Children growing up without fathers in the picture is tough on everyone. What do you do when your child doesn’t understand why ‘daddy’ isn’t around? If your child doesn’t know who their earthly father is because they left, walked away, started another life somewhere else, etc., gently remind your child that their Heavenly father is saying He is proud of you and that you have a bright future ahead of you to look forward to and that He loves you. Don’t allow the child to feel inadequate or think it was something that the child did to make the father leave. Remind the child that they are a prized possession, a blessing and a joy. It’s one thing if the father passed on to the next realm or is fighting for our safety oversea's but to have them still around and walking and talking and not taking a part in the child’s life is so sad. After all, he (the male parent) is missing out on a tremendous joy. It is the father’s loss. After all, any man can be a father, but it takes a special man to be a daddy. Brightest blessings.
And to all the mothers out there that are both - mother and father to a child - Happy Fathers Day to you!
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Happy Father's Day to all the dad's out there.
A little boy goes to his father and asks "Daddy, how was I born?"
The father answers, "Well, son, I guess one day you will need to find out anyway! Your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on Yahoo. Then I set up a date via e-mail with your Mom and we met at a cyber-cafe. We sneaked into a secluded room, where your mother agreed to a download from my hard drive. As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered that neither one of us had used a firewall, and since it was too late to hit the delete button, nine months later a little Pop-Up appeared that said:
"You got Male!"
The father answers, "Well, son, I guess one day you will need to find out anyway! Your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on Yahoo. Then I set up a date via e-mail with your Mom and we met at a cyber-cafe. We sneaked into a secluded room, where your mother agreed to a download from my hard drive. As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered that neither one of us had used a firewall, and since it was too late to hit the delete button, nine months later a little Pop-Up appeared that said:
"You got Male!"
3900 Saturdays
I received an email a few months ago and saved it due to the perspective it gave me. I have finally found some free time so I can write some blogs and catch up on emails, readings, phone calls, etc., that I have fallen behind in due to my hectic schedule. I hope you take the time to read this and give it a ponder. Feel free to comment on your thoughts. Brightest blessings to all.
3900 Saturdays - author unknown.
So many of us get busy with our jobs, errands and to do lists. Jobs may pay you well but it's a shame to have to be away from home and your family so much. Hard to believe that anyone should have to work sixty or seventy hours a week to make ends meet but it is not a rare occurance in this day and age - happens all the time and if not with one job then a person may hold two jobs just to stay above water especially with the way inflation is going up - in fact, everything is going up: gas prices, electric, food, cable, water, taxes (property and state) etc. It's too bad you missed your daughter's dance recital, your son's Holiday concert, a friends birthday party or the cookout due to your obligations for work or because you were away for work or you were just to damn run down and tired, but it does happen. Let me tell you something that has helped me keep my own priorities-the theory of a "thousand marbles."
You see, I sat down one day and did a little arithmetic. The average person lives about seventy-five years. I know some live more and some live less, but on average, folks live about seventy-five years. Now I multiplied 75 times 52 and I came up with 3,900, which is the number of Saturdays that the average person has in their entire lifetime. Now stick with me, I'm getting to the important part. It took me until I was fifty-five years old to think about all this in any detail, and by that time, I had lived through over twenty-eight hundred Saturdays. I got to thinking that if I lived to be seventy-five, I only had about a thousand of them left to enjoy. So I went to a toy store and bought every single marble they had. I ended up having to visit three toy stores to round up 1,000 marbles. I took them home and put them inside a large, clear plastic container. Every Saturday since then, I have taken one marble out and thrown it away. I found that by watching the marbles diminish, I focused more on the really important things in life. There's nothing like watching your time here on this earth run out to help get your priorities straight.
Now let me tell you one last thing before I sign off with you and take my lovely wife/husband/family out for breakfast/dinner. This morning, I took the very last marble out of the container. I figure that if I make it until next Saturday then I have been given a little extra time. And the one thing we can all use is a little more time.
Make the most of things always - whether it be negative, turn it into a positive. Go out and do something different or something you have always wanted to do, go meet some people, get together with friends. Remember life here is very short and there is no room to go back and redo things, just move forward and do the best you can.
If this message would have been heard on a radio, I would be willing to bet you could have heard a pin drop when this person finished the lesson and signed off. I would gather to guess he gave us all a lot to think about.
Brightest blessings to all.
