Lem on, chem off

This looks very simple and unbelievable (why ?). Please, get back, if you can throw more light on this, with your  or experts in your network’s, knowledge. This can be revolutionary , if its veracity can be established.

The surprising benefits of lemon! ================================ Institute of Health Sciences, 819 N. L.L.C. Charles Street Baltimore , MD 1201.This is the latest in medicine, effective for cancer!

Lemon (Citrus) is a miraculous product to kill cancer cells. It is 10,000 times stronger than chemotherapy. 

Why do we not know about that? Because there are laboratories interested in making a synthetic version that will bring them huge profits. You can now help a friend in need by letting him/her know that lemon juice is beneficial in preventing the disease. Its taste is pleasant and it does not produce the horrific effects of chemotherapy. How many people will die while this closely guarded secret is kept, so as not to jeopardize the beneficial multimillionaires large corporations?

As you know, the lemon tree is known for its varieties of lemons and limes. You can eat the fruit in different ways: you can eat the pulp, juice press, prepare drinks, sorbets, pastries, etc… It is credited with many virtues, but the most interesting is the effect it produces on cysts and tumors. This plant is a proven remedy against cancers of all types. Some say itis very useful in all variants of cancer. It is considered also as an anti microbial spectrum against bacterial infections and fungi, effective against internal parasites and worms, it regulates blood pressure which is too high and an antidepressant, combats stress and nervous disorders.

The source of this information is fascinating: it comes from one of the largest drug manufacturers in the world, says that after more than 20 laboratory tests since 1970, the extracts revealed that: It destroys the malignant cells in 12 cancers, including colon, breast, prostate, lung and pancreas … The compounds of this tree showed 10,000 times better than the product Adriamycin, a drug normally used chemotherapeutic in the world, slowing the growth of cancer cells. And what is even more astonishing: this type of therapy with lemon extract only destroys malignant cancer cells and it does not affect healthy cells.

Think Well

The thoughts and the words we have repeatedly used have created our life and experiences up to this point. What we are choosing to think and say today, this moment, will create the tomorrow. The point of power is always the present moment. We can let the past go and create a great future .

When you were a kid, you were pure joy and love. You were perfect and a true human being. And then we started learning and accumulating sense/nonsense. It is our belief system that influences are actions. And most of our beliefs are borrowed from others. All the donts and scares have created a wall of limitations inside us. The fear of darkness, distrust in human beings, our capabilities are other’s opinions from our childhood, that got embedded into our belief system. Instead of that if it was taught that the world is a lovely place, love is every where and people are friendly, the beliefs would have been positive.

Here is an interesting exchange between a man and his grandson.

A man told his son about a battle that goes on inside people. He said ,”My son, the battle is between two wolves inside all of us us.

“One is Evil- It is anger , envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies false pride, superiority and ego.”

“The other is Good – It is joy , peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.”

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather : Which wolf wins.

The man replied  “The one you feed.”

 

Right now, pause and look at your thought. What is it ? You know it will shape your life, do you want this thought ? A happy thought or anger or revenge or hurt, it will return to us in its form.

All the good and the disease in our lives are the results of our thought patterns which form our experiences.

To quote Louise Hay, “I could not understand why I had repeatedly had problems with a stiff neck. Then I discovered that neck represented being flexible on issues, being willing to seeing different sides of a question. I had been a very inflexible person, often refusing to listen to another side of a question out of fear. But as I became more flexible in thinking and able with a loving understanding , to see another’s view point, my neck ceased to bother me…”

We generally blame the pillow for our stiff neck, next time look where your thinking is stiff and rigid.

Anger, criticism, guilt, resentment are some of the common causes of disease. Too much of criticism, disappointment, failure, shame can lead to arthritis and kidney problem, anger to boil and burn, resentment to tumors, cancer, guilt to pain and so on.

Your snoring can be due to your stubborn refusal to let go of old thinking patterns. Humiliation and “I never get to do what I want” can cause thyroid problems ? And a fear that you are not good enough can result in ulcers.

I have collected a list of cause and effect diseases from various sources that mind can create.

In spite of not having too much going on at once, any mental confusion or disorder, I am suffering from  cold !!!

Remember a good outcome happens with good actions which is preceded with right emotion and thought. Think well.

 

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Fear is the key

 

Ffff…eee…aaa…rrr

Looks like one common emotion which most of us have is fear. I would have liked to say ‘all of us’ but I am sure somebody will stand up and claim ‘I am fearless, count me out of your list’. Ok, done.

It is quite useless to tell others to be bold and fearless. Better than that, how to deal with it.

It is an unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain or harm.

