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6 Yoga Poses to Improve Your Libido
Yoga does some amazing things for your mind and body, including your reproductive organs. According to research, yoga practice can increase circulation, enhance libido and engage the kegel muscles for a better amorous life. So, what are you waiting for? If you're feeling stressed out and need a little help in your love life, start practicing yoga and do the poses presented below!
How yoga can improve your amorous life
Researchers have confirmed that yoga can help you get in the amorous mood. In one study in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, researchers looked at 41 women who were diagnosed with metabolic syndrome (including diabetes and heart disease). At the end of a 12-week yoga program, researchers found that the women had increased blood flow to all parts of the body, including that region down below.
"Yoga appears to be an effective method of improving all domains of sexual functions in women," wrote the authors. This included desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction.
Other research looks promising as well. In one study, researchers found that a mindfulness practice cultivated in yoga class helped women to improve erotic arousal, get a better response, reduce pain and even manage symptoms of chronic pain in the vulva, called vestibulodynia.
And there's great news for men too. In another study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, researchers found that could treat premature ejaculation and promote erotic satisfaction.
Other benefits of yoga in the bedroom
Regularly practicing asanas (yoga postures) and pranayama (deep, mindful breathing) can enhance your mind-body connection, which will definitely help your love life. Here are some of the consciousness and physical benefits of yoga that would also help your love life:
– Confidence;
– Boosted energy;
– Improved flexibility;
– Increased blood flow;
– Healthier body image;
– Improved self-esteem;
– Relaxed mind and body;
– Awareness in the present moment.
If this all sounds good to you, give this yoga sequence a try for better libido – your body (and your lover!) will thank you.
1. Child's pose
Start in child's pose to center your mind and body.
Take a moment to begin in child's pose, centering your breath. Close your eyes, rest your forehead on the mat and stretch out your arms in front of you. Breathe deeply and relax. Try to focus on sending energy to your pelvic region to wake up your reproductive organs. See if you can feel any tension down there, perhaps physically or emotionally.
2. Cat and cow
Wake up your libido with a few rounds of Cat and cow pose.
When you feel balanced, come forward onto your hands and knees, keeping knees hip-distance apart. Plant the four corners of your hands into the earth, grounding through the palms. On an exhale, round your spine towards the ceiling into cat pose.
Imagine a string pulling you up from the middle of your spine. On an inhale, lift your head and chest forward and arch your back into cow pose. Try this cat and cow flow for 10 rounds; it will increase mobility in your spine while strengthening the mula bandha (muscles of the pelvic floor).
3. Downward-facing dog
Stretch out and rest with Downward-facing dog.
After your cat and cow flow, you're ready to press back into a downward-facing dog. Push your palms away from the floor and send your bottom up towards the ceiling. While here in this resting pose, you will elongate your spine, relieve lower back pain, strengthen your wrists and calves, and release all the tension in your body. Focus on your breath and stay here for a minute.
4. Pelvic floor poses
Strengthen the pelvic floor and boost libido with Bridge pose.
Once you're warmed up, it's always a good idea to strengthen your pelvic floor muscles, which support a woman's uterus, bladder, small intestine and rectum. For a man, strong pelvic floor muscles support the bladder and urethra, helping to combat incontinence and other problems with age.
Studies have shown that performing kegel exercises on a daily basis can significantly strengthen pelvic floor muscles, which helps to address many of the biggest problems associated with urinary issues and low sex drive. Some of the best asanas for your pelvic floor are:
– Squat;
– Locust pose;
– Warrior II pose;
– Bridge pose;
– Chair pose;
– Child's pose.
5. Pigeon pose
Release tension in the hips and improve libido with Pigeon pose.
Now that we've stretched and strengthened our pelvic floor muscles, let's start to wind down back to the mat. Pigeon pose is a relaxing way to do just that, while opening up the hips. This is vital for a better amorous life because it's said that we store a lot of emotional stress in our hip flexors, and – let's be honest – nothing kills erotic arousal faster than stress. So, the sooner we can relieve the tension, the better.
As a bonus, open hips means you're less likely to get muscle cramps during love making. Relax into Pigeon pose on both sides and hold it for a minute each, using a block or blanket underneath the raised hip as needed. Notice where you feel any tension and send energy to that spot. If you feel emotions cropping up in this pose, don't worry, that's totally normal – just breathe.
6. Happy baby pose
Try Happy Baby pose for improved libido.
