Jack Canfield and Mark V. Hansen JOHN Corcoran - a man who could not read

Jack Canfield and Mark V. Hansen

JOHN Corcoran - a man who could not read

How John Corcoran could remember, it was always difficult to say. Words barely evolved in the proposal, the vowels "swallowed", and echoed in my ears. At school, John was sitting at a desk, sullen and silent, knowing that much different from other children. If someone sat down beside him, put his arm around the shoulders and said:

- I will help you. Do not be afraid!

But no one took into account his illness - tongue-tied. And John could not explain that the left hemisphere of his brain responsible for logical thinking, not sufficiently developed. In the second grade, John was imprisoned for the last lot in the third - the teacher offered to children beat John in the legs, when he refused to read and write. When John was in fourth grade, he had a fit of suffocation: A teacher summoned him to the board, but he could not utter a word. So John "jumps" from class to class, never left in the second year. At the graduation ceremony on the occasion of graduating from high school, John did not go, but went to root for their favorite basketball team. After the evening my mother met John, kissed him and started talking about college. College? But this is madness! However, John, after much deliberation have decided to go to college at the University of El Paso, Texas, where he could engage in his favorite basketball.

In college, John is constantly asking new friends: what the examiner asks easiest tests? Who gives a possibility to choose the answers? John left the room, tore sheets of paper on which was supposed to answer questions that nobody asked to see his records. In the evening a long time he lay in bed, unable to calm down and fall asleep. Finally, he swore to himself that by hook or by crook enter college and receive a diploma.

And John Corcoran still got college degrees and in 1961 became ... teacher.

John began working in California. Every day, it caused some students to the blackboard and asked him to read aloud the textbook. He gave the students the standard puzzles, the correct answers to which have been circled. A weekend for a long time, John was lying in bed, experiencing bouts of despair.

A few years later, John met Cathy, a student and a nurse - a serious girl with a strong character.

- I must confess to you in some ways, Kathy, - said John in 1965 on the eve of their wedding. - I. .. can not read.

"But John - teacher - confused thinking Kathy. - Why did he say?" Perhaps he meant that not very well read? "

Katie realized that her husband had in mind only when she saw John unable to read a book of eighteen months of his little daughter. And Kathy began to help John: she filled his paper and responded to the letter. Why does not John turned to her with a request to teach him to read and write? He simply did not believe that anyone could do it. When John was 28 years old, he borrowed money, bought a house, renovated it and rented out. Then he bought and rented another. His business went well, and John hired a lawyer's secretary, who became a business partner. One secretary told John that he became a millionaire. Wonderful! Who will pay attention to the fact that the millionaire pulls the door itself, although it says "by itself", or facing the toilet, watching the door of what will a man?

In 1982, the case of John sharply deteriorated. His house no longer lease, as investors refused to invest in his land projects. John started receiving letters with threats of prosecution for failure to pay debts. John begged the bankers to give him a loan, asked the builders did not leave work ... That night he dreamed that a judge in a black robe asked him: "Tell the court the truth, John. You really do not know how to read?"

Finally, the fall of 1986, John Corcoran at the age of 46 years of performing two actions, which vowed never to commit. He laid his home to get the latest bank loan, and went to the library Carlsbad. There, John asked to be introduced to a woman who led the general education courses, and tearfully confessed to her:

- I can not read.

His teacher was the 65-year-old Eleanor Condit. Every day, methodically and persistently, she taught John to read and write. After 14 months of business in his land the company has established, and John learned to read. The next step was the recognition of John Corcoran: he made a speech before 200 stunned businessmen in San Diego, telling them about their past problems. Made a confession, John poured heart and led the Board of Directors of the society to combat illiteracy, San Diego. He was a lot of travel around the country and make speeches.

- Illiteracy - a kind of slavery! - Conviction, "he said. - We can not waste time in vain, accusing anyone in this. Our goal - to persuade people to learn to read and write!

Now John had read everything that came to my eyes: books, magazines, signs on road signs ... And Katie is very happy for him. Finally, John was able to sleep at night!

You have just one more thing, about which John had long dreamed of, to get dusty, faded by time, tied with red ribbon and a box kept in his office and read letters to Kathy that she wrote to John for twenty-five years ago on the eve of their wedding.

We must believe in your heart

We must believe in your heart

Teacher of Mathematics, Kazan Semyon Isakovich R. heart prompted, that he dreamed a dream requires immediate action. My parents were living in the city of my childhood. I entered the Kazan University, and finished it, remained in Kazan. They got married, my children were born there. With parents did not lose connection. Letters, phone calls, visits - maybe were not as frequent as we would like them, but the gap more than one month in our dealings was not.

Over the years, I have not become indifferent to them. On the contrary, children's attachment multiplied by the experience, gave birth to a deeper understanding and greater warmth of feeling. In June I had a dream that my father and I are moving to an unfamiliar alley, over which wove its branches some southern trees. I told my father about his affairs, the complexities of the family, that his granddaughter eager to marry his peers, whose army is on the nose ... My father listens in silence, then said: "Life is life, everything she has - and the troubles and joys - perfectly. I only remember that it is - a moment.

And what is the main front. "We are sitting down on the bench. It is very cold, as if made of marble. And suddenly appears next to my grandmother - the mother of his father. I can hardly remember it. But in my dream I knew that it was my grandmother. I want to embrace her, but she held out her hands palms to me, as if pushing away and said: "No, no, Sasha, to you we will have time to talk about everything, but now go away, leave us alone with my father." I got up and moved away side. But the father says: "Do not wait for me. Come home, Sasha.

I humbly leave, looking back on the road, and I see that they rose from the bench and come together in the direction where we were before with his father. I woke up. Incomprehensible anxiety would not let me sleep until morning. The feeling that this dream means something, do not leave me. That evening I rang the bell. Tube raised father. He cheerfully joked, asking if we will arrive in August, saying that he misses her granddaughter. Then he picked up my mother.

I asked her if the father is healthy, everything is in his order. His mother was surprised persistence of my questions and even, it seemed to me a little alarmed. But I was reassured: "Everything as usual, no reason to worry not." Another night passed uneasily. I once had a father. He asked me to come without families, one. Pope madly loved my daughter, and his wife treated as their own daughter. So please it surprised me. And again I awoke. And again he could no longer sleep.

In the morning I told my wife about his dreams and disturbances. She tried to reassure me: "Is it foolish to attach importance to dreams?" You're tired, you need rest ... " Nevertheless, I took a train ticket, and without warning, went to his parents. Go for a long time - 22 hours. I have a lot of smoke, so often went to the platform. Until the end of the path was still six hours, when that is, whether the sharp spurt, or a sudden brake left me standing with a cigarette in the vestibule, on the metal handle of the stop-tap. " I hit my temple and lost consciousness. And once again saw my father in the alley, sitting next to my grandmother, and again he repeated the words spoken to me two nights ago: "Come home, Sasha!"

I recovered from the fact that I shook his shoulder sitting on their haunches beside a man: "What's wrong with you?" What's wrong with you? " - He repeated. Then he helped me get up, took in the compartment. Neighbors bustling, brought a wet towel. The head is aching, nauseated, but by the end of the path I had considered myself healthy.

In front of the parents was "Ambulance". The room smelled of drugs. People in white writing something, piled up, something said. Tearful mother, leaning over her father, buttoning his shirt. They brought in a stretcher. Father put on them. I threw the bag in the hallway and sat in an ambulance next to the pope. Along the way he opened his eyes, clenched my fingers and said: "I called you. Thank you for coming."

Father to the hospital not able to take. I am writing this letter to tell everyone that regardless of whether you have people believing or not, biased you think of the omens, dreams, superstition, etc., never dismiss the fact that prompts the heart. Loving heart will never deceive you.

Nido Kubeyn WALT JONES

Nido Kubeyn

WALT JONES

Nobody denies the fact that traveling and doing things you love great, but not everyone can afford to travel or carry out the cherished desire of a mature age. Florence Brooks joined the Peace Corps when she was 64 years. Gladys Klappison lived in a small apartment of the University of Iowa and worked on a dissertation on competition of the title Doctor of Philosophy, when she was 82 years old. Ed Stitt, aged 87, studied at the college in New Jersey. Ed said that education prevents him from aging and disease can keep a clear mind.

But no one is so struck my imagination and not sunk into the soul, as Walt Jones of Tacoma, Washington. Walt outlived his third wife, with whom had been married 52 years. When his wife died, some of your friends sympathize with him, it's hard, perhaps, be left without an old friend, the former number for many years.

- Of course, it is hard, - Walt answered, - but at the same time a bad thing.

- Not bad? - Asked him in amazement.

- I do not want to talk about his late wife badly, she had a good character, but in the last decade, I was with her seriously. - And Walt explained what it was: - It has no interest in, and gradually turned into a stagnant, backward people. Ten years ago, when I was 94 years, I told my wife that we have not seen anything in the world except the Pacific Northwest. My wife asked me what I am. mind, and I replied: "I want to buy a camper and visit the remaining 48 states. How do you like my proposal?"

"You're crazy, Walt!" - Exclaimed the wife.

"You do not want to travel?"

"Yes, we will perish in these trips! We will die and no one will find our graves. And who, incidentally, sits behind the wheel?"

"Of course, I, my dear," - I replied.

"You are burying us!" - Said his wife.

I like to leave footprints in the sands of time - continued to Walt. - But what about traveling can be said, sitting at home?

- Walt, and now, when your wife died, what are you going to do?

- I buried his wife and bought a camper. Now in 1976, and I'm going to visit the remaining 48 states and in such a way to celebrate the bicentennial of the founding of the United States of America.

That year, Walt was able to visit in 43 states, selling souvenirs and trinkets. When asked whether he takes the car hitchhiking tourists, he responded:

- Never. I'm afraid that someone would rob me, sharahnet on the head or we would get in an accident.

