<p><div id="whichRead_1"><p>Emotional eating is when people use food as a way to deal with feelings instead of to satisfy hunger. We've all been there, finishing a whole bag of chips out of boredom or downing cookie after cookie while cramming for a big test. But when done a lot — especially without realizing it — emotional eating can affect weight, health, and overall well-being.</p><p><img alt="diets arent the answer emotional eating" src="http://kidshealth.org/image/ial/images/1415/1415_image.gif" title="emotional eating" /></p><p>Not many of us make the connection between eating and our feelings. But understanding what drives emotional eating can help people take steps to change it.</p><p>One of the biggest myths about emotional eating is that it's prompted by negative feelings. Yes, people often turn to food when they're stressed out, lonely, sad, anxious, or bored. But emotional eating can be linked to positive feelings too, like the romance of sharing dessert on Valentine's Day or the celebration of a holiday feast.</p><p>Sometimes emotional eating is tied to major life events, like a death or a divorce. More often, though, it's the countless little daily stresses that cause someone to seek comfort or distraction in food.</p><p>Emotional eating patterns can be learned: A child who is given candy after a big achievement may grow up using candy as a reward for a job well done. A kid who is given cookies as a way to stop crying may learn to link cookies with comfort.</p><p>It's not easy to "unlearn" patterns of emotional eating. But it is possible. And it starts with an awareness of what's going on.</p></div><div class="rs_skip" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 30.399999618530273px; background-color: #ffffff;"></div></p>

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ARE YOU ADDICTED TO BUSYNESS ARE YOU A SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICT

<div class="article-header" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; display: table; text-align: center; width: 750px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><h1 class="title entry-title" style="margin: 0px; position: relative; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; color: #696f00; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; width: 670px; display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle;"><a style="color: #696f00; outline-style: none; text-decoration: initial;" rel="bookmark" href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2012/12/are-you-addicted-to-busyness-are-you.html">ARE YOU ADDICTED TO BUSYNESS ARE YOU A SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICT</a></h1></div><div class="article-content entry-content" style="margin: 10px auto 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><h3 style="margin: 0.83em 0px; position: relative; font-weight: bolder; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You may be lost in the addiction to busyness if…</span></h3><ul style="margin: 0.5em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Your usual response to “how are you?” is “so busy”, “crazy busy” or “busy but good”</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You spend time worrying about how busy you are going to be tomorrow</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You get angry when your spouse or friends aren’t as busy as you</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Your busy life keeps you up at night thinking about everything you didn’t get done</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You make a point of letting people know that you stay at the office after hours</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You check email several times a day</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You zone out during conversations thinking about everything you have to do</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You volunteer for things you don’t care about</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You spend time complaining about how busy you are</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You make list after list to make sure you don’t forget anything during your busy day</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You allocate time each day to clean your desk or organize your stuff</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You regularly eat in your car</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You use a phone in the car because “it’s the only time you have to talk”</span></li></ul></div>

ARE YOU ADDICTED TO BUSYNESS ARE YOU A SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICT

ARE YOU ADDICTED TO BUSYNESS ARE YOU A SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTYou may be lost in the addiction to busyness if…Your usual response to “how are you?” is “so busy”, “crazy busy” or “busy but good”You spend t…

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The joy of life for my Spanish Rainbow

<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The joy of life is living it and doing things of worth,</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">In making bright and fruitful the entire desert spots of earth.</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">In facing odds and mastering them and rising from defeat,</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">And making true what once was false, and what was bitter, make sweet.</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">For only you know perfect joy whose little bit of soil</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Is richer ground than what it was when you began to toil.</span></p>

The joy of life for my Spanish Rainbow

The joy of life is living it and doing things of worth,In making bright and fruitful the entire desert spots of earth.In facing odds and mastering them and rising from defeat,And making true what once…

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: People don't really want to grow up, people don't really want to change, people don't really want to be happy

<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Do you think I am going to help anybody? No! Oh, no, no, no, no, no! Don't expect me to be of help to anyone. Nor do I expect to damage anyone. If you are damaged, you did it; and if you are helped, you did it. You really did! You think people help you? They don't. You think people support you? They don't. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">There was a woman in a therapy group I was conducting once. She was a religious sister. She said to me, "I don't feel supported by my superior." So I said, "What do you mean by that?" And she said, "Well, my superior, the provincial superior, never shows up at the novitiate where I am in charge, never. She never says a word of appreciation." I said to her, "All right let's do a little role playing. Pretend I know your provincial superior. In fact, pretend I know exactly what she thinks about you. So I say to you (acting the part of the provincial superior), 'You know, Mary, the reason I don't come to that place you're in is because it is the one place in the province that is trouble-free, no problems. I know you're in charge, so all is well.' How do you feel now?" She said, "I feel great." Then I said to her, "All right, would you mind leaving the room for a minute or two? This is part of the exercise." So she did. While she was away, I said to the others in the therapy group, "I am still the provincial superior, O.K.? Mary out there is the worst novice director I have ever had in the whole history of the province. In fact, the reason I don't go to the novitiate is because I can't bear to see what she is up to. It's simply awful. But if I tell her the truth, it's only going to make those novices suffer all the more. We are getting somebody to take her place in a year or two; we are training someone. In the meantime I thought I would say those nice things to her to keep her going. What do you think of that?" They answered, "Well, it was really the only thing you could do under the circumstances." Then I brought Mary back into the group and asked her if she still felt great. "Oh yes," she said. Poor Mary! She thought she was being supported when she wasn't. The point is that most of what we feel and think we conjure up for ourselves in our heads, including this business of being helped by people. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Do you think you help people because you are in love with them? Well, I've got news for you. You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person. Take a minute to think about that: You are never in love with anyone, you're in love with your prejudiced idea of that person. Isn't that how you fall out of love? Your idea changes, doesn't it? "How could you let me down when I trusted you so much?" you say to someone. Did you really trust them? You never trusted anyone. Come off it! That's part of society's brainwashing. You never trust anyone. You only trust your judgment about that person. So what are you complaining about? The fact is that you don't like to say, "My judgment was lousy." That's not very flattering to you, is it? So you prefer to say, "How could you have let me down?" </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">So there it is: People don't really want to grow up, people don't really want to change, people don't really want to be happy. As someone so wisely said to me, "Don't try to make them happy, you'll only get in trouble. Don't try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig." Like the businessman who goes into a bar, sits down, and sees this fellow with a banana in his ear - a banana in his ear! And he thinks, "I wonder if I should mention that to him. No, it's none of my business." But the thought nags at him. So after having a drink or two, he says to the fellow, "Excuse me, ah, you've got a banana in your ear." The fellow says, "What?" The businessman repeats, "You've got a banana in your ear. " Again the fellow says, "What was that?" "You've got a banana in your ear!" the businessman shouts. "Talk louder," the fellow says, "I've got a banana in my ear!" </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">So it's useless. "Give up, give up, give up," I say to myself. Say your thing and get out of here. And if they profit, that's fine, and if they don't, too bad! </span><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; background-color: #f9fcd8;" /></p>

: People don't really want to grow up, people don't really want to change, people don't really want to be happy

Do you think I am going to help anybody? No! Oh, no, no, no, no, no! Don't expect me to be of help to anyone. Nor do I expect to damage anyone. If you are damaged, you did it; and if you are helped, y…

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The Four Steps To Spiritual Wisdom

