true. The human brain has an astonishing ability to adapt and change—even into old age. This ability is known as neuroplasticity. With the right stimulation, your brain can form new neural pathways, alter existing connections, and adapt and react in ever-changing ways.

The brain’s incredible ability to reshape itself holds true when it comes to learning and memory. You can harness the natural power of neuroplasticity to increase your cognitive abilities, enhance your ability to learn new information, and improve your memory.

IMPROVING MEMORY TIPS:

Don’t skimp on exercise or sleep,

Where you Exercise the Body, you exercise the Brain,
Improve Your Memory by Sleeping on it

Make Time for Friends and fun

Healthy Relationship; the ultimate memory booster?
Laughter is good for Brain

Keep Stress in Check
Bulk up on Brain Boosting Foods.
Give your Brain Work out

Tip1-Don't Skimp on Exercise or Sleep

Just as an athlete relies on sleep and a nutrition-packed diet to perform his or her best, your ability to remember increases when you nurture your brain with a good diet and other healthy habits.

       i. When you exercise the body, you exercise the brain
Treating your body well can enhance your ability to process and recall information. Physical exercise increases oxygen to your brain and reduces the risk for disorders that lead to memory loss, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Exercise may also enhance the effects of helpful brain chemicals and protect brain cells.

    ii. Improve your memory by sleeping on it
When you’re sleep deprived, your brain can’t operate at full capacity. Creativity, problem-solving abilities, and critical thinking skills are compromised. Whether you’re studying, working, or trying to juggle life’s many demands, sleep deprivation is a recipe for disaster.

But sleep is critical to learning and memory in an even more fundamental way. Research shows that sleep is necessary for memory consolidation, with the key memory-enhancing activity occurring during the deepest stages of sleep.

Tip 2-Make time for friends and fun

When you think of ways to improve memory, do you think of “serious” activities such as wrestling with the New York Times crossword puzzle or mastering chess strategy, or do more light-hearted pastimes—hanging out with friends or enjoying a funny movie—come to mind? If you’re like most of us, it’s probably the former. But countless studies show that a life that’s full of friends and fun comes with cognitive benefits.

      i. Healthy relationships: the ultimate memory booster?
Humans are highly social animals. We’re not meant to survive, let alone thrive, in isolation. Relationships stimulate our brains—in fact, interacting with others may be the best kind of brain exercise.

Research shows that having meaningful relationships and a strong support system are vital not only to emotional health, but also to brain health. In one recent study from the Harvard School of Public Health, for example, researchers found that people with the most active social lives had the slowest rate of memory decline.

There are many ways to start taking advantage of the brain and memory-boosting benefits of socializing. Volunteer, join a club, make it a point to see friends more often, or reach out over the phone. And if a human isn’t handy, don’t overlook the value of a pet—especially the highly-social dog.

     ii. Laughter is good for your brain
You’ve heard that laughter is the best medicine, and that holds true for the brain as well as the body. Unlike emotional responses, which are limited to specific areas of the brain, laughter engages multiple regions across the whole brain.

Furthermore, listening to jokes and working out punch lines activates areas of the brain vital to learning and creativity. As psychologist Daniel Goleman notes in his book Emotional Intelligence, “laughter…seems to help people think more broadly and associate more freely.”

Looking for ways to bring more laughter in your life? Start with these basics:

Laugh at yourself. Share your embarrassing moments. The best way to take ourselves less seriously is to talk about the times when we took ourselves too seriously.
When you hear laughter, move toward it. Most of the time, people are very happy to share something funny because it gives them an opportunity to laugh again and feed off the humor you find in it. When you hear laughter, seek it out and ask, “What’s funny?”
Spend time with fun, playful people. These are people who laugh easily–both at themselves and at life’s absurdities–and who routinely find the humour in everyday events. Their playful point of view and laughter are contagious.
Surround yourself with reminders to lighten up. Keep a toy on your desk or in your car. Put up a funny poster in your office. Choose a computer screensaver that makes you laugh. Frame photos of you and your family or friends having fun.
Pay attention to children and emulate them. They are the experts on playing, taking life lightly, and laughing.

Tip 3-Keep stress in check

Stress is one of the brain’s worst enemies. Over time, if left unchecked, chronic stress destroys brain cells and damages the hippocampus, the region of the brain involved in the formation of new memories and the retrieval of old ones.

The stress-busting, brain-boosting benefits of meditation

Get depression in check

In addition to stress, depression takes a heavy toll on the brain. In fact, some of the symptoms of depression include difficulty concentrating, making decisions, and remembering things. If you are mentally sluggish because of depression, seeking treatment will make a big difference in your cognitive abilities, including memory.

The scientific evidence for the mental health benefits of meditation continues to pile up. Studies show that meditation helps improve many different types of conditions, including depression, anxiety, chronic pain, diabetes, and high blood pressure. Meditation also can improve focus, concentration, creativity, and learning and reasoning skills.

Meditation works its “magic” by changing the actual brain. Brain images show that regular meditators have more activity in the left prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with feelings of joy and equanimity. Meditation also increases the thickness of the cerebral cortex and encourages more connections between brain cells—all of which increases mental sharpness and memory ability.

