SEEKING BEAUTY EVERY WHERE

"A THINK OF BEAUTY IS JOY FOR EVER"

PLAN FOR A DAY

DREAM

"Dream is not what you see in your sleep,

Dream is the thing that does not allow you to sleep"

Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Exercise and Its Influence on the Human Brain

We all know that exercising regularly is beneficial to our mental and physical health. But did you know that your workout actually makes you smarter?

What new research has demonstrated is that your brain stays in better shape when you work out. Doing exercise improves the circulation throughout the body, including the brain, and in many ways optimizes your mind to learn. When you think about that the human brain uses 20% of the body’s energy consumption (at rest!) to perform its normal functions, you might get some perspectives of how important adequate oxygen and glucose supply to the brain actually presents.

Other benefits of keeping your body (and mind) in shape include; increased metabolism, a reduction in stress-levels, as well as an improved mood and attention span – all factors which help the brain in performing better.

Over the past decade several studies have emphasized the link between physical activity and cognition. A study, by psychiatrist Marcus Richards of the University College London and his colleagues, indicated “that engagement in physical exercise and other leisure-time activities at [the age of] 36 was associated with higher memory scores at [the age of] 43” (from the July 2009 Scientific American Mind).http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fit-body-fit-mind&page=3

The same analysis also pointed out that doing physical activity at the age of 36 correlated with a slower rate of memory decline from the age 43 to 53 years of age. Contrasting, however, for those who stopped exercising after the age of 36 the study indicated little memory protection, but “protection for those individuals who began to exercise after this time”.

Another study (reproduced in the July 2009 Scientific American Mind; see link above), by then graduate student Suvi Rovio of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and her colleagues, found that conducting moderate activity “at midlife at least twice a week was associated with a reduced risk of dementia in later life”.

Physical exercise emerge (in correlation with balanced nutrition, sleep, stress management, and novel learning experiences) to be the key to your brain increasing its mind power. Additional things you do, like taking part in activities which make you utilize your brain, working out on a regular basis, staying engaged with other people, and even maintaining a positive attitude, have a significant effect on how effective your cognitive functioning will be in mature age.

Thanks to:-Linn Lislegard

GRATITUDE

Aloneness

There are two persons: one, a young man, a poet, a philosopher and a woman who is in need of relationship. She is continually harassing him about marriage. And particularly in India, if one woman and a man are even seen walking together, that is enough for a scandal. They might not be doing anything, but just walking together and it is enough for a scandal; the whole town will be agog, and so many stories will start springing up from nowhere. And of course the woman suffers more because everywhere people start pointing at her.

So she was desperate. She was saying, "Why do you go on postponing? You love me, you want to be with me. If you don't love me, I will not force you.

"And the man says, "I love you, that's why I am not going to marry you." Now, this is very difficult for the woman. If she had been from my commune she would have understood. But what kind of statement is this? -- "Because I love you I cannot marry you." But she goes on and on, so he says, "I will marry you on one condition.

"They are sitting on the bank of a lake. He says, "I will make my house on this side of the lake and you make your house on the other side of the lake. Once in a while, walking, perhaps we may meet. Once in a while, perhaps I may knock on your door or you may knock on my door. Once in a while, perhaps I am in a boat and you are also in a boat, and we meet on the lake. But it always has to be without any prearrangement. It has not to be a dating. I will never inform you that I am coming, you will never inform me that you are coming. I will marry you on this condition only. For a few days we may not be able to see each other. You will never ask me, 'Where have you been?' We will never interfere in each other's freedom. We will remain as strangers, as we are now.

"The woman said, "Then what is the purpose of marriage?" Naturally she cannot understand what is the purpose of the marriage.

The purpose of marriage is to be on each other's head twenty-four hours a day. The purpose of marriage is to destroy each other in the name of love; to nag, harass, fight. The man is suggesting exactly the right thing: "It will be a great joy suddenly seeing you on the lake... I will not be expecting it. Unexpectedly, I will find you in the jungle by the side of the lake...." Just to think of that unexpected moment is relating. There is no relationship.He cannot send a message, "You have to come tonight because you are my wife, otherwise I am going to court." In fact the husband cannot say to the wife, "You sleep in the other room." That is enough to create trouble. The wife cannot say to the husband, "You cannot sleep in my bed." That is enough for trouble, because we have completely forgotten a simple thing, our aloneness. And we are trying to forget it as much as possible -- the very idea should be dropped.

But aloneness is a natural phenomenon. And there is nothing painful about it.When you know it, it is the greatest bliss.

OSHO

From Ignorance to Innocence, # 3

Conditioning - Learning perspective

Our mind is accustomed, almost to the logical reasoning/the mathematical logic, the mind is conditioned to the extreme of logical reasoning by our schools, colleges and universities, and our whole education system is designed in this way only, so the mind, almost lost the other side of reasoning, which is nothing but the existential logic, which is very important for our practical day to day life.

For eg.
a) There are three doors, out of these three doors; two doors are open, than the mind immediately assume or consider that, the third door is closed. But in reality it needs not to be so.

b) When one sees the bird outside through the keyhole, so one vision is limited to the particular limited (Narrow) area or so. when one see the bird flying within one’s limited visionary area outside …when it flew away from this limited area, the mind think that the bird is no more (or) the mind perceives, as if, the bird is not existed in the whole of existence, since one’s vision is condition to certain limit, his logic doesn’t allow to think beyond.

c) Two men behind the prison bars are seeing out side world of the prision, the one will see the earth near by, the other one see the star in the sky which is far away.

Break all your conditioning which becomes a hindrance/Barriers in your Learning .