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On Incoming of Karmas
Guru Shree Chitrabhanu
On Incoming of Karmas
Observing the Inflow of Vibrations
The aspirant who is treading the path to liberate himself must take care not to lose balance. Like a tight-rope walker, if he misses even one step, he could come plunging down to the ground and hurt himself. That is, why he follows the practice of vigilance. He watches each step he takes. He becomes aware of each thought he receives and sends. He discovers the meaning of each relationship in which he engages.
For an aspirant, the danger which threatens his balance comes in the form of ashrava, meaning that which flows from all directions. There is a flow of vibrations which is constantly streaming into your consciousness from all sides. It is continually pushing and pulling, attracting and repelling, giving you ups and downs. From where does the flow come? From without and within, from society and from emotions, from your conditioning, from your mental structures, and from your background of repulsion and attraction. In this bhavana, the reflection is on ashrava, in order to become aware of the kind of inflow you are susceptible to, and to learn how to stop yourself from being swallowed up by it.
Many unpleasant thoughts and feelings have already entered your consciousness and are bothering you day and night. They don't allow you to be in a natural blissful mood. Balance is bliss. Our real state is to be in balance in bliss. Unlike joy, which depends upon some prop or outside stimulus, bliss requires nothing. It is being with one's own Self. When you are in a state of balance, your consciousness can be seen for what it is, calm and clean and pure, like a clear mountain lake. Without balance you are like a stormy sea, at times rolling in one direction, at other times rolling in another direction. You are either excited or depressed, in a state of constant fluctuation. In this unsteadiness, a lot of debris is collected in your consciousness, like pollutants entering a clear stream. The debris, or karma, which flows in and muddies your pristine consciousness has entered because of unawareness. You left all the outlets to your consciousness open, and now the debris has become mixed up with the pure waters.
In this reflection, there is one fundamental premise: the watcher is not the same as the inflow he is watching. You stand back from the process you are observing. You use viveka, the sense of discrimination. If a car does not work well, the driver does not compare himself with the car. If your house is old, you do not identify yourself with it. If your clothes are dirty, you do not consider yourself dirty. In the same way, when you notice dullness or heaviness or negativity, you do not identify with them. Those impurities are not you. They come from outside, and what has come from outside can go back outside. Such debris does not belong in your pure consciousness. On that premise you have to meditate.
In meditation, always see yourself as innocent, clean, and beautiful. Without condition, love yourself. Without guilt, see yourself. When you have love for yourself, you will be able to experience Self-Realization. Otherwise, if you allow the consciousness to become identified with the extraneous inflow, you may start blaming yourself.
You may put yourself down. You may focus on the dust which has collected around your soul instead of on the clean mirror like quality of your soul itself. And if you accept yourself as a sinner, you will live in that false nature. You will carry guilt wherever you go. Identifying yourself with that which binds you, how will you be able to free yourself from it?
So remember that sin and guilt do not belong to you. Keep before your mind's eye a beautiful image of your-self. Think of yourself as arogya, as a powerful dynamic energy, in complete spiritual health. In this way, mental uncertainty and confusion, which are the causes of most diseases, will disappear.
As you meditate, your belief in your innate purity will come not only from somebody's encouraging word, but from an inner glimpse. When you are alone, sitting by a calm lake, and nothing is bothering you, how do you feel? You watch the mellow evening slowly unfold its colors. How peaceful and blissful you feel! Your real nature reveals itself. Why? Because nothing is disturbing you.
That precious feeling may last five minutes, ten minutes, half an hour, but at least it can give you a glimpse. What lasts for a few minutes is able to last for an even longer time. It is a question of extension. So a brief glimpse gives you some conviction in your inherent peace. It gives you the courage to ask, "If such a glimpse was possible for a few moments, why not longer?" That kind of conviction is going to last long. It is not borrowed from anybody's assurance or promise; it comes from experiencing what is yours. According to your own experience, you move forward into deeper knowledge of your own Self.
So instead of going out, the aspirant goes in. What we call silence, detachment, or retreat is merely taking time to make the whole area of one's consciousness clean. It is a purification of the reservoir of our energy. There are three steps. First is a drying process. The waters of one's consciousness which have become dirty and polluted are temporarily allowed to dry up. The process of watching itself acts as a powerful heat energy to evaporate all negative vibrations. To take this step one has to make a decision to close off the gates, outlets, or passageways through which new pollutants could enter. Second, when one looks at the bedrock of one's consciousness, one pinpoints the mud or sticky residue in order to dig it out and remove it. Only when the area is completely clean does one throw open the gates and allow fresh water to flow in once again.
To embark on this process, sometimes people cut off relations with other people for a while. They need to give themselves some space. It is not running away from one-self or from the world. That interpretation of the word "detachment" is not appropriate. Detachment is not going away from anybody, it is coming to your own Self. To attach means to tie. To detach is to untie. Anything which binds you, which drags and pulls you, that is your tie. Because of this tie you are not in your own space. Something is pulling you from one end, and you do not feel steady.
Take some time to watch yourself. Remove yourself from complicated situations. Untie yourself from all the influences with the understanding that you want to see yourself clearly. The idea is not to escape from the world, but to prepare yourself to be with life, with your own life and with life at large. And how can you be with anyone if you are not first with your own Self? If you tell someone, "I will be with you" before you know yourself, you are giving a ***** ******** *******
"I want to be steady, not fickle. I want to stop this constant movement to and fro. Let me be with myself so that I will know how to be comfortable with others."