You may feel a bit vulnerable here, but this gentle pose is wonderful for your spine, especially if you slowly rock back and forth from the left side to the right. Plus, this pose is featured in the famous Hindu text "Kama Sutra".
It may seem awkward at first, but Happy Baby pose can increase circulation to the pelvis and release the lower back and sacrum while opening up the hips, thighs and groin. You can also try reclined bound ankle pose for similar effects.
The benefits of yoga are seemingly endless, and better amorous life based on love transfiguration and sexual continence is high up on that list.
Give these yoga poses a whirl and take that calm and confidence into your love life. Perhaps you can even show your lover some of your new moves – enjoy!
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It's been 25 years since the birth of the modern romantic comedy. Beginning with When Harry Met Sally… in 1989, the genre has become a launching pad for some actors and a refuge for others. In these movies we find predictable moments, heightened notions of love, and a lot of questionable outfits. And while the genre has morphed over the years, we're still in love with rom-coms — so we're celebrating them all week. Welcome to Rom-Com Week.
From across the room at a party, a man spots a beautiful woman who could very well be the love of his life. He crosses over closer to her and delivers a meet-cute pick-up line for the ages: "I don't usually do this, but I felt compelled to tell you something. You have an absolutely breathtaking heinie. I mean, that thing is good. I wanna be friends with it." She rebuffs this advance, appears again at his office the next day for a job interview, and the wheels of screwball romance are set into motion.
Yes, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is the greatest romantic comedy of the past 10 years. The cartoonish Ron Burgundy and Veronica Corningstone are more real than any of the pseudo-naturalistic characters in other rom-coms like Notting Hill or The Proposal, both of which end up being just as ridiculously broad. The characters of Anchorman are incredibly fleshed out, and even if they don't exactly resemble humans in life, they ping deeply with how we actually feel inside. Who among us hasn't been trapped in a glass case of emotion at one time or another?
Will Ferrell and Christina Applegate have such hot, great chemistry, helped by the fact that they are both very funny. Both actors respect one another as performers, which is your first hint the characters will eventually come to respect one another as coworkers. Ferrell and Applegate are playful with each other, which is something very important to real-life relationships but rarely seen onscreen, where romance is often turned to a high-stress, low-fun game of chicken. During the repeat viewings that Anchorman requires, you start to notice both Ferrell and Applegate trying not to laugh in almost every scene. Ron calling Veronica a "smelly pirate hooker" feels like a gambit by Ferrell to make Applegate laugh, as it does when she volleys back, "You look like a blueberry."
The romance plotline was not necessarily originally at the fore of Anchorman. A whole story arc about confused extremist organization The Alarm Clock was cut and released later as Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie. It's similar to rom-com hall of famer Annie Hall, which abandoned its original central murder-mystery plot in the editing room and pushed the romance to the front lines. (This opens a wormhole in the mind about what the Annie Hall murder mystery must have been like, which is more or less answered by Manhattan Murder Mystery.)
The stakes of the romance in Anchorman are higher than a mere "will they or won't they?" A lot of rom-coms deal with the interplay of sexual and workplace dynamics, but Anchorman is more explicit than most. Ron's struggle to accept that the woman he loves is better than him at his job has real political weight, even if Ron claims to believe that "diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era." Ron wrestles with himself in a love triangle with Veronica and his own ego, where he can only choose one. When he breaks down, grows the Brian Wilson beard, and barks "SHE'S BETTER THAN ME" at a bartender, it's so incredibly funny because it's also kind of real. No truly great rom-com comes without some darkness, and the feeling that Ron Burgundy might fall into an abyss of his own making gives the film its suspense. Veronica and Ron might be meant for each other, but that doesn't mean he can't still ruin it by getting in his own way. The conclusion is far from preordained. Ron earns his big revelations.
Ron's firmly held belief in masculine superiority is challenged hilariously throughout, but ultimately he succumbs to change in order to be with the woman he loves. And the movie bears out that thesis, letting Applegate be as physical and silly as the boys, and proving that she obviously deserves to be there, that movies are better when women get to be goofs too. She's the rare unicorn of a well-developed female character in a male-dominated comedy who can more than hold her own. (In this Animal House, she is the Karen Allen.) When the movie ends with Veronica and Ron as coanchors, equal partners in life and love, it's genuinely satisfying. How many other rom-coms can say that?