When the day his wife died, Walt took just six months, he has not bought a camper, but I've seen him in the car sitting next to an attractive 62-year-old woman.

- Walt! - I cried when we met. - In the car were you?

- I, - he said.

- Who is the woman who was sitting next to you? This is your lady of the heart?

- Yes.

- Queen of heart? Walt, but you have been married three times and now you 104 years. This woman is younger than you forty years!

- So what? - He said. - After the death of his wife, I quickly realized that the man is hard to live alone in the camper.

- Yes, Walt, I understand you, you are alone and no one to talk.

- And this, too - without hesitation he said.

- Same? - I asked. - You allude to the fact that you have this woman a romantic interest?

- Of course.

- But, Walt, in the life of man comes a time when ...

- You're talking about sex?

- Yes, the reserves of the human body is limited ...

- Perhaps you're right.

In 1978, when our country began, inflation, Walt became a major investor in a housing project. When asked why he did not take the money in any bank-tested, and put them in housing, Walt said:

- Do not you know? Now the country's inflation. Funds can invest only in safe projects, profits from which will appear through the years.

In 1980, Walt sold at a discount a significant portion of their property in Pierce County, Washington. It soon became clear that he had not filled their pockets with big money, but expects profit in the future.

- I signed a contract for 30 years, the money will come back when I was banging 138.

His 110 th anniversary of Walt said on the TV show Johnny Carson. He looked great: a gray beard and black hat made him look like Colonel Sanders.

- I'm glad you're here, Walt, - said Johnny.

- When you're 110 years, it always good - Walt said.

- 110?

- 110.

- How much?

- Carson, are you deaf? In my opinion, I clearly put it: I am 110 years old.

- It is interesting that you're older than me twice, no three days.

Readers, too, obviously impressed by this date. One hundred years and ten years - this is the path traversed by this man.

Walt, meanwhile, smiling, continued:

- How many years should be a man if he can forget the date of his birth? Did he never looks at a calendar? Or very upset that passed through another year? How many years do I? 30? 40? 50? Incidentally, when I turned 50, my friends came to congratulate me, dressed in black suits, with withered roses in their hands, as if it was not a birthday, a funeral. Johnny, know, life does not end in 65 years. I was familiar with people who are only to age 75 are living happily and even thrive. For example, my housing project, in which I invested a few years ago. In 105 years I became a much richer life than before. Want me to share with you a secret, John?

- Of course.

- Forget about birthdays.

I hope that the history of Walt Jones inspire our readers to stay young at heart until the last day of his life.

New money. What to do?

New money. What to do?

Novayadenezhnaya unit "Pound" ... Let's talk about the prospects of development of mankind and the money twenty-first century, in general, the third millennium.
The fact that this money will be electronic - this is no doubt about that. Paper money is exhausted himself completely, as exhausted and age of paper money - the twentieth century.
What is electronic money?
Electronic money - this is money that is written in the form of numbers on accounts in the bank computers, which move without any papers on electric and electronic networks. This is money that can not be seen "live" as they say, do not have "hard copies", but simply, paper or coin presentation.

What will be the civilization of electronic money, what are the trends that bring new money?

So, the money stored in the form of numbers in a computer. And imagine that the computer has the numbers "Russia", the Japanese, "" American, "Ukrainian" and hundreds of numbers of other species. The new conundrum: do not you? After all, this is not accounting dollars, rubles, karbovanets, etc., because they no longer exist, it is simply the number of different characteristics. Will the computer to endure the daily exchange rate fluctuations and to give the forecast for tomorrow, for six months? .. Of course, no computer is reasonable to be troubled, and say - I can only work only with numbers, and assign numbers color, weight or similar. This absurdity of modern money, which do not have security or benchmark. Computer technologies have internal logic and this logic is powerless against our efforts. And this logic - the logic of universal numbers, numbers without any hesitation and stock performance. That is why the universal electronic money - is a single money, money, prime - not Russia, not U.S., not from the island of Fiji, and numbers as such that the computer can handle, distribute, take into consideration, to seek, to compare a single universal way, regardless of whether where installed this same computer.
It must be added the coming ecological crisis and the sharpening of global problems, when the pressure of mankind on nature in a bit more than she can relax.

Obviously, the need to introduce a new secured unit in the development of the global economic crisis is actively dictated modernity, requires an add-currency, as it were, over the existing currencies, and funnel money from one to another. Finally, an important component is the restructuring of thought, namely the introduction of new environmental ideas in the coming Era of Exploration of the solar system, the emergence of the Lunar Republic, Martian Dynasty mankind, etc.. It is obvious that the introduction of supply of money should not only solve the above problem, the new currency as to dominate the internal logic and give a clear picture of the future ...

Antarctica: the entrance to the energy portals

Antarctica: the entrance to the energy portals

Recently in the press flashed the message about the discovery of magnetic anomalies in Antarctica, Lake Vostok, and that is where the entrance to the underground kingdom of the earth. Admiral Richard Bard trying to uncover the secrets of the poles of the planet. He made several expeditions to the South Pole in 40-50-ies of the last century. What is he looking for? There is a hypothesis that the Earth is hollow, and at the poles are entrances to the underground world inhabited by intelligent beings. Obviously, such an entry and searching for an American admiral. However, the error was that Bzrd imagined this input in the form of some very real tunnel or shaft. In fact, this is just the energy education, which can not touch his hands ...

According to some investigators of paranormal phenomena in the region of Lake Vostok is something radiating into the surrounding space, electromagnetic, and perhaps not yet discovered gravitational waves. Measurements made with the help of sensors on-Earth satellites, showed that the source of the waves, which is a kind of beacon is located beneath the ice, and not underground. It is this mysterious device creates a magnetic anomaly in the Antarctic. There is evidence that at the time of Baird's device is underground, and that led to the hypothesis of a hollow planet, and underground inhabitants.

In fact, in the Lake Vostok is teleportal, energy gates in parallel worlds. Going into them, you can get into a parallel universe, or be in a remote corner of the cosmos. You can travel through time and access any information.

Known ufologists have repeatedly pointed to the fact that UFOs often appear over Antarctica and adjacent ocean areas. Where do fly these objects? It is likely that it is not from outer space, and of those most mysterious energy gate. The magnetic anomaly, like a lighthouse, said the ships of our guests, where to fly, to return to their home universe. Radiation from a source in the Antarctic raises the aircraft of different weight and transports them to anywhere in the world. UFOs do not fly in the atmosphere by burning fuel like aircraft. Their transfers wave energy beam emanating from teleportala.

Teleportaly like the Antarctic is likely to exist in different parts of the world. Some very tangible and visible. Others are the wave of energy entities, and they can not touch her hands, yet they really exist. There is a power gate, created by nature itself, but is man-made, for example, Egyptian and Inca pyramids, Stonehenge and others. Recently, more and more is revealed magnetic anomalies, they recorded just south of the island of Minorca in the Mediterranean Sea, in the Grand Canyon in the United States, in the north of Greenland, in the ocean off the coast of Chile. Perhaps it is in these places are teleportaly. Information on the latest, including the exact coordinates of the location, all governments are trying to keep secret, as well as information about UFOs. For possession of a unique technique of moving in time and space, access to 'any information opens the way to mastering the world. That is why information about teleportalah rarely appear in print and, as a rule, distorted and contradictory.

Entering teleportal, man or any other material object is in another dimension. In the 90 years of the last century, much has been written about Edward Manson allegedly Beheld "energy cocoon that enveloped all the people. According to Manson, the cocoons are the human body in the fourth dimension. Seer hastened to declare a charlatan, and in 1996 he suddenly disappeared. It is likely that Edward teleportal stepped in and found himself in another universe. There is information about people, such as Myeong-CONV, have appeared in recent years in different countries. Some of them see the whole city, the huge illuminated buildings, towers and domes. All these buildings are in another dimension, a world parallel to ours.

Lucky, routinely teleportal and returnees, told about the strange light that pours out of nowhere. This light, having no source, sometimes they see archaeologists in the ancient tombs of the pyramids and tunnels. The energy of vibration, similar to the radiation teleportalov create this light from the darkness. Light bubbles and ghosts, which sometimes can take pictures, have the same nature as described above cocoons around the bodies of people and glowing city. Some alloys, being irradiated energy teleportalov also begin to glow. That such alloys, the inner surface of hollow chambers in the ancient pyramids. Unfortunately, under the influence of an electric or solar light alloys such as decay, and to make chemical analysis of their composition impossible.

Many of those people whom we feel mentally, actually are in another dimension, so their behavior and it seems strange to us.

Perhaps the gastrointestinal tract, some people able to allocate from the usual food and water, special substances that are able to transfer rights in the fourth dimension. By analogy with teleportalami such substances can be called himioportalami. People with the ability of the organism, often unknowingly, find themselves in another reality, where they meet with beings that inhabit parallel worlds, called the Earth spirits, gods or aliens. People who have this ability, at various times called saints, shamans, witches, clairvoyants, mediums, holy fools, etc. Some of them used their extraordinary talents to achieve a certain power and material wealth.

People who manage to arrange his body in the bricks and build it again with the help teleportalov or himioportalov may, managing energy, "fix" his sick body. It is known that the cause of all diseases lies in the unbalance of the energy-perature skeleton man. It follows that, if we learn how to use teleportalami and himioportalami, we can cure deadly diseases.

Several years ago an American magazine "Herald parapsychologist" published an interview with Koli Mr. Wayne, AIDS patients, who entered through teleportal in a parallel universe and came back and was completely healthy. In France, André Mignet miraculously cured of sarcoma. The doctors just shrug their shoulders. Andre himself does not remember that happened in his life something unusual. Rather, this case is explained by the fact that Mignet entered teleportal, failing to realize this, because the human brain has the ability to filter. Information which, according to the man, can not exist in reality, the brain simply does not perceive. So Andre forgotten what happened to him.

