HUMAN INTENTION.

Intention is a mental state that represents commitment to carrying out an action or actions. Thus, an intentional action is a function to accomplish a desired goal and is based on the belief that the course of action will satisfy a desire.
Whatever its nature, it is generally agreed that MIND is that which enables a being to have subjective awareness and intentionality towards their environment, to perceive and respond to stimuli.
Socrates had the intention that from a position of ignorance, sought the Truth and has no dogmatic program to follow, just a method for seeking Truth without any guarantee that we will find it. He found out that even the experts are just as ignorant about what things really are and concluded that it is better to have honest ignorance that self-deceptive ignorance. He followed his intention even at the point that he was condemned to death because of it.
At the trial for his life in 399BC, Socrates defense is recounted in Plato's Apology. Here Socrates appeared, despite his defense, not to acquit himself from all the accusations, but rather to deliberately ensure that he would be found guilty and thus condemned to death. In the trial he remained steadfast on his views and refused to give up his pursuit of truth, even if it cost his life.
Socrates told the jury: "Therefore if you let me go now saying to me, 'Socrates, this time we will not mind the reason of your prosecutor, and we will let you go, but upon one condition, thay you are not free to inquire and speculate in your way any more, and that if you are caught doing this again you shall die; -if this was the condition on which you let me go, I should reply; Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall OBEY GOD rather than you, and while I have time and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching about virtue, justice and truth."
Socrates realization that taking the right course of action in his intention was more important than the one that would save him. He stated: "A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong -acting the part of a good man or of a bad." This is Socrates most cherished principle, that in dying for his beliefs he would be choosing the most noble action and the most obvious. His intention was to put forward his views of wisdom, virtue, and nobility that he believed to be his moral truths, not to clear his name, but to reveal the ignorance of his prosecutors, judges and fellow citizens. Against the charges of corrupting the mind of the youth, atheism, and introducing new deities, Socrates stated that he has been doing Athens a service by improving its beliefs of wisdom and virtue. Socrates regarded the charges as wholly unjustified, and claimed that his intention was to reform and improve both his moral outlook and other people's.
Socrates devoted his life to cross-examining other people about virtue; he urged them to pay attention to their souls, and not to wealth, power and other external advantages. He stated that his true intention and purpose for his actions was to show to the unexamined souls that life is not worth living when virtue, justice and truth are not pursued.
Socrates died for a noble cause: the belief that one should never change their beliefs because of their fear of death. He chose to give up his life as an example for future generations as he declared to the jury, "Wherefore, O men of Athens, I say to you, either you acquit me or not; whatever you do just know that I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times."
Socrates was not afraid of death and believed if he died for a noble cause then it was justified. He chose to accept his fate and in doing so, he secured his place as the greatest hero in the history of philosophy.

ANIMALS AND ITS INSTINCT OF LOVE.

Some animals do mate for life and are represent what we know as eternal love and life commitment.
90% of all birds mate for life, while only a small percentage of mammals mate for life. These are:
BALD EAGLE : Symbol of Lifetime Protection.
BARN OWLS : Silent Love, Absolute Recognition of Cleverness.
BLACK VULTURES : Symbol of Patient, Deep Thinking.
BEAVERS : Build Together their love nest Under the Water, Keeping a Stock of Food right out the front door, Work Together and Never Give Up.
CRANES : Symbol of Solitude.
CROWS : Bring Messages of the Essence of Togetherness.
CONDORS : Symbolize Liberation from Pain and Suffering.
LOVEBIRDS : Symbols of Love and Togetherness.
COYOTES : Symbol of Insight, Duality, and the Ability to Present Both Sides of an Issue.
GOLDEN EAGLE : Symbol of Protection.
MACAW : Bright Sunshine.
ORCAS : Symbol of Cosmic Journey of Soul Mates.
OTTERS : Hold hands while sleeping as Not the Drift Apart. Symbol of Grace and Empathy.
PENGUINS : The Male penguin Searches the beach for the Perfect Pebble to Deliver to His Favorite
Female, as a Proclamation of Love.
PRAIRE WOLFS : Settling with Boundaries and team Work.
RED FOX : The Male return to the Vixen year after Year. Good Provider.
RED TAILED HAWKS : Protection and Precision.
SEA HORSE : Swims with Tails Wrapped around each other to Stay Together. Symbol of Confidence and Grace.
SWANS : Symbol of Endurance, Balance, Grace, Innocence.
TITI MONKEYS : Warm feeling of Togetherness.
TURTLE DOVES : Their Love Vibrates with the Energy of Inner Peace. They have found the One Who Complement Them.
WOLVES : Male and Female Lead the Pack Loyal to Each Other. Symbol of Loyalty, Success, Perseverance and Thought.

