Can Ghosts Hurt you or Actually Touch you?
Ghosts are usually conceived as vestiges of the dead who have not been able to pass entirely into the heavenly (or infernal) realms. Ghost-hunting researchers encounter entities that seem to have some kind of post-life trauma. Ghosts have died cruel or shocking deaths, witnessed terrible things before they died, lost something very dear to them which they still cling to after death.
Perhaps the film, Ghost, with Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg, is not a perfect paradigm of what Ghosts really are, but it does have some things in common with the above definition. Swayze, like the Ghosts we speak of, is hanging around because of the cruel manner of its death and that it could bring some kind of danger to his girlfriend. Patricks lingering on Earth is a temporary phenomenon, often due to trauma or to hanging onto ones surroundings. Some accounts of Ghosts would say that Ghosts are often just fragments of better, more whole personalities that have not passed on to other dimensions of the Afterlife.
The film Ghost may be flawed in many ways, but perhaps it can give us some framework for addressing some of the questions about the reality and behavior of Ghosts as addressed through historical anecdote, contemporary reports, parapsychological studies and ghost-hunting. For instance, in the film, Swayze learns to influence matter from a strange, half-insane ghost on a subway.
In fact, can Ghosts hurt you or actually touch you? I would say that many people believe that Ghosts can touch you and some say they can hurt you and even kill you. Many people report a ghostly touch. For instance, Molly Stewart, licensed with the International Ghost Hunters Society, reports that Ghosts have reportedly pulled the hair of guests on her Salem, Massachusetts tour. Ghosts pull the hair In China, for instance, Ghosts killed by drowning are said to kill people in order to prevent them from reincarnating.
In general, Ghosts seems to be making contact because they are stuck in some pattern, expressing their pain or fear- or sometimes. Like Swayze as he reaches out to Moore in the film, Ghosts actually want to tell us something, something as strange as how they were killed or to assure us about something. But not everyone has the same degree of sensitivity to them.
It would seem, if you believe Sylvia Browne, that disembodied spirits, including releatives, are very close to this world. And, they attempt contact a lot, but we do not recognize it. In other, more tribal, shamanistic cultures that contact is perhaps more frequent and expected but these cultures dont necessarily keep written records in any quantity so it may be difficult to know.
Perhaps with our EMF and white noise machines, science is coming closer to some kind of answer about contacting Ghosts? Why hasnt it found that answer yet? Well, looking for Ghosts might be compared to wanting to study sea creatures at a certain depth, but not having the science of submersibles developed enough to be able to go there securely and stay long enough to take photographs. The Ghosts are there but we dont have the technology.
Teresa Edwards is the author of "The Most Haunted Secrets" - the ultimate guide to how psychics communicate with spirit world. For more details visit The Most Haunted Secrets.
Easy Ways To Lose 10 Pounds
People want
to lose weight for many different reasons, be it
to look better,
feel healthier, or for more confidence. A good
weight loss goal
to set in
the beginning is to lose 10 pounds. Losing 10 pounds is achievable for anyone who sets
their mind to it, and the ideal way of losing
weight is to make some small changes in
diet and increase in exercise.
Some people follow a strict weight loss approach in the hopes of losing 10 pounds quickly. However, because these rule are so restrictive, they are probably going to be hard to stick to, and
if you stray from the diet, those 10 pounds are probably going to come right back.
A better way to lose 10 pounds is to change your
eating habits. Though this may take longer to lose weight, at least the weight loss is
likely to be more permanent. When you take a closer look at your eating habits, you'll realize how often you snack out of habit and not out of hunger, for example when
watching TV.
People also eat way too much. The body is slow in registering the "full"
signal from the stomach, so the body only
"feels" full 20 minutes after you actually are full. So try to listen to your body more closely, and stop eating when you start to feel slightly full. It also helps if you chew your food more slowly, as this will allow your body more time to receive the "full" signal from the stomach. It also helps to eat less fattening food and unhealthy food such as cream cheese or salted chips or chicken skin.
Another approach to weight loss is to make
lifestyle changes that incorporate more activities into your day-to-day routine. This is an easier way to lose pounds and to keep them off. Take a look at your daily habits and see where you can make small changes to help you lose weight. One way to get started is to bike, instead of driving, to work. Biking to work will help burn a lot of calories in your body, plus you will be able to save money on gasoline and be environmentally friendly. Other changes you can make include going for a quick walk during your lunch break instead of sitting idle at your
desk, and taking the stairs instead of the lift.