We parapsychologists and researchers of anomalous phenomena exist teleportalov no doubt. If they have mastered the passage through the energy gate, a man could travel to the realms of infinite parallel universes.

Find time for order to see

Find time for order to see

We have all heard the expression: "Be still and breathe in the smell of roses." But how often do in our turbulent and rapidly changing life, we find the time to draw attention to the world around you? We are so engrossed in our business plans, thoughts about career, traffic, or about life in general, that we do not notice people around her.

I guess I suffer from this deficiency, similarly disconnected from any external influences, especially when the leading car on the crowded streets of transportation in California. But not so long ago I happened to witness a single incident, which showed me what I was deprived, shutting himself in his close little world.

I was heading to a business meeting and, as usual, wondering in his mind, what I should say. So I drove up to a very busy intersection where traffic lights had just switched to a red light. "Well, - I thought - perhaps slip into the next time on the green, if I could get ahead of the rest.

My thoughts and the car worked on auto-pilot, ready at any moment fall from space, when suddenly an unforgettable sight made me get out of his trance. Young married couple, both blind, were walking hand in hand on the busy intersection, while passing them in all directions with noise swept machine. The man held the hand of a little boy and the woman held to her breast sucking child, apparently wearing a heart another child. Both were held in outstretched hands of the white cane, feeling the pointers that could help them to move across the road.

At first, I was touched. These people were able to overcome what I consider one of the most terrible physical disabilities - blindness. "So what, perhaps, hard to be blind!" - I thought. However, my thoughts immediately broke down and was replaced by horror when I noticed that the couple, instead of going on a pedestrian crossing, leaned on a diagonal, heading into the thick of the approaching vehicles. I seriously feared for them because he was not sure whether other drivers understood what was happening.

While I watched them from the front row of cars (where I could see everything in full view), my eyes the real miracle happened. All cars, moving in all directions simultaneously stopped. I have not heard a screech of brakes, no sound horns. Nobody even yelled: "Get away from the road!" All of a sudden stopped. It seemed as if time itself for a moment cut short its course for one of the family.

Stunned, I looked around at the cars next to me, to make sure that we all see the same thing. Attention was focused on remaining as a blind couple. Suddenly, the driver of the machine to my right decided to act. Poking his head out the car window, he shouted: "Right!" Really! " Other people followed his example, repeating in unison: "Right!" Really! "

Even without a thought jumped to the side, the couple changed the direction in accordance with their instructions. Relying on his white cane and the cries of concerned citizens, they safely moved to the other side of the street. When they reached the edge of the sidewalk, one thing struck me very deeply - they still went hand in hand.

I was puzzled impassive expression on their faces and came to the conclusion that they are unlikely to have an idea of what is actually happening around them. Nevertheless, I immediately felt a sigh of relief escaped from the breast of each stopped at the intersection.

As I looked at the machine next to me, the driver on the right, grabbing his lips the air with difficulty said: "Well, well, you see that?" "I can not believe!" - Replied the driver left. Seems we were all deeply moved by the scene, witnesses who had just started. Human beings are at a moment surpassed themselves, to help four needy people.

Later I was reminded of that story and pulled out several important lessons. The first of them: take the time to look around and really see what is happening in front of you. Do this and you will understand that this moment - all that you have, and, more importantly, this moment - the only way for you to change the course of his life.

The second lesson that I learned is that the goals we set for ourselves can be achieved by believing in themselves and trust in other people, even despite the seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

The purpose of a blind couple was to go unscathed across the street. The barrier also served eight rows of cars aimed straight at them. And yet they are without fear and doubt were going forward until he reached the sidewalk on the opposite side.

We can also easily move forward towards its goal, not paying attention to the obstacles that stand in our way. All that is required of us - is to trust your intuition and take care of other people who may have a more profound vision of what is happening.

And finally, I began to really appreciate the gift of view, which is still too often take for granted.

Have you ever thought about what it means to live without eyes? Just imagine for a moment that you have to cross a street with more traffic, being completely blind. How often we forget about the simple, yet priceless gifts which we are endowed!

When I left that busy crossroads in my life been more understanding and compassion for other people than when I arrived there. Since then, I decided to see the world as it is, and every day, traveling on business, thank God for the abilities given to me.

When you go through life, do yourself a favor: to slow down and give yourself time to really see the reality. Take a moment to pay attention to what is happening around you right now, at this very spot. Otherwise you may miss something remarkable.

Jeffrey Michael Thomas

The secret of true happiness.

The secret of true happiness.

Carefree time - this is your state of consciousness, but not activity (or lack thereof). You can guarantee yourself that will prove to be a carefree period of time only because they sit in his garden and nothing else will do. If it your eyes will automatically begin to run from side to side, looking nepropolotuyu flower bed or a number of shrubs, which have long time to cut, something inside you to continue the struggle.

So, again, you can not relax and still are in a difficult time. Or it happens in another. You sit in the garden, but life had time to torment you so that all your efforts "at least here a little rest" once again fail. You will hardly be able to appreciate the beauty of your garden. His magic will leave your heart is indifferent, because in this case you're still just wasting time.

There are another example. Suppose you bathe the child, while enjoying rosy bubbles, tenderness of the skin of your child, his glowing smile. You can laugh together, when it becomes particularly hard to splash. In this case, you find yourself in a blissful carefree period of time. But you can do swimming fumes, while remembering all the cases which you have not yet had time to finish for today, or regret about the transfer, which is just at this point you are missing. Of course, you'll be in every way to hurry the child, feeling like you all had enough. So, you still are in a difficult time. Do not our actions and define the circumstances in which of the time cycles we are. Everything depends on our consciousness.

Scientists have calculated that we only use ten percent of our brain capacity. I believe that this is precisely our rational thinking characteristic of the difficult time. Apparently, we usually have access only to those ten per cent. The remaining ninety percent of the capacity of the brain, in my opinion, belong to the carefree time, and it is in this part of the brain concluded his boundless creativity and mental capacity. When we begin to live mostly in careless of time, our process of thinking itself is expanded and become a holistic, creative and smooth. We see the "forest" rather than "trees", and therefore often make our lives easier.

As carefree time is always ignored and underestimated in Western society, we are giving too much burden to our rational thinking. We are trying to use it to solve problems, he was not quite intended. For example, we are looking for inspiration, creative solutions to the problem, try to get answers to emotional questions, or just learn to enjoy the moment a hard time, using the capabilities of the brain.

Instead of seeing the forest itself, we, headlong, rushing from one tree to another. This, of course, is not a shortcoming of our "ego", but we are trying to extend its capabilities for all reasonable limits. "Ego should be ninety percent of our brain, our deep, inner self, but instead it is itself begins to take on unbearable problem and set their own unreasonable goal, which is trying to solve a very fast pace.

While we do not create a space that, to be a carefree time of our (whether it be pointless modeling clay, indolence, daydreaming, or simply "exist", we will never be able to hear the inspiring voice of our soul. We will be unable to come into contact with their own dreams and visions, not listen to the needs of our internal Chad. We did not even notice the flashes of his intuition. In short, we never become fully alive. And at the same time, each of us realizes that he lost something, something he did not enough. And this "something" was crucial in his life. Constantly living in difficult times, we will at best become insensitive or just concerned about, and at worst - are feeling despair, finding no reason to it.

It was a carefree time carefully whispers to us: "that is, that is." It was during this period, we understand that happiness will not find any in the latest computer program, or at the most prestigious exhibition. It is much easier to find inner peace and harmony, watching as the river flows, or simply coming on a long walk with his dog. The paradox also lies in the fact that at precisely the moment when we stop desperately chasing happiness and learn to live moment, that's when we feel much more happy.

It is in moments like this comes inspiration, and we begin to create. And all this happens without unnecessary struggle, without effort and overemployment, which are so inherent in difficult times. In difficult times, we more like caterpillars, greedily devouring the leaves and businesslike, gnawing their way and happy future butterfly. Of carefree Time - we have a butterfly, flitting easily and freely.

Joe Batten. LOVE AND Taxi Driver

Joe Batten

LOVE AND Taxi Driver

The other day I was in New York and traveling with a friend in a taxi. As soon as we left, my friend said, referring to the driver:

- Many thanks for the trip, you drive a nice car.

For a moment the taxi driver stunned silence, then replied:

- I do not scoff if you need me, wise guy?

- No, my friend, I'm not going to play you. I just admire how you manage to keep calm in such a large flow of traffic.

- Ah - Said the driver and drove on.

- Well, what does it all mean? - I asked.

- I want to return the love on the streets of New York - he said. - In my opinion, this is the only thing that can save the city.

- And how is it that one man can save New York?

- And I'm not alone. I am sure that the taxi driver picked up the mood for the day. Suppose that during this time he can lift twenty passengers. It will be kind to them because someone was kind to him. But these passengers, in turn, will behave more polite with their employees or shopkeepers or waiters in restaurants, or even with their own relatives. As a result, at least a thousand people will benefit from one-united-governmental manifestations of goodwill.

- But you have to rely on the fact the taxi driver to your goodwill by others.

- Not at all, - replied my friend. - I know that my method does not always work perfectly, but if I one day I will communicate with, say, ten different people and can make happy at least three out of ten, it would ultimately affect the mood of another three thousand.

- In words, everything looks smooth - I confessed - but not sure that this works in practice.

- Even so, nothing had been lost. How long you need to praise the man for his labor? No matter the size of its tip from this will not increase and not decrease. If he remains deaf to my words, so what? Tomorrow in its place will be another taxi driver, I can again try his hand.

- And you, I see toughie - I remarked.

- This only shows how you become a cynic. I already spent a study. What do you think what is most lacking for our postal employees - not counting the money, of course? Nobody ever, coming to the post, not telling people who work there, how well they cope with their responsibilities.

- And in my opinion, they cope with them very badly.

- If they handle them badly, it was only because all their efforts go unnoticed. Why would someone not to award them at least one good word?