THE BRAIN WAVES.

The brain is made up of billions of brain cells called neurons, which use electricity to communicate with each other. The combination of millions of neurons sending signals at once produces an enormous amount of electrical activity of synchronized electrical pulses, being the root of all thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Our brain profile and our daily experience of the world are inseparable.
Brain waves are detected using sensitive medical equipment placed over areas of the scalp. They are divided into bandwidths to describe their functions but are best thought of as a continuous spectrum of consciousness; from slow, loud and functional -to fast, subtle, and complex.
Brain waves can be compares as musical notes -the low frequency waves are like a deeply penetrating drum beat, while the higher frequency brain waves are more like subtle high pitched flute. Like a symphony, the higher and lower frequencies link and cohere with each other through harmonics.
Brain waves change according to what we are doing and feeling. When slower brain waves are dominant we can feel tired, slow, sluggish, or dreamy. When the higher frequencies are dominant we feel wired, or hyper-alert.
When the brain waves are out of balance, there will be a corresponding problems in our emotional or neuro-physical health. Research has identified brain wave patterns associated with all sorts of emotional and neurological conditions. Over-arousal in certain brain areas are linked with anxiety disorders, sleep problems, nightmares, hyper-vigilance, impulsive behavior, anger/aggression, agitated depression, chronic nerve pain and spasticity. Under-arousal leads to some types of depression, attention deficit, chronic pain and insomnia. A combination of both is seen in cases of anxiety, depression,and ADHD.
Instabilities in brain rhythms correlate with tics, obsessive-compulsive disorder, aggressive behavior, rage, panic attacks, bipolar disorder, migraines, narcolepsy, epilepsy, sleep apnea, vertigo, anorexia / bulimia, diabetes, hypoglycemia, and explosive behavior.
Brain wave speed is measured in Hertz (cycles per second) and they are divided into bands delineating slow, moderate, and fast waves.
INFRA-LOW (< . 5Hz), also known as Slow Cortical Potentials, are thought to be the basic cortical rhythms that underlie higher brain functions. Very little is known about it but appear to take a major role in brain timing and network function. The slow nature make them difficult to detect and accurately measured.
DELTA (. 5 to 3Hz) are slow, loud brain waves (low frequency and deeply penetrating, like a drum beat). They are generated in deepest meditation and dreamless sleep. They suspend external awareness and are the source of empathy (the power to enter into emotional harmony with a work of art and so derive aesthetic satisfaction, or the power to enter into the feeling of others). Healing and regeneration are stimulated in this state, and that is why deep restorative sleep is so essential to the healing process.
THETA (3 to 8Hz) occurs most often in sleep but are also dominant in deep meditation. It acts as a gateway to learning and memory. Our senses are withdrawn from the external world and focused on signals originating from within. It is that twilight state which we normally only experience fleetingly as we wake or drift off to sleep. In Theta we are in a dream; vivid imagery, intuition, and information beyond the normal conscious awareness. It is where fears, trouble history, and nightmares are stored.
ALPHA (8 to 12Hz) are dominant during quietly flowing thoughts, and in some meditative states. It is "the power of now," being her, in the present. It is the resting state for the brain. It aids overall mental coordination, calmness, alertness, mind/body integration and learning.
BETA (12 to 38Hz) dominate our normal waking state of consciousness when attention is directed toward cognitive tasks and the outside world. It is a "fast"activity, present when we are alert, attentive, engaged in problem solving, judgment, decision making, and engaged in focused mental activity.
Beta is further divided into 3 bands: -Lo-Beta (Beta1,12-15Hz) can be thought of as a "fast idle," or musing. -Beta(Beta2, 15-22Hz) is high engagement or actively figuring something out. -High-Beta (Beta3, 22-38Hz) is highly complex thought, integrating new experiences, high anxiety, or excitement.
Continual high frequency processing is not a very efficient way to run the brain, as it takes a tremendous amount of energy.
GAMMA (38 to 42) are the fastest (high frequency, like a flute) and relate to simultaneous processing information from different brain areas. It passes information rapidly, and as the most subtle of the frequencies, the mind has to be quiet to access it. It is highly active when in states of universal love, altruism (consideration for other people without any thought of self, unselfishness), and the higher virtues. It is also above the frequency of neuronal firing, so how it is generated remains a mystery. It is speculated that Gamma rhythms modulate perception and consciousness, and that a greater presence of Gamma related to expanded consciousness and spiritual emergence.