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Sun's 5,000 layoffs and 5 million OpenSolaris downloads
Tom Foremski has the scoop on Sun's forthcoming layoffs. The axe is scheduled to fall on Thursday, which is the same day that Jonathan Schwartz will be giving a speech at the Supernova 2006 conference in San Francisco (I'll be there). Tom and I both attended a dinner last night Sun hosted to mark the first year of OpenSolaris. Stephen Harpster, director of OpenSolaris at Sun, told me that Sun is not trying to take away share from Linux. "We are going for Solaris developers," he said. "People who download OpenSolaris know it has features beyond Linux." Targeting Solaris developers is the natural first step, but why not go after Linux and the lower hanging HP-UX, which Schwartz said in an open letter to HP CEO Mark Hurd should be converged with Solaris 10.
He noted that government and universities who abandoned Solaris and now coming back to the fold with OpenSolaris. Sun has even hired student evangelists, mostly in India and China, Harpster said.With 5 million licenses in the first years, Tom Goguen, vice president of system software at Sun, said OpenSolaris adoption exceeded expectation, calling it "wildly successful." Most of the Fortune 500 have downloaded OpenSolaris to at least check it out, he said. The big, custom Linux shop Google has downloaded Open Solaris, but Goguen wouldn't say if the company was a paying customer. In fact, he was unable to quantify the OpenSolaris revenue contributions to Sun, as Tom points out in his post. Apparently, Sun hasn't broken out those numbers before, which are probably a bit fuzzy given nobody 'buys' an OpenSolaris license, and the finance and legal nixed the disclosure.
According to Goguen, among the registered licenses, two-thirds were for x86 systems, with 31 percent Dell, 25 percent on Dell and 24 percent IBM. The rest were on Sun hardware and a few other vendors. In total OpenSolaris is supported on 735 systems, which is more than Red Hat Enteprise Linux 4, Goguen said. Five separate distributions of OpenSolaris have also been launched, some addressing markets Sun hasn't focused on. Some other numbers:
14,000 registered community members (12,500+ non-Sun, 1,500+ are Sun employees)
39,300 postings to OpenSolaris discussion groups
33,000+ recorded downloads of OpenSolaris source code (actual is probably higher)
30 registered OpenSolaris user groups
440 bugs reported by the community
147 fixed / closed / in progress bugs reported by the community
170 community code contributions offered to OpenSolaris
100 community code contributions integrated into OpenSolaris (putbacks)
Goguen said that one of the biggest challenges is managing the put-backs, dealing with code management processes as the community contributes to the code base, especially with Nevada, the next version of Solaris 10.
See also: Michael Kanellos' interview with John Fowler, executive vice president of systems at Sun


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New patterns...3:35 PM
McCall's just released their holiday patterns. But is this one Holiday or Halloween?
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Aminat, I CAN'T with McCall's right now... LOLReplyDelete
Good grief thats awfull!Im finding myself looking at 40's and 50's vintage patterns more and more.ReplyDelete
What in the WORLD are they thinking with that dress?ReplyDelete
Thank God I just have long sleeved warm knit tops and outerwear on my list this winter...
i needed that laugh.ReplyDelete
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I agree, jester costume was my first though (well, jester dressed as candy corn!) I was not impressed with the new McCall's.ReplyDelete
I feel the same way. I saw some really ridiculous patterns in their release. Not only that, but the fabrics they chose are horrendous. They're trying to sell them right?! Looking forward to Butterick and Vogue releases.ReplyDelete
Clarissa, that's something that really bothers me... the fabric. You'd think they'd have access to a better selection.ReplyDelete
Same thought here. Maybe it's an inside joke...McCall's designers decided to put something out as "fashion forward" just to see how many would buy the pattern.ReplyDelete


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Jonesboro, AR – Optus, Inc. is honored to announce that Kylan Washington has been selected as this year's recipient of the Optus Family Scholarship in honor of Adam Harrington. Kylan will be a 2018 graduate of Munford High School and will be graduating with a GPA of 3.86. Kylan has an impressive community service record including volunteering at summer camps, school tutoring and working with youth at the elementary school. Some of his many honors include the Football All-Region First Defensive Back, perfect attendance, was named to TN Boys' State and was named on the West Tennessee All Star team. Kylan was elected Mr. MHS by his class. Kylan will be attending the Cumberland University and majoring in Nursing. Kylan is the grandson of Deborah Reed, a Restoration Technician who has been an Optus employee for 7 years.