In this way, you see life as an inner laboratory. You put yourself on the test and ask yourself penetrating questions. "Am I comfortable with myself? Do I go to others to make them happy, or do I go in order to avoid myself?" If you are traveling here and there to escape yourself, then you are taking that uncomfortable feeling with you. Wherever you go, you are creating discomfort in those relationships. Try as you may to find a haven of safety away from yourself, you cannot escape your own restless feeling. The most difficult thing is this: to be comfortable with one's own Self in order to be comfortable with all.
Once a person kept to himself, meditating in silence. Three friends observed him and joked about him. "What is he doing?" they said, laughing. "He sits all day and does nothing. We can do that easily."
When the meditator heard this, he asked, "Do you think it is easy to be, just to be?"
"Yes," one friend answered, "you have nothing to do. I have so many responsibilities–to go to work, pay my rent, take care of my house. If you would take my place, I would gladly sit here like you."
"Very well," agreed the meditator. "I will take care of providing you with food. I will pay your rent and do everything that you usually do. It will be one month's program. What you have to do is to be with yourself."
The friend replied, "Oh, that will be easy. But what do I have to do in exchange?"
"Nothing," answered the meditator. "There is nothing to do, just to be. You will remain in this beautiful bungalow, and I will give you this word, So-hum, to recite.
"That's all? Only to recite the word?"
"Yes, that's all."
The agreement was made, and the friend was very happy. For the first two or three hours, he sat thinking, "Well, everything is taken care of. I don't need to worry about paying my rent". And he started reciting the mantra. Four more hours passed. He got tired and a little bored sitting there. He started to think, "What am I doing? The same word over and over! Well, compared to the labor I was doing, it's not bad!" And he continued reciting the mantra.
The next day he went on. "So-hum, So-hum," he repeated. "Such a dull sound! There is no song, no drum, no excitement! What is all this?"
He was sitting by the window with no one to talk to, with no one to listen to his jokes. He was taking all his meals by himself. By the third day, he began to feel heavy. On the fourth day, when he arose, he said to himself, "I will go crazy, I can't bear it!"
Thoughts from his subconscious had started coming, one after another. He thought of what kind of life he had lived, how he had played games with people, how he had cooked up so many lies. Each thing became magnified. In silence, that is what happens–things become magnified.
When you are suffering from too much heat, you can take off your clothes. But when there is suffocation of thoughts, how do you escape from them? It is so easy to change clothes, but how difficult it is to change thoughts! Thoughts carve so deep that they sometimes feel like thorns and give us pain.
This man was not ready to face himself. People have some device to cover up those things which they are not ready to face, to hide them or make them smaller. But on this day, for this person, things were becoming larger.
"No," he thought, "my mind will blow."
On the fifth day, he went back to his friend and told him, "I want out! I don't want to do this any more."
"What about our agreement?" his friend asked him.
"To hell with it!"
"Why are you using the word 'hell'?"
"Because I am suffering hell," he answered. "My thoughts have become monstrous."
"So," his friend gently chided him, "don't you think that one day you will have to face your own thoughts? Why not see them now? How long will you keep on running away from them? You are going to have to face them afterward, so why not start now? Why postpone?"
"Have I to face them?" asked the friend.
"The time comes to all; if not now, then later. One day, you will have to be alone. You will not be surrounded by people. Why not confront yourself now? You know how you feel after eating too much hot, spicy food. There is a burning sensation in your body. Your thoughts are percolating inside you like that, making you upset. You can't control them or get rid of them. Why not do something about them–change them?"
"What to do?" asked the new meditator. "How can I change my thoughts from what they are already?"
"Inside you are pure. You have to separate yourself from your thoughts, and watch them one by one. In the past, you left all your senses, the inner gates, open. You didn't know that when you use them to go out, at the same time they let dirty gutter water in. So now you need to dry up all the water. How can you see a good reflection of yourself when you are clouded by so much unclear thinking and entangled in superficial love affairs."
"Then how can I live?"
The friend answered, "Live, yes, that is what you must do! But just now you are not really living. You are running away. Now is the time to be watchful and discriminating. Cleanse your consciousness and then you will feel your life."
When you meditate on the inflow of vibrations, you learn to detect which outlets are left open and what kind of debris is coming in. You watch the way in which you are vulnerable to negative habits. The antidote to ashrava is samvara. Samvara means to stop–to lock the gates and stop the inflow from continuing to flood in. The key to samvara is ashrava. You cannot effectively stop the inflow without first knowing of what it consists.
Ashrava bhavana teaches us how to observe our weaknesses, our unlocked gates, our inner ensnarements, our unchecked addictions. The first one is kashaya, which means inner passions or attachments, such as anger, pride, greed, and deceit. They are gangsters; all are in alliance with one another. They work in a clever way. They don't always appear all at once. One enters through the window first, unlocks the door, and lets in the others. They each have a subtle connection.
