Happy Mardi Gras! Here in Bolivia Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday or Carnival as they call it here is a 4 day weekend holiday - sort of like 4th July time four with fireworks, dancing, BBQs, drinking and lots of parties and crazy clothes. Groups of dancers practice for months to get their moves right and to make outfits. The whole country shuts down for 4 days. I guess in theory this is something to do with Lent starting on Wednesday but I think it has turned into a reason to have a party (and Bolivians don't need much excuse to have a party any day of the year :-)
Lots of interesting info in this article on how US Big Brother is taking more control using high tech.
http://www.naturalnews.com/z031603_surveillance_police_state.html
TSA, DHS plan massive rollout of mobile surveillance vans with long-distance X-ray capability, eye movement tracking and more
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) Newly-released documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) reveal that the US Depart of Homeland Security has been working on plans to roll out a new wave of mobile surveillance technologies at train stations, stadiums and streets. These new technologies will track your eye movements, capture and record your facial dimensions for face-recognition processing, bathe you in X-rays to look under your clothes, and even image your naked body using whole-body infrared images that were banned from consumer video cameras because they allowed the camera owners to take "nude" videos of people at the beach.
Most importantly, many of these technologies are designed to be completely hidden, allowing the government to implement "covert inspection of moving subjects." You could be walking down a hallway at a sports stadium, in other words, never knowing that you're being bathed in X-rays from the Department of Homeland Security, whose operators are covertly looking under your clothes to see if you're carrying any weapons.
Roving vans to "track eye movements"
According to a Forbes.com article (http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenbe...), one project pursued by DHS using technology from Siemens would "mount backscatter x-ray scanners and video cameras on roving vans, along with other cameras on buildings and utility poles, to monitor groups of pedestrians, assess what they carried, and even track their eye movements."
Another project involved developing "a system of long range x-ray scanning to determine what metal objects an individual might have on his or her body at distances up to thirty feet."
We already know that the U.S. government has purchased 500 vans using covert backscatter technology to covertly scan people on the streets (http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenbe...). They're called "Z Backscatter Vans, or ZBVs."
This is all part of the U.S. government's new wave of police state surveillance that aims to track and irradiate innocent civilians who have committed no crime. Under the new Janet Napolitano regime, all Americans are now considered potential terrorists, and anyone can be subjected to government-sanctioned radiation scanning at any time, without their knowledge or approval.
And don't think these efforts will be limited merely to backscatter technology: The TSA is now testing full-power, deep-penetrating X-ray machines (like the ones that deliver chest X-rays in hospitals) in order to check people for bombs they may have swallowed. Yes, Janet Napolitano now wants to look inside your colon! And they're willing to X-ray everyone -- without their consent -- in order to do that.
Another project involved developing "a system of long range x-ray scanning to determine what metal objects an individual might have on his or her body at distances up to thirty feet."
We already know that the U.S. government has purchased 500 vans using covert backscatter technology to covertly scan people on the streets (http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenbe...). They're called "Z Backscatter Vans, or ZBVs."
This is all part of the U.S. government's new wave of police state surveillance that aims to track and irradiate innocent civilians who have committed no crime. Under the new Janet Napolitano regime, all Americans are now considered potential terrorists, and anyone can be subjected to government-sanctioned radiation scanning at any time, without their knowledge or approval.
And don't think these efforts will be limited merely to backscatter technology: The TSA is now testing full-power, deep-penetrating X-ray machines (like the ones that deliver chest X-rays in hospitals) in order to check people for bombs they may have swallowed. Yes, Janet Napolitano now wants to look inside your colon! And they're willing to X-ray everyone -- without their consent -- in order to do that.
Read the documents yourself
If you have trouble believing the U.S. government is unleashing a new wave of police state covert scanning vans on to the streets of America, you can read the documents yourself -- all 173 pages. They're available on the EPIC website at: http://epic.org/privacy/body_scanne...
EPIC calls these vans "mobile strip search devices" because they give the federal government technology to look under your clothes without your permission or consent. It's also being done without probable cause, so it's a violation of the Fourth Amendment protections that are guaranteed to Americans under the Bill of Rights.
