Author Archive
How to Achieve “Zone” Living
Posted by: | CommentsPeak Performance occurs, by most authors and researchers, while in “the zone”. We have to recognize that expressing our life experiences are limited by our vocabulary and secondly by the popular terms that people recognize.
What is really “Living” and what is “Peak Performance”? Imagine feeling really healthy and vibrating with energy. Imagine being free of stress, anxiety, worry, and fear of judgement. Imagine performing tasks with amazing results and without having to think about them as you go.
Being in “the zone” is a state where all distractions disappear. You are performing at the perfect state of adrenaline and brain functioning. The mind is not even involved because the brain has formed neural pathways that make accomplishing the task automatic. The mind can just sit back and enjoy.
Eliminate the stress and worry of living and life can be the same as being in the zone. Focus and practice are the key to Zone Living. You have to eliminate as many distractions as possible. You have to be focused on accomplishing tasks that you have practiced and have competence or expertise. You have to surrender to the outcome that you could succeed or fail. You can’t be consumed by the past nor worried about the future.
It can’t be done you say! I feel you. I focus on several things and have creative energy depending on how many distractions I can eliminate. I have eliminated TV, reading the news, and now watching movies on Netflix. I have more creative energy to focus on my blogs, my websites, my books, my research, and pleasure reading. I have not turned off my mind to the world. I am trying to raise money to bring water to the developing nations.
Instead of worrying about everything, I am trying to contribute all the energy I can muster to causes about which I care. I am eliminating all the distractions that would take my mind off purpose. That includes negative people.
Michael Lardon, M.D. has devoted his practice and his life to studying people performing in the zone such as professional athletes. These professional athletes are also capable of getting into the zone with their personal lives because they understand how to focus and bar distractions.
The zone produces dopamine which is our happiness chemical. Anyone not want to be happy? We are hardwired to focus and perform at our optimum. To do less creates frustration and unhappiness. You make the choice.
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Read Finding Your Zone, by Michael Lardon, M.D. He says you have to adopt 10 practices to get there. I have read them and have no argument.
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To my surfing and website creation activities I and my daughters are devoting time to raising awareness and hopefully money for the billion people who wake up with no water. When they go to collect it, it is polluted. They get sick and many babies die. Girls don’t go to school. 
My daughter, Alex, right has been to Uganda and knows how these beautiful children need our help.
We need to get people off the bottom to make it a better world. The shadow economy of people struggling like in Bangladesh is actually the fastest growing part of the world economy. Its projected to be in the trillions. They borrow each others cell phones and pay a fee. They splice into electric lines and run their appliances. They live in tin and cardboard shacks. As people become consumers, it creates jobs all over the world.
But nothing progresses without water. Its responsible for 80% of the world’s sickness. It takes more time to gather water than to collect firewood and cook.
Even a $1 or $5 helps drill a well. A well gives up to 250 people clean water. Charity Water had 6185 projects in place as of January. People are helping. Every drop is precious.
Visit http://mycharitywater.org/kaalmmediagroup
Building KaalmWaters.com
Selecting the Right Foods for Energy and Health
Posted by: | CommentsIt seems that in most situations if we were given the opportunity for pleasure or pain, we would choose pleasure. The problem with food is the devil is at work. He masquerades the pain foods to look like pleasure. We eat all those fast foods, sugars, fried foods, fats, and refined products thinking how great they taste.
Then we buy larger clothes, get sick often, die if we run a quarter mile, have stomach problems and always need more energy. Later we start taking lots of pills to fend off the body process of dying from heart disease, cancer and other maladies.
To live long and healthy we can look at some of the cultures on earth that are living past 100 and not ever suffering disease. They eat what comes out of the ground and their food does not go to a factory and come back in a box, can, package, or dispenser. If your food comes from one of these containers, there is a problem already.
Food has a vibrational quality that transfers the energy from the natural process of eating plant life or sea life to sustain human functioning. The closer you get to the basic life forms, the more energy and health you get.
As soon as a factory gets in between, you lose the basic nutritional value. So think of your next meal and ask yourself whether the ingredients are Natural or did they go someplace for processing first?
