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WHAT I LEARNED FROM POPE JOHN PAUL II
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I am not a Catholic, but I felt a deep loss when Pope John Paul II took ill and then died. That’s what happens to us with public people–we connect with them even if we didn’t know them. Remember when JFK was shot? When Princess Di was killed? We invite these men and women into our hearts, we live through them, and when they die, we are affected. We embrace them, and they become part of our family. All you afternoon soap fans will know exactly what I am talking about!

I learned important life-lessons from Pope John Paul II, and I would like to share some of them with you. He was consistent in his message, never wavering and always being crystal clear about what the Church stood for. Perhaps that explains whay he was always surrounded by so many adoring young people. It was unusual, don’t you think, for an 80-year-old man to be cheered and adored by teen-agers and Gen-Xers. But perhaps not so surprising–they knew “where he was coming from,” and agree or disagree, the messenger could always be trusted. What an important messgage for us parents!

He was serene in his illness. He was never afraid, even when we all were. He knew he was dying, but it never “defined” him. He saw himself as a Pope who was ill, not a walking illness who happened to be the Pope! He did everyhing he could to retain the spark of holiness with which God created him, and at the end, we knew that the Universe had lost a Master of Holiness. Jewish Tradition might even call him a Tzaddik, a living breathing exemplar of a higher level spirit, an reminder of what you and I might become in our own lives

It will be several hours until the alarm buzzes, but suddenly a man bolts up to a near-sitting position in bed. The room is peaceful, yet he’s terrified, and can’t immediately reason why. Then, after convincing himself that all’s calm and he’s safe, he begins to unravel a few details of what has just scared him awake.

Another alarm sounds and a woman shuts it off, pulls the covers over her head and tries desperately to return to what was so abruptly interrupted. There were flowers and a blue sky. She was sixteen and size eight again.

In another house, a five year old runs into her parent’s bedroom, waking them at 2.00 a.m. because she woke up to find a monster sitting on her lampshade.

Dreams can be convincing. They can be prophetic. They can also be elusive. Some people swear they never have them, while others have almost total recall of a great number of them. Some people can even get totally engrossed in a semi-dream state during the day.

Researchers have a variety of theories explaining the phenomenon of dreaming. Some say that dreams help us get back in touch with our inner individual self. This is reinforced whenever we’re confronted with a problem that hasn’t been solved by the end of the day and we’re told to “sleep on it,” as if the answer is going to somehow sashay to the surface later in the night.

Another theory is that dreaming is our mind’s way of cleaning the clutter from our mental computer so we can retain the more important stuff. This might explain why we wake up tired…we’ve simply swept our brains too much during the night. Often, students study directly before going to sleep, thinking that the information will be more easily retained and recalled the next day.

Yet another theory for dreaming is that it helps us understand what we’ve seen, felt and experienced, in somewhat of an information assimilation process. That it acts as our own personal housekeeper and file clerk.

Apparently, we’re all quite active during sleep time. Scientists say that we sleep each night in 4 or 5, ninety-minute stages. It is during the REM (Rapid Eye Movement) stage that we do our best dreaming. We have a dream segment approximately every 90 minutes. Usually though, we won’t remember any of them unless we’ve been interrupted and awakened while they were happening.

It seems that if you’ve mastered the art of “lucid dreaming” you can control the conversation and action and pretty much have things your way. As of yet though, I’ve never been able to do that, asleep or awake.

There are many dream interpretation books available, but chances are you know someone who immediately explains your dream by saying, “Well, you obviously must have been thinking about it sometime that day.” (”Yes, Aunt Clarese, I was thinking about a barking bat taking off with my blow dryer earlier at lunch today.”)

Certain circumstances can affect the type of dreams we have. Eating food a short time before going to sleep can pave the way for some unique experiences. Or watching a scary movie can increase the odds that you’ll have a scary dream that night. Stress and worry can also affect our dreams.

I guess I don’t mind entering the somewhat fantasy world of a dream, as long as there are no ten foot tap-dancing artichokes yelling advice and trying to sell me a condo on the beach. But forget them or recall them, ignore them or try to interpret them…dreams are a part of our life and it’s for our benefit that they’re going to continue to be.

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When we think about mobiles, there are regularly the popular few that pop into our brains and are the most famous, obviously I am thinking of 3G, 02, Orange, T Mobile the well known Vodafone.