We walked past a house under construction and noticed five workers, who eat up their breakfast. My friend stopped.

- Excellent work, guys. What it must be difficult and dangerous business!

Working with suspicion looked at my friend.

- And when the house is completed?

- In June, - growled one of them.

- Ah It looks very impressive. You all have something to be proud of.

And we walked on.

- I have not seen anything like it since then, looked like "Man of La Mancha."

- When the people begin to think over my words, they probably feel better. Either way, their good mood will benefit the city.

- But you can not succeed without the helpers! - I replied. - Because you did one!

- Most importantly - do not despair. Of course, to make people in the big city good - not an easy task, but if I can engage in his campaign other ...

- You just winked at a very ugly woman - I remarked.
- Yes, I know - replied my friend. - And if this woman - a teacher, her students expect a fantastic day.

Bermuda Triangle is not the only one?

Bermuda Triangle is not the only one?

According to the British insurance company Lloyds annually in dangerous areas of our planet is in distress about 250 large ships. Most of them accounted for the Bermuda Triangle and its ilk areas: for them, according to the American researcher A. Sanderson, not less than ten! In addition to Bermuda, among the most dangerous waters, the oceans are called "Devil's Sea" ( "triangle" between Hong Kong, the Philippines and Taiwan), the beginning of the Strait of Malacca between the Malay Peninsula (Malaysia) and Sumatra (Indonesia) and vostochnopoberezhny region of Africa, on the road from the port Mombasa to the north to the equator.

The version presented below is the result of the connection systems analysis of known data from a scientific conjecture, made some two decades ago.

Recall of some phenomena described in the publications of Bermuda and other phenomena: weather instability, rapid-onset, an odd storm, sagging or bulging of the surface observed from an aircraft; giant water spouts, even whirlpools noticed from satellites, disrupting , off-scale navigation equipment on ships, a sharp change in pressure in the area, unexplained change in altitude on the aircraft; unpleasant vibrating sensation experienced by human beings; ungovernability ship, an aircraft during a storm.

We can find in the press last years a lot of messages appearing regularly, the disappearance of a ship or aircraft in a "death trap" the place or the courts with the corpses of crew members and passengers, or even the courts, without the people ( "Flying Dutchman." Let us conclude the American L. Kusche, to test several hundred cases in the Bermuda Triangle, that for the most part they are easily understandable and should not be regarded as anomalies.

Following the systematic method of analyzing the information, you can sift and events on the water and air caused by the traditional causes such as typhoons, tsunamis, modern pirates, the influence of weather and climatic conditions.

To explain the remaining events, and they are many, requires taking into account current scientific knowledge and intellectual effort. Known versions, and the hypothesis of navigational anomalies can be seen in several groups, such as: "the voices of the sea", ie infrasonic oscillation frequency around 6 Hz arising from the interaction of wind with the surface of the water and the destructive impact on man (horror, death), the ship or aircraft (mechanical resonance, destruction); giant water spouts, consisting of cold-core rings and warm water with a diameter of more than 100 kilometers, resulting from "earth breathing" when it is rotated with a periodic change in the location of the nucleus and, in turn, causes whirlpools -- satellites, which are drawn and the vessels and aircraft wreckage, and finally, the "machinations" ubiquitous unidentified objects, which, of course, can be everything.

These versions, especially the first two, known to cause concern. But with their help, you can not explain the suddenness of water eddies and storms, the deflection and buckling of the surface water, off-scale navigation devices, a sharp change in atmospheric pressure, vibration. As new key concepts are offering you a natural scientific version, given a system of communicating vessels, the solenoid, the vibrator, differential pressure, electromagnetic field and waves. Example - Bermuda.

In the natural system of "communicating vessels" are anomalous part of the waters of the Bermuda Triangle and part (s) other neighboring waters, such as the Gulf of Mexico or the Caribbean Sea, or even the Pacific Ocean. Each pair of these magnificent waters bound tunnel, passing in the bottom stratum, respectively, and through the Florida peninsula, or island of Cuba, or Mexico.

If over these waters and atmospheric pressure the same way, then the system of "communicating vessels" is determined by the balance of forces. Anomalies in navigation not. But if in the neighboring area, for example, the pressure falls below a mark in Bermuda, then there rushes weight of sea water through the tunnel. And the excess pressure in the neighboring area is the reverse movement of water masses. In the first case in the Bermuda there is the deflection of the sea surface, in the second - its buckling and consequently decrease the atmospheric pressure and improvement.

According to the laws of hydraulics start of the movement of water masses coincides with a certain pressure drop in these neighboring areas, and immediately accompanied by a "perturbation" of the ocean surface - a storm-water eddies. Change water pressure and these events also affect the weather in this area, and disorderly strong swell dramatically complicates management of the vessel. The fall of atmospheric pressure in connection with the sinking of the sea surface (the formation of the concavity) may lead to lower altitude and loss of the aircraft.

Now imagine that the tunnel, like a pipe with the outer conductor of electric current passing through it and water as a carrier of the magnetic field of the Earth, represent the solenoid with a magnetic core and a vibrator, which create an electromagnetic field. Electromagnetic waves almost instantly spread and impact on navigational instruments, ships, and possibly humans. It is also the influence of magnetic anomalies.

This mechanism of "natural communicating vessels, supplemented, apparently, the vibration of the masses of solid rocks and sea water flowing from the turbulent last through the tunnel. Vibration causes the spread of harmful low-frequency vibrations.

Note that, according to this version, and the Sargasso Sea with surface algae - "party" of the natural communicating vessels. Looking at the map, you will notice that the powerful Gulf Stream on the one hand the Sargasso Sea and protivonapravlennye ocean currents - with his other hand as if he creates torque. As a result of centripetal forces algae kept in the central part of the sea and, apparently, grow well there because of the periodic water exchange and electromagnetic effects.

For information about other waters with anomalies similar to Bermuda, suggests that the natural mechanism of communicating vessels operating not only here in Bermuda. And the very formation of underground waters ties to the time of tectonic upheavals of the Earth.

From the geological and geophysical sciences is well known that the giant faults of the continents, deep tunnels and canyons in the ocean floor formed during the formation of the modern face of the Earth. It is believed that the largest accident occurred at the turn of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras (200 250 million years ago), when the Universal Land - a single giant continent Pangea, surrounded by general ocean is divided in two parts - the modern continents, and fragments - of the island. Then followed the drift of dense rock of the mantle, which occurred due to the forces of rotation of the Earth.

Looking at the map, it may be noted the geological similarity of the continents of America and Africa on both sides of the Atlantic, and not only them. It looks like, this is the first discovery made by the English philosopher Francis Bacon in 1620 and the French researcher F. Place in 1658, and an attempt to reconstruct the original situation of the continent - the Italian scientist A. Snyder in 1858. Creator scientific hypothesis of continental drift became the Alfred Wegener in 1912. This courageous German scientist died in 1930 in Greenland, where he went for the vindication of his hypothesis ... In 40 years, most scientists supported the idea of continental drift.

Rift Pangea associated with the dynamics of the Earth's rotation: after all, during the aforementioned catastrophe length of the day was 9 hours. A follow-up and then slowing its rotation, is considered a consequence of the influence of the lunar prilivnootlivnyh forces of the oceans. But, I think, can not exclude the possibility of impact from space, dramatically slowed the rotation of the earth and causing tectonic revolution. It is known that later, "only" 65 million years ago, another catastrophe was caused by an asteroid hitting the Earth.

Due to drift apart in Africa and America was formed 120 million years ago, the Atlantic Ocean continues to grow. From the Caribbean Sea and the peninsula of Florida in the area of the Arctic Ocean rushed powerful stream of warm waters of the Gulf Stream - as a result of the forces of the Earth's rotation and, apparently, sloping coastal area of the ocean floor to the north.

Disaster faults and continental drift is complemented by a complex mechanism of tectonic dislocation crust in its lower basaltic layer (the total for the continent and the ocean) and the intermediate cortex (in the transition zone from continent to ocean), exposed to constant tectonic movements. Tectonic disturbances (gaps, fissures, faults, changes, reverse faults, thrusts) generate the formation tunneleobraznyh voids, hollows and troughs filled with sea water. At the bottom of the Atlantic are found not only a deep canyons with steep edges, tectonic faults, leaving the body of the continent, and concealing them from the top strata of volcanic lavas (eg, lava Sierra Geralya have a thickness of up to one kilometer).

Therefore, we can assume that beginning in the Bermuda triangle natural communicating vessels include, first, the crater of a volcano, or one of the basins at the bottom of the Sargasso Sea (eg, the failure depth of 7110 meters), the second associated with the hollow tunnel is the result of deep tectonic fault and thrust, or a volcanic eruption - the piercing as insular or continental rocks, and, third, and another deep dip in the "neighboring" area (eg, Trench off the island of Puerto Rico, the depth of 8742 meters or the Central American trench depth of 6489 meters near the western part of Mexico) .

As in the neighboring waters are not observed sverhfenomen like Bermuda, it can be assumed that the exit of the tunnel in the waters of "neighbor" multi-channel, ie, branched, that "obscures" there is an external manifestation of the effect of communicating vessels.

So, what can be explained by the described natural but scientific hypothesis? Let's see how the situation in a calm area of the Bermuda Triangle since the beginning of "work" the giant of communicating vessels, and as a result of being drawn into the tunnel mass of sea water: there is a sudden storm with disoriented waves, swirling ship and how it would be punishable in them on the concave surface area of the ocean above the entrance to the tunnel, "to spin" natural water vortex and eddies as a result of tightening the flow of water flowing into the tunnel with uneven along the perimeter of the entrance boundary conditions, the weather deteriorates due to the pressure drop, changes in humidity, wind development, there is a low-frequency vibration as a result of the combined effect of turbulent flow water in the tunnel and dynamic contact with the surface wind shtormyaschego Ocean disrupted navigation devices due to electromagnetic waves, enhancing the magnetic anomalies, reduced flight stability of the aircraft in a sharp drop in atmospheric pressure.

