Living On Purpose

As you may or may not know, I’ve used meditation for much of my adult life. When I found Holosync back in 2003 or so, it saved my marriage! I had sunk to such negative thinking in terms of my marriage, that all I could focus on was a separation. Once I began using the Holosync CD, I could change my thinking and solve my problems from a different angle. I have stuck with it over the years, although recently I seem to be having technical difficulties in keeping a functional CD player in the house because of my “curious” toddler. I believe that Holosync also gave me the courage to build and write this web site, because I have grown in numerous ways over the years I’ve been using it.

So it is not lightly that I recommend this program to you. I am an affiliate, meaning that the company Centerpointe will pay me a small commission for sending you to try their program. So with all honesty, I send you to a new video Centerpointe has created to explain their program. Take some time to watch it, then order their free demo or the first level risk-free, if you want to experience results like I have experienced.

Meditation Benefits Video at Centerpointe

By the way, Bill Harris of Centerpointe has agreed to add some special, unannounced bonuses for my readers, so please make sure to use this link so he knows you’re with us. I want you to get all the extras he’s promised to my readers.

Now, here’s just a “taste” of what The Holosync Solution can do for you…

1) It can allow you to effortlessly reach states of super-deep meditation–even the very first time you use it…

2) It can dramatically accelerate your mental, emotional, and spiritual growth, giving you the results you always THOUGHT you were supposed to get from meditation (but, if you’re like most people, never really got)…

3) It creates healing of emotional traumas and self-imposed limitations forever, even for people who have been unsuccessful with other methods…

4) It actually slows the aging process by stimulating the production of many neurochemicals and other substances in the body that are associated with longevity, well-being, and better health…

5) It can dramatically raise your threshold for stress and cause stress-induced dysfunctional feelings and behaviors (including anger, depression, fear, anxiety, substance abuse, and many others) to fall away…

6) It can increase your self-awareness, inner peace, and happiness, as well as your ability to connect with other people and create successful relationships.

If you’ve tried meditation, or some of those other personal growth approaches that just didn’t deliver, or want to go MUCH deeper, with faster results… or if you just want to grow and improve your life at an accelerated pace, I know you’ll love The Holosync Solution.

I don’t recommend things to my friends and clients lightly. But I’d be doing you a grave disservice if I didn’t urge you in the strongest possible terms to check this out.

There’s no risk to check it out, and I know you’ll be glad you did.

Remember, you can get a FREE Holosync demo CD, a FREE Special Report, and a special offer to try The Holosync Solution program, at no risk, by going to:
Meditation Benefits Video at Centerpointe

Here is a quick video from an international ambassador for peace teacher ISHA. In the video she explains how do deal with your fear. In my insiders view on depression, I can see that usually fear is at the root of our depressions. If we can move aside and give love to our fear, the fear will dissolve. This is how to lift depression!

Living a purposeful life has a lot to do with decision making skills. We are where we are right now because of our past decisions. Therefore, why leave this area of your life or your children’s lives to chance? School systems may carry one or two courses in critical thinking, and if a student is lucky, he will come across a teacher who can develop critical thinking in his students naturally.

If no attention is placed on a student’s method of reaching conclusions and making decisions, “he may use words and ideas, but not know how to think ideas through, and internalize foundational meanings.  He may take classes but cannot make connections between the logic of a discipline and what is important in life. Even the best students often have these deficiencies.” quote from Critical thinking.org

“Critical thinking is important, because it enables one to analyze, evaluate, explain, and restructure our thinking, decreasing thereby the risk of acting on, or thinking with, a false premise.” quote from Wikipedia

Critical Thinking Community. This resource offers plenty of books to buy for home study, from elementary to college level.

Critical Thinking essay at Wikipedia.

Critical Thinking on the Web. This is a huge directory of resources for developing critical thinking and logic skills.

Critical Reading This is a list of ways to tell if your student is a critical thinker.

Developing this skill takes some time and attention. I don’t think I’m going to leave it up to the public schools to turn my middle school student into a critical thinker - I’d rather supplement his education on my own. Some moms decide to homeschool, and there are plenty of resources online to help you develop thinking skills in your student.  I learned from Charles Fay, of the Love and Logic Institute, that a great way to respond to your children is to ask, “and how would that work out?” Then leave it up to the child to answer. This forces thinking about differing outcomes for the same event. Here are some other ideas from the Love and Logic Institute:

• Hope they make a poor decision. Children learn to make good choices by making poor ones and experiencing the consequences.
• Let empathy and logical consequences do the teaching. Empathy is the key! By being sad for our kids rather than being angry at them, they are allowed to focus on their poor choice rather than our anger.

This brings up a good point in reference to purposeful parenting. When our children make choices based on whether Mom or Dad will be angry, they are missing valuable chances to learn how to think critically. If anger is the motivating factor in any relationship, the communication suffers on both sides. So parents, think again before saying things like “just wait till your father gets home.” “Don’t make me angry!” and “If you do that, I’ll be so angry with you.”

