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The art of Feng Shui addresses all of the main areas of our lives and teaches that our homes can be useful tools for attracting all of the things that we desire on our deepest level.

Form School is a particular school of Feng Shui that uses what is called a Bagua Map. It is a map that is put over your floor plan that identifies the nine key energy centers (the “Helpful People” section is one of the nine).

Using the Bagua Map is similar to creating a vision board. It gives you a physical place in your home to place the visual affirmations that you are working with. Once you locate a specific energy center, you place objects there that represent what you want to bring into your life, as well at the things you want to keep on flowing. Just like a vision board, the messages you planted there in the form of physical objects are registering in both the conscious and subconscious mind and are sent out to the universe like radio signals.

As in the law of attraction, like attracts like. The more powerful the visual affirmation (i.e those fused with positive emotions) , the more powerful the thought form. The strength of the thought form is what focuses the chi ( energy) in the desired direction. In working with energy enhancements, make sure to choose the objects that have the most meaning for you (if you make them yourself, even better!). Feng Shui is not about hanging a talisman in your space that mysteriously brings you good fortune. This is a trite quick-fix approach which is unfortunately promoted in many Feng Shui books, giving it a bad name.

At its deepest level Feng Shui acknowledges our profound connection to our physical surroundings and the interconnection between the seen and unseen worlds. It teaches that in aligning our outer environment with our deepest desires (our inner environment), we bring our lives into balance.

In Feng Shui Helpful People refers to the angels who appear in our lives just when we need them. It is about synchronicity, being in the right place at the right time and knowing that the universe will send us the necessary helpers to assist us on our path. A chance meeting with a stranger links us to finding our life partner or connects us to a dream job, etc.

The Helpful People area is also about Travel . This is a great place to place pictures, books, postcards and other objects depicting the places you wish to travel to as well as affirming that everything will go smoothly when you do.

You may want to enhance this area if:

You want to attract teachers, clients, colleagues, customers, employees, a nanny, gardener, contractor, or helpful people of any kind into your life, or if you are planning to relocate either your home or job.
If you desire to travel and intend that it to be safe, easy and synchronistic.

How to Locate and Enhance the Helpful People and Travel Area of your Home

This part of Feng Shui comes out of the teaching of the Bagua, the source of which is the ancient Chinese book of wisdom and divination, the I Ching. To read more about the Bagua, I will refer you to my prior article: Where is Energy in your Home.

The ancient Feng Shui masters felt there were certain energy centers of our homes that correspond to all of the key areas of our lives. We can locate these energy centers by overlaying what is called a Bagua map, onto the floor plan of our living space. Once we locate them we want to:

1. Take a look at what is going on there and see if it connects to what is going on in our lives at present. (You may have some ah’hah moments!)

2. Clean it up, clear it out and make it an attractive place to spend time in.

3. Add enhancements to encourage the chi (energy) to become activated along with environmental affirmations that represent what it is you do want to have happen in this area of your life. These can be collages, vision boards, meaningful objects, pictures etc. What ever invokes a sense of excitement and passion around the desired object or outcome.

Next: How to enhance the Helpful People and Travel Area

Enhancements

Here are some suggested enhancements if you would like to activate the Helpful People and Travel area of your home:

1. Objects, statues, posters or vision boards that represent your own personal spiritual guides such as saints, angels, gods, goddesses, deities, nature, power animals, totems, etc.

2. Posters, paintings, collages or photos of special places you have traveled or would like to travel to or objects from places in the world that have always inspired you.

3. Pictures and objects that represent the living ‘angels’ in your life.

4. Items pertaining to helpful people such as clients, customers, employees, teachers, benefactors and mentors that you want to attract into your life or keep in your life. You may be working with attracting the perfect nanny or gardener or handyman, or even volunteers for your non-profit.

5. Create a ‘helpful angels’ garden outside or a nook in your home. If you are missing this area from your floor plan, create the garden in the area outside where this would be located in the home. Add the symbols that are the most personal to you. (Please note I am not promoting we have our yards look like ‘My Big Fat Green Wedding,’ with huge statues of Athena in the front yard!)

6. Find a box you love and turn it into an affirmations box and place it in this area. Write an affirmation about what it is you desire to bring into your life in terms of Helpful People and Travel. Write it with gratitude, in present tense as if it is true now. Date it and read it frequently, visualizing clearly what it is you are requesting and feel it as if it is happening in the present.