Tip 4-Bulk up on brain-boosting foods

Just as the body needs fuel, so does the brain. You probably already know that a diet based on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and “healthy” fats will provide lots of health benefits, but such a diet can also improve memory. But for brain health, it’s not just what you eat—it’s also what you don’t eat. The following nutritional tips will help boost your brainpower and reduce your risk of dementia:

Get your omega-3s. More and more evidence indicates that omega-3 fatty acids are particularly beneficial for brain health. Fish is a particularly rich source of omega-3, especially cold water “fatty fish” such as salmon, tuna, halibut, trout, mackerel, sardines, and herring. In addition to boosting brainpower, eating fish may also lower your risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. If you’re not a fan of fish, consider turning to fish oil supplements. Other non-fish sources of omega-3s include walnuts, ground flaxseed, flaxseed oil, pumpkin seeds, and soybeans.
Limit saturated fat. Research shows that diets high in saturated fat increase your risk of dementia and impair concentration and memory. The primary sources of saturated far are animal products: red meat, whole milk, butter, cheese, sour cream, and ice cream.
Eat more fruit and vegetables. Produce is packed with antioxidants, substances that protect your brain cells from damage. Colourful fruits and vegetables are particularly good antioxidant "super food" sources. Try leafy green vegetables such as spinach, broccoli, romaine lettuce, Swiss chard, and arugula, and fruit such as apricots, mangoes, cantaloupe, and watermelon.
Drink wine (or grape juice) in moderation. Keeping your alcohol consumption in check is key, since alcohol kills brain cells. But in moderation (around 1 glass a day for women; 2 for men), alcohol may actually improve memory and cognition. Red wine appears to be the best option, as it is rich in resveratrol, a flavonoid that boosts blood flow in the brain and reduces the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Other resveratrol-packed options include grape juice, cranberry juice, fresh grapes and berries, and peanuts.

For mental energy, choose complex carbohydrates.

Just as a race car needs gas, your brain needs fuel to perform at its best. When you need to be at the top of your mental game, carbohydrates can keep you going. But the type of carbs you choose makes all the difference. Carbohydrates fuel your brain, but simple carbs (sugar, white bread, refined grains) give a quick boost followed by an equally rapid crash. For energy that lasts, choose complex carbohydrates such as whole-wheat bread, brown rice, oatmeal, high-fibber cereal, lentils, and whole beans.

Tip 5-Give your brain a workout

By the time you’ve reached adulthood, your brain has developed millions of neural pathways that help you process information quickly, solve familiar problems, and execute familiar tasks with a minimum of mental effort. But if you always stick to these well-worn paths, you aren’t giving your brain the stimulation it needs to keep growing and developing. You have to shake things up from time to time!

Memory, like muscular strength, requires you to “use it or lose it.” The more you work out your brain, the better you’ll be able to process and remember information. The best brain exercising activities break your routine and challenge you to use and develop new brain pathways. The activity can be virtually anything, so long as it meets the following three criteria:

It’s new. No matter how intellectually demanding the activity, if it’s something you’re already good at, it’s not a good brain exercise. The activity needs to be something that’s unfamiliar and out of your comfort zone.
It’s challenging. Anything that takes some mental effort and expands your knowledge will work. Examples include learning a new language, instrument, or sport, or tackling a challenging crossword or Sudoku puzzle.
It’s fun. The more interested and engaged you are in the activity, the more likely you’ll be to continue doing it and the greater the benefits you’ll experience. The activity should be challenging, yes, but not so difficult or unpleasant that you dread doing it.

Use mnemonic devices to make memorization easier

Mnemonics (the initial “m” is silent) are clues of any kind that help us remember something, usually by helping us associate the information we want to remember with a visual image, a sentence, or a word.

Mnemonic device	Technique	Example
Visual image	Associate a visual image with a word or name to help you remember them better. Positive, pleasant images that are vivid, colourful, and three-dimensional will be easier to remember.	To remember the name Rosa Parks and what she’s known for, picture a woman sitting on a park bench surrounded by roses, waiting as her bus pulls up.
Acrostic (or sentence)	Make up a sentence in which the first letter of each word is part of or represents the initial of what you want to remember.	The sentence “Every good boy does fine” to memorize the lines of the treble clef, representing the notes E, G, B, D, and F.
Acronym	An acronym is a word that is made up by taking the first letters of all the key words or ideas you need to remember and creating a new word out of them.	The word “HOMES” to remember the names of the Great Lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior.
Rhymes and alliteration	Rhymes, alliteration (a repeating sound or syllable), and even jokes are a memorable way to remember more mundane facts and figures.	The rhyme “Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November” to remember the months of the year with only 30 days in them.
Chunking	Chunking breaks a long list of numbers or other types of information into smaller, more manageable chunks.	Remembering a 10-digit phone number by breaking it down into three sets of numbers: 555-867-5309 (as opposed to5558675309).
Method of loci	Imagine placing the items you want to remember along a route you know well or in specific locations in a familiar room or building.	For a shopping list, imagine bananas in the entryway to your home, a puddle of milk in the middle of the sofa, eggs going up the stairs, and bread on your bed.

Tips-for enhancing your ability to learn and remember

Pay attention. You can’t remember something if you never learned it, and you can’t learn something—that is, encode it into your brain—if you don’t pay enough attention to it. It takes about eight seconds of intense focus to process a piece of information into your memory. If you’re easily distracted, pick a quiet place where you won’t be interrupted.

Involve as many senses as possible. Try to relate information to colours, textures, smells, and tastes. The physical act of rewriting information can help imprint it onto your brain. Even if you’re a visual learner, read out loud what you want to remember. If you can recite it rhythmically, even better.
Relate information to what you already know. Connect new data to information you already remember, whether it’s new material that builds on previous knowledge, or something as simple as an address of someone who lives on a street where you already know someone.
For more complex material, focus on understanding basic ideas rather than memorizing isolated details. Practice explaining the ideas to someone else in your own words.
Rehearse information you’ve already learned. Review what you’ve learned the same day you learn it, and at intervals thereafter. This “spaced rehearsal” is more effective than cramming, especially for retaining what you’ve learned.

TURN FAILURE INTO ACHIEVEMENT

noreply@blogger.com (BodylonNetworks) — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 07:52:00 -0800

Is it even possible? Can you really turn failure into achievement? What is it that makes the difference? Why are there some who seem to accomplish so much with their lives? Is it...

Family Background - Having a good family growing up is something to be grateful for, but it's not the reliable indicator of accomplishment. High percentages of great men have come from broken homes.

