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Living Past Your Fears – The Keys To Using Natural Metaphysical Techniques Daily

Saturday, October 15th, 2011

How to build confidence

Maybe you have grappled with yourself over whether or not you can eat more pastries even if you are not hungry and you really are working to shed weight? Maybe you have pondered auditioning for a job, some sort of contest, or perhaps a piece in a performance yet unfortunately are very afraid? Perhaps you have attended motivational week-ends only to find you happen to be scolding yourself in the event you still fail, even after you have the whole set of techniques to excel? And unfortunately your insufficient self-assurance drops instantly towards melancholy

There are many scenarios all of us come up alongside every day in your world when we hope we had a great deal control over our own selves! When we wish we weren’t frightened of every little thing whether it goes ‘boo’ or not.

Physical structure

Fortunately our body is resilient because even nowadays, whenever we possess so much education pertaining to healthy eating plan , health and safety most of us continue doing terrible things to your body. Individuals bodily become ‘things’ rather than humans. For many children as well as grown ups eating represents everything but essential for this most fantastic specimen – US! What we eat not only impacts whether we are able to function on an oval, this impinges on our feelings, our imagination and our self-confidence.

Mind

In Western Magik if you would like somebody to give you the salt you do not need to cast a spell. You merely ask: “Please pass the salt”. However requesting what we desire will be the hardest thing to do for many with the exception of the best trained of sales people. Triggers represent a lot more things than we ever have the ability to analyse, if we bother to at all. Discussions with one another break down on a regular basis simply because there are always a lot more connotations to ‘words’ than we consider.

Spirit

And just what of spirit? The enigmatic components of ourselves are generally so often misrepresented because beliefs and plans more about our conditioning rather than our essence. There is a great deal more to learn about Spirit we have scarcely begun. How can any of this help us live our lives in Self confidence – to the fullest?

A Body/Mind/Spirit perspective about your life enables us a right for being together Positive as well as Humble at the same time. Self confidence does not signify currently being correct, this just means becoming so comfortable with regards to Being You, all of the fuzzy various insecurities that will normally cloud your inspiration as well as pleasure for Living turn out to be much less significant. No matter if these kinds of various insecurities tend to be excess weight across the stomach or thoughts associated with inadequacy of any type.

Even though it is a fantastic journey to be able to analyse our own mind’s method of coping with material, you may never unravel all of the Mindful triggers without building yet more while you do so. A lot of Meditations seek to clear the mind to allow the spiritual. Often it does the opposite. An clear head on a starving body may see all manner of things.

Chemicals in the body bring about different perceptions.

Just simply in those couple of brief paragraphs I’ve shown a number of limitations however they can be a good factor. positive since when we know our own restrictions, as well as our own viewpoints on issues then we are able to start tounderstand the limits and viewpoints connected with other folks.

Not too long ago Purple appeared to be the new Black (or was that the year previously?) on the other hand this year it’s got to be Red. Just joking. Or am I?

Last year you weren’t men with no furry chest.

Tatoos are out. Maybe.I don’t know.

This year it is no more trendy being a Lawyer however Anthropologists along with Meteorologists aregetting a lot more accolades for presenting useful information to the rest of us. Or perhaps it needs to be like thismaybe? Hmmm certainly all of this is absurdity, however it makes our worlds go around. And such absurdity will certainlyalways dominate since we seek to determine ‘beauty’ and ‘function’ and ‘what Life is about’ – because each one ofPeople are Creative Human Beings!

Below are 5 things you can try today in order to increase your own Self Esteem and be Confident about Being You!

Be able to write down your information and discover precisely what unfolds up for you. If you decide to eat it then question your Human bodyhow it feels about this intake, and also write down your feedback once more. In the event that you decide not to consume it check with your own human body if it is hungry and also exactly what it feels like. Write down your result. This is just anphysical exercise so that you can begin to understand your own Body a little better.

2:Whenever you perceive something that shocks you or upsets you, in lieu of reacting quickly pause and write down just how you are impacted. Next remove oneself from wherever you are at that time.Excuse yourself when possible and explain that you will reply before long if necessary. Sometimes thingswhich ‘shock us’ are usually just things which have not been programmed into our brains in a way that lets us understand them.