Try to turn it around like this: “are you ready for the consequences?”, “I’m so sad you decided to do that, because now you will have consequences,” and “how will that work out for you?”

Try delving further with some of the resource links above for more information.

I found an archived news article on the BBC about mediation. I find the tone of the article curious, and a little funny. I have accepted meditation into my life for the last twenty years as a matter of fact, and although I don’t do it every day any more, I know it focuses my brain, lowers my stress and blood pressure, and can increase my immune function. Since all this is ingrained in my mentality, I find it humorous to read an article written for a different audience; one that does not believe mediation could help anyone. It’s called:

Meditation ‘Good for the Brain’ BBC News, Feb. 5, 2003.
(imagine someone using air quotes when they say Good for the Brain, and rolling their eyes!

There was a small scale study comparing two groups of people; those who were just trained in mindfulness meditation and those who never meditated. After eight weeks, the meditators had more activity in their frontal lobes, and more antibodies after a flu shot. So the doctors say…

“There is increasing evidence that meditation is a useful and, for some people, a powerful therapy…”

This statement is like saying that getting rest is good for you when you have a cold, or that scientists have finally validated that cranberries really do help with urinary tract infections, or that doctors now finally believe that vitamin c can boost your immune system.

People have been meditating for thousands of years. There are as many types of meditation as there are variations of tea. You know, there is chamomile, black tea, green tea, bancha tea, earl grey, english breakfast, lemon zinger, rose hip, matcha tea, and so on. Just like you take an immunity tea when you feel a sore throat coming on, you can do a different form of meditation for your different moods or phases in life. Those who want to lose the ego usually start with transcendental meditation, but those who need to lower their blood pressure may try mindfulness meditation; a form of thought dropping. You can use meditation as a tool in your life to help you get where you need to go. That includes lifting depression, reducing your blood pressure and stress, reducing anxiety, reducing cholesterol, and solving your problems with more creativity!

If you want to read more articles about meditation in the news, I have a page dedicated to that:

Meditation and your health in the news

I am extremely alarmed at the rates of obesity in the USA. The very core of our lifestyle needs to be changed to combat this “killer at large.” I have a feeling that we as a nation are running on autopilot, and only do what is convenient. Another problem contributing to obesity would be the way so many people have to work several jobs to survive, leaving them with no time to cook or exercise. But it’s time to wake up from autopilot and bring some attention to our health, through our diet.

Did you know that our mental state - that is, whether we are stressed, depressed, or anxious, - is a reflection of the foods we are or are not eating? To get to the core of our purpose, we must put attention on the physical pillar of life. Our mental health and physical health are intertwined!

Here is the press room for a documentary about the nation’s obesity problem. It’s called “Killer at Large” and I learned of it from the second link, a blog about the possibility of rating junk food advertising to kids.

Killer at Large Press Room

Rating Junk food advertising to kids

CDC obesity. Men approx 31%, Women approx 33%, children 2-19 approx 16%.

One of my “day job” responsibilities is to edit a wellness guide. Whose bright idea was it to put a second index in it, anyway? Indexing for a book is time consuming. While I was spending all that time marking products I wanted to index, I was also learning, and forming ideas about how we as Americans in industrialized society live our lives.

I found out, for example, that by including a supplement very high in antioxidants, particularly from grape seed extract, you can lower your chances for developing at least 90 health conditions. That is to say that in this book, 90 of the conditions listed, from Acne all the way to Varicose veins, mentioned that adding antioxidants will help the condition.

This fact alone staggers me, and it takes a while to sink in. “You mean that if I ate more fruits and vegetables, which are naturally high in antioxidants, I’ll have better health? You mean that eating fruits and vegetables not only makes my body stronger, my immune system stronger, but my mental capacity stronger as well?”

Blueberries? yes. Grapes? yes. Oranges? yes. Kale? yes. Collard greens? yes.

Health is about lifestyle. Of course, there will always be the lady/man who is the picture of perfect health, who exercises and eats lots of salad, and still ends up with cancer or heart disease. There are more pieces to the puzzle of good health than diet and exercise alone. Some other factors are heavy metal exposure, pesticide exposure, biotoxins like black mold, and an improperly aligned spinal column (yes, really. All the nerves to all your organs go to your spinal column. If the nerves are compromised, disease is the result).

What is one of the side effects of mercury exposure? Depression. What is one of the side effects of vitamin B deficiency? Depression. What is one of the side effects of DHA deficiency? Depression.

Our mental health is important, right? How else can we live out our purpose, if we don’t have clear thoughts? Our bodily systems are interconnected. Please don’t be surprised to know that what we eat or don’t eat affects how clearly we can think!

