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Needing the Big Void...Universe will fill it

Astrology and Breaking Destructive Psychological Patterns In Relationship

Elsa talks about the big void...we all need it to bring the good and new.  as she says if you create a void in your life the universe will fill it.

Are You A Sugar Junkie?

Are you tired of looking good on the outside but feeling bad on the inside?

Maybe you have a lot of potential, but you can be moody, impulsive, angry, tired, restless, overwhelmed and stressed out. Or you are overweight, flirting with diabetes, struggling with depression, drinking more than you want to or working hard to keep your eating disorder hidden from others. Are you plagued with low self-esteem and hopelessness even though you act like everything is all right?

Are you driven by cravings and need sugar, alcohol or excitement to keep you from feeling helpless or hopeless? You probably tell yourself things aren’t so bad and you can stop anytime. But you can’t and things keep getting worse.

you probably think your sugar addiction is about lack of willpower or discipline or motivation. It is not. It is about your biochemistry. You were born with a body that responds to sugar, alcohol and refined carbohydrates differently than other people

. You are sugar sensitive. Sugar acts like a drug in your body. In fact, it affects the very same brain chemicals that morphine, heroin and amphetamines do.

Because you have a sugar-sensitive body, you can be addicted to sugar. You can’t NOT eat it. And because you are sugar sensitive, the “high” you get from eating sugar is actually heightened. Sugar addiction is not a joke or a fad. It is a serious problem for your health and happiness.

Being sugar sensitive means you have unstable blood sugar, low serotonin and low beta endorphin. All three are out of balance. When this happens, you feel bad and you cannot will or medicate or talk your way into feeling better. Therapy, self-help or 12-step programs alone cannot heal you either because they do not heal the cause of your addiction: your sugar-sensitive biochemistry.

If you are sugar sensitive, what and when you eat has a huge impact on how you feel. Eating a diet high in sugar, refined flour, alcohol and junk foods makes your sugar sensitivity - and your moods - out of control.

When your sugar-sensitive body is in balance, life is good. When it is out of balance, life is miserable.

hypoglycemia is responsible for the overproduction of adrenaline.

Sugar addiction means that you are hypoglycemic and hypoglycemia is responsible for the overproduction of adrenaline.

When the brain is starved of glucose (glucose ---> biological energy) it will rely on adrenaline to raise blood sugar levels. 

  coming off days or weeks of sugar addiction a person can get tence and anxious.  The ability to relax or turn off repetitive thoughts is diminished as well as the ability to sleep as the body is surging with adreanaline.

Some claim to fo  feel wired with adrenalin and might spend hours and hours on the computer madly focused on nothing in particular. 


It takes some time for the body to be adapted to a more natural diet. It needs the missing vitamins and minerals to metabolize glucose into energy. It is very difficult to get these vitamins and minerals in our diet nowadays, because we don't eat a natural diet anymore. Everything is manufactured and polluted with chemicals in order to extend the shop life of food.

low sugar levels=BAD decisions

Research studies say that low blood sugar levels are associated with LOWER overall blood flow to the brain, which means more BAD decisions

Processed white sugar is an addictive chemical

processed white sugar has no nutritive value left. White sugar has been distilled from brown sugar which was distilled from molasses. The molasses came from sugar cane or sugar beets

 Processed sugars such as white, powdered, brown, molasses, and even honey have had some or all of their chemical bonds broken down between their basic components due to the amount of processing .

Processed sugars present as a simple potent sugar which is easily and quickly absorbed by the body.

Continuous large doses of sugar and/or carbohydrates, overtime, usually cause the brain's endorphins sites to slow production or close sites to regulate the amount of endorphins in the brain.

When the body cuts back on endorphin production it reduces the amount of endorphins available in the body at any given time. The lack of enough endorphin in the brain causes slight to deep depression. 