3:Toss aside the thing that holds power over you. One of the most empowering things a person can perform is throw away any guide or paperwork or matter that holdsforce over an individual. As long as you live by a guide rather than by ones own own choice an individual cannot be confident or loving towards self or others, because it is not you who is doing so. That is a challenging one formany individuals. When I initially researched the Occult I felt some age old power from so many things Ihandled. I recollect how I felt when I actually threw occult literature, tarot cards and also prayer books in the waste bin. And please only throw away reprints as all books are valuable records of history. This is a assertion of choice. When you areready to do this you release any power over you and take it back to oneself. In shaman terminology you are bringing back your own pieces to yourself. After a period of a number of weeks you will be better able to start lookingagain at these things and view them in a healthier light. Whatever the particular book is for you which keeps you captive, even in the event you are in agreement with the words in it. If it is a thing that holds power over you then throw it away or give it away.

4:It isn’t what we know that helps us, it is what we do not understand we know. Inform them you disagree right now but you will allow their words contemplation even if they repel you right now out of respect for them. This is definitely difficult, especially if you view their words as harmful and negative. However, we are all human beings and we all work fairly much the very same way which means that right now there is an assertion in their heads that concludes in their words. In cases where they don’t like you they will lose, not you, because you haven’t given them the benefit – in their eyes – to talk you down. They have not siphoned your energy. A number of of the gains you will receive from this exercise are substantial and have nothing then to do with the person you met. Remember, everyone we meet is for a reason – to learn something.

5:When seeing ghosts stay calm and curious. Ghosts are not always ghosts. Sometimes they are just projections. Sometimes they are energy of the living. Clairvoyant people can come to be confused between who is dead and who is alive, and how it all affects them. When you visit a new destination you are initially confused. You don’t know the bathroom system for example. This might be the same metaphysically through our journeys. Especially as a traveler. When we decide to put ourselves out there then we are going to connect with individuals as well as places many of us have not found before. This is both the fun of the journey and usually the foundation for the fear of doing something or traveling anywhere. When we remain ‘curious’ we are generally telling our minds that what we are experiencing we are not trying to reasons yet because this is the process that usually upsets us. Any time we tell our minds we are only curious and looking and will make our judgements about what to think about this later then we feel calmer and there is less or no fear.

Confidence course

The above are extremely powerful, emancipating actions. You begin to allow yourself the respect you deserve whenever you do exercises that respect Body/Mind/Spirit. You start to bypass the low self esteem and lack of confidence ideas that used to control you. You are on your way!

Mena Baines holds workshops in confidence building and metaphysics. How to have confidence

Natural computation:A Philosophy

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Oluwayomi.O.Oluwadara,

School of Technology,

St Patrick’s College,

W1F 8FS,London

1st June 2010.

This piece clearly highlights the philosophy behind the field of natural Computation. It goes further to evaluate some basic computational architectures that are nature inspired

Background

The present day computing has provided solutions to almost every task man can think of except for the “tomorrow world”-the stage of ubiquitousness. Sequel upon this, the challenge of the future is to harness all it takes to make natural computing work for us. Proponents of natural computing has discovered that the present day Alan Turin-Von Neumann architecture (classical model) enclosed in its silicon casing alone can not take us to the envisioned “tomorrow world”. As a result of this, attention was shifted from this architecture to that of natural computing. It must be stressed that this current classical model has tried reaching this “tomorrow world” with the . Products of their effort have resulted in Neural Networks (Simulating the functionality of the brain), Evolutionary Computing (Emulating the nature), Quantum Computing (has to do with the universe) and DNA computing. These asides, researches are still on going on how the current classical model could be abandoned in order to achieve al the goals of natural computing.

In essence, computer scientists are trying to achieve the “tomorrow world” using the current classical model in diverse areas, while there are on going efforts to abandon this classical model for some other ones in order to achieve the goal of ubiquitousness.

