OTO-RHINO-LARYGOLOGY: First Aid Skills — About.com Guide
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OTO-RHINO-LARYGOLOGY: First Aid Skills — About.com Guide
April 28, 2011
Oxygen Balance
April 18, 2011
Alkaline diet. Even though there are many conflicting charts and articles online about how to increase body alkalinity through diet, it’s really quite simple. Increase the amount of plant-based foods in your diet and reduce the amount of processed foods and animal-based foods, which are acidifying. If nothing else, increase the amount of dark, leafy green vegetables, such as kale, spinach, Swiss chard, parsley, sprouts, collard greens, and mustard greens, just to name a few. Organic super green supplements that contain chlorella, spirulina, barley grass, and alfalfa grass, in particular, also help to alkalize the body.
Adequate Hydration. Drinking enough water daily is essential not only for the utilization of oxygen in the body but also for transporting the blood and other bodily fluids. Without adequate water, all bodily functions are diminished, including cellular respiration and the removal of toxins and metabolic wastes. Drinking filtered water is necessary to get the full benefits of oxygenation. Restructured or ionized water is micro-clustered (creating smaller groupings of water molecules) and will thus provide higher levels of hydration and oxygenation at the cellular level.
Proper Breathing. Dr. K.P. Buteyko is a physiologist and clinical physician who devoted 50 years of his life to the study of respiration. According to Buteyko, sick people breathe using the upper chest and inhale more air, which causes reduced oxygen levels in body cells. Chest breathing causes us to take in too much air per inhalation and constricts blood vessels. Healthy breathing is slow (about 12 breaths per minute), from the diaphragm (rather than the chest), through the nose (rather than mouth) and is quiet and light. Contrary to popular belief, deep or rapid breathing techniques do not increase oxygenation! See resource below for Dr. Buteyko’s do-it-yourself Body Oxygen Test.
Daily Exercise. Increase aerobic exercise such as walking, hiking or bicycling. Aerobic exercise will help your body utilize oxygen and remove waste through the lymphatic system. Whereas the circulatory system has the heart to pump blood throughout the body, the lymphatic system has no pump. Lymph gets circulated and flushed primarily through movement. Thus, from the standpoint of health and body oxygenation, you would be better off walking for 15 minutes a day rather than spending an hour or more in the gym 2 to 3 times a week. The most effective exercise I have found for flushing lymph is the mini-trampoline (rebounder). Two minutes of rebounding can flush the entire lymph and triple the production of white blood cells – a super immunity booster.
Adequate oxygenation and a healthy body pH are essential to health and vitality. Just a few of the potential benefits of maintaining body oxygenation at a balanced level include: enhanced brain function, stress reduction, increased energy, and a longer and healthier life.
Codex Alimentarius: Ο έλεγχος του πληθυσμού μέσω της διατροφής έρχεται και στην Ελλάδα! ·Θα ψηφιστεί ως νομοσχέδιο το Σάββατο 16 Απριλίου.
ATHENA\’S TEMPLE: CARL JUNG’S PHILOSOPHY OF MEMORY
February 23, 2011
ATHENA\’S TEMPLE: CARL JUNG’S PHILOSOPHY OF MEMORY
YouTube – Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah
February 21, 2011
YouTube – Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah
The first song I ever learned to play in the guitar is “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen. It is fairly easy to study; it starts with a C major chord and moves in the manner as described in the first verse: F (“the fourth”), G (“the fifth”), A minor (“the minor fall”), and F (“the major lift”). According to Cohen, however, writing and composing the record (which might be considered as belonging in the folk rock genre) proved to be a frustrating and difficult process: “I filled two notebooks and I remember being in the Royalton Hotel (in New York),” he said, “on the carpet in my underwear, banging my head on the floor and saying, ‘I can’t finish this song.’”
And so for years, the singer-songwriter from Canada wrote and rewrote the song’s lyrics, changed its tempo, tinkered countless times with its arrangement. Word has it that Cohen had come up with at least eighty verses for “Hallelujah”; Velvet Underground founder John Cale was faxed fifteen of these verses when he had asked permission from the author to cover the song.
The first original release of “Hallelujah” can be found in the 1984 Leonard Cohen album, Various Positions. A second version was recorded live in 1988, and it is this version which then appeared in the 1994 album, Cohen Live. Cohen sings the words in his deep, almost shattered voice, which then belts out the soaring, triumphant chorus. Lyrically, the record contains various Biblical references and liturgical themes, alluding to the Books of Samuel and Judges as well as containing mentions of the Tetragrammaton name. While some interpreters ascribe various kinds of religious feelings to the song, others still see “Hallelujah” as less holy – with subtle but intentional sexual innuendos.
Whatever it means, “Hallelujah” remains as one of the most hauntingly beautiful and poetic songs I’ve ever heard. Which is probably why over 170 records and cover versions of it exist. With its “unfinished” nature and ever-changing lyrical composition, the song has thus become as open to interpretation as any other – mimicked almost as often as has been that other Cohen single, Suzanne. It has been played in most of this past decade’s saddest TV and movie scenes – in Shrek, Lord of War, Without A Trace, The West Wing, The O.C., ER, Ugly Betty, to name a few. The most popular versions include that of John Cale (in his 1992 live album Fragments of a Rainy Season); late American singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley (in his 1994 album, Grace); Rufus Wainwright, whose version appeared in the soundtrack album of the animated film Shrek; Allison Crowe; k.d. Lang; Bob Dylan; even Bon Jovi and dreadlocked American Idol contestant Jason Castro.
Little-known alt-folk pop band Romantica, from Belfast-slash-Minneapolis, has one of the most unique takes of this phenomenal Leonard Cohen record. It is quick, contemporary, with the rhythm and feel of a rollicking country song. It’s different from the rest. Which fits the essence of what “Hallelujah” is all about. While others are eager to pinpoint to a definitive version of the song, I still think that – like a poem – “Hallelujah” is a piece best described as purgatorial: tough to manage in its black-and-whiteness, and is neither wholly holy nor unholy.
via YouTube – Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah.
YouTube – Shlomo & Neshama Carlebach – The Ocean of Tears
February 18, 2011
YouTube – Shlomo & Neshama Carlebach – The Ocean of Tears
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alsfakia » Sulphur Souls
January 27, 2011
Opus Nocturne is the third studio album by Swedish black metal band Marduk.
Giovanni Domenico [Mico] Montella (ca. 1570 – before July 2, 1607) Italian composer
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Indian Folk Tales
January 21, 2011
