NordenBladet – According to our forefathers’ belief, everything that we do on New Year’s Eve and on New Year’s Day, will have an effect on our lives during the year to come. Read more about which New Year’s Eve customs and traditions bring luck and success! Every year, when the new year begins, we become spiritually new, thus we must prepare to start this new life period.
On New Year’s Eve, conclude what you have been doing, and end what has been in progress:
1. Forgive, and ask for forgiveness, in order to start the new year with a clear conscience and peace of mind.
2. Remove all negative things from your life, those that have been bothering you for a long time: unnecessary things, unfortunate relations and toxic people.
3. Pay your debts and fulfill the promises you have given
4. Make peace with those states of affairs you cannot change
5. Be grateful – recall and write down what has been pleasant in the past year. Now you can proceed to the last point – creating a festive atmosphere. Try to make this holiday extra special and magic for yourself and your nearest and dearest!
6. Create a festive atmosphere and follow these traditions
1- Lay a hearty table so that also during new year you would have a workplace and bread on the table, and be able to put all the delicious dishes on the table. Our ancestors believed that we should eat 7,9 or 12 times. One serving can be just a few bites.
2- The party should be loud, there should be laughter, fun, and cries of joy of the children. According to ancient belief this will pull back the evil spirits.
3- Put candles on the graves of your passed friends and relatives either on New Year’s Eve or during the last week of the year, this will show that you have not forgotten those who came before us.
4- Decorate your home with candles – celebrate the victory of light over darkness!
5- Tell the future or pour luck (pour lead)
Photography: 3x NordenBladet
How to begin your new year?
1. Let the first person you communicate with be a man. It was believed that there will not be much luck when the first person to wish a Happy New Year is a woman.
2. Do not clean the house on January 1. Leave the cleaning for the second or third day of the year, this way you will not brush good luck out of your home.
3. On January 1, wash your face (from oldest member of the family to youngest) in the same dish. Let there be something made from silver (brooch, spoon) in the dish. This water ritual will give you good complexion, good eyesight, and will keep the family in peace and harmony.
4. Start the new year with full awareness. It is believed that everything that you do on the 1st of January is what you will be doing during the year to come. Thus, do not spend the day in bed, watching TV. Do the things that you wish to be doing and enjoying during the rest of the year.
NordenBladet – The government on Thursday decided to allow people to get AstraZeneca and Janssen coronavirus vaccine booster doses five months after receiving the second shot, down from the recent six months. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) sales permit for the vaccines prescribes a waiting period of six months. The Estonian State Agency of Medicines said that how to solve problems caused by side-effects in this case still needs to be analyzed.
The booster dose waiting period has been changed three times in the last month in Estonia. While people were initially told they need to wait eight months after getting their second shot, this was shortened to six months in late October, with people vaccinated using AstraZeneca and Janssen vaccines told two days ago that waiting five months is enough. The vaccines’ marketing authorization issued by the European Medicines Agency prescribes a six-month break from the second dose.
“Data from Israel clearly shows that a five-month vaccination interval proved successful at preventing severe cases,” said Marje Oona, member of the Estonian immunoprophylactic expert committee.
“The European Medicines Agency failed to consider data from Israel. The immunoprophylactic committee can, based on Estonia’s epidemiological situation, decide that it is sensible to offer booster doses of AstraZeneca and Janssen vaccines after five months,” Oona said.
She said there is no conflict with EMA as national expert bodies can issue recommendations based on the epidemiological situation in the country. Oona gave the example of Finland that decided in spring people need to wait longer for third doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
“On the other hand, we have no reason to believe the vaccine is somehow more dangerous when administered a little sooner. It is a question of effect – whether the immune response is triggered at the right time or whether it is created too soon, when the person still has antibodies,” said Ott Laius, head of the pharmaceutical safety department of the State Agency of Medicines.
Laius said existing data suggests third doses produce the same side-effects as the previous ones. Serious side-effects require the person to turn to the manufacturer after which the state and the pharmaceutical manufacturer will decide how to solve the problem for the person.
Laius could not say what effect Estonia’s decision of a shorter waiting period could have on such resolutions.
“It needs to be determined now. It requires calm deliberation and decisions,” Laius said.
