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The Perfect Health Diet

“The Perfect Health Diet is more than just a diet — it is a program for perfect health.
Here’s a graphical representation of the diet:

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Visible Color Spectrum

Chromotherapy Fundamentals - The Light
The universe is a constantly changing field of waves. A type of waves that never stop moving entirely in the field are electromagnetic waves.
A wave is characterized by amplitude (height between a crest and a valley) and a frequency (ie how many oscillations occur per unit of time, typically measured in Hertz = complete oscillations per second).
Electromagnetic waves with frequency between 430 and 750 THz (1 tera = 1000 Hz billion oscillations per second) are perceived by our eyes as light into a spectrum of different colors.
The lower frequencies start from deep red to climb gradually to yellow, green, blue, blue and violet to the cut-off frequencies of 750 THz.
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In our apartments often the air’s quality is not the best.
There are some houseplants that can greatly improve the quality of the air we breathe day and night.

Dracena Marginata

The Dracena is a very pretty and useful ornamental air cleaner plant.
The Dracena “Warneckei”, the “Marginata” and the “Massangeana” well absorb poisons such as benzene, formaldehyde and trichlorethylene.
The Dracaena Marginata is widespread and readily available in garden shops and sellers of flowers and plants.
The Dracaena is an easy plant to cultivate at home or office and requires diffuse light but not direct sun, moist environments, but only if necessary and watering soft organic soil with sand. The multiplication is done for layering or cuttings.

Gerbera

The Gerbera is able to absorb and remove many chemical toxins from the air.
The Gerbera plants loves bright, moderately dry and well ventilated positions. They tolerate direct sunlight but the sun of the hottest summer may severely damage the leaves. The soil must be very draining, not bear stagnant water that can quickly lead to the appearance of rot and plant death. For this reason, the watering should be moderate, in any case should wait until the soil to dry completely (in depth) before watering again. During the growth phase and rarely given a good dose very mild fertilizer NPK (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium) balance.
The Gerbera tolerates the winter if kept away from rain, frost and watered very little. The plant reacts stably at temperatures below 13 ° C going into stasis vegetative (dormant) during which he may lose the entire aerial part to produce re-arrival of the first warmth of spring.
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Many scientist have explored the similarities between physics and oriental philosophies.
Fritjof Capra has written an interesting book: The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism.

One of the main ideas proposed by this book is about the so called “Holographic paradigm”.

The holographic paradigm is a theory based on the work of David Bohm and Karl Pribram and extrapolated from two ideas:

• That the universe is in some sense a holographic structure, proposed by David Bohm
• That consciousness is dependent on holographic structure, proposed by Karl Pribram

This paradigm posits that theories using holographic structures may lead to a unified understanding of consciousness and the universe.

One of the main points of this paradigm is about memory. Memory, and so consciousness, is not stored in single pieces of this universe.
Many scientific experiments shows that memory patterns, as in DNA RNA, human and animal mind, chemical properties and reactions, physical laws, are similar to intersections of many wave fronts that permeates the whole.

So what we think about the world, in the sense of real world, is just an illusion. There is not solid thing, 3 dimensional space and time.
There is a whole constituted by infinite waves (or strings if you like) that are playing together, in dynamic series of movements in this ever changing eternal present.

So our body, our mind and our consciousness are reflections, images and holograms of the real world we can not experience directly.

This idea seems crazy and strange, we are living, made of and experiencing an illusory level of reality, but latest experiments in physics and the best candidates as theories of the whole are figuring this scenario.

Some author simplify this idea suggesting that we are living in something similar to Matrix (the result of universal computer), but the real world is a little bit more complicated. Tao and Zen, are suggesting, more wisely, that we are only part of the whole and patterns capable to see and understand themselves in the mirror.
Tao, in particular, says that the whole is the only interesting thing, a cup full of energy in eternal movement. Scientifically: an ocean of interacting waves/strings/branes from which emerges levels and levels of sub realms.
We are living in one of them and we can just imagine how big is the real whole.

Dino Olivieri

Acoustics Binaural Beats

Binaural beats or binaural tones are auditory processing artifacts, or apparent sounds, the perception of which arises in the brain for specific physical stimuli. This effect was discovered in 1839 by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, and earned greater public awareness in the late 20th century based on claims that binaural beats could help induce relaxation, creativity and other desirable mental states.

The brain produces a phenomenon resulting in low-frequency pulsations in the loudness and sound localization of a perceived sound when two tones at slightly different frequencies are presented separately, one to each of a subject’s ears, using stereo headphones. A beating tone will be perceived, as if the two tones mixed naturally, out of the brain. The frequency of the tones must be below about 1,000 to 1,500 hertz for the beating to be heard. The difference between the two frequencies must be small (below about 30 Hz) for the effect to occur; otherwise, the two tones will be heard separately and no beat will be perceived.

Binaural beats are of interest to neurophysiologists investigating the sense of hearing. Binaural beats reportedly influence the brain in more subtle ways through the entrainment of brainwaves and can be used to reduce anxiety and provide other health benefits such as control over pain.

Brain waves

• Gamma waves > 40 Hz
  Higher mental activity, including perception, problem solving, fear, and consciousness
• Beta waves 13–39 Hz
  Active, busy or anxious thinking and active concentration, arousal, cognition
• Alpha waves 7–13 Hz
  Relaxation (while awake), pre-sleep and pre-wake drowsiness
• Theta waves 4–7 Hz
  Dreams, deep meditation, REM sleep
• Delta waves < 4 Hz
  Deep dreamless sleep, loss of body awareness

The precise boundaries between ranges vary among definitions, and there is no universally accepted standard.

The dominant frequency determines your current state.
For example, if in someone’s brain alpha waves are dominating, they are in the alpha state (this happens when one is relaxed but awake). However, also other frequencies will be present, albeit with smaller amplitudes.

The brain entraining is more effective if the entraining frequency is close to the user’s starting dominant frequency. Therefore, it is suggested to start with a frequency near to one’s current dominant frequency (likely to be about 20 Hz or less for a waking person), and then slowly decreasing it towards the desired frequency.

Some people find pure sine waves unpleasant, so a pink noise or another background (e.g. natural sounds such as river noises) can also be mixed with them. In addition to that, as long as the beat is audible, increasing the volume should not necessarily improve the effectiveness, therefore using a low volume is usually suggested.

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_beats
• http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_binaurali

Bodhidarma

This Japanese scroll calligraphy of Bodhidharma reads:

直指人心
見性成佛

(from up to low, left to right)

“Zen points directly to the human mind and heart,
see into your nature and become Buddha”.

It was created by Hakuin Ekaku (1685 to 1768).