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How to get rid of Negative thoughts /Negative emotions ~

“The Awareness Plan” ~ Kapil Jain

Many times, there are situations which create negative self talk and generate negative emotions. We have no control on the negative thoughts which cross our minds. However we can control our behavior to such negative thoughts. The key lies in understanding the difference between reacting vis-à-vis responding.

Reaction is a spontaneous action, an impulsive and involuntary action towards a situation without any thought or awareness. Whereas, a Response is a controlled action/inaction which is carried under full awareness of the consequences.

How can one develop this wonderful habit so that it becomes a part our being.

Create a “The Awareness Plan”
It’s actually only a list of Things that I can do in any given situation that will make me an aware person. Here are my favorite 4 Things.

1. Focus on Breath. This can be done 3-4 times a day & in any place. Close your eyes and take slow deep breaths around 20-25 times and then get back to what you were doing.

2. Smile at people you don’t know (as well as people that you do know). This creates a positive vibration within in your subconscious and makes you a happy person in general

3. Take a walk in nature, preferably early morning. Look, listen, smell and touch as much of nature as you possibly can. Nature does not hurry, yet everything is established. Associating self with nature is an Incredible, powerful, meaningful and peaceful experience. It helps you to reach within.

4. Listen to your favorite music. Lao Tzu has said “Music in the soul can be heard by the universe”

So go ahead and create your awareness plan in your journey towards self discovery and inner peace and ultimately Being happy –

Remember : “We primarily grow as human beings by discovering new truths about ourselves and our reality.” – Steve Pavlina

1. Every year, the Earth experiences an average of 2.5 crore lightning strikes during some 100,000 thunderstorms. That’s more than a hundred lightning bolts per second.

2. Lightning bolts travel at speeds of up to 96000 km per second.

3. The temperature of a typical lightning bolt can reach 30,000 °C – that is about 5 times greater than the temperature of the surface of the Sun.

4. The energy contained in a single lightning strike can power a 100 Watt light bulb for

Worrying is like a rocking chair which keeps us busy but gets us nowhere. Most people worry about aging and getting old. Aging is a process and we are destined to grow old. Be aware. Enjoy the process. Use your experience and be grateful ~ For life itself is a blessing So, Just Live your life and Forget your age.

Before you speak, listen.
Before you write, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you retire, save.
Before you invest, investigate.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit, try.
Before you die, give.

1905. American beer is watery.
1906. It's too late for cherries.
Cherry season's already gone.
1937. It's really hot today, isn't it?
It's very hot today, isn't it?
1939. I'm about to melt.
I'm going to melt.
1956. The sun is cooking us.
The sun is frying us.
The sun is grilling us. /
1957. I hate the scorching sun in the summer!
I can't stand the scorching sun in the summer.
1958. Seems like it's gonna be hot again today.
It looks like it'll get quite hot again today.
1960. It's too hot to do anything.
We can't do anything in this heat.
1961. The heat drains my energy.

Hello, I am new here.

Cuisine creates the world

Cuisine is the most accessible parts of a culture. It is the first point of real physical contact with a different society. The very essence of the pleasure of traveling is to learn about any of the differences of the lands you are visiting. Among these is the differences between cuisines.
Cooking is an art that has always benn developed by amateurs, or to be more precise, by professionals who have never been recognized as such because they were women. Then the great chefs elaborated it. The joy of cooking derives from an interest in the taste of food and the sheer delight of satisfying the guests.
The search for provisions, from indispensable staples to the luxury of spices, has shaped the development of human societies. The food problems have led to conflicts, trade and the discovery of the New World.

2041. I'm not a good golf player.
I'm not good at playing golf.
2042. I spend my free time playing golf.
My free time goes in playing golf.
2043. I play golf just for laughs.
I play golf for a bit of relaxation.
2044. Golf is his passion.
He has a passion for golf.
2045. See how I swing the golf club.
2046. Grip the golf club like this.
2047. Sunflowers turn toward the sun.
2048. The wind chime makes us feel cooler.
2050. I will spend a day deep in the mountains.
2051. I enjoyed listening to cicadas.
I enjoyed listening to the sound of cicadas.
I enjoyed listening to the chirping of the cicadas.
2052. We go to mountains to get away from the heat.
We go to mountains to escape from the heat.
1772. This guy struck out again!
1774. I'll challenge you in tennis.
I'll take you on at tennis.
1877. New York is a shopper's paradise.
If you like to shop, New York is the place to go!

