Reiki has been developing a lot since it’s (re)discovery in Japan in 1922 and to do my part in brining it more fully into our Western Post-Modern culture there are a number of myths about Reiki that I would like to bust. 1. Reiki is just hocus-pocus Okay, science does have a hard time with anything which isn’t tangible and can’t be measured by modern instruments but that’s not quite what I mean. What I would like to clarify is that when we start to work with Reiki we don’t have to suspend our critical thinking and just ‘believe’ in it. When we work with Reiki we develop our capacity for subtle awareness. Something that we all possess and we start to become aware of different types of chi energy directly. Our intuition starts to deepen and we begin to use more than just our mind to gauge reality. Yes, there really is a world beyond the rational mind. But we don’t need to throw out the baby with the bathwater. We still want to be able to discriminate, as long as we are not cynical. And anyway, we develop the best in a spiritual sense when we keep both feet on the ground. 2. You need to have some kind of special gift to be able to work with Reiki Untrue! Just as we can all learn to play a musical instrument we can all learn to work with energy and become aware of our energy bodies. The only prerequisites are interest and practice. 3. There are many different kinds of Reiki (and each is better than the other) This trend is rather confusing for people. Tera-Mai Reiki, Rainbow Reiki, Kundalini Reiki, etc. I have worked for many years with Reiki and I have received Reiki from people from many different Reiki backgrounds and I can say with confidence: There is only one Reiki, it is the same energy. Some people choose to brand it differently but that’s all. The only thing that makes a difference is the clarity and transparency of the Reiki giver themselves. Once you start studying the real history, you find that it’s a rather controversial topic 4. Reiki is part of the ‘New Age’ spiritual movement Disclaimer: I must admit that for quite a while I found everything that had to do with New Age spirituality very interesting. From shamanism to rebirthing and crystals to crop circles. But New Age spirituality is just one of the many forms of spirituality and although Reiki during her path from Japan to the West has been well received by the New Age movement, it did not start there and it will not end there. 5. There is an ‘official’ form of Reiki From a Japanese perspective Reiki does not even exist outside Japan. And from the perspective of some Western Reiki organisations it’s not Reiki that is being practiced elsewhere. But just as with Yoga, once you start studying the real history, you find that it’s a rather controversial topic on which people do not always agree. All I know for sure is that Reiki is still under development (and probably always will be) and it can be practiced in any culture anywhere on Earth. I hope I don’t come across as being too critical or opinionated, but I think that everyone should know that Reiki can be a very powerful catalyst for the development of consciousness. It is a proven tool for spiritual development but the form its takes is less important that the ways in which it can help us. "Please scroll down for video Scientists have finally proven that our DNA has Telepathic abilities: Are we globally connected? Scientists refer to it as Genetic ‘telepathy’ and it is a completely shocking new discovery. Scientists firmly believe that have discovered a new detail about our DNA which points towards the fact that it has the ability to ‘link itself together’ when separated by distance, in other words, our DNA has the ability to communicate telepathically. But this was believed to be impossible according to many experts, but you know what they say, everything is impossible until it becomes possible. According to tests published by the Journal of Physical Chemistry intact double-strand DNA has the mysterious ability to communicate at a distance telepathically meaning that it has the ability to identify certain similarities in other DNA stands even at a distance making it possible to congregate without physical contact. In other words it means that just as friends which have similar interests hang out, tiny little bits of genetic material basically do the same congregating together." "The next big step? How to control telepathy? According to the authors of the article that appeared in the ACS’ Journal, Geoff S. Baldwin, Sergey Leikin, John M. Seddon, and Alexi A. Kornyshev and their colleges, “Amazingly, the forces responsible for the sequence recognition can reach across more than one nanometer of water separating the surfaces of the nearest neighbor DNA.” In the experiment, researchers placed fluorescently tagged DNA strands in water without proteins or other material that could interfere with the experiment and observed it. Researchers were able to understand that identical nucleotide sequences were about twice as likely to gather together as DNA strands with different sequences." "This incredible experiment might shed new light and help increase accuracy and efficiency of homologous recombination of genes which according to scientists, is a process that is responsible for DNA repair, evolution and genetic diversity " .