Information available to ETV news program “Aktuaalne kaamera” suggests a major immunization center has offered booster doses to people who got their second shot a mere four and half months ago. Marje Oona said that while there is no additional risk involved, such conduct is not practical either.
“The resulting immunity might not be as strong after a shorter waiting period, which I why I would recommend against getting these shots with short intervals,” she said.
NordenBladet – Packages of food substances often say the product is “packed in a gas environment”. As a rule, gases are regarded as something chemical-harmful, but this still depends on what gas it exactly is. Packing in a gas environment (MAP – modified atmosphere packaging) is a natural alternative to adding artificial preservatives to food substances.
Applying correct and proper packing principles enables to keep the quality of the preserved foodstuffs, semi-manufactured products and ready-made products high. Non-packaged raw material or products are not protected against contamination. Depending on the profile of the professional kitchen either packaging with air, airtight packaging or packaging in a gas environment is used.
In packages that contain air (DYNO packages) the raw material and products are protected against additional contamination, however, such a package does not halt the life of the microorganisms that already populate it, including the multiplication of the microorganisms.
Neither does airtight packaging aka vacuum packing, or packing in a gas environment (MAP-package) inhibit the life activities of all microorganisms. Aerobic moulds are microorganisms that consume oxygen (aerobic), they do not reproduce in vacuum sealed packaging, since in vacuum packaging the oxygen that they need for their life has been removed. Yet the microorganisms that do not consume oxygen (anaerobic), for example anaerobic bacteria and yeasts can go on living. Raw material and products that are packaged in a gas environment are protected against contamination, while instead of air the package contains carbon dioxide (CO2) or a mixture of carbon dioxide and nitrogen. That will inhibit the life of many but not all microorganisms.
Packaging in a gas environment is used first of all to extend the shelf life of food substances many times, it will maintain their fresh appearance, taste and structure. Food processing gas is a user-friendly method for packaging that is used around the world with the aim of extending the shelf life of meat, fish, cheese, ham, salads, fruit and vegetables, pasta products, bread, snacks, ready-made food as well as many other food substances. In some cases the added gas will help maintain the original colour of the food substances. For example MAP-environment packaged fresh meat will maintain its red colour and will not turn gray due to added oxygen. This avoids adding chemical preservatives in the list of ingredients. Besides packaging, the food industry uses gases also for carbonating drinks – adding carbon dioxide. Also, the food industry widely uses solid carbon dioxide or dry ice.
The gas environment will be selected based on the properties of the packaged food substance. In products with high moist and low fat levels the growth of microorganisms must be slowed down. The solution to that is replacing air with the mixture of carbon dioxide and nitrogen in the package. It is exactly the carbon dioxide that inhibits the activity of bacteria and has a preserving effect on the food substance. Should the product have a high fat level and a low water level, the product must be kept from oxidation. This is because fats rancidificate. On that occasion the main component of the protective gas is nitrogen – N2 (E941). Inert gaseous nitrogen is used in packaging in order to eliminate oxygen and thus avoid oxidation. Pure nitrogen is used for example for packaging salted peanuts and milk powder, those will last up to ten months longer thanks to such packaging.
The most important part in the packaging to a gas environment is played by carbon dioxide – CO2 (E290), since exactly this gas that slows down microbiological activity by dissolving in the water and fat in the food substance, has an impact on most microorganisms like moulds and anaerobic bacteria. Therefore gas will decrease the pH-level of the food substance. Pure carbon dioxide is used in packaging bread and white bread, this will extend their shelf life four times. A negative side of using carbon dioxide is that it can be dissolved in the product, therefore the products might suck the surrounding package into vacuum if the choice of the gas mixture was incorrect.
In packaging, oxygen O2 (E948) does more damage than it helps. To inhibit growth of aerobic microorganisms, the package should contain less than 1 percent oxygen, yet normal air contains 21% oxygen. However, there are exceptions, for example oxygen will help maintain the red colour of meat. Mostly, in packages, mixtures of gases instead of pure gases are used. For example, sausage packages contain 20% carbon dioxide and 80% nitrogen.
Conclusion. Using food processing gas is completely harmless for the consumer and it ensures better food quality. The main point is that the manufacturer need not use preservatives to prolong the shelf life of the product. Also the food need not be heated at a high temperature, nor does it have to be frozen, to preserve longer. The food is more fresh, healthier and will preserve longer, since the gas will hinder chemical, enzymatic as well as microbiological deterioration.