To qualify for this scholarship, Kylan had to be a future full-time student working towards an undergraduate degree at an accredited college or university, have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0, and be the child or grandchild of a current full-time Optus employee. The $1,000 per semester scholarship will be renewed by Optus for up to 3 additional years as long as Kylan maintains his eligibility. Also, Optus plans to continue making a new award each year.
Adam Harrington was the son of Neal and Rhonda Harrington formerly of Jonesboro. Adam died suddenly in August of 2006 when lightning struck him in Hot Springs. Adam was a graduate of Nettleton High School and was attending the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Neal Harrington was a long-term employee of Optus who recently relocated to the Hot Springs area.
"We are honored to offer this benefit which pays tribute to the memory of Adam Harrington to our employees. We are pleased to give this scholarship to a student such as Kylan who possesses so many of the same qualities Adam was known for—leadership, service, and dedication to academic studies," commented Mark Duckworth, President, and CEO of Optus, Inc.
Headquartered in Jonesboro, Arkansas, Optus, Inc. has been providing businesses with communications solutions for 25 years. Now a leading national supplier of new and refurbished voice, video and data business communication parts, solutions and services, the company employs a total of 100 sales, service and administrative professionals in five states. For more information, visit www.optusinc.com.


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When functionality and mobility combine, the results are a fantastic asset to the home. Let's take a look at a great design from our customer Richard K. Richard created a moveable kitchen island piece that can easily compliment any space.
The island is supported by four Grand Island Posts (Part #1455). The post features a top block sufficient for adding large drawers, shelving, or cabinetry. In this project, Richard utilized the extra space to create a storage application. As you can see, the top block of the post was the perfect size for this design.
Richard also added wheels to the bottom block of the legs. The legs are perfectly balanced, allowing the wheels to move the island freely. The design also allows room for two 30″ high stools for eating and sitting. Great work Richard!
Are you working on a mobile design for your kitchen? Imagine the endless possibilities for storage and aesthetic beauty. Be sure to check out Osborne's island posts to support your next project. We would love to work with you on your design!


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Friday, October 22, 2010
Super Fly (1973)
Yes, it's another blaxploitation explosion.
And there's drugs and there's crooked cops and there's money gone missing, and all that stuff we've all come to love with the genre. But this time it's done with fistful of dynamite.
It is simply Super Fly!
And as so often the case with the genre, the music is at least half the experience, and this time the piratebay uploaders has been nice enough to include it with the release.
Genre: Blaxploitation, Stoner
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Everyone is talking about a housing crisis, but is that really true? For some, the housing market is delivering well and others really badly, the agenda that needs to be addressed is really a problem of equality. Responding to the need of all, with the right quality and affordable solution. Here are my thoughts on today's Housing White Paper.
Over the last 30 years, the Conservative party's main pillar of housing policy has been to increasing the amount of home ownership. In this time, home ownership has gone up significantly but we are still in the midst of a housing crisis. Too many people live in substandard accommodation and have little hope to move somewhere else, let alone be able to buy a home themselves. While net new additions to the housing sector continue to rise, achieving the 2020 challenge of 1million new homes is not a certainty.
The predicted move to more mix tenure is expected and a welcome shift in policy, moving away from ownership as the main pillar of Conservative housing policy. While home ownership is not an abandoned policy, a more diverse tenure mix is clearly now the Governments direction. The Government is trying to encourage more institutional investment, to create more private rented developments. Institutional investors take a long term view, much less interested in the short term rise and fall of sale prices but dependable rental income. This should give families more long term security about their rented home, not having to face annual rent hikes as short term landlords try to cash in while they can. The English Housing Survey shows that private rented accommodation (currently mostly small scale) compared to other tenures has a higher rate of homes not being classed as "decent homes".
With a longer term view, institutional investors are keen to ensure that the homes they build remain a good investment throughout the homes life, this means homes built to higher quality, that are resilient to future climatic conditions are of key importance from the outset. Many large institutional investors are already investing high quality sustainable homes; Aviva investors are part of a joint venture with Blueprint at Nottingham Trent basin using Home Quality Mark as the tool to ensure a higher level of quality. In Manchester, Legal and General have recently bought into the BREEAM Communities development by PEEL at Media City, Salford, Greater Manchester, another site we are expecting to see Home Quality Mark homes on soon.
