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What Happens To Your Brain When You Meditate

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“Instead of simply operating from belief and programming as we do today, we could strip that away and create from a space connected with our hearts and true selves, something I believe would drastically change our world.” ~J Martino

J Martino – Meditation is becoming very popular lately. Perhaps it’s the anecdotal evidence friends are sharing with each other or the fact that more and more science is coming out to confirm the benefits of meditation that it’s encouraging people to take up the practice. Meditation has shown to decrease stress, increase happiness,quality of life, increase gray matter in the brain, making people more compassionate, lowering blood pressure, increasing memory and more. A great series of benefits from such a peaceful practice. Continue reading →

Enjoy A Surprisingly Healthy Superfood: 7 Dark Chocolate Health Benefits

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Natural Society  July 16 2013

Chocolate can be extremely healthful and beneficial to your health, but before you get carried away with those common candy bars from childhood, understand that the superfood nutritional qualities come from cacao or cocoa, the bitter seeds from which chocolate is made.

It’s best to select chocolates labeled Fair Trade and organic with at least 70% cacao or cocoa (both words indicate the same bean) and no sweeter than bitter-sweet. The more bitter the better. Anything less is too watered down with milk and saturated with unhealthful refined sugar, or worse, HFCS corn syrup.

Actually, the most healthful form of cacao is cacao nibs, small bitter pieces of cacao that you can nibble on, put into coffee, top off a bowl of plain whole milk organic yogurt with raw honey, or throw the nibs into a smoothie. They can be purchased from the spice bulk section of a good health food store.

Raw cacao powder or nibs are super antioxidants, which protect you against cellular damage from the oxidative stress of free radicals. Their ORAC ratings (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) are higher than any other food, with dark chocolates not far behind.

Antioxidant protection reduces aging symptoms and helps prevent diseases such as Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis (MS), heart disease, and even cancer. You can even ease a common coughing spell with dark chocolate.

Moderate consumption of dark chocolate for optimum health benefits should be six to ten grams almost every day. A typical dark chocolate bar is 100 grams. A heaping tablespoon of cacao nibs is probably even better.

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The Illusion of Time [Video]

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timeThe right brain senses time in the present moment and uses creativity. The left brain perceives time in terms of past and future and uses logic. We are caught in the middle.

As far as consciousness is concerned, we use our creative thinking 5% of the time, whilst our subconscious mind operates 95% of the time. Time a system, and perhaps the reason why time feels like it is speeding up is because our perception of time is evolving.

Bruce Lipton June 13 2013

Is Time An Illusion?

Craig Callender – As you read this sentence, you probably think that this moment—right now—is what is happening. The present moment feels special. It is real. However much you may remember the past or anticipate the future, you live in the present. Of course, the moment during which you read that sentence is no longer happening. This one is. In other words, it feels as though time flows, in the sense that the present is constantly updating itself. We have a deep intuition that the future is open until it becomes present and that the past is fixed. As time flows, this structure of fixed past, immediate present and open future gets carried forward in time. This structure is built into our language, thought and behavior. How we live our lives hangs on it.

Yet as natural as this way of thinking is, you will not find it reflected in science. The equations of physics do not tell us which events are occurring right now—they are like a map without the “you are here” symbol. The present moment does not exist in them, and therefore neither does the flow of time. Additionally, Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity suggest not only that there is no single special present but also that all moments are equally real [see “That Mysterious Flow,” by Paul Davies; Scientific American, September 2002]. Fundamentally, the future is no more open than the past. Continue reading . . .

Fructose Found To Cause Overeating, Fat Gain

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theintelhub.com | January 4 2013

A new study using brain imaging says that fructose, a ubiquitous sugar in the modern western diet, prevents the brain from recognizing fullness, promoting overeating and thereby weight gain. The researchers concluded that glucose does not have this effect. According to Oregon Health & Science University endocrinologist Dr. Jonathan Purnell, the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) results of 20 young, normal-weight study subjects mimicked how hungry each subject said he or she felt before and after consuming drinks with glucose or fructose.

All sugars are not the same—for example, high fructose corn syrup is 55 percent fructose and 45 percent glucose as opposed to table sugar, which is half of each.

Yale University endocrinologist Dr. Robert Sherwin says that glucose “turns off or suppresses the activity of areas of the brain that are critical for reward and desire for food.” Because fructose doesn’t result in those changes, however, “the desire to eat continues—it isn’t turned off.”

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Does Peace Have A Sound?

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The Sacred Scribe | October 12 2012

The silent mind has a sound.

At least, that’s what I’ve been experiencing.

Can that be possible?

It sounds like a frequency…a resonance…a sonar vibration.

It’s very subtle, and it’s always there, like a harmonic.

And it’s always there because I have a feeling this is the sound of Infinity, Eternalness, Emptiness.

Of course, I can’t know this for sure…it’s just a hunch. I’m not a scientist , so I can’t really prove what I’m hearing. (if anyone knows what this is, please let me know.)

I do know it’s not tinnitus, as that condition is like torture from the research I’ve read.

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