<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The first thing you need to do is get in touch with negative feelings that you're not even aware of. Lots of people have negative feelings they're not aware of. Lots of people are depressed and they're not aware they are depressed. It's only when they make contact with joy that they understand how depressed they were. You can't deal with a cancer that you haven't detected. You can't get rid of boll weevils on your farm if you're not aware of their existence. The first thing you need is awareness of your negative feelings. What negative feelings? Gloominess, for instance. You're feeling gloomy and moody. You feel self-hatred or guilt. You feel that life is pointless, that it makes no sense; you've got hurt feelings, you're feeling nervous and tense. Get in touch with those feelings first. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">The second step (this is a four-step program) is to understand that the feeling is in you, not in reality. That's such a self-evident thing, but do you think people know it? They don't, believe me. They've got Ph.D.s and are presidents of universities, but they haven't understood this. They didn't teach me how to live at school. They taught me everything else. As one man said, "I got a pretty good education. It took me years to get over it." That's what spirituality is all about, you know: unlearning. Unlearning all the rubbish they taught you. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Negative feelings are in you, not in reality. So stop trying to change reality. That's crazy! Stop trying to change the other person. We spend all our time and energy trying to change external circumstances, trying to change our spouses, our bosses, our friends, our enemies, and everybody else. We don't have to change anything. Negative feelings are in you. No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event on earth that has the power to disturb you or hurt you. No event, condition, situation, or person. Nobody told you this; they told you the opposite. That's why you're in the mess that you're in right now. That is why you're asleep. They never told you this. But it's self-evident. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Let's suppose that rain washes out a picnic. Who is feeling negative? The rain? Or YOU? What's causing the negative feeling? The rain or your reaction? When you bump your knee against a table, the table's fine. It's busy being what it was made to Be -- a table. The pain is in your knee, not in the table. The mystics keep trying to tell us that reality is all right. Reality is not problematic. Problems exist only in the human mind. We might add: in the stupid, sleeping human mind. Reality is not problematic. Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence. Where would the problem be? No problem. You created the problem. You are the problem. You identified with "me" and that is the problem. The feeling is in you, not in reality. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">The third step: Never identify with that feeling. It has nothing to do with the "I." Don't define your essential self in terms of that feeling. Don't say, "I am depressed." If you want to say, "It is depressed," that's all right. If you want to say depression is there, that's fine; if you want to say gloominess is there, that's fine. But not: I am gloomy. You're defining yourself in terms of the feeling. That's your illusion; that's your mistake. There is a depression there right now, there are hurt feelings there right now, but let it be, leave it alone. It will pass. Everything passes, everything. Your depressions and your thrills have nothing to do with happiness. Those are the swings of the pendulum. If you seek kicks or thrills, get ready for depression. Do you want your drug? Get ready for the hangover. One end of the pendulum swings to the other. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">This has nothing to do with "I"; it has nothing to do with happiness. It is the "me." If you remember this, if you say it to yourself a thousand times, if you try these three steps a thousand times, you will get it. You might not need to do it even three times. I don't know; there's no rule for it. But do it a thousand times and you'll make the biggest discovery in your life. To hell with those gold mines in Alaska. What are you going to do with that gold? If you're not happy, you can't live. So you found gold. What does that matter? You're a king; you're a princess. You're free; you don't care anymore about being accepted or rejected, that makes no difference. Psychologists tell us how important it is to get a sense of belonging. Baloney! Why do you want to belong to anybody? It doesn't matter anymore. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">A friend of mine told me that there's an African tribe where capital punishment consists of being ostracized. If you were kicked out of New York, or wherever you're residing, you wouldn't die. How is it that the African tribesman died? Because he partakes of the common stupidity of humanity. He thinks he will not be able to live if he does not belong. It's very different from most people, or is it? He's convinced he needs to belong. But you don't need to belong to anybody or anything or any group. You don't even need to be in love. Who told you you do? What you need is to be free. What you need is to love. That's it; that's your nature. But what you're really telling me is that you want to be desired. You want to be applauded, to be attractive, to have all the little monkeys running after you. You're wasting your life. WAKE UP! You don't need this. You can be blissfully happy without it. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Your society is not going to be happy to hear this, because you become terrifying when you open your eyes and understand this. How do you control a person like this? He doesn't need you; he's not threatened by your criticism; he doesn't care what you think of him or what you say about him. He's cut all those strings; he's not a puppet any longer. It's terrifying. "So we've got to get rid of him. He tells the truth; he has become fearless; he has stopped being human.'' HUMAN! Behold! A human being at last! He broke out of his slavery, broke out of their prison. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">No event justifies a negative feeling. There is no situation in the world that justifies a negative feeling. That's what all our mystics have been crying themselves hoarse to tell us. But nobody listens. The negative feeling is in you. In the Bhagavad-Gita, the sacred book of the Hindus, Lord Krishna says to Arjuna, "Plunge into the heat of battle and keep your heart at the lotus feet of the Lord." A marvelous sentence. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">You don't have to do anything to acquire happiness. The great Meister Eckhart said very beautifully, "God is not attained by a process of addition to anything in the soul, but by a process of subtraction." You don't do anything to be free, you drop something. Then you're free. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">It reminds me of the Irish prisoner who dug a tunnel under the prison wall and managed to escape. He comes out right in the middle of a school playground where little children are playing. Of course, when he emerges from the tunnel he can't restrain himself anymore and begins to jump up and down, crying, "I'm free, I'm free, I'm free! A little girl there looks at him scornfully and says, "That's nothing. I'm four." </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">The fourth step: How do you change things? How do you change yourselves? There are many things you must understand here, or rather, just one thing that can be expressed in many ways. Imagine a patient who goes to a doctor and tells him what he is suffering from. The doctor says, "Very well, I've understood your symptoms. Do you know what I will do? I will prescribe a medicine for your neighbor!" The patient replies, "Thank you very much, Doctor, that makes me feel much better." Isn't that absurd? But that's what we all do. The person who is asleep always thinks he'll feel better if somebody else changes. You're suffering because you are asleep, but you're thinking, "How wonderful life would be if somebody else would change; how wonderful life would be if my neighbor changed, my wife changed, my boss changed." </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">We always want someone else to change so that we will feel good. But has it ever struck you that even if your wife changes or your husband changes, what does that do to you? You're just as vulnerable as before; you're just as idiotic as before; you're just as asleep as before. You are the one who needs to change, who needs to take medicine. You keep insisting, "I feel good because the world is right." Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying. </span><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; background-color: #f9fcd8;" /><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; background-color: #f9fcd8;" /></p>

The Four Steps To Spiritual Wisdom

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And where is this heaven

<p>To a disciple who was obsessed with the thought of life after death, the Master said, "Why waste a single moment thinking of the hereafter?" "But is it possible not to?" "Yes." "How?" "By living in heaven here and now." "And where is this heaven?" "In the here and now."</p>

And where is this heaven

To a disciple who was obsessed with the thought of life after death, the Master said, "Why waste a single moment thinking of the hereafter?" "But is it possible not to?" "Yes." "How?" "By living in he…

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more important than "asking for" things and "getting for" things and "getting" things.

<p> </p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td class="td1" valign="middle"><p class="p1">Celebration and praise, loving attention to the presence of God, become more important than "asking for" things and "getting for" things and "getting" things.</p><p class="p1"> </p><p class="p1"><em>Contemplation in a World of Action:</em> 159</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

more important than "asking for" things and "getting for" things and "getting" things.

 Celebration and praise, loving attention to the presence of God, become more important than "asking for" things and "getting for" things and "getting" things. Contemplation in a World of Action: 159…

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The long, slow, boring and often painful route

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1ygqG1Xjt95X3YYcx0RDpBqCqLlhRCCIzXMtSsv8vzASxUPPG7cFxQH-wGTTJi1FDBV-Rrl3moNiUjQqs1VUCSLkhSjHiow4xq6yXHlSkRTMAzZNryEYfnJpv4CrCf5I80QvgjTICpFW8/s1600/The+TEN+STAGES+OF+RECOVERY.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1ygqG1Xjt95X3YYcx0RDpBqCqLlhRCCIzXMtSsv8vzASxUPPG7cFxQH-wGTTJi1FDBV-Rrl3moNiUjQqs1VUCSLkhSjHiow4xq6yXHlSkRTMAzZNryEYfnJpv4CrCf5I80QvgjTICpFW8/s320/The+TEN+STAGES+OF+RECOVERY.png" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 21px;">When it comes to our development, when it comes to real change, the long, slow, boring and often painful route is quite reliably,</span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 21px;"> the most direct. The Ten Stages</em><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 21px;"></em></div> <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <h4 class="zemanta-related-title"> Related articles</h4> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stageforum.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-child-within-thats-is-interior.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/340768502_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stageforum.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-child-within-thats-is-interior.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The CHILD WITHIN thats is an interior voice accessing the exterior and is the only true voice of the child.The authentic intuition voice that lovingly guides your life.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/when-we-drop-our-self-centred.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/339197483_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/when-we-drop-our-self-centred.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">When we drop our self-centred motivations and allow all things to come toward us to carry out practice, that is realisation.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/you-are-awareness-awareness-is-another.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/339197490_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/you-are-awareness-awareness-is-another.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://frasertrevor.blogspot.com/2015/05/when-we-have-find-child-within-ourselves.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/340330572_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://frasertrevor.blogspot.com/2015/05/when-we-have-find-child-within-ourselves.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">When we have find the child within ourselves</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/04/addiction-is-way-of-temporary.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/339192659_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/04/addiction-is-way-of-temporary.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Addiction is the way of temporary forgetting and hence we begin to understand the repeated circles of addiction cycle. This becomes a part of the study course at The Ten Stages</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://recoverystages.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-damage-done-to-us-during-our.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/340997618_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://recoverystages.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-damage-done-to-us-during-our.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The damage done to us during our childhood cannot be undone</a></li> </ul> </div> </div>

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The long, slow, boring and often painful route

When it comes to our development, when it comes to real change, the long, slow, boring and often painful route is quite reliably, the most direct. The Ten Stages Related articles The CHILD WITHIN tha…

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.

<p><p style="color: #0b175f; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><em>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." <br /></em></span></p><p style="color: #0b175f; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 0in;"><br /><span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><em> </em></span></p><p style="color: #0b175f; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"> </span></p><p style="color: #0b175f; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><strong>- Margaret Meade</strong>, was an American cultural anthropologist.</span></p></p>

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."   - Margaret Meade, was an American cultural anthropologist.…

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Rule of Life is an intentional pattern of spiritual disciplines that provides structure and direction for growth

<div>Rule of Life is an intentional pattern of spiritual disciplines that provides structure and </div><div>direction for growth in holiness.  A Rule establishes a rhythm for life in which is helpful for </div><div>being formed by the Spirit, a rhythm that reflects a love for God and respect for how he has made </div><div>us.  The disciplines which we build into our rhythm of life help us to shed the “old self” and </div><div>allow our “new self” in Christ to be formed.  Spiritual disciplines are means of grace by which </div><div>God can nourish us.  Ultimately a Rule should help you to love God more, so if it becomes a </div><div>legalistic way of earning points with God or impressing others, it should be scrapped.  If the </div><div>traditional, ancient term “rule” concerns you because it sounds legalistic, think of “rule” as a </div><div>“rhythm of life” or as a “Curriculum in Christlikeness” (Dallas Willard), or as a “Game Plan for </div><div>Morphing” (John Ortberg). </div><div>In order to be life-giving, a Rule must be realistic!   It is not an ideal toward which you are </div><div>striving to soar.  Instead, your initial Rule should be a minimum standard for your life that you </div><div>do not want to drop below.  It’s a realistic level of engaging in the spiritual disciplines for which </div><div>you can honestly and truly be held accountable.</div>

Rule of Life is an intentional pattern of spiritual disciplines that provides structure and direction for growth

Rule of Life is an intentional pattern of spiritual disciplines that provides structure and direction for growth in holiness.  A Rule establishes a rhythm for life in which is helpful for being formed…

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Practicing a Rule of Life with others moves us against the grain of our individualistic culture.