Founded in the 1980s as Rascal Telecom, the mobile company after became independent in 1991. Based in Berkshire UK; the business are the largest mobile network company in the world by sales and has a market value of near to 75 billion pounds. They have equity interests in 28 nations across five continents, 186.8 million proportionate mobile phone users and more than thirty partner mobile networks. Compare Vodafone Deals with MobileShop.

In over 20 years the mobile firm have been in the driving seat of the telephone innovation. The mobile retailer is preferred by so many people because the mobile retailer is well recognised for their good service. The mobile business channels huge investments into enlarging a mobile phone network that lets every one of their mobile phone clients make more telephone calls from more areas than any other cell phone company, cheaply and while continuing to continue providing top quality and reliability to all there clients. In the last 3 years the business has reduced there costs more than five times, as if they had cut their rates and services by 50 per cent per client. The organisation has improved its range of low cost handsets and introduced further flexible payment schemes.

Handset technology is upgrading fast every week. The organisation knows that their clientele are their main concern and therefore the mobile corporation feel the responsibility to make sure that the users can use all the services safely and confidently. What makes the mobile firm the top network to choose is that the mobile organisation actually care about what their users think. Even if you do have queries there’s no need to dread calling as all their call centres can be found in the UK and will be able to assist you find an answer to your issues and queries very quickly. The retailer always ask their mobile phone customers about specific experiences of using the mobile retailer as their specific company and what they can do to make it better for their customers.

When the brain is asleep and in REM dream mode it has distinct patterns not found in normal waking states. When people who are dreaming are hooked up to machines the REM mode of sleep is quite evident. Have you ever woke up in the middle of a really good dream? Then sometimes you can fall back asleep and go right to where you left off and other times you just can’t? This is a real problem for humans. I have an idea to help fix this problem.

Using very low frequency waves which interact with the brain on a very small level; a device would begin to record the fluctuations in frequencies upon the brain entering an REM state. These fluctuations would be stored on a hard drive of the device to play later. If you forgot a really good dream and wanted to re-think it in a wakeful state you could simply listen to it on a set of headphones. The sounds would not talk to you or have an actual speech audio. Instead they would produce waves similar to the dream, by using the difference of each speaker in each ear to mimic the frequency during the desired REM session while sleeping.

If you woke up in the middle of a dream you could simply turn the machine on at the point of the beginning of the dream and replay it while you fell asleep. Your mind would instantly pick back up where you left off. If you had super great dreams as we all have. You save the very best ones for positive biofeedback, which would help your positive attitude and psyche. Of course this could also boost your immune system as well. You might even find yourself in a dream, which you were running or doing strenuous exercise. Playing this back over and over again might assist your body into mimicking such a workout and turn you body onto a fat burning mode.

You challenge dreams where you had to over come a fear could be played over and over again, until you conquered the monster, fear or challenge. If in fact you had a nightmare type dream. Playing such dream as you lucid dreaming could unleash powers of the mind and be incredible for your life indeed. The system would be placed on each of the nightstands by your bed and you head would sit in the field of an ELF beam. The machine would turn on and record during the REM state and begin to record.

I propose someone build this machine and make them cheap enough for the average citizen. I propose to get the price down to under $150.00 and a website be made for dream traders, who could sell their best dreams to others on a CDROM or swap them with loved ones, relatives or those of similar genetics. Dream on this and then think about it.

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1.To have your needs met.

No matter how legitimate you feel they are, or how obligated you feel the other party is to you, it isn’t a requirement, and sometimes isn’t even possible. Learn to meet your own needs!

2.To feel good about everything all the time.

You can survive negative emotions (they don’t last long), and taking your emotional temperature all the time is counter-productive.

3.To be the center of the universe.

There are always other people, and other wills to consider. Be willing to be the trailer sometimes, not the main attraction. It isn’t always about you.

4.To have your expectations met.

The lower your expectations, in fact, the better you’re likely to feel, because then you can only be happily surprised. Deal with intention, not expectations. How you intend to be, and act; not how you expect things to be, or others to act. You can experience great joy planning a trip. When it doesn’t live up to your expectations, be glad you had the planning process! As Eisenhauer (US president) said, planning is useless, but necessary.

5.To dish out what you don’t want to get back.