Wealth - Some of the greatest men of accomplishment have come from households of average to below-average means. Wealth is not an accurate indicator of high achievement, and poverty is no guarantee of low achievement.

Opportunity - Opportunity is a very peculiar thing. Two people with the similar gifts, talents, and resources can look at a situation, and one person will see tremendous opportunity while the other sees nothing. Opportunity is in the eye of the beholder.

High Morals - I wish it were that simple and that this were the key, but it's not. I've known people with high morals but were low achievers and I have known scoundrels... rats who were high producers.

The Absence of Hardship - For every success who has avoided tragedy, there's a Helen Keller who overcame extreme difficulties or a Viktor Frankl who survived absolute horrors.
None of these elements are the key. The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

Nothing is great in the beginning stages of when God first starts working in a man's life. That man's prayers will be elementary. His efforts will be clumsy and uncoordinated. His whole sense of walking with God will be spent in the shallows. But if that man refuses to give up or if he refuses to give in, if his desire and determination and his sense of purpose will capture his emotions, then God will work with his life.

It takes time, persistence, and desire. These elements become the fuel for revivals, energy for relationship with God, and absolute authority in the Kingdom of God.

There are endless ways by which God shapes the soul of a man.

• For some all it takes is a look, as with Zacchaeus.

• For some all it takes is for them to be blinded by light, as with Paul.

• For some it takes a midnight confrontation, as with Nicodemus.

• For some it takes a noonday conversation, as with the women at the well.

The only growth worth investing in is that which grows slowly. Great men are made in stages. Not overnight.

Excerpt. I encourage you to join today if you haven't already so you can glean from the entire powerful and life changing message.
"It is not what a man keeps but rather what he gives that makes him great. It is not what a man possesses but rather what possesses the man." - Excerpt from the message Turning Failure Into Achievement.

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HAVE U SET GOAL FOR 2014.... NEVER TOO LATE

noreply@blogger.com (BodylonNetworks) — Wed, 9 Feb 2011 04:10:00 -0800

Personal Goal Setting

Planning to Live Your Life Your Way

Many people feel as if they're adrift in the world. They work hard, but they don't seem to get anywhere worthwhile.

A key reason that they feel this way is that they haven't spent enough time thinking about what they want from life, and haven't set themselves formal goals. After all, would you set out on a major journey with no real idea of your destination? Probably not!

Goal setting is a powerful process for thinking about your ideal future, and for motivating yourself to turn your vision of this future into reality.

The process of setting goals helps you choose where you want to go in life. By knowing precisely what you want to achieve, you know where you have to concentrate your efforts. You'll also quickly spot the distractions that can, so easily, lead you astray.

Why Set Goals?
- Goal setting is used by top-level athletes, successful business-people and achievers in all fields. Setting goals gives you long-term vision and short-term motivation. It focuses your acquisition of knowledge, and helps you to organize your time and your resources so that you can make the very most of your life.

By setting sharp, clearly defined goals, you can measure and take pride in the achievement of those goals, and you'll see forward progress in what might previously have seemed a long pointless grind. You will also raise your self-confidence, as you recognize your own ability and competence in achieving the goals that you've set.

Starting to Set Personal Goals

You set your goals on a number of levels:

•First you create your "big picture" of what you want to do with your life (or over, say, the next 10 years), and identify the large-scale goals that you want to achieve.

•Then, you break these down into the smaller and smaller targets that you must hit to reach your lifetime goals.

•Finally, once you have your plan, you start working on it to achieve these goals.

This is why we start the process of goal setting by looking at your lifetime goals. Then, we work down to the things that you can do in, say, the next five years, then next year, next month, next week, and today, to start moving towards them.

Steps in Goals Setting
Step 1: Setting Lifetime Goals
The first step in setting personal goals is to consider what you want to achieve in your lifetime (or at least, by a significant and distant age in the future). Setting lifetime goals gives you the overall perspective that shapes all other aspects of your decision making.

To give a broad, balanced coverage of all important areas in your life, try to set goals in some of the following categories (or in other categories of your own, where these are important to you):

•Career - What level do you want to reach in your career, or what do you want to achieve?

•Financial - How much do you want to earn, by what stage? How is this related to your career goals?

•Education - Is there any knowledge you want to acquire in particular? What information and skills will you need to have in order to achieve other goals?

•Family - Do you want to be a parent? If so, how are you going to be a good parent? How do you want to be seen by a partner or by members of your extended family?

•Artistic - Do you want to achieve any artistic goals?

•Attitude - Is any part of your mindset holding you back? Is there any part of the way that you behave that upsets you? (If so, set a goal to improve your behavior or find a solution to the problem.)

•Physical - Are there any athletic goals that you want to achieve, or do you want good health deep into old age? What steps are you going to take to achieve this?

•Pleasure - How do you want to enjoy yourself? (You should ensure that some of your life is for you!)

•Public Service - Do you want to make the world a better place? If so, how?

Spend some time brainstorming these things, and then select one or more goals in each category that best reflect what you want to do. Then consider trimming again so that you have a small number of really significant goals that you can focus on.

As you do this, make sure that the goals that you have set are ones that you genuinely want to achieve, not ones that your parents, family, or employers might want. (If you have a partner, you probably want to consider what he or she wants - however, make sure that you also remain true to yourself!)

Tip:

You may also want to read our article on Personal Mission Statements. Crafting a personal mission statement can help bring your most important goals into sharp focus.

Step 2: Setting Smaller Goals
Once you have set your lifetime goals, set a five-year plan of smaller goals that you need to complete if you are to reach your lifetime plan.

Then create a one-year plan, six-month plan, and a one-month plan of progressively smaller goals that you should reach to achieve your lifetime goals. Each of these should be based on the previous plan.

Then create a daily To-Do List of things that you should do today to work towards your lifetime goals.

At an early stage, your smaller goals might be to read books and gather information on the achievement of your higher level goals. This will help you to improve the quality and realism of your goal setting.

