Quote of the day

"I am an old man and I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happen."
Mark Twain

What did he means? We already know, i presume, that fear is the anticipation of pain ( physical, emotional, any kind of...). So, in our tiny little mind we try to anticipate and so we re-live now what could happen to us in the future. Seems so real for us. Do not forget some obscure Oxford experiment that showed us that eating an apple or thinking that we eat an apple show the same brain pattern. Beware at any negative thinking. Think about your physiological response, about the poisons you release in your own body. (Here i should remind you about another experiment measuring and analyzing the composition of breath. 10 minutes of fear and we breath so much poison that we can kill a guinea pig. One hour of concentrate negative thinking and we will have enough poison to kill 20 guinea pig.) Just think about those numbers. If this will not make you to train yourself into positive thinking, nothing else will. That's all.

See you soon!
G.

Ethnocentricity

Today's word is a difficult one, but easy to understand in the same time. Ethnocentricity. There is a concept in sociology and anthropology, which means we begin to believe that the rules, values ans beliefs of our culture are the only ones that are valid. This is a very wrong mindset, a limiting one. Everyone around us have different rules and values than we do, and their are not better or worst tha our own. In the end, this is the main cause of the last centuries war, of the extremism or most of the crimes. Once i understood this i realized that i will give my child the experience needed to understand this concept. Being that reading, learning and ultimately living in another culture anytime an occasion rise, i think this is a must. What do you think about?