THE SIMPLE CURE FOR DISTRACTION.

Distraction is the process of diverting the attention from the desired area of focus and thereby blocking or diminishing the reception of the desired information.
One is expected to be behind the wheel free of distractions. A cognitive psychology at the University of Utah who specializes in attention, knows that our brains are prone to mistakes, especially when we are multitasking and dodging distractions. Among other things, his research has shown is that using a cell phone impairs most drivers as much as drinking alcohol does.
External distractions include factors such as social interactions, music, text messages, and phone calls. There are also internal distractions such as hunger, fatigue, illness, worrying, and daydreaming. Both external and internal distractions contribute to the interference of focus.
Do you realize how much the market values your attention? Billions of dollars are spent each year by companies to reach your eyes, your ears, and your mind. Thoughts result in decisions, behaviors, and habits. If an advertiser can get access to your mind, he can influence you and your purchases.
To stay effective you need to stay focused. And if you valued your own attention span, you need to be more vigilant as to what you let in.
The brain is not a tireless 3 pound machine; it easily get fatigued. What modern life does to us is exhaustion. Because of that, we cease to take into account the power that our brain has in every function that it performs physically and mentally, and just we follow a circle presented to us as a way of life. We ended up feeling that we are an insulated human being just designed to perform our circle, and who has nothing in common with the rest of nature.
When we slow down, stop the busywork, and feel the power to withdraw ourselves into a beautiful and natural surroundings, not only we feel our energy restored, but our mental performance improves too. It is a kind of boost that occurs when we have been immersed into the blossom of nature long enough. It produce a difference in qualitative thinking because the brain is exposed to different and natural frequencies of light, sound, vibration, and motion. Thus, nature exercises a great influence into brain's waves and allows the prefrontal cortex, the brain's commander center, to rest from the influence of the busy city life, like an overused muscle.
The brain is not an organ rigidly hardwired. Instead the brain's circuits can, through mental experience and activity, form, inform, and reform in new ways. Nature provides natural noninvasive avenues into the brain that pass through our senses and our bodies to awaken the brain's own healing capacities.
The internal sense of individual freedom acts only when no constraint forces are present around us. Being in contact with nature reduces anger, fear, and stress, and increases pleasant feelings that not only makes you feel better emotionally, but it contributes to the physical well being, reducing blood pressure, heart rate, muscle tension, and the production of stress hormone.
We are genetically programmed to find trees, plants, water, and other natural elements that make us forget our discomfort with the stressful life that the city present to our brain.
Own your attention span, nature makes you forget for a moment the action of the vampires that act behind the curtains of media. Your productivity depend upon your ability to control your cognitive attention. You can't give complete and equal cognitive attention to multiple thoughts simultaneously.
And whenever possible, turn off the digital devices and distractions when you are engaged in cognitive work.
Think of your mind as if it is a bank -the place where you store such valuable items as thoughts, dreams, skills, and experience. So naturally, you need to protect it. You can live a life of full control and focus.

THE MIND IS A WORLD OF ILLUSIONS.