You may think, "I have only a little ego left." But if someone insults your ego, that brings anger. You may flare up and use harsh words. A person with ego has some deceit as well. In order to prevent his ego from receiving a puncture, he will do deceitful things. In that ego, there is also greed, to become more and more powerful, and to keep others in a subordinate position. Moreover, if someone gets in the way of the greedy person when he is collecting something, whether it is a material thing or a high post, he will be angry. So these four, known as kashaya, open the door to the gutter rather than to the fresh rainfall. This is the first gate which must be closed.
Secondly, there is an open gate or ensnarement called yoga. It has a special meaning in this context. It is the yoga by which mind, word, and body are connected or glued to tempting, alluring, enticing things. Such things constantly pull you when you are unaware. For example, if you go window- shopping and see a coat, your eye connects with the coat and your mind becomes filled with plans of how to get the money to buy it. If the person you live with does not help you out financially, you become angry. "What do you do for me?" you complain. "You won't even help me buy a beautiful coat."
All your energy is pulled in the direction of collecting enough money to buy the coat. This demonstrates the way in which the senses connect with attractive things when the gate of yoga is left open, unchecked by awareness .
A third ensnarement is called pramada, or lethargy. It comes in three forms to muddy the waters of our consciousness. First, there is indecisiveness. The person is wishy-washy and goes in all directions. Such a person is unaware of himself; that is why he can be pushed or pulled in conflicting ways.
There is no purposeful direction to his life; rather, he moves in a rut or a vicious circle.
Related to this is a second form of pramada. Non-attention to time or lack of discipline. People who tend to be lazy say, "I don't have time," because they don't know how to use time. Such a person knows how to waste time. He may go on sipping coffee for hours, or watching television or reading the papers, until it becomes late and he must rush off to his appointment. That shows no arrangement of time. It's an ensnarement which saps one's energy. But one who knows how to harness time always has time.
The third form of pramada is not being aware of life, not caring for one's own Self. There are people who have not taught themselves to know how to use this beautiful gift of human life. It requires some discipline and some commitment. That is why people who practice apramada, or awareness, outline their program. It is not too rigid. But they know what they want to accomplish in a day, in a month, in a year, so that they can use their energy in that direction. It is not accomplishing for the sake of achievement or outer reward; it is engaging oneself in some purposeful endeavor for the sake of life's growth and for the service of living beings. By keeping this awareness in the back of the mind, and attuning oneself to life, one can concentrate on the immediate work of the present moment and bring past, present, and future in harmony with one another.
If you have decisiveness along with some discipline, everything goes smoothly. You find the right balance in the allotment of time, taking a certain amount for peace, for meditation, for rest, for nutrition, for physical activity, and for service.
The fourth gate is an inner trap called avirati, failure to limit the things one needs and uses in life. To offset this neglect, the aspirant observes virati, a vow to place a limit on his possessions, his needs. It may be a vow to limit his food. He may say, "Today I am going to take only three kinds of food," or "Today I am going to eat only two meals," or "Today I will eat only unsalted, tasteless food."
In this way, the digestive machine does not get over-loaded. Our system needs at least three hours in which to digest anything. If we throw in more food in less than three hours, it stops the system from continuing to digest the food which is already there. It has to go back and start all over again. If we limit our food intake, the system works accurately and indigestion does not occur. At the same time, to keep the body cool and to avoid constipation, liquids are taken eight or ten times a day. This method of systematic and balanced eating is a way to control one's taste buds, limit one's need, and preserve one's health.
There is no need to follow anything blindly. There is no compulsion to copy a monk's life. It must be done according to your environment. You must adjust and modify, rather than follow a system which was right for a certain climate, atmosphere, or period of time. What counts is the longing to limit your need. For example, you can make a commitment to limit your wealth. You make an agreement with yourself, "I am going to be satisfied with just this much." Otherwise, the mind will justify all that it wants, not what it needs. There is no need to earn right up until the last day. When one puts a limit, saying, "This is enough," then the time can be spent for spiritual unfoldment and service.
The fifth ensnarement is mithyathva–ignorance and confusion. In mithyathva, truth is mixed up with lie, violence is confused with non-violence, lust is taken for love, and right is undifferentiated from wrong. It reflects muddled thinking. It shows the inability to discriminate between what is compassionate and what is hurtful. For example, a person whose mind is darkened with mithyathva may be preaching universal love and at the same time approving the sacrifice of animals.
Mithyathva indicates failure to see the truth. Semi-truth is taken as truth and sometimes becomes more compelling than truth itself. It may bind, tie, and obsess you. Truth, on the other hand, is all light; it frees you. Mithyathva is the most serious ensnarement because of the way it takes hold inside.
These are the five gateways which allow the shrava to flow from outside to inside. When they are left open, our pure consciousness is vulnerable to innumerable pollutants, inner weaknesses, and deceptions.
Everything from the past and present has made an imprint on your consciousness culture, family, geographical conditions, schooling, religious background. Some of the imprints we call worldly shrava. Others we call religious shrava. Though we may try to avoid worldly influences, sometimes religious imprints are even more of a burden. That is because they lead to an indelible kind of inner shrava–guilt, self-hatred, faultfinding, blind faith.
We have to see both, flow from without and flow from within. Inner dogma is that which prevents you from accepting yourself as you are. When someone criticizes you, you feel as if an arrow were piercing your heart. You feel psychological pain. You experience fear, and fear prevents you from living life.
