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Throw Away Your Glasses! Thousands Of People Improved Their Vision With This Method

Throw Away Your Glasses! Thousands Of People Improved Their Vision With This Method

Insufficient muscle activity weakens muscles additionally. Here is a good example for this condition.
If you break your leg and you need a wheelchair until your fracture heals the muscles on your leg remain inactive for a while, which means they get weaker. That is exactly what happens to the muscles that surround your eye lenses.
Wearing glasses requires doing certain eye exercises, otherwise your condition may get even worse. Eye muscles need as much exercise as any other muscle in the human body.
The following guidelines will help you learn more about the function of your eyes, and you will also be able to improve your vision.
  1. Give your eyes a nice rest every 2-3 hours and avoid any additional pressure
  2. Eye gymnastics is an amazing thing – do 16 simple exercises and improve your vision for good. All you have to do is follow the lines on the picture below with your eyes (see picture)
  3. Put your eye glasses away
  4. Massage these points every day (see picture)
  5. Apply a mild pressure on your eyeballs. Use the fingertips of your index and middle finger. Be careful, you should not feel any pain at all. Press these points using your index finger. Repeat.
  6. Look far away when walking. Enjoy nature.
  7. Drink some carrot juice every day. Add a few drops of olive oil to enrich its effect.
  8. Always rinse your eyes with lukewarm water.
  9. Avoid working on your computer for at least two hours before you go to bed.
  10. Do Trataka, an Indian technique that involves staring at an external object. This will help you improve your vision. Fixed gazing is a sort of meditation. You should concentrate on a certain point, like a small object, a dot, or even a candle flame. Focusing will strengthen your eyes and stimulate your third eye.
If you are doing this activity for the first time, try focusing on a certain item and stare at it for a while, pay attention to each thought and watch it rise.
Your mind will absorb with the symbol completely. Your eyes will water, which means they are closed and relaxed. The main purpose of this exercise is to endure as much as possible before your eyes start watering.

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Happy Birth of the Twin Manifestations to my Baha’i friends!

  By Barbara Talley

Happy Birth of Bahá’u’lláh and the Bab to all my Bahai Friends.
For my friends of other faiths, here are a few facts for your edification that Bahá’u’lláh brought to advance humanity. Many of these teachings are part of our consciousness now, but when proclaimed in the mid 1800s, they were revolutionary and the cause of his imprisonment, banishment, and 40 years of exile.

1. Bahá’u’lláh taught that hearts must receive the Bounty of the Holy Spirit, so that Spiritual civilization may be established. For material civilization is not adequate for the needs of mankind and cannot be the cause of its happiness. Material civilization is like the body and spiritual civilization is like the soul. Body without soul cannot live.

2. The unity of mankind. All are the servants of One God and members of one human family. There is only one human race.

3. Religion must be the source of fellowship, the cause of unity and the nearness of God to man.

4. All Prejudices, whether religious, racial, patriotic or political are destructive to the foundations of human development.

5. Equality of men and women. Man and woman both should be educated equally and equally regarded.

6. One Universal language.

7. One unfolding religion. The Reality of the divine Religions is one, because the Reality is one and cannot be two. All the prophets are united in their message, and unshaken. They are like the sun; in different seasons they ascend from different rising points on the horizon.

8. Religion and Science are inter-twined with each other and cannot be separated. Every religion which does not concern itself with Science is mere tradition, and that is not the essential.

9. Elimination of extremes of wealth and poverty. The arrangements of the circumstances of the people must be such that poverty shall disappear, and that every one as far as possible, according to his position and rank, shall be comfortable.

10. Individual investigation of reality. Man must seek the reality himself, forsaking imitations and adherence to mere hereditary forms.

Thank you  Barbara Talley

“Are there heaters in Heaven?”

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Clare Bowen

Wanna know why I cut it all off?

When I was four years old, I asked my mother; “Are there heaters in Heaven?”

I had just been diagnosed with end stage nephroblastoma, after several visits to a GP who denied anything was wrong and dubbed my parents “paranoid.” I’d overheard the doctors telling my family that the only hope of saving me, was an experimental treatment that might kill me anyway. But without it I had maybe two weeks left. The hospital was cold. I’d never felt air conditioning before.

