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Find those persons with whom you are comfortable. Find those persons in whose presence you feel more energetic, more creative, and more able to pursue your life goals. Stay away from persons who make you feel apprehensive, or who influence you to doubt yourself. Especially, stay away from those persons who drain you, so that your energy is all used up in trying to maintain the relationship. - Dennis F. Augustine
Find those persons with whom you are comfortable. Find those persons in whose presence you feel more energetic, more creative, and more able to pursue your life goals. Stay away from persons who make you feel apprehensive, or who influence you to doubt yourself. Especially, stay away from those persons who drain you, so that your energy is all used up in trying to maintain the relationship. - Dennis F. Augustine
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Movement based mind body interventions such as yoga, tai chi and qigong are effective "therapies" for treating low back pain is the conclusion of a new study. According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, around 80% of adults in the United States experience low back pain at some point in their lives. Current most used treatments include medications such as opioids and surgery.
Because of the high cost of medical intervention and the addiction implications of opioid use, authors of the study wanted to see if inexpensive and addiction free mind body therapies could be effective. Authors of the new review explained that chronic low back pain “often contributes to emotional distress, including depression, anxiety, sleep disturbance, and social isolation,” and “no effective treatment has been identified.”
Following a thorough search of the existing research papers, the authors found 32 studies that met their criteria. These included 3,484 participants. Twenty-five of the studies focused on yoga, four examined tai chi, and three looked at qigong. Here is their conclusion:
"A majority of the 32 reviewed articles showed [movement-based mind-body interventions] to be effective for treatment of [low back pain], reporting positive outcomes such as reduction in pain or psychological distress (e.g., depression and anxiety), reduction in pain-related disability, and improved functional ability.”
(source: Medical News Today)
Because of the high cost of medical intervention and the addiction implications of opioid use, authors of the study wanted to see if inexpensive and addiction free mind body therapies could be effective. Authors of the new review explained that chronic low back pain “often contributes to emotional distress, including depression, anxiety, sleep disturbance, and social isolation,” and “no effective treatment has been identified.”
Following a thorough search of the existing research papers, the authors found 32 studies that met their criteria. These included 3,484 participants. Twenty-five of the studies focused on yoga, four examined tai chi, and three looked at qigong. Here is their conclusion:
"A majority of the 32 reviewed articles showed [movement-based mind-body interventions] to be effective for treatment of [low back pain], reporting positive outcomes such as reduction in pain or psychological distress (e.g., depression and anxiety), reduction in pain-related disability, and improved functional ability.”
(source: Medical News Today)
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All that we perceive is a projection of our sense limitations,
our emotional distortions, our labels and concepts, our previous
experiences, and our habitual tendencies. - Tashi Nyima
our emotional distortions, our labels and concepts, our previous
experiences, and our habitual tendencies. - Tashi Nyima
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“There is no doubt in my mind that Buddhism is a religion. It has rituals, traditions, schools and hierarchical structures. However, Buddhist philosophy in it’s purest form, is just a set of principles to help you become awake to the life that you have so that you can live it more completely. If we go back to the original ideas and strip away thee extras, if we take the ‘ism’ out of what a brother named Buddha tuaght, then it’s no more and no less than a way of planning your life. It’s setting up ykour social structures and actively engaging your time on this planet by waking up and getting a fundamental grasp on what’s really important.” - Angel Kyodo Williams
(Being Black by Angel Kyodo Williams)
(Being Black by Angel Kyodo Williams)
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In everyday life this is one of the greatest problems we have,
the way we cause problems because of our speech, especially in
relationships: how we can hurt each other with wrong speech....
The Buddha encouraged us to speak gentle words,
kind words, helpful words, words which can be healing to others.
On the other hand we can hurt another person with our words,
they can be more harmful, they can hurt another person, more
than something physical. - Godwin Samarartne
the way we cause problems because of our speech, especially in
relationships: how we can hurt each other with wrong speech....
The Buddha encouraged us to speak gentle words,
kind words, helpful words, words which can be healing to others.
On the other hand we can hurt another person with our words,
they can be more harmful, they can hurt another person, more
than something physical. - Godwin Samarartne
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Vegetarianism was for thousands of years a principle of health and environmental ethics throughout India. Though Muslim and Christian colonization radically undermined and eroded this ideal, it remains to this day a cardinal ethic of Hindu thought and practice.
- Hinduism Today Magazine
- Hinduism Today Magazine
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In his book A Code of Jewish Ethics (Vol 1) Rabbi Joseph Telushkin stresses the importance of expressing gratitude and showing appreciation to someone who was kind enough to help us. He offers four ways of doing this:
1. Remember and acknowledge the good done even by those who later do wrong.
2. Never use a persons bad deeds as an excuse to forget or ignore the good that person has done.
3. Show gratitude not only to those who help you, but to those who help the people you love.
4. If possible, return the kindness by helping not just the person who was helpful to you but also to his or her family.
1. Remember and acknowledge the good done even by those who later do wrong.
2. Never use a persons bad deeds as an excuse to forget or ignore the good that person has done.
3. Show gratitude not only to those who help you, but to those who help the people you love.
4. If possible, return the kindness by helping not just the person who was helpful to you but also to his or her family.
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We can see people putting great effort into achieving their dreams. However, many give up their endeavors once they face obstacles and discouragement. One will be annihilated when one ceases to move forward. - Hsing Yun
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The Buddha's patience is not the patience of a water buffalo who simply endures the work and punishments imposed on it. Instead, it’s the patience of a warrior who, despite wounds and setbacks, never abandons the desire to come out victorious.
- Thanissaro Bhikkhu
- Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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It is important for us also sometimes to think of the good things we have done. This can give us lots of joy, lots of happiness, lots of lightness, and it will also be an incentive to do more and more such actions of love. - Godwin Samararatne