The inner habit of self-criticism does not allow you to clear your consciousness of its load, of its muddy residue. Don't be overcritical of yourself, or you won't have the energy to work and go further. To be spiritual, you need lightness. No person became enlightened carrying the load of sadness. It is a heavy lump of clay. Being sad, you cannot see yourself. All the so-called sins (I call them consequences) are born from sadness. When someone is sad, he has identified so completely with that heaviness that he does whatever he can to escape. So he escapes into alcohol, drugs, or other vices. He may even commit suicide.
Enlightenment comes in a state of lightness. Guard against anything which makes you bleak, depressed, and cheerless. Do not allow it to arise, for once it comes, it clouds your whole vision. Without clear visibility, how can you see that you are in essence clean and pure? Your consciousness needs clear open space. That is its nature–to be limitless, infinite, luminous. Meditating on ashrava, see how things have taken over your inner space. This may be reflected in your outer place. I have seen some homes where the furniture crowds the people. Do you often bump into your furniture? Now see whether or not in your consciousness you bump into objects, possessions, worries.
Go further and ask yourself, "Why do I buy things? Is it because I have left open the gate of yoga? Do I allow my eyes to be attracted to something and do I then run out and buy it? Is it because of ego? Do I buy things for my own use or for showing other people? Why am I trying to impress people? Why should I make my house into a furniture store?" See the obsession–when you have something, you want to show it, and when you don't have something, you feel mistreated for not having received it. Both are complexes; both stem from ignorance of Self.
Life itself is free from complexes, free from push and pull. There are so many commercials bombarding you. It is difficult to live in the world; it is easy to live in the forest. So you aspirants who live in the city have to be more careful than those who retired to the forest. For them there was no outer temptation. But for you there is constant temptation and you are learning to balance it.
Perhaps people make fun of you for being vegetarian. They call you crazy and shoot arrows of criticism at you. They may taunt you for wanting to live a natural life, for not wanting to be promiscuous, for not drinking wine, or for not going to an analyst. For them the abnormal is made normal. They do not realize that by going to sex seminars, for example, they are creating more desires inner turmoil, pain, complexes, and breakups in their relationships rather than fewer. But you are sincere seekers. Throughout all the criticisms, you remain yourselves. You have the courage of inner conviction.
You have taken the time to experience the depth of life. You are not influenced by ephemeral things. You have meditated to find something lasting, something permanent, something which can give you inner confidence. When a strong gust of wind comes, you know how to stand and wait. It is the art of knowing how to withstand the tide before it engulfs you.
Once you have closed the open gates, dried up all the polluted water, and cleaned out all the debris, then you can open them again to receive the fresh, clean rainfall. What is that rainfall? It is the flow of maitri–pure love, compassion, and communication. You feel free and flowing with all. You are not meeting people to impress them. You meet to share. See how easily you meet people when there is no feeling of greater or lesser, no scar or bitterness, no fault finding or criticism.
And when somebody criticizes you, you will be able to accept it as an indication that perhaps there is something in you which you have not yet uprooted. So you will be grateful to that person for pointing out to you yet another way in which to grow and lighten your burden. If you are sincere in your approach to living, then even one who used to find fault with you or dislike you will find room in his heart for you.
Enlightened people do not close themselves off in their own world. Knowing what they are in essence, they talk and move in the world without being polluted by anything. They learn to act without kashaya, so that no more dust and debris will be invited to cling to their pure consciousness and cover their visibility. If you put your whole heart into working on this seriously, you can change your life style. Instead of making the world a valley of unhappiness, you can transform it into a garden of bliss.
You can live in total freedom in yourself, in your own space, not in somebody else's space. Free from being driven by the inflow of negative vibrations, you are free to dwell in your own natural state, to flow in your own pure stream of blissful consciousness.
Seed-Thoughts For Meditation
Let me see my consciousness as a clean body of water, clear, pure, and sparkling.
When I stand back, I can watch the inflow of negative vibrations. I have no need to identify with them, for what has come from outside can go back outside. It does not belong in my consciousness.
My real nature is blissfulness. When I am in this natural state, I am in balance.
Detachment is not going away from anybody; it is coming to my own Self. Let me be with myself; then I will know how to be with you.
Faith that comes from somebody else 's word, promise, or prediction is not going to last long, because it is borrowed. Conviction which comes from inner experience is going to endure.
Instead of making the world a valley of unhappiness, false promise. Instead, say to yourself, I can transform it into a garden of bliss with awareness.


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Imagine yourself as a graphic designer for New Age musician Enya, tasked with creating her next album cover. Which two or three colors from the grid below do you think would "go best" with her music?
Would they be the same ones you'd pick for an album cover or music video for the heavy metal band Metallica?
Probably not.
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For years, my collaborators and I have been studying music-to-color associations. From our results, it's clear that emotion plays a crucial role in how we interpret and respond to any number of external stimuli, including colors and songs.
The colors of songs
In one study, we asked 30 people to listen to four music clips, and simply choose the colors that "went best" with the music they were hearing from a 37-color array.
In fact, you can listen to the clips yourself. Think about which two to three colors from the grid you would choose that "go best" with each selection.
The image below shows the participants' first-choice colors to the four musical selections provided above.