If you are the more active type, you could
go hiking or
swimming, something recreational and fun, yet geared towards helping you lose weight. It is so much easier to lose weight when you are doing something you enjoy.
Many find the diet changes or exercise regimens for quick weight loss unrealistic.
By making small changes in your dietary and lifestyle habits you will find weight loss a breeze, plus you will easily keep the weight off.
Sue Jan
Isometrics, Steriods, Alexander Zass And Charles Atlas's Dynamic Tension- Effective or Just a Hoax??
Did
you know that you could build muscle
and become stronger without weight training?
Its true.
Its called isometric training and it increases muscle mass, giving you that great-looking body you always wanted. And best of all, you can get fit without going to
the gym or buying all that expensive home exercise equipment.
Isometric
exercises involve muscular contractions performed against fixed resistance. The System gained scientific acceptance
in 1953 when a couple of German researchers named Dr. Theodore Hettinger and Dr. Eric A. Muller published a study
showing people who did isometric exercises obtained
dramatic results by causing their muscles to tense for no more than 10 seconds at a time.
This muscle tension became popular in America when a young man from southern Italy, Angelo Sicilano, teamed up with marketing genius Harold Roman to produce an advertisement in comic books.
It showed how a 97-pound weakling became a real he-man and punched out
the bully who had kicked sand in his face. This ad launched the
mail order bodybuilding program called Dynamic Tension. Young Angelo went on to win the title The Worlds Most Perfectly Developed Man.
He changed his name to Charles Atlas, put on a pair of leopard skin shorts, and the rest
is history.
Probably the
only man Atlas could not help was Mahatma Gandhi. When the great spiritual leader of India wrote a letter to Atlas asking for help, Atlas devised a diet and recommended a series of exercises to help restore Gandhis weakened condition. I felt mighty sorry for him, Atlas said. He was nothing but a bag of bones.
A few years before Atlas started flexing his muscles, another strongman used
isometrics to build and maintain his strength. Like Atlas, Alexander Zassbetter known as The Amazing Samsonoffered his training through a mail order
course. Zass was born in Vilna, Poland in 1888, but lived most of his early years in Russia and after 1924 in Britain.
He developed a great belief in the application of isometrics and maximum tension for the development of strength. He believed such an approach was superior to the normal use of weights in developing strength.
I aimed, first, to develop the underlying connective tissues rather than the superficial Muscles, he wrote in his instruction manual, Samsons System and Methods. I developed tendon Strength. Without tendons, one would possess no control over the body, he continued. They and their development are the secret to my strength. Muscles alone wont hold wild horses back. Tendons will, and do.
Sampson, so-called The Worlds Strongest Living Man, said muscles were an illusion when it came to strength, but he did encourage his students to develop them because well-defined muscles furnish Quite a respectable physical
appearance. Sampson said beginners should practice tensing their muscles one at a time then grouping the muscles together, tensing as many as possible at one time.
He outlined three methods of isometric tension: freestyle,
using no appliances; wall exercises for resistance training; and weight exercises in which the student held the weight in a rigid position instead of using curls or presses, the typical pumping iron method of weight training.
Most isometrics instructors
agree not to exceed 10 seconds on each muscle contraction. That
is perhaps the greatest appeal to isometricsa person can enhance muscle mass and strength with only a few simple repetitions in a limited time without heavy exertion.
In the 1960s, gym ratsnot wanting to publicly admit their use of steroidsattributed their sudden remarkable gains in strength and muscle mass to the use of isometrics. This association, however false, between the system and the abuse of steroids
created a panic among the health conscious, resulting in the American public shunning the use of isometrics.
But the system flourished in Europe, especially in physical rehabilitation programs among the aged. Seeing such positive results in Europes medical use of isometrics, patients in the United States also turned to the healing aspects of the system.
Scoliosis is just one of the afflictions being tackled by the medical use of isometrics. The Anti- Scoliosis Treatment Method is a Russian approach that consists of isometric and stretching exercises, vibration, spinal
manipulation and electrical muscle stimulation.
Travelers thrombosis is another ailment that isometric exercises can help prevent.
Brought on by pressure on the upper thighs caused by prolonged sitting and low mobility in narrow seats on long airplane rides, this ailment is a greater problem than jet lag or airline cuisine.