NordenBladet – Nowadays when the choice of food products in stores is broad and merchants compete for the market monopoly and will for the sake of survival create so-called eternal products, one should take the time to study, what exactly it is that we eat under the name of food. Several of the food products that are available on the shelves contain dangerous food additives that are toxic for the organism and may cause allergies, cancer, asthma and other ailments.
What are E-additives?
A food additive, in popular use also known as an E-additive, is a natural or a synthetic substance that is added to a food product for a technological purpose. Food additives can for example be used to better preserve the food (preservatives), to attain a desired consistency (stabilizers, gelling agents, emulsifiers), to give the product a more attractive colour (colorings), etc.
E-additives have been grouped according to their main functions. The most used food additive groups in food are the following:
Extra to the named groups other groups of food additives are also used such as acidity regulators, flour treatment agents, anticaking agents, flavor enhancers, glazing agents, sweeteners, thickeners, gelling agents, packaging, etc (E500 – …).
Are E-additives in food safe?
Regarding risk to health, food additives hold sixth place after food poisoning, unbalanced diet, manufacturing pollutants, the natural toxic ingredients of food substances, and pesticides. This, however, doesn’t indicate that insufficient attention has been paid to them.
Estonia follows the requirements about food additives set by the European Union, the license to use food additives is issued by the National Health Board. Most of the food additives either help better maintain the nutritional value and flavor of the food product, suppress the development of microorganisms or advance the consistency, flavour and/or aroma. There are also such E-additives that are used to make the product appear more attractive to the consumer.
Food additives also include artificial sweeteners, allowing sweet tasting food for people with diabetes and overweight.
Most developed countries require that it is fixed by law which additives and in what volume are allowed in food. These then need to be indicated on the product package.
Try to consume food that does not contain preservatives, some of those are very harmful and can compromise your health!
Unfortunately, preservatives are used even in products that are promptly consumed, i.e. in bread. Some of the oldest preservatives are sodium nitrite (E250) and sodium nitrate (E251).
Nitrites are mostly used in meat products due to their inhibiting effect on the growth of microorganisms. Extra to preserving, their use will give the meat product its typical pink tone and the characteristic taste.
Sadly, the nitrites in food products may result in carcinogenic compounds (the triggers for malignant cancer, i.e. carcinoma). Despite this, the use of nitrites is still allowed, since the antibacterial effect is considered more important than the risk of creating harmful compounds.
Besides nitrites and nitrates (E249-E252) the main harmful preservatives are sorbates (very widely used, sorbic acid E200, sodium sorbate E201, potassium sorbate E202, calcium sorbate E203), benzoates (among the most typical additives that cause side-effects, benzoic acid E210, sodium benzoate E211, potassium benzoate E 212, calcium benzoate E213) and parabens, sulphur dioxide E220 and sulfites E221-E228, biphenyl E230 that is used in processing the skin of the citrus fruit, ortho-phenylphenol (E231), biphenylol (E232) and thiabendazole (E233).
What should we think of food additives?
Food safety is today better guaranteed in developed countries than it was a few decades ago. In every country the health boards compile lists of permissible food additives, these need not always be similar.
Science may guarantee food safety only based on today’s knowledge and the level of analysis methodology. This is not a 100% guarantee. There are quite a few food additives that have been deleted from the list of permissible additives.
Some of the typical food substances may cause allergies. First and foremost, small children tend to have protein allergy, however, hypersensitivity to E-additives is rather rare. Some additives may cause symptoms of hypersensitivity in some people while for others they are safe.
People that are allergic to aspirin, may develop a reaction towards the benzoic acid and sorbic acid. There may be a reaction also towards the benzoic and sorbic acid that is present in cowberries and cranberries. Such hypersensitivity is usually accompanied by allergy to azo dye.
Aspirin, benzoic and sorbic acid and azo dye may cause swelling, breathing difficulties and other health complaints. Sulfites and antioxidants BHA and BHT may cause special allergic reactions, especially people with asthma are sensitive towards sulfites and other sulfur compounds.
Hereby some of the additives are listed that may cause symptoms of hypersensitivity:
Azo dye
E102 Tartrazine
E110 Sunset Yellow
E123 Amaranth
E124 Cochineal Red
E151 Brilliant Black
NordenBladet – Careful hand hygiene helps keep infectious diseases at bay, therefore especially during seasons when infectious diseases are spreading, it is useful to clean hands properly. Paying too little attention to hand hygiene is the most common reason for the spread of infectious diseases. In order to avoid infectious diseases it would be wise to keep hands clean at home, at school, at work, at the restaurant, and anywhere else.
A few years back a survey that was carried out in Great Britain, based on observing 20 000 adults during three years, proved that when one washes hands regularly and correctly, it is possible to prevent catching an infectious disease up to 15-20 percent. Hands must be properly washed in the beginning of the working day or in case hands are visibly dirty. When one washes hands with soap and running water for 15 seconds, the amount of foreing microflora decreases ten times, and during 30 seconds the amount decreases already 1000 times. Nevertheless, hands must be washed just about a reasonable amount of times every day, since excessive washing may disturb the natural protective barrier of the skin, and also the strains of some bacteria may multiply in the micellar solution. Along with daily hand hygiene, especially during the time of high season for infectious diseases, also hand antiseptics and skin care are of importance.
Sanitary and surgical handwashing
The purpose of handwashing is to mechanically remove dirt, microorganisms and spores.
During sanitary handwashing hands are washed with the direction from the fingertips towards the wrist. The recommended time to wash hands is 40-60 seconds.
How and when the hygienic/sanitary handwashing is done:
– when hands are visibly dirty or have been in contact with blood or other bodily fluids
– when hands have been in contact with microorganisms that form spores
– before the working shift begins and after the working shift ends
– before meals
– before feeding the patients/clients
– after waste management
– after using the bathroom (toilet), or after changing the diaper
– after blowing the nose, after coughing, or after sneezing.
During surgical handwashing hands are washed with the direction from fingertips towards the elbow. The duration to wash hands is at least 3-5 minutes. Surgical handwashing is always followed by surgical hand antiseptics.
How and when surgical handwashing is done:
– before surgical procedures (operations and invasive procedures).
Hands are mechanically rubbed with the handwashing agent, this is followed by rinsing and drying. An important step is drying the hands, because the amount of microbes on moist hands is larger than on dry hands, and applying the sanitizing agent to wet hands will bring down its effect.
How to properly wash hands?
1. Moisten the hands and wrists and apply soap.
2. Place one palm on the back of the other hand, rub hands, and then repeat with the reverse position.
3. Place both palms against each other, fingers spread and braided, and rub.
4. Using circular movements, rub the closed and folded fingers against the other hand’s palm.
5. Using circular movements, grab the thumb into the other hand and rub, then repeat with the reverse position.
6. Make rotating movements with tips of fingers in the other hand’s palm, then repeat with the reverse position.
Go over these steps up to 6 times until your hands are clean. Rinse and dry.
Which are the mistakes made during handwashing?
The common mistake is that while washing, the backside of the thumbs will be forgotten, or the nails, fingertips, and intermediate part of the fingers. Also, hands would need to be washed from underneath the ring if you are wearing any, since on the skin under the rings the bacteria have a fine moist place to live and grow. The soap would need to be washed off under running water from fingertips towards elbows.
What can we wash our hands with?
The most common and best known agent for washing hands is soap. The effect from the soap stems from the water solubility of fatty acid salts. The quality of the soap depends on the fatty substance ingredients and additives used in making the soap. Nowadays allergies are widespread, pollution (including air pollution) is common, and thus people value quality care products more and more, because there is nothing more important than the health and wellbeing of our own selves as well as others.
What kind of soaps could be used?
Best quality can be found in handmade soaps – these have been produced in small amounts, which entails constant control regarding quality. However not all handicraft soaps are in line with the standards set for cosmetics products (either they do not have the right pH level, may contain allergens, or by the time you start using them, have already gone bad). Therefore not any amateur handmade cosmetics product need be automatically trusted.
What kind of soap could be used by a person with sensitive skin?
Elisheva & Shoshana products have specifically been developed for the Northerners with sensitive skin. All E&S products pass strict quality control and each product batch is tested in NordenApothecary lab in order to guarantee top quality and fit with the requirements. Should the batch not pass the control it is not launched to the market. All E&S products are listed and approved by European Cosmetics Products Notification Portal (CPNP). E&S products are skin friendly and efficient, suitable also fof pregnant women and small children.
