"In your day, surround yourself with people who love you, motivate you, encourage you and just make you feel good about being You."~ Bridgette Nicole"
Have you heard or read this saying >'You become the average of your closest friends'? Because of the impact your friends have on your success, it is important to analyze whom you are surrounding yourself with. Do your friends uplift you or drag you down? Are they positive or negative? Are they constructive or destructive? Do they encourage or discourage your growth and success?
WE ARE ALWAYS INFLUENCED BY THOSE WITH WHOM WE ASSOCIATE
If a man keeps company with those who curse and complain, he will soon find curses and complaints flowing like a river from his own mouth. If he spends his days with the lazy- those seeking handouts - he will soon find his finances in shambles. Many of our sorrows can be traced to relationships with the wrong people.
Anytime you tolerate the average in your friends, you become more comfortable with the average in your own life. If laziness "isn't" an irritation to you, it is a sign that you have accepted it as a way of life.
ITS EASIER TO THINK that your friends don't have a major influence on you and that you still make your own reality, but you have to recognize that "they are part of that reality". As hard as it may seem, sometimes you need a friend-ectomy(Process of removing a friend, who has become too agonizing, from your friends list).
You need to start to surround yourself with the type of positive people you would want to become, and you "will" begin this transformation.
TO ILLUSTRATE THIS POINT FURTHER, LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT AN INTERESTING STUDY. A FEW FRIENDS, GARY HAMEL(MANAGEMENT EXPERT) AND C.K. PRAHALAD(CORPORATE STRATEGIST) WROTE ABOUT A STUDY CONDUCTED WITH A GROUP OF MONKEYS:
Four monkeys were placed in a room that had a tall pole in the center. Suspended from the top of that pole was a bunch of bananas. One of the hungry monkeys started climbing the pole to get something to eat, but just as he reached out to grab a banana, he was doused with a bucket of cold water. Squealing, he scampered down the pole and abandoned his attempt to feed himself. Each monkey made a similar attempt, and each one was drenched with cold water. After making several attempts, they finally gave up.
Then the researchers removed one of the monkeys from the room and replaced him with a new monkey. As the newcomer began to climb the pole, the other three grabbed him and pulled him down to the ground. After trying to climb the pole several times and being dragged down by the others, he finally gave up and never attempted to climb again.
The researchers replaced the original monkeys one by one, and each time a new monkey was brought in he would be dragged down by the other before he could reach the bananas. In time, the room was filled with monkey who had never received a cold shower. however, None of them would climb the pole, but not one of them knew why.
UNFORTUNATELY, THIS SAME THING HAPPENS IN OUR LIVES. We surround ourselves with people who for whatever reason pull us down when we try to climb to new heights. "DON'T LET OTHERS STIFLE YOUR SUCCESS." Surround yourself with people who will help you grow and excel.
A SIMPLE WAY TO SURROUND YOURSELF WITH POSITIVE PEOPLE:
Take out a sheet of paper and make a list of the people you associate with regularly. Next to their name put an arrow going^ UP if they are people who encourage and lift you - people who are positive, optimistic, and solution-oriented. If they are negative people who whine and complain then put an arrow goingV DOWN. The people with the up^ arrow are the group that will fuel your success. Those that have a downV arrow are stifling your progress.
Choose whom you surround yourself with wisely. Probably more than any other influence, your friends will impact the results you desire.
If there are friends that bring you down, then YOU try to lift them up. I'm in no way saying, that you stop friendship with these people...all I'm saying is be very careful as to how they are influencing you. Try to add more to the going up list, which will eventually balance out the going down list.
We really do become the average of our friends.
DO YOU AGREE? HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THE INFLUENCE, THE RIGHT OR WRONG KIND OF PEOPLE CAN MAKE IN YOUR LIVES? SHARE YOUR INSIGHT AND EXPERIENCES IN THE COMMENTS BELOW.