7. Accessories in the colors of white, gray or black. Please don’t paint the walls black, just have some accessories in these colors which represent both the water and metal elements connected to this area.

If you are trying to sell your home, you may want to put cards of Realtors in your Helpful People Affirmations Box. If you are looking for a new home, pictures and affirmations of the ideal place would go here, placed next to your vision

Next: The Bagua Map — how to locate the helpful people and travel section of the home

How to Place the Bagua Over the Floor Plan of your Home.

Click Here for your free color copy of the Bagua Map

1. Draw a sketch of the floor plan of your space. This should be the birds-eye view as if you are looking down on it. Include all built-on decks, stairways and attached garages. If you live in a condo, apartment or one room, draw the shape of this as if you are looking down from above.

2. Draw a square or rectangle over the floor plan in the shape of the Bagua map. Stretch it out into a long skinny rectangle if need be. All of the areas of the home (or space) need to be within the square or rectangle. If your home is an irregular shape, still draw the rectangle or square around it. Not all homes are square or rectangular, so you may very well be missing some areas of the Bagua. Instructions on how to deal with this are below.

3. Stand at the front door with the map parallel to the floor with the Entrance Quadrant touching your stomach. This will tell you the direction to overlay the Bagua map onto the floor plan of your home.

4. Now divide your home with the Bagua map overlaid on it in nine equal sections. This will identify for you where all of the key nine areas are of your home are. The wealth area will always be the far left quadrant of the home and the Love and Marriage the far right section, etc.

5. If your home is not a rectangle or square, you may be missing areas of the Bagua. If this is the case, you can do a mini-Bagua for each room of your home and enhance the HP & T corner of each room. Treat the main entrance to the room like you would the front door of the home and lay the Bagua accordingly. This energetically brings back into the space the missing area. If this area falls in the yard, create a Helpful People garden if appropriate.

6. If you have more than one floor of your home, what ever is below is above. You do not turn the Bagua differently for each floor. In which case you may have more than one H P & T area, the same rules of enhancement apply to all areas!

Note: I practice and write about Western Form School Feng Shui, which works with the Bagua map and is a different school than Classical Compass School Feng Shui, which uses a Chinese compass along with Chinese Astrology to determine chi or energy flow. I suggest you choose the approach that resonates the most with you and stick with it.

For those who would like a copy of my Free Color Bagua Map with instructions on how to lay it over your home floor plan click here.

Enjoy!

Erica Sofrina is the author of the book Small Changes, Dynamic Results! Feng Shui for the Western World , and is the Fonder of the West Coast Academy of Feng Shui, which offers Practitioner Certification Programs and Seminars both nationally and internationally.

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Pill to Gill: Antianxiety Drugs Flushed into Water May Be Making Fishes Fearless

Posted by Melodie Munro on February 24, 2013 at 2:29pm

Pill to Gill: Antianxiety Drugs Flushed into Water May Be Making Fishes Fearless

Levels of human drugs commonly found in the world's waterways may be altering the way fishes behave

By David Biello

Creek Redfin - European Perch

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Redfin/European Perch
Perca fluviatilis
Lake Eildon

Levels of human drugs commonly found in the world's waterways may be altering the way fishes behave.

Antianxiety drugs may be making fish more aggressive. New laboratory tests reveal that even extremely low concentrations of the calming drugs benzodiazepines—more commonly known as Valium and Xanax, among others—cause fish to become less timid and to feed faster, among other effects.

"This is an essential drug that is used around the world," said chemist Jerker Fick of Umea University in Sweden at a press conference preceding publication of the research in Science. Benzodiazepines calm people with anxiety by stimulating the GABA receptor, enhancing the sedative effect of that neurotransmitter. The drugs are then excreted in urine, often as the compound oxazepam—a compound that is produced when the body breaks down some benzodiazepines as well as a drug in its own right. Then there are all the compounds are flushed down the toilet.

But humans are not the only animals with GABA receptors. "It is present in almost all vertebrates. All fish have these," Fick added.

A previous survey revealed that low levels of such antianxiety drugs contaminated Sweden’s waterways, reaching levels as high as 0.58 microgram per liter. Oxazepam in particular proved long-lasting because even sunlight failed to break it down. As a result, the compound built up in the tissue of wild-caught perch, reaching levels of 3.6 micrograms per kilogram—or more than six times higher than in the surrounding waters. So the Swedish researchers decided to run some experiments to see how these low levels of drugs might be affecting fishes.

