Positive thinking

The world is made of thoughts. From the very first moment we come to this world to the last breath we are full of thoughts. Thoughts forge and define us. They're our real essence. With the right positive thinking, we can change our lives for the better. The power of thoughts is enormous. Many are not aware of false thoughts. In fact, in most cases, people confuse real ideas with those who are only echoes of the instinctive reactions caused by the environment in which they live. Everyone's future can be changed if the ideas are directed in a thorough way having full control of them. A positive thought can create happiness. The art of knowing how to think correctly creates awareness and tremendous personal power. This way of thinking allows you to see the world with a great sense of purity and compassion and enables you to manage the life you want to live. The ability to develop the power of positive thinking was introduced by the Tibetan culture Bon which established...

Most people are always searching for happiness as if it was something very distant from us. We ignore the beauty of the world that surrounds us because we are no longer able to observe it. Our minds are engaged in chasing something that sometimes is not a real goal but only the illusion of it: train to go to work, conferences, meet clients, pursue a career. The inability to observe the beauty that surrounds us is strengthened by the fact that our minds are full of thoughts, noises. A mind full of sounds will never appreciate the charms of life. Very often we are in a temporal trap forgetting to live in the present. We remember the sufferings of the past by feeding further pain and sinking into anxieties caused by the uncertainties of the future by trapping us further into a real mental prison. This mental prison creates a feeling of emptiness. Then we begin to wait for something better to arrive in our life that is perhaps better than the situation in which we think we are. In other ...

What happened to  Great Britain?  We are in 2018, in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, considered the fifth world economy and we have poor people who use food banks to survive. It is absurd. The food banks should not exist. There are more than 100 billionaires in this country. In 2017, the market for the sales of yachts has increased by 14% by the estimates of Berthon sales division. In London, in in the same year, an apartment was sold for about £90 million in a charming area of the city between Hyde Park and Harrods not far from the Bulgari Hotel. This type of property is provided with SPA, valet parking and landscaped garden. These are very few examples of the richness of a country that still houses one of the most important financial centres in the world and where models of great hospitality and organisation were given with the recent Olympics of 2012. Is this the contradiction of modern capitalism? In 2009/10, 41,000 were the people to use the service pr...

After Planck formulated his theory on quantum physics, numerous experiments have successfully verified these notions. The only question that scientists cannot answer is the connection between the quantum and the real world. In case these answers were given very soon we would have at our disposal technology that at this time is considered purely futuristic. In 2004, some scientists announced the first report regarding open-destination teleportation that runs quantum information at the same time in different locations. It's like sending a fax, and the original text is destroyed during transmission. Other experiments have shown incredible things so far as the fact that quantum particles reach two destinations at the same time (bilocation). All these investigations had a common question, and that is the medium through which these particles could travel. Conventional physics says that in reality, this medium does not exist. Here, therefore, arises the most considerable doubt in the ...

Over 70 years of research into what is called new physics are revealing a meaningful conclusion. Everything in the universe is connected. The historical difference between the present and the past of this concept lies in the fact that previously we had merely been told that the connection existed. The notion of "sensitive dependence on initial conditions" or butterfly effect suggests that what we do 'here' it affects 'there'. These concepts are part of the chaos theory. In other words, in a system, small variations in initial conditions can produce significant differences in long-term behaviour. Some research has shown that these connections exist because of us. In other words, each of us can touch the force that drives the entire Universe every day. However it is necessary to know that the power to do it is dormant, and it must be activated. How? We must change the way we think. We must believe that in reality we are connected and therefore united to ...

There is a place where all things have started; this is a place of pure energy. In 1944, Max Planck, the originator of quantum theory, stated that this "matrix" is the place where the stars, life, and all that exist in this world are born. In more recent years several scientific types of research have revealed that Planck's "matrix" is real. This "matrix" is the question mark that no longer appears to be a mystery, that link between reality and our imagination in which our beliefs play a fundamental role in reflecting our world. The strength of this matrix can be unleashed in our lives only on one condition: we must understand the code in which it speaks, analyse it and finally inebriate our lives with this overwhelming force. Our imagination could be a fundamental part of the reality that we create around us every day. Our limits are our beliefs, and with some training,  we can change our lives for the better. “If you do not change direct...

Koldo Casla, Newcastle University   Record numbers of families now rent privately in Britain. Twice as many middle-aged people rent their homes compared to 2008, and it has been estimated that about one-third of millennials will rent for their whole life. Renting the house you live in has its advantages as it gives you greater freedom of movement and saves you other costs: insurance, service charge, deposit, mortgage interest, to name a few. Yet, for most people, renting privately is not really a matter of choice. It is the result of stagnant wages and the fact that house values rise much faster than the economy . Britain is becoming a country of (reluctant) tenants. But the law does not keep the balance fairly between landlord’s interests and tenant’s rights. English law on rental evictions does not protect households’ security of tenure. A recent report by campaign groups Just Fair and Generation Rent shows that a system that allows landlords to evict tenants...