"It's a clear violation of the fourth amendment that's very invasive, not necessarily effective, and poses all the same radiation risks as the airport scans," said EPIC attorney Ginger McCall, in the Forbes article (above).
EPIC calls these vans "mobile strip search devices" because they give the federal government technology to look under your clothes without your permission or consent. It's also being done without probable cause, so it's a violation of the Fourth Amendment protections that are guaranteed to Americans under the Bill of Rights.
"It's a clear violation of the fourth amendment that's very invasive, not necessarily effective, and poses all the same radiation risks as the airport scans," said EPIC attorney Ginger McCall, in the Forbes article (above).
Huge health risks to the population
It's not just the privacy issues that raise red flags here, of course: It's also the fact that the U.S. government has no respect whatsoever for the health of its citizens who are being subjected to these radiation emitting devices. Even while the TSA refuses to release testing results from its own naked body scanners, DHS keeps buying more machines (and more powerful machines) that will only subject travelers to yet more radiation.
As we've already reported here on NaturalNews.com, numerous scientists are already on the record warning that the TSA's backscatter "naked body scanners" could cause breast cancer, sperm mutation and other health problems (http://www.naturalnews.com/030607_n...).
But the U.S. government doesn't seem to care what happens to your health. Their position is that their "right" to know what you're carrying under your clothes or inside your body overrides your right to privacy or personal health. All they have to do is float a couple of fabricated terrorism scare stories every few months, and then use those "threats" as justification for violating the Constitutional rights of U.S. citizens are very turn.
The real question in all this, of course, is how far will this go? The TSA is already reaching down your pants and feeling up peoples' genitals as part of the "security" measures. Will DHS soon just start subjecting people to body cavity searches as a necessary security requirement before entering a football stadium, for example? Will Americans now be X-rayed with cancer-causing ionizing radiation -- without their awareness or consent -- merely because they are walking down the street or boarding a train?
That seems to be the case. And as you can readily tell from all this, it's getting harder and harder for the fast-dwindling group of deniers to claim America isn't already a police state. The USA is fast becoming a high-tech version of the very worst police state tyrannies witnessed throughout human history. The only difference is that now they have "science" on their side with the coolest new technology that can violate your rights and irradiate your body in a hundred different ways, with high-resolution images and digital storage devices.
I suppose if all this were being done to really stop international terrorists, that might be one thing. But what has become increasingly clear in observing the government's behavior in this realm is that the U.S. government now considers Americans to be the enemy -- especially those who have the gall to defend their Constitutionally-protected freedoms or question the unjustified centralization of power taking place right now in Washington.
The DHS is America's new secret police. And their cameras are pointing inward, into the everyday lives of Americans; not outward, aimed at international terrorists.
When the price of security becomes forfeiting your liberty, the source of the "terror" is no longer the terrorists but your own government. Isn't this the lesson that history has taught us well?
Watch the talk by Naomi Wolf, who explains all this extremely well:
Part 1: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=EEE6C...
Part 2: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=176F5...
As we've already reported here on NaturalNews.com, numerous scientists are already on the record warning that the TSA's backscatter "naked body scanners" could cause breast cancer, sperm mutation and other health problems (http://www.naturalnews.com/030607_n...).
But the U.S. government doesn't seem to care what happens to your health. Their position is that their "right" to know what you're carrying under your clothes or inside your body overrides your right to privacy or personal health. All they have to do is float a couple of fabricated terrorism scare stories every few months, and then use those "threats" as justification for violating the Constitutional rights of U.S. citizens are very turn.
The real question in all this, of course, is how far will this go? The TSA is already reaching down your pants and feeling up peoples' genitals as part of the "security" measures. Will DHS soon just start subjecting people to body cavity searches as a necessary security requirement before entering a football stadium, for example? Will Americans now be X-rayed with cancer-causing ionizing radiation -- without their awareness or consent -- merely because they are walking down the street or boarding a train?
That seems to be the case. And as you can readily tell from all this, it's getting harder and harder for the fast-dwindling group of deniers to claim America isn't already a police state. The USA is fast becoming a high-tech version of the very worst police state tyrannies witnessed throughout human history. The only difference is that now they have "science" on their side with the coolest new technology that can violate your rights and irradiate your body in a hundred different ways, with high-resolution images and digital storage devices.