Mensa used to be the only place for bright sparks. Now a young New Yorker is challenging the old guard of the IQ world - and turning his mega-mind from puzzles to world peace.
You may not recognise the name Andrew Nierman, but he is the World's Smartest Person, a title bestowed upon him earlier this year by the International High IQ Society, after he correctly answered 22 out of 25 questions in the Haselbauer-Dickheiser Test for Exceptional Intelligence. Among the things he knew was the maximum number of one-inch diameter spheres that can be packed into a box 10 inches square and five inches deep. He also knew how many pieces a doughnut can be cut into using three simultaneous plane cuts, and he determined the breeding strategies of the Furble, both dominator and sharer types, while analysing their territorial habits and attitudes with particular regard to bravery and cautiousness.
Nierman is an American, and he was one question cleverer than Hakan Yilmaz from England and Carvin Toy from Canada, and four questions cleverer than Loh Zhi Jun from Singapore. Among the three questions he got wrong, two have never been answered correctly by anyone. One requires figuring out the length of the side of a shaded square nestling within a larger square of 21 other squares of various sizes (with no dimensions on any of them), and the other requires deciphering this cryptogram of a well-known phrase:
AFFDXVXAAAGXXDF
More than 60,000 people have taken a shot at this question online, but the only people who know the answer are the two friends - Nathan Haselbauer and Mike Dickheiser - who devised the test. (Any 'answers' that you may find online are, they say, incorrect.) Haselbauer, a 28-year-old New Yorker with a big smile but virtually no hair, used to earn a lot of money on Wall Street but found the work intellectually stultifying. After trading stock options for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, he wanted to discuss books or religion, but found that his colleagues preferred football or cars. He thought about joining Mensa, the best-known club for clever people seeking bright companions, and sent off for a home test. He passed and was invited to a supervised test, but by this time he was getting bored with the process.
'I thought, in the day of the internet, is this the most efficient way of doing things? All those delays and waiting around for results. I wanted to sign up for a high IQ society that wasn't like that, but then I looked around and there were none.'

'A lot of our members are outcasts,' Haselbauer told me. 'They were geeks at school, never had many friends, they weren't really good with women. Then they come on to the site and they open right up. All of a sudden they love this. They think, "No one's going to come in here and make fun of me."'
The IHIQS also has an online novel in progress, and debating contests in which each participant is assigned a topic such as nuclear power and then has to argue both for and against. But Haselbauer has much higher hopes for his society than such highbrow but meaningless pastimes.
'This is where it gets really wild,' he told me. 'We can harness all this intelligence to solve real problems.' In effect, he has created an unpaid international online think-tank, and he is figuring out how best to employ it. Some members have compiled a dossier extolling the virtues of free trade for developing countries, but there are also practical possibilities. 'I have a member who's in the US navy, and he pointed out that the navy spends hundreds of millions of dollars repainting their ships because the salt in the water strips the paint. But the salt charge is just a simple negative ion, and electricity emits positive ions, so maybe if we put a little electric charge through the ship it wouldn't rust. But this guy is not a scientist, so then we enlist the support of a PhD in material sciences who is also a member, and he puts together a team to solve the problem. It could make a lasting impact on the world.'
The day after he told me this, I visited Haselbauer in his midtown apartment and we sat by his computer as he monitored the forums. He spoke about recruiting more women members, and about a couple in Australia who met online during a trivia night and are getting married soon. He then showed me a few puzzles he had lined up for the next World's Smartest Person competition, due to launch in a few weeks.
'This is a sequential matrix,' he said, handing me a sheet of paper that looked like a tablecloth from a psychedelic nightclub. It wasn't even clear what the question was. 'Things are moving around,' he explained with glee. 'The Xs turn into triangles, and triangles turn into circles and the colours change over. Only about one in 400,000 people will get it. It's almost unsolvable!'