When he was a child, Dr. Donald L. Unger’s mother warned him that if he keeps on cracking the knuckles he will get arthritis when he gets older.
So he decided to conduct an experiment. An experiment that lasted whole 60 years!
Dr. Unger cracked the knuckles on his left hand every single day for 60 years. He never cracked the knuckles on his right hand that entire time.
The result of his 60 year long experiment is THIS:
“There is not the slightest sign of arthritis in either hand.”
So there it is, the famous myth that cracking your knuckles causes arthritis is officially debunked by Dr. Unger. If anything, he proved his mother wrong.
The human body is a remarkable machine. So many things work together to create balance and harmony and yet, the body holds an amazing potential still undiscovered. In our defense we are all born without a manual so we need to learn its secrets along the way.
If we learn what buttons to push and what shortcuts to take we can manage the functions of our body for our own benefit. Even our emotions and feelings.
Here is a sweet shortcut that will relieve you from this unpleasant feeling:
Nervousness
It sounds strange, but to be calmed down and went back to normal – try to blow your thumb for 60 seconds. Because it is responsible for the so-called vagus nerve – the vagus nerve, which is a literal connection between body and mind, is responsible for our “gut feeling” – the combination of slowing down your breathing and stimulating your thumb with cool air results in a state of relaxation. It will relieve you from feeling nervous.
This is a powerful trick that will help you in moments before an important interview, public speech or an argument with your partner.
Do you think it’s possible that we all live inside a giant brain? According to a study published in Nature’s Scientific Reports, the universe may be growing in the same way as a giant brain – with the electrical firing between brain cells ‘mirrored’ by the shape of expanding galaxies. The results of a computer simulation suggest that “natural growth dynamics” – the way that systems evolve – are the same for different kinds of networks – whether its the internet, the human brain or the universe as a whole.
When the team compared the universe’s history with growth of social networks and brain circuits, they found all the networks expanded in similar ways: They balanced links between similar nodes with ones that already had many connections. For instance, a cat lover surfing the Internet may visit mega-sites such as Google or Yahoo, but will also browse cat fancier websites or YouTube kitten videos. In the same way, neighboring brain cells like to connect, but neurons also link to such “Google brain cells” that are hooked up to loads of other brain cells.
In other words, everything seems to be governed by the same laws and principals. It’s no wonder images from celestial events look frighteningly similar to images of human body parts. As above so below, as inside so outside.
The implication of this theory is nothing less than majestic. We are, literally, The Universe on a smaller scale. We are GODS of our Inner Worlds and disciples of the Outer World. The shape of one thought inside our heads mirrors the structure of galaxies above us. Everything around us is a part of some ONENESS, some larger being, just like your thoughts are a part of you.
The Thomas family knew something was wrong with their new adopted child when the seemingly sweet girl unexpectedly killed a nest of innocent baby birds and also attacked her brother while he was asleep. When they spoke to her, however, the 6 year old girl smiled, apologized and said she understood that what she did was bad and it would stop. But things only got worse.
Soon Beth attacked her little brother so badly that the boy had to be sent to hospital and receive stitches. The little girl repeatedly smashed his face into the concrete floor.
The family immediately contacted the adoption agent about Beth’s past but due to confidentiality laws she explained she was not at liberty to disclose this info but recommended they see a special child psychologist.
Without even flinching an eye or conceding any emotional feeling whatsoever, when asked what she planned to do to with the knives she stole out of her family’s dish washer, little 6 year old Beth Thomas plainly states “Kill John and mommy with them, and daddy.”
This was part of a documentary series entitled Child of Rage disturbing behaviors cited are her torturing the dog and other animals, harming her brother, tearing her room apart and fondling her grandfather. It was later discovered that the little girl was the victim of extreme child violence and sex abuse, which led to what is termed reactive attachment disorder.
After a great deal of therapy though, Beth was able to recover and completely freed of her toxic thoughts and ways from before!
Isn’t it amazing how looking into her eyes now and back then tells you exactly what’s going on inside her? They really are windows to the soul!
Today Beth is a registered nurse who also helps children with similar conditions to hers from before. This goes to show you the power of love, backed by hard work, is stronger than the power of hate!
No matter how gone the humanity appears to be in someone there is always a chance to bring it back into their hearts. This is a proof that with love, kindness and proper care you can save even a psychopath from their heartlessness.
The spirit of humanity is not something you are born with, but a way of living produced over generations of humans who chose love over hate; courage over fear; and it can be learned. Once it is learned and acted upon it will become a part of you.
If you don’t believe it I don’t blame you. It really is a hard fact to believe. Wait? What did I said? A fact?
Yes! The proof of this happening is in front of our eyes. The placebo effect holds some of the answer to this secret. The placebo effect has always been a big problem for the medical establishment.
The Spontaneous Remission Project is a database of over 3500 case studies from the medical literature. It contains a multitude of cases where patients have recovered from what were seemingly incurable illnesses.
According to Lissa Rankin, the real secret might be hidden behind the nurturing care of doctors and nurses.
When they tell you with a beaming smile that you’re going to be fine and that the drugs you just received (sugar pills) are incredibly effective and without side effects, you get a large release of healing chemicals and neurotransmitters like endorphins, nitric oxide and the love chemical oxytocin with its amazing healing capabilities.