Scroll down for video The title may have taken you off guard, but like all the other things in life you have to read between the lines and decipher the real meaning that is evident here. To start, let us focus our attention on a fairly ancient practice known as Sun-gazing, which has been practiced all over the world in various cultures and religions. Sun gazing, also known as the art of eating the sun, is very much like it sounds. It basically involves staring at the sun during particular periods of time when the UV radiations being emitted from the sun are lowest during the day. This practice has been claimed to be one of the most privileged and clarity-bringing processes that has been accessible to us as humans. The basic practice involves starting the process slowly and then advancing gradually to the complete fulfillment of the same. At the start, the practitioner, also known as the sun-eater or sun gazer starts by gazing at the sun for ten seconds in the wee hours of morning or evening or both. The practice has to be done while standing barefoot on the ground which has to be on dirt, sand or mud. Then the progress happens by increasing the time by ten seconds everyday so that the eyes can get accustomed to the light and heat from the sun. The practice is done till the practitioner can stare at the sun for 45 minutes in all without discomfort or wincing. The practitioner then needs to walk barefoot for everyday so that he/she can transmit the energy they gained from the Sun to the Earth. Walking barefoot has been linked with stimulating the essential glands and parts of the brain in order to mediate a spiritual transformation in the person and awaken him/her to their fullest potential. One of the main glands that are activated by this process is the pineal gland, which has also been called the vestigial third eye. NASA has inherently documented this practice and its spell-binding effects on Hira Raten Manek of India, who has been heralded as the quintessential sun eater who has been a pioneer in terms of spreading the ideals of this practice and making people aware about it. According to the documented estimations of the trials conducted by NASA on Hira Raten Manek, the practice had given him intense endurance as well as perfect health. He did not feel the need for any type of external energy in the form of food and other supplements. In other words, the practice had made him a self-sufficient being with immense energy levels. The practice of sun gazing as a whole has been said to charge the brain to the fullest extent in such a way that the person himself becomes a beacon of inspiration and light, not much unlike the sun itself. But, some of the things related to the practice can be directly projected as a duality. This means that the practice will show you the immense contradiction and dual-nature that nature projects itself in terms of. There are various analogies and comparisons that can be done while looking for inspiration from nature. In case of the sun, the relentless energy which has the power to burn off your skin and turn you blind completely, can also act as a beacon of light, without which life on Earth would not be possible. On one side, the sun shows you for what you are, which may be hard to understand given the fact that acceptance is not always a sugar-coated pill. On the other hand, the sun also shows you what you can be, with the immense power to give life and inspiration to other beings, and also be a store of immense positive energy and information for others to learn from. The most divine part of this whole practice (and the purpose of this article as well) is that we have a choice in each and every moment of our lives. We can either choose to shine like the afternoon sun, relentlessly pouring its harsh and burning energy on us, so much that it can literally fry you in the open. On the other hand, we also have the choice to be pleasant like the morning or evening sun, by being a beacon for inspiration, calmness and serenity for all around us. But in the end, the most important fact to remember from this whole practice is that the beautiful morning sun, the complacent evening sun and the relentless afternoon sun are all the same celestial body and not three different entities. THC Labs is a vent-out platform for writers to express their inner creative and spiritual musings. Our aim is to ensure an alternate exploration of existence through various forms of art and knowledge. If you liked this article, be sure to check out more here: http://thclabs.org/ ( via thespiritscience.net ) A woman in France had a long life despite the fact that a flaw had considered deadly. A few researchers have examined the case and found the explanation Thus, recent studies have revealed the secret of a long life. If until now it was thought that genes are responsible for the quality and length of life, newest main determinant is the way we think. Specifically, a life full of stress will only lead to serious medical problems like heart problems and even cancer. It was found that stress is the main cause of breast cancer, 160 patients analyzed, while "unexpressed anger and feelings detained" are also an important cause various cancers. The best example of positive thinking results is Jeanne Calment who lived 122 years although disordered eating and smoking more than 100 years. She was born into a wealthy family and had no care for life. Everyone loves superpowers, even those who say that those who have are worship the devil, they still desire to have them, fking christians... But hey, guess what! You already have a fking loads of powers that you just think that only an invisible pervert ghost have who see you even when you take a shit, damn God, get yourself a hobby! Well scientists have discovered recently that there is life after death, and they explain it just like how i fking did it for almost 4 years now and no one gaved me credit, fking ignorants :D Well Life after death is like this : your body dies and you become food! Next : You mind/soul/spirit travel in to another dimension where depending of how much he achieved in his life : phisiscal power, knowledge and spiritual energy, he either will evolve further either just another creature weaker or stronger but from the same dimension like before! NOW! Lets get to the fun part! POWERS : Perhaps you remember the great kamehameha wave from the Dragon Ball series, if not im sorry for your ruined childhood! But what if i would tell you that you can actually do that? Even scientists aprove that Ki or Chi energy is real and the Chakras as well like in Naruto, but Naruto is based more like on one type of chakra we have more, not only 7 how you knew, those 7 are the basic ones, we have billions, recently more then 30 new chakras have been discovered in each hand, so yeah, we are better :P And we can actually use those energy's as we desire! For example either the instant transmision when you are late on a date, or to run from your girlfriend! Flying as well, laser beams, your powers ar limited only by your own mind, body and spirit! And science, the biggest critic ever say that Dragon ball series is the closest to the truth when comes about what you can actually do! And how to achieve more ! Meditate, train your body, and your mind! Eat a lot, and rest! i fking jumped from 126 IQ to 206 IQ in 6 months due to a training program made by myself, i can resist to pain, some of my friends took my challenge to test a baseball bat on me! Friends..... and they where surprised that i did not even blink when they were getting tired after so many hits! even extreme heat! At work my collegs think im crazy and they even call me Jesus as joke ofcourse because of what I do! And that my firends its because when i hear someone telling me that something is impossible i look at them and tell them : Of course is impossible for you! Now look at me carefull while i do that impossible thing! And if you still have doubts about kamehameha, well remember that to Master Roshi, it took over 50 years to develop that skill! so, dont give up yet!
