Damn Interesting • A collection of legitimately fascinating information culled from the past, present, and anticipated future. 50 Things Everyone Should Know - StumbleUpon by Mark and Angel Self-reliance is a vital key to living a healthy, productive life. To be self-reliant one must master a basic set of skills, more or less making them a jack of all trades. While not totally comprehensive , here is a list of 50 things everyone should know how to do. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. Read the rest of the article Healing the Body with Mindfulness of Breathing « Metta Refuge This excerpt from a talk by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh explains how to use mindfulness of breathing to bring loving-kindness to our dear bodies. The physical effect of this can be truly remarkable. As Thây says, “You should really love your body. You should really take care of your body. Mindful breathing, with rest, can do miracles The First Exercise of Mindful Breathing My dear friends, yesterday I spoke about the first exercise proposed by the Buddha concerning mindful breathing: “Breathing in, I am aware that I am breathing in; breathing out, I am aware that I am breathing out.” We should always start with our physical bodies, because our physical bodies also needs peace, harmony and rest. We should realize a true rest. Animals in the forest, every time they are wounded, know how to rest. Deep relaxation here is one of the methods of resting. The Second Exercise of Mindful Breathing Do not try to prolong the breath; just allow it to be the way it is, naturally. Like this:
Vir Sanghvi How you define an original inhabitant of Bombay or Mumbai (as the city was renamed in 1996) depends on how far back you go. My mother moved to Bombay from Ahmedabad, where she grew up, in the 1940s, when she was in her early 20s. Her mill-owner father would not let her join the family business so she found a job as an industrial psychologist (what we would now call Human Relations) in a British company in Bombay. Her parents were not thrilled but agreed to let her go if she stayed in a flat of their choosing. By the standards of today’s Mumbai, that’s a fairly impressive pedigree. Certainly, they had moved in the city long before the parents and grandparents of many of today’s Shiv Sena leaders. But we were always conscious that we were not the original inhabitants of the city. In those days, Carmichael Road still consisted mainly of large bungalows built for the city’s elite. As far as they were concerned, we were parvenus. Bal Thackeray and other Marathi chauvinists deny this claim.
How I Can Afford My Life Of Constant Travel | Wandering Earl - StumbleUpon I’m confused. I’m simply confused as to how it’s possible that I have so far failed to properly explain how I’ve managed to travel/live/work abroad nonstop for 12 years straight (and counting). The questions are still pouring in every single day: How do you do it? How is it possible to travel for so long? Where does the money come from? And while I thoroughly enjoy communicating with readers (I’m being completely serious and encourage you all to continue sending your emails to me as often as you wish), the fact that these very questions are on the minds of so many of you out there has led me to believe that I need to do a better job at providing the answers. While it’s true that I’ve already written plenty of posts on the matter, clearly all of these posts, even as one collective entity, still fall well short of proving that a life of travel is not some crazy fantasy but a perfectly reasonable and easily attainable lifestyle option instead. So what am I to do? December 25, 1999: March 2000
Pandora battery guide to downgrade PSP to version 1.5 Many people choose to upgrade their PSP firmware to version 3.51, and with that version, there is no restrictions as to what games and applications you can run on your PSP. But in order to upgrade firmware, you have to downgrade to version 1.5 first.After that,you will need to mod your PSP battery,into the so-called pandora battery, otherwise it is not possible to upgrade your PSP firmware. Tools needed: original PSP battery with at least 50% of power, a Memory Stick Pro Duo with 1GB memory or above. I. Preparing to downgrade-Wipe and Format PSP Memory Stick In order to downgrade the firmware, you have to reformat the memory stick first 1. 2. 3. 4. When it is done formating, download the Pandora Battery Application Pack from here and uncompress it to the root directory of a partition, say H. II. Step 1: Do a logical reformat of your PSP. Step 2: Go into partition K(the PSP storage), and make a folder named "PSP" and subfolder "game" under the newly created PSP folder. III.
Glass Beach - The Dump You'll Want to Visit - Unfinished Man - StumbleUpon Before you say anything about the content of this article, I hate people who litter. I’ll judge you if I think you’re too lazy to recycle. I hate pollution and the death of our fragile ecosystems and all the rest. But- with that disclaimer out of the way- Glass Beach in Fort Bragg, California is the incredible result of human wastefulness and the resilience of nature. It’s like a little Inuksuk… I’ve been trolling around for lesser known landscapes to road trip to and explore, and stumbled across this chunk of multicoloured west coast paradise. These days, Glass Beach is a protected part of MacKerricher State Park, but in 1949, it was the site of an unrestricted dump. Eventually, California realized that dumping automobiles, appliances, toxic substances and razor sharp shards of glass into the water was probably a bad idea, and looked elsewhere for a dumping site. The beaches under the cliffs lay polluted, cluttered and ruined, and were basically treated as a forgotten ‘mistake.’
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