Honey -- The perfect food

Honey The perfect food..

Honey, oh honey...


besides being so sweet, honey, has quite a few interesting properties you should know....



Did you know?, honey is the only food that doesn´t rot or goes to waste, recent findings on Egyptian pharaoh tombs have found vases of this awesome-like ambosia, intact and ready to be consumed....

properly stored and due to its low-water content honey can be preserved indefinetly, the samples found are about 5000 years old.

it was a common custom that people that died in ancient egypt were buried with everything they needed to take care of themselves in the afterlife... servants included, of course....

If it can last onto the afterlife I´ll bet it can surely keep itself safe and sound onto your shelf....

But, before this turns onto the history channel, let´s move on to the interesting part......











As a food, honey contains a LOT, of aminoacids, minerals and vitamins which supply your daily needs easily

It was called Ambrosia, the food of the gods, by the greeks; And with good reason...

I invite you to take a look at 100g of honey´s worth....

Click on the picture to enlarge if you can´t read the specs....

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Neat, huh?

However the cool thing about honey it is the anti-aging, rejuvenating properties...

As you may already know, aging is a mechanism composed by several factors, one of them being "Metabolic Cellular Junk"
when a cell uses food, to make energy, it generates waste.

yup,yup, so what?


The amazing fact about honey is that is "eco-friendly", meaning that it burns within the cell cleanly, without generating any waste whatsoever.

And when you stop generating garbage AND you add some potent antioxidants and rebuilding aminoacids to the mix,,,

you´re ready to go....

Health, Rejuvenation, Good Mood, Performance, Life extension....

But wait, there´s still more...

YOUR VERY OWN NITRO BOOST

People who use high amounts of energy, ie. people who train intensively, mentally and physically, or those who have to perform at a peak level, you guys can benefit from this formula.


HONEY = SIMPLE SUGAR = QUICK ENERGY = PERFOMANCE = KICKING BUTT= "HAPPY FACES AND BUTTERFLIES"

by taking a full spoon of honey (tops or it will backfire severely by insulin response) you will get an instant boost of energy ready, avaiable to be released quickly.

the trick is to take it on an empty stomach, and with enough liquid to absorb it quickly.
this is for nitro-purposes only, quick use, if you want long-haul energy consider eating an apple or banana, that would do the trick as your body would produce glucose(sugar) as it needs to.


Extremely good for detox

if you go on a fast or detox program and you are haunted by headaches, try taking a tablespoon of honey every two hours or so, and it will exorsice them for good.
have you noticed that you can clean honey with hot water and it leaves NO TRACE at all?
being so water-soluble, it dissapears from the digestive tract unnoticed...

Some Benefits of honey include

• Quick energy (Nitro)
  

• No waste(Health!, Life extension)

• Antioxidant
  

• Supernutrient (functional food)
  

• Antisceptic
  

• Antibacterial
  

• Brain & Muscle Tonic.
  

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As if this were not enough, in ancient times, people used this beauty to heal wounds and burns due to its antisceptic properties.
There´s a lot of resources on the net that deal with the subject of "Honey as a medicine for healing" or "apitherapy"

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On the dark side of the coin, diabetics should abstain from messing out with glycemic levels.... you are warned...
also if you take too much sugar your body will create insulin to counter it, leaving you feeling like a pothead.

That´s all folks....

Life Hack -- Eat Like a King (not what U XPcT)

LIFE HACK --> Calorie Restricion and Intermitent Fasting
Benefit --> Increased Lifespan (40% avg) -- Mood Balancing -- Sharper Mind -- Better Health

Increased Lifespan and the mice experiment

Mice, we feed them, we hack them, we trow them onto the blender, we make them explode; However this little furry friend has proven to be very useful... just read.

Several studies have found that mice on Calorie Restriction live on average 40% longer than regular mice. If we put that on human scale, given that a human lives, let´s say 100 years optimally, we would get a 140 year-old human. think about all you can do in 40 years, Fuck I don´t even have 40 years yet! And considering at the pace that tech is moving it would be pretty cool to hang around the planet for the next few decades,, things are about to get intresting... to say the least.

However, a long life is not enough, what is truly desirable longevity PLUS good health. It is not how long you live, it is how good you live those years what counts.
According to Aubrey DeGrey, the age degeneration disease(s) occurs from extended cellular damage due to metabolism byproducts.

