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New
Year message from Inner Universe
1.
Creative work has health advantages
2.
The benefits
of getting married and staying married
3.
7 healthy television viewing habits
4.
Feed the mind and fatten the wallet
5.It's
okay to feel bad
6.You
don't have to be smart to be rich
7.The new frontier
of neurophilosophy
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New Year message from Inner Universe
My
best wishes for the New Year. This is the time most of
us take stock of our past and make plans for the future.
We compare our actual performance against the targets we
set for different areas of our life – career, family,
health, wealth etc. We search for excuses, if we had not
reached our targets. And if we had reached our targets,
we set higher targets for the New Year.
For a change, for this New Year, let us set targets in
new avenues of our life. Let us resolve to help at least
one person to quit smoking. Let us resolve to persuade
at least one person to stop using his mobile phone while
driving. Let us resolve to convince at least one person
to stop eating trans-fats.
For those of you, who already have these targets in your
new year resolution, let me suggest some noble targets.
Can we take a resolution to fund the schooling of at
least one orphan? Can we take a resolution to fund the
medical treatment of at least one sick person? Can we
take a resolution to fund the rehabilitation of at least
one girl, forced into immoral activities?
Social issues like poverty, violence, injustice,
discrimination etc affect all of us, directly or
indirectly. In our own interest, we must do something to
eliminate these social evils and at the same time, we
must do something to help the victims of these social
evils.
For most of us, our family consists of our spouse and
children and our extended family includes our parents
and siblings. Let us release ourselves from this
self-sentenced prison and consider the entire humanity
as our family and the entire God’s creations as our
extended family.
May The Almighty God bless us with health & wealth,
empathy & philanthropy to implement our new, New Year
resolutions - Pon
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Creative work has health
advantages
Employees who have more control over their daily
activities and do challenging work they enjoy, are
likely to be in better health, according to a new study
by the
University
of
Texas.
“Creative activity is non-routine, enjoyable and
provides opportunity for learning and for solving
problems. People who do that kind of work, whether paid
or not, feel healthier and have fewer physical
problems,” said lead author John Mirowsky, a sociology
professor at the
University
of
Texas.
“One thing that surprised us was that the daily
activities of employed persons are more creative than
those of non-employed persons of the same sex, age and
level of education,” Morowsky said. Although people who
work do give up some control over their daily
activities, the study found that being employed leads to
better health generally, regardless of the amount of
creativity required in their work.
The study found that the health advantage of being
somewhat above average in creative work (in the 60th
percentile) versus being somewhat below average (in the
40th percentile) is
equal to being 6.7 years younger. It is also equal to
having two more years of education or 15 times greater
household income.
Jobs that are high-status, with managerial authority or
that require complex work with data, generally provide
more access to creative work. “People
with a wide variety of jobs manage to find ways to make
them creative. And people with higher levels of
education tend to have more creative activities in their
lives, paid or not,” Mirowsky said.
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The benefits of getting married
and staying married
Though many people in the developed countries choose to
remain single, or choose divorce and separation if
married, getting married and staying married has many
advantages according to researchers Patrick Fagan,
Robert Rector, Kirk Johnson and America Peterson of the
Heritage Foundation.
T he
positive effects of marriage on children
Child abuse is less
likely in intact families.
Children
from broken families are more likely to take to
crime.
Adolescents in married families are less likely to
be
depressed.
School expulsion is less likely among children in
intact
families.
Children in intact families are less likely to repeat
a grade.
Children from intact families are less likely to have
behaviour problems.
Adolescents from divorced families are more likely to
become smokers.
Adolescent drug habit is more common in broken
families.
Adolescents from broken families are more likely to
be
violent.
Adolescents from broken families are less healthy.
The
positive effects of marriage on adults
Married
people are more than twice as likely to be
happy.
Married
women are less likely to be victims of domestic
violence.
Married people are less likely to attempt suicide.
The positive economic effects of
marriage
Married
families have higher incomes.
Majority of poor children come from broken families.
The
effect of on the evil practice of abortion
Unmarried
women account for 80 percent of all
abortions.
Out
of wedlock pregnancies are much more likely to
end
in abortion.
The findings reinforces our unshakeable
faith in the institution of marriage, vouches for the
decision of the people who decided to get married,
strengthens the confidence of the people who stay
married and assists those people who are in a dilemma
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7 healthy television viewing habits
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Here
are a few suggestions you can implement easily to help
your children develop good television viewing habits and
ensure that they do not become TV addicts.
Be a good example:
Parents are the role models for most
of the children. Hence parents must first develop
healthy TV viewing habits so that it is easy to
implement these guidelines on children.
Set time limits:
Set time limits for watching TV programmes, movies and
computer games. It could be two hour per day if the
child is in primary school or one hour per day if the
child is in secondary school.
Plan what to view:
Instead of surfing the channels, use the weekly
programme guide to decide which programmes to watch and
stick to it.
Have only one TV:
Even if you are very wealthy to afford a TV in every
room, resist your temptation. Have only one TV and have
it only in the drawing room. Ruthlessly ban the TV from
the bedroom.
Watch TV with children:
Watching TV along with children not only ensures that
they watch programmes that are appropriate for them but
also satisfies their need that parents spend time with
them.
Watch good DVDs:
Watch quality DVDs on subjects such as animals,
geography, adventure, humour etc. It could provide
wholesome entertainment and could help break the habit
of watching TV programmes.