 

Why Natural Computing

Only natural computing seem to proffer a lasting solution to the human desire for the overwhelming desire to achieve a perfect digitalized world which I will seldomly refer to as tomorrow world. According to De Castro (2006), natural computing is the terminology introduced to encompass these three types of approaches, named, respectively: 1) computing inspired by nature: 2) the simulation and emulation of natural phenomena in computers: and 3) computing with natural materials.

A major reason that substantiates the idea of further study and research in natural computing is not far fetched. There must be a solution for complex tasks that could not be readily computable .For example, task of making human decisions, task of making food in the kitchen e.t.c As a result of this, the simulation of how nature solves this kind of problem is helpful: this is where natural computing comes in. For the sake of brevity, natural computing can be described as a way of employing nature to solve ambiguous problems.

 

The Evolution of Natural computing.

I would say that natural computing has evolved the era of Alan Turin- Von Neumann architecture for solving complex problems the stage of Computational Biology. Scientist, after various researches concluded that the tomorrow world could be achieved by the complex interaction of Biology and Computer. As indicated by Lyngso (2001), computational biology is concerned with the use of computers for biological problems, most prominently problems in evolutionary and molecular biology. This area is also referred to as bioinformatics and these two terms are often used interchangeably. It can therefore be inferred that the combination of natural knowledge from nature-Biology coupled with computing will definitely provide an alternative to the existing architecture.

 

Simply put, natural computing is the act of building a computational model for problem solving that is nature inspired. As stated earlier, based on the current architecture, science has tried its hardest to compute naturally and based on this great effort, they have achieved success in the below application areas:

-Evolutionary Computing

-Neural Computing

-Swarm Computing.

 

Evolutionary Computing: This can be described as the computational solution method that is based on the finding of the renown biologist-Charles Darwin. Eiben and Smith (2007), claimed that Evolutionary Computing is the collective name for a range of problem-solving techniques based on principles of biological evolution, such as natural selection and genetic inheritance.  These techniques are being increasingly widely applied to a variety of problems, ranging from practical applications in industry and commerce to leading edge scientific research. One can infer from the author of this book that science has adapted the findings of the great Darwin to solve complex present day problems. It must also be recalled however that this experimentations are being carried out on “old” classical model. Derivatives and merits that arose as a result of evolutionary computing involves genetic algorithm, genetic programming, evolutionary hardware, artificial life and artificial immune system.

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Neural Network /ComputingNeural networks are based on the parallel architecture of human brain. Basically, they are formed to simulate how the neurons in the human body work by transmitting signals from one to the other. A major difference between the human neurons and neural networks is that the former just take action naturally while the latter has to be trained. Mathematics has discovered the learning rate of training the neural network. It has been proved that if the error result is zero or so close to zero, neural network has learnt. As it turns out to be, they can also be described as some form of multiprocessor computer system with simple processing elements with a high degree of interconnection. Plus, they have got a simple scalar messages and adaptive interaction between elements. Neural Networks, because of their ability to learn (using certain learning algorithms) has been applied in diverse field in human endeavors. Common among them are face, voice and motion detection.

Recently, Jain (2010) proved that neural networks have also been widely synergized with other machine learning and complementary techniques to achieve improvements in robustness, adaptivity, and applicability.

 

Swarm IntelligenceSwarm intelligence can be likened to the scenario whereby the behavioral attitudes of social insects (ants, bees, termites e.t.c) are being computerized. A swarm has been defined as a set of (mobile) agents which are liable to communicate directly or indirectly (by acting on their local environment) with each other, and which collectively carry out a distributed problem solving. Based on this generalized concept of a swarm, French researchers have actually been able to simulate the termite’s nest-building behavior on a computer by applying a very simple “stigmergic algorithm”Deneubourg et al. (1992).

It can therefore be inferred that swarm intelligence is a design framework based on social insect behavior. These social insects are unique in the way these simple individuals cooperate to accomplish complex difficult tasks. The idea behind this fact has been used to design certain algorithms that can be used to solve human complex problems. Currently the application of swarm intelligence is helping in resolving issues in mobile ad-hoc networks.

 

Classification of Natural Computing.