I suppose if all this were being done to really stop international terrorists, that might be one thing. But what has become increasingly clear in observing the government's behavior in this realm is that the U.S. government now considers Americans to be the enemy -- especially those who have the gall to defend their Constitutionally-protected freedoms or question the unjustified centralization of power taking place right now in Washington.
The DHS is America's new secret police. And their cameras are pointing inward, into the everyday lives of Americans; not outward, aimed at international terrorists.
When the price of security becomes forfeiting your liberty, the source of the "terror" is no longer the terrorists but your own government. Isn't this the lesson that history has taught us well?
Watch the talk by Naomi Wolf, who explains all this extremely well:
Part 1: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=EEE6C...
Part 2: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=176F5...
[Note: The above is an Interesting presentation by Naomi Wolf who attended Yale University and was a Rhodes Scholar at New College, Oxford . In The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot Wolf takes a historical look at the rise of Fascism, outlining the 10 steps necessary for a Fascistic group (or government) to destroy the democratic character of a nation-state. The book details how this pattern was implemented in Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and elsewhere, and analyzes its emergence and application in American political affairs since the September 11 attacks. The End of America was adapted for the screen as a documentary by filmmakers Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern, best known for The Devil Came on Horseback and The Trials of Darryl Hunt. I t had its worldwide premiere at the Hampons International Film Festival on October 17, 2008 and was favorably reviewed in the New York Times by Stephen Holden as well as in Variety Magazine.]
If you haven't heard of Lilou Mace's Juicy Living tour it is a lot of interesting interviews with healers and new age visionaries free on her website. And check the tour schedule - maybe she is coming to your town this year!
M/M
PS Lilou has created some interesting books and sites for job changing and manifesting too
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What we belief and think affects how we feel which affects how we act which affects our reality directly. Also what we believe filters what we see and hear which also changes our version of reality. Finally what we believe and emote affects what the universe brings to us. So it is pretty important if you want a happier life to pick useful beliefs. Beliefs that may be ahead of the curve of your current perception of reality. This is what successful visionaries and leaders do all the time. Perhaps it is time to be a leader of your own life?
EFT master Carol Tuttle has some good suggestions on better beliefs to buy into in this times of change ...
Michael
Have you bought into the collective belief that you can barely survive and are just getting by. The world offers us one reality to believe in. Within that reality we have the agency and right to choose to go along with it or create our own reality. The world currently believes that “times are hard,” “times are scary,” “terrorists could attack at any moment,” “the economy is bad,” etc., etc., etc. Even though the world reality is choosing this, you can choose an alternative reality. We are only bound by belief. Another powerful tool is Carol’s CD, “Affirmations to Change Your Life Now.” A audio seminar on CD is available at http://caroltuttle.com/storecd_dvd.asp If you are ready to start thriving in today’s world, read and reread Carol’s best-selling book: Remembering Wholeness: A Personal Handbook for Thriving in the 21st Century. http://caroltuttle.com/storethebook.asp Choose the following beliefs to create a reality to help you thrive: Times are good for me and my family. I am prepared and I choose to live in the moment and focus on how safe my immediate world is. I am grateful to know that God is watching over me and the entire world to assist us in choosing a peaceful solution to our differences. I am grateful that my business is flourishing and I have more than enough money for my needs. The greatest power you have to change the world’s reality is to change yours. Stay free of condemning or judging the collective belief. Choose to bless it and allow it. If you condemn it or judge it, you create a stronger force of opposition and polarity that makes that reality more powerful. It just is. God Bless You, Carol Tuttle PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL, TO SOMEONE WHO WILL BENEFIT. And if you had this email forwarded to you and would like to subscribe to Carol’s weekly “I am a Creator” email message, just go to www.caroltuttle.com If you have missed an email in this series you can find all past emails in the Email Archive at http://www.caroltuttle.com/newsletter.asp
Interesting article by healer Joan Newcomb about how to tell which is your true inner voice and which is just echos of other people or your ego. And I have to agree about meditation or walks in nature helping me get in touch with my true inner voice.
