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News from around the world that appeals to me and my readers.

Time for Change in America’s School System

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Americans – ready to work for better educated FOREIGNERS – as their janitors, factory workers, and house cleaners? Good thing we at least know we’re free (from choice)! The solution to the dumbing of America is so easy it hurts – just attach education money to the student – instead of the current system of funding school districts regardless of performance – and let good old-fashioned American competition do the rest. I’m confident it will work. We just have to be brave enough to say no to powerful teachers unions and bought and paid-for politicians. If you’re an American, I hope this video scares the hell out of you – enough to move you to action.

We don’t need more police in our schools – we need a new school system. When schools compete, you win!

The REAL Secret

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Compassionate Healing

Compassionate Healing, A Surrogate Approach is available at CreateSpace.

Compassionate Healing, A Surrogate Approach – Based on years of  seminar presentations on the subject of proxy healing.

Surrogate (or Proxy) Healing uses a person’s own judgments and perceptions to heal. It is the secret “Back Door” to your most powerful healing faculties.

As you become more skilled in the use of surrogacy, you will discover untapped potential for individual and planetary healing unimagined otherwise.

In this book, you’ll learn how to turn the negative emotions and energies of others into a beneficial force – until all are healed and the world awakens into the light of real physical, emotional, and mental health.

This book presents fundamentals and specific methods and tactics for surrogate or proxy healing.

Healers, learn how you can affect change in resistant clients, help clients more easily heal their relationship problems, turn troubled teens into super-healers, speed healing after surgery, and much more using this amazing attribute of the human mind.

You can apply the techniques offered in this book to any healing modality and to yourself personally. You may use the technique to amplify empathy and thereby help resolve many issues in the process.
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What Will You Give Your Children?

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The top level [of risk], he said, was parents smoking in cars, where children were

The top level [of risk], he said, was parents smoking in cars, where children were “trapped” and exposed to a “high intensity” of fumes.

A leading hospital says up to a third of the children it treats for certain conditions are ill because their parents smoke around them.

Dr Steve Ryan, Medical Director of Liverpool’s Alder Hey Hospital, says bronchitis, asthma and ear infections could be cut if parents quit smoking.

He said parents often lied about whether they smoke near their children. The British Lung Foundation says 17,000 under-fives are treated every year for exposure to second-hand smoke.

Speaking to BBC Radio Five Live, he said out of the 35,000 children the hospital treats every year, 2,000 are there because they have been exposed to their parents’ smoke.

He said between a quarter and a third of those suffering from certain conditions such as chest infections and asthma were the victims of passive smoking. Continue reading →

Rapid Eye Technology Rewiring the Brain?

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\"The eye is telling the brain when to become plastic, rather than the brain developing on its own clock.\"

The eye is telling the brain when to become plastic, rather than the brain developing on its own clock.

Researchers have long sought a factor that can trigger the brain’s ability to learn – and perhaps recapture the “sponge-like” quality of childhood. Neuroscientists at Children’s Hospital Boston report that they’ve identified such a factor, a protein called Otx 2. Otx2 helps a key type of cell in the cortex to mature, initiating a critical period–a window of heightened brain plasticity, when the brain can readily make new connections.

And where does this protein come from? Interestingly enough, it is developed in the cornea. Basically, when the eye opens and is functional, it tells the brain to start receiving data and learning.

“The eye is telling the brain when to become plastic, rather than the brain developing on its own clock,” says Hensch, who is also a professor at Harvard Medical School and at Harvard University’s Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology. In essence, the eye is telling the brain, “The eyes are ready and seeing properly — you can rewire now.”

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Gay And Heterosexual Couples Enjoy Equal Levels Of Commitment And Relationship Satisfaction

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Two studies on the quality of adult relationships and healthy developments featured in the January issue of Developmental Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association show that same-sex couples are just as committed in their romantic relationships as heterosexual couples. The findings dispute the stereotype that couples in same-sex relationships are not as committed as their heterosexual counterparts and are therefore not as psychologically healthy.

The first study examined whether committed same-sex couples differ from engaged and married opposite-sex couples in how well they interacted and how satisfied they were with their partners. Evidence has shown that positive interactions improve the quality of relationships in ways that foster healthy adult development.

Results showed that same-sex relationships were similar to those of opposite-sex couples in many ways. All had positive views of their relationships but those in the more committed relationships (gay and straight) resolved conflict better than the heterosexual dating couples. And lesbian couples worked together especially harmoniously during the laboratory tasks.

The notion that committed same-sex relationships are “atypical, psychologically immature, or malevolent contexts of development was not supported by our findings,” said lead author Glenn I. Roisman, PhD. “Compared with married individuals, committed gay males and lesbians were not less satisfied with their relationships.” Continue reading →