Lost time and the familiar cycle

Lost time and the familiar cycle

Living in hard times, hard slog. Sooner or later we begin to feel the need to relax and rest, to bring myself up. But the sense of "worn out" and the desire to somehow respond to this feeling leads us to a more passive phase of the difficult time. Namely, to the wasted time.

The fact is that if you are stuck in a period of difficult time, no vacation will not help you regain your strength. You can not build themselves into a coherent whole. You will begin to spend time looking stupid, useless television, playing computer games, shopping, chatting with friends or wandering aimlessly on the Internet. In this case, your brain would still be loaded with unnecessary problems, and you will still be deaf to the cries of his own soul.

You can enter in a different way: select a couple of weeks, and lie on the beach, reading a cheap novel, hoping to recover - only to have to fourteen days to proceed to the same cumbersome mechanical work. This period was rightly called the "time wasted", because you will not be able to recover their strength and energy to stock up or get real joy from such "entertainment." (Think of how many people get real pleasure from the fact that watching soap operas, full of false passions, or make tedious trips to the markets?)

The period of lost time can help us cope with stress and frustration in the best case for a short time. Having lived through this period, we will be able to continue in the same style and the next: week, month or even a whole year. (In the same way people "help" tranquilizers and antidepressants. Taking these drugs, people believed that coped with the situation, although in reality it is not.)

The tragedy of western culture is that, despite the presence of uymy free time every day, and constant reminders that he should be even more, we are spending their leisure time on some bleak and useless activities. This is due to the fact that we have lost touch with their inner selves. We are becoming increasingly difficult to assess the simple pleasures offered by life itself. It seems pointless and boring just to sniff the roses, because we ourselves are not here in full. We are only committing a series of movements and actions.

When does the period of lost time, we continue to feel exhausted, unfulfilled, worried, and empty. So, we were unable to recover energy. We passionately want to fill myself more in order to feel the integrity of his ego. And here lies the fallacy of addiction and dependence, so characteristic of Western lifestyle. Being in a period of difficult times, we strive to find a solution outside of ourselves. And since we can not allow ourselves to go deeper into the quiet, solitude and connect with their inner selves, then continue to look for causes in the external world, trying to still achieve integrity through work, love, sex, TV, religion, sports, drugs, alcohol or simply employment.

For some time it is our creek, then - get tired and we again descend from heaven to earth, starting to look for another way to end their own frustration. Illusion Turns us even further. We think that if one tries hard enough or wait very long time, the strategy should work. And then we'll be happy, satisfied and at peace. However, it turns out not quite so. The more persistent we are trying to get to happiness, the further alienates himself from his inner self. Therefore, such a plan would inevitably defeated. It wants to tell a story. One night a certain gentleman lost his keys and began to look for them near the lantern. "Are you sure that dropped them right here?" - Asked a passerby coming up. "No, - the answer - but there is much lighter.

The bravery

The bravery

Many years ago, when I worked as a volunteer at Stanford Hospital, I met a little girl named Lisa, who was suffering from a rare serious illness. Her only hope of cure was a blood transfusion and the donor was to be her own five-brother, who miraculously suffered the same disease and his body can devise antibodies needed to resist the disease. The doctor explained the situation to the boy and asked him if he would give his blood to his sister. I saw that he hesitated only a moment before answering:

- Yes, of course, if it can save Lisa.

No blood transfusion was going, he was lying on the couch next to his sister and smiled, as we all do, watching as the girl's cheeks will be flushed again. Then his face grew pale, his smile faded. He looked up at the doctor and in a trembling voice asked:

- I die right now, yes?

While still very young, the boy misunderstood the doctor's words and decided that he will give his sister all his blood.

Dan Clark

STARFISH

STARFISH

One of our friend wandered once at sunset on a deserted Mexican beach. Ahead he saw a figure. Approaching, he saw a local resident, who now and then bending down, picking something from the sand and threw it into the ocean waves. This was repeated again and again, and when our friend approached even closer, it turned out that the person picking up starfish, made by the tide on the shore, and sent them to turn back into water.

Our friend was puzzled. Stopping beside him, he asked:

- Good evening, friend. Tyr What are you doing?

- Returns starfish back into the ocean. You see, now low tide, and they were on shore. If I do not return them to the sea, they die from lack of oxygen.

- I understand, - said our friend. - But on the beach of a thousand stars. It is unlikely that you will be able to reach each of them. There are too many. And besides, as you know yourself, the same happens on many beaches around the coast. Is it by your works can be any use?

In response, a local resident with a smile on her face bent down, picked up another star, threw it into the waves and said:

- The benefit is - at least one of the stars!
Helis Bridges

This assessment I dream at night ...

This assessment I dream at night ...

Recall your school received an assessment, which caused significant changes in you. Moreover, changes can be both positive and negative.

Think that had the greatest influence on the regulatory effect of this evaluation: its magnitude, the person evaluates the situation assessment, its equity invested labor, unexpected situation or its predictability ...

If you can, please give a few examples of the role of evaluation in your life. What could you advise those who revere the evaluation?

Also consider: currently most estimates put you or you? Which of these provisions you prefer and why? Talk about all of this with a companion.

Well, if playing the role of student, we feel responsible for the entire learning process. This gives an opportunity to display creativity in learning. It occurs when a student feels his independence, or at least the possibility of choice.

Playing the role of teachers, we love ... handle. But the real influence exerted by our people, and the scope of our real "power" does not depend on the strength of our pressure on the student.

The biggest impact of the teacher has, if the student chooses his own. It is also important, can the teacher make a personal example: that if he is a man with whom the student is ready to identify. Give a concrete example.

EXAMPLE

Since you need to give students tasks to consolidate the material. You can give them to meet 20 or 10 of these problems, while saying that "enough to solve 10 problems, but those who feel the strength, can do more."

You are not obliged to indicate the specific numbers challenges; enough to offer students such an example, the scheme: "You get a perfect score, if you apply one of the following strategies: you can solve a greater number of lung problems, or less difficult. Need to get a certain number of points."

In these examples, the choice makes the pupil. Believe me, he is well aware of and appreciates. He has the opportunity to feel like a co-author and success and defeat.

And there is nothing wrong, nothing disruptive, on the contrary, this process is accompanied by a feeling of inner freedom and responsibility for choices.

Did you ever experience this feeling as a student?

Choices demonstrates an example of reading textbooks. If there are so many alternative lists of literature, why the students themselves may not be chosen from the list of those works that they like more? " Here, too, can use the scoring system and the difficulties of the text.

The benefits of reading on their own "Romeo and Juliet" will certainly be greater than the effect of units received for unread imposed on the teacher's novel "What to do?".

Try to bring their examples of this phenomenon, right?

It should also focus on the role of the teacher in the educational process.

I'll tell you a parable about a little Marusya

I'll tell you a parable about a little Marusya

One girl came to school and was very happy painting, because adored draw. The teacher told the children to draw a tree. A minute later on a sheet of paper appeared sweeping strokes. The teacher went to class and commented on the work of their wards. When she went to Marusya, the girl has almost completed its work. The teacher looked up and asked reproachfully: "Maroussia, do not you know, looks like a tree?" I never have seen purple trees! ". A Maroussia, without hesitation, she exclaimed: "Really?" How I feel for you ... "

What does this parable? Of course, the role of feelings of self-worth.

I hope you understand it well. I also think that any teacher would have a handy experience - it saves people from being able to take their opinions infallible. I wish us all the talent and confidence of small Marousi. It is not insolent - be it so, its aim was to provoke the teacher embarrassment and confusion, and then she recklessly "attacked" a teacher. But Maroussia protected naive and so masterfully. She understands that is entitled to his own imagination, which is no worse than others.

Do you have shown independence and confidence in response to the opinion of others about your "creation"? Why do you answer a friend, admire your dress: "Oh, it's so old ..." Why tell the visitor, who praises your culinary talents that do not know how to cook? This - not modesty. This is - nonsense. If you do not like the dress, why do you wear it? If you do not know how to cook, what serves their other products? Learn from small Marousi.

We constantly put the assessment. It is compulsory on the role of the student. Are we

when we learn, give consent, for someone to have appraised? Can we, the

born, and if this is a fight against windmills? What in general should

live score and what it really is? What is its impact on the perception of their own

value and self-esteem?

"I received the first pair in the first grade reading. For me this" two great hit from his father. Since then I battered by his father after each control, as instruments of punishment were all the more delicious ... "

"In high school I started having problems with concentration. In the second and

third grade, they have intensified. Going to the board, I thought that the teacher called me to humiliate. I saw a teacher of the enemy, felt that he wanted to show my ignorance, but because looking for, what do I do not know, and hit the weak spot. I had a feeling that all teachers want to prove that they know best. I felt humiliated. I was afraid of teachers. "

Evaluation can serve an objective criterion only in certain cases. When the teacher note the time in the race for some distance, he uses a stopwatch, but you can not imagine how different it measures the speed of those to he ... nurtures sympathy or antipathy. Moreover, it does not have to be willful or intentional, though, alas, sometimes happens. Well, when the score becomes the student feedback as information about its current level of knowledge and skills, as well as on progress. In art schools, progress is assessed regularly. The true evaluation should include an analysis of errors that students know their weaknesses and was able to correct them. Regulatory evaluation function should not hinder the activity of the student and encourage her. Dear Teacher Not so important, what mark you set. Important changes that it causes a particular individual. Evaluation - is not a measurement of height and weight; is a subtle process of sending back information, which is designed to stimulate the development of personality.

It should be remembered that the same score, set by two different people, cause they have a different echo. One insanely happy triplet-minus, the other suffers, having "only" four.

EXAMPLES

a high school student was fond of saying that he "cut off the top five," because the high score was his standard.