Elisheva & Shoshana (E&S) handmade “Dandelion and Goat´s Milk Soap” is delicate, odorless, skin purifying, protecting and nourishing bathing aid for hands and body. Blossoms of dandelion gathered from the fine fields of Estonia add to the soap the fair yellowish and greenish natural patches, thus making each one a petite masterpiece. Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) is considered a most powerful Nordic medical herb. Goat milk is known to be nature’s elixir, containing plenty of A, B6, B12 and E vitamins that carry the role of rejuvenating skin cells, and proteins that help free the skin from acne breeding bacteria.
NordenBladet – The 5 balls of life speech by Coca-Cola’s former CEO Brian Dyson is one of the more viral speeches circulating in the web. In line with Apple founder Steve Jobs’ famous announcement speech at Stanford University, Dyson addresses the priorities in life using the metaphor of juggling 5 balls. He calls the balls work, family, friends, health and spirit.
Brian Dyson’s commencement speech has reached such fame that multiple versions are circulating through the web: some “extended Director’s cut” versions are aimed at making his inspiring original speech sound even more inspiring, some claim Dyson’s address to be one of the most famous short speeches, and others label Dyson’s five balls speech as the 30 seconds speech. None of this is actually true.
Here goes the true story: Brian Dyson really did deliver his short speech about life, friendship, love, family and spirit at the occasion of the 172nd commencement of the Georgia Tech Institute, on September 6, 1991. Mark Turner did the effort to track the origins of Brian Dyson’s speech down. But the speech is neither short nor did it last 30 seconds only. The 5 balls of life metaphor is the closing part of a full 1634 words long commencement speech. Turner found Dyson’s original speech in Georgia Tech’s newspaper archives.
The real version of the Brian Dyson speech on the five balls of life
This is the original text of Dyson’s commencement speech that refers to the 5 balls of life:
[…] Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them work, family, health, friends and spirit. And you’re keeping all of these in the air.
You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls – family, health, friends and spirit – are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life.
Man juggling with 5 balls as a reference to Brian Dyson’s speech on the 5 balls of life
Bryan Dyson continues: “You live in a world of growing opportunity at one of the most exciting times in history, and you have been prepared with an exceptionally fine education. Because you are all so well educated, let me pose this final question to you. What is education for? Is it for the pursuit of knowledge or for the pursuit of significance? How you answer makes a difference. Knowledge is merely a tool. There is someone in Argentina or Singapore who has the same degree as you. The difference lies in how you use it. Will you use your education for life or just as a living? It’s up to you now.“
Brian Dyson was born in Argentina in 1936 and joined Coca-Cola in 1959, where he worked during several years in South America, the Caribbean Sea and Mexico. From 1978 to 1983, Dyson was president of Coca-Cola USA until he became president of Coca-Cola North America. From 1986 to 1991, he finally was the first president and CEO of the newly created Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc.
NordenBladet – What does truly healthy and sustainable food look like on a plate in the Nordic Region, Canada, Indonesia or Brazil? A new interactive game launched today, on World Food Day, helps you find out. Using gamification of evidence and dietary guidelines, it shows how food might be the best place to start if you want to help make the planet healthier. Let’s play!
The Game FOOD CHOICES FOR A HEALTHY PLANET, supported by Food at Google, was produced by a food-system solutions accelerator that involved nutrition and climate change experts from across the globe. The Nordic Food Policy Lab of the Nordic Council of Ministers was invited to join as one of the co-creators in this innovative collaboration process.
Changing eating habits through gamification
The Nordic Region, with its renowned Nordic Nutrition Recommendations, ambitious food policies and sustainable food culture is featured as one of four leading countries and regions. The other regions are Brazil (emphasising local and whole foods instead of ultra-processed foods); Canada (plant-forward focus), and Indonesia (emphasising good nutrition for children from a developing-country perspective). Marie Persson, project manager of Nordic Food Policy Lab, was one of the game architects:
“The game is intended as a playful way for people to engage with the critical issue of sustainable food. Using gamification together with a strong backbone of evidence, Food Choices for a Healthy Planet allows people to experience and learn how choices can be tweaked to achieve better outcomes. It shows what a sustainable and healthy diet looks like in different food-culture contexts, building on – but going beyond – traditional ways of communicating dietary guidelines.”
