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Ten Habits of Emotionally Intelligent People

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:37:49 GMT

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The Ten Habits of Emotionally Intelligent People
Copyright 1999 Steve Hein, The EQ Institute - May be copied for educational uses.

High EQ people:

1. Label their feelings, rather than labeling people or situations.	"I feel impatient." vs "This is ridiculous." "I feel hurt and bitter". vs. "You are an insensitive jerk." "I feel afraid." vs. "You are driving like a idiot."
2. Distinguish between thoughts and feelings.	Thoughts: I feel like...& I feel as if.... & I feel that Feelings: I feel: (feeling word)
3. Take responsibility for their feelings.	"I feel jealous." vs. "You are making me jealous."
4. Use their feelings to help them make decisions.	"How will I feel if I do this?" "How will I feel if I don't"
5. Show respect for other people's feelings.	They ask "How will you feel if I do this?" "How will you feel if I don't."
6. Feel energized, not angry.	They use what others call "anger" to help them feel energized to take productive action.
7. Validate other people's feelings.	They show empathy, understanding, and acceptance of other people's feelings.
8. Practice getting a positive value from their negative emotions.	They ask themselves: "How do I feel?" and "What would help me feel better?" They ask others "How do you feel?" and "What would help you feel better?"
9. Don't advise, command, control, criticize, judge or lecture to others.	They realize it doesn't feel good to be on the receiving end of such behavior, so they avoid it.
10. Avoid people who invalidate them, or don't respect their feelings.	As much as possible, they choose to associate only with other people with high EQ.

Tags: eq, emotional intelligence

Top 10 Foods to help you Sleep!

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:32:35 GMT

clipped by: Eaglewings
clipper's remarks: Would you like fries with that?

Clip Source: food.yahoo.com

What is the secret to getting a solid 7 to 8 hours of sleep? Head for the kitchen and enjoy one or two of these 10 foods. They relax tense muscles, quiet buzzing minds, and/or get calming, sleep-inducing hormones - serotonin and melatonin - flowing. Yawning yet?

Bananas. They're practically a sleeping pill in a peel. In addition to a bit of soothing melatonin and serotonin, bananas contain magnesium, a muscle relaxant.

Chamomile tea. The reason chamomile is such a staple of bedtime tea blends is its mild sedating effect - it's the perfect natural antidote for restless minds/bodies.

Warm milk. It's not a myth. Milk has some tryptophan - an amino acid that has a sedative - like effect - and calcium, which helps the brain use tryptophan. Plus there's the psychological throw-back to infancy, when a warm bottle meant "relax, everything's fine."

Honey. Drizzle a little in your warm milk or herb tea. Lots of sugar is stimulating, but a little glucose tells your brain to turn off orexin, a recently discovered neurotransmitter that's linked to alertness.

Potatoes. A small baked spud won't overwhelm your GI tract, and it clears away acids that can interfere with yawn-inducing tryptophan. To up the soothing effects, mash it with warm milk.

Oatmeal. Oats are a rich source of sleep - inviting melatonin, and a small bowl of warm cereal with a splash of maple syrup is cozy - plus if you've got the munchies, it's filling too.

Almonds. A handful of these heart-healthy nuts can be snooze-inducing, as they contain both tryptophan and a nice dose of muscle-relaxing magnesium.

Flaxseeds. When life goes awry and feeling down is keeping you up, try sprinkling 2 tablespoons of these healthy little seeds on your bedtime oatmeal. They're rich in omega-3 fatty acids, a natural mood lifter.

Whole-wheat bread. A slice of toast with your tea and honey will release insulin, which helps tryptophan get to your brain, where it's converted to serotonin and quietly murmurs "time to sleep."

Turkey.

Tags: sleep, diet, food, science

PIMPIN OUR DAUGHTERS

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:23:24 GMT

clipped by: Eaglewings
clipper's remarks: In the words of Hillary Clinton ' It takes a village' why does it take scientific studies and polls to make us aware of what is going on in our own families and culture? I mean does it really require society to tell us what is wrong with our families? DADS must someone else tell you what is appropriate behavior for your sons and daughters?