Pupil and school finds success as satisfactory, because it "threatened" deuce.

If a task is executed in a test 50%, it is a success or failure?

About student of the prestigious Lyceum attempt suicide as a result of voltage after the final control. In the control he had received "satisfactory".

With another student school in the same city, receiving the same score, leaving for a journey abroad - a gift to the happy parents.

No points and points are riveted our attention, and their influence on the behavior of the student. Ironically, when the teachers themselves say they do not notice any reaction from the student, whom they put so many twos ... Let's look at it another way. If some means is not effective, why use it again and again, repeating the senseless attempts? Is not it called fixation? Similarly, the case with the higher grades. They often, generating indifference, exposed, according to the students themselves, "for nothing", or rather for the fact that quick learner performs the task without much effort, and therefore does not make any steps forward in its development.

In the estimation of reflected our need for comparisons. Think about what the essence of the dialogue below:

- Well, as you perform the test?

- Received 80 points, and you?

- I - 75, but the average was only 60.

Every year, many students in any university has the opportunity to see how much the assessment of our intelligence and abilities depends on comparison with others. Students who are in high school were considered "outstanding talent" (as compared with classmates), unpleasantly surprised to find that suddenly became "mediocre". Moreover, half of them were below average compared with their new "exceptionally talented" classmates. Obviously, that has changed is not their intellectual level, and the criteria for comparison. IQ equal to 120, compared with the average is considered high. But in a specially selected group it may be secondary or even lower.

The struggle in difficult times

The struggle in difficult times

Cycle "difficult time" recalls life on another planet. This is a world where there is a struggle for survival. There was never enough time to carry out their affairs, and only a spate of them. But despite all efforts, such a life seems empty and meaningless. There is no need to think about how to carve out some time for singing, dancing and just a joyful evening. And even if you are able and afford it, then to such "entertainment" you have left whatever mood or desire.

The difficult time is the antithesis of carefree Time. When you fell on hard times, you are always somewhere in a hurry and feel the pressure from the surrounding people and environment. You now and then glancing at the clock, running at the limit and up to the very last moment, when the deadline for the tasks before you. Your days filled with meetings, and you do not know how to cope with things. You are in constant tension, and can not relax. You think it impossible to concentrate and gather your thoughts. You are literally overwhelmed by commitments and requirements.

In short, the whole world fell on the shoulders of you and crushes its weight. In the house, as in the head and throughout life - a complete mess, and some commotion. Your watch is filled with confusing and unnecessary deeds - meaningless and petty. You do not get satisfaction, and do you run the job seem worthless. This is due to the fact that you lost sight of what really matters to you the utmost importance. (Or maybe you've never asked this question: what is most important to you?) And now, despite all of your daily efforts in the end it turns out that you are so no good today and did not.

During the difficult time you focus on the past or the future. For example, you can mentally scroll through yesterday's conversation, or to regret some its long-standing act. In addition, you can overcome concern about the fact that you will be in the near future, what you did not have time to make deadlines. Or, worse yet, your thoughts are hard to stop those events that could occur. So, it turns out that you are not completely in the present.

Life for you is the fact, what event will happen in the future. For example, important developments are: the time when children go to school, when you yourself have finished school or university, when complete, a project will end when the construction or repair of the house. You expect when you (finally!) A rest when the light upon a worthy partner when you go to a new job, when they grow up children, when will the same mythical day, and you will have "plenty of time." Living in hard times is survival. You are trying to quickly go through every single day and expect the best period of your life, when will any of these events.

Despite all this, the difficult times fraught with the risk of dependence. You start to get used to them. You think you feel better from the influx of adrenaline in the blood, when are flying with their endless troubles, or when you know that the approach of the last date of your project. You can entertain illusions about their "values" and "significance". Are you afraid to stay. And what will happen then something terrible? You are constantly busy - but perhaps this is not the best way to escape, escape from their own emotions? Thus, you choke the voice of her own inner self, you do not live a full life.

People are constantly having a hard time, very rarely allow themselves to go somewhere on vacation. Even if this does happen, the rest they become incredibly boring. This "news" can be very difficult to really relax. They look exhausted, always somewhere in a hurry and looking at his watch. (Is already Tuesday? What a nightmare!)

Some of them support the usual percentage of adrenaline in the blood, while on vacation, that are engaged in extreme sports. Others, lounging in a lawn chair, do not forget to put a number and a mobile phone and laptop. From the side it may seem that they fear at the thought of rest, and they want all this "nightmare" is over quickly, and could begin normal work weekdays.

Our culture and modern life, however, contribute to the fact that we get used to the constant rush and employment. We strive to do more and have more, which means that we live in difficult times. However, this does not make sense. We just have to, for example, buy more and more things, naively thinking that the more we have, the happier will find ourselves. Or are we frantically fill their diaries, lists of endless meetings and urgent cases, in the expectation that if the day is busy until the last second, only then you can feel truly fulfilled their duty, but because and satisfaction.

But it is not. We never seem that "this is quite enough." And we are working more, we continue to run off somewhere, again to buy something, and happiness is all there is, for the same turn invisible! When we experience difficult times, the word "sufficient" meaningless. We have a sense of balance is lost. We begin to think too straight. And we always want more and more.

Who I really

Who I really

One teacher of a secondary school in New York decided to make a pleasing its graduates, to show them what each of them stands out among the rest. Using the method proposed Helis Bridges of Del Mar, Calif., she calls each of the students to the board and talked about the place in her life and the life of a class he took. Then she handed each a blue ribbon on which was written in golden letters: "Who I really am."

Subsequently, the same teacher, conceived to determine what role in society is the recognition of the merits of any person. She gave each of his students on three more ribbons and instructed them to conduct a similar ceremony outside the school. Then they had to sum up, finding out who is who and for that I decided to tell, and to inform the class about a week.

One of the students went to the nearby office of the company to honor ribbon assistant who helped him with career planning. He pinned this recognition of his shirt, then gave him another two similar ribbons, and explained:

- We have now carried out in a class experiment, so we ask you to find a man worthy of recognition, give him the blue ribbon and give him one more, that he gave it to the third, and so continued the ceremony. Then, please contact me and inform about the results.

On the same day, later, the officer went to his boss, who, by the way, all the slaves believed killjoy. He suggested the Chief to sit down, and then explained to him that admiration for his business acumen and foresight. Chief looked extremely surprised. Then the young man asked him if he would take from him the gift of a blue ribbon, and asked for permission to attach him to her breast.

- Yes, of course - said the affected supervisor. Assistant took the blue ribbon and pinned it to the jacket of his head just above the heart. Then he gave him the last remaining ribbon with the words:

- Could you assist me by taking that ribbon and handed it to someone whom you would like to tell? The boy who first handed me a tape, is participating in a school project, and we're going to continue the ceremony to find out how recognition can affect people's fates.

In the evening, on returning home, the chief sat beside her son and his fourteen said:

- Today happened to me something incredible. I was in my office when one of my assistants came to me to say that he admires my business acumen and vision, and handed me a blue ribbon. Can you imagine? Then he fastened so that the blue ribbon with the words "Who am I really" on my jacket above my heart and gave me another one and asked him to find another person whom I wish to distinguish. On the way home I thought about who would give me a ribbon, and immediately thought of you. I have a very tumultuous life, and often, coming home from work ? É, I do not give you proper attention. Sometimes I scold you for bad grades in school or a mess in the room, but today I just wanted to sit next to you and say how much you meant to me. After your mother you are the most important person in my life. You're a great guy, and I love you! Amazed by the boy cried, his body shaking with sobs. Then he looked up at his father and said through his tears:

- I was going to commit suicide tomorrow, Dad, because I felt as if you just do not love me. Now I changed my mind.

Downstream

Downstream

Your life flows on one channel, so try not to deviate from it.

Henry David Taro

Going with the flow, we, paradoxically, both have no purpose (live the moment) and at the same time somewhere going back to (move to the execution of our dreams). We are aware of their uniqueness and feel in harmony with its own purpose and activities. It seems that the boundaries of our "I" washed out, become unclear. During this period, male and female energies are in complete balance and harmony.

(The terms "male" and "female" do not have to do with who you are: male or female. They are simply a method of describing your "male" side, which tends to their own individuality, or separateness, and "feminine", which aims to unite , harmony and integrity.)

Many of us seem true bliss to lie all day on the beach, somewhere in the tropics, sipping cool cocktails, and occasionally soften skin cream for sunburn. However, studies on the psychology of happiness show that most people do not find him in idleness. Most of us seemed to be a living hell, the traditional Christian concept of heaven, when all around you are angels on harps, and you exist in eternal peace and tranquility.

In fact, most people feel the joy of the moment of desire to achieve his goal, which he consciously chose himself. It should be borne in mind that this goal should be decent and go from the heart. In the quest for it, we are improving and to deepen their knowledge and develop our personal talents.

Each person should have his dream, which would represent a significant and worthy goal in life. But here, of course, is not intended jackpot, which in essence is a desire to escape from everyday life. The conversation is about this dream, in the name of which you are willing to spend all their time, effort and skill.

For example, this dream may be a desire to find work in his soul, to meet a friend in life, a beautiful house, be of good health, to write a novel to become a true sculptor, winning the championship in golf, give birth and raise children, start their own business ... When you live your dream, but do not expect it to specific performance, when you approach it step by step process and enjoy themselves, that's when you swim with the stream.

This downstream heavily fueled human energy, revitalizes and seemed to cheer him. However, after a certain period of time we need to "slow down" and realize your new experience. We need to spend some time out to reflect on what happened, to relax, restore life balance, and in this period to enjoy the simple pleasures of life, do not aspire to any particular purpose. Consequently, we again turn into a phase of carefree times in which, as we recall, there is no particular goals. Thus, the cycle time is carefree.