Finally review your plans, and make sure that they fit the way in which you want to live your life.

Tip:

If you feel that you're not paying enough attention to certain areas of your life, you"ll find our articles on The Wheel of Life and the Life/Career Rainbow useful.

Staying on Course

Once you've decided on your first set of goals, keep the process going by reviewing and updating your To-Do List on a daily basis.

Periodically review the longer term plans, and modify them to reflect your changing priorities and experience. (A good way of doing this is to schedule regular, repeating reviews using a computer-based diary.)

SMART Goals

A useful way of making goals more powerful is to use the SMART mnemonic. While there are plenty of variants (some of which we've included in parenthesis), SMART usually stands for:

•S - Specific (or Significant).

•M - Measurable (or Meaningful).

•A - Attainable (or Action-Oriented).

•R - Relevant (or Rewarding).

•T - Time-bound (or Trackable).

For example, instead of having "To sail around the world" as a goal, it's more powerful to say "To have completed my trip around the world by December 31, 2015." Obviously, this will only be attainable if a lot of preparation has been completed beforehand!

Further Goal Setting Tips
The following broad guidelines will help you to set effective, achievable goals:
•State each goal as a positive statement - Express your goals positively – "Execute this technique well" is a much better goal than "Don't make this stupid mistake."
•Be precise: Set precise goals, putting in dates, times and amounts so that you can measure achievement. If you do this, you'll know exactly when you have achieved the goal, and can take complete satisfaction from having achieved it.
•Set priorities - When you have several goals, give each a priority. This helps you to avoid feeling overwhelmed by having too many goals, and helps to direct your attention to the most important ones.
•Write goals down - This crystallizes them and gives them more force.
•Keep operational goals small - Keep the low-level goals that you're working towards small and achievable. If a goal is too large, then it can seem that you are not making progress towards it. Keeping goals small and incremental gives more opportunities for reward.
•Set performance goals, not outcome goals - You should take care to set goals over which you have as much control as possible. It can be quite dispiriting to fail to achieve a personal goal for reasons beyond your control!

In business, these reasons could be bad business environments or unexpected effects of government policy. In sport, they could include poor judging, bad weather, injury, or just plain bad luck.

If you base your goals on personal performance, then you can keep control over the achievement of your goals, and draw satisfaction from them.

•Set realistic goals - It's important to set goals that you can achieve. All sorts of people (for example, employers, parents, media, or society) can set unrealistic goals for you. They will often do this in ignorance of your own desires and ambitions.

It's also possible to set goals that are too difficult because you might not appreciate either the obstacles in the way, or understand quite how much skill you need to develop to achieve a particular level of performance.

Achieving Goals

Mind Tools on Goal Setting:

•Goal Setting Main Page

•Personal Goal Setting

•Locke's Goal Setting Theory

•Golden Rules of Goal Setting

•Backward Goal Setting

•Making New Year Resolutions

•Using Well-Formed Outcomes in Goal Setting

When you've achieved a goal, take the time to enjoy the satisfaction of having done so. Absorb the implications of the goal achievement, and observe the progress that you've made towards other goals.

If the goal was a significant one, reward yourself appropriately. All of this helps you build the self-confidence you deserve.

With the experience of having achieved this goal, review the rest of your goal plans:
•If you achieved the goal too easily, make your next goal harder.

•If the goal took a dispiriting length of time to achieve, make the next goal a little easier.

•If you learned something that would lead you to change other goals, do so.

•If you noticed a deficit in your skills despite achieving the goal, decide whether to set goals to fix this.

Tip:

Our article, Golden Rules of Goal Setting, will show you how to set yourself up for success when it comes to your goals. If you're still having trouble, you might also want to try Backward Goal Setting.

Failing to meet goals does not matter much, just as long as you learn from the experience.

Feed lessons learned back into your goal setting. Remember too that your goals will change as time goes on. Adjust them regularly to reflect growth in your knowledge and experience, and if goals do not hold any attraction any longer, consider letting them go.

Goal Setting Example

For her New Year's Resolution, Susan has decided to think about what she really wants to do with her life.

Her lifetime goals are as follows:

•Career - "To be managing editor of the magazine that I work for."

•Artistic - "To keep working on my illustration skills. Ultimately I want to have my own show in our downtown gallery."

•Physical - "To run a marathon."

Now that Susan has listed her lifetime goals, she then breaks down each one into smaller, more manageable goals.

Let's take a closer look at how she might break down her lifetime career goal - becoming managing editor of her magazine:

•Five-year goal: "Become deputy editor."

•One-year goal: "Volunteer for projects that the current Managing Editor is heading up."

•Six-month goal: "Go back to school and finish my journalism degree."

•One-month goal: "Talk to the current managing editor to determine what skills are needed to do the job."

•One-week goal: "Book the meeting with the Managing Editor."

As you can see from this example, breaking big goals down into smaller, more manageable goals makes it far easier to see how the goal will get accomplished.

Tip:
A good way of getting going with this is to use the Mind Tools Life Plan Workbook. Supported by worksheets and advice, this guides you through a simple 5-step process for setting your life goals, and for organizing yourself for success.

Key Points

Goal setting is an important method of:

•Deciding what you want to achieve in your life.

•Separating what's important from what's irrelevant, or a distraction.

•Motivating yourself.

•Building your self-confidence, based on successful achievement of goals.

Set your lifetime goals first. Then, set a five-year plan of smaller goals that you need to complete if you are to reach your lifetime plan. Keep the process going by regularly reviewing and updating your goals. And remember to take time to enjoy the satisfaction of achieving your goals when you do so.
If you don't already set goals, do so, starting now. As you make this technique part of your life, you'll find your career accelerating, and you'll wonder how you did without it!