The diversity in housing policy is not just about tenure, but also who is building the new homes. Gavin Barwell MP, the housing minister said we are "too dependent on a small number of large developers". Encouraging smaller developers is a key part delivering the million homes by 2020. 46% of people surveyed by the Home Builders Federation said they were unlikely to consider buying a new home. The perception around new homes, is still one of poor quality design and workmanship. While this is the case still too often, there are an increasing number of particularly smaller builders who are trying to attract the "46%" into new homes with features and performance that is beyond their expectation. Egg Homes and Lumiere are both using Home Quality Mark to help them communicate the benefits of their new homes to what is essentially a new audience. Homes that are more sustainable, better for our health and wellbeing and have low running costs become key factors to 2nd, 3rd and 4th time house buyers. The Government also believes that more diverse homes will encourage people whose children have left home and no longer need large family homes to downsize to a home that works better for the later years of life. Places for People are using Home Quality Mark to ensure homes built for people later in life are really being built for their needs.
How homes are being built is also likely to diversify with talk of developments reserved for homes built offsite. Offsite or factory built homes, should have the same or better performance than traditionally built homes. In a factory, quality control is usually more easily scrutinised, costs and waste can also be controlled ensuring a product that could well be better value for money. Offsite construction could also tackle other issues such as construction dust, noise and traffic (particularly positive to the local communities of urban sites) but also help with labour shortages. However, as Stephen Stone (CEO Crest Nicholson) recently pointed out, some factories currently are 90% EU labour, which is higher than most traditionally built London sites. It may well be the case that many of these jobs are done by machines, leaving a need for different skills in the sector. Skills to improve design, efficiency and overall quality.
In order to get acceptance from local communities, a more diverse housing policy must ensure that homes that are delivered to householders (and their existing communities) are of high quality and low environmental impact to ensure everyone's health and wellbeing is improved. The White Paper suggests that homes built near railway stations is to be encouraged, something that not only means that the new homes are automatically well connected, but could limit the impact upon existing roads (as people may not need a car). It is a balance though, without additional sound insulation from external noises (currently there is limited regulations in this sector), and the correct ventilation strategies (both of which the Home Quality Mark outlines) homes near railway lines could well become a nightmare to live in.
The Government wants consumers and communities to help drive up quality and improve the character of design. Without ensuring consumers and consumers are on board, public opinion regarding the quality of new homes could undermine all of government's good intentions. One top 10 house builder has a "Victim's Group" on Facebook with over 1200 members, current customers share stories of things gone wrong with their home, and potential customers may well be put off from buying a home from this particular house builder. 10 years ago, customers were not so powerful, as social media has helped them become today. It isn't only the housebuilders as now the traditional organisations that provide warranties are becoming drawn into the debate leaving a "trust shortfall" amongst consumers. As the Home Quality Mark evolves, trust from consumers is something that we will increase and build upon.
As Javid says, there is no silver bullet but a combination of diverse homes, with different tenures, built in efficient ways that are in locations that people want, to high standards of quality and sustainability is the only way to achieve the housing targets that have been set.


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"Cheating is for losers" is only something that losers like to say. If you want to smash your friends and fly up the leaderboards, though, sometimes you have to go that extra mile.
Bejeweled Blitz is a PopCap game that can be played on your computer, through Facebook, or even on an iPhone. For the Facebook version, you can use this great hack to rack up some points.
But for those who play on the iPhone, there is very little out there in terms of cheating. There is an app in the iTunes store claiming to reveal cheats, but it's apparently totally bogus and customers rated it accordingly.
However, there is actually a way to cheat the system and raise your high-score with something you already use in the game anyway—Boosts. They're special gems that help, well, boost your score.
- Mystery Gem: Gives you a random Special Gem at the start.
- Detonator: Detonates all Special Gems.
- Scramble: Shuffles the game board.
- +5 Seconds: Speaks for itself, I think.
- X2 Multiplier: Starts the game off with Multiplier at 2nd level.
Using these boosts is essential to racking up a high score, but like all things in life, they cost money—well, virtual coins, but you catch my drift. While the coins are technically free via the Daily Free Spin, the game requires you to wait hours until you can spin again.
You can buy extra spins as well, but who wants to do that?
Instead, all you have to do is trick the game into thinking it's the next day. Once you've used your Free Spin and the waiting time is revealed, click the Home button and go to Settings -> General -> Date & Time and slide off "Set Automatically." Then, set the date one day forward. Now, go back to the Bejeweled app and you will see you have another Free Spin.