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To my surfing and website creation activities I and my daughters are devoting time to raising awareness and hopefully money for the billion people who wake up with no water. When they go to collect it, it is polluted. They get sick and many babies die. Girls don’t go to school.
My daughter, Alex, right has been to Uganda and knows how these beautiful children need our help.
We need to get people off the bottom to make it a better world. The shadow economy of people struggling like in Bangladesh is actually the fastest growing part of the world economy. Its projected to be in the trillions. They borrow each others cell phones and pay a fee. They splice into electric lines and run their appliances. They live in tin and cardboard shacks. As people become consumers, it creates jobs all over the world.
But nothing progresses without water. Its responsible for 80% of the world’s sickness. It takes more time to gather water than to collect firewood and cook.
Even a $1 or $5 helps drill a well. A well gives up to 250 people clean water. Charity Water had 6185 projects in place as of January. People are helping. Every drop is precious.
Visit http://mycharitywater.org/kaalmmediagroup
Building KaalmWaters.com
Building an Exercise Program
Posted by: | CommentsThe body needs to burn muscle just like a car needs gasoline. Burning muscle sets off a process that removes dead cells and inflammation and restores with new cells. The human organism was created to need exercise as much as it needs food. We tend to think that exercise is just a bonus 
activity.
Experts will say that the symptoms of age are more about the loss of mobility than they are about aging. I see people in their 30′s that are already out of shape. I also observe that women have a difficult time taking up new activities after they are 30 because too many have lost the incentive to stay in shape after they graduate high school.
Obesity is not always an indicator of lack of exercise as it is an indication of a poor diet. Exercise is not necessary to lose weight, but its function is just as important as eating healthy.
There are at least three goals for exercise. You should increase your flexibility. Stretching your legs and back are the areas that get tight from daily sitting. Leaning into a door way with forearms on the frame is one of the best ways to counter sitting and the multiple exercises where we build chest muscles.
Developing lung power and stamina is a second goal. Any aerobics and even walking will build stamina. The body adapts slowly, so a long term program builds a solid foundation to later start pushing the envelope.
Burning muscle is crucial. This could be accomplished with weights, speed exercises, or strenuous exercises. I like to run up stairs or hills which satisfies all three goals. Biking fast burns muscle and develops stamina. Wind sprints are very efficient, but not fun for most.
Intervals in any aerobic exercise will do the trick. Build a foundation until you can push yourself to the point where you are breathing heavy and feeling the burn.
I start the morning with stretching, push ups and crunches. Then I run stairs. Then I surf. I am working all parts of my body and getting some burn in the process.
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To my surfing and website creation activities I and my daughters are devoting time to raising awareness and hopefully money for the billion people who wake up with no water. When they go to collect it, it is polluted. They get sick and many babies die. Girls don’t go to school.
My daughter, Alex, right has been to Uganda and knows how these beautiful children need our help.
We need to get people off the bottom to make it a better world. The shadow economy of people struggling like in Bangladesh is actually the fastest growing part of the world economy. Its projected to be in the trillions. They borrow each others cell phones and pay a fee. They splice into electric lines and run their appliances. They live in tin and cardboard shacks. As people become consumers, it creates jobs all over the world.
But nothing progresses without water. Its responsible for 80% of the world’s sickness. It takes more time to gather water than to collect firewood and cook.
Even a $1 or $5 helps drill a well. A well gives up to 250 people clean water. Charity Water had 6185 projects in place as of January. People are helping. Every drop is precious.
Visit http://mycharitywater.org/kaalmmediagroup
Building KaalmWaters.com
Why It is So Difficult to Eat Healthy
Posted by: | CommentsI made a strong transition to healthy eating a few years ago and am now very content with my eating style. I am hungry often. Because the food I eat has few calories, little fat, no salt, and no additives, it doesn’t last a long time. I eat every few hours. 
I recently treated myself to a Carl’s Jr famous star with cheese and onion rings. It was so good. It satiated my appetite for 6 hours. It would be hard to tell someone working all day to have carrots instead.