Although there are on-going research in natural computation, but experts has identified three major classes. They are computing with natural materials, simulation and emulation of natured inspired by computing and computing inspired by nature. It must be noted that each of them has gotten different application areas.

 

Nature Inspired Computing (NIC): In this scenario, solution to problems are designed after, or inspired by nature. It must ne noted that the solution, probably some kind of algorithm is implemented using the current architecture. As Indicated by world of computing, (2010), Nature Inspired Computing (NIC) is one that aims to develop new computing techniques after getting ideas by observing how nature behaves in various situations to solve complex problems. Research on NIChas opened new branches such as evolutionary computation, neural networks, artificial immune systems, swarm intelligence, and so on.

A primary subset of NIC is known as Biology Inspired Computing. Relative to normal computing, there are significant differences in biology inspired computing. The biological system seems to respond quite slowly but they do implement much higher-level operations. To justify the effort of researchers in this endeavor, an algorithm, inspired by ant colonies that exhibit swarm intelligence has already been developed. Apart from swarm intelligence algorithm. It must also be noted that NIC has also made measurable success in Genetic algorithms, Neural Networks, Artificial Intelligence systems and cellular automata.

As a recap, NIC-solution that are nature inspired are; according to World of Computing (2010); flexible that they can be applied to wide range of problems, so adaptable that they can deal with unseen data and capable of learning, so robust that they can handle incomplete data. They have decentralized control of computational activities.

 

Simulation and Emulation of nature by means of Computing

As the name implies, this branch of natural computing imitates the way nature solve problems and tend to apply computing to it. It simulates the biological solution to complex problems and solves real life problems by their corresponding computing solutions. Again, De Castro (2006) stated that there are two main approaches to the simulation and emulation of nature

Sterility of natural sciences and the return to metaphysics

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

Metaphysics deal with what is real. Ultimate reality is then the first and most important subject of metaphysics.

Metaphysics from ‘meta’ after and ‘physic’ nature, is mainly concerned in the sensible as means to explore the intelligible. In other words what we observe by our naked eye and our calculative mind is the spring board basis for understanding its presence, its nature, its function, its structure, its origin, its principles and its finality.

No object can be ever understood unless we refer to these criteria. Metaphysics dealing with the basic principles of things bypasses natural things to search of an explanation. Man, by his very nature is curious. This is an inborn impetus that instigates him to explain what he sees. This is the foundation of knowledge. Questions like why should man be curious? And, why ought man search for explanations? Remain unanswered.

It is this very curiosity and search for explanations, especially satisfactory ones, that we acquire knowledge. Knowledge remain a mysterious thing view the obligatory relation between mind and matter. No one can yet explain what mind is. No one can at the present time explain how the mind works and what for? No one can explain why should there be matter dimensions in space and time.

We wonder about these questions and science does not deal with these question for science, exact sciences or not, do not deal with the questions of the presence of objects, its forms and shapes, its colors and change, its origin and finalities. In fact science eschews all that is related to what cannot be proven by our senses or our calculation machines.

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Science accepts, until further notice or discovery annulling the first notion or discovery, what can be so called proven and be subject to experimental empirical evidence. No evidence, science rejects the hypothesis and rejects its theoretical foundations. Everything must be proven, otherwise science does not accept it.

For this for example the notion of God is not accepted by sciences for it cannot offer a proof for God’s existence. God is not an experimental subject to be analyzed in the laboratory of chemistry or physics. It cannot be further treated by mathematics, the perfect science so long some mathematicians. T

hus, physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics do not deal with the subject of God, or any of the divine questions, for it cannot pin down with evidence its presence and its behavior. Thus, with great oddity and obscurity science falls short of recognizing God. But, with irony of subject, scientists fail to explain the presence of the universe, man and above all their own knowledge.

They fail utterly to explain where about man came from, his presence, his function, his nature, his essence, his role, his origin, his finality except for donkeys on two legs accepting natural selection as the admirable solution.