You can do this an unlimited number of times, just depends on how dedicated you are.
When you are done playing, remember to set the Date & Time back to automatic. If you don't, it could mess up your reminders, alarms, and iMessages.
Here's a video for the visual learners out there.
Now, with the ability to earn unlimited amounts of coins, you will be able to purchase all of the boosts and rare gems you want. It has been advised to use the Phoenix Prism Gem (50,000 Coins) in combination with the X2 multiplier, +5 Seconds, and the Shuffle Boost for the greatest score achievable. So, be fast and use your special gems wisely and you will be on your way to the top of the leaderboard.
You can also "cheat" by playing with friends, letting them point out combos you might not see, or follow these useful strategies.
PS: You can start swapping gems as soon as the game screen comes on; no need to wait for GO. Time is of the essence!
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Polarity - Reconciling the Subject - Object Riddle
Q: Would you speak further about the unification or mergence of the intuitive and rational aspects of human cognitive capacity? What are the correlations of this mergence in the subtle brain and subtle body in general? Thank you for the intuitive wisdom.
In response to this, I just want us to remind ourselves of what is really driving this process. Perhaps it would be helpful to understand this in terms of how the polarity itself is set in motion, and why there is this polarity. It is all intimately connected with that subject and object relationship.
The subject and object relationship requires the very anatomy — the anatomical structure as this anatomical structure — which will be operating on the very principles of polarity. All of the existing yogas at some point have recognized that it is due to this polarity, that there is a possibility of experiencing anything. Of course there are different takes on what to do with it, how to bridge it — and bridging is the very aim of yoga — to reconcile that polarity; literally reconcile the very subject-object riddle, or that rupture between subject and object, which in turn is supported by the very structure of this anatomy: left versus right, solar versus lunar, and everything that goes with that. As soon as we say left and right, and solar and lunar — that is the whole physiologic structure and how we function; the modalities of feeling, thinking, acting and interacting. For that reason, in yogic literature there is this line, "When the sun and the moon set in the same place." It literally means that vital flow in the lunar and in the solar channels go and set in the median channel of the sushumna. Literally, "the sun and the moon set in the same place," is where the polarity itself begins to be bridged, and is eager to go through that process of unification.
How does that mergence happen on the level of cognitive capacity? This is the very magic of the process; this is the very magic of that process itself, because what happens at first is this polarity can actually be increased at some point; we may experience flares of unity, we may experience certain visions of unity. When I say certain visions, it is a paradoxical maybe contradictory example, but we had that glimpse of unity; we felt one with everything, we felt our being one with absolutely everything...and yet, being thrown back to the very, very polarized structure of this physiology again.
Speak to anyone, any experience — you had the wildest spiritual awakening, and yet you were forced to go back and deal with the very structure — and it is that very structure that supports that process. Why? Because that is the way that the nervous system functions. After all, for whom is this realization? This realization is not for that which is formless, which is beyond name and form, but it is for that which is formed — in other words, embodied — and this is where the magic of the process begins. So everything is accompanied by that greater integral reconstruction, rekindling; at every stage, there is greater mergence, there is greater integration, until everything is integrated into the very fabric of our own Consciousness.
At some point, that which has been perceived prior as distinctively different — becomes less so. Just as I said earlier, that logic and intuition no longer walk apart and perform their separate duty; they start to hold hands, and at some point, maybe even become indistinguishable. This is a very interesting process. You can also view it from different yogic processes as well; I could speak of it in terms of the fusion of the koshas, of the five bodies — the five layers with which Awareness or Consciousness is layered to navigate Itself as the body. We can speak about this process from that perspective, the fusion between the koshas — that is what leads to that. Above all else, that manomaya kosha, the one that rules the mind, and the one that conducts affairs of the discriminative intellect — they merge, and they merge with bliss. So everything becomes infused with that, and that becomes very hard to then separate; it is very hard to then speak about them separately in a different language, in a different mode of expression. It is as if feeling and thought also become much closer — feeling and thought.
I remember at some point I was giving this expression, "It is as if we think with the heart and feel with the mind" — literally — because they become fused, one with the other. The mind becomes infused with the much higher frequency of the heart here; when I say the heart, it is not just the heart as an organ — it is our awareness — the most refined faculty of our awareness, the seat of Consciousness Itself. This is a very interesting process; this is when the integration begins. However, on the way to it, this process could be polarized even greater at some point, and that is what the witnessing state of consciousness is often characterized by and accompanied by; accompanied now by the subtle separation of the subject and the object.
