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Hub You - Mudras & Hand Symbolism: Hand Mysteries? Part 1
Acetyl l-carnitine is added to dietary supplements to augment the amount of carnitine that the body naturally produces. It is believed that acetyl l carnitine supplements may be necessary. The reason is simply because sometimes the body’s requirements may exceed the amount that the body produces.In order for the body to produce carnitine, it needs the amino acids lysine or methionine and vitamin C (ascorbic acid). So a shortage of one or both amino acids and/or vitamin C will lead to inadequate production of carnitine. Dietary supplements that contain acetyl l-carnitine are insurance against carnitine deficiency.In the human body, carnitine transports long chain fatty acids into the cells, so that they can be used for energy. Several steps are required for this process and dysfunction at any or all of the steps leads to genetic disorders including primary carnitine deficiency, in which the body cannot convert fat into energy. Because carnitine is necessary to convert fat to energy, acetyl l carnitine is commonly added to “fat burners” and other weight loss supplements.Studies have shown that supplements combining acetyl l-carnitine and alpha lipoic acid appear to reverse the damage done to certain cellular structures, known as mitochondria, by the aging process. Mitochondria exist in all of the cells of the body.They are the cellular structures that have been described as “cellular power plants”. These structures churn out energy for the cell by converting other compounds into ATP, which has multiple functions at the cellular level, including energy transfer.Mitochondria also store and release calcium. In nerve cells, the release of calcium back into the cell initiates events that cause the release of neurotransmitters, which transmit signals among different nerve cells in the brain and body. In other words, neurotransmitters tell the muscles and organs what to do.In endocrine cells found in the pituitary, thyroid and adrenal glands, the release of stored calcium triggers the release of different hormones. Many other processes are controlled by the mitochondria and acetyl l carnitine, along with alpha lipoic acid, protects the mitochondria from damage and ma
Weight training is the foundation of your fitness program. A well planed and properly executed program will add lean muscle to your body, thus giving you a more prominent shape as well as increasing your metabolism. In other words you will look better and burn more calories at rest. Adding lean muscle mass is not the only benefit, you will also be strengthening your joints and increasing your bone density. This may prevent the onset of such conditions as osteoporosis and arthritis.A well planed program starts by determining your training split. This is the number of days per week that you will be working out (at least 3 ) and the combination of body parts that will be trained on each day. Keep in mind, each muscle of the body should be worked once per week. There are exceptions to this rule, including the abdominals and the calf muscles. These are comprised of a different muscle fiber type and may be trained more than one time a week. A beginner program may consist of three days of weight training dividing the body as follows;DAY 1 CHEST, SHOULDERS, TRICEPS DAY 2 BACK, BICEPS, FOREARMS DAY 3 LEGS ( QUADS, HAMSTRING, CALVES )*CARDIO AND ABDOMINAL TRAINING TO BE PERFORMED AFTER EACH DAY. THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE, PLEASE NOTE THAT MUSCLES MUST BE TRAINED IN ORDER OF SIZE ( LARGE TO SMALL )The next step is to establish the sets and repetitions for each exercise. Each exercise should be done three times (sets) allowing for one warm up set per body part. While training for mass or thickness , 6-10 repetitions should be used for each working set, 10 being the most you are able to do with proper form. If the primary focus of your training is size reduction,12-20 repetitions should be used. As a general rule the abdominal and calf muscles will respond better to lighter weights and the higher repetition range. keeping a training log will enable you to track your progress and effectively change and increase the intensity of your program.Two important aspects of weight training are form (technique ) and proper breathing. Unlike cardio training, weight training movements should be done slow and deliberately focusing on the muscles being targeted by the exercise.
Before we begin discussing mudras, let us first consider some interesting topics concerning hands. This and the following article will be devoted to hand mysteries, symbolism, esotericism, signs, and beliefs. Although our treatment of these subjects may be inadequate, from the scholarly point of view, the lay person may find them interesting and we especially dedicate this work for their peruse.
The miraculous hands--we usually take them for granted and do not see how invaluable they are to us. We only miss their use should a mishap befall them--just like everything else. In the absence of hands civilizations would not have been built. No progress would have been made in our social, industrial, technological, and spiritual life. Human hands are partly responsible for our evolutionary growth from our past animal, primitive state to our present high-tech era. The hands are a projection of our soul-desire to interact and function on the physical plane, and it took million of years for this desire to manifest in the three-dimensional state. Prior to that, during the involutionary cycle, the creature called man lived in an etheric state and with a form devoid of any bodily appendages as recounted in Blavatsky's "Secret Doctrine."