Downstream and carefree times nourish and support each other. When we live our dreams, it becomes much easier to relax and enjoy every moment of existence. One midnight I was amused by the fact that blow bubbles with her baby, who suddenly decided to wake up just in my working hours. Very soon I realized how much I liked this innocent occupation. I am not a bit worried that held so much time, blowing colorful bubbles, and had not written a single line of his new book. Moreover, I have successfully completed a large section of the manuscript until the little boy asleep during the day. "The fact that there are already enough" - so says one of the principles of carefree Time. I therefore with a quiet mind allowed herself one night a little mischief with my crumbs.

Similarly, carefree time increases and downstream. After all, when we are slowing down and settling down in the period of carefree times, we become open and receptive, and thus able to receive direction and inspiration, which brings us back to the Movement. Cyclical carefree Times samosohranyaema. In addition, the cycles lead us up and only up - to get more joy, creativity, freedom, clarity of thinking, as well as to the execution of our dreams.

Theoretically, people can feel the joy in every situation (even in a concentration camp, as noted by Victor Frankl). There is a famous parable about a Zen Buddhist monk, who was persecuted in the mountains of the tiger. Finally, the monk managed to hang on a tree branch over a bottomless gorge. It is clear that in a couple of minutes, he met his death, and at that moment the monk noticed berries on that branch. It is located just within his reach. It disrupts berries and enjoy its truly amazing taste!

Whatever the circumstances, has always existed and will exist natural beauty, sensual pleasures, joy, love and a miracle of life and ability to experience joy. There always remains the possibility to move into a carefree time and enjoy peace and quiet. But if at that moment the monk "swam with the current", what then would happen to him? Perhaps his path and not be crossed paths with a tiger trail.

Going with the flow of life, we always find ourselves at the right time and place. This improves and the quality of our lives. Carefree times give us the opportunity to assess this quality, and enjoy it. Taken together, the same movement and carefree time helping us create a paradise on earth.

Each of us can survive more than one cycle of a carefree time during one day, and even a few minutes. Carefree time and motion can serve as an imperceptible shift of energy: relaxation, creativity, dreams, work, supervision of scenery from the window. Furthermore, within these cycles, there are others.

Some of us follow the rhythms of nature: become more quiet and contemplative in the autumn, looking for inspiration and fresh directions in the winter, and then - in the spring and summer - seek to implement new ideas and projects. Each of us has his own project: writing radio plays, improvement in the office garage, landscaping, etc. But then again, activity gradually subsides and the autumn comes.

For others it is different. For them, on the contrary, the summer seems the best time to relax, rest and reflection. Some people feel that now it needs a long rest to his project is fully "ripe". And someone else will run or two, or three years without a rest for the implementation of their plans. Then comes a year would slow down, take stock and awareness of their new experiences. Length of cycles at all different. But only after thinking about change, we are ready for new creativity.

Keep in mind that if you have a busy, this does not mean that fell on hard times. If you are still experiencing the bliss and enjoy the moment, you're still a carefree Time. You chose for themselves some very rich life. Conditions in the carefree times of an understanding of their own natural rhythms of life. Your body and inner "I" will themselves give you the warning signals, requiring little to reduce the pace of your activities or, conversely, to accelerate it. It also happens that you get a feel for when you need to simply "be" not doing absolutely nothing. If you begin to ignore these signals, then inevitably fell on hard times.

Living in any of the two states is not something permanent. Most of us move from cycle to cycle and live like a carefree, and in difficult times. Often these changes occur several times a day. Some people, for example, is constantly in a state of carelessness and during work, and among relatives, but it's worth it, let's go to the store to shop or just to think about costs, they immediately "jump" during difficult times. Another can be a carefree time on several days, especially after the holidays, but then every time they, as if some invisible hook, again delaying tough times.

People who can not kill

People who can not kill

The words in the headline of this article, in fact, of course, debatable. Figuratively speaking, against the scrap no reception. And death, if she came too, to delay no longer available. Nevertheless occurred in world history phenomenal exceptions, when people for whatever reasons, tried to send to his Maker, but the executioners, as they tried, nothing worked.

Very hardy victim
In 1933, American gangster, Anthony Marino came up with ingenious cruelty plan to deal with financial difficulties: he decided to kill his girlfriend and get her insurance.

The plan failed, and the bandit burning with a desire to repeat it with a certain Michael Melloem, a drunkard and frequenter drinking establishment, which in the Bronx had Marino. Accomplices gangster signed in the name of Melloya three insurance, after which the conspirators were thinking how to kill him, so as not to arose suspicion of murder. But they had to face the fact that the man is not always easy to kill - Malloy was a very enduring victim.

The killers thought that Malloy made drunk before his death, if he will have the opportunity, and Marino gave him unlimited credit at his bar. But as the Malloy drank without interruption and with him nothing happened, Marino replaced wine ... antifreeze! After some time, Malloy lost consciousness, but soon came again to myself and all next week with pleasure at the bar just drinking antifreeze.

Then the gangsters have prepared for him even more deadly drink: an explosive mixture of horse ointment with rat poison. However invulnerable Malloy did not even feel the difference and went on to claim a free drink.

Criminals offered him wood alcohol from rotten oysters and sardines, which slipped further and upholstery nails. Mello again hooked, and he demanded additives.

Angry constant failures killers dragged a drunk on the street, doused with cold water and left on all night lying in the snow at twenty below. But it did not kill Michael Melloya.

Desperate to cope with it, the gang Marino hired a hit man who knocked Melloya car, and then another, and moved it. Malloy three weeks in hospital, and then again came to the bar for free drinks!

Latest challenge to the way a drunkard who did not want to die became a gas oven. Bandits stuck his head in reluctant Melloya and held there until until Malloy finally not died. But the joy was short-lived Marino: police uncovered a crime and arrested the killers.

A quarter century after the events described in the New Orleans lived gravedigger called Sam Dombey, who strongly disliked the fellow craft, as Sam offered his services at a lower price. And once hired a famous murderer detractors Beauregard, so that once and for all dealt with Dombey.

The next morning, working at the cemetery, Dombey, suddenly heard a loud explosion behind him, and then someone staggered out of the bushes. It was unfortunate killer: he put too great a charge of gunpowder in the cartridge and the canister and the gun exploded in his hands.

The failed assassination attempt was the first but not the only attempt at Dombey. After Beauregard gravediggers have decided themselves to address his opponent. First, they put it under Sam's bed in the barn time bomb when he was asleep. The explosion destroyed the building and tossed the gravediggers to ten meters away, no reason, however, the sleeper is not the slightest harm.

But the grave-diggers did not give up and soon stole Dombey. They threw him, bound hand and foot, into the lake Poncharteyn. However unsinkable Sam broke free from the shackles in the water and swim.

His enemies and is not disturbed. They set fire to his house, and when Dombey jumped into the street, riddled with bullets from the rifles. Bleeding Sam was taken to hospital and ... soon cured.

Envious gravediggers and failed to send to the other world of his colleague. Sam survived all those who made an attempt on his life and died at the age of 98 of natural causes.

When the bullets are powerless
The saying "it does not take a bullet" absolutely not accidental. But the point here is not that there are people started talking as if the bullets. Scientists have shown that not only people but all living things are able to create around themselves the material field, and even control it.

Everyone must have seen what happens when the dog catches the cat, which have nowhere to hide. She turns like face to the enemy, and takes a threatening posture - the tail pipe, back arched, his pupils dilated. The dog freezes in place, because, according to contemporary psychics around cats formed a dense energy field that nobody can not overcome.

Repeatedly killing the horses under Napoleon and Kutuzov, about them bursting kernels of orderlies and generals, however, they are not bowing bullets, escaped injury. Lieutenant Napoleon always went into the attack ahead of his grenadiers, and rifle bullets did not reach him. Already being a general, he also went ahead - with equal failure of bullets for the enemy, thereby instilling courage in their soldiers, and - the fear in the ranks of the enemies. From all that breathed mystery.

Scientists explain this phenomenon as follows. The fact that the bullet moves in straight lines only "for itself", but actually it flies along a geodesic space, and if goes around the human body, it is because space is curved around it. The body thus becomes some kind of gravitational mass, which any moving object has to sidestep.

They say one of the Indian chiefs in the protection of throwing 17 times in the shooting of George Washington with a fairly close range, but missed. Property invulnerability ascribed and other famous generals, for example, General Emil von Sein-Wittgenstein.

Russia scholar Yuri Kotenko collected many stories about historical figures, against which the bullets were absolutely powerless. Here is what he, in particular, reports about the invulnerability of some amazing Indian chiefs.

"On the morning of November 25, 1876 Fourth Cavalry Regiment U.S. Army under the command of Colonel Ronald S. Mackenzie attacked a camp of Cheyenne Indian tribe, where the leader was a dull knife.

The battle lasted all day. The Indians, hiding in the rocks were under massive fire from the soldiers, when it seemed impossible to stick his head and, nevertheless, on this day the events occurred, which border on the miraculous. Thus, in the midst of shooting an old Indian came to an open high place, and calmly sat down there, from presenting a perfect target. In his hands he held an extinguished pipe. Indian lit it and began quietly smoking. Around the whistling bullets, but none of them did not harm the old man.

Some time later he was joined by another tribesman - Black Bird. Under a hail of bullets, he made a few puffs and remained completely intact. As the third Indian, Long Jaw, who went out on the edge of the cliff and began to bounce, to attract the attention of the soldiers. He took over four volley and went on as if nothing had happened. Later in his clothes found numerous bullet holes ...