I can’t even think of the incentives to get someone to eat healthy. We say you will live longer, you’ll be healthier, you’ll feel better. These are very abstract for people whose only goal is to get through today and start again tomorrow. They aren’t thinking of living longer. They are thinking of what they have to get done this month.
I have made the transition, but its hard to get someone else to cross that rickety bridge where they look down and see death (hunger). Once the body is getting natural food, it starts to let go of the encapsulated fat so you look and feel thinner. You are not fighting your digestion for energy. You can think more hours in a day. Few meals want to close your eyes.
My food would be bland to many, but I season it up. Its actually cheaper to make your own food. The Carl’s venture cost about $8 and for that I can buy a big turkey breast or chicken that lasts several meals.
I hate being sick and I haven’t been for at least 10 years. I don’t even worry about getting what is going around. Now that I am my high school weight, my body has settled in and I don’t seem to add or lose weight. My clothes fit fine.
I start the mornings with fruit and nuts piled on a pancake. Then I do my exercise and have protein of meat and eggs. In the afternoons I have a tuna or turkey sandwich with no chips and no sodas. At night I start with an entree sized salad. Then it is followed with pasta and chicken, turkey, or hamburger. If I am still hungry, I might have oat meal later and more fruit. I throw in some peanut butter cookies I make from a package.
The fact people can’t make the transition is why we are a sick health care burdened nation. You just have to get across the bridge.
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To my surfing and website creation activities I and my daughters are devoting time to raising awareness and hopefully money for the billion people who wake up with no water. When they go to collect it, it is polluted. They get sick and many babies die. Girls don’t go to school.
My daughter, Alex, right has been to Uganda and knows how these beautiful children need our help.
We need to get people off the bottom to make it a better world. The shadow economy of people struggling like in Bangladesh is actually the fastest growing part of the world economy. Its projected to be in the trillions. They borrow each others cell phones and pay a fee. They splice into electric lines and run their appliances. They live in tin and cardboard shacks. As people become consumers, it creates jobs all over the world.
But nothing progresses without water. Its responsible for 80% of the world’s sickness. It takes more time to gather water than to collect firewood and cook.
Even a $1 or $5 helps drill a well. A well gives up to 250 people clean water. Charity Water had 6185 projects in place as of January. People are helping. Every drop is precious.
Visit http://mycharitywater.org/kaalmmediagroup
Building KaalmWaters.com
Interview of 500 Mile Paddle Boarder
Posted by: | CommentsI recently met Tim Warner in the water at the Oceanside Pier. He was paddle boarding and I was surfing. I found out he was planning a June launch of a 
500 mile paddle from the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge to the San Diego Coronado Bridge with two friends. He is doing it to high light the need for Clean Water to a billion people on Earth.
His Charity Website and Newsletter is at http://BridgetoBridgeFilm.com. Because this is an extraordinary undertaking I asked him for an interview to discuss the physical and mental aspects of this journey which he generously granted. He will be filming it as a documentary which hopefully we will see upon its completion.
The 500 miles you are contemplating paddle boarding is more than most people would ever contemplate. What kind of beginning condition were you in to make you think you could complete it? I was actually in no place to even attempt it. We knew we needed to train before the long paddle. Before we were able to get paddle boards we just ran and did pushups. It’s funny because when I started this project I was 160lb and now I’m 190lb.
What is your normal workout routine?
The most important form of training for us is getting in the water and doing long paddles over ten miles. When we started we were doing 10, 15 and 20 mile paddles to try and get in shape and get our bodies used to the long paddles. When we first started, our training was all about swimming, running, weight lifting and long paddles. Now we are focusing more on getting as much time out on the water and occasional cross training. Paddling 5 days a week is the best form of training for us.
What do you feel you have to be able to do in your training in order to complete this event? Paddling 20 miles once is a feat, but to do it every day for days is of a different magnitude? You are exactly right. We try get out in the water as much as possible. We have done long back to back paddles and have felt the pain in our bodies. We are going into this with an attitude of positivity. We want to get out in the water and start paddling. We know that this is a challenge and that is why we are doing it. This challenge gives us a platform to raise awareness for the water crisis in the world. We are not super athletes, just ordinary people who only started paddle boarding 5 months ago. We feel that in order to complete this event, we need a positive perspective and we have to encourage one another. We will put as much time in to train as we can and hopefully we complete the journey.