At least one ancient philosopher acknowledged the worth of the human hands: Aristotle called it the "organ of organs, the instruments of instruments." As one of the Karmaindriya, hands are the active agents of the cerebral system, and by extension, the human soul. It is what Immanuel Kant called "the visible part of the brain." The nature of our thoughts and emotions are reflected in ideodynamic movements of the hands that are normally visible with their gestures but at times goes unnoticed, or is invisible to the naked eye. Proof of this may be found in the occult art of dowsing where the imperceptible movement of the hand as motored by nerve impulses causes a pendulum to sway under direction of an unseen subconscious intelligence--the pendulum merely acting as an amplifier for the conscious aspect of the psyche.
Benjamin Walker in his book, "Body Magic," notes that no other part of the human body is so intimately related to human behavior than the hands. Hand movements are expressive of human thoughts, character, emotions, and attitudes. Graceful, flowing movements reveal a person who is generally poised and tranquil, a person with culture and refinement. In men, when these gestures are too exaggerated, or when they become too artificial, it indicates effeminate tendencies. A person with a dignified, noble character makes hand gestures quite differently from a person who is debased and boorish in nature. Aggressive hands can be seen by their violent and abrupt movements; just as materialistic subjects are known by their heavy, pendulous, impassive hands. A fidgety hand is reflective of a fidgety mind--someone with a nervous disposition and lacking a positive self-image. Such a person knows not how to control his energy. He releases it through unconscious drumming of his fingers and fiddling around with any available object. Limp hands betray the owner's lack of goals, self-confidence, and zeal for life. Individuals who have the habit of hiding their hand
Have you ever wondered why that beautiful and well-kept house at the corner is still up for sale after almost six months? You’ve been there, asked around (no murders there), found the price reasonable, and yet … they have not received an offer to sell. You look around, and you notice nothing.A house, no matter how beautiful or how ideal it is, will definitely not sell if it is not properly advertised. If you are selling your home through an Agent, the Agency will handle most (if not all) of the advertising and marketing needed to sell your home. If you are doing everything by yourself, you have to make sure that no stone is left unturned. This doesn’t mean that you have to spend an entire fortune on advertising alone; you just have to know which advertising methods will bring the maximum media mileage for your property at a cost that is agreeable to you.The easiest and most economical way of advertising your house is to put up a “For Sale” sign in your yard and putting up posters in areas that generate a high volume of foot traffic (supermarkets, post office, etc). However, even if you put several posters in several key places, you will most likely, not reach the right market. Mind you, there is a chance that you will, but it will be very small.Putting up an on-line ad is another fast, easy and fairly economical way of marketing your home. For a small amount, your home and some photos can be uploaded onto the World Wide Web for a specific amount of time for everyone to see. Unfortunately, since it is available on the net, you are most likely to attract a wide range of people. It may take time before you can sift through all the inquiries your ad has generated.Placing an advertisement in a newspaper or a magazine that specifically dedicated to homes may be old fashioned, but it still is still one of the most effective ways of marketing your home. You have the option of putting a photo and you can lure buyers in by writing an interesting description about your home its features and amenities.You are not limited to just one form of advertising method. You can use just one kind, or all three. It really depends on you and your budget. In addition to the marketing effor
At least one ancient philosopher acknowledged the worth of the human hands: Aristotle called it the "organ of organs, the instruments of instruments." As one of the Karmaindriya, hands are the active agents of the cerebral system, and by extension, the human soul. It is what Immanuel Kant called "the visible part of the brain." The nature of our thoughts and emotions are reflected in ideodynamic movements of the hands that are normally visible with their gestures but at times goes unnoticed, or is invisible to the naked eye. Proof of this may be found in the occult art of dowsing where the imperceptible movement of the hand as motored by nerve impulses causes a pendulum to sway under direction of an unseen subconscious intelligence--the pendulum merely acting as an amplifier for the conscious aspect of the psyche.