The Vikings: 8th - 10th century In 793 the monks on the island of Lindisfarne, off the northeast coast of England, are unpleasantly surprised by the arrival of violent raiders from the sea. Their misfortune is the first clearly dated event in the saga of the Vikings - the last and most dramatic exodus in the long story of migration from Scandinavia, the original home of the Goths and Vandals. The name Viking is thought to derive fromvikingr, a word for 'pirate' in the early Scandinavian languages. It accurately describes the Norsemen who for two centuries raid the coasts of Britain and of northwest France. But in many places the Scandinavians also settle - in the islands of thenorth Atlantic, in the British Isles, in Normandy, in Sicily and in the very heart of Russia. It is impossible to assign the various Viking groups at all precisely to places of origin. But broadly speaking, adventurers from the coast of Norway raid the north of England and continue round the Scottish coast to Ireland. Vikings from the same region later settle in the Scottish islands, Iceland and parts of Ireland. The Vikings invading easternBritain and northwestFrance, and eventually settling in both regions, come mainly from Denmark. The Swedes raid across the Baltic and penetrate deep into Russia as traders. The Vikings and the British Isles: 9th - 10th century The coasts of the British isles are now dotted with monasteries, not yet rich by the standards of medieval monasticism but with sufficient wealth to attract Viking marauders. One of the most famous islands, Iona, is raided three times in a decade (in 795, 802 and 805). Even monasteries which seem secure, pleasantly sited on inland rivers, fall victim to Viking longships rowing upstream. But gradually, during the 9th century, the raiders settle. Soon all the Scottish islands and the Isle of Man are in Viking hands, and the intruders are even seizing territory on the mainland of both Britain and Ireland. In 838 Norwegians capture Dublin and establish a Norse kingdom in Ireland. From 865 the Danes settle in eastern England. Danes in England: from865 Thirty years of Danish raids on the east coast of England precede the arrival, in 865, of a 'Great Army' equipped for conquest rather than quick booty. The Danish invaders now consolidate each year's gains by establishing a secure base from which they can continue a campaign of harassment - which invariably ends with the settled English buying peace from their footloose tormentors. York is taken in 866 (and becomes, as Yorvik, the Danish capital in England). Nottingham falls in 867, Thetford in 869. By now the kings of Northumbria, Mercia and East Anglia have made terms with the invaders. Next in line is Wessex. In 870 the Danes advance into Wessex, capturing Reading where they meet the most determined opposition thus far. During the next year nine battles are fought in this district. In 871, at Ashdown on the Berkshire downs, the English win their first significant victory of the war; a Danish king and nine earls are killed on the field of battle. Even so, it proves impossible to recapture Reading. Wessex, like the other English kingdoms, makes peace with the Danes - who withdraw to winter in London. But the victory at Ashdown has introduced a figure of significance in English history. The Wessex men are commanded that day by a 23-year-old prince of their ruling family - Alfred, brother of the king of Wessex. Alfred and the Danes: 871-899 In popular tradition the story of England, as opposed to Britain, begins with Alfred. And there is a valid basis for this heroic status. He is the first Anglo-Saxon ruler to be accepted as something akin to a national leader. The English see him as such in those regions resisting Danish domination. With good cause he is the only king of England to be accorded the title 'the Great'. His authority derives from his successes against the Danes. His kingly virtues can also be seen, with hindsight, in his encouragement of learning. But his central achievement is the quarter-century of struggle which follows his victory over the Danes atAshdown in 871. In that same year, 871, Alfred's elder brother dies and he becomes the king of Wessex. One of his first acts is to establish the beginnings of an English fleet. The Danes draw much of their strength from their swift Vikinglongships. It makes sense for the Anglo-Saxon islanders to reply in kind. By 875 Alfred can claim a small naval victory which is nevertheless a significant beginning. Going to sea with his new fleet, he holds his own against seven Danish ships and even captures one of them. On land he has similar successes, defeating Danish armies and forcing them to agree to leave Wessex in peace. But the Danes regularly break their word. In 878 a surprise Danish attack pushes Alfred west into the Somerset marshes. From a single fort at Athelney he organizes local resistance. This is the lowest ebb of the English cause, the nearest that the Danes come to conquering Wessex and establishing their rule over the whole of England. Within a few months Alfred is strong enough to move east again and defeat the Danes at Edington in Wiltshire. The conclusion of this campaign is a two-week siege of Guthrum, the Danish king of East Anglia, who is encircled in his encampment. Guthrum secures his freedom by promising (once again) to leave Wessex. More significantly, he also agrees to be baptized a Christian. The ceremony of baptism takes place on the river Parrett, with Alfred in the role of sponsor of the new convert. Then the two Christian kings go together to Wedmore (the year is still 878), where they spend twelve days in ceremony and feasting and in the agreement of a treaty which finally