An accelerator process to co-create
Instead of using a prescriptive approach and offering a single perspective for global diets that could be translated to fit the needs of individual countries, the group developed a country-first perspective, recognising that each country has distinct cultural, economic, historical, and agricultural capacities to feed itself.
“The Food Choices for a Healthy Planet game is a great example of what can be achieved in a short span of time when people from different sectors and with varied areas of expertise, come together in an accelerator process to co-create against a shared ambition. The game combines topical and regional/country expertise, technology and playfulness and the end result is a novel way of communicating food, nutrition and sustainability information underpinned by dietary guidelines. We hope it will inspire accelerated action for sustainable and healthy diets at the industry, policy and individual level,” says Chavanne Hanson, Food Choice Architecture and Nutrition Manager, Google
Open source and free for anyone to access, the goal is for the game to be used by educators, students and others looking to take action through food. The resource can also help inspire policymakers by providing them with new ways to communicate dietary advice for health and sustainability. Ultimately, it is hoped that more country diets and more data will be added.
Let’s play!
Challenge yourself and see the impact of your everyday food choices.
NordenBladet – Estonia’s coronavirus exposure notification app “HOIA” launches today (August 20) and is now available to download. ERR News spoke to Priit Tohver, Ministry of Social Affairs adviser in the field of e-services and innovation, to find out what the app does and how you can use it.
“HOIA” has been created in voluntary cooperation between the Ministry of Social Affairs (Sotsiaalministeerium), the Health and Welfare Information Systems Center (Tervise ja Heaolu Infosüsteemide Keskus) and 12 Estonian companies – Cybernetica, Fujitsu Estonia, Guardtime, Icefire, Iglu, Mobi Lab, Mooncascade, Velvet, FOB Solutions, Heisi IT OÜ, Bytelogics and ASA Quality Services OÜ.
The purpose of the free app – which is optional and not mandatory – is to inform close contacts of those infected with the coronavirus and to provide them with initial instructions on how to proceed. Its aim is to limit the spread of coronavirus.
In this way, the user can quickly find out about possible close contact with a COVID-19 infected person, allowing them to take steps to protect their own health and the health of others.
It works because phones that use the app register Bluetooth signals from other nearby phones. If the signal is sufficiently close and long enough, an anonymous code referring to a close contact will be stored in their phone.
It is not possible to identify a person based on an anonymous code.
In order to use the app, you need a phone based on the Android or iOS operating system. For Hoia to function best, you need to use the close contact notification interface provided by Google and Apple.
Usability is limited to phones manufactured in the last 5 years. Android phones are suitable for all phones that support the Android 6.0 operating system. All Apple phones that support the iOS 13.5 operating system (from iPhone 6S) are compatible.
Earlier this year, when the app was first announced, Anett Numa, speaker at e-estonia briefing centre, wrote it will be based on the DP-3T protocol which has been developed by leading privacy experts and it is also in line with Apple and Google’s contact tracing API.
Estonia has chosen a “privacy-preserving path” to contact tracing, a key element of which is the principle of decentralisation that underpins several Estonian e-state solutions, she wrote.
Within this system, which is designed to adhere to recent EDPB recommendations, no entity will be able to store all of the tracing data and use it for any other purpose besides contact tracing.
Featured image: The “HOIA” coronavirus tracing app launched by the Ministry of Social Affairs. Source: Ministry of Social Affairs.
NordenBladet – Ancient peoples knew that sound could help us change consciousness and unleash the power of the spirit, which is usually not possible through ordinary consciousness. Anthropologists who have studied ancient shamanic rituals have found that drum rhythm sounds have long been used to bring about changes in consciousness. Researchers have found that certain frequencies of drumming evoke Theta waves in the brain that overlap with the waves of the meditative state.
Is an adult able to increase their abilities and broaden their consciousness by changing the brain waves? Yes, it is possible!
In order to understand this concept, we first need to talk about the known types of brainwaves. There are four of them:
Beta (14–30 Hz) represents a state of normal consciousness
Alpha (7–14 Hz) occurs in a relaxed state
Theta (4–7Hz) happens in a meditative state
Delta (0.5–4Hz) waves are the lowest that occur in deep sleep and deep in the meditative state
The latest waves studied are the Gamma waves, which are the fastest—about 30Hz and higher.