<p><p>Practicing a Rule of Life with others moves us against the grain of our individualistic culture. However, I believe that a Rule should grow from the positive aspects of our life, not what we perceive to be our failings.  We should discern it in conversation with God and others in our community, and we must make God the focus of our Rule (don't focus on  negative images of ourselves) and then we move in the directions in which we feel God's calling. A Rule of Life should be a response to being loved by God in the first place, and feeling moved to become what God calls us to be in this world.</p><p>Ever since St. Benedict's time, Christians have used a Rule of Life to provide an ancient yet powerfully consistent way to live into our present and future faith.</p></p>

Practicing a Rule of Life with others moves us against the grain of our individualistic culture.

Practicing a Rule of Life with others moves us against the grain of our individualistic culture. However, I believe that a Rule should grow from the positive aspects of our life, not what we perceive …

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an apocalypse on Earth on December 21, 2012

<p><span style="color: #323232; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: #ffffff;">an apocalypse on Earth on December 21, 2012</span></p>

an apocalypse on Earth on December 21, 2012

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To live in communion, in genuine dialogue with others is absolutely necessary if man is to remain human.

<p>To live in communion, in genuine dialogue with others is absolutely necessary if man is to remain human.</p>

To live in communion, in genuine dialogue with others is absolutely necessary if man is to remain human.

To live in communion, in genuine dialogue with others is absolutely necessary if man is to remain human.…

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Come, dervishes: here is the water of life. Dance in it.

<p><p> Come, dervishes: here is the water of life. Dance in it.</p><p> </p></p>

Come, dervishes: here is the water of life. Dance in it.

 Come, dervishes: here is the water of life. Dance in it. …

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Benedict (like Bill W) realized we must understand our dependence on God before being restored to sanity.

<div>Benedict (like Bill W) realized we must understand our dependence on God before being </div><div>restored to sanity.  “We are like a child on its mother’s lap,” Benedict writes, “cut off from </div><div>nourishment, helpless, left without the resources we need to grow in the spirit of God.” </div>

Benedict (like Bill W) realized we must understand our dependence on God before being restored to sanity.

Benedict (like Bill W) realized we must understand our dependence on God before being restored to sanity.  “We are like a child on its mother’s lap,” Benedict writes, “cut off from nourishment, helple…

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Police have several leads in the investigation of the large forest fire that started a week ago.

<p>Suspicions that it was started malicously has possibly strengthened. Sources claim that the fire spread quickly because there was more than one fire. Witnesses stated inter alia, have seen an unidentified jeep coming from a farm between Ojén and Marbella exactly where the fire then got an awesome course. In Marbella, it was announced yesterday that it is now able to restore electricity, water and telephone networks in all affected areas. It is now under the companies just the kind of disruption that is "normal". In areas Elviria Ricmar has repaired water pipes, power lines and 3000 meters telephone and fiber optic cable. It has also been launched several campaigns to restore nature and conduct tree plantings. Biologists say that tree planting may be necessary until next year. The hotel chain Fuerte Hoteles has among other things promised to donate a tree for every hotel guest you have in Marbella. The hotels have also started a fundraiser where guests can help by buying a tree, which will then be planted in the affected area.</p>

Police have several leads in the investigation of the large forest fire that started a week ago.

Suspicions that it was started malicously has possibly strengthened. Sources claim that the fire spread quickly because there was more than one fire. Witnesses stated inter alia, have seen an unidenti…

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experts believe we can actually become "addicted" to stress.

<p>Stress can be physical,And then there’s the kind that’s in our heads — that OMG I’m so overwhelmed right now feeling. While psychological stress has some definite downsides (chronic freak-outs may increase our risk for cancer and other diseases), take a moment to exhale. In moderate amounts, stress can boost our focus, energy, and even our powers of intuition.</p><p>Still, in some cases, stress does more than light a productivity-boosting fire under our butts. Both emotional and physical stress activate our central nervous system, causing a “natural high,” says Concordia University neuroscientist and addiction specialist Jim Pfaus. “By activating our arousal and attention systems,” Pfaus says, “stressors can also wake up the neural circuitry underlying wanting and craving — just like drugs do.”</p><p>This may be why, experts believe, some of us come to like stress a little too much.</p><p>Type A and Type D personalities — or people prone to competitiveness, anxiety, and depression — may be most likely to get a high from stressful situations, says stress management specialist Debbie Mandel. Stress “addicts,” Mandel says, “may also be using endless to-do lists to avoid less-easy-to-itemize problems — feelings of inadequacy, family conflicts, or other unresolved personal issues.”</p><p>Some stress junkies have difficulty listening to others, concentrating, and even sleeping because they can’t put tomorrow’s agenda out of their minds, explains Mandel. Others tend to use exaggerated vocabulary — craaazy busy right now, workload’s insane!! And some begin to feel anxious at the mere thought of slowing down their schedule.</p><p>But psychologist and addiction researcher Stanton Peele cautions against labeling anyone a stress addict. “Only when that pursuit of stress has a significant negative impact on your life could it qualify as addiction,” he said, adding that many people are able to effectively manage — and in fact thrive under — high stress conditions. (Think: Olympic athletes or President Obama.)</p><p> Study: Stress Shrinks the Brain and Lowers Our Ability to Cope with Adversity</p><p>For budding stress “addicts” or for those who just, well, feel overwhelmed, here are some tips to dial down that anxiety:</p><ul><li>Seek professional help if you’re verging on burnout. (Not only can hashing it out with a therapist take a load off your mind. Some studies suggest it also boosts physical fitness.)</li><li>Do something creative. Mandel recommends carving out a once-weekly time not to think about tomorrow’s agenda by painting, cooking, writing, dancing, or anything else that’ll take you off the clock temporarily.</li><li>Take it outside. Numerous studies show spending time in nature improves general well-being, lowers anxiety, stress and depression, and even boosts self-confidence. Especially for women. (As it turns out, most addiction recovery centers offer outdoor-immersion programs.)</li><li>Calm down quickly. If you really don’t have time for any of the above, these 40 tricks to chill take five minutes or less.</li></ul><p>Some of us may seek out stress a bit more excessively than others and struggle to just relax. It takes skill to handle hectic agendas and long lists of responsibilities — without losing sleep or feeling frazzled. So try these tips and try not to freak out.</p><p>Worried that you or someone you know seeks out stress a little too much? Think stress addiction is a myth? Tell us about it in the comments section below.</p><p><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 22px;"><br /><br /><br /></span></p>

experts believe we can actually become "addicted" to stress.

Stress can be physical,And then there’s the kind that’s in our heads — that OMG I’m so overwhelmed right now feeling. While psychological stress has some definite downsides (chronic freak-outs may inc…

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For those red wine drinkers who’ve been feeling morally superior about all the health benefits of the relaxing glass or two sipped during dinner, there’s some bad news on the horizon.

<p> Turns out, those glasses of wine would be a lot healthier if they were non-alcoholic, a new study shows.  Spanish researchers led by Gemma Chiva-Blanch of the University of Barcelona found that non-alcoholic red wine reduced blood pressure in men at high risk for heart disease better than standard red wine or gin, according to the study published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation Research. Although the reduction in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure was modest, decreases of just 4 and 2 mm Hg have been associated with a 14 to 20 percent reduction in heart disease and stroke, the researchers pointed out. “The daily consumption of dealcoholized red wine could be useful for the prevention of low to moderate hypertension,” they concluded.  Although there have been many studies on the impact of moderate drinking on health, the findings have been mixed, with some studies showing a benefit and others suggesting none. The new study found that 3 ounces of gin a day had no impact on blood pressure, while consumption of regular red wine led to a small, but not statistically significant, improvement. The new study suggests that if you’re going to have a drink, red wine would be the healthiest choice, said Dr. Kelly Anne Spratt, a heart disease prevention specialist and a clinical associate professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Still, Spratt said, “while there are those of us in cardiology who believe in the benefits of red wine, we want to be wary. We’re not going like gangbusters recommending people go out and start drinking. There are a lot of problems associated with drinking, like weight gain, cardiomyopathy, alcoholism, an increased breast cancer risk in women who consume two or more drinks a day.” Chiva-Blanch and her colleagues suspect that blood pressure improvements were due to the impact of polyphenols, a red wine component, on nitric oxide. The theory is that nitric oxide molecules help blood vessels relax, which allows better flow and more blood to reach the heart and other organs. For the new study, Chiva-Blanch and her colleagues followed 67 men with diabetes or three or more cardiovascular risk factors. During the study, the men were all required to consume the same foods along with one of three drinks: 10 ounces of red wine, 10 ounces of non-alcoholic red wine or 3 ounces of gin. During the 12 week study, the men tried each diet/beverage combination for four weeks at a time. The researchers determined that the standard red wine and its nonalcoholic counterpart contained equal amounts of polyphenols, an antioxidant which has been shown to decrease blood pressure. Men who drank regular red wine saw minor reductions in blood pressure – too small, in fact, to be statistically significant. Those who drank gin with their meals saw no change in blood pressure. But men who drank non-alcoholic red wine saw a blood pressure decrease of about 6 mm Hg in systolic and 2 mm Hg in diastolic blood pressure. Chiva-Blanch and her colleagues concluded that their findings show that the alcohol in red wine actually weakens its ability to lower blood pressure.</p>

For those red wine drinkers who’ve been feeling morally superior about all the health benefits of the relaxing glass or two sipped during dinner, there’s some bad news on the horizon.