To maintain a normal level of endorphins in the brain the individual must eat more sugar and/or carbohydrates to get out of depression and maintain a normal mood level. This causes a vicious cycle of addiction

when processed sugar is stopped there are two chemical related reasons for the resulting depression. There is  glut of insulin depressing the system and the lack of endorphins in the brain.

DOPAMINE single mindedness, focus, pursuing your goals.

 by pursuing certain behaviors--single-mindedly focusing on a project, for instance--a person might increase that dopamine drive.
goal-directed behavior (or the lack of it) tends to stand out as a major personality trait.

Put simply, some of us are motivated to pursue goals and others are not.

"When our dopamine system is active, we are more positive, excited, and eager to go after goals and rewards, whether it's food, sex, money, education, or professional achievement

people who are goal-directed are not only more motivated but are generally happier. have strong feelings of elation because you are moving toward achieving an important goal are biochemically based, though they can be modified by experience."

DOPAMINE can overtake the rational parts of your brain."

Fisher suspects that the dopamine high of first love is meant to be a merely transient pleasure. "When I first started looking at the properties of infatuation, they had some of the same elements of a cocaine high: sleeplessness, loss of a sense of time, absolute focus on love to the detriment of all around you. People walk out of marriages, abandon children. Infatuation can overtake the rational parts of your brain."

Dopamice

 

Much of what we know about the effects of dopamine comes from studies on rodents. Exposure to chronic mild stress leads to an "animal model of depression" characterized by decreased responsiveness to rewards and reduced sexual and aggressive behaviors. "Learned helplessness," the "forced swim test," and "effort expenditure" effectively brow-beat the little guys into a "what’s the use in trying" state, easily observable by decreased locomotion or lack of effort in going after rewards.

Move Over, Heroin: “Sugar Addiction” May Be a Reality | Discoblog | Discover Magazine

Move Over, Heroin: “Sugar Addiction” May Be a Reality | Discoblog | Discover Magazine

Many people (Discoblog editors included) who crave that mid-afternoon cookie fix may joke that they have a sugar addiction, but now scientists have made it official. Researchers at Princeton University report that sugar-loving mice demonstrate all three criteria of addiction: increased intake, withdrawal, and cravings that lead to relapse.
Previous work has shown that mice deprived of food for several hours and then allowed to binge on sugar water (with concentrations similar to that of soft drinks) soon developed addictive behaviors. Sugar intake causes the release of dopamine in the brain, a reward chemical. After a month of sugar binging and increased dopamine levels, the rats’ brains developed fewer dopamine receptors and more opioid receptors—changes similar to those observed in mice on cocaine and heroine.
When their sugar supply was suddenly cut off, the mice exhibited signs of withdrawal, including teeth-chattering, anxiety, and refusing to leaving their tunnels. The latest research showed that when these mice were offered sugar once again, they worked harder to attain it and consumed more than ever.
Cookies today, cocaine tomorrow? We hope not, but that leftover Halloween stash could act as a sort of gateway drug, the researchers say. The changes in brain chemistry made the mice more susceptible to other forms of addiction: When the sugar-addicted mice were cut off from their sugar supply, they binged on alcohol instead.

Intro to Color Theory

Living LIFE instead of Thinking LIFE

For much time I've always had a plan for life. I had an outline of what I wanted to do, how I was going to do it, and how it was all destined to turn out.

At this point I can say that none of it has worked out the way I had planned, dreamed, or thought it would. I can honestly say that I have been thinking LIFE my whole life. Not simply living life where you no longer think about what you are going to do and how you are going to do it but simply do what you know how to do whether it works or doesn't you have to realize that you are not ever in control of the outcome. You are only in control of you...to some extent.

Bruce Lee practiced his moves till they became second nature. His kung-fu became a part of him and he no longer had to think about what he was doing, how he was suppose to do it; it just worked. His attacks were lighting quick and very effective because he didn't have to think about things.

Today I took over a co-workers equipment and saw how puzzled he was on how to execute the transfer. In my mind it was easy. Detach the camera from his neck, give to me, and I place camera around my neck. Easy. But he struggled with thinking. It froze him and it took him a while before he took action.