The researchers used 90 juvenile European perch, Perca fluviatilis—the same fish whose levels in the wild had been measured. They tested their behavior in clean water: recording how active they were; their risk-taking behaviors such as entering an unknown and open stretch of water; how they interacted with their fellow perch; and even how quickly they fed on prey.

The researchers then either kept some of the fish in clean water for a week, exposed them to low levels of oxazepam (1.8 micrograms per liter, or three-times environmental levels) or high levels of the drugs, 910 micrograms per liter. The effect was obvious, says ecologist Tomas Brodin of Umea University, who led the research. "They became more active, they became asocial and they became risk-taking," Brodin explained at the press conference. "We do daily care on these fish. On day three, without knowing [which fish was in which group], I could tell which fish were exposed."

That's because the unexposed fish would cower in dark corners or swim around nervously whereas exposed fish quickly explored new, but possibly dangerous aquatic territory. The exposed fish also ate prey faster—it took 75 seconds for unexposed fish to decide the coast was clear enough to eat zooplankton, as compared with 25 seconds for fish exposed to low levels of the drug and just two seconds for fish with the highest levels.

Drugged fish are not likely to impact humans: "You'd have to eat four [metric] tons of perch from the river to get one tablet of the drug," Fick explained at the press conference. "It's not a human health issue, it's an aquatic issue."

And it may be that the levels actually found in water—about one third of the exposure levels in the lab—are low enough that no impact is seen. "We need to reduce the exposure concentration to see where we don't have any effect," Fick admitted. But "we can see profound effects at low levels, at levels that correspond to levels we actually find in surface waters."

For an individual perch, a little less anxiety may be good if it leads to faster feeding. But such alacrity may also have unintended consequences, either by setting off a cascade of faster consumption of algae-eating zooplankton throughout the food web, thereby allowing more algal blooms in the ecosystem or simply by exposing individual perch to more predation. Fish without fear are fish that quickly get eaten by larger predators, such as pike.

It remains to be seen what the overall effect of the pharmaceutical contamination may be, although it has been going on for decades since benzodiazepines were first prescribed in the 1960s. But instead of flushing old drugs, the better bet is to return them to pharmacies for proper disposal as well as, potentially, develop new treatments for sewage facilities that can filter out the drugs coming into the water via human urine. "There are several ongoing research projects that try to develop more efficient removal techniques, such as using ozone," Fick told Scientific American in an e-mail. Otherwise, human antianxiety drugs may provoke yet more anxiety about the environment.

How hackers turn YOU into a cyber criminal

Posted by Melodie Munro on October 2, 2012 at 5:43pm

How hackers turn YOU into a cyber criminal

For around $3 a day, you can ‘rent’ a swarm of PCs around the world - untraceable ‘slave’ machines which you use to browse illegal sites, send spam or launch cyber attacks.

For just a little more, you can rent thousands.

The PCs, of course, are innocent victims - infected machines under total control of cyber crime gangs.

The machines are used for everything from cyber attacks to blackmail to hosting illegal files, all under the command of gang masters far away.

The only sign their owners might notice is that the adverts they see in their web browser have suddenly changed. Today's malware is built to be invisible.

One of the bitterest ironies of cyber crime is that if you are duped into clicking on a spam email, one of the first things that could happen after illegal software has flooded into your computer, is that you’ll become a spammer yourself.

Once computers are remote-controlled by cyber criminals, they are referred to as ‘zombies’ - and for many criminals, the real value in an infected PC is over the long haul.

Gangs tend to specialise. Some criminals will use software that steal bank account details. Others will compromise a PC, then put it up for auction to other criminals.

But for all of them, the main goal is to stay ‘at the helm’ of the PC they’ve breached.

‘They always make sure they’re invisible,’ says Orla Cox, Security Operations Manager at Symantec Security Response, ‘They want to make sure they stay in your computer.’

‘The hacker just wants control,’ says Norton’s Director of Security Response, Kevin Haley, ‘Once he has control, he can use your machine to send spam, or to mount attacks.’

Several reports have claimed that paedophiles use ‘zombie’ computers to remotely store child pornography, including an Associated Press investigation of dozens of such attacks.