Life in the White Palace (Granddad’s nickname for hospital) meant I got to grow up surrounded by children just like me. We were mostly bald, all tubed, taped, bandaged up and stitched back together. We were all missing parts, some obvious like eyes or legs, others more hidden, like lungs and kidneys. Those who still could, tip-toed around like little fairies because chemotherapy had destroyed the muscles in our legs and it hurt to put our heels on the floor. But we were all together, so no one’s appearance came into question. No one got laughed at or teased. We were all we knew.

And then I got really lucky. I survived, my hair grew back and I got strong again. I look relatively normal on the outside, but on the inside, I am still the same stitched back together little creature, in a world where people are judged so harshly for the way they look. It has always been completely incomprehensible to me. How can people think there’s time for that?

I was really inspired when I heard a story about a little girl who said she couldn’t be a princess because she didn’t have long hair, and I wanted her, and others like her to know that’s not what makes a princess, or a warrior, or a superhero. It’s not what makes you beautiful either. It’s your insides that count… even if you happen to be missing half of them.

Every scar tells a story, every baldhead, every dark circle, every prosthetic limb, and every reflection in a mirror that you might not recognize anymore. Look deeper than skin, hair, nails, and lips. You are who you are in your bones. That is where you have the potential to shine the brightest from. It is where your true beautiful self lives.

Thank you ABC network and particularly our creator, Callie Khouri for letting me change Scarlett’s hair, and my team, family and friends for helping me make the decision. If it makes even one person think twice about judging another, then in some small way, the world is better.
Self-esteem takes a lot longer to grow back than hair.

Photo credit – Joseph Llanes Photography

Rainn Reconsiders God, and Vice-Versa

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Rainn Reconsiders God, and Vice-Versa

Rainn Wilson  •  

[This excerpt from Rainn Wilson’s new book The Bassoon King begins when Rainn, after a long, drug- and alcohol-fueled hiatus from his Faith and God, decides to re-consider.]

I then dipped back into the faith of my childhood. I read most of the Baha’i books that I had skipped or neglected as a young’n.

I started with The Dawn- Breakers, the history of the earliest Baha’is (called Babis at the time), who had been slaughtered by the thousands in countless grotesque ways by the Persian government and the Muslim authorities in mid-nineteenth-century Iran. My heart was drawn in by the tales of the heroic sacrifices of those early believers. It gave me a context for the historic rise of the young religion. I read the principal works of Baha’u’llah, the prophet founder of the Faith: The Book of Certitude, the Gleanings, the Hidden Words, the Seven Valleys, The Epistle to the Son of the Wolf. I read his son Abdu’l-Baha’s writings and talks contained in Some Answered Questions and Paris Talks… The list goes on.

alcoholicSuffice it to say I eventually quit the booze and came to RE-believe in the faith of my family and my childhood. It made the most sense to me. It seemed like the most advanced, evolved, and applicable of the world religions. Baha’u’llah’s plan, both mystical and practical, for the spiritual healing of humanity, for increasing the bonds of love and unity on our planet, resonated deeply within me and I felt newly inspired. I was finally ready. As Kahlil Gibran famously wrote, “Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.” My heart had the knowledge it needed to make the leap into the mysterious ocean of faith.

In re-exploring the beliefs of my childhood I came upon a central tenet that I had not explored before. One of the principal teachings of the Baha’i Faith is THE INDIVIDUAL INVESTIGATION OF TRUTH. That is to say, it is the OBLIGATION of every human being to find the truth for themselves. This is not a suggestion; it’s mandatory on our life’s journey. But so liberating! We not only should not simply take on the truth from our parents or our families, but we should also not inherit the truth from our surrounding culture and media.

We get inundated with so many messages about belief, about what is true and what is not, from both our families and our culture, and it’s crucial that every single one of us come to our own well-excavated understanding. That’s not to say we might not eventually share the same beliefs as our parents or the prevailing culture, but as Thoreau and Socrates (and all the great spiritual teachers) implore: “The unexamined life is not worth living.”

Looking back on those years I realized that the individual investigation of truth is exactly what I had undertaken in my own way. By discarding the faith of my parents and diving into the religion of art and the theater, I was finding my own peculiar path. By getting lost in “self” and unhappiness and then going on a spiritual search, I had been fulfilling my personal obligation to find the truth for myself.