As long as there is pop culture and idols are made of television stars our young people will be tempted to look like what they see on TV and in the movies. Perhaps a return to decency and a little old fashion modesty is in order?

Clip Source: www.townhall.com

The American Psychological Association has discovered that too early sexualization of children, particularly girls, is damaging. How about that? Because I have well-developed views on this subject, I almost didn't read the long article about it in the Health section of The Washington Post this week. But I'm glad I did because just when you think you're up to date on cultural decline, you are surprised.

Here is reporter Stacy Weiner on the state of preteen fashion: "Ten-year-old girls can slide their low cut jeans over 'eye-candy' panties. French maid costumes, garter belt included, are available in preteen sizes. . . . And it's not unusual for girls under 12 to sing, 'Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?'" As Nora Ephron memorably put it in another context, "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up."

The Post article and the APA report focus on the increasing rates of eating disorders, depression and low self-esteem among younger and younger girls. Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., for example, is now seeing patients as young as 6 with eating disorders. Girls are worrying about their weight and expressing dissatisfaction with their bodies at younger ages.

Tags: sex, modesty, pop culture, attire, feminism, adolesence, puberty

The Great Global Warming Swindle

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:08:21 GMT

clipped by: Eaglewings

Clip Source: www.foxnews.com

Last week, the UK’s Channel 4 premiered a 75-minute film entitled, “The Great Global Warming Swindle.” Through interviews with prize-winning climate experts and others, this masterful documentary explains the origins of global warming alarmism; debunks claims of man-made global climate change; exposes the motivations of organizations, scientists and activists sounding the alarm; and explains why it’s been extremely difficult, if not downright dangerous, for climate scientists to question global warming orthodoxy publicly.

The entire film, which is creating quite a stir among tens of thousands of web viewers, can be viewed online at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4520665474899458831.

Tags: global warming, environment, al gore

The 7 habits of highly effective propagandists

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:17:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: citing a qualified source is a good way to emphasize a legitimate idea. But you should consider whether or not the source being cited is really qualified to make judgments about a particular issue.

5. PLAIN FOLKS

The “Plain Folks” technique is at work whenever a speaker promotes the idea that he or she is “of the people,” just an Average Joe despite the fact that he or she may go home to a mansion at the end of the day.

6. CARD STACKING

“Stacking the deck” is a gimmick used by magicians where a deck of cards appears to be randomly shuffled but is in fact arranged in a specific way. The IPA borrowed the term to describe a technique where only one side of a topic is favored, or another side is ignored or played down.

7. BANDWAGON

The idea behind the Bandwagon technique is that, since everyone else is doing it, so too should you.

Clip Source: www.ironicsans.com

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Propagandists

1. GLITTERING GENERALITIES

The IPA used this term to describe virtuous words that mean different things to different people, but are used in such a general way that you can project your own meaning into the speaker’s words. So when people talk about freedom, strength, Democracy, or patriotism, you are likely to assume they think of those words the same way you do.

2. NAME CALLING

“Name calling” is a technique where someone uses words to link a person or proposal to a negative or emotionally charged symbol. The idea is to get you to reject the person due to the association with the symbol rather than actual evidence, which may or may not be there.

3. TRANSFER

There are institutions and objects that you have positive associations with, so politicians try to appear with symbols of those institutions in the hopes that you will transfer your positive associations onto them.

flags

cross

4. TESTIMONIAL

The IPA pointed out that sometimes

Tags: propaganda, politics, critical thinking

Thomas Jefferson's Warning

Wed, 07 May 2008 21:44:24 GMT

clipped by: willhelm
clipper's remarks: "As this power passes from each individual to a central governing power, individual freedom and liberty is snuffed out, replaced with an arbitrary economic equality as defined, confiscated via progressive taxation and redistributed by those who seek the political power to rule over the lives of others."

Serfdom

Clip Source: therant.us

Jefferson warned, “I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”

Yet by 2008, our government has perfected the art of wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

As American soldiers die to guarantee others around the world, the right to individual self-determination, average Americans back home are trading their individual right of self-determination for an alleged greater good, the right to the earnings of others, in the name of economic equality.

