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Looking for Help and Advice?

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Where do you look for help and advice, when you decide to follow your creative dreams? The best advice someone like David Horvath will give you these days is, to get as much input as you can, and then not follow any of it.

He may also share with you his “scientifically proven method by the hour” of how to achieve your goals. And it would sound like this, “How you generally feel inside and what thoughts you generally carry in your head is what’s going to keep coming at you.”

More of this type of advice and why a “real” job with late hours, weekends and comfortable money coming in is a dream killer,  read in this David Horvath interview for SUBvertMagazine.com

And tell me where YOU are looking for help and advice these days.

The David Horvath Edition – SUBvertMagazine.com

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Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! Doing what excites our spirit and our energies

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Sir Ken Robinson’s 2010 TED talk picks up from his 18 -minute talk four years ago on contemporary education and creativity to make a new case for a radical shift in the way children learn.

Now he urges for involvement in a movement in education that would “rise with” the extraordinary resources offered by current technologies in business, multimedia and the internet to revolutionize education.

Sir Ken Robinson also speaks at TED about the need to dis·en·thrall our minds from more than our belief in standardized schools.  He thinks we might be ready to acknowledge that education and learning today are in a dire need a true revolutionary shift, in order to create the true conditions for “human flouishing”.

Dalai Lama: The world is becoming a better place

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Dalai Lama is optimistic about the future of humanity after witnessing the global outpouring of support following disasters such as the Haiti earthquake.

This kind of positive response to disasters, His Holiness said in a public lecture followed by three days of teachings in New York last week, would have been impossible only at the beginning of the 20th century .

This is nothing but a sign, he claimed, “That we human beings are becoming more sensible”, and that there is an increasing feeling of oneness in the world. This is the source of HH Dala Lama’s optimism.

Tibet Video:Dalai Lama: world is improving

You can also follow HH Dalai Lama on Twitter @DalaiLama

Just Don’t Call it “Yoga”

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1009663_korkant_52An individualized yoga program can produce large reductions in blood pressure when added to optimal medical therapy.  Results were reported even among patients who might never set foot in a yoga studio, in an ambitious randomized trial testing of two somewhat unconventional add-on components as part of an integrated cardiac-rehabilitation program in Germany.

The secret to yoga’s success in the male, “blue-collar” group studied, however, may lie in the fact that the word “yoga” was never used.

Mayer-Berger presented the results of the trial last week at the EuroPREVENT 2010 meeting, and discussed the fact that yoga-type interventions would typically be chosen by “intellectual female patients”.  He admitted, that most of the “low-education males” studied in this trial, didn’t realize they were doing yoga, because the word yoga “was not spoken”.

The comparator therapy, progressive muscle relaxation (PMR), which is a more common component of cardiac-rehab programs in Germany, did not produce nearly the same degree of blood-pressure improvement, while the two randomizations were called “relaxation #1″ and “relaxation #2″.

Mayer-Berger says he and his colleagues are working on a follow-up study that will test a yoga program specifically in people with higher baseline blood pressures and that will try to figure out the best way to keep patients motivated—never an easy task. He does think that not using the term “yoga” likely helped keep many unlikely yogis on this particular program, and he says the next study will likely use the same nebulous terms used in the pilot study.

He added that he thinks it is “too early to make yoga a part of usual cardiac-rehabilitation therapy,” but should ongoing studies confirm the effect he and his colleagues saw here, “maybe this is really an everyday therapy we can use.”

More on using nebulous terms to get people to take better care of themselves at heartwire.

How to Create Millions of Creative and Really Bad TED Talks?

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And then all of a sudden, it reveals itself that happiness can only be achieved by connecting with the world. I would like to share my experience with this. You casee the beauty sink in once you take the time.

Then all of a sudden it becomes easy for the brain to weigh emotion and experimental evidence. You don’t have to like it, but a mirror can stop us from being so unbelievably disrespectful. (Applause.) Thank you very much. It’s just that in the middle of suppression, genius is often born. (Applause.)
Thank you very much. This shows that happiness is to go along where life takes you. And all of a sudden, the world is full of French flying monks. (Laughter.) Thank you very much. You know, you need surprises. How many of you would not agree? I believe that a mirror in the back does not make you a megahero. Fortunately, you don’t have to be one, because happiness does not imply to constantly feel happy.