What is your nutrition program? The first thing we do is try to eat healthy. We try to eat a good amount of protein and stay away from processed foods. Whole natural foods are the best thing for us. We like to eat raw foods like fruits and vegetables as well as lean meats. We are sponsored by MRM and so we are taking protein powder and muscle recovery products to help us keep healthy and to support our muscles during strenuous exercise.
How does it differ from before you began training? Before training, I ate whatever my wife cooked fortunately for me we ate healthily before starting this project. I never took protein powder or muscle recovery products before starting this project.
Do you have preferences for vegan, meat, supplements, special foods? Not really, I eat just about anything. I love fish and sushi is my favorite after a workout.
Do you consciously avoid certain foods? YES. I avoid eating fast food and when I do eat fast food I try and get something from the menu to suit my nutritional style. If I had to choose between grilled chicken and a hamburger, I would do the grilled chicken.
Do you have days you don’t feel like training, and what do you do to overcome? Yes, I do have those days. If I don’t feel like going out I try and make it up in the next paddle. But like I said, just getting out in the water for 2-4 hours about 4-5 times a week keeps us in decent shape. That’s close to 20 hours a week.
What do you feel is your biggest physical challenge? For me it’s a back injury I have been working through. I also am very aware of the magnitude of this trip. We did a 27 mile paddle in the ocean and at mile 20 I was ready to stop. I was tired and hurting and that was a very big physical challenge for me. I was so excited about finishing the paddle that I just kept going. .
What might be your biggest mental challenge? The biggest mental challenge for me is going to be thinking about how far away San Diego is or about how I miss my wife and two kids.
I understand you are afraid of sharks. Most of us don’t like sharks, but I know it can be worse for some. What are you doing mentally about that? I am accepting the fact that we will probably see them. I realize that I am not what they want to eat. I am going to stay close to the other two guys on the trip It helps that I am standing up on a board, you somehow feel a little safer. I’m more afraid of the pain I will feel from paddle boarding such a long distance.
Anything you would like to say that I left out? This project is for others. We are going to set foot in the San Francisco bay after about 6 months of hard work and training. We are going to paddle to raise awareness for the water crisis in the world, make a documentary and have fun. Hopefully others will be inspired to help fight against the water problem in the world. Thanks Mark.
Thanks Tim. And I am sure we all wish him luck and success in this endeavor.
I also caught Tim in Video riding a wave and posted it to You Tube
Who Said Money Was Happiness?
Posted by: | CommentsSure, I love getting a check in the mail. Maybe its an acknowledgment of something worthwhile I have produced. Achievement is a real high. The more I achieve, generally, the more checks I receive. That leaves me high for a few days and then I need to get another check. 
Happiness doesn’t need to be fleeting. Happiness is about contentment with the present circumstances.
That requires gratitude. Gratitude is real happiness because it means you are happy with things the way they are.
Building this happiness, however, might be a different track than the one you are on when you go to the office. Happiness can be the result of dopamine and serotonin being released in your brain. Happiness can be the result of feeling good from eating healthy and exercising. Happiness can be the result of expressing yourself. It can be the result of helping others and making a difference.
Going to the office takes care of Maslow’s lowest orders on the pyramid to self actualization. If you want the rocket ship ride to the top, start thinking of taking care of yourself and helping others do the same.
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I feel life has rewarded me and now I want to help others get some benefits. For some reason I have been drawn to those who have the fewest opportunities. In fact, a billion people wake up everyday and don’t even have water. Water is the beginning of life. You can live awhile without food, but in a hot climate, you cannot live long without water.
100% of contributions go to drilling and processing polluted water. When there is clean water little girls can go to school and moms can join the work force. Every drop is precious. Learn more…
My daughters and I have a campaign “Writing for Water” and 100% of the contributions go to CharityWater.org. $1 or $5 helps bring water to people who need survival before they can find happiness. Donate a cup of coffee
Focus on Flow for Progress and Happiness
Posted by: | CommentsFlow is engaging in challenging activities that you can handle and forcing distractions out of your periphery. The result is not only your Peak Performance but your peak enjoyment.