Science of today with all its progress, if it leads to anything other that uses of survival and understanding some relations among objects at a superficial level, it remain at best sterile in explaining reality and is totally unable to reach ‘ultimate knowledge’. It simply deals with what is and does not deal with what can be or what may be beyond matter.

Now the, if matter to exist then there must be an origin, or origins for matter. If man exists then there ought to be an origin of where man came from.

We cannot start ourselves questions and initiate endless interrogation concerning matter-objects taking into consideration only its presence as auto-sufficient and not forget about its origin, the what and why questions, its reason of being, what makes it function, who controls its presence and functioning, what is its relationships with other objects and why?

Sterility of science comes from its limitations to its phenomenal how and the phenomenal why. If science remain by its very nature, limited to the how, then it is sterile in its very definition to what is real and what is ultimately real.

Thus, and only thus, the sterility of sciences leaves the door wide open for other level of explanations, most needed by our human minds, this is of what is behind nature, nature being subject of science, and this is the domain of beyond-nature of metaphysics.

Man remains, in the clutches of natural sciences but remains, sterile, handicapped and incomplete, for natural sciences do not explain his existence, the reason of his life-cycle, how did he come about, what is he doing here and where is he going?

Man is not a machine of production, an animal of survival but a human being needs complete and satisfactory answers to his being, the being of the universe. He simply needs satisfactory answers to his simple questions and science fall short of this task.

 

Secret of Natural Laws and Principles-God, Nature and We: Metaphysics of Moolmantra of Sikhism and Other Religions Revealing Art of Ascendancy-Series

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

We all follow some kind of faith or belief as religions, spirituality and whatever seems soul seeking from within. You see for a Sikh or any learner the Art of Ascendancy is to accept and obey His Will without creating doubt, but creating clarity by listening to the advice of the Gurbani, the teachings of common thread present among all religions metaphysically. When we do not understand the mysticism, the mystic touch in any religion and other philosophies of theism or the faiths, we have many doubts making us suspicious about the other, which we do not follow.

These doubts are created by ignorance, the very force of ego, and can be cleared by those, who are the selfless ones, the saints and the holy ones obeying Gurbani by remembering Him while serving the Creation. Here the holy one means all those, who have learnt the art of transcendentalism and have thus ascended to the level of higher level of living.

The survival is normal cause, but higher is living and the true living is still higher. The true living is one in which one does what one says and says what does. In other words, it is giving the metaphorical and mystical direction to our fantasies making these the imaginations and finally the creativity. This creativity is not manipulation of knowledge, rather; it is self-felt feelings giving the mystic experiences for which knowledge is just a boat.  We have to express few words about the Gurbani:

Firstly, let us consider the Concept of Gurbani-The Gurbani is the collection of the teachings of the metaphysically transcendental souls, the enlightened ones. It does not matter to which religion, cult, sect or ism they belong. The belief in it is that the whole of the Creation is having the governance from One God, called and known by many different names. The word ‘Omni’ as a prefix has ‘Om’ which if we combine with ‘Kar’-the Universal activities and actions, it bears the name ‘Onkar’. For example, He is Omni-present, the name in different languages may differ, however, in India and Indian languages the word Ram or Rama is having the same meaning for it, the Omnipresent.

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In the Gurbani, there are many transcendentally universal (or natural) laws and the principles; however, we may take the main of fifty-two in the series. These are to support us metaphysically, not just going as if the bookish knowledge or the profound words in preaching about what the religions say. In other words, it is the essence of the religions; the religions are having a common thread metaphysically as that present in the rosary and in this book, we will discuss it one at a time, and have our mystic reflection metaphysically as if receiving the fruits, the spiritual gifts-the awakening, transcendental meditation, enlightenment or self-realization from the wisdom tree.

Similarly, He is Merciful and dispeller of all sorrows; the name for it is Hari. He is the owner of the Creation; name for it is Jagdish. There are so many names, but all are to praise Him. The commonly used word is praise the Lord, Thy God. This word is Waheguru. The meaning of Waheguru is to praise God by all possible means, through chanting, singing, reading, praying and other ways that one believes or follows according to one’s religion or faith. Now, there is one factor that God governs the Creation with certain natural laws and the principles. He deals with us according to these laws and principles.