Self-fulfilling prophecies are all too often true. If you’re bitter and cynical and expect the worst, that’s likely what you’re going to get. If you expect the best from others, that’s also what you’re likely to get.

6.Justice.

Yes, it’s supposedly one of your inalienable rights, but that’s not always what you’ll get in real life. Bad things do happen to good people. However, quite often if you look back on events, you will see they worked out for the best in the long run. While life is not always fair, there is a sort of rough justice out there. It takes perspective, however …

7.To lie and sleep well at night.

Authenticity has its own rewards, one of them being that you can look in the mirror and like the person you look at.

8.To judge and criticize others and feel good about yourself.

When we judge others, we’re asking for the same in return. It’s often allied to perfectionism, which is a formula designed to make you miserable. Demanding perfection of yourself or anyone else is a sure-fire way to be unhappy.

9.Unconditional love.

Even Freud said the only true love was that of a mother for her son (he being a son, of course, to a mother.) Aside from that there are always “conditions” to mortal love and that’s just something you’ll have to deal with.

10.To not be bored.

Your boredom is in your own hands, or rather in your own brain. You must keep generating new experiences and challenges for yourself, and learn to look at old things with new eyes. Your brain needs just the same workout as your body does. Studies are showing we can keep generating new cells and new connections throughout our lifetime WITh the right stimulation.

New toys and new playmates must constantly be sought! Get out of your field, and out of your element often enough to keep yourself interested. It’s up to you!

Why do people go to jail? What caused them to behave this way? What makes them different from everyone else? We can continue asking questions about criminal’s mental health status, but we are never going to find an answer that suits us, simply because there are too many illnesses and few solutions to repairing the illnesses. In fact, some of the causes of criminal behaviors are seated on the criminal justice’s doorstep.

At the beginning of criminal justice came forth a bunch of so-called law enforcement groups that claim to bring forth justice. The twisted theories including flogging, beating, hanging, dismembering, public humiliation, beheading, and the list goes on and on. Therefore, we can see the root of criminals start with the criminal justice system.

We all influenced by someone else and if our superior examples are illustrating violence to others, what message are they sending to the world? In fact, the first-known psychopath was recorded in the early 1800s. This person followed the example of the justice system by behaving in manners inappropriately. Howard owned his own drug store and worked around people each day, saving lives while taking other lives and destroying them.

This is similar to the justice system strategy, since the law saves lives and takes lives. We can also take a look at the various serial killers in our history and see that these people flogged, hung, beat, mutilated, public humiliated his victims, beheaded, dismembered and so forth. While each killer was different from the other, in most cases each had their own strategy to kill and torture another human.

The sad part is the law in these time-tortured individuals that committed less than a felony. What a real bad example to follow, and today the law is still in some areas behaving in this manner. Rapists came in to play when the White Supremacist were allowed to rape the black race and get away with it. Although there was rape, cases before this era the White supremacist provoked sick behaviors in others as they followed closely behind the footsteps.

We can ask why do people kill, and rarely find an answer since we must look at a mountain of history information to find out what the links truly are. We know that people suffer mental illnesses and some are dangerous while others are not. We can also look at the criminal justice system and see that the system is a failure in many areas, and there are people in prison that are innocent or should not be there at all.

We can look at all the examples in our history and see that these people are responsible for some of the behaviors and crimes that go on in the world today. We can also look at the many minds that are locked up in the system to determine why they do what they do. We can also look at society and see how it operates and what part of responsibility they have in the many crimes and criminals actions.

For example, what part do you think racism plays in mental health and crime? Well, I am studying criminal justice today and I can tell you it plays a bigger role than most people believe. What part do the media play in mental health and crime? It too plays a large role. Poverty is another major problem that links crime and mental health or illnesses together.

When a person has no out, they often resort to crime, sometimes starting small and sadly most times leading to bigger crimes. However, we also have the white collar and blue-collar criminals. These people are not as special as they believe, since many criminals worked important jobs, maintained a family, and socialized in society.

In fact, many of the serial killers did not come from deprived homes as claimed by the law. In fact, few came from law biding homes, and most times the person suffering is suffering because he is a child born from a hereditary nation of chaos. We can ask all types of questions but in one article we could never sum of the true colors, since the law, society, political, religions, history, mental illnesses and so on play a part in crime.