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Selection A, from Bach's Brandenburg Concerto Number 2, caused most people to pick colors that were bright, vivid and dominated by yellows. Selection B, a different section of the very same Bach concerto, caused participants to pick colors that are noticeably darker, grayer and bluer. Selection C was an excerpt from a 1990s rock song, and it caused participants to choose reds, blacks and other dark colors. Meanwhile, selection D, a slow, quiet, "easy listening" piano piece, elicited selections dominated by muted, grayish colors in various shades of blue.
The mediating role of emotion
But why do music and colors match up in this particular way?
We believe that it's because music and color have common emotional qualities. Certainly, most music conveys emotion. In the four clips you just heard, selection A "sounds" happy and strong, while B sounds sad and weak. C sounds angry and strong, and D sounds sad and calm. (Why this might be the case is something we'll explore later.)
If colors have similar emotional associations, people should be able to match colors and songs that contain overlapping emotional qualities. They may not know that they're doing this, but the results corroborate this idea.
We've tested our theory by having people rate each musical selection and each color on five emotional dimensions: happy to sad, angry to calm, lively to dreary, active to passive, and strong to weak.
We compared the results and found that they were almost perfectly aligned: the happiest-sounding music elicited the happiest-looking colors (bright, vivid, yellowish ones), while the saddest-sounding music elicited the saddest-looking colors (dark, grayish, bluish ones). Meanwhile, the angriest-sounding music elicited the angriest-looking colors (dark, vivid, reddish ones).
To study possible cultural differences, we repeated the very same experiment in Mexico. To our surprise, the Mexican and US results were virtually identical, which suggests that music-to-color associations might be universal. (We're currently testing this possibility in cultures, such as Turkey and India, where the traditional music differs more radically from Western music.)
These results support the idea that music-to-color associations in most people are indeed mediated by emotion.
People who actually see colors when listening to music
There's a small minority of people – maybe one in 3,000 – who have even stronger connections between music and colors. They are called chromesthetes, and they spontaneously "see" colors as they listen to music.
For example, a clip from the 2009 film The Soloist shows the complex, internally generated "light show" that the lead character – a chromesthetic street musician – might have experienced while listening to Beethoven's Third Symphony.
Chromesthesia is just one form of a more general condition called synesthesia, in which certain individuals experience incoming sensory information both in the appropriate sensory dimension and in some other, seemingly inappropriate, sensory dimension.
The most common form of synesthesia is letter-to-color synesthesia, in which the synesthete experiences color when viewing black letters and digits. There are many other forms of synesthesia, including chromesthesia, that affect a surprising number of different sensory domains.
Some theories propose that synesthesia is caused by direct connections between different sensory areas of the brain. Other theories propose that synesthesia is related to brain areas that produce emotional responses.
The former theory implies little or no role for emotion in determining the colors that chromesthetes experience, whereas the latter theory implies a strong role for emotion.
Which theory is correct?
To find out, we repeated the music-color association experiment with 11 chromesthetes and 11 otherwise similar non-chromesthetes. The non-chromesthetes chose the colors that "went best" with the music (as described above), but the chromesthetes chose the colors that were "most similar to the colors they experienced while listening to the music."
The left side of the image below shows the first choices of the syensethetes and non-synesthetes for fast-paced classical music in a major key (like selection A), which tends to sound happy and strong. The right side shows the color responses for slow-paced classical music in a minor key (like selection B), which tends to sound sad and weak.
Author providedThe color experiences of chromesthetes (Figure B) turned out to be remarkably like the colors that non-chromesthetes chose as going best with the same music (Figure A).
But we mainly wanted to know how the non-chromesthetes and chromesthetes would compare in terms of emotional effects. The results are depicted in Figure C.
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Interestingly, the emotional effects for chromesthetes were as strong as those for non-chromesthetes on some dimensions (happy/sad, active/passive and strong/weak), but weaker on others (calm/agitated and angry/not-angry).
The fact that chromesthetes exhibit emotional effects at all suggests that music-to-color synesthesia depends, at least in part, on neural connections that include emotion-related circuits in the brain. That they're decidedly weaker in chromesthetes than non-chromesthetes for some emotions further suggests that chromesthetic experiences also depend on direct, non-emotional connections between the auditory and visual cortex.
Musical anthropomorphism
The fact that music-to-color associations are so strongly influenced by emotion raises further questions. For example, why is it that fast, loud, high-pitched music "sounds" angry, whereas slow, quiet, low-pitched music "sounds" calm?
We don't know the answers yet, but one intriguing possibility is what we like to call "musical anthropomorphism" – the idea that sounds are emotionally interpreted as being analogous to the behavior of people.
For example, faster, louder, high-pitched music might be perceived as angry because people tend to move and speak more quickly and raise their voices in pitch and volume when they're angry, while doing the opposite when they're calm. Why music in a major key sounds happier than music in a minor key, however, remains a mystery.
Artists and graphic designers can certainly use these results when they're creating light shows for concerts or album covers for bands – so that "listening" to music can become richer and more vivid by "seeing" and "feeling" it as well.
But on a deeper level, it's fascinating to see how effective and efficient the brain is at coming up with abstract associations.
To find connections between different perceptual events – such as music and color – our brains try to find commonalities. Emotions emerge dramatically because so much of our inner lives are associated with them. They are central not only to how we interpret incoming information, but also to how we respond to them.
