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Men Having Trouble Dating Women

EVERY MAN HAS TO LEAD THE WOMAN

MASCULINE ENERGY

DO NOT HESITATE
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Dating is a art form (dating dynamic). It can feel like taking a class, if you do not have the experience with women. The process would then become MENTALLY tough because of your dating MINDSET. Therefore, you have come to the right article for your journey into the dating world. As A reminder before going deeper into the material, it is that i'm not a dating expert. I am still learning about all of this stuff, just like you. 

Everybody has three ways, that men learn about dating/women. One, you learn thur books and other reading materials. Two, you learn thur friends, family, and strangers. Three, you learn thur trial and error (THE HARD WAY). I'll come back to why "the hard way" is of such importances. 

I found this book that was mind changing to me. The books I have read before this recent book, really question my current knowledge of dating. Deep down I knew previously that, the information in this current book was the correct information to begin the journey with. In total, it comes down to the "The Hard Way" and not the "Easy Way" when dating women. 

In "The Manual: What Women Want And How To Give It To Them" by W. Anton, he breaks down the dating process to its most basic fundamental Elements. When doing things the hard way in dating; what that means is that, men have to deal with "UNCERTAINTY" during the dating process. Uncertainty would be consider fear of rejection, approach anxiety and not knowing what to do in the MOMENT FACE to FACE with women. The main goal of the book, is how to deal with uncertainty. Bascially do not hesitate and talk to women in the MOMENT! There is no need for pick up lines, strategy/tactics, and no need for excuses for why you can't approach the woman. No excuses at all! You keep it simple and approach her straight up. After you approach, you state your interest/intentions for why you are there talking to her; in the first place. Get her attention 1st, say "hi" or "excuse me miss". After that, the first words out YOUR mouth should be stating your intentions towards her. THEN you proceed with small talk. The aim is to be VERY DIRECT with her. More details about this specific topic will be cover more in his book.

When I say "Approach her", that means approach her straight up in front of her. Not to the sides or behind. Before approaching her in the moment, do not for cues to see if she is interested in you. That should not matter or is it important to find out if she is. Find out, AFTER she gives you a response to your direct approach. Don't look to see if she alone or with friends, body language cues, smiling or not (friendly looking). All of the cues are under the category of MAKING EXCUSES for yourself for why you can't approach her. It is all in the mind, a mindset.

When I read this information, it was a slap to the face several times! It woke me up and made me even more determine to battle my issues with dating. If I was to tell you how long I went without sex, you would be shock (maybe to some people tho). That's a secret I am too embarrass to speak on. Some other time then. Anyhow, this book is defintily not made to make you feel good. It is to give you the HARD HITTING REALITY of the dating world. The only way is to confront your uncertainty (fear/rejection) is to exposed yourself to more interactions with women.

I want to leave you with a very important factor in the game of dating. And that is to pick who YOU find attractive with women. Attractive women only. It is important to end up with attractive women because it will be that much more fulfilling to you. If you end up without one, it won't feel worth it overall.Then you will regret not pushing yourself to deserving what you deserve with women.

In the end, you will not regret your choice of approaching attractive women. This might leave to dating, one night stand, relationship, f!uk buddies (lol). Gain that experience with women which will lead you to a super attractive woman. No man has time to become friends first or get stuck in the friend zone with no way out. Leave that to the simps. Life is too short for all that. 

#DON'T BE A SIMP

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http://www.amazon.com/The-Manual-What-Women-Want/dp/1456494554

Educational Purposes: Marijuana

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A New Article Now Up!

Here is the link to my website: Ingredients for Dummies

http://ingredientsfordummies.com/2015/11/27/educational-purposes-marijuana/

Using Imagination as Yoga for the Mind

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I guess imagination can be very powerful for the mind. Let me explain why. The article by Sally Safadi, entitled "Imagination is Yoga for the Mind"; gives very good points as to why this is. I'll list the points.

