Tag Archives: Brain

May 21

“ARE YE TRYING OR DYING?”

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 STARTING YOUR DAY RIGHT?  Here are 5 passionate Tips for your own Self Care: 1-Fuel Your Body, 2-Take a Nap, 3-Turn Off Alarm, 4-Do Nothing, or 5-Have a little Fun.  TAKING CARE OF YOUR SELF 1st helps you take care of others later.  U can do at least 1 a day, OK…..”YE HAVE NOT CAUSE YE TRY NOT”.-mackie
Fuel your body Rather than sliding your meals between meetings, eat when your body signals hunger. You’ll need to be prepared for this. You can pack some snacks like fruit, nuts, or those nifty Kind bars.
Take a nap No, not at your desk:-) Try taking a nap on Saturday and Sunday, or after work. You can set a timer or just allow yourself to sleep until you wake up.
Turn off your alarm Do you wake up to buzzing or the sound of news on the radio? Do you slap it several times to snooze? Are you annoyed with your alarm? Try un-setting your alarm this week. I know it’s scary. I’m going to try it myself. If not un-setting the alarm, try changing the wake up sound to something pleasant like a chime or a “good morning” ringtone from your kids.
Do nothing I got this idea from Christine Kane. I’ve always thrived on meditation. Doing nothing takes it a step further. I don’t even have to concentrate on my breath. For 15 minutes, I just sit, and do absolutely nothing. I can let my mind drift if it wants to. It churns and churns. I don’t coax it to come back to center. I just sit. In silence. Doing nothing.
Read something for fun As consultants, we’re always reading industry publications, journals, or news. When was the last time you read something for fun – chick lit, erotica, spy novels, comic books? Try reading something that you would have read as a teenager. Laugh a little. Become engrossed in a story that’s pure reverie!
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       Want to change your city, state, country and world? Following is your best way:   CALL YOUR CONGRESSPERSONS: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/ Even if you get a voice mail, leave a message for they count the “For/Against.” Vote for the candidate who WILL BE FAIR TO ALL, OK?
HELPING OTHERS HELP THEMSELVES HELPS YOU!
Apr 30

ULTIMATE CAUSE REVEALS SCIENCE………..

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THE ALMIGHTY REVEALS SCIENCE TO THOSE WHO SEARCH -mackie
“Before I get to that point, I’ll say a few words by way of background about typical sex differences, because that’s the cradle out of which this new research comes. Many of you know that the topic of sex differences in psychology is fraught with controversy. It’s an area where people, for many decades, didn’t really want to enter because of the risks of political incorrectness, and of being misunderstood.
Perhaps of all of the areas in psychology where people do research, the field of sex differences was kind of off limits. It was taboo, and that was partly because people believed that anyone who tried to do research into whether boys and girls, on average, differ, must have some sexist agenda. And so for that reason a lot of scientists just wouldn’t even touch it. 
By 2003, I was beginning to sense that that political climate was changing, that it was a time when people could ask the question — do boys and girls differ? Do men and women differ? — without fear of being accused of some kind of sexist agenda, but in a more open-minded way.
First of all, I started off looking at neuroanatomy, to look at what the neuroscience is telling us about the male and female brain. If you just take groups of girls and groups of boys and, for example, put them into MRI scanners to look at the brain, you do see differences on average. Take the idea that the sexes are identical from the neck upwards, even if they are very clearly different from the neck downwards: the neuroscience is telling us that that is just a myth, that there are differences, even in terms of brain volume and the number of connections between nerve cells in the brain at the structure of the brain, on average, between males and females.
I say this carefully because it’s still a field which is prone to misunderstanding and misinterpretation, but just giving you some of the examples of findings that have come out of the neuroscience of sex differences, you find that the male brain, on average, is about eight percent larger than the female brain. We’re talking about a volumetric difference. It doesn’t necessarily mean anything, but that’s just a finding that’s consistently found. You find that difference from the earliest point you can put babies into the scanner, so some of the studies are at two weeks old in terms of infants.
You also find that if you look at postmortem tissue, looking at the human brain in terms of postmortem tissue, that the male brain has more connections, more synapses between nerve cells. It’s about a 30 percent difference on average between males and females. These differences are…  
By 2003, I was beginning to sense that that political climate was changing, that it was a time when people could ask the question — do boys and girls differ? Do men and women differ? — without fear of being accused of some kind of sexist agenda, but in a more open-minded way.”
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       Want to change your city, state, country and world?  Following is your best way:   CALL YOUR CONGRESSPERSONS: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/ Even if you get a voice mail, leave a message for they count the “For/Against.” Vote for the candidate who WILL BE FAIR TO ALL, OK?
HELPING OTHERS HELP THEMSELVES HELPS YOU!
Oct 13

SHARPENING OUR BRAIN AS WE GROW OLDER…..