Given the myriad connections from perceptions to emotions and from emotions to actions, it seems quite natural that emotions emerge so strongly – and perhaps unconsciously – in finding the best colors for a song.
Stephen Palmer is Professor of the Graduate School at University of California, Berkeley, and Karen B Schloss is Assistant Professor of Research at Brown University. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.


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Pets Have Allergies Too!
Your pet's skin issues, inflamed ears, or hair loss could be symptoms of allergies. In fact, allergies are among the top seven health concerns for both dogs and cats, according to the AVMA Pet Ownership and Demographics Sourcebook. Fortunately, your pet's veterinarian can recommend allergy treatment options and modifications that will improve your furry friend's symptoms.
What Causes Allergies?
Allergies happen when your pet's immune system identifies a harmless substance as a potential health threat. These substances, called allergens, can include tree and plant pollen, food, flea saliva, insects, dust, medications, mold spores, and more. Once an allergen enters your pet's body, the immune system produces antibodies that attack the substance and cause allergy symptoms.
Symptoms of allergies in dogs, cats, rabbits, and small animals include:
- Itchy, Inflamed Skin. Your pet might bite, scratch, or lick its skin to try to relieve itching. Visible areas of the skin may look red or raw, or you might notice a rash or bumps on your pets' skin. Itching may affect the ears, head, face, paws, groin, armpits, or other areas of the body.
- Hair Loss. Constant scratching, licking, and biting can lead to hair loss.
- Hot Spots. You may notice a hot spot on your pet, a section of inflamed skin that feels warm to the touch. Hot spots happen when the skin becomes infected due to scratching, licking, and biting.
- Ear Problems. Your pet's ears may look red or become infected due to allergies. Excess ear wax, odor, or crusts on the ear can also be signs your pets are suffering from allergies.
- Scooting. Your dog may scoot its bottom on the floor to relieve anal itching.
- Upper Respiratory Symptoms. Sneezing, coughing, eye discharge or redness, wheezing, or a runny nose may also be symptoms of allergies.
- Gastrointestinal Symptoms. Some allergies could cause vomiting or diarrhea.
Allergy Treatment Options
Treating allergies starts with determining which allergens cause reactions in your pet. Your pet's veterinarian bases his or her diagnosis on a physical examination and your observations. He or she may also examine skin scrapings taken from your pet or perform allergy skin testing. If the veterinarian suspects a food allergy, a feeding trial may be recommended. During the trial, your pet will eat a special hypoallergenic food. Certain foods will be introduced one at a time to determine which foods cause reactions in your pet.
If the feeding trial reveals that your pet is allergic to specific ingredients in food, your veterinarian can recommend safe food alternatives. Oral or injectable medications can be helpful if your pet has a severe reaction to seasonal allergies. Medications can decrease itching or change the immune system's response to allergens.
Improving Allergy Symptoms at Home
Controlling your pet's allergies doesn't have to be difficult. These strategies may be helpful if your pet suffers from allergy symptoms:
- Decreasing Allergens in Your Home. Keep pollen, mold, and dust spores under control by vacuuming or mopping floors regularly and washing your pet's bedding weekly. Use a moist cloth to clean your pet's paws and the bottoms of your shoes before entering your home. Filter allergens from the air by turning on air-conditioners and air purifiers.
- Bathing. Bathing your pet removes allergens from the fur and skin before they can cause symptoms. Weekly baths with hypoallergenic shampoo or soothing oatmeal-based products should help reduce symptoms. Don't bathe your pet more than once a week, as too frequent bathing can dry the skin and increase itching. Bathing is just as beneficial for cats with allergies as they are for dogs, although not all cats will tolerate a bath. In between baths (or if you can't bathe your cat), remove allergens by wiping your pet's body with a moist cloth.
- Supplements. Omega-3 fatty acid supplements may relieve skin discomfort during seasonal allergy season. Be sure to check with your veterinarian first before giving your pet any type of supplement.
- Use Flea Protection. In addition to using year-round topical or oral flea prevention medication, use outdoor flea spray in your yard. Spraying your yard is important even if your pet never goes outside, as fleas can hitch a ride on your clothing. Keep your pet away from the yard until the spray dries completely.
- Watch the Forecast. Before you take your pet for a walk or open the windows, check the allergy forecast. If pollens or other allergens are high, limit the amount of time your pet spends outdoors.
Is your pet showing signs of allergies? Contact our office to schedule an appointment with the veterinarian.
JAVMAnews: More Itchy Pets? No Problem, 2/15/2020
Pet Food Institute: Pet Food Allergies
American Kennel Club: Treating and Preventing Hot Spots in Dogs, 7/25/2022
Tufts Now: How Seasonal Allergies Affect Your Pet, 5/26/2020


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I will be lowering the flags on all Federal Buildings and National Monuments to half-staff over the next three days in memory of the Americans we have lost to the CoronaVirus....
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BASF has launched Trilon® M Max EcoBalanced, the first renewables-based Trilon® M grade produced according to the biomass balance approach.
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"I won something like 1200 races at least. I rode over 10,000 races. I rode at over 50 different race tracks. I broke at least 13 bones."
As a teen, Ed loved horses and wanted to become a jockey.