The low
air humidity onboard passenger aircraft can favor the formation of blood clots in cases where passengers may be lacking fluids. Studies by
Medsafe, a business unit of New Zealands Ministry of Health, indicate the use of isometric exercises helps relieve this condition.
Not only can isometrics help the weary worldwide wanderer, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is out of this world when it comes to recognizing the benefits isometrics offer in the close confinements of a space capsule.
On long space journeys in prolonged weightlessness, astronauts suffer crippling muscle and bone loss. Future space trips will be longer, say three years for example, when astronauts eventually explore Mars. Longer durations in space mean increased muscle and bone losses.
Researchers at NASAs Johnson Space Center recommend a variety of preflight fitness plans, training space travelers for in-flight use of the exercise equipment onboard the International Space Station, and monitoring their health after their return to Earth.
Muscle and bone loss in space create an entire realm of biological concerns for astronauts, said William J.
Kraemer, director of the Human Performance Laboratory at Ball State in Muncie, Indiana. Our challenge is to find countermeasure programs which allow the body to maintain proper structure and function.
Strength training for astronauts involves two types of resistance exercises: high-intensity isotonics, which shorten and lengthen muscles (for example, lifting and lowering a dumbbell), and isometrics, which fully contract muscles without movement (such as pushing against a doorway).
While both types of exercises could potentially reduce muscle atrophy in microgravity, research suggests isometrics may be more successful than isotonics in protecting slow-twitch fibers, according mto a February 2004 report in NASAs Biological andPhysical Research Enterprise newsletter.
For the homebody, massive muscle and bone loss may not be as much a problem as those extra calories packed on while watching football or soccer on the television. It might be good advice to roll yourself out of that easy chair and spend 10 secondsat a time doing isometric exercisesat least during the commercial breaks.
The only drawback to "free hand" Isometrics (without the use of any equipment) is that there is no way to measure your strength gains and you are limited in the number of exercises.
But, there is now a way to increase there effectiveness by up to 1000%.
With the advent of new "hybrid" exercise equipment such as the Bully Xtreme home gym you can now maximize your muscle building results while being able to do more exercises up to 82 different movements. While utilizing the powerful technique of isometrics.
For more information and a free report
check out...
http://www.BullyXtreme.net/Frank Sherrill, is a former U.S. Army
Ranger and Martial Arts expert. After surviving a horrific weight training accident, he spent years researching and finally discovering an exercise program and home gym that was as effective as free weights but, without all the RISK.
History of Electronic Music
Electronic music has been around in various forms for about 100+ years. I'm sure some of you are thinking what? Yes... over 100 years+
I'm not going to give you the long and boring about the stuff you don't really care to read about anyway. I'm going to make nice and just tell you about the good stuff. Disco started it all
Disco started it all. It was around the mid 70's when disco had really arrived. Disco was a blend of funk and soul music. Of course the Disco clubs where the happening thing in the 70's and Cocaine was fueling the fire. Clubs would stay open most of the night and bell bottomed ballers (that term wasn't used then) would dance the night away. The UK Twists It Up
The UK then took Disco and turned it into what we would now consider house music. House music would later branch out into various genres. Trance, Disco House, Acid House, Funky House, Progressive House, Latin House, Hard House.
Hip Hop is Born
About that same time Hip Hop was being born (yes people hip hop is electronic music). Hip Hop or Breaks as it was known was the brainchild of some crazy cats that thought it would be a great idea to take the "breaks of the songs" what we might call the chorus or hook nowadays, and just link them together with other breaks. In order to do that it required 2 turntables.
Break Beat is still around, and very popular around the South Eastern parts of the United States. Mainly Florida (the home of Magic Mike, DJ Icey, DJ Baby Anne, DJ Eric Berretta, DJ Sharaz, Tony Faline, Friction and Spice, and DJ Infiniti.)
Jungle and Hardcore Emerge
As with any music genres people begin to push the envelope. Even faster music genres emerged. Jungle eventually to be called DnB or Drum N Bass was adopted into the underground electronic music scene. It came from Reggae or Ragga and ended up being a fast paced Break Beat 165-190bpm. Hardcore came out around the same time. It was little more than House on Steroids. The bpm for Hardcore was around the same speed as DnB.
So that about sums it.
All music is the same yet different.
Mike Koenig
Jun 4th 2007
http://free-loops.com/the-history-of-electronic-music.php