Americans are passing their individual powers to define and pursue individual economic conditions to the state, the federal bureaucracy, under the guise of a greater communal good, whereby the state becomes the central arbiter of individual worth.

Why President Bush is a Hero

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:40:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Oh my gosh!....the man speaks for me much better than I could ever speak.

Clip Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

Why President Bush is a Hero

President George W. Bush, vilified by many, supported by some, is a hero to me.

Why do I say that? It's not because I agree with the President's domestic agenda. It's not because I think he's done a perfect job in the White House.

George Bush is a hero to me because he has courage. The President does what he believes to be in the best interest of the United States. He sticks with his beliefs, no matter how intense the criticism and invective that are directed against him every day.

Our major ally in this war against the forces of darkness, Great Britain, is still being led by an outstanding prime minister, Tony Blair. However, Blair will soon be set out to pasture, which means Great Britain will leave our side and join France, Germany, Spain and other countries that foolishly believe they can tame the wolf at the door and convert it into a domestic pet that will live in peace with them.

These dreamers naively believe that if we feed the wolves what they demand, they will go away. But that won’t happen. Appeasement never works. The wolves always come back for more and more, and when we have nothing left to give, they come for us.

Tags: politics, war on terror

Inspiring Quotations

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:29:13 GMT

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Clip Source: www.worldofinspiration.com

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

George S. Patton

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”

James Crook

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

Warren G. Bennis

“If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.”

Thomas Fuller

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”

Rosalynn Carter

“A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.”

David Gergen

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.”

Sam Walton

“The real leader has no need to lead--he is content to point the way.”

Henry Miller

Tags: quotes, inspiration

33 things you never knew had names

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:00:41 GMT

clipped by: Eaglewings
clipper's remarks: Just some randomness I found interesting

Clip Source: www.canongate.net

33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names

AGLET - The plain or ornamental covering on the end of a shoelace.

ARMSAYE - The armhole in clothing.

CHANKING - Spat-out food, such as rinds or pits.

COLUMELLA NASI - The bottom part of the nose between the nostrils.

DRAGÉES - Small beadlike pieces of candy, usually silver-coloured, used for decorating cookies, cakes and sundaes.

FEAT - A dangling curl of hair.

FERRULE - The metal band on a pencil that holds the eraser in place.

HARP - The small metal hoop that supports a lampshade.

HEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER - A 64th note. (A 32nd is a demisemiquaver, and a 16th note is a semiquaver.)

KEEPER - The loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed through the buckle.

KICK or PUNT - The indentation at the bottom of some wine bottles. It gives added strength to the bottle but lessens its holding capacity.

LIRIPIPE - The long tail on a graduate's academic hood.

MINIMUS - The little finger or toe.

NEF - An ornamental stand in the shape of a ship.

OBDORMITION - The numbness caused by pressure on a nerve; when a limb is `asleep'.

OCTOTHORPE - The symbol `#' on a telephone handset. Bell Labs' engineer Don Macpherson created the word in the 1960s by combining octo-, as in eight, with the name of one of his favourite athletes, 1912 Olympic decathlon champion Jim Thorpe.

RASCETA - Creases on the inside of the wrist.

ROWEL - The revolving star on the back of a cowboy's spurs.

SADDLE - The rounded part on the top of a matchbook.

SCROOP - The rustle of silk.

SNORKEL BOX - A mailbox with a protruding receiver to allow people to deposit mail without leaving their cars.

SPRAINTS - Otter dung.

TANG - The projecting prong on a tool or instrument.

WAMBLE - Stomach rumbling.

ZARF - A holder for a handleless coffee cup.

Tags: silly names, language, vocabulary

The American People are the Problem

Wed, 07 May 2008 22:07:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: There is no doubt that when a first term senator, without a credible achievement, who proved himself incompetent at the mere act of casting a vote as a State Senator, who is the most Leftist member of the Senate and all of Congress, who talks about sacrifice while giving 1% of his windfall salary to charity, who will not talk about his record, agenda, or be "distracted" by questions of his intended policies, who has befriended a terrorist and racist preacher, who has a wife that says there is a "veil of impossibility" in America ( She went to Yale, remember), who is an adherent of Black Lib (marxist) Theology, who never worked in Business or Industry, never managed a company, and never served his country. A man who whips his naive supporters up using tactics, imagery, and organic unity not seen since the early 1930's. The American People are in fact the problem when this is the man that one of the major parties in the US seems to believe is fit to be President of the U.S.