 Turns out, those glasses of wine would be a lot healthier if they were non-alcoholic, a new study shows.  Spanish researchers led by Gemma Chiva-Blanch of the University of Barcelona found that non-a…

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Dream Warriors Testament: PART 1 ROCK BOTTOM Flash News best selling new addiction book

<p><div class="article-header" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; display: table; text-align: center; width: 750px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><h1 class="title entry-title" style="margin: 0px; position: relative; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; color: #00b2b4; width: 670px; display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle;"><a style="color: #00b2b4; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" rel="bookmark" href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2012/09/blackout-oblivion-was-where-my-advanced.html">Dream Warriors Testament:PART 1 ROCK BOTTOM</a> <span class="blog-admin" style="display: inline;"><a class="edit" style="color: #00b2b4; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: 21px; opacity: 0.8; position: relative; top: 3px; width: 21px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;" title="Edit" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3922196140932006510&postID=8579897959452871652&from=pencil" target="_self"></a></span></h1></div><div class="article-content entry-content" style="margin: 10px auto 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" dir="ltr">Dream Warriors testament, Arriving at a time in my life after thirty years of not drinking to leave an honest account of what it was like, my experience the good and the bad, the addictions of which alcohol was but one, the <a class="zem_slink" style="color: #00b2b4; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none; display: inline;" title="Religious experience" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_experience" target="_blank">spiritual experiences</a> and the formation of my personal program.The founding of <a class="zem_slink" style="color: #00b2b4; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none; display: inline;" title="Narcotics Anonymous" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcotics_Anonymous" target="_blank">Narcotics Anonymous</a> in <a class="zem_slink" style="color: #00b2b4; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none; display: inline;" title="Spain" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.4333333333,-3.7&spn=10.0,10.0&q=40.4333333333,-3.7%20(Spain)&t=h" target="_blank">Spain</a>.The trails and tribulations of the battles and failures with the ego.Many people need to remain anonymous within my journal and many may see there rolls differently.The writing is by a dyslexic this is not an excuse but a fact.Without the help of AA,NA,CA,ALANON,OA,SA and CODA this story would have not been possible.Many Angels have appeared in my life and I acknowledge you all.My sponsor and authentic founder of NA Spain remains my confident and long term friend.This person without any thought of reward spent endless time supporting me threw the early years of recovery  and whom I will be eternally grateful.<br /><br />PART 1 ROCK BOTTOM<br /><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Now cast your mind back thirty years.A hopeless drunk is staggering our of a nightclub set in an area known as over the border in a North East English town. The street lights  shimmering off the tarmac rushed towards me as I crumpled into unconsciosness My semicomatse head bouncing off the granite curbstones feeling like a gentle caress. Blackout, oblivion was where my advanced alcoholism always took me. The promise of a wonderous adventure filled illusions had long since disappeared.The idea that I could handle alcohol or drugs had seemed irrelevant the inevitability of my condition overcame me I dimmely felt hands rifleing threw my pockets. Hopelessly drunk I was incapable of doing anything even my bodily functions now took care of themselves. Death, whatever that was, would have been welcomed as yet another phase of insane bingeing ran its course.By know I was starting to understand that once I drank I had no control over the outcome.All the excuses had been used up and I was in utter bewilderment as to why my longtime friend alcohol had turned on me.Where had my friends disappeared to and the conviviality of there happy company.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The answer crashed into my befuddled brain I had used up all there excuses as well as mine and had become the unfunny court jester who continuosly embarrassed them with drunken brawling heaping abuse onto those closest to me as the full reality of my condition became apparent to them all.The witty raconteaur had become the stinking drunk,bloated vomiting and unfunny.In reality I sorted out dark places where people like me sort the company of like minded others.The illegal blues clubs and shebeens the drinking dens for prostitutes and criminals.I could not resist the call to visit once I had, had that first drink.It did not matter what it was for I had long since recognised that if it was a weak shandy or a double whisky the results would be exactly the same.It came as no surprise to be lying in the gutter blacked out.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What did come as a surprise was to be sitting in the back of a taxicab.What had happened had I met with a good Samaritan for they where a rareity in this area of dockland.I was over the years after this to try many times to attempt to rationalise this answer out. Had some golden lady of the night rescued me doubtful but possible or a kindly taxi driver even more improbable.Yet here I was being dropped off outside my front door in a small suburban village.My eyes fearfully scanned the street for what had become the inevitable results of my binges a police car.I thanked the taxi driver and searched for my keys.No police car but now the guilt and remorse the terrible psychical withdrawal from alcohol gripped my being. I must have another drink as my skin started crawling and the stomach wrenching vomit reflex took hold.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It was at this time I recognised that all the lights were on yet there was no one in the house.I stopped I glanced at the red flock wallpaper with the glistening remains of the whisky glass catching the evidential reflection of the lights.Yes this was the right house.There was the drinks cupboard it was open nothing remained. Panic,fear my head whirled a neon red sign shown in my head NO DRINK.No drink nothing.I heard a car drive up my car, my wife.I needed to get what was left of the brain into gear.I wracked my brain for a solution something that would work something that would give one more drink anything.She was on the path give me an idea any idea nothing. The withdrawls were kicking in the shakeing was starting with the first tremors my fingers twitched as the withdrawls started.Its just a hangover.You used the magic word that would start the withdrawl HANGOVER. I didn’t do hangovers anymore I just got sick very sick very quickly.How the hell was I to get a drink I must have a drink.I needed a solution fast any solution.</span></span></div></div></div></p>

Dream Warriors Testament: PART 1 ROCK BOTTOM Flash News best selling new addiction book

Dream Warriors Testament:PART 1 ROCK BOTTOM Dream Warriors testament, Arriving at a time in my life after thirty years of not drinking to leave an honest account of what it was like, my experience the…

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During experiments on the axons of the Woods Hole squid (loligo pealei), we tested our cockroach leg stimulus protocol on the squid's chromatophores.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br />  The results were both interesting and beautiful. The video is a view through an 8x microscope zoomed in on the dorsal side of the caudal fin of the squid. We used a suction electrode to stimulate the fin nerve. Chromatophores are pigmeted cells that come in 3 colors: Brown, Red, and Yellow. Each chromatophore is lined with up to 16 muscles that contract to reveal their color.<br /><br />Paloma T. Gonzalez-Bellido of Roger Hanlon's Lab in the Marine Resource Center of the Marine Biological Labs helped us with the preparation. You can read their latest paper at:<a dir="ltr" href="http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/08/13/rspb.2012.1374" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/08/13/rspb.2012.1374">http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/08/13/rspb.2012.1374<iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/G-OVrI9x8Zs" width="640"></iframe></a></div>

During experiments on the axons of the Woods Hole squid (loligo pealei), we tested our cockroach leg stimulus protocol on the squid's chromatophores.

 The results were both interesting and beautiful. The video is a view through an 8x microscope zoomed in on the dorsal side of the caudal fin of the squid. We used a suction electrode to stimulate th…

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Tracking a Rare Tattoo-Related Infection

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1>A Trail of Ink: Tracking a Rare Tattoo-Related Infection</h1><div id="storyText"><div id="media"><img alt="PHOTO: Tattoo ink skin infection" border="0" height="360" src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/Health/ht_tattoo_ink_skin_infection_ll_120822_wg.jpg" width="640" /><br /> <div><div><div id="main_cap_short"><div>An uncommon skin infection led to a doctor's investigation into tainted tattoo ink. (Monroe County Health Department)</div></div></div></div></div><div id="mediaplayerContainer"><div id="mediaplayer">The reddish-purple rash, seemingly woven into the tattoo on a 20-year-old New Yorker's forearm, was strange enough to have doctors scratching their heads.</div></div>This trail began when the man received a tattoo in Rochester, N.Y. in October 2011. A short while later, he noticed the raised, bumpy rash. He called his primary care physician.<br /> Doctors initially treated the man's arm with topical steroids, thinking that the rash was allergic-contact dermatitis. But that only made the problem worse.<br /> By the time dermatologist Dr. Mark Goldgeier saw the patient, it was clear that this was no simple allergy.<br /> He performed a skin biopsy so he could take a closer look at the rash under a microscope. What he saw was startling: the sample was riddled with a wormlike bacterium related to tuberculosis.<br /> "I explained [to the patient] that he had TB, and he had a look of horror on his face," Goldgeier said.<br /> For the patient, the finding meant a trip to an infectious disease specialist to start up to a full year of treatment.<br /> Goldgeier, meanwhile, called the Monroe County Health Department.<br /> "As soon as biopsy came back," he said, "I knew something in the process of tattooing was involved -- the ink, the water used for dilution, the syringes, the dressings."<br /> And so began a nationwide medical mystery.<br /> <div id="rel_2"><div>An article published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine describes how this one dermatologist helped connect the dots in an outbreak of tattoo-related atypical skin infections.</div></div>Dr. Byron Kennedy, public health specialist at Monroe County Department of Public Health, took over the case from Goldgeier. Kennedy first confirmed the results by repeating a skin biopsy on the patient. Once again, tendrils of mycobacterium chelonae, a type of tuberculosis-related skin bacteria, showed up in the sample.<br /> Mycobacterium chelonae is a rapidly growing bug found in soil, dust, water, animals, hospitals, and contaminated pharmaceuticals. This family of bacteria does not commonly affect healthy individuals, but in patients with suppressed immune systems -- like those with HIV or on chemotherapy -- these bacteria can cause serious disease, often resulting in death.<br /> The finding sent Kennedy and his associates to the tattoo parlor where the patient had been inked. Everything in the clinic was sterile, which made it unlikely that the infection had arisen there. But the tattoo artist, they learned, had been using a new gray premixed ink purchased in Arizona in April 2011; he used the ink between May and December 2011.<br /> The ingredients of the ink -- pigment, witch hazel, glycerin, and distilled water -- seemed innocuous enough. But further examination revealed that the distilled water in the pigment was the likely culprit of the contamination.<br /> The finding raised a number of questions -- not the least of which was how the bottles of premixed ink passed U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations.<br /> The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acknowledged this gap in regulations Wednesday in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report.<br /> "Under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, tattoo inks are considered to be cosmetics, and the pigments used in the inks are color additives requiring premarket approval," the report says.</div><div class="zemanta-related" style="margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><h4 class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles</h4><ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57498697/infected-tattoo-outbreak-traced-to-ink/" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.zemanta.com/108311278_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57498697/infected-tattoo-outbreak-traced-to-ink/" style="display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Infected tattoo outbreak traced to ink</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC120823-0000106/Tattoo-infections-linked-to-manufacturers-ink" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.zemanta.com/108383386_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC120823-0000106/Tattoo-infections-linked-to-manufacturers-ink" style="display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Tattoo infections linked to manufacturers' ink</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/news/20120822/studies-question-safety-tattoo-ink?src=RSS_PUBLIC" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.zemanta.com/108275446_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/news/20120822/studies-question-safety-tattoo-ink?src=RSS_PUBLIC" style="display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Studies Question Safety of Tattoo Ink</a></li> </ul></div><div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/?px" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_h.png?x-id=520319c5-d757-40ae-be18-6c193182b5c9" style="border: none; float: right;" /></a></div></div>

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Tracking a Rare Tattoo-Related Infection

A Trail of Ink: Tracking a Rare Tattoo-Related Infection An uncommon skin infection led to a doctor's investigation into tainted tattoo ink. (Monroe County Health Department)The reddish-purple rash, s…

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Addiction Books For relaxation When 50 Shades of Grey doesn’t cut it.

