Driving around Tarpon Springs

In driving through Tarpon Springs, FL today, I noticed a few things.

There are some beautiful flaming orange flowers blooming on vines that are climbing some chain-link fences in the area. They are so vibrant!

I do like the new "speed humps" much better than speed bumps. Over by the yacht club, they put some speed humps with valleys through the middle, for motorcycles, I think. This makes it possible to put the left tires in the valley and the right tires in the gutter, and not feel the bump or hump at all.

I also want to ask about why, in a town of tiny 2 lane streets, the powers that be would decide to make the one road that had the width of 4-5 lanes and put obstacles on the sides and in the middle, and especially at the corner of Pinellas Road and Lemon Street, in order to make it into a road with only 2 lanes? Why would any idiot who lives in a town with streets that really aren't wide enough for the traffic, want to make any street less wide? I cannot fathom it.

From what I can discern, this is part of a Beautification Project. I find this ironic.

Remember Me?

Another study shows that stress interferes with short-term memory.

I just read a great article with some memory tips by Jane Thurnell-Read:


http://www.healthandgoodness.com/article/improve-memory.html

She also has some stress reduction tips. I recommend daily self-hypnosis and/or meditation for stress reduction.

Memory can be enhanced with hypnosis. Learning, the acquisition of new knowledge and esperience can be accellerated with hypnosis.

You Take my Breath Away!

"You take my breath away" or "You can take my breath away," as the song says.

Is that a good thing?

If something really took your breath away, and you couldn't breathe, I think it would be bad. What a strange expression.

It's like getting the wind knocked out of you -- not a good feeling, at all!

Still, great beauty can take your breath away. Or it can leave you breathless. And a breath-taking view is awe-inspiring.

Thank you for allowing me to clear the air and enjoy a breath of fresh air.

Even More Benefits

Many people already know the benefits of meditation: better
sleep, relief from stress, and a general sense of well being -
among other things. But many people don't know how to fit
meditation into their daily routine or simply aren't sure of how
to get the most from their practice.

Now, thanks to Mark Beck, there is an inexpensive, easy way to learn how. His book, Personal Empowerment through Meditation is a short handbook on a very practical method. It's available at smashwords, and other places where you can find e-books.

Beck writes about stillness. He says that stillness is water's true nature and that the Mind is like a glass of water with some sediment in it. Your mind is like this glass of water: it can be turbulent and muddy, or still and (mostly) clear.

He says that meditation is a "powerful tool that can help us lead happier and more peaceful lives."

So, if you've ever had trouble meditating, or are just beginning, you want to read this book! There are many physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits of meditation.


The benefits include inner peace as well as world peace, according to some...See the previous post for the scoop on world peace!

Also, see the book review on Verbal Impact.

Namaste.

More Meditation Benefits

Have you heard about Mahareshi Mahesh Yogi? He taught the Beatles how to do transcendental meditation, as well as thousands of others.

It seems TM has even more benefits than other types of meditation. There have been many studies now, that show that if a person meditates regularly, he will enjoy all the benefits of the relaxation response, including better sleep, higher energy, more patience, higher frustration tolerance, better health, and better brain function. So there are many individual benefits and it seems this can be expanded to the community level, promoting peace and lowering violence of all kinds.

Someone has used the data to calculate that when we have 8,000 people meditating daily, that there will be world peace. I think this is really interesting and will write more about it this year.

If you are interested, see http://www.permanentpeace.org/.

My Wishes for 2011

Beloved Friend,

I wish you a Brilliant New Year

brimming with all things

wonderous and beautiful!

Thank you for reading.

Polite Addition

I wonder what this is about. These are the kind of comments I get on my blogs:



I've ever liked things like sand clocks, lava lamps and the like, days of yore staring at it as a configuration of catharsis. In an opportunity it helps me with meditation to mitigate emphasis and decent think in the air nothing. That's why since I was a kid, in place of dolls and cars I've eternally sedate more of such pieces like sand clocks, lava lamps, and musical boxes etc. So I was most delighted to find XYZ.



My dogs are also fair out around the laser gyroscope. they each follow the gyroscope as it spins, although at principal they kept barking at the laser slight accompany, and also because it produces music. But after they got worn it, they've stopped barking but virtuous maintain following the gyroscope whenever I start spinning it. Kids are also pretty amused nearby it. On occasion it's proper to possess entertaining toys on all sides the lineage so that you can desert the small on while the kids are being amused or playing with it while you open to prepare viands or fall heir to changed. The gyroscope is a particular such play with with this purpose.



The gyroscope I bought from XYZ has a dragon as a intent plot on it, and produces a dainty indicator with red, obscene, and green colours. Take a look at the pictures...the music produced from the gyroscope is not that great but allowaable adequacy to treat any supplementary visitor to the house. The gyroscope is red and negro, making it look particular cold, and slightly macho with that dragon imprint.



This the funniest part:

I have also acclimatized this gyroscope to their heels of my girlfriend during our anniversary celebration. I did the cheesy thing of decorating the pension elbow-room with roses and when I led her in, I started up the gyroscope as rise so that the laser torchlight expose produces a dreamed-up effect. I also had some battery operated candles so all the sunrise effects created a mawkish atmosphere. She loved it, at near the style, to my relief. I also bought candles from XYZ..



There's more good advice for all the many applications of this incredible gyroscope, which is appropriate for children, pets and especially for your significant other. Also decorating ideas, in case you want to create a mawkish atmosphere.



''This amazing invention can also be a polite addition to the traditional Christmas decorations!



Is this code?



Does someone require help?



I'm sure it is more than just random words and phrases.



I am also sure it was not generated by a person who is familiar with the English language.



What are they actually selling on XYZ? I don't know and I want no part of it. I won't even try to go to the link they liberally sprinkled throughout the "comment." But where do these things come from? How are they generated? Do they really drive traffic to the target site? Or do they think I will post it and get them visitors? This one after careful reading seems to actually make some sense, althought it reminds me of Mad-Libs, where you just insert random adjectives into a paragraph for hilarious effect.



P.S. What is a sand clock? Is it an hourglass?