Within his "7 reason for aging" list we have the disturbing yet preventable "IntraCellular Garbage" and "ExtraCellular Garbage" -- Which is in layman´s language residual crap that accumulates over time as a byproduct of regular cell function this garbage eventually interferes with cellular respiration, nutrition, replication and excretion.

we can deal with this nuissance without pills or drugs of any kind. the key is balancing the intake of good fuel into the body. Let´s look it a little further...
in a fasting period, while not burdened nor taxed by digestion, our bodies repairing and cleaning systems get more active;

Waste is systematically removed from the bloodstream and intercellular space, weak cells die and are replaced, while dead cells are recycled as nutrients.

basically we´re giving the cleaning system a chance to catch up and clean the mess, therefore restoring natural homeostasis.

The paradox of fasting is that it leads to more nutrition, not less. there´s an old myth that says that you have to eat "well",, and "well" usually means a lot..... a lot of crap.
eating a lot does not ensure proper nutrition and also JAMS the whole mechanism, taxing the system badly.

regulating your food intake can improve your health in many ways, first by eliminating the digestive "goo" screen

When digestion takes place, residues on the digestive duct form a "goo" which restricts proper nutrient absortion trough the intestinal walls, leading to malnutrition even on the precence of copious amounts of food.

while fasting this residual "goo" gets naturally wiped away, so that when you eat, all nutrients get delivered to the bloodstream instead of the toilet.


So we can add up another benefit to our list --> Increased Nutrient assimilation

but wait,, there´s more...........

Improved Mental Acuity

the reptilian part of the brain (according to triune model) processes lack of food as a life-threatening situation, therefore a hyper-alert state is triggered, your senses heighten and your cognition sharpens. This was meant to make you a better hunter, however in modern times we can still exploit this to gain an edge.



Brighten up Dumbass!

The brain developed in order for individuals to interpret, relate, survive and thrive on a given envionment, this may be a reason why fasting increases Brain-Cell growth activity. If the individual is not relating well-enough in order to provide the organism with plenty of food; Adaptive function then releases neurotrophins which promote neural growth. (Eustress response)

Another influence of an "empty stomach" on cognition is that, believe it or not, digestion taxes on brainpower.

here´s why.
when you eat, the digestive apparatus has to liquify food so that it can be assimilated onto the bloodstream, in order to do that, a finely orchestrated process takes place.

to make a long story short.
1- processed food gets in
2- digestive acid is added
3- PERISTALTIC MOVEMENT begins. and here lies our problem.
------------------------------------4- assimilation and excretion processes.

peristaltic movement is the bowel movement which moves food trough the digesting system, this coordinated movement, as unconciouss and automatic as it may be, consumes a lot of brainpower.


Benefits of Fasting ---> Continued................. EMOTIONS =)





Are you Cranky, Whacky, Jumpy or just damn anxious? If you are this might help.

Fact: High toxin levels within the bloodstream lead to nervous and behavioural disorders.
By getting rid of the harmful food toxins; another "side effect" of fasting is emotional centering,

some toxins excite the nervous system in such a way, that impulses tend to be harder to control.
nervous fidgeting, overwhelming waves of rampant and intense emotion, hunger, cravings and even depression (due to depletion) could be tied to the presence of toxins within the bloodstream

with a clean system you get a balanced mood in most cases, impulse control and increased energy, since you don´t dissipate nervous energy uselessly nor over-exaust your cleaning systems.

The pleasures of food......... KEPT! -- Don´t starve yourself dumbass --
however Calorie Restriction is hard to pull off correctly (ie, avoiding malnutrition, sticking to the plan, socializing and eating a fucking carrot while everyone else is feasting on a double Mac, you name it.) -- But don´t despair, there is a way to keep the benefits without the ugly side of it. and it´s called Intermitent Fasting.

T.T and, Yes, there is a God.

Intermitent Fasting gets you the same benefits that a Calorie Restriction diet would provide, and also food would taste a whole lot better when you do eat.

Intermitent Fasting is disencouraged for females because women have an inbuilt energy saving mechanism; So that when food is scarce, their bodies would retain as much energy as possible. Intermitent Fasting on women would result in obesity, so women BEWARE, you are warned.. don´t e-mail me any gym bills, PLEASE.


If you want a far fetched-twist to it, Mystics of all times have sustained repeatedly that Fasting leads to astral cleansing, which is triggered by an increase of vibration of the subtle bodies of the human being, leading to increased psychic resonance with the environment (more cool "coincidences") and being unaffected by the lower vibes (da "shit").

The key point is achieving balance, digestive cycles last from 16-24 hours, with that in mind try to keep a balance between what you put in, what you use, and what gets out.

Next Post------> Honey, the perfect food.


Glossary: Intermitent Fasting (Fasting By intervals) ie --> x day on,, y days off, then repeat.
Calorie Restriction (eat like a hobo) --> you eat every day while keeping your Calorie intake low (ie. no bread, potatos, noodles, pasta, coke, and so forth)

Windows 2.x and Luck made easy.

Today I want to write about Mind Control, Concentration camps and brainwashing.

And YOU

Before you think I went bananas or indulged on the sci-fi channel way too much,, read up, you will be surprised.



To begin this subject, I would like to elaborate on an important analogy between food and information.

As food is used to build up, nourish and fuel our bodies, information is used to feed up your mind.

When a hazardous substance enters our body, our defense mechanism steps in, and attempts to eliminate the dangerous element from the system.

We have an analogous, ecological sewer system in our mind. and it is called "The Conciouss Mind" the guardian of our destiny, this system, within its extremely narrow limits, filters out garbage from meaninful data to interpret accurately and successfuly relate to the outside world.

So far so good.... but there is a catch... see, this "Guardian" or "Sentry" is addicted to valium,

Heavily.


The bastard falls asleep, so much, that 90% of our "choices" fall into preprogrammed unconciouss responses, and when it embraces morpheus,, then the gates of your mind are open wide... for whatever comes in.



there are several WINDOWS of time in which this brave sentry likes to nap. These are Mornings and Evenings... and What do people do on these times?





take a wild guess...




Yes, you bet, they gorge onto the most vile-flavored info-shit, Like the "news" ( "bad news" would be more appropiate ) , a completely Bizzarre and exagerated negative worldview


the subconciouss mind absorbs information like a tape recorder, it records whatever passes trough the "Sentry".

So if you wake up, and first thing on the morning you watch the TV news, guess what..

all that shit is programming your mind, let alone soap operas and other mental excretions.

all is recorded within the subconciouss mind, and this "tape" is your base conciousness from which your thoughts and emotions emanate... so GUARD IT DEARLY!


you are what you feed upon... so if you are consuming shit.... you'd better change your diet :O

remember that it has been proven that subconciouss overpowers conciouss on the long run EVERY SINGLE TIME.

So When you are awake, it is negligible, since the guardian will do the Job fairly well, BUT, when
you're sleep deprived, on a fast (its not reserved for nutcase monks, we're all in a fast when we wake up!), OR changing states of conciousness (ie. when you awaken in the moring, or when going to sleep at night) your mind is programmable...

if you feed it with a limited worldview, your life would be limited, if you program it with with fear, uglyness or "low life" content, , the cassette will play itself... on your destiny....


Two healthy choices,,
a) wake the "Guardian" UP! or b) replace the weakening tape for an empowering one.

And it's not Hocus-Pocus, or "Attraction" it is YOUR OWN DOING! you're in charge, always..

You're in danger when

* Sleep Deprived
* Have low Sugar level (fasting is a well known mind control technique used in Nazi concentration camps and CIA black ops)
* Altered States of Conciousness. (Drugs, Alcohol, Sleep, Entrainment, Sensory Overload, among
others)

In these sates what reaches you, hits you... for good or else.


Build and live the dream!
See ya!

Fluid Intelligence Trainer

In recent studies, conducted by Neuroscientists Jaeggi and other german neuroscientist with an impronunciable lastname, it was found that fluid intelligence, which previously believed to be genetically hard-wired from birth, could be improved by working memory (WM) training.

The study was conducted with the participants being young-healthy students.
the subjects and a control group both took a problem solving task and an IQ test, the subjects were trained in WM using the Dual-n-Back training approach. the controls masturbated. (i.e. did something completely irelevant) . after 19 days, both groups were tested again, the group who did the WM training, performed much better than before the training, and also much better than the controls, who spanked the monkey.

A remarkable feat worth mentioning, is that in the IQ tests took by the subjects, the group who trained WM, had gains of 20-25 IQ points.