<p><h3></h3><div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; background-color: #ffffff;"><div><img alt="" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDnDS5XjX9acOoSrZcu4envHI_GL7mTXD3e2CkRMbdvhWhDOHgO-yg3K6Bja6bKdwPh56_SiaSbmOPOINVmVc29WXZtjtRs4dYu7ANx4_pqXxc8lnEKqHM_ZH23iK5CY_A0HjwXuz9bXe-/s400/reading+on+beach+03.jpg" width="400" /></div><br /><br />The Science of Addiction: From Neurobiology to Treatment <br /><br />Carlton K. Erickson<br />312 pages <br />Publisher: W. W. Norton and Company (2007)<br /><br />Amazon Overview: Neuroscience is clarifying the causes of compulsive alcohol and drug use––while also shedding light on what addiction is, what it is not, and how it can best be treated––in exciting and innovative ways. Current neurobiological research complements and enhances the approaches to addiction traditionally taken in social work and psychology. However, this important research is generally not presented in a forthright, jargon-free way that clearly illustrates its relevance to addiction professionals. In The Science of Addiction, Carlton K. Erickson presents a comprehensive overview of the roles that brain function and genetics play in addiction.<br /><br /><br />The Addiction Solution: Unraveling the Mysteries of Addiction through Cutting-Edge Brain Science<br /><br />David Kipper and Steven Whitney<br />304 pages<br />Publisher: Rodale Books (2010)<br /><br />For decades addiction has been viewed and treated as a social and behavioral illness, afflicting people of “weak” character and “bad” moral fiber. However, recent breakthroughs in genetic technology have enabled doctors, for the first time, to correctly diagnose the disease and prove that addiction is an inherited, neuro-chemical disease originating in brain chemistry, determined by genetics, and triggered by stress. In their groundbreaking Addiction Breakthrough, David Kipper, MD, and Steven Whitney distill these exciting findings into a guide for the millions of adults who want to be free from the cycle of addiction, and for their loved ones who want to better understand it and to help.<br /><br /><br />In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction<br /><br />Gabor Maté<br />520 pages <br />Publisher: North Atlantic Books (2010) <br /><br />Based on Gabor Maté’s two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with the severely addicted on Vancouver’s skid row, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts radically reenvisions this much misunderstood field by taking a holistic approach. Dr. Maté presents addiction not as a discrete phenomenon confined to an unfortunate or weak-willed few, but as a continuum that runs throughout (and perhaps underpins) our society; not a medical "condition" distinct from the lives it affects, rather the result of a complex interplay among personal history, emotional, and neurological development, brain chemistry, and the drugs (and behaviors) of addiction. Simplifying a wide array of brain and addiction research findings from around the globe, the book avoids glib self-help remedies, instead promoting a thorough and compassionate self-understanding as the first key to healing and wellness. <br /><br /><br />Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs <br /><br />Marc Lewis<br />336 pages <br />Publisher: PublicAffairs (2012)<br /><br />Marc Lewis’s relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where, as a bullied and homesick fifteen-year-old, he made brief escapes from reality by way of cough medicine, alcohol, and marijuana. In Berkeley, California, in its hippie heyday, he found methamphetamine and LSD and heroin. He sniffed nitrous oxide in Malaysia and frequented Calcutta’s opium dens. Ultimately, though, his journey took him where it takes most addicts: into a life of addiction, desperation, deception, and crime. But unlike most addicts, Lewis recovered and became a developmental psychologist and researcher in neuroscience. In Memoirs of an Addicted Brain, he applies his professional expertise to a study of his former self, using the story of his own journey through addiction to tell the universal story of addictions of every kind.<br /><br /><br />The Chemical Carousel: What Science Tells Us About Beating Addiction<br /><br />Dirk Hanson<br />472 pages <br />Publisher: BookSurge (2009)<br /><br />A book for anyone concerned with the care and healing of addiction, substance abuse, and the latest advances in the area of addiction science. In The Chemical Carousel, science writer Hanson takes the reader on a voyage through the heady world of addiction science, from the lab to the clinic to the junky on the street. Hanson explains the workings of common neurotransmitters and documents the direct effect drugs and alcohol produce on the reward pathways of the brain. He shows how scientists and treatment professionals have finally given us an answer to the perennial question about addiction: Why can't those people just say no?<br /><br /><br />An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug, Cocaine<br /><br />Howard Markel<br />336 pages <br />Publisher: Vintage (2012)<br /><br />Acclaimed medical historian Howard Markel traces the careers of two brilliant young doctors--Sigmund Freud, neurologist, and William Halsted, surgeon--showing how their powerful addictions to cocaine shaped their enormous contributions to psychology and medicine. When Freud and Halsted began their experiments with cocaine in the 1880s, neither they, nor their colleagues, had any idea of the drug's potential to dominate and endanger their lives. An Anatomy of Addiction tells the tragic and heroic story of each man, accidentally struck down in his prime by an insidious malady: tragic because of the time, relationships, and health cocaine forced each to squander; heroic in the intense battle each man waged to overcome his affliction.<br /><br /><br />How to Change Your Drinking: a Harm Reduction Guide to Alcohol<br /><br />Kenneth Anderson<br />86 pages <br />Publisher: CreateSpace (2010)<br /><br />This book is the first comprehensive compilation of harm reduction strategies aimed specifically at people who drink alcohol. Whether your goal is safer drinking, reduced drinking, or quitting alcohol altogether, this is the book for you. It contains a large and detailed selection of harm reduction tools and strategies which you can choose from to build your own individualized alcohol harm reduction program. There are many practical exercises to help people change their behaviors, including risk-ranking worksheets, drinking charts, goal choice worksheets, and many more. There are also innumerable practical tips from folks who "have been there" and have turned their drinking habits around for the better. <br /><br /><br />Rethinking Substance Abuse: What the Science Shows, and What We Should Do about It<br /><br />William R. Miller and Kathleen M. Carroll<br />320 pages <br />Publisher: Guilford Press (2010) <br /><br />While knowledge on substance abuse and addictions is expanding rapidly, clinical practice still lags behind. This state-of-the-art book brings together leading experts to describe what treatment and prevention would look like if it were based on the best science available. The volume incorporates developmental, neurobiological, genetic, behavioral, and social–environmental perspectives. Tightly edited chapters summarize current thinking on the nature and causes of alcohol and other drug problems; discuss what works at the individual, family, and societal levels; and offer robust principles for developing more effective treatments and services.<br /><br /><h3>Writers On The Edge: 22 Writers Speak About Addiction and Dependency</h3>Diana Raab and James Brown<br />204 pages<br />Publisher: Modern History Press (2012)<br /><br />Writers On The Edge offers a range of essays, memoirs and poetry written by major contemporary authors who bring fresh insight into the dark world of addiction, from drugs and alcohol, to sex, gambling and food. Editors Diana M. Raab and James Brown have assembled an array of talented and courageous writers who share their stories with heartbreaking honesty as they share their obsessions as well as the awe-inspiring power of hope and redemption. Frederick & Steven Barthelme, Kera Bolonik, Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Maud Casey, Anna David, Denise Duhamel, B.H. Fairchild, Ruth Fowler, David Huddle Perie Longo, Gregory Orr, Victoria Patterson, Molly Peacock, Scott Russell Sanders, Stephen Jay Schwartz, Linda Gray Sexton, Sue William Silverman, Chase Twichell, and Rachel Yoder<br /><br /><br /></div></p>

Addiction Books For relaxation When 50 Shades of Grey doesn’t cut it.

The Science of Addiction: From Neurobiology to Treatment Carlton K. Erickson312 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton and Company (2007)Amazon Overview: Neuroscience is clarifying the causes of compulsive alc…

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WHEN YOUR HIGHER POWER FAILS YOU

<p>It happens every time. Without fail. Without exception. I bet it's happened to you also. Just think about it. How often has your god failed you? Every single time. Every single time I have turned a human being into a god, or turned something man-made into an idol, or placed my trust, expectation, hope, and confidence in anything else but the one true God, my god has failed me. Some people are slow learners. I am one of them. I have made the same mistake countless times. And every single time, that's right, you've got it. It happens every time. Maybe I should be more careful when I place my trust, expectation, hope, and confidence in a human being. Maybe I should be more choosy with the human I choose. Not so. No matter the human, the same outcome will arise. My god will fail me. I did it again recently. I made the same mistake. But my mistake wasn't the human I chose. My mistake was the choice I made to pick a human. And guess what happened? You guessed it. My god failed me. But how can this happen, time and again? Easily. First, it happens when I fail to remember when I need not to forget. Never, ever, place what belongs to God in heaven in the hands of a human. My love and trust, my loyalty and faithfulness, my belief and confidence, my hope and expectation, must be placed in the Lord first and foremost, above all and everyone else - whether it be someone or something else, or whether it be myself. Second, it happens not because I forget, but because I don't realize and recognize what I have done. Hard habits sometimes die slowly, don't they? And slow habits die hard. It has been a hard lesson for me, and I have to be vigilant to ensure I don't unconsciously do what I have so often done. So what is the outcome of this all? My gods fail me. Every human I have ever made into a god, every person or thing I have ever turned into an idol, the result has always been the same. My false gods have failed me, hurt me, let me down, forsaken me, abandoned me, rejected me, broken me, fallen short, messed up, and a zillion other things. Seriously? Yes. Will the real God please stand up?</p>

WHEN YOUR HIGHER POWER FAILS YOU

It happens every time. Without fail. Without exception. I bet it's happened to you also. Just think about it. How often has your god failed you? Every single time. Every single time I have turned a hu…

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Researchers completing a new study on alcohol consumption have discovered that college-age students who binge drink are happier than those who don't.