Clip Source: therant.us

In a national epidemic of individual irresponsibility, it has become a national pastime to accuse politicians of destroying America, but it is the American people who are the real problem.

When the American vote was not for sale, it could not be purchased at any price. When most Americans were real patriots, “a person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion” – they were not so easily fooled by promises of free benefits (paid for by others) and snake oil salesmen promising dancing sugar plums from the campaign stage.

Politicians are nothing more than a manifestation of the perceived will of the people. Politicians pander. Most politicians don’t care what they have to promise to purchase your vote, so long as your vote is for sale.

Secularists Fear Bible Toters Over Suicide Bombers

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:17:14 GMT

clipped by: Eaglewings

Clip Source: www.townhall.com

Man, don’t cha love how mainstream media and their soft-brain disciples make Christians out to be fish-stickered, bug-eyed equals to incensed Islam? If you were to accept as true what some atheists, secularists and prattling gay activists say about Christians, you’d think the church is chomping at the bit to chop off some heads of unbelievers, glory to Gawd!

Yep, if you were to believe the barf belched out by the BS brokers on the Left, you’d stagger away Kool Aid drunk with the belief that there is little disparity between conservative Christians and militant Muslims.

Yes, the postmodern reality stylists are working their butts off trying to convince us TV-addled cattle of two primary things: 1) violent jihad is not based on the Koran and 2) All conservative Christians are theocrats ready to burn Sully Erna at the stake, stone Jay Alexander in a nearby gravel pit and governmentally ramrod Christianity down everyone’s pie hole.

Tags: islam, christianity, terroirism, secularism, atheism

Global Warming a New Religion?

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:03:26 GMT

clipped by: Eaglewings

Clip Source: www.americanthinker.com

A man who ceases to believe in God does not believe in nothing; he believes in anything.
- G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

The apocalyptic vision of global warming serves a deep need of the environmentalist credo, the dominant pseudo-religious tendency of our age in the prosperous West.

For good or ill, human beings are constructed to believe, and faith has its demands.. Along with the concrete elements that demand belief (that fire burns and that it's not wise to walk off cliffs, for example) there exists an apparent necessity for a belief in "the rock higher than I" - a belief in a superior entity that can inspire awe and gratitude, that can be turned to in hard times, that can act as witness to injustice and dispenser of mercy.

In fact, the apocalyptic is the major fulcrum of environmentalism, the axis around which everything else turns. It's environmentalism's major element of concern, its chief attraction, and the center of discussion and speculation, in much the same way that some Protestant variants of Christianity are obsessed above all with sin. So crucial is the apocalypse to environmentalism that there has been a whole string of them, one after the other, covering every last aspect of the natural world. If one don't git ya, the next one will.

The lessons of previous environmental panics have been carefully applied to global warming No other environmentalist program has been prepared with such detail, purpose, and conviction. A skilled cadre of scientists, activists, and publicists exist who have devoted entire careers to nothing else. A vast literature has appeared analyzing not climate as a whole, not the interactions of the entire system, but solely and uniquely global warming. In many ways, warming has become both more and less than an ideology: it has become an industry, one that with such financial elements as carbon offsets can easily support itself.

Tags: global warming, environment, environmentalism, darwinism, evolution, religion, atheism

ACLU trying to control public prayer

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:23:38 GMT

clipped by: Eaglewings
clipper's remarks: I thought the ACLU sought to protect people from the overreaching government and discrimination against religion, race, or creed. I guess I was mistaken.

The mission statement of the ACLU states:

The mission of the ACLU is to preserve all of these protections and guarantees:

Your First Amendment rights - freedom of speech, association and assembly; freedom of the press, and freedom of religion.

I wonder what changed?

