Your brain’s fight-or-flight response is triggered in stressful and potentially threatening situations. But what determines the decision between fighting or fleeing? Why do some people rise to challenges and others avoid them?

The ability to engage with difficulties and stress in a positive way has been described as the biggest factor for success in life — more significant than IQ, physical health, social networks, or socio-economic background.

Whether you fight or flee; see an obstacle or an opportunity, can be boiled down to this: “learned helplessness.” When encountering a difficult situation, people who respond with “helpless” behavior (giving up or fleeing from the situation) have “learned” that response from a past experience. Your future actions are dictated by your past experiences. For example, if you’ve been bitten by a dog in the past, you’ll have a stress-induced flight response the next time you see a dog — even if it is a chihuahua (or maybe, especially if it is a chihuahua). This pattern of “learned” avoidant behaviors has been linked with low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, and poor physical health.

Source: www.themindunleashed.org | Original Post Date: October 18, 2014 –

It is probable that in the future our clothes will be equipped with tiny power generators, which could be used for charging mobile phones and other gadgets. U.S. researchers created the world’s thinnest generator based on the properties of a new layered material, which has a thickness of just one atom and is able to produce electricity when bent or stretched.

The microscopic generator consists of the atomically thin molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), a material in which all the atoms are arranged in the same plane. It means that the material is technically two-dimensional as it has only length and width, while its thickness is negligible and comprises only a single atomic layer.

God said:

If you are selfish, where is your love hiding? Selfishness is not even love for yourself.  

If you pretend love, what are you doing?

If you sacrifice yourself, why?

If you neglect yourself, where can your love be?

If you keep yourself down, you are keeping yourself down.

If you try to please everyone, you do not succeed in pleasing anyone. Least of all do you please yourself.

If you are unhappy, what are you doing but abandoning yourself? There are better things for you to be and to do.

If you do not value yourself, who is going to value you? Begin now, please. Set a higher price on yourself.

When you are not honest with yourself, whom are you kidding?  

Unless you are kind to others, you deny yourself love. If you loved yourself, you would be kind to all.

If you don't do something about yourself, who is going to? There is no choice but to raise yourself. Do that which will help you to look at yourself with love and so look at the world with love.

Working yourself to the bone does not help you love yourself.

Being idle doesn't help you love yourself.

To not love yourself is not a choice to make, yet too many make this choice perhaps as some kind of retribution.

No more overlooking yourself. No more denying yourself. No more self-pity. No more walking a high-tension wire.

By KINGSLEY DENNIS—

Throughout history the mechanisms of persuasion and influence have always been manipulated by those in power as a means to maintain authority and legitimacy. In more recent times the overall manipulation of the mass public mind has become less about overt spectacles of fear and obedience, and more about subtle forms of media propaganda. The manufacturing of consent¹ is endemic and has become a pervasive presence within modern societies.

Edward Bernays,² who has been called ‘the father of public relations’, was a nephew of Sigmund Freud and introduced psychological and psychoanalytical methods into modern propaganda. Bernays considered media propaganda essential for manipulating public opinion because society, in his regard, was composed of too many irrational elements (the people) which could be dangerous to the efficient mechanisms of power (‘democracy’). Within the context of our modern mass societies, propaganda has morphed into a mechanism for not only engineering public opinion but also as a means for consolidating social control.

By Katherine Smith Ph.D
Guest Writer for Wake Up World

Conspiracy Theories: The Public Trust Skepticism Factor

“Conspiracy” is a real word for a real events that have taken place in human societies in all cultures throughout human history. [see Appendix A]

The assassination of the President of the United States on national television by a “lone” assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, who himself is assassinated the next day by another “lone” assassin—would cause even the most rational skeptic, or critical thinker, to question the institutional narrative of the events. [1] In other words, the institutional narrative, or official explanation, of a lone assassin who was in turn assassinated the very next day by another lone assassin, is as epistemically dubious, and as equally “silly and without merit”, as any of the conspiracy theories surrounding the JFK assassination.

Phillip Schneider, Staff
Waking Times

There is an information awakening taking place right now, and mainstream media is being outed for what it really is: corporate and government controlled propaganda. People are turning to alternative news sources more swiftly than ever now, and as a result, the old guard of media is collapsing at free-fall speeds.

Here are 6 positive signs of the collapse of mainstream media: