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The Dalai Lama's Recommendations for You

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:38:26 GMT

clipped by: smilesalad
clipper's remarks: Another list to put on the wall

Clip Source: www.progress.org

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

3. Follow the three Rs:

4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

7. When you realise you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

8. Spend some time alone every day.

9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

11. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.

13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.

14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.

15. Be gentle with the earth.

16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.

17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

Tags: advice, life, spiritual, dalai

Kurdish girl stoned to death, filmed on camera phone

Mon, 07 May 2007 02:30:58 GMT

clipped by: kkcapricorn
clipper's remarks: There is only one word for this: EVIL

Clip Source: www.boingboing.net

Du'a Khalil Aswad, a 17-year old Kurd who was being killed for having had a relationship with a Sunni Muslim boy

the girl is seen being ambushed on her way home by a group of up to 1000 men who were waiting for her to return; the men killed her in the most brutal way possible, by throwing large stones on her head. The following clips show that while she is alive and crying for help she is taunted and kicked in her stomach until someone finishes her off by throwing a large stone on her face.

From the clips it appears that the girl was first stripped naked to symbolize that she had dishonored her family and her Yezidi religion. She is lying on the road naked while her smashed face is covered with blood and still breathing.

Tags: murder, violence, stoning, predjudice

11 Ways to Build an Extraordinary Life

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:16:30 GMT

clipped by: wildcat
clipper's remarks: Have a vision for your future...

Clip Source: www.steve-olson.com

How can you build the life you want? The answer to that question is different for each of us. But it’s critical that you answer it, because in the answer you will find purpose and meaning. Many of us look for happiness in things, but happiness doesn’t come from things, it comes from how we relate to ourselves and our world.

Be True to Yourself

Have a Vision for Your Future

Avoid Debt

Save

Continue Your Education

Take Responsibility for Change

Learn from Mistakes -

Build Quality Relationships/Discard Destructive Ones

Love: Look for a partner who is on a similar journey as yours, who has similar goals and values, and build on your relationship by giving your love and encouragement

Friendship: Look for people with similar values, who give as much as they take, with which you can share interests and hobbies.

Do the Right Thing Even When it is Unpopular

Honor Your Commitments - Do not make commitments lightly

Be Charitable

Tags: life, extraordinary

Why kissing means more to women

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:51:17 GMT

clipped by: ekorstanje
clipper's remarks: Boy women are sure complicated

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Why kissing means more to women

If a picture is worth a 1,000 words, so may be a kiss - or certainly to a woman anyway, researchers say.

They use kissing as a way of assessing the recipient as a potential partner, and later to maintain intimacy and to check the status of a relationship.

But men placed less importance on it, using it to increase the likelihood of sex, Evolutionary Psychology reported.

Tags: kissing

Ten Minutes Of Talking Improves Memory And Test Performance

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:33:02 GMT

clipped by: Mohir
clipper's remarks: good excuse to keep on talking

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Ten Minutes Of Talking Improves Memory And Test Performance

ScienceDaily (Nov. 1, 2007) — Spending just 10 minutes talking to another person can help improve your memory and your performance on tests, according to a University of Michigan study to be published in the February 2008 issue of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

"In our study, socializing was just as effective as more traditional kinds of mental exercise in boosting memory and intellectual performance," said Oscar Ybarra, a psychologist at the U-M Institute for Social Research (ISR) and a lead author of the study with ISR psychologist Eugene Burnstein and psychologist Piotr Winkielman from the University of California, San Diego.

In the article, Ybarra, Burnstein and colleagues report on findings from two types of studies they conducted on the relationship between social interactions and mental functioning.

the findings suggest that visiting with a friend or neighbor may be just as helpful in staying sharp

Tags: memory, brain

Dalai Lama’s 18 rules for living

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:14:05 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman
clipper's remarks: # Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.

# Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

# Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

Clip Source: www.owenkelly.net

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.

Follow the three Rs:

Respect for self
Respect for others
Responsibility for all your actions.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

Spend some time alone every day.

Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.

A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.

In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.

Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.

Be gentle with the earth.

