Rod's Daily Encouragement

From the Bhagavad Gita: "You have the right to work, but for work's sake only.  You have no rights to the fruit of your work. Desire for the fruits of your work must never be your motive in working. Never give way to laziness either.... Be even-tempered in success and failure; for it is evenness of temper which is meant yoga. Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in calm self-surrender.... Those who work selfishly for results are miserable. In the calm of self-surrender, the seers renounce the fruits of their actions, and so reach enlightenment....When your intellect has cleared itself from delusions, you will become indifferent to the result of all action, present or future."  CLICK HERE TO BY THE BHAGAVAD GITA AND OTHER BOOKS  

From: http://www.thecureisnow.org/index.php/our-strategy/research-projects/aging-research This is one of the most encouraging things I've ever heard. Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Chief Scientist at SENS Foundation, believes that if science progresses at its current rate and it addresses the damage caused to cells by aging, we can live forever. The graph below explains the logic of living forever. The top right hand corner of the graph describes what you are like when you are born. You have your maximum level of life reserves. As you age, you use up your reserves. The first diagonal line describes your life without cellular-level repair. The blue line shows what happens if you get repaired late in life--you get about 30 more years. If you get repaired early enough you get repaired AND live long enough for the next revolution in cellular repair science. You get another 30 or so years, enough time for another scientific revolution. Those "revolutions" are represented by the jagg

This graph shows that the large majority of people are represented by the bottle line. We are resilient. These three videos capture come to the same conclusion. The large majority of people are very resilient. This means that most people, and this includes you, basically stay emotionally the same even after potentially traumatic events, such as experiencing terrorist attacks, sudden illness, or divorce. In short, you can handle most anything.    Interesting: Winifred Gallagher http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=OjUOQoxhBMY Informative: George Bonanno: Measuring Human Resilience http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=M-W7wJlB6Y8 Very Informative: George Bonanno: Understanding the Human Capacity to Thrive in the Face of Extreme Adversity http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=5B1qZADFp9U

This is Encouraging! What & Why FII? What is FII? The Family Independence Initiative is a national center for innovating new strength based approaches for economic and social mobility that put people in the driver’s seat of their own change. Over this last decade FII has demonstrated that investing in people’s strengths and initiative delivers more powerful, sustainable, and cost effective outcomes for low-income families. Our strength-based approach, as radical and as old as our democracy, is inspired by the historical successes of poor communities in the U.S. See the  Strategies for Change  section for more about our work. Why FII? Because the Welfare System isn’t Enough For the last five decades the only support systems available to low-income families respond to people’s needs, not their strengths. The “safety net” approach is critical for those in crisis. But it is not a springboard out of poverty. As people make progress their “need” decreases and so do the

You never get sick You never get ill You never get hurt The small idea is that your mind has some control over your body. You’ve heard of the placebo effect, faith healers, and maybe meditation as it relates to health. The simpler and perhaps more powerful idea is that your body may feel sick, ill, or hurt, but YOU don’t have to be a slave to your body. The best video I’ve seen on this stuff is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_If4a-gHg_I