By the time the huge ‘botnets’ - networks of infected PCs controlled by spammers - are deactivated by the authorities, the gangs that control them have had ample warning to move their activities elsewhere.

Botnets are so common that prices can be extremely low. A study found that renting 1,000 machines could be as little as $9 (£6) an hour in 2010 - and this year, prices for renting infected machines are as low as $3 a day, according to researchers from Kaspersky, analysing the TDLL-TDS-4 botnet. Payment is accepted via common credit cards such as MasterCard and Visa.

High-profile ‘DDOS’ - distributed denial of service - attacks used to knock company websites off the internet, rely on the same ‘botnets’ - huge networks of zombie computers, which each send dozens or hundreds of requests to the site under attack.

The confidence of some gangs in their weaponry is such that DDOS attacks are used to blackmail sites such as online bookmakers in the run up to major events - or simply in a hi-tech version of protection rackets.

‘Hello. If you want to continue having your site operational, you must pay us 10 000 rubles monthly,’ said one extortion letter sent out to web masters.

‘Attention! Starting as of now our site will be a subject to a DDoS attack. Your site will remain unavailable until you pay us. The first attack will involve 2,000 bots. If you contact the companies involved in the protection of DDoS-attacks and they begin to block our bots, we will increase the number of bots to 50 000, and the protection of 50 000 bots is very, very expensive.’

Zombie PCs also often become spammers themselves, sending out dozens of infected emails to friends, or even people you don’t know - and building the botnets even further, as their criminal masters fade into the background.

‘A huge amount of malware is still spread through email attachments,’ says Orla Cox. 'Although there’s an increase in high-tech methods such as ‘drive-by downloads’, where infected advertising banners and websites are used to spread malicious software, the ‘traditional’ way of spreading infection via spam is still hugely popular.'

‘The social engineering is becoming cleverer,’ says Cox. ‘You’ll receive a fake package order, fake invoices - but when you click on the attachment, your computer becomes infected.’

Up-to-date protection software and an updated operating system such as Windows will help to defend against such infections before they occur - a much easier way to stay safe than the often-lengthy process of repairing the damage after it occurs.

It’s also worth noting that law enforcement won’t treat you as a criminal if you are a victim of this sort of attack. But the best defence of all is, of course, not being a victim in the first place.

Transform Your Uncertainty into Certainty & Thrive

Posted by Melodie Munro on August 15, 2012 at 3:58pm

Transform Your Uncertainty into Certainty & Thrive!
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In just 15 minutes feel calmer, clearer, and less uncertain about whether you can navigate all the unpredictable changes in business, leadership and life. Without leaving your desk, experience an energizing shift in your mindset and surroundings. Virtual Vacations spontaneously transport you to sacred destinations. There...you learn the timeless wisdom practices of leaders from different cultures, continents and centuries. These guided-audio armchair adventures connect you with a deeper, richer sense of yourself. A-ha breakthroughs ignite your inner knowing—leading you to innovative ideas, wiser decisions, and inspired action.

With grace and ease, you experience the satisfying and fulfilling difference your unique gifts contribute to the world.

Another high impact image from above - this stunning Nasa photo puts the 'art' into ‘earth’

Posted by Melodie Munro on July 29, 2012 at 2:31pm

Another high impact image from above - this stunning Nasa photo puts the 'art' into ‘earth’ thanks to its incredible resemblance to a Vincent van Gogh masterpiece. The satellite image shows massive congregations of green phytoplankton swirling in the dark water around Gotland, a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea. It has nicknamed the picture 'Van Gogh From Space' because of its similarity to 'The Starry Night', the 1888 work by the famous Dutch ... more

Einstein's Insight into Human Nature

Posted by Melodie Munro on May 24, 2012 at 3:25pm

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. --Mahatma Gandhi

Einstein's Insight into Human Nature--by Michael Michalko, Original Story, May 23, 2012

Detailed descriptions of Albert Einstein’s thinking process were discovered in his correspondence with his close friend Maurice Solovine, who was a student of philosophy. One day Solovine suggested reading and debating the works of great authors. Einstein agreed enthusiastically and soon mathematician Conrad Habicht became involved in what was to be known as the "Olympia Academy." Often their meetings, held in Einstein's flat, would last until the early morning hours where the three discussed issues while eating hard boiled eggs and smoking pipes and cigars.

