A golden braid: Memory, vizualization and manifestation

From Dr. Mercola: "How many of you have been challenged because you forgot to do something?

Well the first and most important step is to make sure that you are getting enough beneficial omega-3 fats like cod liver oil. As you age, your ability to engage in what we call controlled or executive functions declines.

Executive functions involve deliberate, planned actions that are processed in the brain's frontal cortex.

Unfortunately, your frontal cortex shrinks with age, and these frontal processes become less efficient. While your frontal cortex deteriorates with age, brain areas specific to automatic responses stay relatively intact.

The fact led researchers to develop a new technique to improve memory that seems quite effective.

The simple act of mentally picturing a future task is turning out to be an inexpensive, simple and highly effective way of making sure important things get done. If you imagine completing the desired act in great detail, you're much more likely to do it.

The key is visualizing yourself in as much specific detail as you can successfully completing the task.

This is a great application of the law of manifestation. Whatever you focus your intention on you have a high likelihood of manifesting into your reality."  ⊕

This laughs for you: Only in America

From Dr. Mercola: A great series of very funny photos from around the world called "Only in ...". You won't be sorry you clicked your way over.  ⊕

Iatrogenesis: Perhaps already in your neighbourhood

Tim Bolen via Health Supreme: "A new study, a compilation of most recent studies, called "Death by Medicine," says:

"It is evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States. The total number of iatrogenic deaths shown ... is 783,936. The 2001 heart disease annual death rate is 699,697; the annual cancer death rate, 553,251."

The number of people having in-hospital, adverse drug reactions (ADR) to prescribed medicine is 2.2 million. Dr. Richard Besser, of the CDC, in 1995, said the number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections was 20 million. Dr. Besser, in 2003, now refers to tens of millions of unnecessary antibiotics.

The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed annually is 7.5 million. The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization annually is 8.9 million."

And that's only the "deaths." The Lazarou study on Hospital ADR also showed that, besides the 106,000 "deaths," twenty times that number of people had health problems caused by that same hospital Adverse Drug Reaction. There were an additional 2,200,000 health problems caused by Adverse Drug Reaction to drugs in hospitals. It would be reasonable to assume, then, that that factor of twenty times the number of deaths could be applied to all of the death statistics - meaning that in addition to the total 783,936 deaths there were 15,678,720 serious health problems caused by the American Medical System."

No word about the Canadian situation or that of other nations. While the story is clearly a partisan statement for a cause - arguably a noble one - it's portents are disturbing to say the least.
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