I think that thinking life is like playing chess. You say, if I do this then this might happen or if I do that then that might happen. Instead of just making a move. Sure you might lose but eventually you will become good at losing and eventually you will start to win. Thinking LIFE might be centered around fear of losing what ever we feel we might lose. So we hesitate and contemplate what the right move is.

Taoism teaches us wu wei to simply do what is needed to the best that we can. Letting the outcome unfold by itself the way nature intended for it to. This can be very scary for many people who have always been taught that losing or making mistakes is bad. Its bad if you are attached but perhaps the secret is simply to let go...let go of control...and go with the flow.

WU WEI

Last Supper Pac Man

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Last Supper Mickey Mouse

"It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.

RED QUEEN PRINCIPLE

it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.

In reference to an evolutionary system, continuing adaptation is needed in order for a species to maintain its relative fitness amongst the systems being co-evolved with

Graphic design

Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form (i.e., printers, programmers, signmakers, etc.) – undertaken in order to convey a specific message (or messages) to a targeted audience. The term "graphic design" can also refer to a number of artistic and professional disciplines that focus on visual communication and presentation. The field as a whole is also often referred to as Visual Communication or Communication Design. Various methods are used to create and combine words, symbols, and images to create a visual representation of ideas and messages. A graphic designer may use typography, visual arts and page layout techniques to produce the final result. Graphic design often refers to both the process (designing) by which the communication is created and the products (designs) which are generated.
Common uses of graphic design include identity (logos and branding), web sites, publications (magazines, newspapers, and books), advertisements and product packaging. For example, a product package might include a logo or other artwork, organized text and pure design elements such as shapes and color which unify the piece. Composition is one of the most important features of graphic design, especially when using pre-existing materials or diverse elements.

heavy government spending on education

A Communist Youth League member at one of China's top science universities, she boasts enviable skills in calligraphy, piano, flute and pingpong.

Such gifted young women are increasingly common in China's cities and make up the most educated generation of women in Chinese history. Never have so many been in college or graduate school, and never has their ratio to male students been more balanced.

To thank for this, experts say, is three decades of steady Chinese economic growth, heavy government spending on education and a third, surprising, factor: the one-child policy.

People are the backbone of every society...to not invest in your people is...suicide

economic growth tends to reduce family size

Some demographers argue that China's fertility rate would have fallen sharply even without the one-child policy because economic growth tends to reduce family size. In that scenario, Chinese girls may have gotten more access to education anyway, though the gains may have been more gradual.

Perhaps this is why the American fertility  rate is growing...and our economic growth is dwindling.

Managing Resources

Managing Resources-- Often times, people automatically believe that I am referring to money when this point is raised. If your only resource is money, you are in dire trouble. If it is your first thought that resources is a euphemism for money, you are ignoring most of the value in your life. You will miss out as a result.

Resources refer to any value that you can trade or any substance you need for daily well-being.

In ancient times, it could have been Mammoth meat. In the modern era, it could be your brain power or the sweat of your brow. It could also be an entertaining story.

THE JAZZ CHILL CORNER: WLOQ 103.1FM ORLANDO DROPS SMOOTH JAZZ FORMAT

THE JAZZ CHILL CORNER: WLOQ 103.1FM ORLANDO DROPS SMOOTH JAZZ FORMAT: 103.1 FM / WLOQ in Orlando has recently been sold and is in the process of switching formats from Smooth Jazz to an unknown format. At midnight on August 1, WLOQ's smooth jazz format moved exclusively online, and the station began stunting as "Elvis 103.1" until the new format is unveiled. The station initially signed on the air in 1966 as WLOQ-FM and at the time the format was all instrumental “beautiful” music through 1977. The station programmed what became the Smooth Jazz format from 1977 to 2011. In 2011, after CEO John Gross retired for medical reasons, WLOQ was sold to TTB Media Corporation. Here is a message posted online from the CEO of the station:

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