   KEY POINTS From 'IMAGINATION IS YOGA FOR THE MIND' as quoted by Sally Safadi

1. "Flexing the muscle of imagination generates mental flexibility and supports adaptability, which allows us to more easily shift thought patterns, alter responses and better adjust to varying circumstances."
2. "Imagination is an extension of thinking that projects our intentions and desires through creativity."
3. "While knowledge is important, facts and information require imagination to result in creation."
4. "Our minds generate 60,000 thoughts per day, on average; often, a mix of memories and projected future scenarios coming together to create images that influence our responses to the present moment."
5. "The ability to direct and take control of our thoughts is gaining acceptance through mindfullness, meditation and yoga to produce better streams of thought."
6. "The mind should ideally maintain a balance between flexibility and focus, and cultivation creativity with our imagination develops a more malleable thinking pattern."
7. "A more flexible way of seeing the world, it is easier to change habits, modify environments, insight, alter our sense of awareness and broaden the perpective through which we see the world."
8. "Creative exercises are mental yoga that allow the mind to stretch and pose in different postures and flexing the mind takes time, practice and persistance to succeed."
9. "The framework in which we see the world should not be self-limiting."
10. "Our heads are boxes that contain the neurons that allow us to think. Envision a greater world requires imagination, and this capacity can be developed with the proper tools."
11. "Finding our imagination helps us live in a more powerful way. IT WAS THERE THE WHOLE TIME."

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Links

http://thetravelingcup.com/sallysafadi/

Part 2: Vitamin E is Brain Essential

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In my last post about Vitamin E, I did not fully explain the mechanism, that makes vitamin E essential to the Brain. Therefore, I will pull out key information from the OSU article on vitamin E.

Based on OSU Research, they have discovered how vitamin E deficiency may cause neurological damage. This is cause by robbing the brain of the building blocks it needs, to maintain neuronal health. 

The research done to make this discovery of how vitamin E deficiency works, was based on the work done with the zebrafish. So throughtout the zebrafish's life, it was fed a diet that was deficient in vitamin E. Therefore, it had 30 percent lower levels of DHA-PC. DHA-PC is apart of the cellular memebrane in every brain cell (neuron). Then it went on to say that, LYSO-PLs were a average lower of 60 percent in fish with the Vitamin E deficiency diet. The zebrafish was a year-old when participating in the study. So with the level of vitamin E deficiency that the fish had, it was EQUIVALENT TO A HUMAN LIFETIME OF A LOW VITAMIN E DIET. BUT, the fish's diet was for the zebrafish whole life that was similar to SOME humans with the Vitamin E deficiency.

In the United States, 90 percent of men and 96 percent of women do get their proper levels of Vitamin E (by the way). Also these stats are kinda surprising due to the fact that, United states citizens have higher rates of different diseases going on than in other countries in the world. For Example, diseases simliar to cancer, obesity, diabetes and etc. 

Now lets get to the equally important facts in the article.

There are recent studies that indicated biomarkers for people (humans) that can predict higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Because of these recent studies, it was stated that low levels of DHA-PC in blood plasma were causes of high risk alzheimer's disease. So make sure you eat your fish that has high amounts of DHA people.

But just as important as study just stated, another study states that LYSO-PLs are needed for getting DHA into the brain and serve as BUILDING BLOCKS that aid in membrane repair. Plus Lyso-PLs is a nutrient for transporting DHA. DHA is a a polyunsaturated fatty acid, which is the most important nutrients found in omega-3 fatty acids. These omega-3s are found in fish oil and other foods. 

What I found the most interesting within this article is that vitamin E in human diets is mostly provided by the dietary oil(s) like olive oil. Also the food with the highest levels of E are almonds, sunflower seeds, or almonds. 

Maret Traber who was lead author on this article had important statements said. she mention that human brains are very enriched in DHA but they can not make it and get it from the liver. So lyso-PLs carry the specific molcules to the brain from the liver. Therefore, those compounds are vastly decrease when vitamin E intake is low. This will set the stage for cellular membrane damage and neural (neuronal) death. She also said that other research has shown that the progression of alzheimer's disease can be slowed down by increasing vitamin E. 

All in all, what this article comes down to is DHA is needed and Lyso-PLs are building blocks to transport DHA which is very enriched in the brain.

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LINK

http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2015/apr/mechanism-outlined-which-inadequate-vitamin-e-can-cause-brain-damage

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Vitamin E is Brain Essential

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According to researches at Oregon State University, they have discovered why vitamin E is essential for Healthy Brains. When there is a deficiency in vitamin E, this may cause neurological damage by damaging the supply line of specific nutrients and robbing the brain of the building blocks it needs to maintain health. Maret Traber (PhD/lead author of the study, who was published in the Journal of Lipid Research) said,"In a sense, if vitamin E is inadequate, we're cutting by more than half the amount of materials with which we can build and maintain the brain."