The Power of the Tongue

noreply@blogger.com (BodylonNetworks) — Wed, 1 Dec 2010 11:42:00 -0800

There is an old proverb with a lot of wisdom. It says, “The tongue has the power of life and death, and whoever loves it will eat its fruit.” It is so true. What we say has the ability to create situations, emotions, and thoughts in others. A kind word helps people, negative words hurt – sometimes for a very long time. Most of the time we think of this concept in relation to how we treat others and that is good. In fact, I wrote an article in the last month or so called “The Power of Praising People.” If you missed it, you can get it at the website. But here I want to talk about this concept in relation to ourselves. How does what we say affect us? Tremendously. There is a simple principle here. Only say things that will create in you positive emotions, thoughts, feelings, and ultimately, actions. Let me give you a good example. We do not allow the words “I can’t” in our house. Why? Because we CAN! The very minimum is “I’ll try.” We ask our kids to say “I’ll try.” If we allow our kids, or ourselves, to fall into the trap of saying “I can’t,” guess what? We won’t! And that’s not good, is it? Do you tell yourself negative thoughts during the day? Most of us can fall into that temptation, can’t we? I was working the other day and I was brewing over something bad that had happened and I was just getting bent out of shape. So I stopped, realized I had the power to choose what I was saying to myself and began to think about and tell myself good things. And my day changed for the better. Have you ever been in your backswing on the golf course and said to yourself, “I am going to shank this one.” What happens? You shank it. This actually happens to me. So what do I do? I stop my backswing, reset myself, and tell myself I am going to hit it straight down the fairway. What happens? About half the time I hit it straight, the other half, I shank it, but increasing your ability is a future article! At the very least I increase my chances of performing better. Bad thoughts almost guarantee my failure, while good thoughts increase my chances for success dramatically.

A salesman may see someone walk through his door and say to himself, “I’m not going to be able to make this sale.” I can’t. I won’t. Some of us aren’t even aware that we talk negatively to ourselves. Take some time today to think about what you say to yourself. Maybe ask a close friend if you have this habit. If you find yourself doing this, it is time to change! Now, don’t get me wrong. Self-talk is not a substitute for effort and ability, but it is a strong helping factor. Find some simple phrases that will help you get through the day with more success. Whatever your situation or work is, I am sure there are specific things you can say that will build you up and stick you on the road to success! The words that you use and the conversations you have with yourself create things in you. They can create positive things or negative things. It is our choice. The tongue has the power of life and death. This is why it is so important to be diligent in using the power of the tongue to create a positive force in our lives. Remember, your tongue has power. Use it! Chris Widener is a popular speaker and writer as well as the President of Made for Success and Extraordinary Leaders, two companies helping individuals and
organizations turn their potential into performance, succeed in every area of their lives and achieve their dreams.

CHANGE YOUR DESTINY

noreply@blogger.com (BodylonNetworks) — Wed, 1 Dec 2010 11:10:00 -0800

By Alfredo Karras
Wisdom to help you know how to be in this world

Every person sets his or her destiny. This I am sure about. Nothing happens by chance. You make a plan and decide to make it happen. Your mind is a powerful magnet that will attract to you the things you identify yourself with. If you have sad thoughts, you will attract tragedies. If you are a good man, you will attract the company of good people. The stronger your will, the clearer and more defined your goals will be and the greater the ‘coincidences’ that will appear in front of you, helping you get where you wish – Heaven or hell. You decide what you want. If a man writes perfectly, but does not know a lot about calculations, is he handicapped compared to an eminent mathematician? And the mathematician is handicapped compared to the scribbler? Is a swordsman handicapped because he cannot sing? Is a man handicapped for not having wings to fly or gills to breathe under water? We are responsible for each action, each word, each thought. Nobody can escape from this responsibility. Our words, deeds and thoughts have an effect and that effect may be short-term or longterm but be sure, there are consequences and we must deal with those consequences.Be good. But do not be good only to those who please you; be good to everyone who exists. This is for your own welfare. If you have bad feelings in your heart, you are vulnerable to evil and suffering. But, if there are only good things in your heart, the bad things that people wish you or put in your path will merely bounce off such a wall of good and will reflect back to the one who wished it to you. Your only protection from what is evil is being good. If we know why we are suffering it is easier to bear the suffering. But if you don’t know the reason you can only count on one thing to withstand the suffering: self-strength. It may be more difficult, but this way your spirit gets stronger, becomes totally serene and dominates all the passions. You learn the lessons that the suffering has to teach. It is more difficult, but it is better not to know the reason. Superior are those who, with best intentions, serve their brothers.Inferior are those who, by the power of the sword and the word, make others serve them. Happier and blessed is the one who gives, not the one who receives. Real power is not being tied to the things of this world. Thirst for the things of this world is insatiable and turns into agony because it can never be satisfied. The happiness that comes from wealth and disposing of lives is dull and short-lived; it is frequently threatened by usurpers, betrayers, diseases and finally death. But the person who knows that power is made of light and does not wish to be anything but life in all its prime, finds all the wealth in existence: love, friendship and peace. And so that person is happy, because not even death can take these things from him. And this is the greatest power one can wish. Instead of surrounding yourself with two hundred smarmy people, surround yourself with two friends who appreciate you for who you are, independently of what you own. Two hundred smarmy people will abandon you when you most need them, but two friends will be your legitimate army. Can’t you see that the dream that sprouts in your hearts is your mission on Earth? Live. Evolve. Don’t be afraid of learning. Many of you have got dreams, but do not have the courage to follow them.

Brazilian author Alfredo Karras’s first novel ‘Be’ has been published by Smink Works Books. Imagine if you knew how to change your destiny. Now you can. Following the orders of his King, knight
Henrique sets out to ruin many lives and conquer riches, wielding lies and violence to achieve his aims. But these plans eventually fall apart and this cruel knight is forced to face the truths of life. And so his powerful journey begins. Important revelations about human existence see Henrique embark on a path where he shares his knowledge about how to ‘be’ in this world.

