Monday, September 13, 2010

Simple exercises for a sharp mind


                                



1) Use your left hand several times a day to ensure balance (if you’re a right hander) or vice versa, and for stimulation of the side of the brain which is seldom used.

Try brushing your hair and your teeth with your left hand everyday or write 10 simple alphabets or sentences a day.


2) Exercise your fingers (both left and right) using the Chinese Boading exercise balls.





A traditional product of China, thought to have been created during the Ming Dynasty, two of more of them are rotated repetitively to orbit in the hand.


3) Practice this eye exercise 2-3 times a day. Move your eye balls to the left and right. Repeat 10 times slowly.


4) Eat curry at least once or twice a week. It is believed that certain spices used in curry (such as turmeric amongst one of them) helps improve brain capacity.





By using your non-dominant hand, it becomes a brain exercise because different, under-used nerve pathways & connections get activated. This will stimulate the growth of new brain cells & will initiate neutral connections between the right and left hemisphere of your brain. This is how geniuses unleash their creative intelligence and make solid decisions.


Leonardo Da Vinci was ambidextrous. He could write and paint with both hands at the same time.

Leonardo was a great painter, sculptor, composer, scientist, engineer, instrument inventor, anatomist, philosopher, cartographer, geologist, botanist, riddler, and was famous for excelling in whatever he applied himself to.



Sunday, September 12, 2010

Wandering aimlessly...








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Saturday, September 11, 2010

Snapshot of the day

                                       Olympic National Park, Washington




1) How strange that nature does not knock, yet does not intrude! - Emily Dickinson


2) Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience - Ralph Waldo Emerson


3) I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in - John Muir




--moon


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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri!




Here's wishing all my Muslim friends Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri! Drive safe for those who will be travelling long distance.


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Coffee Talk







The tug-of-war dialectics of close relationships.




Social life is a dynamic knot of contradictions - a ceaseless interplay between contrary or opposing tendencies.

A ceaseless interplay between contradictory or opposing tendencies, such as :
a) integration-separation
b) stability-change
c) expression-non expression.

Quality relationships are constituted through dialogue, which is an aesthetic accomplishment that produces fleeting moments of unity through a profound respect for the disparate voices.

Although most of us embrace the traditional ideals of closeness, certainty, and openness in our relationships, our actual communication within family, friendship, and romance "seldom" follows a straight path toward these goals.

This is because we are also drawn toward the exact opposite – autonomy, novelty and privacy.

These conflicting forces can’t be resolved by simply “either/or” decisions. The “both/and” nature of dialectical pressures guarantees that our relationships will be complex, messy, and always somewhat on edge.

Integration & Separation
This is a primary strain within all relationships. If one side wins this “me-we” tug of war, the relationship loses.

No relationship can exist by definition unless the parties sacrifice some individual autonomy. However, too much connection destroys the relationship because the individual identities become lost.

Stability & Change
Normal people want stability and predictability in their relationships. However, we cannot ignore our simultaneous need for the opposite, novelty.

We want a bit of mystery, a touch of spontaneity, the occasional surprise that are necessary for having fun. Without the spice of variety to season our time together, the relationship becomes bland, boring and ultimately, emotionally dead.

Expression & Non Expression
Revelation & concealment

In an interpersonal relationship, communication partners feel the pressure to be transparent and reveal extensive personal information. 

However, this pull counters a natural individual desire for privacy.  This dynamic struggle demonstrates that intimacy in relationships is not a straight-line path.


Relational Dialectics Theory by Leslie Baxter & Barbara Montgomery highlights the tension, struggle, and general messiness of close personal ties.

What is dialectics? Check out the dictionary and learn a new word today. Here you go - www.dictionary.com





This blog post is written based on my understanding of Baxter & Montgomery's theory, extracted from the book - A First Look at Communication Theory by Em Griffin.



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Sunday, September 5, 2010

Relief for insomnia, fatigue & stress










My yoga pose of the month - The Child Pose (Balasana)

On those days when you feel extremely tired, yet unable to fall asleep, you can try practicing the child pose. It is a relaxing and resting pose that normalizes circulation and gently stretches certain parts of your body, and calms the body, mind and spirit, by slowing down your heart rate, body processes and emotions.

Benefits

1. Gently stretches the hips, thighs, ankles and spine
2. Calms the brain and help relieve stress and fatigue
3. Relieves back and neck pain (when done with head and torso supported)

Breathe deep and slow. Stay in this position for 2-3 minutes.

Click here for direction on how to execute the child pose.


Sweet dreams!



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Saturday, September 4, 2010

Points to ponder

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings. 

And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.


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Picked-up this few para from Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. I totally agree to this, quoted to her by her Guru.

This article is posted from Koh Samui, Thailand.


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