The only difference is that the subject now is not the subject as so-and-so, as opposed to an object in the world; the subject here is now our Self, the witness — and the object is what we have been witnessing. It is very healthy to understand this is just a phase; a phase which ought to enter another integral stage — another integral process. As soon as a plateau is gained, Consciousness can expand further, and rest on that.
~ Igor Kufayev, Online Darshan transcribed Q&A Costa Rica, August 23, 2014
Sushumna Nadi is the powerful vibrational channel for the flow of that life force energy, the prana, which runs along the center of the spinal cord through the seven chakras of the subtle body.


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Green Day to headline BST in Hyde Park 2017
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- 4 October 2016
Green Day are to headline Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park on July 1, 2017
Green Day are the first act to be announced to headline Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park in 2017.
The 'Bang Bang' hitmakers will take to the Great Oak Stage on July 1, where they will showcase their forthcoming LP 'Radio Revolution' on what will be the festival's fifth birthday.
Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong - who is joined by bassist Mike Dirnt, drummer Tré Cool and lead guitarist Jason White in the group - said: "London in the summer, us and tens of thousands of fans having the biggest party in one of the world's most legendary venues. We have the best year to look forward to and this has just made it extra special."
James King, Senior Vice President of AEG Live, added: "We're super excited to be announcing Green Day as our first headliner for 2017. So many hits and also some amazing new music as well.
"London is going to be treated to one of the best stadium bands of our generation on the Great Oak Stage in Hyde Park."
Last year saw the likes of Stevie Wonder, Massive Attack, Florence + The Machine, Mumford and Sons and Kendrick Lamar take to the stage.
'Revolution Radio' is Green Day's first album since 'Uno!', 'Dos!' and 'Tre!', which were released in 2012.
Their eagerly-anticipated 12th studio LP also features the song 'Still Breathing', which is a reflection of the 44-year-old singer's stint in rehab for prescription drug addiction in 2012.
Billie previously shared: "I'd rather write something where my eyes are forward, rather than internal. I hope it makes people happy and makes a difference in some way, by people recognising themselves in the song."
Billie also said he can't wait to get on the road again.
Asked at the time if he's looking forward to playing the new songs live, he said: "Yeah. We're probably going to be announcing dates pretty soon. We've been in the garage hammering them out, and it sounds great. Jason White, Jason Freese and Jeff Matika are back with us, and we've got the gang back together."
The punk pop legends drop 'Radio Revolution' on Friday (07.09.16) and general sale tickets for their BST Hyde Park show go on sale on the same day.


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|desiccated corn field not far from the house
|dried-out ear of corn
|Indian corn hanging by our door
Hello Niall and Antoinette:
Although hot sunny days throughout the summer are most enjoyable, they do take their toll on the landscape. Farmers here in Hungary have also been desperate for rain for some time now and the days here still continue to be warm with very little rain.
Your sunflowers look very jolly indeed. Yes, Autumn shall soon be with us in earnest, but those big yellow faces on your sunflowers will brighten up any day!
The bernache and chestnut fairs can't be far away....
@Jane & Lance - with the sunflowers and the warm sunny weather forecast for the weekend it looks as if we shall hang on to summer for a little while yet.
@Fly - Just round the corner ... vendange hasn't started here yet though. We bought a bottle of red bernache in the supermarket--just couldn't resist. But it's nowhere near as nice as our local [Loire] stuff!
We saw a sign just outside Clion sur Indre "La Bernache est ici" just last weekend!
@Tim - it's yummy stuff :-)
Glad you've finally had some rain down there. Will it be enough to save the maize crop? No vendage here, but the apples are falling audibly now. :-)
It is the same here, everything brown and dried off with no rain for many weeks. A bit worried about the grazing for winter as there is hardly any green on the fields at all. Not to worry, rain will turn up sometime. And at least we have a barn full of hay to help us through.
Lovely sunflowers.
@Perpetua - no the maize far too far gone:- at least in the fields directly round us. Some in the valley looks to have suffered marginally less.
We have no apples at all on our mature tree this year :-( and the new tree-a Melrose-is still too young.
@Vera - I can imagine that the state of the pasture for winter grazing is a worry.