preserves Wessex from Danish intrusion. A Danish invasion of Kent in 885 gives Alfred the pretext for expansion eastwards. He drives back the invaders, and in 886 occupies London. This success leads to a new treaty with Guthrum. He and Alfred agree a basis for coexistence between Anglo-Saxons in the south and west and Danes in the north and east of the country - the region which becomes known as Danelaw. Norwegians in Ireland: 9th - 11th century During the 9th century the Norse kings of Dublin are in constant warfare with Irish kings. They suffer several reverses. But in the early 10th century the trend seems to be going in favour of the Vikings. They capture important strongholds at the mouths of Ireland's main rivers. Waterford falls to them in 914, Limerick in 920. Cork is at various times occupied by Vikings, and Wexford is founded as a Norse settlement. The Irish persistently fight back - most notably under the leadership of Brian Boru. The religious beliefs and rituals of the VikingsFiona Wilkinson, Dickson College 2008 Even after their conversion to Christianity the Norse were accused of being Pagans. The Christians described the Norse as violent and obscene, but their religion was just a way of life. The well-known descriptions of the Norse by Anglo-Saxon chroniclers has given a biased view of the religious beliefs of the Norsemen. However, through poems, stories and archaeological findings, the beliefs and rituals of the Norse show that they are not such obscene and bloodthirsty people as popular history suggests. Evidence of Norse worship can be found in written sagas, poems and in archaeological findings. There are a few sagas that chronicle the lives and habits of the Norse, such as The Younger Edda of Snorri Sturluson[1] , a 10th Century Icelandic poet and historian. Although these sagas are not primary sources, they give details of the Norse culture that would otherwise be unknown. Through these sagas, the reader learns of the stories of the Norse view on the creation of the world, humans and gods. Sturluson writes, in the Younger Eddas, that; One day... as the sons of Bor were walking along the sea-beach they found two stems of wood, out of which they shaped a man and a woman. The first god (Odin) infused into them life and spirit; the second (Vili) endowed them with reason and the power of motion; the third (Ve) gave them speech and features, hearing and vision. The man they called Ask, and the woman, Embla. From these two descend the whole human race whose assigned dwelling was within Midgard.[2] These sagas also tell of particular rituals that supposedly took place, although many scholars have dismissed them as “medieval fantasies.” However, Sturluson is known to have possessed a large knowledge of the pre-Christian past. Artwork by Jacques Reich (1852 - 1923) showing the Norse god Freyr and his boar Gullinbursti.Archaeological research has also found evidence of Norse worship in the forms of tomb stones; small, gold sheets and bog bodies. Stones have been found in church yards that have scenes from Norse myths engraved on them. On many of these stones there are traces of blue, which would indicate that these stones may have been coloured. According to Ronald Jessup, author of Age by Age: Landmarks of British Archaeology, these relics are believed to be part of stone coffins.[3] Small gold foil sheets have also been found. These sheets are no bigger than 1 centimetre square, and many show an image of a man and woman embracing. The sheets are too light to have been used as money. William R. Short states that these sheets were deposited when a king or chieftain celebrated his wedding.[4] The sheets were often found under posts that support structures, or under high-seats. Short continues to say that the figures on these gold sheets represent Freyr and his wife, the Giantess Gerð. In Norse religion this marriage is considered very important as it brought the Gods and the Giants together. The Norse believed that the gods were split into two different groups; the Æasir and the Vanir. The Vanir, according to Amanda O’Neill[5] , are the oldest of the gods. The gods who are classified as Vanir are Freyr (meaning “lord), the god of fertility; his sister Freyja (meaning “Lady” respectively), the goddess of fertility, love, war and beauty (and, according to Sturluson, considered to be the leader of the Valkyries) and Njord, the god of the sea, who is said to be Freyr and Freyja’s father.[6] The Vanir appear to be connected mainly with cultivation and fertility. The Æasir, however, were associated with war and power. The gods of the Æasir are: Odin, the god of wisdom and war; Vili and Vé, brothers of Odin; Thor, the god of thunder and battle; Loki, the mischievous trickster and supposed foster-brother of Odin; Tyr, the one-handed self sacrificing god of justice and law; Heimdall, the watcher and guardian of the gods; Baldur, god of radiance and rebirth and one of Odin’s sons; Hod, the blind god of darkness and Odin’s son; Hœnir, the indecisive god, Meili, the god of travel and also son of Odin; Forseti, the god of peace and truth and the son of Baldur; Vidar, the god of stealth and vengeance and another son of Odin; Vali, the avenger and son of Odin; Ullr, god of hunting (who was, according to the 12th century Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus, slain by the Norse after he filled in Odin’s job while Odin was exiled)[7] ; Bragi, god of poetry; Idon, goddess of youth; Skaði, a giantess who was goddess of snow and winter and also second wife of Njord, and Hermod, messenger of Odin. The Æasir and Vanir are said to have had a war in which Freyja, Freyr and Njord were taken as hostages, and became part of the