"I'm small and athletic and if you weigh 100 lbs, you're not going to be a linebacker for the Rams. So I left home at the age of 16. My dad gave me a train ticket and $40 and I had written a letter to all the horse farms in Lexington, Kentucky. And a man by the name of Herman Goodpasture hired me, and I went there and became a jockey."
He started winning races, and with the money and fame came a wild lifestyle
"The first year I rode I made more money than my dad did in all of his life. I was 19, I had a high rise apartment overlooking the bay in Baltimore. I had a brand-new car, and I had syphilis. So, you can understand some sort of the lifestyle that I was living in those days. I was 5' 2" and I had a 6' 8" ego."
When he eventually retired from racing, he became an award-winning newspaper writer and television producer. But intense depression affected everything in his life.
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Ed married early in his racing career but when his marriage ended, he hit rock bottom.
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For the next six years, Ed struggled with depression. Until one day, he finally cried out to God.
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After your case is filed, you must complete the debtor education course. If you filed for straight bankruptcy, you have to finish it within 60 days of the date assigned for your meeting of creditors. In corporate bankruptcy, it must be completed before you make your last plan payment.
Similar to credit counseling, an approved agency must be used to file your certificate of completion with the court (the course can be completed in person, online or over the phone). If you fail to complete the requirement of debtor education course, the court can close your case without a release and additional fees will have to be paid in order to reopen your case to file your certificate.
The focus of debtor education course is on life post bankruptcy. It educates you on how to manage your money, use credit judiciously, and make the most of your bankruptcy discharge. The primary purpose of debtor education is to educate you on how to make sound and robust financial decisions to prevent bankruptcy in the future.
Since the debtor education course will cover money management techniques, you will still have to create a budget using your income and expenses after bankruptcy. But in contrast to credit counseling (which tries to figure out whether you need to file for bankruptcy), the focus of this course will be primarily in educating you about how to manage your money, budget and use credit wisely after a discharge in bankruptcy is received.


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The original stripped-down hot rod bagger. The look is backed up by the refined power of a Milwaukee-Eight® 107 engine and high-performance suspension for an unmatched ride.
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Front / Rear - 32 mm, 4-piston fixed
Front - 130 / 60B19 61H
Rear - BW 180 / 55B18 80H
As Shipped - 796 lb. (361 kg)
In Running Order - 829 lb. (376 kg)
5.3 in. (135 mm)
Right lean angle - 31°
Left lean angle - 29°
Laden - 26.1 in. (664 mm)
Unladen - 27.4 in. (695 mm)
Infotainment System - Boom!™ Box 4.3
1st - 9.593
2nd - 6.65
3rd - 4.938
4th - 4
5th - 3.407
6th - 2.875
Vivid Black
Black Denim
Midnight Blue
Barracuda Silver
Stiletto Red
Tahitian Teal
Security System - Standard
Cruise Control - Standard
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Cover Reveal ~ Snaring Angus by Adrienne Dunning
Title: Snaring Angus
Series: A Captain's Folly Novel
Author: Adrienne Dunning
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Angus Donaghue and Kerry Hunter have spent their entire lives in the coastal Scottish village of North Berwick--battling wits and hurling insults. It was just the way of things. Yet, Angus begins to question himself when his mates in The Captain's Folly suggest a different type of connection to his life-long nemesis. In between her three jobs and caring for her terminally ill mother, Kerry finds herself still trading barbs with the sarcastic drummer every night during her bartending shift at The Ship's Inn Tavern. But here was the problem --what are you supposed to do when the one person you can't get off your mind is the one person who gets on your last nerve? But you know what they say… It's all complicated in love and war.
Snaring Angus is book one of The Captain's Folly Series, a trilogy following three members of the Captain's Folly, a pub band featured weekly at The Ship's Inn Tavern in North Berwick, Scotland. Dive into the lively village of North Berwick and the men of the Captain's Folly by reading the prequel novel, Seeking Solace.
Adrienne Dunning is simply a Southern gal who has fun playing poorly at golf when she's not crafting novels. She loves all forms of expression—writing, dancing, cooking, talking—and does them frequently and with abandon. Adrienne published her debut novel, Seeking Solace, in April of 2015, which was followed that October by her novel, Revolution. Seeking Solace is the prequel to the Captain's Folly Series. She currently lives in coastal North Carolina where she is working on more stories than she has time for.


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Mangalore is a city bustling with commerce and industrial development. A center for education and banking. Abounding in cultural activity. Famous for its music and cuisine
Going with the concept of providing the best for leisure, family vacations as well as business travelers, Hotel Poonja International has done well in blending the best possible amenities with the most important business facilities. Presenting a cheerful and inviting ambience, the hotel offers best of amenities. Providing the best in hospitality, the hotel presents a dedicated staff who are ever ready to make you comfortable. Conveniently located in a prime area in the city, the hotel allows easy access to its guests to all the major industrial areas and is also well-connected to other places in the city.
Offering good dining and drinking options, the hotel has YUVRAJ as their fine dining restaurant . At High Place , the bar, one can find a good selection of a wide range of refreshing beverages. Even when the hotel tries well to bring the best possible amenities under one roof, the aim of providing it at the best of rates is also their aim.
