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Once upon a time there were three monkeys, one was simple, one of average intelligence, and one was very intelligent.  The simple one was content just living off the land, in complete harmony with nature. Others laughed at him for his lack of drive, lack of intelligence, and lack of success.

The monkey with average intelligence created spears and swords, and was able to get his group to join in war with him. They killed other rivals and gained many spoils, more land, more women, and more honor. They were called knights and he was made king.

The third monkey from another group was the most intelligent monkey ever.  He created great technologies, factories to grow more food, extract more coal and oil from the ground, and weapons of mass destruction. With his military he dominated the world, killing any and all in his path. The sky was black with the soot from the factories, millions of acres of forest were destroyed to create farms for cattle and corn.  He was adored as a God, and his family were royalty known all over the world.

But he always faced new rivals, new challenges.  And he was ambitious and motivated for greater successes in life. Never satisfied with what he had, he always wanted more. One day he unleashed a fury of weapons at his enemies and set off a chain of events that ended up destroying life on the entire planet.

My question: how smart really, was this intelligent monkey?  Rather stupid if you ask me.

How intelligent do you consider yourself? Do you have any bad habits? Do you seem to undermine yourself? Does your self talk often seem too critical?

Plenty of doctors are drug addicts, some even to heroine. Plenty of Ivy Leage educated wealthy wall street bankers are criminals and the ones who get caught sometimes go to jail.

Even more ironic, those same Harvard and Yale educated Wall Street bankers are the same ones who blew up the economy, causing untold suffering to millions of people all over the world. How intelligent was that?

And the best doctors of our times, the brightest minds, still pump cancer patients full of toxic chemotherapy with dismal success rates. While other therapies are known to be less toxic, more healthy and more successful for those suffering from cancer. How intelligent is that?

“Real intelligence does not hurt itself…” says bestselling author Guy Finley. Given that standard I would say we are all lacking the most essential type of intelligence.

People suffer from so much stress and negative emotional duress and they do not have to. Most of it could be released simply by waking up to the facts. By using the true intelligence we all have inside us. Intelligence is a feature designed to help us solve our problems.  To enable us to feel good and happy. Yet all too often it brings with it more unhappiness.  Real intelligence is that which is applied to the fundamental problem we all have – the best way to achieve lasting happiness.  And its not with bigger factories, bigger profits, or more drugs.

One day out of the rubble and ruins, the monkeys began talking about a simple monkey high up on the mountain who escaped the wrath of destruction from the intelligent monkey. “Maybe he is a smarter monkey” “Maybe he is a God” they wondered. So a young motivated monkey journeyed up to find this simple monkey living in the mountains.

When he found him, living in little shack in a veritable Garden of Eden, he asked to learn how he had know the way. (the way around the destruction inherent in intelligence and blind ambition). The simple monkey told him to get as much gold as he could in payment, and he would teach him then the way.  So off he went to beg, borrow and steal as much gold as he could.

With pride he handed over the gold. The simple monkey took the gold in his hand, and laughing, threw it off a cliff overlooking the dense forest shouting “What need do I have for your gold? The whole world is golden to me!”

Existence itself is golden. You can read these words but you probably do not know what they truly mean.  But ’seek and you shall find…’ – I ask you – what does it profit a man to be so intelligent and successful if he is, in the bottom of his heart, still unhappy? Still seeking more to quench this unquenchable hunger?

Getting in touch with how you feel is the first step to discover whats really bothering you. So welcome the stress, anxiety and depression – its here to help you wake up!

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As the CEO of Pure Life, I get people calling in every day with serious emotional and physical issues. Of course almost always they are related. There is, I find, an emotional component to everything in your life, including your health and disease states.

What people most seek is to change things. They want to feel better, to have less stress, anxiety and depression. To lose weight, to make more money, to have better relationships with their family. The list goes on and on for most of us. Yet quite often things do not change, or they are too slow to change, or worse – they can take a turn for the worse. Other than taking healthy products like Gabatrol to make ourselves feel better, are there other positive things we can do? Of course there is, exercise, a good diet and proper sleep can make us cope better too, but these things don’t seem to be the solutions we are searching for.

Fortunately there is one special thing that all the great teachers of the ages have strived to teach. This one special thing is the key to unlock everything. This one special thing is the art of doing nothing. This is not a couch potato, lethargic, lazy, disconnected, apathetic nothing more of us are familiar to when we think of doing nothing. This brings us away from life, and its a way we trick ourselves into thinking we have escaped our problems. But it does not help in the long run. Neither do drugs, alcohol or any other addiction.

This form is an active, focused form of doing nothing. Its one of the key things I tell all my personal clients is to practice. Our minds have us convinced we need to do something to solve our problems. While this is helpful, at times no matter what we do things might not change. So the reason you would want to practice doing nothing is that it can create inside you a feeling of calm, of balance and peace. Resisting the urge to do something, we (with practice) gradually see that we can have the inner peace we desire simply by choosing it.