Benjamin Walker in his book, "Body Magic," notes that no other part of the human body is so intimately related to human behavior than the hands. Hand movements are expressive of human thoughts, character, emotions, and attitudes. Graceful, flowing movements reveal a person who is generally poised and tranquil, a person with culture and refinement. In men, when these gestures are too exaggerated, or when they become too artificial, it indicates effeminate tendencies. A person with a dignified, noble character makes hand gestures quite differently from a person who is debased and boorish in nature. Aggressive hands can be seen by their violent and abrupt movements; just as materialistic subjects are known by their heavy, pendulous, impassive hands. A fidgety hand is reflective of a fidgety mind--someone with a nervous disposition and lacking a positive self-image. Such a person knows not how to control his energy. He releases it through unconscious drumming of his fingers and fiddling around with any available object. Limp hands betray the owner's lack of goals, self-confidence, and zeal for life. Individuals who have the habit of hiding their han
When Paypal's official Web site no longer ranked #1 in Google on a search for "paypal," it was obvious that Google had become more aggressive in penalizing sites with "unnatural" backlink anchor text. Although the high-profile Paypal example has since been rectified, thousands of webmasters are suffering the consequences of not ranking for even their official company name, let alone their top keywords. It is important for search engine optimizers to understand both how anchor text penalties are being applied and how LSI ensures that anchor text variance will not dilute a link popularity building campaign.Anchor Text PenaltiesIn the past year, webmasters have found that the aggressive link popularity building tactics that work well in search engines such as Yahoo! do not fare well in Google. Google has implemented several features to filter out sites that appear to have an unnatural backlink structure; one of these features seems to be specifically penalizing sites with unnatural backlink anchor text.It has always been an SEO best practice to use descriptive anchor text in both external and internal links. But search engine optimizers have often focused on a single keyword phrase when choosing anchor text, especially if their topic has one keyword that receives vastly more traffic than any secondary keywords. Since good links are hard to come by, they do not want to "waste" any of those backlinks with anchor text that does not contain their main keyword.The drawback to this approach is that it can be interpreted as unnatural by a search engine. A site with organic, passively-obtained backlinks will have a wide variety of backlink anchor text variations such as: "official site title," "keyword," "keyword synonym," "www.thesite.com" and even "click here." If the vast majority of a site's backlink anchor text is simply "keyword," it is obvious to an algorithm that the link popularity was not obtained organically.Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) BasicsLet's now touch upon the myth I mentioned before, that if a backlink's anchor text does not contain your Web site's main keyword, its power is wasted. The concept
At least one ancient philosopher acknowledged the worth of the human hands: Aristotle called it the "organ of organs, the instruments of instruments." As one of the Karmaindriya, hands are the active agents of the cerebral system, and by extension, the human soul. It is what Immanuel Kant called "the visible part of the brain." The nature of our thoughts and emotions are reflected in ideodynamic movements of the hands that are normally visible with their gestures but at times goes unnoticed, or is invisible to the naked eye. Proof of this may be found in the occult art of dowsing where the imperceptible movement of the hand as motored by nerve impulses causes a pendulum to sway under direction of an unseen subconscious intelligence--the pendulum merely acting as an amplifier for the conscious aspect of the psyche.
Benjamin Walker in his book, "Body Magic," notes that no other part of the human body is so intimately related to human behavior than the hands. Hand movements are expressive of human thoughts, character, emotions, and attitudes. Graceful, flowing movements reveal a person who is generally poised and tranquil, a person with culture and refinement. In men, when these gestures are too exaggerated, or when they become too artificial, it indicates effeminate tendencies. A person with a dignified, noble character makes hand gestures quite differently from a person who is debased and boorish in nature. Aggressive hands can be seen by their violent and abrupt movements; just as materialistic subjects are known by their heavy, pendulous, impassive hands. A fidgety hand is reflective of a fidgety mind--someone with a nervous disposition and lacking a positive self-image. Such a person knows not how to control his energy. He releases it through unconscious drumming of his fingers and fiddling around with any available object. Limp hands betray the owner's lack of goals, self-confidence, and zeal for life. Individuals who have the habit of hiding their han
Charity auctions have been in existence for a long time now. The advent and growth of the Internet has opened a new avenue for conducting charity auctions. There are literally hundreds of online resources, which exclusively cater to the needs of charity auctions. Donors who purchase items at charity auctions usually stand to benefit for the reason that they can claim charitable contribution deductions for the excess of the price paid by them for an item, over its market value. During charity auctions, people who attend them are given a list of items along with their market value. These items are available to be bid on. If a donor pays an amount which is more than the published value, the difference between the amount paid and the published value is termed as the charitable contribution deduction.Charity auctions are conducted to raise money for charity, as their name suggests. Though service is the main objective for charity auctions, lot of business acumen is required on the part of the companies or organizations that conduct these auctions in the first place. They need to auction items that will fetch a good price and enable them to raise money for a particular charitable cause. Charitable auctions are held for raising money for treatment of physical ailments, to benefit educational institutions, for disaster relief, or for specific people or causes, to name a few reasons. Non-profit organizations conduct these charity auctions to raise funds for specific causes. Charity auctions have been instrumental in helping millions of people around the world.One can get extensive information on the procedures that must be followed to conduct charity auctions through dedicated online resources. One can get tax benefits by purchasing items in charity auctions in most of the cases. You can check with the organizers for more details.