The more activities or passions you can find to occupy your day, the more productive and happy you are going to be. Sounds simple, no? The other requirement of activities getting into flow is that you have practiced with some mastery the basic mechanics of those activities.
Flow occurs when your practice has advanced you into a state where you engage at your outer limits or where you are pushing the envelope of your capabilities but are not alarmed that you are in over your head. In other words, you have total confidence that you can achieve and your beta waves and adrenaline are at optimum levels.
The tri-fecta one person said is when you can engage in activities that you love, are good at, and that people will pay you to perform.
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I have posted regularly on websites for a few years, have written books and an now Writing for Water. I want to raise awareness that a billion people in our world wake up with out water. Then when they get the water, it is polluted and their families get sick and often die. It isn’t necessary. We don’t need a vaccine, we need money to drill.
$1 or $5 will bring drops of precious water to those who need us. The little girls bear the brunt of the burden because they are charged with getting the water so that others in their families can do other things. Therefore they don’t go to school. I have two daughters and it would break my heart if they had to live under those circumstances.
How do you feel? For less than a latte you can bring on some water.
http://MyCharityWater.org/KaalmMediaGroup
“Every Drop is Precious”
Why We Block New Ideas
Posted by: | CommentsThe human body is a sensory machine. It takes in millions of impressions a day. When we were hunting and foraging we were hyper alert to danger and also listening for sounds that might indicate food was afoot.
In the modern city, we are over whelmed with noise. We also receive more information than we want to process. The brain is capable of observing, receiving, and assimilating a lot of information, but the memory has limits.
I am always on the hunt for new ideas and information. I write and I am curious. I test my short term memory after reading things to see if I am remembering. I listened to Andrew LLoyd Weber’s Cats album last night and this morning I had forgotten a few Cat’s names.
By the time we are 14 our personalities are formed and so is our world view. The value and detriment of this is that our brain starts categorizing stimulus into compartments. The items of little interest get rejected. Gossip always scores big. Studies get a luke warm reception depending on the person.
We can start to shut down our openness to new ideas if our world view is that we have as much information as we want. “All I want to do is get through the day, have my drink, and turn on my favorite show.”
Our categorizing can become more bifurcated as we divide information into I need to see that and this piece is more than I can handle. We have been over spammed and set up high walls for new information to climb.
I have always put the cry for help for charities and research into disease into my don’t need to know box. We all do because we realize we don’t have enough money to help all the people that need help.
Even political campaigns often boil down to a few issues because the populace does not have the energy to research the facts and evaluate the positions of politicians on more than a few issues. We then tend to give weight to our intuition as to who will be the best candidate.
Shutting out as many distractions as we can will help us focus on more of the meaningful information that could get through. I have avoided TV and reading newspapers to give my RAM in my brain more room to focus on meaningful topics.
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One of the ideas that has penetrated my periphery lately is the need for Clean Water in undeveloped countries. Whereas for you, it is one more idea to block, for me it is an important fundamental need that doesn’t need the discovery of a vaccine to cure. It is curable. It needs drilling and money to support the drilling. I can understand that without much evaluation.
The benefit is that the little girls charged with carrying the water could go to school, the moms that help could go to work, and little baby brother wouldn’t die. It’s a pretty easy concept to grasp. $5,000 digs a well and a 1,000 people giving $5 supplies clean water to 250 people. 100% of contributions go right to CharityWater.org and 100% of the money goes to water. Every dollar is another clean drip. I committed to $20 a month and you could give $1 or $5 “to make water flow”
A billion people need clean water and 80% of the world’s sickness is water born. My CharityWater.org has 6185 projects in process for 2,545,000 people. (see them by clicking above)
My daughters and I have set up a Writing for Water Campaign to direct funds to dig wells. We would love for you to give.
Giving Back Can Cure You
Posted by: | CommentsI happened to be blessed by living at the beach and having most everything I need. I also get to spend my days doing pretty much what I want.
