The world is now swaying to the whirlwinds of economic slow down and global recession. Pay cuts, lay off, forced unpayed leaves, are high. Bankers, investors, real estate and car manufacturers seem to have hit most by the economic slow down.
How ever there are other things which are doing good by this global phenomena. Doing good to earth as well.
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A possibility of decrease in pollution by reduction in vehicle sales
A chance for balancing of exact pay for exact work
A chance for complete balacing
Those who have statistics of things related to this, please send in
Thanks
Padmakumar K
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
How to Quit Smoking
It is quite easy to quit smoking. "I know because I've done it thousands of times," Mark Twain had said once. Well, it is not so hard to give up smoking for a short while. But you return to that soon. It does not really make any sense if you are not able to quit smoking for life and that is not easy. Nevertheless, there are ways to find success if we understand the relationship between our body and the mind.
1. Understanding Mind. Mind is, in fact, a strange thing. Science explains the minute details of the brain and its functions. When it comes to human mind, there aren’t many definitions. People usually connect the complexities of mind with spiritualism. Let us not go much into the features of the mind. But just know one thing – any action we perform is the follow-up of our imagination.
2. Action done in the mind. What we do is what we think. Any voluntary action we conduct is performed first in the mind. It is a psychological mechanism whereby the brain plans an action. Our body reacts in response to a stimulus. When we enjoy something repeatedly over a period of time, our mind retains the imprint of the stimulus. From then onwards the actual presence of the stimulus is no more compulsory. Its thought is the stimulus to make us react.
3. Addiction to smoking. For a habitual smoker the process of smoking begins from the thought of a cigarette. It pops up in the mind from nowhere. We then imagine the act of smoking and its joy. Then we make the decision to smoke. We light a cigarette then or later. This is the usual ‘stimulus-imagination-decision –action’ chain of addiction.
4. Why is it hard to quit? Once we decide to smoke it’s really hard to roll back. If we think of putting it off we feel depressed as if we are throwing away the last chance in life to enjoy. There are hundreds of reasons that usually play at the back of our mind to go for it. ‘I had a stressful day and now I need to relax’, ‘I am a little worried, let me have it’, ‘smoking is manly’, ‘giving up does not offer me an endless life, anyway’ and ‘I’m a free soul and I have the right to enjoy myself’ are some of them. We somehow give in to any of these reasons. If we decide to put away the cigarette in hand, the mind offers many excuses like ‘let me have it one more time and never after that’, etc. It persuades you in many ways and at odd hours.
5. How to go about it? The ‘stimulus-imagination-decision –action’ chain occurs so fast that we hardly notice it coming. It comes up like a ball launched at us. Unless we are prepared we won’t even identify it. To be prepared, tell yourself repeatedly that you will not smoke. Do it a number of times when you’re free. But remember, you are not going to do this when you are about to smoke. It will be painful and may bring no result. Do it early. Keep in mind that there is such a thing like the chain of stimulus-imagination-decision –action. Be watchful and caution the mind against the surge of that chain. Catch when it comes. Say a loud ‘NO’ in the mind as you reach the point of imagining the cigarette or the act of smoking. Check yourself from deciding to go for it. It won’t be that hard. You will find that the urge to smoke recedes.
Be careful, it may rise again. Put it down with the same big, hard ‘NO’. Do the same as many times as it occurs. After some time you will find that you are not much tempted to smoke.
6. Stick with the decision. You will find success initially. But that is not enough. Your aim is to keep away from it for the rest of your life. So it is very important that you stick to your decision. The thought of the cigarette may occur any time later - when you are reading, writing, eating or engaged in any other task. It may also come when we see someone else smoke, or when an old buddy meets or when we watch someone smoking in a film, etc. Even the smell of tobacco may incite you. All the same, be watchful as ever.
7. Life as a non-smoker. The most important thing you should always remember is that you are not supposed to stop yourself on your way to the shop to buy cigarettes or just before you light it. You are supposed to prepare your mind to say ‘no’ at the point of imagining. So be watchful of the ‘stimulus-imagination-decision-action’ chain. After you stay away from cigarette for a long time you won’t have the temptation anymore. You won’t smoke again unless you deliberately go for it.
By following this you can obviously transform yourself into a non-smoker. The method can be tried to fend you against other types of addiction too.
1. Understanding Mind. Mind is, in fact, a strange thing. Science explains the minute details of the brain and its functions. When it comes to human mind, there aren’t many definitions. People usually connect the complexities of mind with spiritualism. Let us not go much into the features of the mind. But just know one thing – any action we perform is the follow-up of our imagination.
2. Action done in the mind. What we do is what we think. Any voluntary action we conduct is performed first in the mind. It is a psychological mechanism whereby the brain plans an action. Our body reacts in response to a stimulus. When we enjoy something repeatedly over a period of time, our mind retains the imprint of the stimulus. From then onwards the actual presence of the stimulus is no more compulsory. Its thought is the stimulus to make us react.
3. Addiction to smoking. For a habitual smoker the process of smoking begins from the thought of a cigarette. It pops up in the mind from nowhere. We then imagine the act of smoking and its joy. Then we make the decision to smoke. We light a cigarette then or later. This is the usual ‘stimulus-imagination-decision –action’ chain of addiction.
4. Why is it hard to quit? Once we decide to smoke it’s really hard to roll back. If we think of putting it off we feel depressed as if we are throwing away the last chance in life to enjoy. There are hundreds of reasons that usually play at the back of our mind to go for it. ‘I had a stressful day and now I need to relax’, ‘I am a little worried, let me have it’, ‘smoking is manly’, ‘giving up does not offer me an endless life, anyway’ and ‘I’m a free soul and I have the right to enjoy myself’ are some of them. We somehow give in to any of these reasons. If we decide to put away the cigarette in hand, the mind offers many excuses like ‘let me have it one more time and never after that’, etc. It persuades you in many ways and at odd hours.
5. How to go about it? The ‘stimulus-imagination-decision –action’ chain occurs so fast that we hardly notice it coming. It comes up like a ball launched at us. Unless we are prepared we won’t even identify it. To be prepared, tell yourself repeatedly that you will not smoke. Do it a number of times when you’re free. But remember, you are not going to do this when you are about to smoke. It will be painful and may bring no result. Do it early. Keep in mind that there is such a thing like the chain of stimulus-imagination-decision –action. Be watchful and caution the mind against the surge of that chain. Catch when it comes. Say a loud ‘NO’ in the mind as you reach the point of imagining the cigarette or the act of smoking. Check yourself from deciding to go for it. It won’t be that hard. You will find that the urge to smoke recedes.
Be careful, it may rise again. Put it down with the same big, hard ‘NO’. Do the same as many times as it occurs. After some time you will find that you are not much tempted to smoke.
6. Stick with the decision. You will find success initially. But that is not enough. Your aim is to keep away from it for the rest of your life. So it is very important that you stick to your decision. The thought of the cigarette may occur any time later - when you are reading, writing, eating or engaged in any other task. It may also come when we see someone else smoke, or when an old buddy meets or when we watch someone smoking in a film, etc. Even the smell of tobacco may incite you. All the same, be watchful as ever.
7. Life as a non-smoker. The most important thing you should always remember is that you are not supposed to stop yourself on your way to the shop to buy cigarettes or just before you light it. You are supposed to prepare your mind to say ‘no’ at the point of imagining. So be watchful of the ‘stimulus-imagination-decision-action’ chain. After you stay away from cigarette for a long time you won’t have the temptation anymore. You won’t smoke again unless you deliberately go for it.
By following this you can obviously transform yourself into a non-smoker. The method can be tried to fend you against other types of addiction too.
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