But according to the National Institutes of Health, it was stated that several studies investigated to determined if vitamin E supplements might help older adults remain mentally alert and active, plus prevent or slow the decline of Alzheimer's disease. But there was not enough strong helpful research to provide whether taking vitamin E supplements can help healthy people or mild mental fuctioning probelms to maintain brain health. 

First of all, taking supplements DOES NOT, compare to eating whole foods that have the same vitamin within those foods. Supplements only help half way depending on what TYPE of supplement you are taking and how it was PROCESS.

Inaddtion, to contradict my own personal assumption in the last paragraph. Life-Echancement mention that by maintaining a high intake of vitamin E from just food by itself; it is possible to avoid the 8 to 9 year cognitive aging effect caused by a decrease comsuption of E. But supplementation of E would have value. The statement that support the supplementation to a degree is as stated "Given the important role that vitamin E evidently plays in protecting cognitive function, there is hope that supplementation with this vitamin may help in preventing, or at least delaying the onset of, serious neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases".

Vitamin E ability is to protect neurons against oxidative damage MAY have important effects on healthy neurological aging. 

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Links

http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2015/apr/mechanism-outlined-which-inadequate-vitamin-e-can-cause-brain-damage

http://www.jlr.org/content/early/2015/04/08/jlr.M058941.abstract?ct

http://www.life-enhancement.com/magazine/article/730-vitamin-e-keeps-your-brain-razor-sharp

http://www.jlr.org/content/early/2013/03/15/jlr.R032946

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Exercising The Mind And Body May Not Protect Against Alzheimer's (Bad News?)

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There is now new research suggesting that, staying physically fit and mentally fit may help healthy people ward off the mental decline that comes with aging, BUT it does not affect the underlying causes of Alzheimer's disease. Inside people with Alzheimer's, there are abnormal, fuzzy, and cloud-like clusters of Fragments of protein called BETA-AMYLOID that surround nerve cells, plus block their signals. Therefore, this leads the person's mind function and memory to deteriorate.

Most Importantly, in the study researchers looked at Beta-Amyloid and other characteristics of Alzheimer's. This lead them to see if there were characteristics in people's brains responded (correlated) with mental and physical exericises. As a result, results reveal that exercises may possibly be disconnected from any protection against Alzheimer's diesease characteristics of the brain. This was a statement of the results by Keith A. Johnson (co-director of the Massachusetts Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Harvard Medical School).

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Links

https://www.aan.com/PressRoom/Home/PressRelease/1388

http://library.aumhc.org/poc/view_doc.php?type=news&id=173539&cn=231

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4 Best Foods for Your Brain (MIND Diet)

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I found this Article from MSN entitle "4 Best Foods For Your Brain". In this Article, research points out that certain foods can help kill off memory loss, dementia, & even Alzheimer's disease. There was a study in the Journal Alzheimer's & Dementia; saying that the Mind Diet can (may) reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's by 53%. When it comes to following this diet, you do not have to every detail to get the the benefits. The people (study participants) who follow the diet kinda sort-of (moderately) lowered their risk of Alzheimer's disease by 35%. 

What is the MIND DIET? The Mind Diet is the 'Mediterrranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay'. This diet is a combination of the Mediterranean and DASH diet. According to prevention.com , it saids, "Both the Mediterranean and DASH diets have shown brain-boosting benefits in past research, even though both are typically touted for their protective powers for the heart. The MIND diet, on the other hand, emphasizes the pieces of each that have been specifically linked to dementia prevention and modifies other aspects, like fruit consumption, for added benefit".

Here Are The 4 Best Foods for Your Brain:

1. FATTY FISH
2. GREEN LEAFY VEGETABLES
3. OLIVE OIL
4. BLUEBERRIES

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LINKS

http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/4-best-foods-for-your-brain/ar-BBkkfv7?ocid=mailsignout#page=1

http://www.prevention.com/health/diet-lowers-alzheimers-risk

http://www.alzheimersanddementia.com/article/S1552-5260%2815%2900017-5/abstract

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Six Essential Keys to Boosting Your Brain by Boosting Your Gut

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In David Perlmutters' book 'Brain Maker'; he discusses 6 important keys to boosting your brain in Chapter 8 entitle 'Feeding Your Microbiome'. Also before I list the 6 keys, a microbiome is "The human microbiome is the population of more than 100 trillion microorganisms that live in our gut, mouth, skin and elsewhere in our bodies". Therefore, here are the 6 Keys to boosting your brain.