I know that in the last few years, the developed world has been reduced to its knees as people that had saved have less than half of what they had anticipated would be the silver lining on their Golden Years.
Its a losing of control that makes the lizard brain take control of our psyche. I have found that millionaires who still live lives we would envy are worried about their future and stay up nights thinking of their ruin.
The ancients said that God is a perfect giving machine and can’t receive. Therefore he/she needed a perfect receiving machine and the Universe and man have certainly become that. They also said that when man has realized his blessings, he may also want to give. That is his purpose.
Whether we have money or not we can still be in the giving mode where the lizard brain doesn’t rule. My neighbor is from India and has a software company that is writing programs for schools. He remembers when his asthmatic mom would walk a considerable distance to get a bucket of water for them and then make another trip to get more.
He is so appreciative of living here by the beach and for the first time living near water. He mentions the United States has never been poor. When you think about it from his perspective we know we have had bad times, but we have always had resources and snap back.
We have never experienced the poverty of India or Africa where there are more people than available resources and the government does not only not help, they often don’t care. They have zero safety nets. I was in India and the wealthy people would say, “What would you expect me to do?”
Rich is not a matter of how much money you have as much as whether you live in a giving mode or are afraid you have lost control.
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I recently became exposed to the problem that a billion people are in need of water and in need of clean water. The task to gathering water falls mostly on the shoulders of the young girls. They therefore don’t get to go to school and become doomed to a life of servitude. Having two daughters, I am a little more sensitive to this issue. The water they bring back from their source is polluted and they often get sick and die.
CharityWater.org is one organization that is raising money to alleviate the pain. Contributions go 100% to raising water. They have 6185 projects in force serving 2, 545, 000 people. Each $5,000 can drill one well that serves up to 250 people in a village, school, or clinic.
If you feel like contributing, my daughters and I have set up Writers for Water and would take a $5 contribution. A 1,000 contributions drills one well. A 1.000 $20 monthly contributions gives a 1,000 more people water each month.
http://mycharitywater.org/kaalmmediagroup
Could You Live Without Water?
Posted by: | CommentsImagine living in a house with no water. Imagine if your town also had no water. To get water, you had to walk maybe several miles.
For the Billion people on earth without water, the father usually is in charge of food. The sons go to school or help work for food. The mom’s gather wood for fires and cook. The daughters get the water and the moms help.
The daughters take containers and fill them up carrying as much as they can. Water weighs about 8 pounds per gallon so they can’t carry much very far. The water they gather is polluted. They get it from streams or rivers.
The families get dysentery, cholera, and other water born diseases. Babies die. But they have no choice. Little girls don’t go to school and moms can’t join the work force to bring in more food. Whereas the average American uses over 100 gallons a day, these families are lucky to get 5 gallons a day.
There are many global organizations working on this problem. They are funded by donations. There are experts on the ground in Africa, Asia, South American and other locals that understand the best processes for providing water to their area. Water is needed for villages, schools, and clinics.
$5,000 is enough to dig a well that would serve up to 250 people in a village. It would free up 1,000s of hours a months so that girls could go to school, moms could work, and people wouldn’t get sick. Money not used for medicine could buy books and uniforms.
I have committed to $20 a month and to write every day for 80 days during this campaign. $20 a month from a 1,000 people would create water for a new 1,000 people each month. Projects generally take 18 months and all of our contributions go 100% toward water supply. Reports are returned on the projects that were funded and how every dollar was spent.
CharityWater.org has 6185 projects serving over 2,545, 000 people as of January of this year. http://www.charitywater.org/projects/projects.php.
Hardly a dent in the number of people that need clean water, but we could sit back and say the problem is too big or we could help. The amount of people that need water keeps increasing.
If you feel like contributing we welcome $5 or even a commitment of $20 a month. Every little bit is another drop of clean water.
A Sample Completed Project Report: http://mycharitywater.org/p/myprojectsview?project_id=ET.GOH.Q4.09.048.213
My 80 day Campaign is Writing for Water, feel free to contribute at:
http://mycharitywater.org/kaalmmediagroup
Dreaming For Solutions
Posted by: | CommentsEach morning when I sit to write my three different blogs, I often use the ideas that came to me in my sleep. I am not always sure at night if I am sleeping or if I awoke and the idea bubbled up from my subconscious while I am in the semi dream state.