Æasir. Sculpture of Freyja in Stockholm, Sweden. Sculpture by Rolf Adlersparre, 1880s.The gods of the Norse appear to have been worshipped differently. Some were content with simple food offerings, whilst others required human sacrifice in order for them to bless their followers. Offerings were made to the god Freyr at weddings, so that he would bless the couple with joy and fertility. At these weddings, animal sacrifices were often made to Freyr. In this ritual a boar would be killed and its blood poured into a bowl which was placed upon a högr- a type of altar. Fir twigs would then be dipped in the bowl and then waved in the form of a hammer. The participants of this sacrifice would be spattered with the blood, and thus these participants would be consecrated. Although human sacrifice was most often linked to Odin, Freyr has also been worshipped through such human sacrificial acts. According to Grammaticus’ (Gesta Danorum), [I]n order to mollify the divinities he did indeed make a holy sacrifice of dark-coloured victims to the god Frø [Freyr]. He repeated this mode of propitiation at an annual festival and left it to be imitated by his descendants. The Swedes call it Frøblot. ‘Blot’ is widely translated to mean “strengthening”, but most scholars have translated it to mean “sacrifice”. As sacrifices were used to make the gods stronger, and thus act favourably to men, both translations are suitable. An example of one type of blot was detailed by Sturluson in his Heimskringla saga. He wrote that a sacrificial feast occurred in a place called Troøndelay. At this feast, sacrificial animals, particularly horses and pigs, were killed and cooked in a deep pit. The blood of these animals was sprinkled on the walls and on the images of the gods and the participants of the rite. The blood was thought to contain special powers. The food and drink would be blessed by a chieftain, and then participants would drink first to Odin for victory and power to the king, then to Njord for luck on the sea, and finally to Freyr for fertility and peace. They would later drink to their ancestors. In the Hrafnkels saga (author unknown), the story goes that the protagonist of the saga dedicates a horse to Freyr, and kills a man for riding it. The goddess Freyja is the most honoured goddess, and in the Droplaugarsona saga (author unknown), it is said that in a temple the statue of Freyja is seated upon a higher throne than the statues of Thor and Freyr, and her statue was covered in drapery and gold and silver ornaments. Sturluson writes in the Heimskringla saga that Njörðr's daughter Freyja was priestess of the sacrifices, and first taught the Æsir the magic art, as it was in use and fashion among the Vanir. This implies that sacrifices were indeed made to Freyja, in this case animal sacrifice, a sow, much like the sacrifices made to Freyr. The god Thor also receives sacrifices in the same vein as those Freyr and Freyja received, only Thor’s sacrificial animal was a goat. The Norse offered him sacrifices when they were threatened by hunger or disease. However, unlike many of the other gods, Thor did not require human sacrifice. Hammer shaped amulets were a symbol of Thor as it represented his hammer, Mjollnir, and many Norse wore these amulets as a sign of respect and worship for the god. It is written in many sources that Odin was the god that received the most sacrifices; particularly sacrifices of the human kind. As he brought victory to the Norse in battle, sacrifices were held often. Adam of Brenen, a German medieval chronicler, describes one such sacrificial act. It is the custom moreover every nine years for a common festival of all the provinces of Sweden to be held at Uppsala. Kings and commoners one and all send their gifts to Uppsala, and what is more cruel than any punishment, even those who have accepted Christianity have to buy immunity from these ceremonies. The sacrifice is as follows: of every living creature they offer nine head, and with the blood of those it is the custom to placate the gods, but the bodies are hanged in a grove which is near the temple; so holy is that grove to the heathens that each tree in it is presumed to be divine by reason of the victim's death and putrefaction. There also are dogs and horses hang along with men. One of the Christians told me that he had seen seventy-two bodies of various kinds hanging there, but the incantations which are usually sung at this kind of sacrifice are various and disgraceful, and so we had better say nothing about them. Apparently, everyone was obliged to take part in these celebrations, but Christians had to pay to be exempted. The sacrifice was made at the start of summer, in return for victory for the coming season. Another form of worship to Odin was the “blood eagle”. According to Michael Wood,[8] , in 867, when the Norse attacked the kingdom of Northumbria, they captured the Northumbrian king Aelle and performed the blood eagle rite. This involved cutting the ribs and lungs from the still living man and spreading them beside his body in the shape of eagle’s wings. In 869, Edmund, king of the East Angles, suffered the blood eagle too. The Norse had planned to use this method of sacrifice on King Alfred, had they managed to defeat him.[9] The Norse are commonly portrayed as stupid, bloodthirsty villains. However, their “thirst for blood” was part of their religious practice. Through reading stories and poems, and from archaeological discoveries, a better understanding of their culture and behaviour can be gained. Ragnarok in Norse MythologyWhat is Ragnarok?The Vikings belived that the world oneday would end as we know it, they called this day for Ragnarok, also spelled Ragnarök in old Norse.