The grandeur and luxury of its appointments are a tribute to the Mangalore tradition of hospitality. Tasteful and cozy, Hotel Poonja International is upscale yet affordable
The 154 luxuries and well-appointed guest rooms at the Poonja International are tastefully furnished and designed to ensure your comfort. They include single and double rooms, non air conditioned or with individual air conditioning and deluxe suites as well. All the rooms are equipped with telephone and colour television.
Welcome to Hotel Poonja International


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Fabulous Family Fun #2 (Hint: Chocolate is involved)
Category : Blog , Fabulous Family Fun
25 Family Activities Celebrating 25 Years!
We are celebrating with you and sharing 25 activities enjoyed by our families over the past 25 years.
We all know that summer requires shade and indoor options, but most of the activities can be adapted to year round fun!
Edible Kitchen Science!
YaYa's in the Kitchen creating chocolate chip brownies with fresh organic raspberries and local organic blueberries from Green Meadows Farm (GMF).
YaYa and YoYo were in the blueberry fields on opening day 2019 at GMF.
Since many families have a favorite brownie recipe or mix, use what you prefer or try a new recipe. Then, add 1 cup of fresh berries and fold them gently into your batter.
YES, YaYa also added 1/2 cup of chocolate chips!
You can use one berry or any combination that works for your family. If you choose strawberries or blackberries, you may want to slice or quarter them.
We suggest that you allow your little ones choose the type of berries and the topping.
Today, YaYa sprinkled the top of the batter with sliced almonds before baking. But, you can stir nuts into the batter or omit nuts if that is not your "thing".
Be sure to visit YaYa's other recipes for more family baking fun!
Do You Have Concerns?
If you have a specific speech, language, literacy, communication or social skills concern, do not hesitate to contact us!
Our Director, Lori Savage Grayson, will be glad to speak with you and answer your questions about how Speech-Language Pathology services with Children's Communication Center might benefit your family.
NOTE: These family activity posts are meant to show that daily activities are beneficial to the development of SLP and related skills. However, the posts are not intended to replace SLP or other professional services.


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In the ever-evolving landscape of holiday decor, 2023 brings forth an array of trends that promise to transform spaces into a festive wonderland.
For those captivated by charm, vintage-inspired furnishings are making a comeback, weaving nostalgia into the Christmas season with thrifted prints, festive decor and table wear. The DIY movement gains momentum as crafting personalized mementos becomes a cherished tradition, making houses feel like home. A trending DIY option for this season is a dried orange garland – simple and affordable.
Speaking of simplicity, a minimal yet chic option is infusing pinecones with evergreen branches to create a cozy ambiance.
– Ashley Goodrich, 360 Media, Inc., The Atlanta 100


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HACKENSACK, N.J. — A New Jersey woman has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a woman who told her to wear a mask in a Staples office supplies store, according to police.
The incident took place on July 29 at a Staples store in Hackensack. A woman who was using the fax/copier told Terri Thomas — who was wearing a mask over her chin — to adjust the mask, so it covered her mouth and nose.
Thomas yelled at the woman and threw her to the ground, police said. It was later discovered that the victim had recently undergone liver transplant surgery.
The victim suffered a fractured left tibia, which required surgery. The incident was caught on surveillance video.
Thomas was arrested on Aug. 4 and charged with aggravated assault.
This story was originally published by Stephen M. Lepore on WPIX in New York City.


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One of these days, I'm going to figure out how we've gotten so lucky here at GAR! This week, Glenn and I had the privilege of interviewing the current creative team of the Eisner-nominated and Glyph-winning comic book, Princeless (a big GAR favorite). Jeremy Whitley (the book's writer) and Emily Martin (the book's current artist) were kind enough to stop by and talk about their book, teaching comics, publisher Action Lab Comics, and other topics.
As always, you can always get the latest shows and leave comments for us at www.garpodcast.com. You can also listen on iTunes and Stitcher. Tweet Ray at @raycornwall, and tweet Glenn at @monsura. Thanks for listening!
introduction / Jeremy's inspiration / accessible comics / Emily comes on board / Mark Waid and the Eisner Awards / Gail Simone / teaching art / college / self-publishing / plushes / Princeless / Breaking Bad / it always comes back to Prince / Emily's influences and art styles / coloring and lions / cosplay / Endless inspirations / Jeremy's Batman story / cat intermission / APE / where to stalk / robot apocalypse / holding the line / Space-Time Condominium / Molly Danger by Jamal Igle / Skyward and Vamplets / closing words / Batman vs Grumpy Cat /
Action Lab Comics
Princeless at Graphicly
Princeless on Tumblr
All Things Fun!
All Things Fun! Vidcast
Allison Eckel at All Things Fun!
Megamoth Studios
Megamoth Studio Classes
Chris Sims
War Rocket Ajax
the real Death
Otherkinds webcomic
Alternative Press Expo
Emily's Twitter
Emily's Tumblr
Jeremy's Twitter
Bleeding Cool
Space-Time Condominium
Molly Danger by Jamal Igle
Buy Princ1ess


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Live Bands
When it comes to live entertainment, our bands are second to none.
Frequency Entertainment represents a wide variety of acts, from hip hop to country, heavy to easy listening, we are sure to have a band custom fit to your entertainment needs. Check out some of the amazing talent from our ever-expanding list of acts here.