Benjamin Walker in his book, "Body Magic," notes that no other part of the human body is so intimately related to human behavior than the hands. Hand movements are expressive of human thoughts, character, emotions, and attitudes. Graceful, flowing movements reveal a person who is generally poised and tranquil, a person with culture and refinement. In men, when these gestures are too exaggerated, or when they become too artificial, it indicates effeminate tendencies. A person with a dignified, noble character makes hand gestures quite differently from a person who is debased and boorish in nature. Aggressive hands can be seen by their violent and abrupt movements; just as materialistic subjects are known by their heavy, pendulous, impassive hands. A fidgety hand is reflective of a fidgety mind--someone with a nervous disposition and lacking a positive self-image. Such a person knows not how to control his energy. He releases it through unconscious drumming of his fingers and fiddling around with any available object. Limp hands betray the owner's lack of goals, self-confidence, and zeal for life. Individuals who have the habit of hiding their han
In the Industrialized nations we understand the importance of efficiency of our government, civilization, society and the systems that run them are paramount to us. That is a given. We understand the impact of computers and IT systems and the value of eGovernment in the United States and other top tier modern nations understand as well.But what about developing nations? Think of the difficulties in implementation. There are endless Implementation barriers, not to mention costs. Yes, Costs, as in who is paying for the set-up, equipment, maintenance and labor. Obviously, most of these nations do not have the Technological Savvy to run the system, even after it is built. IT Consultants and issues with lack of labor are critical challenges.What about the power supplies to run things. Most third world nations do not have reliable power Infrastructure. Disruption of power supply is a huge hurdle. There are often issues with Flooding, Weather, Civil Unrest and of course any government computer system will be amongst the Guerillas First Targets.Even after the system is built and these problems are potentially solved, the phase in period takes time and if a piece of equipment dies, where will you get parts? Off the Shelf Turn-key equipment is not always possible to believe in such a silver bullet exists is a misnomers, as there is always the reality check on feature creep, which will involve both software code and equipment.Eventually a good system will gain acceptance and yet, there is still the Digital Divide and until the $100 Computers hit the scene still the citizens will not be able to have access. Once that changes and citizens can gain access, then you must deal with Security Threats and hacker issues, which even the modern nations have problems with.Developing E-Government for Developing Nations is a task often misunderstood and there is no standardized solution and a cookie cutter approach may not always work. Lots to consider, are you up for the challenge? I certainly hope this article is of interest and that is has propelled thought. The goal is simple; to help you in your quest to be the best in 2007. I thank you for reading my many articles on diverse subjects
Man not only differ from animals by possessing reason, he also differ from them by possessing hands that are able to fabricate things, to convey his intentions, to communicate his thoughts and feelings. Anthropoids may possess hands, but they lack a superior reason to take full advantage of them. Dolphins and other cetaceans may be equal or superior to man in spiritual unfoldment--according to modern New-Age thought--yet, without hands they do not have the ability to manifest certain forms of creativity. Perhaps they do not need to, it is not for us to debate over this here. We know that every life-form has its own uniqueness; and Man, in his own distinction can rightly be called "the builder" endowed as he is with the tools--his hands, to manifest his creative will. Herein lies the blessing or curse of man. With his hands he may build heaven on earth, or he may use it destructively to manifest chaos and anarchy--a hellish pandemonium that stalls evolutionary progress.
Understanding this religiously, man "the builder" constructs magnificent temples to worship his gods or representatives of his embodied ideals. That the hands may sometimes symbolize excessive mundane activity and focus to the detriment of spiritual unfoldment can be understood from the esoteric saying that the true spiritual aspirant ought to spend his time and forces building a temple "not made with hands." This in fact is what Freemasonry, one of the "esoteric brotherhoods" is all about. Though the body is regarded as a temple of the soul not made by mortal hands, a higher house of God, the Holy of Holies, the Sanctum Sanctorum, is meant in this spiritual precept. The brothers of this august fraternity through rites, rituals and ceremonial initiations are taught how to utilize carpenter's tools, esoterically understood, to build this fabulous celestial House of God in a spiritual dimension--the true "Temple of the Spirit," or to be more precise, the Causal body which relates to the many mystical symbols representing the Higher Self such as the Ark of the Covenant, the candelabra, the Holy Grail, the Philosopher's Stone, etc.
The Causal body is the lotus that forms the seat of every enlightened being as portrayed by Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in Buddhist iconography. Though the Causal body is not built by mortal hands, personal effort in its fa
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