<p><p id="yui_3_5_1_21_1345507711715_348"> </p><p id="yui_3_5_1_21_1345507711715_343">Those who engaged in binge drinking tend to belong to so-called high-status groups: wealthy, white, male and active in fraternity life. And those who did not belong to the high-status groups could achieve similar levels of social acceptance through the act of binge drinking. In fact, the study results suggest that students engaged in the heavy drinking practice to elevate their social status amongst peers rather than to alleviate depression or anxiety.</p><p id="yui_3_5_1_21_1345507711715_349">"The present study offers another insight into the nature of a seemingly intractable social problem," the study released on Monday reads. "It is our hope that by drawing attention to the important social motivations underlying binge drinking, institutional administrators and public health professionals will be able to design and implement programs for students that take into account the full range of reasons that students binge drink."</p><p id="yui_3_5_1_21_1345507711715_350">The Washington Post reports that the study's co-author and Colgate University associate professor Carolyn Hsu presented some of the findings during the American Sociological Association gathering in Denver last week.</p><p id="yui_3_5_1_21_1345507711715_351">Interestingly, the study results compiled from surveying 1,600 college students also continues to support past evidence suggesting that binge drinking leads to a number of problems affecting the mind and body, including alcoholism, violence, poor grades and risky sexual behavior.</p><p>"I would guess it has to do with feeling like you belong and whether or not you're doing what a 'real' college student does," Hsu told LiveScience. "It seems to be more about certain groups getting to define what that looks like."</p><p>Binge drinking was defined as consuming more than four drinks in one occasion for women and more than five drinks for men. Sixty-four percent of respondents said they had engaged in the practice, compared with 36 percent who said they had not.</p><p id="yui_3_5_1_21_1345507711715_374">Those statistics differ from similar evidence gathered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC's statistics measure binge drinking in the same quantity but limit the consumption period to two hours or fewer. Its results also found that the majority of binge drinkers (70 percent) were over the age of 26. The CDC has also found that 90 percent of alcohol consumed by people under the age of 21 is done in the form of binge drinking, compared with 75 percent among all U.S. adults.</p></p>

Researchers completing a new study on alcohol consumption have discovered that college-age students who binge drink are happier than those who don't.

 Those who engaged in binge drinking tend to belong to so-called high-status groups: wealthy, white, male and active in fraternity life. And those who did not belong to the high-status groups could ac…

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The Five Keys to Mindful Communication

The first key of mindful communication, according to Chapman (2012), is having amindful presence. This means having an open mind, awake body and a tender heart. When you have a mindful presence, you give up expectations, stories about yourself and others, and acting on emotions.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV1t5UgOjUV204-OeFfb2X6AUx3gQY0oGRdNH2dbop9ReE2VwaG6HjsAZmOjyREHJ8KhL6yxWRJyvaIsMOBPxC4MvXQOeZAQHxQXL-vp7Pwj1q173lf9dMI9jd6ASqsVo6Pg0DP00ZZALt/s1600/1-1-The+Ten+Stages234-007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV1t5UgOjUV204-OeFfb2X6AUx3gQY0oGRdNH2dbop9ReE2VwaG6HjsAZmOjyREHJ8KhL6yxWRJyvaIsMOBPxC4MvXQOeZAQHxQXL-vp7Pwj1q173lf9dMI9jd6ASqsVo6Pg0DP00ZZALt/s1600/1-1-The+Ten+Stages234-007.jpg" width="207" /></a></div> You are fully in the present moment; your communication isn’t focused on the “me” and what the “me” needs, but the we.<br /> Mindful listening is the second key to mindful communication. Mindful listening is about encouraging the other person. This means looking through the masks and pretense and seeing the value in the person and the strengths he or she possesses. It’s looking past the human frailties and flaws that we all have to see the authentic person and the truth in what that person is attempting to say.<br /> Mindful speech, the third key, is about gentleness. Speaking gently means being effective in what you say. It’s about speaking in a way that you can be hard. To be gentle with our speech means being aware of when our own insecurities and fears are aroused to the point we are acting out of fear rather than acceptance.<br /> Practicing self-compassion for our fear, envy, jealousy and self-doubts is more effective than focusing on others as being a threat or attempting to change them. When you use gentle speech, you are communicating acceptance to the other person and saying what is true, not an interpretation or an exaggeration or a minimization.<br /> The key to mindful relationships is unconditional friendliness. Unconditional friendliness means accepting the ebb and flow of relationships. Sometimes you meet new friends, sometimes friends move on, sometimes there is joy and sometimes there is pain. Sometimes you’ll feel lonely, sometimes you’ll feel cherished and connected, and then you’ll feel lonely again.<br /> Unconditional friendliness means that your acceptance of others is not dependent on them staying with you or agreeing with you. You don’t cling to relationships to avoid loss.<br /> Mindful responsiveness is like playfulness.  Playfulness is the openness that you can have when you let go of preconceived ideas and strategies. It’s like creating something new. Imagine two skilled dancers who alternatively lead each other in creating a new dance in every interaction, never doing the same complete dance over and over. They respond in the moment to the message sent by the other. There are no rules or expectations and yet they both bring skillful behavior.<br /> Mindful communication requires practice. If you choose to practice the keys, you might choose to focus on one at a time. Being willing to regulate your emotions is a prerequisite to mindful communication and mindfulness of your emotions is necessary for emotion regulation.<br /> Mindfulness is a core skill for the emotionally sensitive.<br /> <br /> References<br /> <iframe frameborder="0" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=dreawarrreco-20&o=1&p=8&l=as4&m=amazon&f=ifr&ref=ss_til&asins=1590309413"></iframe><br /> Chapman, Susan Gillis. The Five Keys to Mindful Communication:  Using Deep Listening and Mindful Speech to Strengthen Relationships, Heal Conflicts and Acceomplish Your Goals. Boston: Shambhala, 2012.

The Five Keys to Mindful Communication

The first key of mindful communication, according to Chapman (2012), is having amindful presence. This means having an open mind, awake body and a tender heart. When you have a mindful presence, you g…

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ADDICTION charity Focus12 has received a huge financial boost after a codumentary about Russell Brand was shown last night.

<p><p>The documentary Russell Brand: Addiction to Recovery resulted in an immediate boost in donations and inspired the managing director of Bury St Edmunds based Chevington Finance and Leasing to offer the charity £106,000 over three years.</p><div><p>Russell Brand attended Focus12, the Bury St Edmunds abstinence-based alcohol and drug rehabilitation centre, in 2003 and is now a patron of the charity, describing it as ‘a really excellent example of a small cost effective rehab that can help people change in dramatic ways’.</p><p>Chip Somers, Focus12’s chief executive, said: “Russell’s documentary and his work this year to raise the profile of abstinence based recovery has got people talking about addiction in a different way, and made them realise that there is a viable alternative to simply giving up on addicts, or parking them on methadone.</p><p>“We are blown away by the generosity of Chevington — this financial support will make a huge difference to us as a charity and will certainly mean we can continue to stay open and help those who need us for longer. Raising funds for a recovery charity has never been harder than it is at present, every day is literally a struggle to keep afloat and we are very grateful.”</p><p>Clive Morris, Managing Director of Chevington Finance and Leasing said: “My wife and I were incredibly touched by last night’s documentary, which inspired us to endorse the local treatment centre Focus12, and we have today agreed funding assistance for the charity of £106,000 over the next 4 years.</p><p>“We believe that as a successful, responsible and reliable company we have a duty to help local charities survive this recession and the work that Chip Somers and his team do is fantastic and we fully endorse their abstinence based programme and have seen what a difference it makes to people’s lives.”</p></div></p>

ADDICTION charity Focus12 has received a huge financial boost after a codumentary about Russell Brand was shown last night.

The documentary Russell Brand: Addiction to Recovery resulted in an immediate boost in donations and inspired the managing director of Bury St Edmunds based Chevington Finance and Leasing to offer the…

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Breaking Free of the Co-dependency Trap presents a groundbreaking developmental road map to guide readers away from their co-dependent behaviors and toward a life of wholeness and fulfillment.

<p>Breaking Free of the Co-dependency Trap presents a groundbreaking developmental road map to guide readers away from their co-dependent behaviors and toward a life of wholeness and fulfillment.UK Citizens<iframe src="http://rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk/e/cm?t=cosdelcri-21&o=2&p=8&l=as1&asins=1577316142&ref=tf_til&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>This is the book that offers a different perspective on codependency and is strongly recommended by Dream Warrior Recovery as part of a solution based recovery. This bestselling book, now in a revised edition, radically challenges the prevailing medical definition of co-dependency as a permanent, progressive, and incurable addiction. Rather, the authors identify it as the result of developmental traumas that interfered with the infant-parent bonding relationship during the first year of life.US Citizens<iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=FFFFFF&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=dreawarrreco-20&o=1&p=8&l=as4&m=amazon&f=ifr&ref=ss_til&asins=1577316142" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>Drawing on decades of clinical experience, Barry and Janae Weinhold correlate the developmental causes of co-dependency with relationship problems later in life, such as establishing and maintaining boundaries, clinging and dependent behaviors, people pleasing, and difficulty achieving success in the world. Then they focus on healing co-dependency, providing compelling case histories and practical activities to help readers heal early trauma and transform themselves and their primary relationships.</p>

Breaking Free of the Co-dependency Trap presents a groundbreaking developmental road map to guide readers away from their co-dependent behaviors and toward a life of wholeness and fulfillment.