Ragnarok is the doom of the gods and the humans. It will be the final battle between the Aesir and Jotuns. The battle will take place on the plains called Vigrid. Surt the fire giant, setting the world on fire. (Surt from Doom of the Gods by Tudor Humphries) During Ragnarok the walls of Asgard, the homes of the Aesir, and the huge bridge Bifrost, will be set on fire by Surt the fire giant. The mighty Midgard serpent will be emerging from the turbulent sea and engulf the Vigrid plains, while it splashes its tail and sprays poison in all directions, causing huge waves crashing towards the land. The Fenrir wolf will break free of his chains and spread death and destruction. The sun and the moon will be swallowed by the wolfs Sköll and Hati. Even the world tree Yggdrasil, will shake the ground. Odin will be killed by the Fenrir wolf and Thor and the Midgard Serpent will kill each other. Loki will turn on the Aesir, and fight Heimdall, and they will kill each other. Tyr and the watchdog “Garm” from Hel, will also kill each other. Freyr will be killed by the fire giant named Surt. Finally Surt will set all the nine worlds, in a flaming inferno and they will sink into the boiling sea. There is nothing the gods can do to prevent Ragnarok. Odins only comfort is that, he can predict that Ragnarok, will not be the end of the world. The signs of RagnarokThere will be some signs if Ragnarok "the end of the world" is coming. The murder of the god Balder, the son of Odin and Frigg. We will have a long and cold winter that, will last for three years with no summer in between. The name of these uninterrupted winters are called "Fimbulwinter" During these three years, the world will be plagued by wars, and brothers will kill brothers. A beautiful red rooster "Fjalar" which name means the "All knowner", will warn all the giants that the beginning of Ragnarok has begun. At the same time in Niflheim, will a red rooster warn all the dead, that the war was started. And also in Asgard, will a red rooster “Gullinkambi” warn all the gods. Heimdall will blow his horn as loud as he can and that will be the warning for all the einherjar in Valhalla that the war has started. This will be the battle to end all battles, and this will be the day that all the Vikings “Einherjar” from Valhalla who had died honourable in battle, to pick up their swords and armor to fight side by the side with the Aesir against the Jotuns. The gods, Balder and Hod will be returned from the dead, to fight one last time with their brothers and sisters. Odin will with his eagle helmet equipped and his spear Gungnir in his hand, while riding on his horse sleipnir, lead the enormous army of Asgard with all the gods and brave einherjar to the battleground at Vigrid. The Jotuns will together with Hel, and all her dishonorable dead, sail in the ship Naglfar, which is made from the fingernails of all the dead, sail to the plains of Vigrid. The dragon Nidhug will come flying over the battlefield, and gather as many corpses for his never ending hunger. A new begining after Ragnarok. When most of the gods had perished in the mutually destruction with the Jotuns, it is predetermined that a new world will rise up from the water, beautiful and green. Before the battle at Ragnarok, two people, Lif “a woman” and Liftraser “a man”, will find sheltering in the sacred tree Yggdrasil. And when the battle is over, they will come out and populate the earth again. Several of the gods will survive, among them Odin's sons Vidar and Vali and his brother Honir. Thor's sons Modi and Magni they will inherit their father's hammer Mjölnir. The few gods who survive will go to Idavoll, which has remained untouched. And here they will build new houses, the greatest of the houses will beGimli, and will have a roof of gold. There is also a new place called Brimir, on the place called Okolnir “Never cold”. It is in the mountains of Nidafjoll. But there is also a terrible place, a great hall on Nastrond, the shore of corpses. All its doors faces north to greet the screaming winds. The walls will be made of writhing snakes that pour their venom into a river that flowes through the hall. This will be the new underground, full of thieves and murderers, and when they dies the great dragon Nidhug, is there to feed upon their corpses. For our latest giveaway, I asked readers to share their most valuable college tips. The responses were incredible, and really made me proud to be apart of a site with such a great audience. To celebrate this, I’ve compiled a list of some of the best tips shared, adding detail, and linking to some relevant posts we’ve published for each topic. There’s a wide range to explore, from tips to help you improve study sessions to leading a more balanced life, so dig in and let us know even more this time around. Hopefully they help you all become more successful students and give you a resource to come to for motivation when you’ve hit a rough patch. Studying