Amazing Three House

noreply@blogger.com (BodylonNetworks) — Wed, 2 Jun 2010 10:18:00 -0700

SEAT DOWN AND LOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IMAGINE THE REALITY OF LIFE

****it real having a comfort right anywhere you prefer

*****whts does look like???

@ construction level, consider the tasks involved.... but to make what they want ....

yes! the big is done eventually....... now enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

in another form, just call it abode when you have a place to keep your head from rain and sun....

i meant very inside the top room, you get to fill the drill... check out

What is the New Jerusalem?

noreply@blogger.com (BodylonNetworks) — Thu, 13 May 2010 08:43:00 -0700

What is the New Jerusalem?

CHANGE YOUR THOUGHTS, CHANGE YOUR RESULTS

noreply@blogger.com (BodylonNetworks) — Wed, 3 Feb 2010 03:38:00 -0800

Did you know that the quality of your life is dependent on the quality of your thoughts?
Your thoughts can work for you or against you. The mind has the ability to do either.

You know you need to change how you think or your mind will continue doing what it

thinks it should. Old patterns need to be broken and new ones established.

Isn't it really time to:

• Increase your choices through effective new behaviours and habits

• Stop recycling obsessive thoughts

• Overcome social anxiety

• Raise your self esteem

• Take charge of your fears

• Reawaken your creativity

• Clarify and accomplish your goals

Apart from the logical mind, as a spiritual being, you have the power within you to

create the life you want to live. Therefore, it rests solely with you to improve your present circumstances whatever they may be.

You must understand that you are the one who has created your present situation and that

you have complete control over whatever changes you want to see in your life. Bringing

about the outcomes you desire requires relatively little effort.

Manifesting your desired outcomes is governed by the immutable Law of the Universe --

The Law of Cause and Effect. Your thoughts are the "cause" and what is materialized

on the physical plane is the "effect." You have no control over the effect; however, you

can influence the cause.

Each event that you see unfolding in your life results from your thoughts, whether

conscious or unconscious. Therefore, by controlling what you think about, you have the

ability to bring about what you want to see in physical form.

The Law of Cause and Effect can never fail: “you reap (actualize) what you sow (think

about),” regardless of whether you are conscious of the latter or not. Famed psychologist

Carl Jung said, “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and

you will call it fate.” You must, therefore, endeavour to be aware of your thoughts as

much as possible at all times.

As the thinker of your thoughts, you are also the creator of your circumstances. A thought

that creates an impression on your subconscious mind is ultimately manifested in your

material world. The Universe cannot help to bring about outcomes that are contrary to the

thoughts you’re thinking.

Ill health, lack, poor relationships and similar negatives that you do not want in your life

are the effect produced by your thoughts. Focusing on them to bring about change is

futile. It will only create more of the same in your life.

ARE YOU MOTIVATED?

noreply@blogger.com (BodylonNetworks) — Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:02:00 -0800

Are you motivated to get motivated? Too often, we place emphasis on material things - money or the stuff it buys us - as the root of our motivations. Instead, focus on achievements, goals, personal satisfaction to spur motivation.

How to Motivate Yourself and Stay Motivated

What motivates us to do the things that we do? Why do we think and behave as we do? What influences people to do what they do?

Is all because of that one word MONEY, which drives us to do what we do? I think not.

The word "motivation" means different things to different people. One thing for sure is that you can't buy a jar of it: it has to come from within yourself. A person's brain needs constant motivational input just as muscles need exercise, engines need petrol and plants need water.

I used to think that motivation was a slick American fad and that it wasn't for me. After all, I was very motivated already!

People are the product of their thoughts and the aim of motivational material is to improve the quality of your thoughts. Motivation is nothing more than encouragement and we all perform better for it. Friends of mine say that I am a good motivator, because I simply encourage others.

"We become what we think about all day long."

- Emerson

"Most people think only what everybody else is doing."

- Earl Nightingale

The road to achievement starts with a goal. Implant that goal in your mind and think about it all day long. I am doing that with this manuscript and my goal is to have it published and be an author. I think I have taken the right action steps so far, so that I eventually reach my target. Pay the price by making sacrifices. Take small steps towards your goal every day, instead of occasional bursts of activity.

The principal difference between the average person and the one who is highly successful seems to be in the degree of his or her personal motivation. Motivation is the hidden power in the successful person's arsenal and is the key ingredient for success. Most people, I believe are motivated or have the potential if they are aroused and interested in the activity.

However, one thing is for sure: It is not something someone else can give you. It must be self-generated from within; it is not external "RA RA" hype. In other words, motivation is an inner energy, rather than a fire lit by others.

Strong motivation also stems from a deep rooted belief in what

you are trying to do; it is strongest when it comes from your inner values. This creates a feeling of ENTHUSIASM which is essential in order to remain motivated. Look at the zeal of a missionary or a Jehovah's Witness. The best salesmen are those who get very excited about and have total faith in their products. They sell with a firm conviction that their product is the best available.

What are the main sources of motivation?

What influences people to do as they do? There are many diverse influences. It is difficult to pin-point which one is most important, but some factors are as follows: different cultures, social environment and biological influences (eg. hunger, thirst) in work and in play. Other influences are our thoughts, our perceptions. Everyone is different and unique, so there are great individual differences in our drives.

There are two main sources of motivation: What will happen if you do? What will happen if you don't? For example, your doctor advises you to give up smoking. If you do, you will feel better and live longer; if you don't your health is going to deteriorate. Both sources (and implications) are equally powerful.

There is a strong correlation between motivation and achievement. Highly motivated people are nearly always achievers. Thrill seekers like sky-divers and stuntmen often need to do life threatening activities to keep them motivated. Danger gives them pleasure and keeps them motivated.