The subconscious has a marvelous way of working with the information and facts our conscious brain gathered during the day or over the years. It often puts everything together in an organized fashion. You might think that someone sitting over in Universal Intelligence was watching what we were doing and slipped us the answer while we were sleeping.
Revelations and epiphanies come to us from our subconscious. The whole order or symphony arrives in our mind as though shipped from Amazon. Einstein said the Theory of Relativity was a revelation. Mozart said entire symphonies occurred in his mind before he wrote them down.
Samuel Coleridge said the Kubla Khan came to his mind and he wrote it down without ever changing a word. Mendeleev said the whole Periodic Table of Elements and Chemistry we studied in high school came in one flash.
In his book Finding Your Zone, Michael Lardon, M.D. says to incorporate your sleep into your daily performance, think about what you are working on before you retire at night. Chances are, if you have been working on something important it will come up in your subconscious while your consciousness rests. Be aware and if you enter that dreamlike state where you are aware you are thinking about it, let it run.
When I have a good idea, I get up and write it down. I would rather have the idea in the morning than have to spend a few hours trying to remember what it was. When I write, I can often slip into that same zone of my subconscious where ideas come instead of me laboring over them.
Being able to access your subconscious is where the Zone exists. Athletes that are in the Zone are engaging in an activity that they have practiced and no longer have to focus on the mechanics. They just let it happen without thinking. The conscious mind takes a back seat to the subconscious.
The subconscious is the seat of creativity. Sometimes exercise releases you from your conscious mind. Meditation might do it as well. Even a walk outdoors might allow your mind to wander. Learn how to access the subconscious, awake or asleep for more productivity and creativity.
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I am committed to write about Clean Water everyday for the next 80 days. It is part of a campaign to raise awareness for the Billion people on earth that have to walk for water and the water is polluted. It mostly affects little girls who then miss school and women who then can’t join the work force.
Not to mention that every 19 seconds someone gets dysentery, cholera, or other water born diseases. The money freed from medical expenses would buy books and free people up to earn money for food. Babies are most affected from drinking polluted water.
There is an international effort in process with experts on the ground drilling wells from money provided by donors. 100% of our money goes to drill wells and not for administrative expenses. 100% of the money is accounted for in the organization’s regular reports.
My short term goal is to raise $1,000 from people who will donate even $5 or commit to $20 a month. 3rd World Populations have no choice. We do have choice- we can help or not help. See my page… MyCharityWater.org
Fitness Can Make You Happy
Posted by: | CommentsEver hear of the runner’s high? After a certain period of exertion, the body is releasing chemicals that can make you happy as heroin, not that any of us have tried heroin. 
It can be so addictive that when I was in a Track Club, runners that had hurt their feet and were wearing a cast, would still run.
If runners sustained injuries that prevented running they would start riding bikes and join another club.
You just have to get past the initial pain of getting in shape. I have enjoyed running the wood stairs at the beach and gave it up to concentrate on surfing. Then inspired by my younger daughter’s new work out routine, I decided I should get back to running the stairs.
I am glad I have. Being outdoors, I can look at the beach and all the activity while I run up and down. Then there is the feeling of satisfaction of having gotten more fit. Then there is the great feeling of mellowness that follows a good work out.
If you sit too much and don’t burn any muscle, you are missing out on one of life’s great pleasures.
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Visit me on Face Book and see some photography of others exercising at the beach. Health Fitness and Happiness are closely connected.
I am gearing up to start a Campaign for Clean Water for the Billion people on earth who spend too much time a day collecting water that is polluted. The biggest sufferers are young girls who are tasked with walking for hours a day. This takes them out of school and as adults out of the work force.
Building Happiness to Cope with Loneliness
Posted by: | CommentsThere are days of the year and hours during the day when people feel isolated. This happens to people when family is away or when they are not working and everyone they know is occupied doing something else.
These are the hours you are by yourself. It is very difficult to live with your thoughts in isolation. Man is a social animal. We like to get feed back. We want to throw something out and get a reaction.