1. Renounce the need to always be right Many people hate the idea of making a mistake and want to be always right, even at the risk of entering into a wonderful relationship or causing much stress and pain to themselves and others. Simply not worth it. Whenever you feel the need "urgent" to jump into a discussion about who's right and who's wrong, ask yourself this: "I prefer to be right or prefer to be a gentle person?". What gain a verbal conflict, which left at my face leaves the "stage" with a bitter taste and a sense of disappointment? 2. Renounce the need for control Be willing to give up the need to always control what happens to you and those around you: circumstances, events, people, etc.. Whether they are loved, work colleagues or just strangers you meet on the street, let them be. Lets all things and people to be just as good and see what you feel. "Leaving things to be, everything will flow smoothly as it should," said Lao Tzu. 3. Come Cancel Give up your need to blame others for what you have or do not have, for what you feel or not feel. Stop giving up your powers and begin to take responsibility for your life. 4. Renounce self-defeating How many people hurt themselves because of their negative mentality, polluted and repetitive self-defeating? Do not believe everything your mind tells you, especially if it is something negative and you self-destruct. You're better than that. "The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. However, misused, it becomes very destructive, "said Eckhart Tolle. 5. Renounce your beliefs limited Give up your beliefs about what you can or can not do, about what is possible or impossible. From now on you'll never allow your limited beliefs keep you trapped. Open your wings and fly! "A belief is not an idea held by the mind, is an idea that holds the mind," said Elly Roselle. 6. Quit whining Give up your need to constantly complain about those many, many, many things, people, situations, events that make you unhappy, sad and depressed. No one can make you unhappy, no situation can make you sad unless you allow it. No situation that triggers those feelings is to blame, but how you choose to look. Never underestimate the power of positive thinking. 7. Quit luxury of criticism Give up the need to criticize things, events or people who are different from you. We are all different, yet we are all the same. Everyone wants to be happy, we all want to love and be loved and we all want to be understood. We all want something, and something is desired by all of us. 8. Renounce the need to impress others Stop trying so hard to be something you're not just like others to like you. Things do not work that way. The moment you stop trying so hard to be something you're not, when you give up all your masks, when you truly accept, I find that people are attracted to you, without making any this effort. 9. Dropped the idea to resist change Change is good. Change will help you go from A to B. Changing will help you make improvements in your life and the lives of those around you. "Watch bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls" Joseph Campbell said. 10. Quit labeling Stop label those people, things and events that do not understand that being weird and different and try to open your mind a little bit. Minds only works when open. "Highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you know nothing," said Wayne Dyer. 11. Renounce your fears Fear is an illusion, there is, you created. Everything is in your mind. If you right inside, the outside will be exactly as it should. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," said Franklin D. Roosevelt. 12. Quit excuses We often limited because many excuses that we use. Instead of working to grow and improve our life and spirit, stuck, lying to us alone, using all kinds of excuses, excuses in 99.9% of cases are not real. 13. Quit past It's hard. We know. Especially when history looks much better than the present and the future looks so scary, but we must take into account that the present moment is all you have and all you will ever have. Past you crave, you dream of the past, has been ignored by you when you were present. Quit fooling yourself. Be present in everything you do and enjoy life. After all life is a journey, not a destination. It's good to have a clear vision of the future, prepare yourself, but always be present. 14. Renounce attachment It is a concept that for many of us it is hard to understand, but it's not impossible. You're getting better and better with time and more practice. When you detach from all things, become so quiet, tolerant, gentle and serene. You get to a place where you'll be able to understand all those things without pain. A feeling beyond words. 15. Quit living your life according to the expectations of others Far too many people live a life that does not belong to it live. They live their lives based on what others think is good for them, living life according to what parents say it is best for them depending on what friends say, enemies and their teachers that it is good for them. These people ignore their inner voice, inner calling. I'm so busy making them like others that lose control of their lives. Look what makes them happy, what they want, what they need and eventually forget who they really are. You only live once, you have to live, to own and especially do not let the opinions of others hinder you on your way.