Michael
Your Inner Voice is WRONG!
©2011 Joan M. Newcomb
Sometimes your Inner Voice is wrong. I'll give a couple of personal examples - when my son flew from Seattle to Mexico at New Years, we were told at the airport that, in San Francisco, one of his two checked bags would most likely be held back to a later flight. Going to Mexico, that usually means you can kiss that luggage goodbye.
I spent the next 48 hours convinced that was what happened and being quite emotionally overwhelmed by the thought of what he'd lost. When my son finally responded to my emails, Facebook messages and texts, all was well and he was enjoying the sunshine.
Last week I was given some misinformation about a family event by my 84 year old mother. Her memory isn't good so she makes notes when she talks on the phone. When I called her, she read something off her notes that sent me into a spiral for the entire week. It turned out to be completely false.
What went wrong with my 'spidey senses'? I'm a professional psychic, I should Know these things!
My first clue, with both of them, was overwhelming emotion. One's true Inner Voice is softspoken and rational. Listening to it is calming. The information comes across and it's 'but of course' - you can feel the inner truth of it.
The second clue is the story. If the voice you are listening to is telling you dramatic details, it's probably not true. Your Inner Voice is not a soap opera screenwriter. The world isn't coming to an end, there is no conspiracy theory, and other people really don't think of you that way (they're more concerned with how others think of *them*).
Your Inner Voice is your Inner Wisdom, not your inner gossip columnist.
The thing is, your Inner Voice and that other voice both sound like you. It's just that one sounds like you when you're crazy.
Which one do you want to listen to?
One leads you in the direction of serenity, the other towards insanity. It's really not that hard a decision.
However, you need discernment. You need to start being more conscious of the narration inside your head. You need to slow down and notice what you're listening to, which part is running your life.
Just because one is loud, doesn't mean it's more powerful. It only gains energy if you listen to it. It also gains energy if you argue with it. Grab yourself by your ears and redirect your focus.
Notice what stimulates the loud voice and stop feeding it. Perhaps you need to stop listening to the news. Or start listening to the news on a foreign channel. You may find the British and Asian news reports are far less agitating. Perhaps you need to limit contact with certain friends or relatives, so you don't keep replaying conversations with them in your head.
Often the loud voice is most active in the wee hours of the night. Take charge of that time and practice meditation, or affirmations, or decide what you'll do when you win the lottery.
Do things that stimulate your real Inner Voice. Walks in nature, inspirational books, mellow music, whatever supports your soul.
The more you pay attention to your *real* Inner Voice, the stronger your connection with it becomes. Your life reflects your inner talk, and listening to your real Inner Voice brings you real inner peace. You may still be looking for work, or your soul mate, but you remain centered.
This week, notice which voice you're paying attention to inside your head. If your life is hectic and your thoughts are running in circles, that's your fake voice. Make choices to listen and respond to your *real* Inner Voice this week, and notice what happens!
For more articles like this, go to my blog
If you wanted to know more background about the recent bills in VA and other states for alternative currencies to US Dollar (I posted on last weeksee here if you missed it ) and what to do about it you might find this webinar interesting.
I am in process of moving my assets, learning about wild foods and have a store of dry food to last a month. Even if there is a not a financial crisis wild weaather can knock out food access for several weeks. I encourage everyone to be prepared.
Michael
Interesting webcast on Sunday, March 20, 7-10 pm EST.....costs $19 before March 11 ($29 after). Janice
http://www.naturalnews.com/z031548_financial_preparedness.html
Financial preparedness webcast event announced by Health Ranger, Robert Scott Bell
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) NaturalNews editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, is collaborating with radio host Robert Scott Bell to host a live webcast event on Sunday, March 20, to bring NaturalNews readers a collection of economic preparedness strategies. "The global economic storm is approaching," explained Adams. "And many people do not know the simple but extremely important strategies for preparing for it and protecting yourself from it. Our webcast event aims to teach people how to financially and economically prepare for the storm that's fast approaching."
The webcast is a 3-hour audio event with a live chat room and downloadable "action notes." Mike Adams and Robert Scott Bell will present a thoroughly researched and well-documented action plan for "economic preparedness" designed to help insulate people from the coming economic storm.