3900 Saturdays - author unknown.
So many of us get busy with our jobs, errands and to do lists. Jobs may pay you well but it's a shame to have to be away from home and your family so much. Hard to believe that anyone should have to work sixty or seventy hours a week to make ends meet but it is not a rare occurance in this day and age - happens all the time and if not with one job then a person may hold two jobs just to stay above water especially with the way inflation is going up - in fact, everything is going up: gas prices, electric, food, cable, water, taxes (property and state) etc. It's too bad you missed your daughter's dance recital, your son's Holiday concert, a friends birthday party or the cookout due to your obligations for work or because you were away for work or you were just to damn run down and tired, but it does happen. Let me tell you something that has helped me keep my own priorities-the theory of a "thousand marbles."
You see, I sat down one day and did a little arithmetic. The average person lives about seventy-five years. I know some live more and some live less, but on average, folks live about seventy-five years. Now I multiplied 75 times 52 and I came up with 3,900, which is the number of Saturdays that the average person has in their entire lifetime. Now stick with me, I'm getting to the important part. It took me until I was fifty-five years old to think about all this in any detail, and by that time, I had lived through over twenty-eight hundred Saturdays. I got to thinking that if I lived to be seventy-five, I only had about a thousand of them left to enjoy. So I went to a toy store and bought every single marble they had. I ended up having to visit three toy stores to round up 1,000 marbles. I took them home and put them inside a large, clear plastic container. Every Saturday since then, I have taken one marble out and thrown it away. I found that by watching the marbles diminish, I focused more on the really important things in life. There's nothing like watching your time here on this earth run out to help get your priorities straight.
Now let me tell you one last thing before I sign off with you and take my lovely wife/husband/family out for breakfast/dinner. This morning, I took the very last marble out of the container. I figure that if I make it until next Saturday then I have been given a little extra time. And the one thing we can all use is a little more time.
Make the most of things always - whether it be negative, turn it into a positive. Go out and do something different or something you have always wanted to do, go meet some people, get together with friends. Remember life here is very short and there is no room to go back and redo things, just move forward and do the best you can.
If this message would have been heard on a radio, I would be willing to bet you could have heard a pin drop when this person finished the lesson and signed off. I would gather to guess he gave us all a lot to think about.
Brightest blessings to all.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Meditation...effective gene therapy?
Hello all. I have been doing much research on meditation in the past few years. There are many forms and types of meditation out there. One, in particular, that has been banned in the country of China now for many years and has a severe punishment to those in China who are caught practicing this form of meditation is called Falun Gong. Interviews that have been conducted with Chinese people who do practice this, have raved about the benefits and on how much it helps them and strengthens them. This article, although I do not know who actually wrote it, was published in the Epoch Times on June 16, 2010. (www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/37370/). If you are a practicioner of Falun Gong or of meditation in general, feel free to comment on your views or feelings of it and the benefits you have or have not experienced. Brightest blessings and enjoy the info.
MEDITATION....effective gene therapy?
These days, scientific medical research ascribes many human diseases to cellular genomic mutation. Many scientists and doctors are working to find specific methodologies to modify these disordered genes. However, this isn’t a situation concerning only a few cells in the body. Therefore, correcting mutant genes in human bodies is not an easy thing.
Because normal and abnormal cells in patients are from the same origin, it’s very hard to distinguish between them. Although scientists try to use viruses, antibodies, or various other ways to recognize target proteins on mutant cells that are found only on abnormal cells to replace the disordered genes with healthy ones, it is extremely hard to accomplish this, and it is fraught with many possible complications. So, gene therapy is a dream without practical application in the foreseeable future.
In recent years, some scientists have changed their way of thinking about how to modify cellular activity. In a study published in 2005 in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, a group led by Dr. Lili Feng of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, found very apparent differences between Falun Gong practitioners and non-practitioners in gene expression and in neutrophil function. Neutrophils are white blood cells that play a pre-eminent roll in repelling microbial invaders.
According to the research paper, Falun Gong is an ancient Chinese qigong practice consisting of meditation and an emphasis on spiritual practice based on truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance. The paper cites a 1998 study, which says that Falun Gong has been reported to have miraculous impact on practitioners’ health.
The scientists used gene-chip technology to compare the expression of 12,000 genes between Falun Gong practitioners and non-practitioners. They found differential expression in more than 300 genes, in which the differences were tenfold or more. This is an uncommon phenomenon in cell biology research. For example, it’s known that normal cells and cancer cells are very different, because the DNA or the genome will have been divided too many times in tumor cells.
In their study, these researchers also found that the numbers of neutrophils in their samples from Falun Gong practitioners were reduced. Furthermore, the lifespan of neutrophils from ordinary healthy people is only two or three hours, but in Falun Gong practitioners, it could be as long as 60 hours.