Here is an Dual-n-Back applet i´ve found online

For a 20 or 25 point boost its worth to try! ;)

My First Ayahuasca experience

This summer I went to Peru, in order to try for myself the so-called rope of the spirit or ayahuasca.


I was introduced to a 47 year old shaman named Lucio, I have to say that this man looked a lot younger for his age, also, he was a gifted creative artist.
We went into the , as they call it, "chackra" of the shaman, within the countryside.

the group was composed of six takers, Lucio, the shaman, and his assistant/driver, who was later kicked out because he did not want to participate actively during the session, as he refused to drink.

we were asked to wear white or clear color clothes, dark colors of cloth were banned from the sitting. and no shoes.

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Also the group was asked to do a 3 day purge with laxatives, everyone, except me, because of my strict vegan diet. All of us were told to drink plenty of water before the session, and to carry a bottle of water for hydration purposes.

as we sat down, Lucio handed over, a cigarette called "mapacho", it was a very cool, twilight atmosphere, since there was no electricity within the hut and lighting was our only light, aside from the mapacho cigs which shined brightly on the dark as you inhaled it. it was very cool indeed.
we were sitting in silence between the alternating shaman's songs and the roaring thunder.

After a while, Lucio called us to the main bench, he handed over a small amount of the mixture (ayahuasca) to each of us.

The experience lasts about 2(two) hours; of intense psychoactive journey, the substance begins to cause psycho-physical effects 15 minutes after oral ingestion.
it is a small, yet potently sour mixture.

your body may start to shake, this can be controlled by exerting control of the breath. its strange, the more you are in control of your own breath, the less the substance controls you. in these sittings concentration is the main key to a successful experience.

at first it looked much like a normal LSD experience, but.. as the experience unfolded:

I saw geometrical patterns of light, a caduceous staff, visions of ancient Indian or Arabic palaces, and a blue human being or entity, the symbols were glowing in beautiful fluorescent light, i saw casino slot machines (mmm.. a good sign, perhaps? maybe I should give it a try)

after a while I begun to see jungle, animals. when the vision started to become creepy, I used my will to fly away, and went back to palace.

I have to admit that even when I thought I had my body 100% controlled, my mind was very hard to control, under the effect of the sacred plants, I found my stream of consciousness becoming WILD, almost impossible to control, thoughts were flooding out. as opposed to my normal state in which I have little or no mental chatter.

the shaman said that what I saw is what I received as a gift, from the sacred mother plant. he told me that with repeated use one could attain gifts of clairvoyance, second sight, magnetism among other "dones"(gifts of power).
As for the group:
the reactions were very diverse, others freaked, cried, and vomited a lot during the session. the shaman said they were releasing trauma. they were healing.
As for me:
I felt peace, however I was unable to speak, and ask intelligent questions, i was more like a mute witness of infinite pleasure. i felt powerful, my perception was SHARP, yet i could not express nor verbalize any of this.

The effects wore off completely after 2 hours. and I was back in town by 4 am.

The after effects of the mixture are something, wonderful, liberating, I felt love and connection with everything else, I felt no anger nor anxiousness, it was a brotherly feeling that I had not experienced since a long, long time ago. however, I felt a strong need for silence and spoke little if at all for the next couple of weeks.

There seems to be a restructuring and purging of the psyche going on even when the "flashy" effects wear off.
I can't wait to repeat the experience, it was absolutely wonderful.

Silver Tounge, Golden Mind

and why verbalization and high abstract reasoning do not match.

I´ve found out that inner speech lowers "intelligence" greatly.
speech is for communication with another sentient being,, when you have the matter already sorted out yourself.

it is well known that when learning a forein language people will tend to mentally translate that language onto their mother tounge, in order to "better" understand it.


however, this unnecesary process interferes with effective language learning. it makes it hard and slow.



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burdens the mind;

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Intelligent people learn to weed out what´s useless.

craft your mental processes.

cut out non-task-related processes that zap your mind power.

if you speak to yourself you disperse your mental energy and focus.

never believe anything until you ..................

try it for yourself,

grab a highly challenging activity that you do regularly. execute it, and... measure your time of completion. call it a day.




next, let´s try it again, but this time prior to the activity do this:

1- Walk to the kitchen and drink 2 glasses of water.
Come back, sit comfortably...
2- Close your eyes, focus on your forehead, and count 20 deep breaths
[if you succeeded counting to 20 without any intruding thought, proceed. otherwise, repeat 2]
3- Perform the task while maintaining focused mental silence

4- finally, measure your time and be amazed.