Breaking Free of the Co-dependency Trap presents a groundbreaking developmental road map to guide readers away from their co-dependent behaviors and toward a life of wholeness and fulfillment.UK Citiz…

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Pigs worship God of Materialism

<div><h1>If ever there was a god to prevent you from worshiping material things, it would be this one.</h1><div><dl><dt><br /></dt></dl></div><p>The hideous pig-like thing is the masterpiece by Chinese artist Chen Wenling called God Of Materialism.</p><div><img alt="godmaterialism" height="300" src="http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2008/09/godmaterialism2EPA_450x300.jpg" width="450" />Ugly pig with green eye darting at thier master</div><p>Looking chuffed, the huge greedy pig has minions of other tiny, and just as unattractive and scary, pigs worshiping in awe at its heels.</p><p>The group stare up at their master, adorned with a plethora of jewels and necklaces representing the grotesque love of material things.</p><p>The sculpture, which looks like a bad dream, can be found at the Asia Art Centre in Beijing.</p></div><div class="clrd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: baseline; min-height: 1px; zoom: 1; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="art-lft" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; float: right; width: 480px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And if you're brave enough to go and see it, it will be there till October 18th 2008.</p></div></div><p><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br /></span></p>

Pigs worship God of Materialism

If ever there was a god to prevent you from worshiping material things, it would be this one.The hideous pig-like thing is the masterpiece by Chinese artist Chen Wenling called God Of Materialism.Ugly…

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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is. Moderate feelings of guilt are beneficial because they encourage the individual to do the right thing

<p>The Scottish psychologist R.D. Laing once said: True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is. Moderate feelings of guilt are beneficial because they encourage the individual to do the right thing. If nobody felt guilty about anything it would likely lead to a fearful world and it could even threaten the survival of the human species. There is also a more negative form of guilt which is excessive and harmful. This refers to a situation where the individual carries a sense of guilt around with them most of the time. The reasons for why the individual may become a victim of excessive guilt include: They have a poor self image. It can be a sign of mental health difficulties. Some people fall into negative thinking and this tends to include guilt. The individual has been a victim of physical or sexual abuse. Unhealthy relationships can leave people with feelings of guilt. Excessive stress. Alcohol or drug abuse.</p>

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is. Moderate feelings of guilt are beneficial because they encourage the individual to do the right thing

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A British photographer's adorable images of puppies, ducklings and even kittens in hammocks will brighten up any rainy day.

<p>Master of cuteness Mark Taylor's images are in demand all over the world for the purr-fect way they capture a softer side to our best-loved animals.</p><p>His photographs are a legacy from his late mother Jane Burton who pioneered the style so familiar on calendars in offices and maths teacher classrooms everywhere.</p><div><img alt="Fosset the kitten with a yellow gosling: Photographer Mark Taylor is famous around the world for his cute shots of animals in unusual poses" height="622" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/03/article-0-13E70C13000005DC-78_634x622.jpg" width="634" /><p>Fosset the kitten with a yellow gosling: Photographer Mark Taylor is famous around the world for his cute shots of animals in unusual poses</p></div><div><img alt="Fosset cuddles up to his gosling friend: Mr Taylor's photographs are a legacy from his late mother Jane Burton who pioneered the style" height="393" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/03/article-2168112-13E70D68000005DC-332_634x393.jpg" width="634" /><p>Fosset cuddles up to his gosling friend: Mr Taylor's photographs are a legacy from his late mother Jane Burton who pioneered the style</p></div><p> </p><div><img alt="Stanley the kitten with a duckling: Despite the menacing look in Stanley's eyes, Mr Taylor has never had any incidents where one subject ate another" height="468" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/03/article-2168112-13E710FE000005DC-868_634x468.jpg" width="634" /><p>Stanley the kitten with a duckling: Despite the menacing look in Stanley's eyes, Mr Taylor has never had any incidents where one subject ate another</p></div><p>Using a simple clean white background and some unusual animal pairings Mr Taylor's style has seen him make the cover of prestigious wildlife magazine National Geographic.</p><p>In this set of heart-warming images Mr Taylor shows why he's one of the best in his field tapping into that desire in us all to see something fluffy.</p><div> </div><div><h4>More...</h4><ul><li>Women cat owners are 'more likely to kill themselves' due to higher chance of infection with parasite found in feline faeces</li></ul></div><p> </p><p>From ducklings with puppies, to dogs with kittens and even rabbits Mark captures them all on camera as if they were the best and friends.</p><p>And thankfully so far he's had no case of any of them eating each other.</p><div><img alt="Hear me roar: Kittens Stanley and Fosset have a cuddle" height="382" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/03/article-2168112-13E700D9000005DC-491_634x382.jpg" width="634" /><p>Hear me roar: Kittens Stanley and Fosset have a cuddle</p></div><p> </p><div><img alt="Guess who! Stanley holds his paws over Fosset's face as they play" height="514" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/03/article-2168112-13E702A2000005DC-879_634x514.jpg" width="634" /><p>Guess who! Stanley holds his paws over Fosset's face as they play</p></div><p> </p><div><img alt="King of the castle: Stanley climbs on top of Fosset" height="448" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/03/article-2168112-13E70943000005DC-952_634x448.jpg" width="634" /><p>King of the castle: Stanley climbs on top of Fosset</p></div><p> </p><div><img alt="Not just for Christmas: Stanley and Fosset pose inside a gift box" height="450" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/03/article-2168112-13E70AC1000005DC-948_634x450.jpg" width="634" /><p>Not just for Christmas: Stanley and Fosset pose inside a gift box</p><div><div><img alt="Touch: Stanley reaches out his paw for a fist bump" height="423" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/03/article-2168112-13E6FEA6000005DC-495_306x423.jpg" width="306" /></div><div><img alt="For me? Stanley poses with a flower" height="423" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/03/article-2168112-13E708B3000005DC-38_306x423.jpg" width="306" /></div><p>Touch on that: Stanley offers his paw for a fist bump. Right, he poses with a bright red flower</p></div></div><p> </p><div><img alt="Oh you! Stanley gestures towards the camera as he lies in a hammock" height="313" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/03/article-2168112-13E7057B000005DC-702_634x313.jpg" width="634" /><p>Oh you! Stanley gestures towards the camera as he lies in a hammock</p></div><p> </p><div><img alt="Time for a cat nap: Stanley and Fosset enjoy a snooze" height="316" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/03/article-2168112-13E707ED000005DC-148_634x316.jpg" width="634" /><p>Time for a cat nap: Stanley and Fosset enjoy a snooze</p></div><div><img alt="Keeping it in the family: Mr Taylor's daughter Siena, pictured with Stanley, helps to pose the animals for her father's photoshoots" height="446" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/03/article-2168112-13E717CC000005DC-164_634x446.jpg" width="634" /><p>Keeping it in the family: Mr Taylor's daughter Siena, pictured with Stanley, helps to pose the animals for her father's photo shoots</p></div><p>Mr Taylor, 47, creates his images all at his home studio Warren Photographic, in Guildford, Surrey.</p><p>His father Kim is a world-renowned wildlife photographer. His mother Jane, who died in 2007 after a brave battle against cancer, was one of the first to use a unique style now so well adopted by her son.</p><p>Mr Taylor, a father of one, said: 'There have been a few close shaves when we have put the different animals together, but we often "introduce" the animals to a rabbit in a cage first to gauge the reaction.</p><p>'If the dog starts licking its lips we know it might not work out well, and for example it's best not to put a Jack Russell next to a rabbit.</p><p>'I have helpers in the studio and some of the animals extras we have here, for example we have six rabbits, but others we have to bring in.</p><p>'The key to the photograph is making sure the animals are not doing anything they don't want to do because I think you can tell if they are not enjoying themselves.</p><p>'My mother was a pioneer if you like of this idea of using the clean white backgrounds and I like to think I am carrying on her legacy.'</p><div><img alt="You wanna start something? Stanley goes nose to nose with a Bichon Fris" height="447" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/03/article-2168112-13E71723000005DC-659_634x447.jpg" width="634" /><p>You wanna start something? Stanley goes nose to nose with a Bichon Fris</p></div><p> </p><div><img alt="My big mate: Stanley nuzzles up with Great Dane pup Tia" height="419" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/03/article-2168112-13E71442000005DC-671_634x419.jpg" width="634" /><p>My big mate: Stanley nuzzles up with Great Dane pup Tia</p></div><p> </p><div><img alt="Where u go? Stanley and Tia have a play" height="518" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/03/article-2168112-13E71587000005DC-207_634x518.jpg" width="634" /><p>Where u go? Stanley and Tia have a play</p></div><p>Keeping it in the family Mr Taylor's daughter Siena, 10, is also on hand to pose up with the animals in the pictures.</p><p>Mr Taylor, who uses a Cannon 1DS Mark III camera, said that he felt his photographs were so popular because they tap into an desire in us all to relate to animals.</p><p>He said: 'I think the fascinating aspect of this type of photography is that it taps into something in us all that sees ourselves and human emotions in our pets and other animals.'</p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: left;"><br /><br /><br /></span></p>

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A British photographer's adorable images of puppies, ducklings and even kittens in hammocks will brighten up any rainy day.

Master of cuteness Mark Taylor's images are in demand all over the world for the purr-fect way they capture a softer side to our best-loved animals.His photographs are a legacy from his late mother Ja…

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Please shed whatever lowly vestments you're currently using to hide your disgusting body, and slip into one of these pre-shrunk cotton miracles.

