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Saw this: http://media.wildcat.arizona.edu/media/sto...k-2671144.shtml if the link dies, just google "moon light therapy"

I know that this has been discussed before, but the search function doesn't go for 3 character searches and "emotional freedome technique" didn't dig anything up. Any links or thoughts are appreciated! I was just reading this mini-course on eft: http://www.mercola.com/forms/eftcourse2.htm and it makes sense to me. I'll check it out.

it's a great on-the-fly solar plexus tuning!

very interesting article, thanks. I only skimmed it so far... did RK Jr bring up President Kennedy's election antics? I've heard it said that many counties are moving back to having a paper trail.

I think this is the best summary of the Bhagavad Gita. A philosophy needs to be able to fit on a bumper sticker to work.

what color should the taobums be?

It's the feeling that manifests reality and is easier to become aware of than thoughts. To the best of my knowledge 'the law of attraction' was coined back in the day by Earnest Holmes. Intentionally manifesting something for that thing's sake doesn't work too well, so there's a built in guard against the whole thing being "too materialistic" although that seems to be the focus of The Secret. It's only when you are focusing on the desire for the bliss and the fun behind it, does the whole thing click. It does fit Krishna's advice to Arjuna when he complained about having to kill friends and family in an ugly civil war born of petty motivations... just go out and have fun and don't worry your pretty little head over the fruit of your work. -Yoda

Once you hit Oprah then the secret is no longer a secret. When I was a kid, there was Autobiography of a Yogi and that was about it!! We've come a long ways in very little time. I look forward to checking out what my next life parents will have in their bookshelf... it's going to rock!!

dude.

great thread. Wayfarer, thanks for sharing. Trees rock.

fun!

One of the big theme's in Robbins survey of healthy and long living cultures in "Healthy at 100" is that long lived people don't eat much. On the same note, here's "How to live to 100 years" by some dude who did so in the 1600s: http://www.fredericpatenaude.com/pdf/howtolive100years.pdf Since the writing style is slow going, I'll summarize it: At age 40 he had serious health problems and decided to practice calorie restriction to heal. It worked and he wrote his book in his late 70s and lived to 98-106. He described his health and energy level in his late 70s to be better than that of his late 30s. Also, he enjoyed more tranquility and happiness by reducing his calories as well. He describes the manner of dying with this mindset and level of great health being much more peaceful and natural, more like an oil lamp naturally running out of oil, rather than dying through avoidable and premature glitchiness when there's still plenty of oil in the lamp. Of course, it sounds like he knew about the virtues of calorie restriction his whole life but it took something extreme for him to actually practice it. With all the rat research and the monkey research starting to come in, it seems very likely that there is something to this. It is very refreshing to see a longevity guru actually living to 100!

The example of the taoist who forgets to eat for a few days reminds me of several kids I know... lots of kids are near inedian. If their mothers didn't make them pick at their food, I bet they'd do a lot of fasting.

That's a whole different thread, a good question to ponder, and nicely articulated. I bonk into this issue all the time. Esther Hicks says that forcing an action/discipline that one isn't vibrationally lined up for is counter productive. I have a pal in real estate who makes a million a year. When the rest of us agents copy his actions, we don't come up with the same results... what's up with that? In the world of sales trainers, 1 in 100 can copy the actions and get the same results. Whether an action will work or not has everything to do with how you feel about it. If you fast but you think it'll be harmful then the mental negativity might could outweigh the physical benefits. Then again, if you never challenge yourself you might end up under stimulated. Luigi tries to address this in his Discourses... he says it takes willpower born of certainty that this path is beneficial. In his last discourse, he is 95 and has perfect eyes, teeth, singing voice, humor, work ethic, community service, altruism, energy level, etc etc... really sells it. His detractors say that he has great genetics and he counters by saying that he was on death's door at 40. Like a sales trainer, I'm sure many have enjoyed his inspiration but only 1 in 10 gave it a shot and 1 in 10 of those actually were able to make it work.

I'll do it!

Mbanu, Interesting angle, you could well be right. Still, I have noticed references to fasting and exertion mixing nicely. Richard Marcinko when he was busy killing Buddhists as a SEAL in Vietnam (for his sake, I hope karma theory doesn't hold), wouldn't carry any food on him. He didn't mention the heightened senses which would have been very handy in the jungle, but he says the main motive was to be able to carry more ammo. Their missions were usually two days or less, so it wasn't long term fasting and he certainly ate heartily otherwise. The guy in the how to live 100 years article says that he's much stronger and vigorous on a low calorie diet than he was otherwise. Having said that, some of these calorie restriction people look very sickly, weak, and low energy to me... exactly what you are talking about. Maybe overdoing it is the issue? I'm guessing this point has been addressed in the rodent research. -Yoda

I've heard that scientists are hot on the scent of thingies like that which may help us bypass the whole calorie restriction thing. I hope it works, but I doubt they'll ever find anything 100% as effective. From my fasting experiments, I believe that the entire animal kingdom has evolved to function the best when eating intermittently. Just a hunch, though.

great map! It looks like they live longer in India than we do in the USA! Surprising.

"My name is Yoda and I'm a stillness alcoholic" I gotta do it everyday or I start buying canned foods and shotguns.

I am hoping for warmer temperatures. V- Thanks for the snowball info. Trippy stuff.

Voice, Thanks for the clarification. How certain are they of the snowball thing? The vibe I got was 80%ish. -Yoda

As an aside, many scientists believe that earth was frozen solid pole to pole or nearly so about 800 million years ago. In any case, it was pretty durn cold around then.

Well, I couldn't find a graph for beginning of earth to present, but here's 500 million years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record They say that the last 500 million years is considered the modern era, but 500 million years is still pretty recent news.

sounds cool! Do post it on HT.

Cool thread! I think that human induced global warming is real and there's pretty much a consensus on this w/in the scientific community, and getting anything of a consensus is hard to do. It took forever for them to agree that exercise is good or smoking is bad, etc. Here's something they don't tell you though: the earth is currently in the middle of an ice age. There used to be forests and dinosaurs all over Antarctica, for instance. Sure, it'll be a pain if both ice caps actually melt, but we all can manage somehow. Huge temperature variations is business as usual for Mother Earth and she seems to prefer her planet to be a toastier place than it is today.