I am so glad to know about such amazing people on here.

I suspect it has to do with primal instinct of sleeping in the woods when it is not pitch black. When the moon is not bright in the sky, it is highly unlikely that a dangerous animal would cross paths close enough to notice someone sleeping quietly if it is linearly walking through the vast woods. But if it can see what is around it, then the person sleeping had better not be sleeping alone.

I have noticed what you’re talking about.

Shhh. ... What’s that? I hear footsteps in the leaves ....

DA, it is not that I don’t like you, it is it romance always ends in sadness and life is too short for that for anyone, and that I will be single for the rest of my life.

Let me pull out the magnifying glass and scrutinize a little closer. Hmmm smile looks good - wait, I got to be serious and critical. Hmmm, better than me.

JUDGE HAMMER IS SLAMMED.

True and true. You said it. You were made for better things than sucking up to me, brother. If you live to seek pity, terrible things will happen to you. You were made for a greater purpose worth living for, and only you need to know what that is.

The doorway into our dimensional frame of reference is open for all to freely enter or venture out with peace.

I try not to let my ego get in the way when people’s souls are at stake.

Religious folk like myself do flock to Tom like a magnet. I am not going to deny that evident fact, but just like everyone, in his own life he can do whatever he wants to, without having to explain for the rest of us.

May strength and freedom abound with all.

I really do not care if people adapt my beliefs and religion or not. There are some people who actually need it, especially people thrown into a new situation, like on college campus. But like the dude several posts back said, Not everyone is the same. I wish I understood different people and their spirituality better. Tom is very in touch with things spiritual and that is something that other people pick up on. Ismresurrected knows his stuff and is passionate about it. He should be a campus ministry leader or something and he would make a difference in many peoples lives.

I got my first glimpse of heaven, it was a fragment so small that I did not realize everyone was in it.

Evidently deep breathing and getting plenty of O2 all the time lowers stress hormones, promoting healing, sharper mind, longer life, and strength. Relatively cold temperatures, mainly at night while sleeping, but to some degree in the day, also are good for the brain and lower stress. Evidently the body works harder moving blood back and forth between the center and extremities of the body, but once it adapts to doing this, the body works more efficiently storing and using nutrients and it is less taxing on the body in the long run. Adequate hydration, good nutrition, and high intensity interval training, weights targeting various muscle groups, and some cardio are obviously the primary mainstays of health, but I had no idea deliberately taking full breaths and getting plenty of oxygen could add so much to health. This article says more:

https://www.headspace.com/blog/2017/07/06/long-term-effects-short-breaths/

It’s a familiar occurrence in yoga class. After a series of postures and movements, participants return to downward dog, where the instructor suggests everyone take a long, slow breath, and exhale with the sound of “HA.” During this long breath, instructors will also encourage students to let go of any negative thoughts.
At first glance, it sounds like fluff, but during moments of doubt, a wave of the relaxation moves throughout the body, and even a brightness of one’s mood. [Editor’s Note: you can always skip the 45-minute yoga class for 10 minutes of meditation if your schedule or body isn’t up to it.]

It’s easy to knock yogi wisdom as being rife with a positivity bias, but recent studies have shown that science supports mindful breathing. Generally, we know that inhaling provides oxygen to the lungs and bloodstream while exhaling releases carbon dioxide. But our breaths can do so much more: they can affect our mental states, and subsequently, lead to positive changes in our body like the suppression of genes expressing for inflammation, as well as lower levels of cortisol in our bloodstream.

In a recent study published in Science, researchers may have found an explanation to explain why slow, long breaths typical in mindful meditative activities induce tranquility. The team, led by Kevin Yackle, an assistant researcher specializing in physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, linked the main change to genes that express neurons in the preBötC, commonly referred to as the pacemaker for breathing. By eliminating the neurons with specific genetic markers, the researchers found that when they placed mice lacking those neurons in novel, stimulating environments, rather than tweak out and sniff erratically—their version of our anxiety-induced hyperventilation—these mice maintained a sense of calmness. Yackle explained that the neurons they’d wiped out in the preBötCwere communicating with the locus coeruleus, a part of the brain responsible for our states of arousal.

Arousal is at the heart of mindful breathing, as recent studies have found anxiety and distress are connected to a number of physiological changes. One notable finding is the connection between stress and the length of telomeres, or a sequence of nucleotides that function as protective “caps” at the end of chromosomes. Shorter telomeres are associated with higher likelihood of diseases such as cancer, as well as risk of death. Telomeres shorten every time a cell divides, and although the enzyme telomerase replenishes the lost nucleotides, other factors can speed up telomere shortening, like, well, stress.

“Chronic stress rots the cell’s resources to recover and help to protect and maintain the DNA productivity,” says Elissa Epel, a professor of psychiatry at UCSF. She adds that oxidative stress and other stress chemicals like cortisol are notable culprits for telomere shortening. But all is not lost.
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In 2014, Linda E. Carlson, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Calgary, led a study published in the journal Cancer. For eight weeks, patients performed Mindfulness-Based Cancer Reduction (which is based on the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, a meditative practice that involves a focused attention to one’s breath and typically leads to a state of relaxation detachment). Cancer patients who practiced MBCR maintained their telomere length, while control patients telomeres shortened over the course of the test.

Carlson explains that underlying the MBSR and the focus on one’s breath is a connection to sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. When the sympathetic nervous system stimulates our sense of arousal, the parasympathetic response brings us back to balance, such as decreasing blood pressure and lowering one’s heart rate. Carlson says that over time, our sympathetic nervous system evolved to become triggered by much more than it was initially designed.

“The threats we faced were acute events, but now we perceive many things as threatening: fight with your partner, being stuck in traffic, all those things can trigger [the] same response,” says Carlson. “You get cortisol flowing through the bloodstream, rapid breathing, heart pounding, but the threat never goes away. So you don’t actually have balance.”

By practicing mindfulness breathing and MBSR, Carlson explains, our breath can create a sense of calmness that can have positive effects on our immune system, our telomeres, and our larger physiology.

“When [stress] becomes chronic, you get worn down, your body becomes exhausted,” says Carlson. “Mindfulness teaches you how to get back to the balanced place.”

A friend of a friend of mine as a recreational observatory and he is hoping he will find something scientifically significant. He likes to take photographs of galaxies and supernova clouds for fun. If there is anything you would like to see at a particular celestial coordinate, I could probably get you a photograph of it.

I get the picture. Have fun y’all.

Hey David,
Would you mind getting me some “yellowcake” or cinnabar? - Thanks

If the universe started from nothing, it makes sense that the beginning would be an asymptotic, gradual one rather than a discreet, all-from-nothing start. Maybe a cloud was created with 12 dimensions and is collapsing or doing something strange from the edge surface.

We are very fortunate to have such brilliant minds among us. It gives life to the forums. And either way, if it is imploding from an outside source or expanding, it is all over my head, like the heavens.

Accepting reality is not irreverent, It is accepting God. It is also therapeutic, for God’s glory and our good.

Thinking why does time slip by so quickly even when there is an extra hour.

Scientific observation is full of miracles. While most of them do not answer fundamentally important questions like the miracles in the Bible, they are from God, they can be the essential tools for the exact needed service in this world for each other as followers of Christ in this life, sometimes literally life saving - no exaggeration or joke, and they help to build a language to understand and relate to each other who are with the Spirit, living in the present.