Having not had rain for ages we will probably end up getting far more than we'd ever when the weather finally changes!
Slowly but surely it is starting to green up here as well and our grass has just been cut for the first time in months. You shared some lovely photos.
How lucky can you get, our lawn looks like a fire has swept over it. No sign of rain here for the moment. Keep well Diane
@LindyLou - it started to improve a little but didn't get enough rain. thanks!
@Diane - ours is still looking 'fried'. Since we posted we've had no further rain.


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Rod Glove Pro Brent Ehrler
Having had consistent success throughout his career, Rod Glove Pro Brent Ehrler's ability to mix tournament victories and building the "Ehrler brand" has been nothing short of a success. Through his calm, cool and collected attitude towards the sport, natural ability to fish and his style and likability, top the list of reasons why this new wave of young anglers look up to him.
With an impressive list of victories in the past decade plus as a professional, it wasn't always glits and glam for Ehrler, as he had to grind through the low points just like the rest of us and it wasn't until Lucky Craft came through for him in 2004, which ultimately gave him his big break.
"Lucky Craft was the start of my career," says Ehrler. "I actually worked with them on and off starting in 2002. Before I won the EverStart Championship in 2004 I approached Lucky Craft for help, as I wanted to fish the FLW Tour. Lucky Craft stepped up and helped me out and I went on to win the EverStart Championship at the end of 2004 and onto fish the Tour in 2005. I don't think I would be where I am today without the help of Lucky Craft."
We hear anglers talk about their "support system" and how important it is to them. Interestingly enough, the day before Ehrler left for the EverStart Champtionship in 2004, he proposed to his then girl friend, which must of given him that little extra boost, as he rode cloud 9 all the way to a Championship victory.
Ehrler's first year of the Tour was 2005, but as he puts it "I didn't know which way was up". Coming off the EverStart Championship and into his first year Pro, it was a difficult year for him and he didn't qualify for the Cup that year. Moving into 2006, Ehrler wasn't about to give up. He had a year under his belt and was starting to learn the ropes of professional fishing at the Tour level. "I didn't win any events in 2006, but I did well enough in the old NCAA bracket format that FLW used to have and ultimately I ended up winning the cup."
If you go down the list of FLW pros that have been fishing professionally for 15 – 20 years, but haven't won the Cup and some a Tour event, it's shocking to think that Ehrler won it the first year he qualified. "To be honest, I wasn't expecting to win," says Ehrler. "I just wanted to make sure I fished hard and finished respectably, but I won. I always wondered why I won. Almost like I didn't pay my dues yet and it was so early in my career, but I won and it changed my life."
Having been so successful early in his career, you have to wonder how anyone would top such a victory. It's like winning the Super Bowl in your first year as a pro. Any human being would wonder if they have already reached the peak of their career and how they would handle to pressure of staying on top. "After my FLW Tour Championship win in 2006, I put a lot of pressure on myself to continue to do well. I wanted to be known as being consistent and not just a flash in the pan."
If you look at Ehrler's tournament finishes in 2007 and 2008, you would think that he just fell off the map, but he felt it was a matter of time and he was still learning. "Winning so early in my career, I knew I had a ton to learn about the sport and for a couple years following the 2006 Championship, I didn't do terribly, but I was still figuring things out. I was doing well on local lakes in the west and lakes that I knew, but it was the national stuff I was having trouble with."
Fast forward to 2009; Ehrler pulls out his first big win since 2006 and follows up in 2010 with two FLW Tour victories, a first place finish in a National Guard event, another Tour event win on Lake Hartwell in 2012, along with numerous top 10 finishes along the way. With the help of long time friend and agent, Tom Leogrande, his wife and the birth of his son, Ehrler's life and responsibilities was pushed to full throttle, but it only increased his drive to fish harder than ever before.
Brent has amassed over $2 Million in career earnings, nine career wins and a Forest Wood Cup title in 2006. Brent's first year efforts on the Bassmaster Elite Series earned him Rookie of the Year honors and a spot in the 2016 Bassmaster Classic. 2015 also saw Brent crowned as the champion of the Toyota Texas Bass Classic held on the storied Lake Fork in Texas.
In 2018, Brent competed in the Bassmaster Elite Series and Jack Link's Major League Fishing events.
If questions ever swirled around about how Ehrler would stay on top after winning the Tour Championship so early in his career, I think we are safe to say that those questions have been answered.