Famous cheyennsky shaman Mad Mule went through no less than amazing things. Here's how it describes its tribesman Wooden Leg: "Once when we were in the upper reaches of the Powder River, he was approached four Cheyenne and each shot at him. He stood, leaning against a tree. After the fourth shot the shaman bent down, took off his moccasins and emptied them four bullets. I saw it ... "

Started talking of death
Well-known St. Petersburg parapsychologist Martynov talked with a former veteran of the Antonov Tikhvin, who told him the amazing story. During the war with the capture of Breslau platoon machine gunners were ordered to seize church in the center of a large area. Under the cover of a smokescreen platoon took the church and provided links to adjust artillery fire. But it soon turned out to be a broken wire, because the entire area exposed to fire. The commander ordered to restore the connection. The first mate went Antonova, however, is not done and a dozen steps, was killed.

The time has all Antonova, who during the entire war has not received a single scratch. Asphalt around literally boiling with bullets, but none touched him. Soldier crawled about 50 meters, combined wire and under heavy fire he returned to church, where the voltage of the tested fainted.

In the 20 years of the last century, like invulnerability demonstrated Baron Ungern, who tried to create a "Greater yellow empire. During one battle in a dressing gown Ungern found 70 holes from bullets and saber attacks. Baron was surrounded by a mystical aura, ultimately, he's never lost a battle, but was betrayed by his own associates.

The same can be said about the phenomenal invulnerability Nestor Makhno, the famous aviator Pokryshkin, which came out unscathed from hundreds of aerial duels with the Nazis. Behind him were hunting the best pilots of the Luftwaffe, the German aces managed to knock down many slave Pokryshkin, but he was like Pokryshkin started talking.

"Among the political leaders of the record for the survival of the assassination attempts is the head of Cuba's Fidel Castro. According to U.S. media attacks on him were held for at least two dozen, and almost always planned to murder a league of professionals, those who rarely misfires. But the CIA and Cuban counterrevolutionary organizations and failed to realize the killing with poison, bombs, bullets and so on "

At the end of the century before last European travelers on their way to Sudan, heard about the Abyssinian magician from an African village, who could do incredible miracles. The Europeans want to see them. Abyssinian for a nominal fee allowed them to shoot him with a firearm within two hours. Not a single bullet had not touched it, even with a very close range. Having emerged from the muzzle, the bullet described a parabola, and flew past the Africans.

A German magician offered five francs, if he will permit to shoot him point-blank! Abyssinian first refused, but then everything is agreed. German loaded gun propped his muzzle to his chest and the Sorcerer ... fired! However, the desired result has not reached a European: the barrel shattered into pieces, and the magician has not received the slightest injury!

Suggest interesting to shoot at them with rifles or pistols and some other parts of Central Africa and India. Such scenes Englishman Leing describes in his book "Journey through the lands of Taman, Kurankos and Sulimas. A detachment of soldiers fired at the tribal leader Sulimas at the source of the river Daylib. But no bullet grazed the man. He explained that he helps his magical talisman.

There are in Africa and the whole tribe, the warriors whose battles are still completely intact. Before the battle, they carry special "preparatory" ritual, which, apparently, and creates around them that the substance of which "do not take" no spears or darts, bullets or enemies.

The mystery of the material field
"It should be noted, however, is not always the magical charms and amulets remain impeccable in their battles life. In the north African state of Ghana clashes between representatives of various local tribes is not uncommon, so these places are still quite common practice plots of bullets, arrows and copies. In 2001, the village of Lamba on the north-east, young man, started talking to local sorcerer from a bullet, was killed during the test power of witchcraft. "

"Reuters reported, a 23-year-old Alebiga Aberima and with 15 other people begged the wizard to make them invulnerable to bullets with magic."

Within two weeks sorcerer rubbed their bodies a special herbal tea, after which it was decided to conduct the test. Aberima caused the first check for himself the power of magic charms. Friend Aberimy loaded the gun and first shot killed the test spot. Angry residents Lamba sorcerer caught and severely beat him. On the imminent death of a hapless healer saved only by the appearance of the respected elders of the village.

Three years later, in another African country - Nigeria - local sorcerer Asha Turf died when offered to the client, for whom he made an amulet, to test its strength.

Warlock put the amulet around his neck and asked the customer to shoot. Customer, Umaa Akora, who wanted to hedge against bullets, was eventually charged with murder. It is reported by Agence France Presse, skull Asha Turf literally shattered into pieces ...

So, saying "bold bullet fears" triggered, not because there are people "started talking" one way or another from the deadly pieces of lead. And because these people have, like, and some other living beings, have the ability to create around himself a kind of material field. And most often it happens at a subconscious level.

Downstream - the ecstasy and rapture of the moment

Downstream - the ecstasy and rapture of the moment

As soon as we intuitively "know" what decision we should take or how to act, while realizing that it was the right moment, we are moving in the active phase of the cycle of carefree Time. This is a timeless space where we live in a perfect balance within themselves and simultaneously connected to the source, the Tao, the Great Mystery, Great Spirit, the universal force. We are "going with the flow". Some athletes use the term "peak". For them, this state of mind in which they can achieve maximum results. It is in this phase, and occurs most real magic.

When you swim with the stream, all for you it seems easy, understandable and accessible. Disappearing all the internal conflicts, struggles, fears and doubts. Your internal harmony, as in a mirror, is reflected in the external world. There have all sorts of "meaningful coincidence" - those which Jung called "synchronicity." And these phenomena are common. You are always in the right place at the right time. Some invisible hands opened all the doors for you as soon as you approach. If you need a man, if he "accidentally" encounters with you on the street. And the empty parking spaces appear at the very moment when you need to leave the car.

You buy it for the first time this newspaper and it all just "accidentally" find the announcement that the work required just such a man as you. It happens differently. You have planned to sell his mansion and go to the local cafe, to drink a cup of coffee (which, in general, is unusual for you). It is in this tiny institution you meet a man who is dreaming about a house like yours, and ready to buy it right away. You are going to buy furniture for questioning and picking up favorite designs in the catalog, call for a firm where you tell what this furniture today fell by half. You start to feel that guardian angels are firmly took your side and extend a helping hand at every step.

Everything that happens during downstream, really like the rapid pace of the mountain river. The project, which you put so much time now, suddenly you have performed with amazing ease. The letter, which you thought with horror a few weeks, the very flies out from under your pen, you're writing it for some ten minutes.

Sometimes, what you start (sometimes reluctantly) to tell a story at night to your child. The plot fairly trivial and tired of you already own, when suddenly everything changes. You if someone is pushing, and you begin to compose a dizzying history, such as if it does not you invented it. You even start to feel that she does not come from you, but "passes" through you. You immediately gets to the exciting world of eternity, where time ceases to exist. Now you're intrigued by the plot of his own tales no less than your baby!

Tennis player, who is at a "peak", sees the ball more than he actually is. At the same time and he would like the ball is moving at slow speeds. At this time an athlete has the opportunity to take a correct decision regarding the strike, which will be advantageous. In the second such athlete is concentrated to the limit. The player, racket, ball - it all blends together and becomes the present poem.
Defeating an opponent is not so important. The main task now is quite different: to achieve excellence in the beauty of movement, compete only with myself, to get maximum enjoyment from the game. It may last only one game, one set, or even you make a single blow, but at this point, your feelings are very close to ecstasy and maximum enthusiasm.

ALL THAT I REMEMBER

ALL THAT I REMEMBER

When would my father nor spoke to me, he always began the conversation with the words: "I spoke to you today that I adore you?" This expression of love was mutual, and later, when he reached old age and he could live a little longer, we have to stick with him even more, if at all possible.

In eighty-two years he was ready to die, and I'm ready to let him go to his suffering finally ended. We laughed, cried, held each other's hands and exchanged declarations of love, aware that the time has come. "Daddy, - I said to him then - after you leave, I want to get out of you a sign that all is well with you." In response to this absurd proposal, he just laughed. My father never believed in reincarnation, as do I, but in my life was a lot of cases, convinced me that I can hopefully get a signal from another world.

Between my father and me there were such a deep connection that I felt the penetrating pain in his heart at that moment, when he was gone. Later, I was very grieved because of the fact that the staff of the hospital would not let me hold his hand in the last minute.

Day after day I hoped to get news of him, but in vain. Night after night, before falling asleep, I asked him to come to me in a dream. However, four long months passed and I did not feel anything but sadness of loss. My mother died five years ago from Alzheimer's disease, and although I managed to raise two adult daughters, I felt as a child, became an orphan.

Once, when I was lying on a massage table in a dark quiet room, waiting for the start assigned me to a session, I was seized by the tide of longing for the father. I began to wonder if I was not too demanding, expecting him any sign. I noticed that my brain was then in a particularly receptive state. I felt so unusual clarity of mind that I could have easily folded the long columns of figures. First I checked, I was awake or asleep, and was convinced that my condition is far from sleepy. Each of my mind was like a drop of water falling on the smooth surface of the pond, and I enjoyed the peace and quiet of each passing moment. And then I thought: "So far I have tried to control messages from the other side. From now on I will not do."

And here in front of me suddenly came face to my mother - as she was before Alzheimer's took away her mind, personal traits and 50 pounds of weight. Her pretty face was crowned with a magnificent crown of silver hair. She was so real, so real, that it seemed to me - is just lend a hand, and I will be able to touch her. She looked at me, just like many years ago, before her body began to slowly decline. I even smelled the "Joy" - her favorite perfume. She did not say a word, as if waiting for something. I wondered how could it happen that I thought about my father, but instead saw his mother, and felt remorse for what is not asked to appear before me and her, too.

- Oh, Mother, - I said - I am so sorry that you had to suffer from this terrible disease.

She bowed her head slightly to one side, as if implying that he understood my words. Then she smiled her wonderful smile, and earlier said quietly but very clearly:

- But all that I now remember - this is love.

Then she disappeared.

I covered the trembling, as if in room suddenly felt cold, and I realized all my being that the love we receive and give to others - all that matters and remains in memory. The suffering goes, love remains.

Her words were the most important of all, what I have ever heard, and since they are forever etched in my heart.

I have yet to have seen or heard from my father, but I have no doubt that one day, when I least expect it will, it will appear and say: "I spoke to you today that I will love?