We can categories them into

1. Fear of Pain, due to

• Physical  – injury, disability
• Psychological – unmet expectations, feeling incomplete, unloved, heights, water

1. Fear of rejection , from

• Family
• Others, friends, work associates, strangers, public speaking

1. Fear of Loss, of

• People – self, identity, death, loved ones
• Possession- job, wealth, life styles , house, belongings, going bankrupt

 

Studies have shown that all the things we worry about in life.

87% never happens

7% actually occurred

6% you will have very little influence over the outcome

This means that most things you worry about never happens and that you have little or no control over the few things that do happen. So it doesn’t pay to worry about the things you fear. Having said that, we are not sure to which percentage our fear belongs to, hence that knowledge is not of much help.

Fear is  a physical reaction to thinking about the consequences you don’t want.

“What do you fear ?”

“Public speaking” is one of the major fear. Even the best of speakers in the world today may have changed their pants just before their first speech.

To deal with the fear ask yourself

“Why do you fear speaking to an audience” ?

“What do you imagine when you think about public speaking”

“What is the worst thing you believe could happen”

“What would it mean to you if the worst thing did occur “ ?

99% answer is the fear associated with rejection with audience

Consequences of indulging in fear

1. Feeling paralysed and as a result not taking an action required to pursue our goals and dreams
2. Worrying about things that will most likely never happen
3. Not enjoying the present moment
4. living our lives in a box-taking refuge from life inside our comfort zone
5. Limiting the realization of our own potential
6. It is one of the driving emotions behind most of the conflicts

How to deal with fear

You can not eliminate fear but learn to deal with it.

1. In life whatever we resist, persists. Acknowledge  your fear. Go deep down and discover the source fear and ask:

What am I really frightened of

What is the worst that could happen? What would that mean?

What do I believe that is causing me to be fearful ?

1. Consider the likelihood

What is the probability of the thing I fear happening

1. Be present. Given that the object of fear only manifest in the future, the biggest antidote to overcoming fear is to be present in the now.
2. Change your breathing –The emotion of fear is accompanied by specific breathing . Change your breathing pattern. Close your eyes, touch your heart and breathe in slowly 10 times. Breathe into your heart
3. Change your focus from what you fear to something else that makes you happy.
4. Get all information- Sometimes fear can be a result of inaccurate and/or incomplete information and/or inaccurate interpretation. Ask yourself:

• What information do I need ?
• What else could this situation means ?

1. Get moving. To overcome any sense of immobility caused by fear ask yourself “what steps can I take now to get moving
2. Fear can be used to focus and do.
3. Never think about what you don’t want to happen, only think about what you want, regardless of the outcome of a situation.

Do you mind sharing your fear, if any ? How do you deal with it ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Decline of the west

Why the decline of the West is best for us – and them

By R Vaidyanathan, Professor of Finance, IIM Bangalore.

Ten years ago, America had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope and Johnny Cash. Now it has no Jobs, no Hope and no Cash. Or so the joke goes.

Only, it’s no joke. The line is pretty close to reality in the US. The less said about Europe the better. Both the US and Europe are in decline. I was asked by a business channel in 2008 about recovery in the US. I mentioned 40 quarters and after that I was never invited for another discussion.

Recently, another media person asked me the same question and I answered 80 quarters. He was shocked since he was told some “sprouts” of recovery had been seen in the American economy.

It is important to recognise that the dominance of the West has been there only for last 200-and-odd years. According to Angus Maddison’s pioneering OECD study, India and China had nearly 50 percent of global GDP as late as the 1820s.   Hence India and China are not emerging or rising powers. They are retrieving their original position.

The dollar is having a rollercoaster ride at present.

In 1990, the share of the G-7 in world GDP (on a purchasing power parity basis) was 51 percent and that of emerging markets 36 percent. But in 2011,  it is the reverse. So the dominant west is a myth.

Similarly, the crisis. It is a US-Europe crisis and not a global one. The two wars – which were essentially European wars – were made out to be world wars with one English leader commenting that ‘we will fight the Germans to the last Indian’.

In this economic scenario, countries like India are made to feel as if they are in a crisis. Since the West says there’s a crisis, we swallow it hook, line and sinker.

But it isn’t so. At no point of time in the last 20 years has foreign investment – direct and portfolio – exceeded 10 percent of our domestic investment. Our growth is due to our domestic savings which is again predominately household savings. Our housewives require awards for our growth not any western fund manager.

The crisis faced by the West is primarily because it has forgotten a six-letter word called ‘saving’ which, again, is the result of forgetting another six letter word called “family”. The West has nationalised families over the last 60 years. Old age, ill health, single motherhood – everything is the responsibility of the state.