Help develop hobbies:
Help your children develop hobbies such as reading,
sports, philately, arts & crafts, learning to play a
musical instrument, learning a martial art etc. It will
ensure that they do not get addicted to TV.
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Feed the mind and fatten the wallet
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The British spend nearly twice as much on trips to
beauty parlours and hair salons, snapping up the
latest cosmetic and toiletry products (20,612
million pounds) than learning a new skill and
improving their minds (10,998 million pounds),
according to a new study by Learning and Skills
Council. The LSC study found another interesting
fact: The British spend eight times more eating
out (78,858 million pounds).
Most people believe that money would have the
biggest positive impact on their lives. Learning a
new useful skill or enhancing those skills you
already have is therefore one of the smartest
investments to increase your worth and to earn
more money.
Chris Bank, Chairman, Learning and Skills Council
said, ”We need to let people know that if they
spend a little more on education, they could
actually afford more pampering sessions.” The
more you invest in improving your knowledge and
skills, the more you can earn.
Alvin Hall, an independent financial expert
agrees. He says, “In our already hectic lives, we
frequently overlook the fact that developing new
skills and acquiring, fresh knowledge helps us to
remain valuable. We are our biggest asset, and it
is natural to want to spend money on looking good,
but if we invest more on training and learning
too, there will be more to spend on make up and
facials.”
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It's okay to feel bad |
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A
7 year study conducted at the
University of
Missouri
indicates that individuals who take time to stop
and think about their losses are more likely to
mature and achieve a potentially more durable
sense of happiness.
“People are generally in a hurry to be happy
again, but they need to understand that it is okay
to feel bad and to feel bad for a while,”
according to lead researcher Laura King, who
teaches psychology at the
University of
Missouri.
“It’s natural to want to feel happy right after a
loss or regrettable experience, but those who can
examine ‘what might have been’ and be mindfully
present to their negative feelings, are more
likely to mature through that loss and might also
obtain a different kind of happiness,” said King.
Drawing on samples of adults who have experienced
significant life changing events, King examined
the participants’ written accounts of their
current best possible selves and unattainable best
possible selves that they may have once cherished.
King found that those who could acknowledge a part
characterized by loss, were more likely to show
personality development over time.
"People change after potentially tragic events. It
is unrealistic to think that you can go right back
to the way you were before the event.” It might be
best to try and make meaning out of what had
happened and start a new life that is tied to what
you have learned from the change.
“Being happy is not about forgetting the past,
but forming a life that is founded on what you had
before, or who you used to be,” King said.
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“People
don’t become rich just because they are smart,”
according to a new study by
Ohio
State
University.
“Your IQ has really no relationship to your
wealth. And being very smart does not protect you
form getting into financial difficulty,” said Jay
Zagorsky, a research scientist at
Ohio
State
University’s
Center for Human Resource Research.
All participants in the study completed the AFQT
(Armed Forces Qualification Test), which is the
standard test used by researchers to measure IQ.
The survey took into account their income, total
wealth and three measures of financial difficulty
– if they currently have any maxed-out credit
cards, if during the past five years whether they
missed paying any bills and whether they had
declared bankruptcy.
The results confirmed research by other scholars
that showed people with higher IQ scores tend to
earn higher incomes. But when it came to total
wealth and the likelihood of financial
difficulties, the study found that the
super-intelligent did not have any advantage over
people of below-average and average intelligence.
“Financial success is more than just income. You
need to build up wealth to help buffer life’s
storms and to prepare for retirement.”
You
only have to look in the parking lot of the
universities to see that intelligence and wealth
is not necessarily linked. “Professors tend to be
very smart people. But if you look at university
parking lots, you don’t’ see a lot of Rolls Royces,
Porsches, or other very expensive cars. Instead
you see a lot of old, low-value vehicles,” said
Zagorsky.
Intelligence is not a factor for explaining wealth.
Those with low intelligence should not believe
that they are handicapped and those with high
intelligence should not believe that they have an
advantage.
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The new frontier of neurophilosophy
Consider the following scenario: A wayward trolley
running out of control will kill five people
relaxing on the track, if nothing is done to stop
it. By pressing a lever, you can change the
trolley’s track where it will kill only one
person. Would you press the lever?
“Most people say that that’s okay,” says Joshua
Greene, an assistant professor of psychology at
Harvard. Greene is interested not only in what
answers people give to these sorts of questions,
but also in what kinds of intuitions drive such
moral decision- making and which regions of the
brain they involve.
Supposing the philosophical construct is changed
slightly and in this situation, you have to push a
person onto the tracks to stop the trolley. He
will die but you’ll save five people. Would you
push the person onto the tracks? Most people say
that that’s not okay.
Philosophers have traditionally been divided on
the matter of how we come to have these
intuitions. Some believed moral judgments were
rational. Others believed they were emotional.
Greene studied the same scientifically, using a
fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
scanner.
When volunteers were asked whether they would push
the man onto the tracks, Greene saw increased
activity in the medial prefrontal cortex of the
brain, which is involved in emotion and social
behaviour. But when volunteers were dealing with
the question whether they would consider changing
the lever, Greene observed less intensity in the
brain. Changing the lever is less emotional
despite the fact that numerically the problem is
the same – kill one to save five.
How do cultural differences fit into Greene’s
approach to moral intuition? “The trend is that at
least with these sorts of questions, people’s
intuitions are surprisingly stable across
cultures,” says Greene.
Greene’s research validates the traditional wisdom
‘Don’t take any important decision when you are
emotional’
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