Why do we work? Is it just for money or is money merely a short-term issue? I am personally not motivated by money. I prefer interesting and exciting work that offers a challenge and the opportunity for personal growth. Others may feel the need for affiliation or to contribute to society. In the following chapter there is an exercise on this.

Understanding motivation gives us the power to accept our behavior when we have strange reactions. It can also enable us to change what we think and do if we want to improve our behavior or performance. So when going for a job it is critical to understand your motivations. What do you really want and expect from it?

What do others expect of you? Our behavior is directly affected by our needs. If you are clear about the answers you will be happiest.

Theories of motivation:

There are three main theories of motivation:

1. Desire for achievement.

2. Desire for power.

3. Desire for affiliation or a sense of belonging.

These theories are linked to the concept of extrinsic and intrinsic rewards. Extrinsic motivation comes from outside, for example, the prospect of fame, recognition, monetary rewards, gaining power, respect or social approval/belonging ( =sense of affiliation). With intrinsic rewards, the task or situation is in itself motivating or compelling. Motivation is often defined in terms of our goals. Marie says that contributing to society by daring to be different is what motivates me - strange! I think that I get bored easily without a challenge. Enough about "little old me"!

There are six main steps or elements in the process of motivation.

1. Desire: First, to be motivated you must have an intense burning desire to get where or what you want.

2. Decision: You must make a conscious decision on what to aim for.

3. Determination: to climb mountains so that absolutely nothing will stop you. You need to be able to repeat the habits which are necessary to get there.

4. Discipline: It is critical to pay the price whether you like it or not. Motivation is strongest when it is the internalization of your goals and dreams, in other words, when you are headed on a clear path in your life's direction.

5. Focus

6. Direction

Certain people have the constant challenge to reach and sustain an optimum level of motivation which overcomes problems and brings results. If there is no challenge in what you are doing, motivation will soon wither and die.

Always remember: The buck starts - and stops - with you.

Self knowledge is the key to self-motivation: - why do we behave as we do? - what makes us tick?

Also critical for motivation is the image or snapshot you have of yourself. This is based on your inner belief in yourself as well as your attitude and views of your strengths and weaknesses. If you believe in yourself and expect success, you will act confidently and be highly motivated.

Key Points of this lesson:

• We must define success for ourselves.

• Be aware of our own strengths and weaknesses.

• Your personal solutions lie within you.

• To sustain motivation, do better than in the past.

• Motivation often comes from a challenge.

• It is necessary at times to make a positive out of a negative.

• The most important thing for an achievement-orientated person is to have a clear goal.

What comes first? The chicken or the egg? Motivation or action? The answer surprisingly is Action. First, we have to prime the pump and the way is through action. People who tend to procrastinate confuse motivation and action.

Water Therapy To Cleanse And Release Toxins From Your Body

noreply@blogger.com (BodylonNetworks) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:36:00 -0800

Water therapy supports free and safe treatment. The water therapy treatment is done without the help of any specialist.

This water therapy is used when you require perfect medicine to cure all sickness.

Drink six glasses (1.5 liters) of water every day and avoid taking medicine, tablets, injections, diagnosis and other treatments.

Process of water therapy treatment:

Water therapy is a very simple treatment. Every day you have to take 1.5 liters of water. If water is not clean then it is required to use clean and boiled water for doing this process.

Then, drink 1.5 liters altogether; after drinking you should not take any food or drink for at least one hour. If you feel difficult in taking 1.5 liters at a time, then you take water gradually (give a gap of 2 minutes after drinking 4 glasses of water).

These 1.5 liters of water will help in cleansing your body. If you follow this process regularly, the toxins are released through sweat or urinal excretions. You should not take any alcohol last night.

You will get following benefits with water therapy:

By water therapy, you can prevent some diseases and cure some diseases. If you drink water sufficiently, then it will help in enhancing your glow of skin and keep you physically fit. Water therapy is used in regulating the temperature of your body.

If you consume water properly then you can be free from constipation. Acidity can be cured with only two sessions.

Diabetes can be cured with seven sessions. You can control hypertension with only four weeks of water therapy. Some cancers are also controlled with water therapy. If you have pulmonary TB, then three months of water therapy will help you.

Water therapy helpful for treating following diseases:

If you suffer from following diseases, follow water therapy. It is alternate natural treatment, so it will not cause any side effects.

Anemia, rheumatism, general paralysis, obesity, arthritis, sinusitis, tachycardia, giddiness, cough, leukemia, asthma [What is Asthma?], bronchitis, meningitis, kidney stones, hyper acidity, dysentery, gastroenteritis, uterus cancer, rectal piodapse, hostorthobics, eye diseases, ophthalmic hemorrhage, irregular menstruation, breast cancer, laryngitis, headache, urogenital diseases.

Properties of water helpful in some of the following conditions:

The physical properties of water are used for treating back pain and other musculoskeletal injuries.

Buoyancy of water will help the patient to support weight and will improve your balance and strength.

The viscosity of water provides resistance by its gentle friction. It will help in strengthening and conditioning of an injury and reduces the risk of injury due to loss of balance.
Hydrostatic pressure of water has powerful effects to improve heart and lung function. This pressure is useful for maintaining and strengthening heart and lung function. This pressure will effect in improving muscle blood flow.

Water therapy is the natural alternate treatment that can be followed by any person at any age of your life time. Water without life is impossible and you can live longer with water. The treatment with water is very simple and you can follow this therapy at your own place.

HE THAT CHANGES NOT

noreply@blogger.com (BodylonNetworks) — Mon, 2 Nov 2009 04:24:00 -0800

"I am the Lord, I change not."

Malachi 3:6

It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows. All things else have changed--all things are changing. The sun itself grows dim with age; the world is waxing old; the folding up of the worn-out vesture has commenced; the heavens and earth must soon pass away; they shall perish, they shall wax old as doth a garment; but there is One who only hath immortality, of whose years there is no end, and in whose person there is no change. The delight which the mariner feels, when, after having been tossed about for many a day, he steps again upon the solid shore, is the satisfaction of a Christian when, amidst all the changes of this troublous life, he rests the foot of his faith upon this truth--"I am the Lord, I change not."