He is not beyond these, simply governs, but does not violate any of these. He is Merciful, Forgiver and bestows His Grace to all. He does not violate it. In the Gurbani, there are many laws and the principles, which are transcendental, mystic and thus metaphysical. These are to support us metaphysically, not just preaching what the religions say. In other words, it is the essence of the religions; the religions are having a common thread metaphysically as that present in the rosary. We will discuss it with mystic reflection metaphysically. We may take it as the fruits from the wisdom tree.

Please note that it is the voice of the conscience, the opening door to the universal mystic conscience, the universal conscience at the pineal gland-the gateway to the universe and thus the cosmos and the cosmic play of life in it.

Giving direction to one’s knowledge in the light of Wisdom of Gurbani brings the clarity of the thought, the mystic touch. Knowledge without direction is mere information, having no metaphorical joy but with direction; it is wisdom. This direction is the ascending one; not the descending. Thus, the series about these topics entitled as: 1. Secret of Natural Laws and Principles-God, Nature and We: Metaphysics of Moolmantra of Sikhism and Other Religions Revealing Art of Ascendancy 2. Secret of Natural Laws and Principles-God, Nature and We: Metaphysics of Moolmantra of Sikhism and Religions Revealing Concept of One God

There are so many points to correalte that it needed a series.

Thus, the series reflects on it for the clarity of it, the Art of Ascendancy-the Chardi Kala at this BLOG. Thanks!

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Interview with Pat Parelli Natural Horseman – Get Started Part 2 (3 of 4)

Friday, March 11th, 2011


Pat Parelli discusses the history of Parelli Natural Horsemanship and introduces his new educational DVD, Get Started, with 5-Star Parelli Professional Neil Pye. The “Get Started” DVD focuses on Pats philosophies and the first 3 primary games of his world famous Seven Games and how they apply to solving everyday problems. Learn more about Pat Parelli: www.parellinaturalhorsetraining.com Learn more about Natural Horsemanship: www.parellinaturalhorsetraining.com Get Started Today!: shop.parellinaturalhorsetraining.com

Interview with Pat Parelli Natural Horseman – Get Started Part 1 (2 of 4)

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011


Pat Parelli discusses the history of Parelli Natural Horsemanship and introduces his new educational DVD, Get Started, with 5-Star Parelli Professional Neil Pye. The “Get Started” DVD focuses on Pats philosophies and the first 3 primary games of his world famous Seven Games and how they apply to solving everyday problems. Learn more about Pat Parelli: www.parellinaturalhorsetraining.com Learn more about Natural Horsemanship: www.parellinaturalhorsetraining.com Get Started Today!: shop.parellinaturalhorsetraining.com

Interview with Pat Parelli Natural Horseman – Get Started Part 2 (2 of 4)

Thursday, December 16th, 2010


Pat Parelli discusses the history of Parelli Natural Horsemanship and introduces his new educational DVD, Get Started, with 5-Star Parelli Professional Neil Pye. The “Get Started” DVD focuses on Pats philosophies and the first 3 primary games of his world famous Seven Games and how they apply to solving everyday problems. Learn more about Pat Parelli: www.parellinaturalhorsetraining.com Learn more about Natural Horsemanship: www.parellinaturalhorsetraining.com Get Started Today!: shop.parellinaturalhorsetraining.com

Interview with Pat Parelli Natural Horseman – Get Started Part 1 (1 of 4)

Monday, December 6th, 2010


Pat Parelli discusses the history of Parelli Natural Horsemanship and introduces his new educational DVD, Get Started, with 5-Star Parelli Professional Neil Pye. The “Get Started” DVD focuses on Pats philosophies and the first 3 primary games of his world famous Seven Games and how they apply to solving everyday problems. Learn more about Pat Parelli: www.parellinaturalhorsetraining.com Learn more about Natural Horsemanship: www.parellinaturalhorsetraining.com Get Started Today!: shop.parellinaturalhorsetraining.com

What group of french philosophers searched for natural laws to explain economics?

Friday, February 5th, 2010