20 Reasons to have sex even if you don't feel like it

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:15:34 GMT

clipped by: readmore

Clip Source: libido-pill.com

Studies show that, when things are going well, sex contributes only 15 percent to the overall satisfaction of a relationship. But if things aren’t going well, it contributes 85 percent to the overall dissatisfaction.

Sex has many advantages to both people involved. Here are just a few.

Because you said so

Imagine how the marriage rates would go down if people said, “I’ll marry you, but don’t expect sex.”

Sex helps you forget

Women get an additional benefit. During orgasm that parts of the brain that govern fear, anxiety, and stress are switched off.

Sex rewires you for pleasure

Every time you share a positive experience with your partner, your brain comes to associate him or her with pleasure.

Sex puts the “P” back in partnership

Passion is what separates your relationship with your intimate partner from those with girlfriends and buddies.

Heightened sense of smell

Weight loss

Reduced depression

Pain relief

Healthier heart

Cure for the common cold

Better bladder control

Peppy prostate

Calming effect

Tags: sex, sexual health, marriage, relationships

Instructions for Life

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:23:59 GMT

clipped by: mihla
clipper's remarks: These are good for any millennium!

Clip Source: www.lucidcafe.com

INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIFE
In The New Millennium

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, respect for others, responsibility for all your actions.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

Spend some time alone every day.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.

In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.

Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.

Be gentle with the earth.

Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

Tags: life, rules, instructions

Lonely? Your immune system is in overdrive.

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:06:43 GMT

clipped by: pokkets

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Maggie Fox

Lonely people's immune systems go haywire, so no wonder they are more likely to get sick and die young, researchers say.

They used a gene chip to look at the DNA of isolated people and found that people who describe themselves as chronically lonely have distinct patterns of genetic activity, almost all of it involving the immune system.

The study does not show which came first: the loneliness or the physical traits.

"What this study shows is that the biological impact of social isolation reaches down into some of our most basic internal processes: the activity of our genes," Cole says.

"We have known for years that there is this epidemiological relationship between social support - how many friends and family members you have around you - and a whole bunch of physical outcomes."

Some 200 genes controlling lonely people's immune systems seemed to be active

All 22,000 human genes were studied and compared, and 209 stood out in the loneliest people.

Tags: lonliness.depression, gene, human, immune, system, people

United States of Jesus

Fri, 18 May 2007 22:33:17 GMT

clipped by: laceym
clipper's remarks: A few words about America's relationship with God.

Clip Source: youtube.com

[Video]

Tags: religion, politics, america, usa, jesus, god

How to be happy

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:43:49 GMT

clipped by: smilesalad

Clip Source: www.ehow.com

How to Be Happy

STEP 1: Figure out what is important to you in life. For example: Do you value a certain kind of job, material things, a relationship, time alone, time with others, time to relax, time to be creative, time to read, time to listen to music, time to have fun? These are just a few of the possibilities.
STEP 2: Think about times when you have felt happy, good or content. Where were you? Who were you with? What were you doing, thinking or feeling that made you feel happy?
STEP 3: Decide to make more time in your life to do more of what is important to you and makes you feel happier. To be happy, you have to make happiness a priority in your life.
STEP 4: Start with little things and work up to bigger ones. Little things might be reading for 15 minutes; taking a walk; calling a friend; or buying great-smelling soap, shampoo, candles or tea that you will enjoy every time you use it.
STEP 5: Focus on what is positive about yourself, others and life in general instead of dwelling on the negative. In a journal, write down as many positive things as you can think of. Keep it handy to read over, and continue adding to it.
STEP 6: Appreciate what is working in your life right now. In the major areas of your life, such as your health, job, love life, friends, family, money and living situation, what is going well?

Tags: life, happiness

children lost the right to roam in 4 generations

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:53:46 GMT

clipped by: jatfla
clipper's remarks: The article reflects our changing habits and our relationship with our environment. I agree completely about the necessity of outdoors, nature, plants, our good ol' earth. Ever been fishing? To a quiet golf course? A hike? How does it rejuvenate you? I am working on making my backyard a kind of restful, naturalist place for me to go and be refreshed.