(Fortunately for me, I came out of my misadventures with drugs and alcohol with my life, health, and soul pretty much intact. I know many who didn’t. It’s not harmless. I’ve lost many friends to that way of life. Some have died. Some have simply fried their hard drives for the rest of time or live in a perpetual chemical fog. I’m betting not one of them would say, “It was worth it.”)

The other thing about my faith that I discovered is that the dichotomy I was experiencing around art and faith wasn’t a dichotomy at all. In the Baha’i Faith there were many writings I uncovered that connected the arts with the divine or spiritual. As I explored, I unearthed a quote that blew my mind:

I rejoice to hear that thou takest pains with thine art, for in this wonderful new age, art is worship. The more thou strivest to perfect it, the closer wilt thou come to God. What bestowal could be greater than this, that one’s art should be even as the act of worshipping the Lord? That is to say, when thy fingers grasp the paint brush, it is as if thou wert at prayer in the Temple. – Abdu’l-Baha, from a tablet to an individual Baha’i.

Remarkable. For the head of a religion with tens or hundreds of thousands of adherents at the turn of the century to say, in essence, that art is the same as worship was, again, truly revolutionary. And to me, in my search, the most inspiring thing I could hear.

The way I see it, when you create something you are emulating THE CREATOR. God has many titles in the many faith traditions, and one of them is “the Fashioner.” There used to be nothing and then there was the universe. God made it in his spare time, I suppose. LikeMinecraft.

(This excerpt comes from The Bassoon King, the new memoir by Rainn Wilson, published this week by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © 2015. Reprinted by permission.)

Physicists Claim that Consciousness Lives in Quantum State After Death

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Physicists Claim that Consciousness Lives in Quantum State After Death

Janey Tracey

Tuesday, 17 June 2014 

Does quantum mechanics predict the existence of a spiritual “soul”? Testimonials from prominent physics researchers from institutions such as Cambridge University, Princeton University, and the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich claim that quantum mechanics predicts some version of “life after death.” They assert that a person may possess a body-soul duality that is an extension of the wave-particle duality of subatomic particles.

 

Wave-particle duality, a fundamental concept of quantum mechanics, proposes that elementary particles, such as photons and electrons, possess the properties of both particles and waves. These physicists claim that they can possibly extend this theory to the soul-body dichotomy. If there is a quantum code for all things, living and dead, then there is an existence after death (speaking in purely physical terms). Dr. Hans-Peter Dürr, former head of the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, posits that, just as a particle “writes” all of its information on its wave function, the brain is the tangible “floppy disk” on which we save our data, and this data is then “uploaded” into the spiritual quantum field. Continuing with this analogy, when we die the body, or the physical disk, is gone, but our consciousness, or the data on the computer, lives on.

 

“What we consider the here and now, this world, it is actually just the material level that is comprehensible. The beyond is an infinite reality that is much bigger. Which this world is rooted in. In this way, our lives in this plane of existence are encompassed, surrounded, by the afterworld already… The body dies but the spiritual quantum field continues. In this way, I am immortal,” says Dürr.

 

Dr. Christian Hellwig of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, found evidence that information in our central nervous system is phase encoded, a type of coding that allows multiple pieces of data to occupy the same time. He said, “Our thoughts, our will, our consciousness and our feelings show properties that could be referred to as spiritual properties…No direct interaction with the known fundamental forces of natural science, such as gravitation, electromagnetic forces, etc. can be detected in the spiritual. On the other hand, however, these spiritual properties correspond exactly to the characteristics that distinguish the extremely puzzling and wondrous phenomena in the quantum world.”

 

Physicist Professor Robert Jahn of Princeton University concluded that if consciousness can exchange information in both directions with the physical environment, then it can be attributed with the same “molecular binding potential” as physical objects, meaning that it must also follow the tenets of quantum mechanics. Quantum physicist David Bohm, a student and friend of Albert Einstein, was of a similar opinion. He stated, “The results of modern natural sciences only make sense if we assume an inner, uniform, transcendent reality that is based on all external data and facts. The very depth of human consciousness is one of them.”

 

Although there is no definitive concrete evidence for this theory, one could arguably afford some weight to these claims if some of the most brilliant minds in quantum mechanics believe that it is consistent with the general patterns and trends of modern science. If proven, this theory could have monumental implications; if humans do “download” their consciousness into a thus far unobservable field, then a person’s consciousness could, in Dürr’s words, truly be immortal.

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