Among the topics that intrigued them was thinking and believing. How do we think? Why do we believe what we believe. Einstein intuitively knew that thinking is speculative and how personal beliefs and theories distort what we observe. Once he observed jokingly, “If the facts don’t confirm your theory, change your facts.”

Einstein explained that psychologically, our beliefs and axioms rest upon our experiences. There exists, however, no logical path from experience to an axiom, but only an intuitive connection based on our interpretation of the experience, which is always subject to revocation. These interpretations shape our beliefs and perceptions which determine our theories about the world. Finally, our theories determine what we observe in the world and, paradoxically, we only observe what confirms our theories which further hardens our beliefs and axioms.

At one time, ancient astronomers believed that the heavens were eternal and made of ether. This theory made it impossible for them to observe meteors as burning stones from outer space. Although the ancients witnessed meteor showers and found some on the ground, they couldn’t recognize them as meteors from outer space. They sought out and observed only those things that confirmed their theory about the heavens.

We are like the ancient astronomers and actively seek out only that information that confirms our beliefs and theories about ourselves and the world. Religious people see evidence of God’s handiwork everywhere; whereas, atheists see evidence of the absence of God everywhere. Conservatives see the evils of liberalism everywhere and liberals see the evils of conservatism everywhere. In fact, you do not need to watch and listen to either Fox or MSNBC because you already know what their position will be on any given political issue.

Many of us are taught that belief is the result of reasoned thought which informed you and then you chose to believe or not believe. But actually, your beliefs are shaped by your subjective interpretations of your experiences. When you are thinking something, you have the feeling that the thoughts do nothing except inform you, and then you choose to do something and do it. But actually, the way you think and what you think is determined by your theories about yourself and life. Thought controls you more than you realize.

What is that object resting on the woman’s head? When psychologists showed this sketch to people in East Africa, nearly all the participants said she was balancing a box or a can on her head. When nomads were shown the sketch they described a family sitting under a tree. Westerners place the family indoors and interpreted the rectangle above the woman’s head as a window through which shrubbery can be seen. Different cultures interpret the picture differently because of different kinds of experiences.

We automatically interpret all of our experiences without realizing it. Are they good experiences, bad ones, what do they mean and so on? We do this without much thought, if any, to what the interpretations mean. For instance, if someone bumps into you, you wonder why. The event of her bumping into you is neutral in itself. It has no meaning. It’s your interpretation of the bumping that gives it meaning, and this meaning shapes your perception of the experience.

You may interpret the “bump” as rude behavior. You may interpret her as being deliberately aggressive, or you may feel you are of such little consequence that you’re deliberately unnoticed and bumped around by others. Or you may feel the sidewalk is poorly designed for the amount of foot traffic forcing people to bump into each other, or perhaps you will take it as an example of your own carelessness. Or you may choose to use the experience as a political example of feminist aggression, or you may interpret the bump as her way of flirting with you. Your interpretation of the experience determines your perception.

Imagine that a group of curious bees land on the outside of a church window. Each bee gazes upon the interior through a different stained glass pane. To one bee, the church’s interior is all red. To another it is all yellow, and so on. The bees cannot experience the inside of the church directly; they can only see it. They can never touch the interior or smell it or interact with it in any way. If bees could talk, they would end up arguing over the color of the interior. Each bee would stick to his version, not capable of understanding that the other bees were looking through different pieces of stained glass. It’s the same with us when we end up arguing with someone about a theory or a belief. Both individuals are looking at the subject through their stained glass interpretation of experience.

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This article is reprinted here with permission. Michael Michalko is the author of Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative Thinking Techniques. His newest book Creative Thinkering: Putting your Imagination to Work has just been released and is now available at most major bookstores and on his site, www.creativethinking.net.

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I recently ran into an inspiring story of a man who goes by Suelo

Posted by Melodie Munro on April 24, 2012 at 2:35pm

"I recently ran into an inspiring story of a man who goes by Suelo. One day, he left all his money in a phone booth and walked away to live like a monk. On his website, he wrote, "I've been living without a cent to my name since the autumn of 2000. I don't use or accept money or conscious barter, and I don't take food stamps or other government dole.

Why? I simply got tired of acknowledging as real this most common world-wide belief called money! I simply got tired of being unreal." -- Rev. Heng Sure

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