Many people are unaware of some of the simple things they can do right now to protect themselves. For example, nearly all Americans currently hold their checking and savings accounts in U.S. dollars. The thought of holding their savings in non-U.S. currencies has never occurred to most people. During the webcast, Mike Adams will reveal a simple way to hold assets in non-U.S. currencies using an FDIC-insured bank located right in the United States! There's nothing illegal or illicit about it. It's just a perfectly legal banking option that virtually no one knows about.
Beyond that, there is the question of whether banks are a safe place to hold money at all. That, too, will be discussed in detail, along with diversification strategies to help keep you financially safe even if the entire fractional reserve global banking system goes under.
The event is called Be Prepared, Not Scared! - Series 1 - Economic Survival.
For full details on what's covered in the webcast event, visit:
www.NaturalNews.com/EconomicSurviva...
What's ahead in 2011, 2012 and beyond
This "Be Prepared, Not Scared!" event was organized by Adams and Bell based on the widespread recognition that the current economic climate of the world is simply unsustainable. With riots and revolutions taking place throughout the Middle East, and even U.S. workers nearly revolting against the state in places like Madison, Wisconsin, Adams and Bell realized time was growing short for people to prepare for things like:
• Widespread job, salary and entitlement cuts
• A possible collapse (rapid value deflation) of the U.S. dollar
• An increase in financial desperation among the public
• Skyrocketing prices of gold and silver
• The possibility of government price controls on food
• The coming financial collapse of cities, states and nations
Most people are simply not yet prepared to protect themselves from these events which now seem increasingly realistic with each passing day.
"A typical American who follows the advice of President Obama or any mainstream media source will likely find themselves penniless in a dollar collapse scenario," explained Mike Adams. "Most people have bet their lives on the dollar or whatever their local currency happens to be. Very few people have taken the simple but necessary steps to insulate themselves from the financial storm and outbreaks of street violence that will undoubtedly occur in an economic collapse scenario," Adams explained. He points to Egypt, Libya, Iran and China as other examples of the rising storm of public discontent due, in large part, to failed economic policies and the global debt Ponzi scheme.
But the event is not focused on fear -- it's focused on solutions. That's why it's called "Be Prepared, Not Scared!" It isn't about creating fear in people but rather about creating confidence in the ability to face the unknown future with a sense of security. "This is about looking ahead at what might happen in our world and taking prudent steps right now to be better prepared for economic turmoil," explained Robert Scott Bell.
Learn more on the event announcement page at:
www.NaturalNews.com/EconomicSurviva...
Some of the financial preparedness strategies that will be unveiled during the live event include:
• What's likely to happen in the first 7 days following a global banking collapse.
• The inevitable collapse of Medicare and Social Security.
• What items you can acquire right now that are "more valuable than gold".
• How to survive and even thrive in a barter economy.
• Which skills will keep you employed in a deep economic depression.
• Why government price controls will lead to widespread food shortages.
• Ten things you should stop purchasing right now, and ten other things you should start buying instead.
The live webcast event promises to deliver considerably more information, too, in a practical, action-oriented format that's easy for people to follow.
Preparedness is smart to follow and easy to learn
While neither Adams nor Bell are licensed financial advisors, they are veterans of the preparedness movement ("preppers"), and they both have studied and practiced the principles of intelligent preparedness for more than fifteen years. The event does not offer personal financial or investment advice. Rather, it provides a set of uncensored, well-researched and non-traditional strategies for economic survival when the economic storm strikes.
Strategies of financial preparedness are rarely discussed in the mainstream media or even in regular social circles because nobody wants to admit the current system of runaway global debt is now approaching a catastrophic collapse.
"Many people are talking about the likelihood of a significant economic meltdown. But no one is talking realistically about what that meltdown might entail. I think that is partly because it is too scary to contemplate, partly because no one wants it to happen. I believe we will see an economic reset on a global scale. The current levels of insolvency among Westernized nations are unsustainable. We will see a reset that dissolves the rules currently governing international economics and forces a complete economic and social restructuring on the planet." - Damon Vickers, author, The Day After the Dollar Crashes.