Personal coaching is a term that has become very used over the last nine years. The term success coaching first became likeable in the United States of America where, together with NLP, it became part of a new and improved great wave of particularly proactive therapy modalities.

In many ways both Coaching and Neuro Linguistic Programming are an answer against certain factors of the Humanistic movement, in particular Humanistic Counselling. A problem of the humanistic approach is that it is astonishingly reactive and not awfully proactive. Although all that works good with some folk, with other customers long periods of impasse or low return for time and effort occur. Life coaching and Neuro Linguistic Programming are both humanistic therapy in stance, focusing on improving a person?s smiles rather than delving into the minefields of childhood, like traditional therapy. Their emphasis is, however, deliberately proactive and their to resolve your problems.

Personal coaching is not about telling the client what to do. This is a common misconception. Some lifestyle coaches are relatively successful in their business careers and then make the cross over to coaching, thinking that they will only be required to divulge their pearls of awesome wise wisdom with the lifestyle coaching client. This is more like mentoring an apprentice in a specific environment. Personal coaching is instead about life as a whole. Stop smoking easily with a lifestyle coach.

With the scale of transformation taking place in telly machinery now it is valuable to know a little of the critical improvements. This information to liquid crystal display TVs (LCD) examines the specific advantages of the equipment. This insight gives you all the vital facts on how to find the first-class image and makes clear numerous of the most important elements to be aware of when it comes to Liquid Crystal Display televisions.

There are presently two obvious benefits with LCD TVs over Plasma tellies. The first is that LCD televisions might possibly be notably easier to watch when measured against a traditional cathode ray tube (CRT) set. This is generally because TV displays are a good deal brighter with a higher contrast level & flicker free image. Liquid Crystal Display tellies typically work properly in approximately any manner of environment lighting from bright to ambient. Subsequently, Liquid Crystal Display tellies normally have a greater native resolution than plasma TVs of a comparable size making them just right for high-definition output. Although plasma TVs are currently better for sheer screen size, as more and more TV channels come in hi-definition TV (HDTV), LCD items will for certain come to the forefront.

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LCD technology is rather tricky and are growing on a daily basis. This technology is founded upon the fact that liquid crystals are, in their usual condition, warped. The ability of the crystals to let light through can be altered by applying electric voltage. Very straightforwardly put, a light source is shone through a liquid that contains crystals held between two polarised displays. By allowing the correct measure of light to go through, the wanted outcome is formed.

In our lives, days are not always the same. On some days we feel great, other times we have worries. Sometimes we are relaxed, other times we are tensed with worries on our mind.

In these conditions, friends, even the best foods will not be digested-at least properly that is. In addition, considering the many abominable food combinations most of our meals are prepared under and the general use of junk and unnatural substances for consumption, eating when dealing with a problem will quite simply lead to fermentation and poisoning of the body as these items will never be digested.

Strong emotions that characterize depression such as worry, fear, sadness and anger stop the rhythmic conditions of the stomach walls and dry out the stomach as well. As a matter of fact, too much joy and happiness will do likewise.

If you observe angry and frightened animals and even babies, they have a tendency to refrain from eating, until after a passage of considerable time, these emotional states have passed off.

Moreover, it is true that under stressful circumstances many civilized people refrain from eating and find in truth that they lack the desire for food, but it is also too often that most of us will eat large meals under these circumstances, which will be mostly disease forming foods to start with, that as a consequence, complicates or altogether halts an already retarded ongoing digestion.

From all the indications above, a depressed person simply needs a fast (abstinence from eating) not a feast. The body and the mind need all their physical, mental and spiritual energy to meet challenging circumstances and since much energy is actually required to digest, process and assimilate food, one actually could be adding fuel to a fire from eating (especially too much) when under stress.

Perhaps this is why in the Bible and as documented in other religious faiths, when most people in the olden days such as David, Esther and Paul, were facing trying times, they simply retreated to a place of solitude and abstained from eating.

Renowned hygienist, Albert Mosseri, explains it best when he says: “Life’s difficulties are not as overwhelming when the stomach is empty. Calm comes back and discouragement fades away. Enthusiasm is reborn and hope comes back. All the miseries will then seem less important then they first seemed.”

It may not be what would solve the problem at hand but it will help the mind to focus on fixing what the problem is, so friends as a tool for dealing with life’s challenges abstain from eating till the problem is solved. When you succeed at that, then it may be time to have a feast.

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