No wonder kids’ first instinct is to kiss something that is hurt. Instinctively we know that love heals and creates harmony. We don’t know it produces certain chemicals that do the trick, but we instinctively know it’s the right direction.
This response is only turned on when you’re totally relaxed. This goes to show how important it is to find that place of inner peace in your life.
When doctors tell you that things look bleak and that you might have 3 more months to live, it triggers a fear response. The Amygdala signals to the adrenal glands that you’re in danger, triggering production and release of large amounts of stress hormones. These stress hormones, like cortisol and adrenaline shuts down your immune system.
Just a couple of weeks ago, researchers at the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine made a discovery which will forever alter the way we look at the brain, concluding that there is adirect connection between the brain and the immune system. (Source)
Many other researches show amazing things happening once a person regains control of their mind.
In the words of Sadhguru (a wise mystic who have helped and cured a lot of people through various types of alternative healing) “We created this body from inside. So the manufacturer of this body is inside. So if you have a repair job to be done, would you like to go to the manufacturer or the local mechanic?”
Medical science has prolonged life and there is no question about that. However, by having access to the source of that which created your body definitely you can fix every problem that arises from inside of yourself. What is happening from within you can be very easily handled from within you.
But if something happens from without you, if something harms you from the outer world than you need to contact “the manufacturer” but also “the local mechanic” for a fix. If you get wounded or a virus enters your organism, the manufacturer can help but the mechanic needs to help you too.
“There are 2 kinds of ailments, infectious and chronic. Infectious ailments happen to you because of an external invasion to your organism. You must go to the doctor. Don’t try to meditate on it.” says Sadhguru with a smile on his face. “70% of the ailments on the planet are self created. I am saying self created because they happen from within you.”
If we understand that we are the force that created our body not the body per se, we can learn how to unlock our mind’s true power to heal ourselves.
Balance and harmony are things we should strive for. Your choices matter. If you poison your body with things that benefit your pleasure centers more than they benefit the harmony of your organism than you are, in a way, making things harder for your organism to maintain balance and harmony.
Armed with this knowledge and future research we will have to rethink how we keep people alive, healthy and thriving.
Even though it sounds like science fiction IT’S NOT! A couple of days ago Russian scientists successfully created a technology that can alter the protons of an atom and change the atom itself making one element from another.
This (possibly historical) discovery was made public after a couple of successful tests in which chemical elements were transmuted to become other elements. This concludes a dinasty of researches trying to turn “lead into gold”
THIS IS POSSIBLY THE MOST POWERFUL DISCOVERY OF SCIENCE IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND!
The scientists are focused not on turning “lead into gold” but creating a certain element which can only be superficially created for the purpose of fueling spacecraft. However, this can be a revolution in almost every industry considering this technology can be tweaked to turn any element into any other. However, we’ll see what politics will make of this.
Earlier this year, Japan launched a groundbreaking black-hole-monitoring satellite—only to lose control of it almost immediately under strange circumstances.
When Hitomi died, though, researchers also announced that they’d managed to scrape a little bit of data from the satellite and would be detailing it in upcoming papers. Now, we finally can see what Hitomi did right before it died.
Image Credit: Hitomi Collaboration JAXA, NASA, ESA, SRON, CSA
This is the last image Japan’s lost satellite saw. Despite showing a majestic view of the Perseus Cluster (a galaxy cluster 240 million light years away with a supermassive black hole at its center), it has some fascinating implications for what we know about the role of black holes in galaxy formation.
“Black holes very effectively control the growth rate of galaxies.” – Brian McNamara
“The surprise is that it turns out that the energy being pumped out of the black hole is being very efficiently absorbed,” co-author Brian McNamara of the University of Waterloo told Gizmodo. “This hot gas that we’re looking at with Hitomi is the stuff of the future, it’s the gas out of which galaxies form. There is much more of this hot gas than there are stars in the galaxy, or there’s more stuff that wasn’t made into galaxies than that was.”
That means that nearby black holes play a big role in the eventual size of a galaxy. “What it shows is that black holes very effectively control the growth rate of galaxies,” said McNamara.
The Universe exists as a balance between opposite forces. If one of these forces weakens the other grows stronger therefore, the balance is gone.
Black holes give energy that later transforms into galaxies, however, they also sucks up galaxies that already exist. This is that balance in action.
Even though we see black holes as something terrible they might just as well be a key element for the existence of life in The Universe and who knows, maybe everything started from a single black hole which dispersed energy.
Of course, the finding underscores how little we still know about the role of black holes in galaxy formation. It also gives us a tantalizing look at how much promise the satellite held before it was lost.
“It’s a huge loss, because just from that glimpse we can see the wonderful science that might have been over the next five years,” said McNamara. “We had a whole landscape of planned observations and that first glimpse we got with the detector shows the richness of what we could find. There were surely discoveries that would have been made when we opened that window.”
However, considering the things we still need to explore scientists need to keep pushing their limits. Even though there have been many attempts resulting in a loss of a satellite, McNamara is still hopeful to give the world eyes into the unexplored realms of The Universe “We’re hoping we can still get one there.” said McNamara.