For a magician to fool his audience his deceit must go unseen, and to this end he crafts an illusion to avert attention from reality. While the audience is entranced, the deceptive act is committed, and for the fool, reality then becomes inexplicable built upon on a lie. That is, until the fool wakes up and recognizes the Truth in the fact that he has been duped.
However, it is more comforting to maintain the suspension of disbelief in the illusion than acknowledging the magician's secrets.
In the same way we live in a world of illusion. So many of the concerns that occupy the mind and the tasks that fill every day of our lives arise from planted impulses to become someone or something that we are not. This is not accident. We are indoctrinated into this consumer culture that now dominates the human race. We are trained to think that certain aspects of our society are untouchable truths, and because of that implantation in our thinking process, particular ways of being and behaving are preferred. It blind us with never ceasing barrages of suggestions and absolutes that are aimed at the shattering of our self-confidence and at the same time the confidence in what really is going to happen with us in the future.
Advertising is just the tip of the iceberg. When we look further we see that the overall organization of life is centered around the pursuit of illusions and automatic obedience to institutions and ideas which are not at all what they seem or pretend to be. We are in a very real sense, enslaved to an illusion of life in the material World.
Many call this an intangible feeling of oppression that comes from a system designed only to the purpose of obtain the total control of our minds, programming individuals to pattern themselves in accordance with a mainstream based on an extreme feeling of conformity with the version of reality presented to us, regardless how wicked it gets.
Law, Order, and Authority, is considered a moral obligation to many of us, and gladily we follow it, even though corruption, scandal, and wickedness repeatedly demonstrate that the law is flexible to those who has the muscle to bend it. When the law itself does not follow its nature, there is no law, there is no order, and there is no justice. It is just an illusion of it.
Prosperity and happiness is not just adorning ourselves in expensive clothes and amassing material possessions, it just is the substitute for genuine prosperity. Maintaining the illusion, though, is critical to our economy, because its foundation is built on consumption, fraud, credit, and debt. The banking system itself has been engineering to create this illusion for the benefit of a few while we are being taxed until the day we died. True prosperity is a vibrant environment and an abundance of blessings bringing thanksgiving, health, happiness, love, and good interrelationship between members of the communities. As much as people come to perceive the material goods as an illusion of wealthiness and self-identification, we will slip farther and farther away from the experience of true prosperity.
Freedom is about having choice. We are not free, because choice has come to mean a selection between available options, between the confines of a corrupt legal and taxation system and within the boundaries of culturally accepted and enforced norms. The illusion of choice and freedom is a powerful oppressor because it fools us into accepting chains and short leashes as though they represent the hallmarks of liberty.
Truth has become an illusion based on what we have been programmed to believe from the information that comes from the demigods of media, celebrity, and government. If the news declare something to be true, then we are heretics to believe otherwise.
Time is being said that represents money, but it is a lie. Time is our life in this material World. Looking beyond the 5 sense world, where we have been trained to move in accordance with the clock and calendar, we find the truth that our spirit is eternal and that each individual soul is part of this eternity.
The reinforcement of the idea that the present moment is of little or no value, that the past is something we cannot undo or forget, and the future is more important than the past and the present, carries our attention away from what is actually happening right now. Once we are completely focused on what is to come rather than what it is, we are easy prey to advertisers who muddy our vision of the future with every possible worry. Forfeiting the present moment in order to fantasize an illusion of the future is a trap.
We are happy when life does not box us in, when spontaneity and randomness gives us the chance to know more about ourselves. The immense, timeless moments of spiritual joy that are found in quiet meditation are proof that time is totally a construction of our mind as humans and not necessarily mandatory.
We are programmed to believe that as individuals we are in competition with everyone and everything around us, even mother nature, denying the truth that life on this planet is infinitely inter-connected.
Without clean air, clean water, healthy soil, and a global sense of community we are not able to survive.

ABNORMAL FEAR = CLAUSTROPHOBIA.