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

How children lost the right to roam in four generations

The report's author, Dr William Bird, the health adviser to Natural England and the organiser of a conference on nature and health on Monday, believes children's long-term mental health is at risk.

He has compiled evidence that people are healthier and better adjusted if they get out into the countryside, parks or gardens.

Stress levels fall within minutes of seeing green spaces, he says. Even filling a home with flowers and plants can improve concentration and lower stress.

"If children haven't had contact with nature, they never develop a relationship with natural environment and they are unable to use it to cope with stress," he said.

"Studies have shown that people deprived of contact with nature were at greater risk of depression and anxiety. Children are getting less and less unsupervised time in the natural environment.

Tags: culture, environment

Adults 'scared to approach children'

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:03:52 GMT

clipped by: arifsali

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Adults are afraid to interact with other people's children because they fear being labelled a paedophile, according to a report published today by the thinktank Civitas.

The report, Licensed To Hug, calls for regulation and vetting to be relaxed because the "dramatic escalation of child protection measures has succeeded in poisoning the relationship between the generations".

In the past, the report says, adults would have routinely helped children in distress or rebuked those who were misbehaving but now think twice about the consequences. Instead, there was now "an atmosphere of mistrust".

Tags: children, adults

Under the Deep Blue - Spectacular !

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:32:06 GMT

clipped by: einbar
clipper's remarks: 36 Colorful Corals

Clip Source: www.colourlovers.com

Recent research has revealed some interesting facts about how coral and their symbiotic partners the plankton:

Corals are fascinating animals that form the largest biological constructions in the world, sprawling coral reefs that cover less than 0.2 % of the seafloor yet provide habitats for more than 30% of marine life. In shallow waters that don’t have abundant food, corals have developed a close relationship with small photosynthetic critters called dinoflagellates.

the colors of the real organism range across the spectrum giving bright contrast to the blue ocean waters.

The dinoflagellates use sunlight to produce energy for the coral, which in turn use that energy to construct mineralized skeletons for protection. The mineral production, known as coral calcification, is closely tied with the day/night cycle, though the molecular mechanism behind this synchronization is mysterious.
- Science Daily

Your Bi-Lingual Kitty

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:43:54 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: "It’s kind of nice to think your kitty has gone to the effort to learn a second language to communicate with you. Sure, she did it mostly out of necessity, but also out of affection. She wouldn’t meow just for your attention if she didn’t enjoy a relationship with you."

Clip Source: www.petcentric.com

Your Bi-Lingual Kitty

Adult cats, living apart from humans, have very clear communication with one another. It is spoken mostly through scent, then through facial expression, complex body language, and touch.

Meowing is not part of this language. Meow-ese, it would seem, is a language developed exclusively for humans.

The only meowing in the cat world is done between mom cat and her young kittens.

So why do cats have two “languages?” Because meowing is unnecessary in a cat’s world. But in your world, your pet cat is dependent on you, and quickly learns that you are clearly not picking up the scent messages she leaves on your things, and you are not completely fluent in cat body language.

“meow” however gets you to do what she wants

cats have refined their meows specifically to manipulate people.

You may find that the meows that tug at your heartstrings the most are the ones your cat is using

Meow-ese seems to be generally understood by “cat people.”

We have to admit it works.

Tags: language, meow-ese, cats, communication

Clipmarks | 4freedomstantra's 'relationship' clips

The Dalai Lama's Recommendations for You

Kurdish girl stoned to death, filmed on camera phone

11 Ways to Build an Extraordinary Life

Why kissing means more to women

Ten Minutes Of Talking Improves Memory And Test Performance

Ten Minutes Of Talking Improves Memory And Test Performance

Dalai Lama’s 18 rules for living

20 Reasons to have sex even if you don't feel like it

Instructions for Life

INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIFEIn The New Millennium

Lonely? Your immune system is in overdrive.

United States of Jesus

How to be happy

How to Be Happy

children lost the right to roam in 4 generations

How children lost the right to roam in four generations

Adults 'scared to approach children'

Under the Deep Blue - Spectacular !

Your Bi-Lingual Kitty

INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIFE
In The New Millennium