"America is on the brink of financial collapse. Decades of political overpromising and underfunding have created a wave of debt that could swamp our already feeble economy." - Tom Woods, author, Rollback: Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse.
Attendance is strictly limited for this upcoming event because it is steamed live, in real time. It all begins Sunday, March 20 at 7pm Eastern / 4pm Pacific. International listeners are welcome to join, although most of the information and resources delivered in the event will cater to North Americans.
The event includes the ability to listen to the audio archive after the live broadcast so that you can hear it again or play the event for a friend or family member who also needs to learn about economic preparedness.
Learn more at this page:
www.NaturalNews.com/EconomicSurviva...
In the mean time, be safe! Invest widely. And don't put all your eggs in one basket... especially if that basket is the U.S. dollar.
This resonates with me - we experience what we believe. I saw a Joe Dispensa (sp?)video yesterday at Vicki's spiritual group on "Changing your mind" and how hard that can be do do when much of our habits are in the subconscious mind (aka body) and are "hardwired. Perhaps that is our job now - to clear the old habits and hardwiring
Michael
We only see what we believe... Experience creates belief, belief creates
thought, thought creates action (production of chemicals eg, peptides in the
body) which we interpret as a feeling. A thought combined with a feeling in the
body creates an internal experience. Experience validates belief, which in turn
creates a positive mind/body feedback system...
We then create external experiences to validate our beliefs and to cause the
production of more peptides (which are the molecules of our emotions), hence the
human drama of life patterning and addiction.
The re-creating of the past in the present is what becomes our perceived Œnormal
or usual¹, what we focus on. Simply, this is because the more we have a
particular experience the more a particular peptide is produced and the more our
bodies build cell receptors to receive the most frequently produced peptide from
the hypothalamus and from other areas of the body (Mastering the Art of
Observation, 2005).
The more cell receptors, the more we need to create experiences that cause our
body to produce more peptides to fit those cell receptors, this is the mind/body
emotional feedback system. This is the physical basis of addiction and of why
people perceive some things to be Œnormal¹ (its what we become used to
chemically in our bodies) and other things to not be normal and why focus on
particular things and not others.
In her book Molecules of Emotion Dr Candace Pert writes:
³Emotions are constantly regulating what we experience as ³reality². The
decisions about what sensory information travels to your brain and what gets
filtered out depends on what signals the receptors are receiving from the
peptides. There is a plethora of elegant neurophysiological data suggesting that
the nervous system is not capable of taking in everything, but can only scan the
outer world for material that it is prepared to find by virtue of its wiring
hookups, its own internal patterns, and its past experience. The superior
colliculus in the midbrain, another nodal point of neuropeptide receptors,
controls the muscles that direct the eyeball, and effects which images are
permitted to fall on the retina and hence to be seen² (1997, pp. 147 & 148).
So what we are seeing and looking at in everyday life, and what controls the
steering of the eyeballs is governed by what peptides our cells are needing, or
in other words what emotional state we are addicted to. Hence, we will
only see what we believe... Andrew
The mind dramatically affects drug effectiveness
Mar 2
posted by Michael Smith in
Spirit, Health
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This study shows the mind and patient beliefs dramatically affect drug effects both able to increase the effect and descrease it - not just on a pain scale but in actual physically measurable functioning. Makes you wonder if everyday thoughts are just as important to control... :-)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110226212356.htm
The Oxford University team, along with colleagues from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany, Cambridge University, and the Technische Universität München, set out to investigate these effects among 22 healthy adult volunteers by giving them an opioid drug and manipulating their expectations of the pain relief they might receive at different points.
The volunteers were placed in an MRI scanner and heat applied to the leg at a level where it begins to hurt -- set so that each individual rated the pain at 70 on a scale of 1 to 100. An intravenous line for administration of a potent opioid drug for pain relief was also introduced.
After an initial control run, unknown to the participants, the team started giving the drug to see what effects there would be in the absence of any knowledge or expectation of treatment. The average initial pain rating of 66 went down to 55.
The volunteers were then told that the drug would start being administered, although no change was actually made and they continued receiving the opioid at the same dose. The average pain ratings dropped further to 39.