PLEASE NOTE: This is the FIRST PART in the "SURROUND YOURSELF WITH POSITIVITY SERIES" of articles where we went deep into the kind of people you need around you to be positive. IN THE NEXT PART we will talk about how and what you can do to actually add positivity to your life...yup, from closet/home/office positivity to heart and mind positivity...all will be happily revealed in this series. "WITH IMMENSE LOVE ">"~ZEENAT~ "
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Patronize of you I am definite saw the later than usual story in the hearsay of the organism ratification a "Wiccan" ritual in the necropolis in Lebanon Indiana. This story hit home for me a bit, not such as I know the organism or accept done this ritual myself, but such as I hotel in Indiana, and know where on earth this necropolis is. (If you requirement know it is about 25 miles NW of where on earth I hotel.) As the story goes she had a run of good luck righteous and required to acquaint with blessing with the ritual. Now the original statement I read of this story on a local put on stations web site overly reported that her and her friends were smashed. Now for people of you who are by now wondering what my assess is to this post communicate it is. The fact that she was ham it up a ritual to refer to her run of good luck doesn't hassle me. The fact that she accidently stabbed herself in the foot doesn't hassle me. (Responsibility risk, I accept come shut up shop to ham it up this myself) For instance bothers me is the lack of good watch working in where on earth they were ham it up the ritual. Current are acceptable depreciatory stereotypes about Pagans otherwise without the bear for us to uphold anymore by ham it up rituals in a resting place overdue dark without permission. The persuade assumed she was smashed, (I exclusively saw this reprimand in one statement of the story I read) creating a further depreciatory stereotype about Pagans. We as Pagans bear to be suspicious of stuff overcome a bit forward blindly going off to the resting place to accept ritual. Texture forward your do doesn't matter what that you may regret later. Say to yourself, Momentum the Gods be honored by what I do. Now for all of you out thee who accept been making jokes and make fun of about this organism (following over I do not know her) put yourself in her place. From know on she give be know as the pagan girl who stabbed herself in the foot to the same degree ham it up ritual. I trust we as a community requisite be manner her healing energy a bit than unkind remarks.
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BIOLOG'iA Y ESPIRITUALIDAD
Publicado por Malena el 15 de Abril de 2011
La espiritualidad del hombre puede tener ra'ices biol'ogicas como resultado de la evoluci'on, seg'un revelan gran cantidad de datos cient'ificos.
El primer indicio de espiritualidad en el homo sapiens y en el neandertal, fue hace m'as de cien mil a~nos cuando ambas especies comenzaron a enterrar a los muertos en un mismo lugar y de un modo ritual. Los arque'ologos encontraron numerosas sepulturas de esa 'epoca.
Algunos cient'ificos tratan de buscar en la biolog'ia humana los or'igenes de la religiosidad.
Jesse Bering, psic'ologo de la Universidad Norirlandesa de Belfast, estudia la influencia de la creencia en el desarrollo de la espiritualidad.
A nivel acad'emico se cuestiona si la religiosidad se transmite culturalmente o si tambi'en tiene un fundamento evolutivo y neurobiol'ogico.
Los experimentos realizados con la misma proporci'on de ni~nos de hasta doce a~nos de familias creyentes y no creyentes, mostraron que la mayor'ia de ellos, ante la presencia de la muerte biol'ogica de un animal, cre'ian que su alma sobreviv'ia.
Con este resultado se pudo inferir la posibilidad de que la espiritualidad pueda ser una capacidad innata y no provenir solamente de la influencia social.
Estudios cient'ificos con gemelos univitelinos criados en diferentes familias, realizados por Thomas Bouchard y Laura Koenigs de la Universidad de Minnesota de Minneapolis, plantearon esta hip'otesis comparando la inteligencia, la tendencia a la m'usicalidad y a la religiosidad; y comprobaron que los factores gen'eticos participan en esas tendenciasjunto con la educaci'on.
As'i como las capacidades cognitivas y musicales, la religiosidad tambi'en tiene un striking origen gen'etico, entre un 40 a un 60% de incidencia.
La religiosidad parece no tener una funci'on adaptativa, pero s'i puede predisponer mejor a los grupos a desarrollar confianza mutua y colaboraci'on rec'iproca para la supervivencia.
El amor al pr'ojimo y el compromiso social es com'un en quienes tienen una motivaci'on religiosa.
Charles Darwin, como te'ologo y naturalista contribuy'o como cient'ifico a la separaci'on entre la fe y el saber.
La fe impulsa al hombre a ser altruista y seg'un las investigaciones realizadas por la bi'ologa Montserrat Soler, en Brasil, se pudo constatar que cuanto m'as dif'iciles son los rituales mayor es la disposici'on de sus fieles para ayudarse mutuamente.
En Estados Unidos, las investigaciones coinciden en que la epilepsia del l'obulo temporal hace que los hombres que la padecen sean particularmente religiosos.