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Benefits

1- Increased Mathematical/Logical/Spatial Intelligence

[Brain noise is reduced]

2- Increased Focus [without clutter you see things clearly]
3- Promptness to action.
4- Heightened reflexes.
5- Ability to think without words [Blows out the boundaries of the mind, A key to true genius]
6- Increased determination and pain tolerance. [pain is highly subjective]
7- Heightened awareness. [as you can focus on sensorial imput, without the mental clutter]

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The Dark side of the force

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as the vey well known Yin-Yang simbol tells us, there is a dark seed on the light side, and viceversa.

The adverse effects of inner silece

> Your begin to talk too fast, your voice becomes non-resonant, forced or tense.
> Verbal articulation, becomes..... rehumatic.
> Auditory based humor is lessened.

in a nutshell, it´s harder to express yourself with ease in oral form .


however, as our decorative friend, Yin-Yang says, there is a seed of light on the most abyssmal darkness
meaning that.. there is a workaround.


Principle:


It has been proven over time that reading out loud activates several brain areas leading to an intense brain workout.


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Application:

1- Get ready,
Set up a recording device, grab a piece of interesting literature , something heavily packed with

emotion.

as always variety is good.

2- Get comfortable, place your right hand on your solar plexus
(if your voice projects out properly your hand will vibrate accordingly)

3- Read out loud for 10 minutes, focus on how you sound, hear yourself.

4- stop and listen to the recording. notice where you need to improve.

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Why:

By reading out loud you activate speech areas, increasing articulation of words, voice quality and tone,

expression of emotions and proper breathing, while mantaining your inner silence.

The TAO of the brain

As neuroscience knows nowadays, you must use a specified skill in order to improve the neural network in your brain that handles that task.


it seems simple right?, two steps,

1) design a functional neural network (by modelling or by trial and error it doesn´t matter much) and 2) strenghten the network by repeated use.

"too much of a good thing is not always better"

it all seems too easy, however there are things to be considered in order to get the max out of your practice.



These are:
1) Moderation/Overtraining : As you know your brain needs a downtime in which it rebuilds and improves what you have practiced.

Have you ever been suck in some issue that you could not solve, you left it alone, took a nap perhaps, or did something else and when you came back, *PRESTO* you solved it on the spot.

if you keep on exerting and using a certain circuit on your brain, it will cause, over a period of time, brain fatigue on that specific circuit, which leads to our dear friend STRESS, an enemy of the mind and overall health, as you may know.

"too much of a good thing is not always better"

2) The Protoss Syndrome : The Protoss are an old race in the starcraft universe, a civilization that is very old and heavily set on its ways.

how, this relates to brain practice, you ask? Simple, once you´ve reached a high point on your practice that you´ve mastered something to a degree, you´ve reached what is called a plateau of improvement, at this point practice will have little effect,it is advised that you lessen the LENGTH of your practice gradually , and begin a new practice, by doing this you will allow novel experiences to build new networks while maintaining the old.

when a circuit its set strong on your brain it only needs maintenance, heavy practice is only to install a new circuit or enhance the pattern by lowering firing threshold.


remember that the brain tends to ignore redundant information, and habitual tasks become automated.
you can progress anyway if you keep hammering on a plateau, BUT it will take *MUCH* more time and energy, and you make your mistakes harder to refine if you hammer too much.



so in order to maximize your results, it is recommendable that you cycle your trainings when you have achieved a level and are STUCK there. switch to mainenance mode AND do something else, start a new discipline, THEN when the scenario repeats itself, refocus on your previous training, switch back to practice mode and let the new networks aid you on the task.
you´ll see yourself making steady progress again.

remember Einsteins´ wise words " A problem cannot be solved with the same level of conciousness that arose " .


and by all means, NEVER QUIT ON A PLATEAU!
be sure to go back to your training after you fed up your brain.

Remember to refine and change your practice methods now and then.


Above all,
Remember to keep your balance allways while evolving at the same time.
refresh your mental inventory,
Dinosaurs are bound to be exctinct. and Paleontology proves me right.
Bye for now.