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Increase your tolerance for pain! Neurochemical and psychological factors explained. Tips and facts on how you can push past the pain | ||||
Two surprising ways to improve your eyesight! Momma was wrong. Staring at the sun and video games ARE good for your eyes! |
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Cybernetics... On the Cheap! The disposable implants and prosthetics industry is now. |
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I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, through a healthy diet and vision training, normal vision can be enhanced into super vision. Even poor vision and medical conditions like myopia, hypermetropia and astigmatism can be corrected either fully or in part (factors such as physical fitness and diet notwithstanding). But as I mentioned, there's also bad news. This “super vision” I speak of does not entail shooting laser-beams from your eyeballs or staring through peoples undergarments with x-ray vision. Sorry.
Sunglasses Do More Harm Than Help?
There are two radically opposing viewpoints regarding exposure to sunlight and UV radiation. The more conventional viewpoint is that over-exposure to UV radiation without proper eyewear protection can lead to visual impairments ala retinal damage and cataracts. The less conventional school of thought supported by some highly-respected optometrists is that, in reality, directly staring into the sun improves eyesight and can assist the body in healing. Furthermore, they go on to say sunglasses that block the full spectrum of the sun and it's ultra violet rays deny the body precious alternative energy and is a contributing factor to the increasing number of people with eye disease and even blindness in North America. (Besides, dark sunglasses prompt the eyes to dilate and allow UV rays to enter anyway).
Perhaps it's not sunlight that we should shun, but rather the shiesty marketing propaganda from protective eyewear companies!
Tip: If you’re squinting and having a hard time gazing at the sun, close one eyelid tightly and you will be able to open the other eye normally.
Being that 80% of all sensory input is visual, it would make sense to hone and amplify this most important perceptual power through which life is apprehended. Athletes and US Air force pilots know that to improve one's visual skills is to improve one's performance, just as poor visual skills correlates with poor performance. And studies prove it. Visual reaction time, eye/hand/body coordination, visual acuity and concentration (the ability to ignore extraneous visual stimuli otherwise known as “visual noise”) all can be improved with practice. How ? You may be surprised by the answer: video games. Research shows that playing action games one hour per day for 10 days can markedly improve important visual skills of non-gamers.
However, not all games work, only those which demand attention to peripheral details and focus is distributed or switched from one area of a visual field to another (Medal of Honour was used in the study). Games where there is only one focal point at a time (in this case Tetris) had no improvement whatsoever of standard visual tests.
A sprain or a strain, a cut or broken bone, overuse of a particular tendon or joint, your mother-in-law. All can be a sources of pain. Pain is warning and a deterrent, and even the possibility of it's affliction (pain, not the mother-in-law) can strike fear and doubt into the heart of man. Knowing what a psychological and physical barrier it can be, let's put pain in it's place with these insights and strategies to increase your pain threshold, and you'll be able to achieve more and greater things!
High Fitness = High Pain Tolerance
Simply put, the higher your fitness level, the higher your pain threshold. In fact, as you become more fit, the signals sent via the nervous system to indicate pain become muted. What was once a stabbing pain to an unconditioned individual becomes a dull ache to the same individual after training and conditioning.
Chemical and Psychological Factors
Underlying
psychological/emotional problems like depression may actually worsen your pain (or even the cause of it). In a study by Kurt Kroenke, a
professor at the Indiana School of Medicine, more than half of
depressed patients surveyed said they suffered from chronic physical pain, in
either the back, head, neck or stomach. Depression is a psychological
state, but it's also (neuro)chemical in the sense that neuroactive peptides,
serotonin and norepinephrine, regulate both mood and transmit pain
signals. This means you're bound to get a two-for-one deal when
you're already feeling down and out, and would explain why 30% of people
experiencing pain also suffer depression. If
feelings of gloominess burden you and manifest in negative physical
ways, you need to see your doctor. A doctor can (if he/she
deems appropriate) prescribe medication for temporary relief, and
refer you to therapists for long term healing and resolution. On the
other hand, if it's chronic pain that's causing you depression, don't overly emotionalize or personalize the experience.
Sodium Bicarbonate Buffering
Use prescription drugs or cellular trickery to delay the onset of blood lactate accumulation? Naw! Drinking a club soda before a workout might be all you need to keep the lactic acid burn at bay. It's because of the sodium bicarbonate inside, which acts as an alkalizing agent and reduces acidity in the blood. Try drinking a can a half hour before training legs and see if it works for you.
SIMPLE TRICKS OF SUBCONSCIOUS PERSUASION
"Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men."
CONFUCIUS
Chinese
statesman and philosopher (551-478 B.C.)
Words can be a devastating weapon, a healing salve or a tool of manipulation and persuasion. Discover how with the careful arrangement of words and by applying the same socialization methods top business negotiators and "compliance professionals" use to close big contracts, you too can persuade others to see things your way.
Compliance is an important word here, because many if not all of us subconsciously engage in automatic, autogenic compliance to cope with the ever increasing volume of subliminal and perceived external messages. We have what social psychologist Robert Cialdini dubs an automatic response to "fixed-action patterns", which in layman's terms means we make snap decisions as a decision making short cut to save us time and mental energy on what we perceive are routine and innocent requests and statements. Unfortunately, these vanilla, automated trigger responses leave openings ripe for exploitation, and these exploits are used on us all the time.
I'll explain what this all means with three prime examples, and I'll start with an age-old and ubiquitous persuasion technique used by all cultures around the world. It's called:
1. The Rule of Reciprocation
Ever been given a free sample in a grocery store or in the mail and ended up buying the product, even when it might have been more expensive than a competing brand? Have you ever felt grateful and indebted to someone because they proffered you a gift or a favor? If you haven't, feel free to stop reading and return to the planet from whence you came.
For the rest of us who can relate, we have unwittingly participated in the powerful socialization principle known as the rule of reciprocation or "The Golden Rule". It's a esteemed as THE Golden rule because it's based on the moral principle "treat others as you would like to be treated" and it's a crucial element in the evolution of human civilization. It's the precept endorsed by all societies and major religions, and our understanding and compliance to this Golden rule is embedded in our brains from an early age. Noncompliance inherently brings shame and alienation.
When one sees the full breadth of the rule of reciprocation, it is easy to see why the offering of favors and small gifts can cause the intended recipient to feel the heavy psychological burden of obligation to return the kindness, often when the gift or favor was not even accepted. The burden of debt can be so significant, people usually respond by returning more than they received, just to ensure they are no longer owe anything and are perceived as good-natured and in good standing.
The rule of reciprocation can be an effective negotiation tool, but it should be only used in good faith and to forge a win-win agreement.
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