Six Essential Keys to Boosting Your Brain by Boosting Your Gut:

1. CHOOSE FOODS RICH IN PROBIOTICS 
2. GO LOW-CARB, EMBRACE HIGH QUALITY FAT
3. ENJOY WINE, TEA, COFFEE, AND CHOCOLATE
4. CHOOSE FOODS RICH IN PROBIOTICS
5. DRINK FILTERED WATER
6. FAST EVERY SEASON

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10 Warning Signs of Alzheimer's

First of all, I do not claim ownership of the information provided in this post. This is infomation taken from magazine I found of interest.

I recently found this article about the brain and alzheimer's disease. Everybody should know the warning signs before anyone starts seeing symptoms within them. Better yet prevents these warning signs from ever showing up in the first place. Prevention is the key to preventing most diseases. Always think ahead of time, when it comes to your health.

Here are the warning signs of alzheimer's:

1. "Memory loss that interferes with daily life"
2. "Difficulty solving problems, developing and following a plan"
3. "Challenges in completeing familiar tasks"
4. "Becoming confused about times or locations"
5. "Difficulty understanding visual probelms and spatial relationships"
6. "Difficulty following a conversation, repeating things over and over, or calling things by the wrong name"
7. "Misplacing things or putting things in unusual places"
8. "Poor Judgment or decreased capacity for decision making"
9. "Withdrawing from work or decreased involvement in social activities or hobbies, sometimes due to difficulties remebering how to complete tasks"
10. "Personality changes or changes in mood"

5 Clever Ways to Become More Self-Confident

1. Be Sure to Look The Part 

   • "Law 34: Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated like one" 

     ~ 48 Laws of Power

2. “Fake it Till You Make it”

   • “Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” ~ Lao Tzu

3. Understand that Everyone is Insecure

   • “Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.” ~ Andre Maurois

4. Use Fear to Your Advantage

   • “The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.” ~ William Jennings Bryan

5. Practice Really does Make Perfect

   • Repetition of the mother of all learn skills

     • "Remember how you thought that the self-confident people you met were born with it? That’s because they’ve practiced so often that they’ve internalized these traits, making them seem natural."

        

        

 

5 Clever Ways 

10 Ways to Stop Stressing & Start Living Peacefully

1. Take Time for Silent (Meditation / Mindfulness) 
2. Get Rid of Stuff (Minimalism)
3. Give Yourself a Safe Space  (A Place to do Yoga / Relax)
4. Create a Budget
5. Organize Your Time and Self (learn to say no)
6. Stop Being Influenced by Media
7. Be Rational
8. Exercise 
9. Express Gratitude (Start Being Thankful)
10. Trust yourself 

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I Repeat..you are not getting OLD!

“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.”

― Bruce Lee

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   I was in Walmart today and i heard this woman say, " i'm 40, i'm getting old". I am saying to myself  "here we go again"(LOL). I am very sick of hearing people say that crap. The words ' I'm getting old ' is heard everywhere and I keep hearing those damn words, over and over again. Listen people, nobody getting old and first thing people need to do is stop saying it. Do not waste your time talking that trash that comes out peoples mouths (WTF). In reality, everybody ages, that is a fact. It is peoples frame of mind, perception, experiences and outlook of the world, that has people thinking that way.

Belief Systems

Just keep an open mind on what people say.

It is easy to fall into your own belief system.

Therefore we must all continue to progress in our own eyes,

as we see fit.

That is if you can see it with your own eyes.

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The 7 deadly myths of reading

There is a lot of knowledge out there in the world. We have to continuously seek out knowledge. I found that reading faster is better and more effective. This is known as speed reading. 

Tony Porter: A call to men

I knew before watching this video, that the mind frame of men is off (wrong). Of course, media does have a negative influence on how they force us to think of what it is the be a man. It challenges us to think in-depth of what the mind frame of man is. I hope this will influence others to rethink their concept of what is to be a man for themselves.  

The benefits of meditation

There are many benefits to meditation, but much more research is needed to be done on this practice. I'll just name a few.