In fact it is always there, we just need to see it. The practice of doing nothing (others call it awareness, focus, meditation, etc) strengthens this insight and then allows us to go forward into the world of ‘everything’ from a different perspective. It empowers us. You have already experienced it in some form or another, as often doing one thing – being focused and in the moment while playing a sport, or gardening, fishing, watching a sunset, etc – gets us in the flow of the game of life and out of our minds.

But the most direct form of doing nothing is to just do what is needed to live: breathing. This is why breath work is so important, and why so many forms of meditation focus on the breath.

Those who devote themselves to the power of doing nothing, soon realize it is in fact the best way to change everything! It can cause a profound shift in your entire life. It sounds so simple, yet try it yourself and see just how (at first) hard it can be to quiet your mind. You too will one day see that this ‘nothing’ is in fact the source of ‘everything’!

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How is it that people who ‘have it all’ can still have such avoidable problems? Once again, son of famed actor Martin Sheen, Charlie Sheen is in rehab due to drug and alcohol problems.

“Sheen did not show up for work on Monday and his bail — which requires that he not consume drugs or alcohol — could be revoked in Colorado, where he is awaiting trial on domestic-violence charges. The actor’s spokesman, Stan Rosenfield, described his client’s decision to enter rehab as a “preventative measure” and added he would “take some time off” from the series.”

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-sheen24-2010feb24,0,16209.story

Anyone abusing drugs or alcohol is doing so to feel good. Which means, in spite of being good looking and rich, Charlie Sheen is still unhappy. He suffers from some level of what makes people unhappy – feelings of stress, anxiety & depression.

Even people who have it all can be unhappy

He is not alone. Everyone reaches for some form of comfort when we feel down or bad. Junk food, cigarettes, being a couch potatoe – you name it, we all have negative habits that threaten our lives.

The only way to fight this is #1) become aware of it before you reach out for something bad like drugs.
#2) Make a positive choice that can make you feel good. Exercise is one, as its been proven to make people feel better.

Another positive choice for unhappiness is Gabatrol. Fast acting and safe, Gabatrol can spin you off in a positive direction so that you can take back control of your life and get over what is weighing you down!

Someone should give Charlie Sheen a sample before he goes to rehab, maybe it could help him!

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You are what you eat. Another recent study shows that eating junk food can increase the chances you will be depressed. Of course it can also lead to increased stress & anxiety too. The reason is obvious, if you do not feed your body the nutrients it needs to optimize brain function, then you will compromise your brain. And you are your brain! Everything you do depends on optimal brain function.
Our finding shows a strong association between diet and depressive symptoms after controlling for a large range of socio-demographic factors, and for health behaviors such as smoking, physical activity, and health status,” the study’s author, Tasnime Akbaraly, tells MSNBC.

“The effect of diet on depressive symptoms didn’t go down after we adjusted for other indicators of a healthy lifestyle, such as smoking, physical activity, and body mass,” adds Akbaraly, an epidemiologist with the National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Montpellier, France. “What we found isn’t a spurious association.”

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/health/2010/01/15/2010-01-15_eating_junk_food_can_lead_to_depression_new_study_finds.html#ixzz0dpFhvPD3

Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/health/2010/01/15/2010-01-15_eating_junk_food_can_lead_to_depression_new_study_finds.html

Yet another reason you would want to avoid anti-depressants, they have been linked to lowered lactation in mothers. This limits the amount of nutrition a baby receives and can affect their health and growth.

“The breasts are serotonin-regulated glands, meaning the breasts’ ability to secrete milk at the right time is closely related to the body’s production and regulation of the hormone serotonin,” said Nelson Horseman, PhD, of the University of Cincinnati and co-author of the study. “Common antidepressant drugs like fluoxetine, sertraline and paroxetine are known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) drugs and while they can affect mood, emotion and sleep they may also impact serotonin regulation in the breast, placing new mothers at greater risk of a delay in the establishment of a full milk supply.”

If you suffer from mood issues, try something far safer like Gabatrol. Your child will thank you!
source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-01/tes-cad012510.php

Reducing stress can help you lose weight!

Every day we are seeing new studies come out on how reducing stress can improve health and prevent disease. Today another study shows that doing Yoga, which reduces stress, can lower IL-6, a chemical in the body that leads to inflammation. And inflammation is a major factor in weight gain, but also other conditions like cancer and heart disease.

Stress can cause an unhealthy increase of hormones in our body like cortisol and adrenalin. Like anxiety and depression, it can also make us reach out for comfort foods or other ‘feel good’ remedies like alcohol. This sets up a downward spiral of health and well being and leads to more inflammation.

Inflammation leads to altered insulin function, which combined with the tendency to do ‘emotional eating’ from stress – leads to getting fatter! Not what we want.

If you want to lose weight, you need to be aware of your levels of stress, anxiety and depression. If you feel the need for a fast acting, healthy way to reduce stress, anxiety and depression – try Gabatrol.

It works in as little as 15 minutes to get you back on the right track.