They also observed, from their morphology, that practitioners’ neutrophils were more completely differentiated, unlike those from the general population whose neutrophils are usually eliminated before differentiation has finished, similar to someone who has accidentally died before the end of his or her lifespan. Those from the practitioners, however, lived until the end of their determinate life.
From these findings, we can surmise that the fewer neutrophils in the Falun Gong practitioners may serve to defend them from external infection more efficiently because their lives are longer. Since neutrophils aren’t needed as much in Falun Gong practitioners, the number of activations or re-activations of the immunoglobulin-secreting mechanism may not be as many as in non-practitioners. Thus, Falun Gong practitioners won’t have as high incidences of allergy, asthma, auto-immune disease, or other immune-mediated disorders.
Today’s greenways have been reduced because of the rampant building of factories, roads to ease ever-increasing traffic congestion, and other general consequences of urbanization. This kind of change in human beings’ living environment leads to constant stimulation of their immune systems by dust and easily promotes allergies. In fact, many children are hospitalized due to allergies. But doctors have found that it’s hard to cure allergies completely with any of the various available drug therapies.
One way to be freed from many diseases is to strengthen the immune system so that it can provide a real defense against invasion by bacteria. And in this study, scientists have found that Falun Gong cultivation is a great way to strengthen the immune system.
To read the research paper, please visit http://tinyurl.com/288nxgb
—PureInsight.org
MEDITATION....effective gene therapy?
These days, scientific medical research ascribes many human diseases to cellular genomic mutation. Many scientists and doctors are working to find specific methodologies to modify these disordered genes. However, this isn’t a situation concerning only a few cells in the body. Therefore, correcting mutant genes in human bodies is not an easy thing.
Because normal and abnormal cells in patients are from the same origin, it’s very hard to distinguish between them. Although scientists try to use viruses, antibodies, or various other ways to recognize target proteins on mutant cells that are found only on abnormal cells to replace the disordered genes with healthy ones, it is extremely hard to accomplish this, and it is fraught with many possible complications. So, gene therapy is a dream without practical application in the foreseeable future.
In recent years, some scientists have changed their way of thinking about how to modify cellular activity. In a study published in 2005 in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, a group led by Dr. Lili Feng of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, found very apparent differences between Falun Gong practitioners and non-practitioners in gene expression and in neutrophil function. Neutrophils are white blood cells that play a pre-eminent roll in repelling microbial invaders.
According to the research paper, Falun Gong is an ancient Chinese qigong practice consisting of meditation and an emphasis on spiritual practice based on truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance. The paper cites a 1998 study, which says that Falun Gong has been reported to have miraculous impact on practitioners’ health.
The scientists used gene-chip technology to compare the expression of 12,000 genes between Falun Gong practitioners and non-practitioners. They found differential expression in more than 300 genes, in which the differences were tenfold or more. This is an uncommon phenomenon in cell biology research. For example, it’s known that normal cells and cancer cells are very different, because the DNA or the genome will have been divided too many times in tumor cells.
In their study, these researchers also found that the numbers of neutrophils in their samples from Falun Gong practitioners were reduced. Furthermore, the lifespan of neutrophils from ordinary healthy people is only two or three hours, but in Falun Gong practitioners, it could be as long as 60 hours.
They also observed, from their morphology, that practitioners’ neutrophils were more completely differentiated, unlike those from the general population whose neutrophils are usually eliminated before differentiation has finished, similar to someone who has accidentally died before the end of his or her lifespan. Those from the practitioners, however, lived until the end of their determinate life.
From these findings, we can surmise that the fewer neutrophils in the Falun Gong practitioners may serve to defend them from external infection more efficiently because their lives are longer. Since neutrophils aren’t needed as much in Falun Gong practitioners, the number of activations or re-activations of the immunoglobulin-secreting mechanism may not be as many as in non-practitioners. Thus, Falun Gong practitioners won’t have as high incidences of allergy, asthma, auto-immune disease, or other immune-mediated disorders.
Today’s greenways have been reduced because of the rampant building of factories, roads to ease ever-increasing traffic congestion, and other general consequences of urbanization. This kind of change in human beings’ living environment leads to constant stimulation of their immune systems by dust and easily promotes allergies. In fact, many children are hospitalized due to allergies. But doctors have found that it’s hard to cure allergies completely with any of the various available drug therapies.
One way to be freed from many diseases is to strengthen the immune system so that it can provide a real defense against invasion by bacteria. And in this study, scientists have found that Falun Gong cultivation is a great way to strengthen the immune system.
To read the research paper, please visit http://tinyurl.com/288nxgb
—PureInsight.org
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