Finally, the volunteers were led to believe the drug had been stopped and cautioned that there may be a possible increase in pain. Again, the drug was still being administered in the same way with no change. Their pain intensity increased to 64. That is, the pain was as great as in the absence of any pain relief at the beginning of the experiment.
The researchers used brain imaging to confirm the participants' reports of pain relief. MRI scans showed that the brain's pain networks responded to different extents according to the volunteers' expectations at each stage, and matching their reports of pain.
This showed the volunteers really did experience different levels of pain when their expectations were changed, although the administration of pain relief remained constant.
Professor Tracey notes that these results have been seen in a small, healthy group of volunteers, and that these are short-term, not sustained, manipulations of the participants' beliefs about the treatment.
But she says it's important not to underestimate the strength of the effect of such expectations on any treatment, and that clinicians need to know how to manage that.
Professor Tracey says there may also be lessons for the design of clinical trials. These are often carried out comparing a candidate drug against a dummy pill to see if there is any effect of a drug above and beyond that of the placebo.'We should control for the effect of people's expectations on the results of any clinical trial. At the very least we should make sure we minimize any negative expectations to make sure we're not masking true efficacy in a trial drug.'
How to overcome the addiction to partner?
Mar 2
posted by Michael Smith in
Relationship, 2012
| 0 Comments
I liked this. I have been working on eliminating "I will miss you" from
my vocabulary and instead focus on what is here now. Missing is an
emotion of lack for me and I chose to focus on what I do have.
love
M/M
[email protected] wrote:
A reply from some time ago…
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Your addiction to your partner...
When you base your feeling of happiness on something outside of yourself
it does not work ?- you will never feel fully fulfilled.
Your feeling of well-being is dependant on something that is not under
your control.
If they were to die, or leave, you would have a choice: curl up and be
depressed; find another partner - with whom to depend upon for happiness;
be with yourself and feel what you are feeling.
If you look to the past, or the future, you are not here.
The depth of the state of well-being is in this moment. Only this moment.
If you look back you are not here; if you look forward you are not here.
Life/living is here now. Now.
Missing something is not here; looking forward to something is not here.
And there is only here. Missing something equals not being here; looking
forward to something equals not being here.
When your partner is not there, be where you are, in each moment.
When the mind goes one nanosecond to the past, or future, you will not be
here now, and you will feel missing. Be in each moment ? just each moment,
and be with how it is, or take responsibility, and change it.
Either be here, and feel what you are feeling, or go there, but not here
complaining about not being there. Be responsible.
If you have decided to be where you are, and your partner is not there (or
even if they are there) just be with who you are, in that very moment.
Do not listen to the addictive process of the mind. Be where you are,
exactly as you are. If you are away, and missing them, and you have
decided to stay away, just feel exactly what you are feeling, and accept
it.
Don’t complain it is not intelligent.
(In the film What the Bleep one scientist keeps saying that when you look
at
an object, say, a chair, a certain part of the brain is activated. If you
are blindfolded and asked to think of the chair, the same part of the brain
is activated in exactly the same way. So when we look ? do we see a chair,
or our brain activation? When we see our partner, do we see out partner,
or our brain simulation?)
I have read Druvalo's Flower of Life books (interesting info on human history and UFOs) and watch some of his videos - good stuff. Now a look at were we might be going and a reminder to clear. I have been clearing since I came to Bolivia. Just learned Ana B'Koach meditation and boy is it clearing me more!
Coming to a consciousness very near to what you call you. An absolute Must Watch! To the end.(Thank you for sending Monica.)Drunvalo seems to be talking about the same things I have been attemptingto share (even with myself) - on a much more
expanded level, and withseemingly much, much more conscious experience and knowledge.At one level, he is sharing the same information I have had come through.The things I resonate with is that something is coming about which we have no facility with which to to identify. New. As he says: Exciting!
As I see it, the time for the personal is over. The Experiment Is Over. For a smooth transition, this new possibility needs to be our every moment unconditional priority.The priority now is to take care of clearing up. Everything.Unconditionally. Now.(And it could be that this is just one level of consciousness as well.)<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6aGCmoWtgY> Sending you
all lots of love Paul Lowe