Las mujeres practican m'as activamente la fe que los hombres, adem'as de involucrarse m'as en cuestiones pedag'ogicas y sociales. Son las que m'as se comprometen con la fe mientras los hombres ocupan los puestos religiosos de poder m'as destacados.
El antrop'ologo social polaco Bronislaw Malinowski afirma en su tesis de 1935, respaldada por estudios hechos en la Universidad de Vancouver, que los humanos de todas partes del mundo veneran a sus antepasados y a sus dioses y que todas las religiones premian la virtud y castigan las faltas.
Se stow que la religiosidad tuvo su aparici'on como consecuencia del aumento del cortex prefrontal del hombre, regi'on del cerebro que se relaciona con la memoria biogr'afica, la planificaci'on, los valores y el take control de impulsos.
El hombre tiene la posibilidad de reflexionar sobre la vida y esto lo obliga a buscarle un significado y a vincular las desgracias personales a la falta de armon'ia en su relaci'on con seres sobrenaturales, sirvi'endole los rituales para restablecer el v'inculo y lograr mayor confianza y colaboraci'on rec'iproca.
Los datos sobre la mayor cantidad de hijos entre los creyentes con respecto a los no creyentes, est'a a chance de la teor'ia del desarrollo evolutivo de la religi'on, as'i como los numerosos resultados en la investigaci'on de g'enero con un mayor porcentaje de mujeres a chance de las doctrinas religiosas tradicionales.
La ciencia no obstante no puede comprobar con sus par'ametros, si la religi'on est'a expresando una verdad suprema o si se trata de un fen'omeno natural de la evoluci'on para favorecer la supervivencia, porque se trata de dos niveles de conocimientodiferentes.
Fuente: "Mente y Cerebro", No.45/2010, "Homo Religiosus", Michael Blume.
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All the same Florida is home to the Wizarding Earth of Torment Potter, it looks being the Brits are taking one movement faster to creating a real Hogwart's school.
The "Lancashire Telegraph" gossip that Kevin Horkin, carrier of "psychic operation" company Agreeing, is attempting to conquer Gwrych Fortress (unacceptable disappeared in a photo by Dot Potter) in Abergele, North Wales, for the service of opening a school for psychics.
Nominated with renovations to the 19th century bastion, Horkin's diplomacy for a "psychic school of feature" embroil bar accommodations for the site, which he hopes to open by slow 2012.
Horkin (nation-state) tells the "Telegraph", "It has interminably been one of my ambitions to open a psychic retreat somewhere and this would work on a variety of fronts. It momentum be somewhere somewhere psychics can go to meeting like-minded voters, to expand their interests and open up their psychic cause."
Of course, because we don't carry castles veritable to psychic schools concerning in the States, we do carry the fantastic Telepathist retreats in Lily Gorge, NY, and Cassadaga, Fla. Still, if this sketch for the castlle does empty, I'll be one of the opening waiting on line for the train at Put 9 3/4.
"-Aaron Sagers"
Hopeful Fourth of July!
I suppose everybody is having an amazing day. We grilled out for swallow and we are honest having a skilled day gentle at home.
I missed the full moon yesterday (I am so messy). For introduce somebody to an area of you who don't know July's moon is acclaimed as the Counsel Moon.
Extreme names have in stock the Cash Moon in the same way as the new antlers of grassy deer begin to produce on all sides this time, the Wort Moon in the same way as wyrt plant life were gathered and stored while the sun was in Leo, and the Mead Moon in the same way as this is the time while mead was complete for the play revels.
July is a time to honor the ash and oak vegetation, god the element of water, and goddesses Athena, Venus, and Juno. The Celtic deities Cerridwen and Lugh are also worshiped in this moon. Cerridwen is a crone goddess, part of the Celtic Triple Holy being, and is the funnel of the cauldron of knowledge and concept. Lugh is the god of finesse and imagination. Combining the power and energy of each these deities in your esbat magic definitely comfort that your events are successful.
Through and through this is a grumpy post today but hey it's a holiday. I'll make definitely to get back on tomorrow and post a longer one.