I have done a little TV work and talking while looking at a red light in a camera with no audience is very difficult. You need to see faces to see if they are laughing or even doubting or getting bored.
We have five senses that need to get exercised. They tell us we are alive. The other half of our existence is our subconscious and our intuition. We don’t give these two fellas credit, but they are more responsible for our behavior than our five senses. They interpret what the five senses detect and create our reaction.
Expressing ourselves is exercising our subconscious and our connection to the world beyond those senses. We reach deep into our consciousness for our essence and our connection to both nature and the Universal intelligence Scientists often give credit for our biggest breakthroughs.
We are connected not only to all living things, but to everything. Most matter is made of just a few basic components and man shares these with all living and non living things on earth which is part of the Universe.
Hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon unite us with everything we see and sense. Water, air, earth share common components that makes us one with our surroundings. The single spec that exploded to create the Universe and the single cell that evolved to create all life have the intelligence that unite us with everything.
Time that we have to ourselves can be used to explore our connection to everything that surrounds us and even explore our expression of how we fit in. These times of seeming isolation give us an opportunity to reach out and in to reflect and enjoy how we are unique. Use the time to explore the outside and inside world and see what kind of feedback you receive.
We can love a lot of things in life.
People will come and go in our lives and the more we can understand our true essence as individuals, the more we will have to contribute to our loved ones when they return.
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Your Mind is Free Floating
Posted by: | CommentsThe mind is not attached to the body like the brain or other organs. It sort of floats above and around the brain. The brain has lots of automatic functions, but it also does what the mind tells it.
If its time to brush your teeth, the mind gives the brain the instructions and the brain carries out the command. If its time to exercise, the mind tells the brain the body needs its exercise shoes.
By the same token, the mind might tell the brain that the body is too tired to exercise. The seventh sense is listening to what your mind is saying and deciding if you want to follow it. On one of my exercise days when I was going to run my 40 stairs, my mind said by body was too tired.
I had just given my body a day’s rest and I didn’t think the message should be true, so I thought I would test it. After my normal twenty times up and down the stairs, I figured I would go for my often 40 times. After that, I thought I would go for my record 60 times. I was feeling alright so I thought I would push it to a new record. After 80 times, I stopped.
I figured I put my mind in its place and proved that sometimes it lies. Will power has to over come some of the minds messages. Getting control of our mind is often working with it to demonstrate that we are stronger and more capable than it would have us believe.
The mind resists leaving our comfort zone and change makes the mind uneasy. It will often try to sabotage our efforts. We can condition the mind to change by continuously changing and challenging. Progress requires stretching beyond what the mind thinks we can do comfortably.
If we want excitement we have to push the envelope. The more we do, the more the mind signs on to work with us and the less it will act as an anchor.
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Why Are People Bored?
Posted by: | CommentsChallenging yourself to push the envelope and get out of your comfort zone is the best way to find excitement in life. It is easy to get trapped in routine where you fulfill your obligations but never get tested on who you are. 
We often get trapped into thinking we are our jobs. We are not. We are very special individuals put on this earth to be happy and enjoy the wonders, but often have to work in order to live.
The blessed find their passions, are good at them, and get paid for pursuing them.
There is a great tribute to a Howard Benedict, a Leucadia dentist that just passed away at the age of 67. Since he was twelve he loved the ocean and par took of both diving and surfing. He worked his way through USC dental school and then set up his practice to drill at night so he could dive and surf during the day.
Working and then hiding afterward makes life pretty boring. We have to have areas where we test who we are and express ourselves. Letting other people judge our work is a courageous step but part of the process. We love to watch others do it in the movies and may live vicariously.
Working and partying doesn’t make life more exciting, it makes it working and coping. You can’t party forever. It starts to wear you out. In the meantime, you could be building a special skill that is you. It could be work related or it could be a hobby, an art, a recreation, or a charity.
Fulfilling our obligations makes us responsible but finding out who we are and testing the limits makes life exciting. Having a coach or friend that can give feed back is helpful as we often need encouragement when we step into the vulnerable zone.