Camille Lassale, UCL Being depressed can negatively affect your appetite and what you eat, but can bad eating habits bring your mood down? Our latest study, a systematic review of the best available evidence , found a clear link between the quality of a person’s diet and their risk of depression. And it goes beyond the effect of diet on body size or other aspects of health that can affect mental health. We took extra care in including only studies that took age, sex, income, body size, general health, smoking and physical activity into account in their analyses. That way we could be sure that the associations between diet and the risk of depression are independent of these factors. We aggregated the results of several studies and found a clear pattern that following a healthier, plant-rich, anti-inflammatory diet can help prevent depression. Of the 41 studies in our review, four specifically looked at the link between a traditional Mediterranean diet and depression over t...

Giuseppe Loporchio Today's technology seems to have revolutionized the way we do things. Many believe that it has improved our lives. If we think of the progress in the studies of artificial intelligence, we can see that huge steps forward have been made. In our modern days, everything or almost everything is done using the Internet. We buy train, airplane or music concert tickets, holidays, food, clothing, electronics, etc. We do everything over the Internet, and in most cases, there is no need for sophisticated knowledge.  What are the implications of this technological progress? The events related to Cambridge Analytica, the British analytics data firm which is believed to have been using tools capable of gathering information of unsuspecting users to influence their minds, are a revelation. Technology can be used to our advantage. But what are the limitations of these benefits? The limits begin where the knowledge of these technologies can change nations electoral trend...

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o'er her face; Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear their dwelling-place. And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent! Lord Byron

James Wallace, Cardiff University   For many people experiencing mental health difficulties, fear of the stigma associated with conditions can affect how they relate to others. This fear is not just limited to social interactions, it can affect all aspects of life, including the workplace. At work, the potential reactions of both colleagues and employers may make those struggling with a mental health condition feel unable to be open about their experiences. This is not a small problem, it is claimed that 95% of employees calling in sick with stress give a different reason for needing time off. There have been some moves to tackle the problem in the UK, however. Mental health discrimination initiative Time to Change has formulated an employer pledge , through which companies can demonstrate their “commitment to change how we think and act about mental health in the workplace, and make sure that employees who are facing these problems feel supported”. At the time of...

Ian Hamilton, University of York and Suzi Gage, University of Liverpool British home secretary, Sajid Javid, linked middle-class cocaine use with the recent increase in violent crime , especially among young people. During his speech at the Conservative party conference, Javid announced that the Home Office will conduct a full review of drug buyers and sellers, including professionals such as City workers. The review is welcome, but it exposes one of many problems with making bold statements such as Javid’s: that we currently know surprisingly little about the social class of people who use drugs. And although there are links between drugs and crime, there is little evidence to support a link between middle-class drug use and the rise in violent crime, such as that involving knives. While victims and perpetrators of knife crime may well have been using or dealing drugs, some reports suggest that outbreaks of violence are often triggered by social media disputes and p...

Chinese intelligence has used tiny chips, mounted in hardware equipment sold in the United States, to spy on American government and Corporations. The complaint comes from an investigation published by the agency Bloomberg, and coincides with the speech held a few days ago by Vice President Pence to accuse Beijing of interference in the U.S. political system.   At the heart of the operation is Supermicro founded by Taiwanese engineer Charles Liang in San José. This company produced the motherboard servers, the basic hardware components for dozens of customers, including Elemental Technologies, which in turn provided the technology used by Amazon Prime to compress the video of its streaming service. During a test of the products conducted in Canada, the technicians discovered microchips as large as the tip of a pencil, inserted inside the MOTHERBOARDS. As they were not part of the original design of the hardware, they alerted the American authorities. Hence the investigation...

Jacqueline Best, University of Ottawa Ten years ago, on Oct. 3, 2008, United States President George W. Bush signed the “Troubled Assets Relief Program” (TARP) that promised $700 billion to support banks and companies that were hit by the global financial crisis. As U.S. Congress granted its support for the historic bill, it seemed like liberal democracy was rising to the challenge posed by the global financial crisis. Yes, the bill would be very expensive for American taxpayers, but the cost seemed justified in the face of the potential collapse of the global economy. A decade later, the financial crisis is a distant memory, the TARP funds have been repaid with interest and stock markets are reaching new heights. Yet switch from the business pages to the front page and a much darker picture appears: a particularly virulent strand of right-wing populism is popping up around the world, while Doug Ford and Donald Trump are wreaking havoc with our democratic institutions....

Simon McCarthy-Jones, Trinity College Dublin They may take our lives, but they will never take our freedom! This often parodied quote from Mel Gibson’s William Wallace in the film Braveheart is something of a contradiction, and yet its sentiment is easy to understand. Nothing gets our hackles up more than being told that we have no choice over something. The powerful urge we get to regain a lost or threatened freedom, even at great cost, is formally called “ reactance ”. I call it the “Braveheart effect”. This effect is likely to kick in if we are told we must do something or that we can’t do something. It can be triggered by being told our personality or gender means we will necessarily act in a certain way. Anything that makes us feel our freedom is threatened awakens powerful forces. Anger wells up. We mentally rail against whatever or whoever threatens our freedom. What we have been pushed into tastes bitter. What...