Why are brain waves important?
Because you can positively change your brain waves and achieve the desired results by using sound frequencies.
Theta state of mind has been associated with many extraordinary and even superpowers. Shamans and other people living close to nature, such as the Aborigines of Australia, have long known the so-called secret of having superpowers. It is known from stories passed down from shamans in the Southwest that Sitting Bull and Geronimo used mental power to travel through time, walk without a trace, interact with plants, and discover miraculous treatments.
Sounds are waves that can be measured at frequencies. Frequencies are measured in Hertz (Hz)—the number of waves passing per second. For example, the note A of violin vibrates at about 440 Hz (440 vibrations per second).
Studies have shown that people who listen to the sounds of the Theta rage (4.0–7.0Hz) enter a deep meditative state and achieve greater visualization, inspiration, and reprogramming capabilities than in a normal (Beta) waking state.
Although the Theta meditative state is immensely valuable, the Beta and Gamma waves also has its advantages. If you need to improve your ability to do analytical or high-focus work, you may find it useful to listen to music with Beta / Gamma waves. These higher sound frequencies are associated with increased insight, higher information processing, and certain cognitive activities such as analysis and mathematics.
We are all able to learn how the power of sound can be used to change brain waves and move our lives in a certain direction.
There are several ways to change brain waves. For example, during a vision quest, you can tune in to the natural sounds of nature or listen to so-called entertaining audio pieces from the brain.
Heal yourself with sounds and think positive thoughts!
NordenBladet – Many medical theories today estimate that nearly 70% of all diseases are caused by negative thoughts or emotional stress. Diseases caused this way are called psychosomatic, and these health concerns include both your mind and body.
Even short-term intense stress can lead to stomach ulcers, and in just a few years, stress can cause diabetes or heart disease, not to mention poor general health, reduced ability to function and constant unhappiness. Doctors and scientists agree that our thoughts directly affect the work of the organs and the general condition of the body.
Ancient medicine is classified as holistic medicine because it takes care not only of the body but also of the mind, taking into account the lifestyle of the person. This method eliminates the cause of the disease, and does not just treat the symptoms, stopping the disease from returning. Because modern medicine is more concerned with the consequences of a disease—physical disorders—the disease can come back because the cause has often not been treated.
Ancient Ayurvedic* health science has not only proved the existence of psychosomatic diseases, but has also provided a list of specific diseases caused by certain characteristics.
Here are 15 characteristics that may explain the causes of a disease in you or those close to you:
1. Jealousy causes oncological diseases and weakens the immune system.
2. Vengeance brings about insomnia and laryngeal diseases.
3. Inability to resolve situations leads to lung diseases.
4. Lack of moral principles brings on chronic diseases, infectious diseases and skin diseases.
5. Excessive resoluteness or stubbornly adhering to one’s beliefs leads to diabetes, migraines and inflammation.
6. Lying causes alcoholism, fungal infections and weakens the immune system.
7. Aggressiveness results in stomach ulcers, heartburn and salt warts.
8. Withdrawnness brings about schizophrenia and kidney diseases.
9. Meanness leads to epilepsy, asthma and anemia.
10. Conflict proneness causes the thyroid gland to dilate.
11. Sluggishness leads to diabetes.
12. Inconsistency or moodiness brings about infertility.
13. Cruelty and the tendency to offend others cause diabetes and heart disease.
14. Anxiety and worrying lead to digestive problems, heart and skin diseases.
15. Greed entails oncological diseases, obesity and heart diseases.
On the positive side, if you can improve your character, the related diseases will disappear without a trace!
______________________________________________ * Ayurveda (Sanskrit आयुर्वेद āyurveda, ‘science of life’) is a system of traditional Indian medicine. Ayurveda uses nutritional therapy, massage, yoga techniques, complex medicines consisting of herbs, minerals and metals.
The founding texts of Ayurveda the Suśrutha Saṃhitā and the Charaka Saḿhitā (about 700 BC—500 AD).
The three most important principles in Ayurveda are the three doshas: vata, pitta, kapha. Doshas are subtle energies that affect all aspects of life. The imbalance of doshas brings on good health, whereas the imbalance of doshas causes a disease.