Ah, and I will also give you something on Lies, damned lies and statistics (about TEDTalks).

It’s just that in the middle of a brilliantly tongue-in-cheek analysis from last week’s featured talks on TED.com, Sebastian Wernicke uses some beautiful, inspiring and fascinating tools and data from statistical analysis on TEDTalks, the same way that you look at the emotions, strategies and choices and that you use and make every day.

And you don’t have to, but you can read more on this at tedPAD.

The Matrix Unloaded

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img_0922-ffsmallTop blogs of young entrepreneurs spearhead social renewal in their own image and the blogosphere is now abuzz with possibility for all of us.

Untemplater, which launched earlier this year, is founded by a handful of twenty-somethings offering in-the-trenches guidance on lifestyle design and location independence for those of us who  want to “live an awesome life on our own damn terms”.

Be sure to Download The Untemplater Manifesto if you are ready to choose to say:

“Stop Pushing Me!
To run further, run faster, lift more weights, struggle, work harder, to climb the corporate ladder –to become something I think I should be…”

Instead, Gen-Y MBA’s, scrappy entrepreneurs; twenty-something husbands, wives and fathers; authors, freelancers – real people, who are pursuing the untemplate lifestyle – now promise to teach us how to break the template lifestyle in 2010 by:

1. Rinning multiple startups at the same time with Systems and Operations;

2. Maintaining a happy relationship with your girlfriend or boyfiend as an entrepreneur;

3. Using concrete, and tested methods to succeed or fail with a startup.

Unencumbered by both corporate jobs, and the lifestyle of the Template Entrepreneur with no work-life ballance, who must use social media to market their internet startup, and seek funding to get their startup off the ground, the Untemplate Entrepreneurs of today are ready to show you how to get your work unchained from the template by leaving what you HAVE to do for what you WANT to do.

Unlike the well-meaning inspirational sites, written by gurus, who’ve already “made it”, but seem somehow out of touch with the new realities, or pure theorists  – people who haven’t put their lessons to action, the unstrapp’d entrepreneurs of 2010 are all working hard to live the lives we want to live.

Read more about ways the Matrix Can be Unloaded and more at: Technocrati

Conscious Living

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natasha_2804129-smaWhile all of us would like to live more consciously, the reality is that we spend most of our time living, well, somewhat mindlessly. Perhaps, at some point in our lives we made life decisions 9or someone else made them for us) that we’re still acting upon, even though we, or the conditions in and around our lives have changed.

Many of us want to live a more conscious life. Ideally, we’d like to be balanced, aware of ourselves and others, and present in each moment.

And you know what — it is possible – there are ways that can move us  closer to a better awareness of those aspects of life that affect our actions, thoughts, contentment and values.

Here are 5:

1:Change Your Game

Seek out opportunities to meet new people with different perspectives, cultural backgrounds or personal experiences who will bring with them the opportunity to be exposed to new ways of thinking and living.

2: Be Grateful

Fostering a sense of gratitude can keep us grounded when it seems like life is trying to sweep us away. While problems are very real, it is important to identify and appreciate the things in your life that are good. Gratitude takes our focus away from just the negative things in our lives, and broadens it to take in the entire picture.

3: Look at Your Life with New Eyes

What would a stranger see if they walked into your life?  Even if the conditions of your life are seemingly the same for some length of time, you’ve still changed and may discover that you view things differently than when you last took a “first look” around.

4: Meditate or Pray

No matter what you call it, “taking a moment to myself”, or something else, it suffices. It doesn’t have to take much time — you just need a few minutes of solitude once or twice a day. Meditation and prayer are excellent ways to move yourself toward conscious living, as meditation and prayer are simply themselves affirmations that you are living consciously.

Looking for more ways to live a more conscious life? See HowStuffWorks.com for  more.

5: Profile Yourself

Look for those self-destructive behaviors in your life and identify actions that may be hurtful or detrimental to others. What sets off your temper and what makes you anxious? And this isn’t just about creating a negative profile. Identify the positive things you do as well. What brings out the best in you? What life-affirming activities do you include in your life? In what ways do you help others or work to make the world a better place?

Determine the patterns of your own behaviors and you just may be able to change them and enable a more mindful life experience.

Full story at HowStuffWorks.com Looking for more ways to live a more conscious life? Take part in the 12 Week Challenge.