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padding: 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; background-color: transparent; color: #777777; float: right; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Source: <span style="background-color: transparent;">shop.themountain.me</span></div></div><div id="superlist_1646474_401634" class="buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -30px; padding: 15px 0px 15px 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; background-color: #ffffff; position: relative; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; line-height: 32px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; color: #121212;"><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline;">9.</span> DJ Jahman</h1><div class="sub_buzz_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><img alt="DJ Jahman" class="bf_dom" height="546" src="http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web04/2012/6/29/12/enhanced-buzz-22622-1340987658-4.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;" width="625" /></div><div class="sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; background-color: transparent; color: #777777; float: right; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Source: <span style="background-color: transparent;">shop.themountain.me</span></div></div><div id="superlist_1646474_401646" class="buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -30px; padding: 15px 0px 15px 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; background-color: #ffffff; position: relative; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; line-height: 32px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; color: #121212;"><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline;">10.</span> Graffiti Saber</h1><div class="sub_buzz_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><img alt="Graffiti Saber" class="bf_dom" height="546" src="http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web04/2012/6/29/12/enhanced-buzz-22587-1340987698-3.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;" width="625" /></div><div class="sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; background-color: transparent; color: #777777; float: right; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Source: <span style="background-color: transparent;">shop.themountain.me</span></div></div><div id="superlist_1646474_401668" class="buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -30px; padding: 15px 0px 15px 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; background-color: #ffffff; position: relative; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; line-height: 32px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; color: #121212;"><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline;">11.</span> Navy SEAL</h1><div class="sub_buzz_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><img alt="Navy SEAL" class="bf_dom" height="546" src="http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal05/2012/6/29/12/enhanced-buzz-19513-1340987807-7.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;" width="625" /></div><div class="sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; background-color: transparent; color: #777777; float: right; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Source: <span style="background-color: transparent;">shop.themountain.me</span></div></div><div id="superlist_1646474_401674" class="buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -30px; padding: 15px 0px 15px 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; background-color: #ffffff; position: relative; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; line-height: 32px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; color: #121212;"><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline;">12.</span> Smokin Jahman</h1><div class="sub_buzz_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><img alt="Smokin Jahman" class="bf_dom" height="557" src="http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal05/2012/6/29/12/enhanced-buzz-19436-1340987849-4.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;" width="625" /></div><div class="sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; background-color: transparent; color: #777777; float: right; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Source: <span style="background-color: transparent;">shop.themountain.me</span></div></div><div id="superlist_1646474_401685" class="buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -30px; padding: 15px 0px 15px 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; background-color: #ffffff; position: relative; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; line-height: 32px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; color: #121212;"><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline;">13.</span> DJ Sarge</h1><div class="sub_buzz_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><img alt="DJ Sarge" class="bf_dom" height="546" src="http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal05/2012/6/29/12/enhanced-buzz-19498-1340987955-8.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;" width="625" /></div><div class="sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; background-color: transparent; color: #777777; float: right; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Source: <span style="background-color: transparent;">shop.themountain.me</span></div></div><div id="superlist_1646474_401689" class="buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -30px; padding: 15px 0px 15px 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; background-color: #ffffff; position: relative; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; line-height: 32px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; color: #121212;"><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline;">14.</span> Rocker Cooper</h1><div class="sub_buzz_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><img alt="Rocker Cooper" class="bf_dom" height="546" src="http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal05/2012/6/29/12/enhanced-buzz-19516-1340987980-5.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;" width="625" /></div><div class="sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; background-color: transparent; color: #777777; float: right; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Source: <span style="background-color: transparent;">shop.themountain.me</span></div></div><div id="superlist_1646474_401800" class="buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -30px; padding: 15px 0px 15px 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; background-color: #ffffff; position: relative; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; line-height: 32px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; color: #121212;"><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline;">15.</span> Duck Hunter</h1><div class="sub_buzz_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><img alt="Duck Hunter" class="bf_dom" height="546" src="http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal05/2012/6/29/13/enhanced-buzz-19487-1340989395-27.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;" width="625" /></div><div class="sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; background-color: transparent; color: #777777; float: right; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Source: <span style="background-color: transparent;">shop.themountain.me</span></div></div><div id="superlist_1646474_401728" class="buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -30px; padding: 15px 0px 15px 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; background-color: #ffffff; position: relative; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; line-height: 32px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; color: #121212;"><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline;">16.</span> Big Cock Head</h1><div class="sub_buzz_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><img alt="Big Cock Head" class="bf_dom" height="546" src="http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web05/2012/6/29/12/enhanced-buzz-5673-1340988493-7.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;" width="625" /></div><div class="sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; background-color: transparent; color: #777777; float: right; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Source: <span style="background-color: transparent;">shop.themountain.me</span></div></div><div id="superlist_1646474_401697" class="buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -30px; padding: 15px 0px 15px 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; background-color: #ffffff; position: relative; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; line-height: 32px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; color: #121212;"><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline;">17.</span> Guard Panzer</h1><div class="sub_buzz_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><img alt="Guard Panzer" class="bf_dom" height="546" src="http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web03/2012/6/29/12/enhanced-buzz-31969-1340988031-9.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;" width="625" /></div><div class="sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; background-color: transparent; color: #777777; float: right; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Source: <span style="background-color: transparent;">shop.themountain.me</span></div></div><div id="superlist_1646474_401707" class="buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -30px; padding: 15px 0px 15px 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; background-color: #ffffff; position: relative; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; line-height: 32px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; color: #121212;"><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline;">18.</span> Nas T-Rex</h1><div class="sub_buzz_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><img alt="Nas T-Rex" class="bf_dom" height="546" src="http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web05/2012/6/29/12/enhanced-buzz-5634-1340988149-12.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;" width="625" /></div><div class="sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; background-color: transparent; color: #777777; float: right; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Source: <span style="background-color: transparent;">shop.themountain.me</span></div></div><div id="superlist_1646474_401716" class="buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -30px; padding: 15px 0px 15px 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; background-color: #ffffff; position: relative; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; line-height: 32px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; color: #121212;"><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline;">19.</span> Punky!</h1><div class="sub_buzz_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><img alt="Punky!" class="bf_dom" height="546" src="http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web05/2012/6/29/12/enhanced-buzz-5683-1340988287-12.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;" width="625" /></div><div class="sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; background-color: transparent; color: #777777; float: right; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Source: <span style="background-color: transparent;">shop.themountain.me</span></div></div><div id="superlist_1646474_401726" class="buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -30px; padding: 15px 0px 15px 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; background-color: #ffffff; position: relative; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; line-height: 32px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; color: #121212;"><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline;">20.</span> Backpack Kitty</h1><div class="sub_buzz_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><img alt="Backpack Kitty" class="bf_dom" height="546" src="http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web04/2012/6/29/12/enhanced-buzz-22669-1340988456-7.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;" width="625" /></div><div class="sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; background-color: transparent; color: #777777; float: right; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Source: <span style="background-color: transparent;">shop.themountain.me</span></div></div><div id="superlist_1646474_401735" class="buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -30px; padding: 15px 0px 15px 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; background-color: #ffffff; position: relative; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; line-height: 32px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; color: #121212;"><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline;">21.</span> Come & Get It</h1><div class="sub_buzz_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><img alt="Come &amp; Get It" class="bf_dom" height="546" src="http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web03/2012/6/29/12/enhanced-buzz-31927-1340988528-15.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;" width="625" /></div><div class="sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; background-color: transparent; color: #777777; float: right; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Source: <span style="background-color: transparent;">shop.themountain.me</span></div></div><div id="superlist_1646474_401743" class="buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -30px; padding: 15px 0px 15px 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; background-color: #ffffff; position: relative; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; line-height: 32px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; color: #121212;"><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline;">22.</span> Rastafurrian Kitten</h1><div class="sub_buzz_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><img alt="Rastafurrian Kitten" class="bf_dom" height="557" src="http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal05/2012/6/29/12/enhanced-buzz-19513-1340988620-20.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;" width="625" /></div><div class="sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; background-color: transparent; color: #777777; float: right; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Source: <span style="background-color: transparent;">shop.themountain.me</span></div></div><div id="superlist_1646474_401747" class="buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -30px; padding: 15px 0px 15px 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; background-color: #ffffff; position: relative; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; line-height: 32px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; color: #121212;"><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline;">23.</span> T-Rex Tearing</h1><div class="sub_buzz_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><img alt="T-Rex Tearing" class="bf_dom" height="546" src="http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web04/2012/6/29/12/enhanced-buzz-22678-1340988662-20.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;" width="625" /></div><div class="sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; background-color: transparent; color: #777777; float: right; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Source: <span style="background-color: transparent;">shop.themountain.me</span></div></div><div id="superlist_1646474_401812" class="buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -30px; padding: 15px 0px 15px 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; background-color: #ffffff; position: relative; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; line-height: 32px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; color: #121212;"><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline;">24.</span> Golden Feather</h1><div class="sub_buzz_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><img alt="Golden Feather" class="bf_dom" height="546" src="http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web03/2012/6/29/13/enhanced-buzz-31966-1340989485-14.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;" width="625" /></div><div class="sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; background-color: transparent; color: #777777; float: right; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Source: <span style="background-color: transparent;">shop.themountain.me</span></div></div><div id="superlist_1646474_401822" class="buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -30px; padding: 15px 0px 15px 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; background-color: #ffffff; position: relative; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; line-height: 32px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; color: #121212;"><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline;">25.</span> My personal favorite (SOLD OUT!!!)</h1><div class="sub_buzz_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><img alt="My personal favorite (SOLD OUT!!!)" class="bf_dom" height="750" src="http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web03/2012/6/29/13/enhanced-buzz-31857-1340989651-8.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;" width="394" /></div></div>

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