A lot of people ar in search for immortality without even realise that immortality its a curse, you can see your familly, kids, how they dye while you are still alive, and if everyone would be imortal then the univers would be over populated in almoust 1 milion years max! SO i wont gonna give you this secret! But i will offer you something else...The gift of remainning young! First thing that you have to do its to use your brain! 2- Remind yourself about your childhood with good and bad! 3- Remember your dreams since you was a child! 4- Why did you stop to have those dreams? Because of money that you can get them anyway now? Or because others told you something else? And thats a huge mistake! 5- Get rid of stress and fear! Stress= a bulshit in our life that makes us sick because we tell ourself that we cant handle something, well tell this tho those who had to survive in extreme conditions or wars, tell them how hard you can handle a work at the office, a small salary that you can do something else to make more money! Fear- that its quite funny! Fear is not real, its a product of our imagination, the only place where fear can exist its in our thoughts about the future, making us to fear things that dont exist and may never exist! Fear+Stress makes our mind and body weak, makes us sick! So you get older and older! 6- Put a fucking smile on your face no matter what! 7- Why do you want to live when you dont trully live your life? Stop continue to just exist being a slave of trend and rules of society, break free, live your life, enjoy the beauty of nature, maybe some adrenaline too! 8- Stop making so much fucking worries! Oh no i will late there, i will lose that, i wont see that, fuck those shits, the only people who have the right to worry about those shits are Doctors, Firemans, Police, only the good ones ofcourse, cuz the rest makes you worse! 9- Get a pice of paper and a pencil, not a phone or computer, use something simple you lazy ass, and start to write at least 10 things that you wish to make and that makes you happy! Like going to a movie with who you love, fishing, ride the bike, eating something you want to finally taste, play a new game, play a game form your childhood with your friend and kids and like this you teach them how to move their butts outside from the face of the computer! BE HAPPY! and 10- Make some fucking sport! You dont have to become a bodybuilder, a football player, dont dare to say golf, the fuck its that shit? Anyway, make some movement , start easy to make your muscles to become more flexible again, and to make your body feel better again! Movement its important! This is a simple way to bring in your life what you wish! You have to take a board and to stick on that board images with any items you wish, you can put how much you want! You have to look at those images every day and to try to imagine that you already have them and to try to feel the joy that that item or items would bring you! O and the most importand thing you have to belive that you already have that object, and to dont doubt about that, because if you do it wont gonna work, and its not an exact time when it will happen, depends! You cant start with something easy for the first time, like a coup of coffe or tea, but dont do it by yourself, or with a chocolate or something else easy to obtain for the begining, at first it should take about maxim 1/2 weeks! Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior. Psychology is a multifaceted discipline and includes many sub-fields of study such areas as human development, sports, health, clinical, social behavior and cognitive processes.
Psychology is really a very new science, with most advances happening over the past 150 years or so. However, it's origins can be traced back to ancient Greece, 400 – 500 years BC. The emphasis was a philosophical one, with great thinkers such as Socrates influencing Plato, who in turn influenced Aristotle. Philosophers used to discuss many topics now studied by modern psychology, such as memory, free will, attraction etc. In the early days of psychology there were two dominant theoretical perspectives. An American psychologist named William James (1842-1910) developed an approach which came to be known as functionalism. He argued that the mind is constantly changing and it is pointless to look for the building blocks of experience. Instead, focus should be on how and why an organism does something. It was suggested that psychologists should look for the underlying cause of behavior and the mental the processes involved. This emphasis on the causes and consequences of behavior has influenced contemporary psychology. Structuralism was the name given to the approach pioneered by Wilhelm Wundt. The term originated from Edward Titchener, an American psychologist who had been trained by Wundt. Structuralism relied on trained introspection, a research method whereby subjects related what was going on in their minds while performing a certain task. However, it proved to be unreliable method because there was too much individual variation in the experiences and reports of research subjects. Despite the failing of introspection Wundt is an important figure in the history of psychology as he opened the first laboratory dedicated to psychology in 1879, and its opening is usually thought of as the beginning of modern psychology. Wundt was important because he separated psychology from philosophy by analyzing the workings of the mind using more objective and standardized procedures. Because psychology is a science it attempts to investigate the causes of behavior using systematic and objective procedures for observation, measurement and analysis, backed-up by theoretical interpretations, generalizations, explanations and predictions. The classic contemporary perspectives in psychology to adopt these strategies were thebehaviorists, who were renowned for their reliance on controlled laboratory experiment and rejection of any unseen or subconscious forces as causes of behavior. And later, cognitive psychology adopted this rigorous, scientific, lab based scientific approach too. With its broad scope, psychology investigates an enormous range of phenomena: learning and memory, sensation and perception, motivation and emotion, thinking and language, personality and social behavior, intelligence, child development, mental illness, and much more. Furthermore, psychologists examine these topics from a variety of complementarypsychological perspectives. Each psychological perspective is underpinned by a shared set of assumptions of what people are like, what is important to study and how to study it. Some conduct detailed biological studies of the brain, others explore how we process information; others analyze the role of evolution, and still others study the influence of culture and society. Critical Evaluation Kuhn (1962) argues that a field of study can only legitimately be regarded as a science if most of its followers subscribe to a common perspective or paradigm. Kuhn believes that psychology is still pre-paradigmatic, while others believe it’s already experienced scientific revolutions (Wundt’s structuralism being replaced by Watson’s behaviorism, in turn replaced by the information-processing approach). The crucial point here is: can psychology be considered a science if psychologists disagree about what to study and how to study it? |
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