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When we follow the steps below we will find that IN OUR 70′S WE WILL HAVE A SHARPER BRAIN THAN WHEN WE HAD IN OUR 40′S.
DON’T DENY BEFORE YOU TRY, OK? ~mackie

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It’s an unfortunate fact of evolutionary heredity that, by the time we are in our thirties, our brain is already experiencing a decline in cognitive function.
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Want to change your city, state, country and world? Following is your best way:

CALL YOUR CONGRESSPERSONS: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
Even if you get a voice mail, leave a message for they count the “For/Against.”
Vote for the candidate who WILL BE FAIR TO ALL because
 
ON ANY DAY WE COULD GO FROM WELL OFF TO POOR.
Sep 15

HELPING YOUR CHILD’S BRAIN GROW STRONGER…..

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It’s so important to stay up to date on science, etc. and the progression of human development. When I was in my first decade in the forties it was “children should be seen and not heard” and “spare the rod and spoil the child.” Our parents did not know that a child’s brain is like wet cement, easy to be permanently impressed with sounds, sights, surrounding environment, etc. Now we know that children should be seen, heard and begin to converse with their parents, grandparents, etc. at an early age. We now know that the word “rod” means “guidance.” In ancient days the shephard would follow his sheep and guide them with his rod. Now we know it’s “spare the guidance and spoil the child.” The earlier we teach our children to talk, read, and make conversation, etc, the better the more mature they will become. That’s our greatest gift to give to them, and ourselves..-mackie
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Babies may look helpless, but as soon as they come into the world, they’re able to do a number of important things. They can recognize faces and moving objects. They’re attracted to language. And from very early on, they can differentiate their mother from other humans.
“They really come equipped to learn about the world in a way that wasn’t appreciated until recently,” says neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt. “It took scientists a long time to realize that their brains are doing some very complicated things.”
Aamodt and fellow neuroscientist Sam Wang explain how the human brain develops from infancy to adolescence in their new book, Welcome to Your Child’s Brain. The two researchers also offer tips for parents to help their children eat their spinach, learn their ABCs and navigate elementary school…..
 
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Sep 07

WHY WE RESPOND TO ANIMALS

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Since ancient times there has been a relationship between humans and animals. Early on human beings would gather and live together for security and finding food to eat. Male tribes (from which we came) would go out looking for and killing wild animals for meat to eat. As the male tribes carried the killed animals back to their caves or huts, they noticed that the younger animals (children of those killed) would follow after them to be close to their parents, not realizing that those who beget them were now dead. After all the meat was eaten they would clean their bones and bury them believing that would one day the dead would come back to life to feed them again. The tribes worshiped them as gods(for sources see below). ~mackie
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Animals have a special place in the human heart. Now, researchers are reporting that creatures great and small also have a special place in our heads.
A team led by researchers at Caltech has found individual brain cells that respond when a person sees an animal, but not when that person sees another person, a place, or an object.
The cells were found in the amygdala, an almond-shaped part of the brain involved in emotions, including fear. And they responded to any kind of animal, including spiders, dogs and rodents, says Christof Koch, a researcher at Caltech and the lead author of the study, published in Nature Neuroscience.
One reason present-day humans have these cells may be because some animals posed a threat to our ancestors, Koch says. Specialized cells could have helped the brain respond quickly to danger, he says.
Koch says he was reminded of how important a quick response can be during a recent run along a mountainous trail….
 
 
 
 
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Nov 30

GLAD YOUR THINKING HAS CHANGED SINCE CHILDHOOD…

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“The wise reject what they think, not what they see.” -Huang-po

 
Science and Consciousness
Can science explain consciousness?
How has consciousness evolved?
Are all creatures conscious?
Is reality all in the mind?
 
Spiritual Awakening
Letting go.
Opening to now.
Meditation.
Love.
Earth and Environment
Roots of the Global Crisis.
The Real Threat of Climate Change.
The Global Brain.
The Universe Around Us.
 
For much more click on: http://www.peterrussell.com/index2.php 

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Aug 17

SINGING, SIGNING, SPEAKING: HOW IT DEVELOPED…

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What you are reading now are just a collection of symbols.  Your brain decodes theses symbols into meaning.  Your brain has developed a knack for reading language, and that has given you a major advantage over other species.

 Yet scientists still don’t know when and how we began using language.

“The Earth would not be the way it is if humankind didn’t have the ability to communicate, to organize itself, to pass knowledge down from generation to generation,” says Jeff Elman, a professor of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego. “We’d be living in troops of very smart baboons,” he says.

 Instead, language has allowed us to cooperate in groups of millions instead of dozens, he says. It also lets us share the complex ideas produced by our brains, and it’s flexible in ways you don’t find in the communication systems of other species.

 Bees, for example, use an elaborate communication system to tell one another precisely how to get from the hive to a source of pollen, Elman says. “But that’s all it does,” he says. “They can’t talk about politics. They can’t talk about who’s having an affair with what other bee — and these are things that we can do.”

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