Judging from what we learned from the last post about the Global Consciousness Project, the Peace Intention experiment, also spearheaded by a “What the Bleep” interviewee, should prove to be a viable and noteworthy research project.

It’s going on now, and each day at a specific time you log in for ten minutes only, to focus positive intention on a war-torn area. Lynne McTaggart from “What the Bleep” is leading this experiment and will show us by comparing violence statistics from before and after if we were able to reduce violent crimes by ten percent, simply by our intention.

“How could my intention here affect those people in that war-torn area?” my husband wondered. He said, “but they can’t see us or hear the meditation! What good could it do?”

Deeply religious people throughout the centuries have believed in the power of prayer, but only now is the mainstream scientific community able to have a platform where the funding is available for experiments of this type. Scientific paradigm is shifting, and more attention is being placed on practical applications for the lessons learned from quantum mechanics. Why not? Why not try to see if we can reduce violence by our intention? Is it futile? Our random number generator experiment shows intention may not be the most steadfast and efficient way to reduce violence, but it can be done. Statistically speaking, there is a good chance that there will be less violence committed this week. Do you want to save a life? Do you want to live with a purpose? Try it.

Try it now. We’re mid-way through the experiment. Their servers will count how many people log in to do the ten minute meditation each day, and her team will get data from that war-torn area about violent acts committed.

The Peace Intention Experiment

The scientist John Hagelin appeared on interviews in “What the bleep do we know?” He explained a project dealing with random number generators. The thing these machines do best is to randomly throw out the digits 0 or 1, like flipping a coin. Teams of researchers around the world have these random number generators and they run them during specific world events. Amazingly, the findings are that at times when the world is focusing on a single event (like the O.J. Simpson trial, or the September 11 tragedy in New York) then the random number generators become less random. They throw out statistically either more 1’s or more 0’s.

This brings up the question, “Does human consciousness affect the world?” While not a complete answer, or even a definite answer, the trend scientists are finding with these machines is that when meditators gather together for group meditation, there may be a calming effect on the environment.

There have been many world meditation events in the past ten years, so the researchers have used the data from the machines to see if they could tell when the meditation occurred just from looking at the numbers.

The researchers have been able to label  the odds against chance at these events to be 20:1, 50:1, and even 100:1 or more.

Here is the Global Consciousness Project web site. Since it’s a Flash-based site, the address bar never changes, so you’ll have to use the search bar. The search bar is at the bottom of the page, and you will have to type in “organized meditation” to get to this page:
Interpretations of results for organized meditations (Princeton)

It is the Global Consciousness Project which led me to BrainPaint, featured in my previous post. Use the link above, then find the search bar and type in “Global brain”. You will find a link to the images created by Global Brain.
Bill Scott, founder of BrainPaint speaking about the Global Consciousness Project:

We’re ready to begin global consciousness feedback. The data coming from your servers is very complex and lifelike. I have a server up and running taking a minute of your data and updating an image every minute.

Being that complex systems are infinitely sensitive they ideally lend themselves to feedback of this nature. These images from your data are quite profound!

Teams of scientists from major universities around the world are spending time analyzing data about consciousness and extrapolating that data to something meaningful on a global level! To me, this indicates the time is ripe for each individual who feels ready to start his/her own journey towards self discovery. Start meditating, or praying, and even if you don’t feel results, they will be so incremental that you won’t notice you’re changing. The steps an individual makes towards living a life more at peace with oneself and the world will help propel the world into a more peaceful state. And that’s living on purpose!

This web site, Live on Purpose, is popular with people looking for desktop wallpapers. I found a very cool source for desktop wallpapers, but don’t stop there. The web site BrainPaint features a new biofeedback method that just blows my mind. These images were painted using neurofeedback from the patient’s brainwaves. They look reminiscent of fractals; some are beautiful and some are disturbing. The practice of neurofeedback is now getting press because children with ADD or ADHD can use it as an alternative to the medical standard prescription of Ritalin.

Neurofeedback helps in concentration, focus, and retraining your brain! I’d say this should be the first line of treatment for ADD, not some “alternative” therapy!

BrainPaint desktop wallpapers

There is a biofeedback video game that I played only for several minutes at a conference. Journey to the Wild Divine uses finger clips to read your pulse and you control the game entirely through your willpower. Their own byline: The Wild Divine Project provides entertaining, multimedia solutions to promote self-care
and personal wellness. Our training tools use your body’s own biometrics together with our creative, computer-based tools and techniques, to help you learn to relax and reduce stress.

Wild Divine

All of us go through hard times, enough so that I believe one needs the difficult, stressful times in one’s life to push through to a new developmental level. If you are always in your comfort zone, there will be no impetus for change. Bill Harrris of Centerpointe teaches in his most recent blog post that to overcome your stressful situation, you need four things:

• awareness
• motivation
• understanding of your mental processes
• practice in watching them (develop your watcher)