Clip Source: www.onenewsnow.com

The American Civil Liberties Union is asking the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to tell private citizens how and what they can pray before meetings of the Cobb County, Georgia, Board of Commissioners.

The ACLU actually suggested to the court that Cobb County officials be ordered to send letters to invited clergy telling them "not to invoke religious messages" in their opening prayers and the commissioners' meetings.

This is religious bigotry; it's anti-free speech; it's everything that they're supposed to be against. The idea that the ACLU would want the government to tell people how they should or should not pray is outrageous."

the fact that the ACLU is trying to use the power of the government to tell people how to pray is just an incredible invasion of freedom, and [it] shows that they are not about freedom and liberty at all. They're about oppression and trying to stamp out religious speech."

Tags: aclu, government, prayer, free speech, religion

Dark Chocolate Good for High Blood Pressure Study Shows

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:04:36 GMT

clipped by: Eaglewings
clipper's remarks: Another good reason to break out the chocolate covered cherries. Dark Chocolate and fruit what more could you ask for?

Clip Source: www.newslocale.org

Foods like dark chocolate, which contain plenty of cocoa, may potentially reduce high blood pressure by acting in a manner similar to many blood pressure-lowering drugs, according to an analysis of previous studies by German researchers.

Researchers from the University Hospital of Cologne examined data of five cocoa studies and five tea studies and concluded that dark chocolate and other cocoa-rich foods acted to reduce high blood pressure better than tea.

Dark chocolate contains a high amount of cocoa and is also rich in elements called flavonoids. These compounds are known to reduce cholesterol levels in blood vessels. Flavonoids are also found in tea, red wine and some fruits and vegetables.

Flavonoids also slow the grouping of "bad" LDL cholesterol besides rendering blood platelets less likely to clump and cause clots.

Current guidelines for people with high blood pressure advise a diet rich in fruits and vegetables.

Tags: chocolate, health

Explorers Find Noah's Ark?

Sun, 02 Jul 2006 00:09:24 GMT

clipped by: Eaglewings

Clip Source: www.cbn.com

A group of explorers, funded by the BASE institute - a company that searches for biblical artifacts - thinks they may have found the famous ark in Iran's Elburz Mountain range.

Researchers have believed for years that it rested on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey.

But after studying the biblical account, Dr. Robert Cornuke, the team's leader, concluded that the ark wouldn't be located in Turkey. The reason, he says, is that in biblical times, Ararat was situated in the region that is northern Iran today.

So the men travelled there.

Arch Bonnema, a Dallas businessman on the Iran expedition, said, "We had archaeologists, we had geologists, we had scientists, we had biblical historians..."

After a seven-hour climb to over 13,000 feet above sea level, they found a 400-foot-long object that clearly resembles a ship; one similar in size and scale to the biblical account.

Researchers from labs in Texas and Florida are testing samples from the petrified wood.

The institute hopes that the new evidence will finally provide an answer to the age-old biblical mystery.

"Jesus said in the New Testament…that people will not believe the story of Noah,” said Bonnema. “So it's okay if they don't. It's a personal thing. I just personally believe we found it."

CBN.com – (CBN News) - In the past century, more than 1,000 scientists have attempted to locate Noah's Ark. Now, a group of Texans think they may have found it, but it's not where researchers always thought it would be.

Explorers Say They’ve Found Noah’s Ark

By Darla Sitton
CBN News

Noah's Ark

Tags: noah, ark, archeology, history

Clipmarks | Eaglewings's clips

Ten Habits of Emotionally Intelligent People

Top 10 Foods to help you Sleep!

PIMPIN OUR DAUGHTERS

The Great Global Warming Swindle

The 7 habits of highly effective propagandists

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Propagandists

Thomas Jefferson's Warning

Why President Bush is a Hero

Why President Bush is a Hero

Inspiring Quotations

33 things you never knew had names

33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names

The American People are the Problem

Secularists Fear Bible Toters Over Suicide Bombers

Global Warming a New Religion?

ACLU trying to control public prayer

Dark Chocolate Good for High Blood Pressure Study Shows

Explorers Find Noah's Ark?

By Darla Sitton CBN News

Noah's Ark

By Darla Sitton
CBN News