There are many different phobias, like fear of clowns, fear of water, and come in all kinds and afflict all people. One of the most prevalent phobias in the World today is Claustrophobia, an abnormal fear of being in enclosed or narrow places.
Claustrophobia ranges from a mildly annoying problem to something that has potential to cause a great deal of stress, anxiety, and panic.
The word 'Claustrophobia' is derived from the root Latin words 'Claustrom' ('shut in place') and phobos ('fear'). It is typically triggered by a person's fear of being trapped in a small space, room, or vehicle. This fear of confined places can include elevators, windowless rooms, airplanes, or even tight clothing.
This type of phobia is typically filed under the umbrella term of 'anxiety disorder' though it seems much more severe in comparison. It can quickly begin to degenerate the quality of life for the person that suffers from it.
The difference between an anxiety attack and one brought on specifically by claustrophobia are the ways that they recur. Anxiety attacks may not always follow a pattern but feeling claustrophobic will always be triggered by similar events. Those who suffer from the fear of small spaces will almost react to them by sweating, feeling light headed, dry mouthed, and feeling the stomach like full of butterflies. This sweating is followed by visible shaking or trembling, minor numbness in the extremities, and the possible onset of nausea. In extreme cases someone faint or get sick.
The psychological reactions of claustrophobia, in full swing, begin with panic, dread, and eventual terror. The affected person become afraid of the consequences of being in a small room, or the space around, bringing an onset of confusion and disorientation.
The very nature of this phobia makes one acutely aware of their surroundings. The fear, as a resulting consequence, constantly hovers at the edge of awareness. The fear of confined spaces does not limit itself simply to rooms. People will also feel the same anxiety when they are in vehicles that do not have an immediate exit ability, like long rides in cars, on boats, or in airplanes. Also, when they get into elevators that are typically crowded, and small, because the box triggers and outright panic attack, feeling stuck into something that can stop working and consequently being trap in it. Dealing with tunnels and caves is also an issue, as a consequence, many individuals who suffer from claustrophobia, avoid the use of transportations that goes underground.
Many phobias originate somewhere during the childhood. There, events happened that we no longer remember, but they began the slippery slide to our own personal battle of timing our wild feelings. These phobias are prepared in our soul before birth as a way to help our physical and mental bodies to recognize potentially dangerous environments and situations, considered as part of the process of evolution into an eternal existence of the spiritual essence that reside inside us.
Physically, it manifests itself pointing to the amygdala as the cause of the problem. The admigdala is the smallest structure in the brain. Despite its size it is responsible for a large number of duties including your FIGHT OR FLIGHT response.
Patients with anxiety attacks frequently has smaller amygdala. Since the affected person had a great deal of trouble to overcome their own uneasy, and traumatic effects of their anxieties at a very early stage in their lives, it lead to the abnormal evolution of the amiygdala. The amygdala learned to behave conditionally every time the individual experiences the abnormal fear.
Events in the childhood that contributes to the development of an abnormal fear are:
-Being locked in a dark room without being able to find a door.
-An almost drowning experience.
-Being lost in a large crowd and has trouble finding familiar people.
-Being left alone and locked in a tight space like cars, closets, or other vehicles.
- Receiving a medical procedure at a very young age such as the MRI machine.
There are always ways to address the depth of these feelings insisting in the relearning how to deal with their own fears. Meditation and deep breath exercises help to settle the fear. Do not expect an overnight success over it because it does not work in that way.

THE NUDITY OF THE EGYPTIANS.

The Ancient Egyptians were not ashamed of nudity, and it was customary for children and servants to be naked.
Many people were unclothed during the hot summer months, and while several items of clothing have been discovered, it is known that the Egyptians generally wore very little, and those items that were worn were simply linen garments such as wrap-around kilts, skirts, and dresses.
Linen was produced from flax plants that grew along the banks of the Nile, and used to manufacture the clothes worn by everyone, regardless of their social status.
Colored dyes such as henna and saffron began to be used during the Old Kingdom, and the weaving of colored patterns was introduced with the vertical loom in the New Kingdom, following the Hyksos invasion. At this time, it also became common for garments to be more elaborated pleated.
Aside from linen, animal-skin loincloths were worn, and following the introduction of wool-bearing sheep during the Middle Kingdom, wool was used to manufacture shawls that were worn on cold nights. Silk arrived later with the Greeks, but cotton remained unknown until later times.
Most Egyptians went barefoot much of the time, but before of the introduction of shoes during the New Kingdom, open-toed sandals, made from reeds, leather, or a combination of the two, were also worn.
Children in Ancient Egypt wore their hair shaved except for a pigtail to one side, which was known as "the side-lock of youth." Adults, meanwhile, either shaved their heads (as well as facial and body hair), or grew their hair , short for men and longer for women.
It was also customary for both sexes to wear wigs, make-up, and scented oils, which apart from enhancing the appearance and providing pleasant odors, also offered protection from the sun, sand and insects, and were also believed to have medicinal and supernatural properties.
Smells were often given religious associations, and as bad smells were associated with sin and impurity, oils and incense were used to mask body odors.
Most of the oils and incense used by the Egyptians was imported from the Middle East, and after timber, was the main reason for trade.
Various minerals were used to produce make-up, including green malachite and ground black galena, or soot, which were used to produce 'kohl' for the eyes. Red ochre or iron oxide was used to make lipstick and rouge, and nails were also painted. Hair was often dyed with henna.