The stability which the anchor gives the ship when it has at last obtained a hold-fast is like that which the Christian's hope affords him when it fixes itself upon this glorious truth. With God "is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." What ever His attributes were of old, they are now; His power, His wisdom, His justice, His truth, is alike unchanged. He has ever been the refuge of His people, their stronghold in the day of trouble, and He is their sure Helper still. He is unchanged in His love. He has loved His people with "an everlasting love"; He loves them now as much as ever He did, and when all earthly things shall have melted in the last conflagration, His love will still wear the dew of its youth. Precious is the assurance that He changes not! The wheel of providence revolves, but its axle is eternal love.

"Death and change are busy ever,

Man decays, and ages move;

But His mercy waneth never;

God is wisdom, God is love."

WORLD DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2011

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Conflict, Security and Development

The Challenge

Violent conflict and state fragility are major development challenges: conflict causes misery, destroys communities and infrastructure, and can cripple economic prospects. A quarter of states eligible for assistance from the International Development Association (IDA) are experiencing conflict, and poverty rates in these countries are far worse than in IDA countries as a whole. Many other IDA countries are considered fragile, and thereby at risk of violent conflict. Nor is conflict confined to poor countries: a number of middle- and high-income nations are affected by severe sub-national and crime-related violence. Conflict does not respect borders, with serious spillovers from conflict-affected countries contributing to regional destabilization, globalized terrorism, drug trafficking and refugee flows.

Addressing Conflict and Fragility
Building peaceful nation-states which respond to the aspirations of their citizens takes strong leadership, both international and domestic. The international community has an important role to play in assisting countries to avoid, contain and recover from conflict, and the recent past demonstrates how much can be achieved when global and national incentives align, and program implementation is appropriately designed and well-managed. Too often, though, efforts have failed to decisively address the motives and opportunities which help to mobilize violent conflict; to integrate political, security and development approaches; or to align local, national, regional and global actions. As a result, some areas have seen new waves of conflict and violence in recent years and some “post-conflict countries” have not yet managed to make a decisive shift to successful and stable development.

The goal of the World Development Report 2011 is to contribute concrete, practical suggestions to the debate on how to address conflict and fragility. Since solutions involve cooperation between a wide variety of actors at local, national, regional and global levels, the WDR process will invest considerable effort in reaching out to a range of different players and communities . ...Read more/less

The report will discuss:

Trends, Causes, Consequences: The WDR will review key thinking on the evolution of violent conflict and fragility and on its causes; it will also assess the human and economic devastation caused by various types of conflict.
Key Ingredients of Successful short and Medium Term Responses:Among the key contributors to stability and prosperity are strong leadership, popular legitimacy, and policy approaches which can successfully integrate security, justice, voice and opportunities for economic advancement. The WDR will analyze the evolution of policies designed to address conflict and fragility, and will assess the extent to which they have been effective in helping prevent or resolve conflict. This involves paying particular attention to:

.Short-term confidence building in the political, development and social spheres. While each context is different and there is no blueprint, the WDR will look for general lessons on short terms actions which help to generate confidence (and, importantly, those which undermine confidence); adaptation of programs to political goals; and delivery of results on the ground in decentralised locations.

.Medium-term confidence building to prevent risks of lapse or relapse through institutional and state-building approaches. To facilitate a long-term exit from fragility and sustain peace and development, two elements emerge as requiring further consideration. These are building the institutions which can sustain productive citizen-state engagement, and decreasing the opportunity to mobilize financial, human and other resources for purposes of conflict, crime and violence.

Gaps in Policy and Implementation, and Proposed Remedies: Among the issues likely to be addressed are more effective ways to support responsible local leadership, develop conflict prevention strategies at both national and regional levels, improve coordination between policy communities (in particular, security, state-building and development actors), nurture institutions suited to specific local contexts, implement critical but under-funded interventions and focus attention on the decentralized provision of basic services and economic opportunities.

Approach and Methodology
In addition to reviewing the state of research and policy-formation on fragility and conflict, the WDR will research a series of case studies of historical and ongoing conflicts. Given the multiplicity of stakeholders, several complimentary approaches will be used to ensure that a sufficient number of actors are consulted over the 12-month WDR cycle. The consultation process takes account of the progressive engagement on these issues by the regional institutions and middle income countries, which now play important roles in conflict response, peace-keeping and state-building.

A WDR Advisory Council will be formed to offer guidance and comment on emerging WDR thinking; the Council will consist of leaders and individuals of global repute from countries and organizations across the globe.
While carrying out case studies, the WDR team will hold a series of in-field roundtables and colloquia, thereby capturing a broad spectrum of informed local experience and opinion.
A series of expert brainstorming sessions will be held in locations in different regions, to which prominent academics, practitioners, policy-makers and civil society representatives will be invited in order to share their knowledge and discuss WDR perspectives.
The WDR team will interact intensively with international and bilateral organizations involved in peacekeeping, state-building and the economic development of fragile and conflict-affected states, including the United Nations, regional political and economic organizations, international financial institutions, NGOs and the private sector. This will help the WDR reflect new interagency approaches to conflict and fragility.

With the report itself as the centerpiece, this WDR is aiming to stimulate a wide-ranging debate on issues considered critical at this juncture of history, and to capitalize on the current surge in attention to this topic. Key to this will be an intensive communications strategy, designed both to help the WDR team access a range of good thinking and to increase popular access to the subjects under discussion. To enrich the WDR’s empirical base and to communicate with diverse audiences, the WDR will make use of the web and social media, will conduct and publish interviews with leaders and individuals impacted by conflict, and will use video and film to underline the realities of conflict and the development challenge it poses.

PAULBODYLON

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