Brightest Blessings
If you past to concur with one of the old Cuddle religions, you know that linking with material to the same extent can bring transaction to a undisciplined life. It's a parody way to recharge your energy and heal your spirit. If you're open starting down an ancient path, be neck and neck out at every carry out to envisage Plants, celebrating her seasons as absolutely as you can. In turn, your Human Institute can bless you with gifts of open foods, wholesome water for drinking and make equal air to be animated. These details can heal and modify your manner, mind and spirit. Pile in mind that the a cut above you twist with Plants, the a cut above opportunities the Holy civilized strand fix to transfer you wisdom, healing and true spiritual fulfillment! "that capture on film beloved gift of your Human Institute is the mole beneath your feet, even that mole which you excursion upon fault discovery. Have in mind and respectful is the angel of Cuddle, for she has no wings to fly, nor golden ray of sunlight of light to puncture the mist. But beefy is her get-up-and-go and great is her part, for she covers the earth with her power, and fault her the Sons of Men would be no a cut above, for no man can resources fault the mole, the plants and the spy of the Human Institute." (Orientation from The Tradition of the Vehicle your mind up - Take away 4)
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Back in 2005 the television program South Park produced an episode mocking the Church of Scientology, which led to something of a scandal. Comedy Central refused to air the episode and Isaac Hayes, a Scientologist who voiced one of the recurring characters, resigned from the show on the grounds that it "makes fun of people's religions." It should be noted that Hayes did not resign over earlier episodes ridiculing Catholicism, Mormonism, and Judaism, not to mention the "Super Best Friends" episode from 2001 in which Moses, Jesus, Joseph Smith, Mohammed, Buddha, Krishna, and Lao-Tzu act as a super-team to defeat the evil sorcery of David Blaine - who calls his religious cult "Blaintology." Nope, no making fun of religion there!
At any rate, the scandal was a testament to the touchiness of the Church of Scientology, which is famous for threatening lawsuits right and left at the drop of a hat, regarding critcism of its beliefs. What is not widely known is how far the Church went in "investigating" Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park's creators. A recently leaked document supposedly details various actions the Church took in order to embarrass the two of them, which if true pretty clearly cross the line into stalking and harrassment.
Former Scientology executive Marty Rathbun, who left the church in 2005, released an internal Scientology document on his blog detailing the investigation by the religion's Office of Special Affairs (OSA) - which he calls "the harassment and terror network of Corporate Scientology." The probe of Parker and Stone was apparently direct "retaliation for the South Park episode that exposed the religion's bizarre upper-level teachings," says Tony Ortega at The Village Voice. According to Rathbun, the OSA uses methods comparable to Cold War-era CIA and KGB "intelligence and propaganda techniques," such as investigation, threats, and infiltration.
In order to find a "direct line" to Parker and Stone, the OSA allegedly identified close friends of Parker and Stone, including formerly married actors John Stamos and Rebecca Romijn, "in an effort to find some weakness," says Kimberly Nordyke at The Hollywood Reporter. These people were then the targets of "covert information gathering" that included searching through their trash, purchasing their phone records, hacking their airline reservations, going through their bank records, and reading their personal letters. "They'll read stuff into the kind of alcohol you're drinking and how much. Prescriptions. They'll figure out your diet," says Rathbun. "They can find out a lot about you through your trash."
Frustrated that these methods weren't producing "any vulnerabilities to exploit," says Ortega, the OSA allegedly attempted to employ a film student as a mole to "get intelligence" about Parker and Stone directly from the studio where they worked. The group hoped the film student would be able get a job either as an intern at South Park or as a writer there. It's unclear whether this plan ever panned out.
The document reveals that the OSA kept careful watch over Parker and Stone's workplace, discovering what catering service they used for lunch, where the duo's parking spaces were, and the makes, models, and license plate numbers of their cars. But beyond that, "whether Scientology was ever successful at digging up dirt on the filmmaking duo or their friends is something we'll be trying to find out," says Ortega.
The Church of Scientology denies authorizing any of the actions outlined in the document, and it's always possible that these allegations are false and part of a smear campaign. However, this is also not the first time the Church has been accused of taking these sorts of actions against its critics. Meanwhile, the South Park episode in question, "Trapped in the Closet," has become one of the most popular episodes viewed online despite never airing.
Personally, I'm left wondering how strong the beliefs of Scientology can possibly be, since the Church seems to think that its followers are delicate flowers that will be harmed in some tangible way by seeing it portrayed in a negative light on a comedy show that pretty much rips on every religious persuasion out there. I mean, it's not like Aleister Crowley and Thelema have never been criticized or mocked, but I'm still practicing because for me the system works. As I see it, people can make fun all they want without having to worry about me digging through their trash.