When family is a “burden” and children an “encumbrance,” society goes for a toss. Household savings have been negative in the US for long. The total debt to GDP ratio is as high as 400 percent in many countries, including UK. Not only that, the West is facing a severe demographic crisis. The population of Europe during the First World War was nearly 25 percent and today it is around 11 percent and expected to become 3 percent in another 20 years. Europe will disappear from the world map unless migrants from Africa and Asia take it over.

The demographic crisis impacts the West in other ways. Social security goes for a toss since people are living longer and not many from below contribute to their pensions through taxes. So the nationalisation of families becomes a burden on the state.

European work culture has become worse with even our own Tata complaining about the work ethic of British managers. In France and Italy, the weekend starts on Friday morning itself. The population has become lazy and state-dependent.

In the UK, the situation is worse with drunkenness becoming a common problem. Parents do not have control over children and the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregation in London  said: “There are all signs of arteriosclerosis of a culture and a civilisation grown old. Me has taken precedence over We and pleasure today over viability tomorrow.” (The Times: 8 September ).

Married couples make up less than half (45 percent) of all households in the US, say recent data from the Census Bureau. Also there is a huge growth in unmarried couples and single parent families (mostly poor, black women). Society has become dysfunctional or disorganised in the West. The government is trying to be organised.

In India, society is organised and government disorganised. Because of disorganised society in the West the state has to take care of families. The market crash is essentially due to the adoption of a model where there is consumption with borrowings and no savings. How long will Asian savings be able to sustain the western spending binge?

According to a recent report in The Wall Street Journal (10 October 2011), nearly half of US households receive government benefits like food stamps, subsidised housing, cash welfare or  Medicare or Medicaid (the federal-state health care programmes for the poor) or social security.

The US is also a stock market economy where half the households are investors and they have been hit hard by bank and corporate failures. Even now less than 5 percent of our household financial savings goes to the stock market. Same in China and Japan.

Declining empires are dangerous. They will try to peddle their failed models to us and we will swallow it since colonial genes are very much present here. You will find more Indians heading global corporations since India is a very large market and one way to capture it is to make Indian sepoys work for it.

A declining West is best for the rest and also for the West, which needs to rethink its failed models and rework its priorities. For the rest—like us—the fact that the West has failed will be accepted by us only after some western scholars tell us the same. Till then we will try to imitate them and create more dysfunctional families.

We need to recognise that Big Government and Big Business are twin dangers for average citizens. India faces both and they are two asuras we need to guard against. The Leftists in the National Advisory Council want all families to be nationalised and governed by a Big State and reform marketers of the CII variety want Big Business to flourish under crony capitalism. Beware of the twin evils since both look upon India as a charity house or as a market and not as an ancient civilisation.

 

Walk, dont run

Every body is running. Hey, stop, why are you running ? No, I cannot stop, I may get left behind.  And they keep running. The customer wants it yesterday. He is also in a hurry. What happens if it reaches tomorrow ? People make goals and starts running. Stop, think. Does the globe have a goal ? What is the purpose of your life ? What is the end ? All this running, ultimately culminates in one common end. Death. Aren’t we losing our family, friends, health ? How many of them are we knocking down to reach our goals ? Most of us do not know what we want and how much we want. That is the reason for this running blindly.

I understand from a forwarded mail by Sudhakara Menon, in Sweden a project takes 2 years to be finalized, even if the idea is simple and brilliant. It is a rule.

They debate and debate, lots of meetings and work with a slowdown scheme. At the end, this always yields better results.

Volvo, Escania, Ericsson, Electrolux, are some of its renowned companies. Volvo even supplies NASA.

There’s a movement in Europe named Slow Food. This movement establishes that people should eat and drink slowly, with enough time to taste their food, spend time with the family, friends, without rushing. Slow Food is against its counterpart, Fast Food and what it stands for as a lifestyle. Slow Food is the basis for a bigger movement called Slow Europe, as mentioned by Business Week.

Basically, the movement questions the sense of “hurry” and “craziness” generated by globalization, fuelled by the desire of “having in quantity” (life status) versus “having with quality”, “life quality” or the “quality of being”.

French people, even though they work 35 hours per week, are more productive than Americans or British. Germans have established 28.8 hour workweeks and have seen their productivity driven up by 20%.

This no-rush attitude doesn’t represent doing less or having a lower productivity. It means working and doing things with greater quality, productivity, perfection, with attention to detail and less stress.

It means re-establishing family values, friends, free and leisure time. It stands for a less coercive work environment, more happy, lighter and more productive work place where humans enjoy doing what they know best how to do.

It’s time to stop and think on how companies need to develop serious quality with no-rush that will increase productivity and the quality of products and services, without losing the essence.

We all have equal time throughout the world. No one has more or less. The difference lies in how each one of us does with our time. We need to live each moment. As John Lennon said, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”.