Thought for the day

[bellenuit]

In the last, most intense hours of labor, I had unexpectedly become mindless, floating in boundless empty space between contractions, unoccupied by any thoughts whatsoever.

Interesting. But how would it be possible to maintain that state when all around you are saying "push".

 

[Gringotts Bank]

Interesting. But how would it be possible to maintain that state when all around you are saying "push".

I could only guess, not having been there. But in any selfless state your attention is pulled inwards, away from the sensory stimuli that the mind uses to create a sense of self. So the yelling and commotion would probably appear far away. Top athletes who enter 'the zone' have made similar descriptions about their experiences (time and space dilation, absolute certainty, presence, being unconcerned with the surrounds).

I believe most traders would have had at least one experience of 'being in the zone', even if it was a mild version of it.

 

[McLovin]

Interesting. But how would it be possible to maintain that state when all around you are saying "push".

Oxytocin and beta endorphins. Some call it transcendence, others call it getting high.

 

[bellenuit]

But if you are in a transcendental state and are oblivious to the push calls, won't it be difficult to have the baby without pushing.

 

[Gringotts Bank]

But if you are in a transcendental state and are oblivious to the push calls, won't it be difficult to have the baby without pushing.

Well again I'm not a woman (add a few grains of salt), but have a read of that article which explains that childbirth is not something that needs particular instruction. It's in a woman's DNA. I like the article because it shows that the body has an intelligence that far exceeds the mind's capacity.

Over and over we have to emphasize, “You know how to give birth. You know just what to do.”…

 

[noirua]

The Law is the Law in all matters. However, for whatever good reasons many seek or demand justice in the distant past that seeks the Judges today to adjust their rulings on belief and the sentences or judgements they would have given. There is only one truth but does it supersede the workings of and seek to judge and put pressure on the Judges and the Law?

 

[noirua]

Life is like a bowl of cherries. Small, medium and large. Ripe, unripe and overripe. Sweet, medium and sour. Picked, shaken down and windfalls. Many varieties and densities of colour. The trees can be small, medium and large. They can be good quality, short of food and water, or ruined in wet and cold environments. Chopped down or hacked about. Hit by disease or pollen eaten by birds.
Such is our rich pattern of life - we are but a bowl of cherries.

 

[SirRumpole]

Life is like a bowl of cherries. Small, medium and large. Ripe, unripe and overripe. Sweet, medium and sour. Picked, shaken down and windfalls. Many varieties and densities of colour. The trees can be small, medium and large. They can be good quality, short of food and water, or ruined in wet and cold environments. Chopped down or hacked about. Hit by disease or pollen eaten by birds.
Such is our rich pattern of life - we are but a bowl of cherries.

I thought life was like a bag of chocolates.

 

[noirua]

It's important to treat sleep apnea, and not just because of daytime sleepiness.
When oxygen levels in the blood drop, your body responds by releasing stress hormones and partially waking you up –– as many as 400 times a night.
Over time, exposure to those hormones increases the risk of high blood pressure, heart attack, and stroke.
The chronic exhaustion caused by sleep apnea increases the risk of depression. Daytime sleepiness is also a leading cause of car accidents.

 

[noirua]

I thought life was like a bag of chocolates.

Appeared in the 1994 film Forrest Gump, when the lead character Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks) says "Mama always said life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

"Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries" was the title of a song by Lew Brown and Ray Henderson, sung by Ethel Merman in Scandals (1931). I don't know if the phrase predates that: there was a phrase in the 17th century, "Life is but a cherry-fair", but that meant "Life is very short."

 

[noirua]

President Trump looks to be losing his second attempt to ban people from 6 mainly Muslim countries: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...cks-President-Trump-s-revised-travel-ban.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rs-second-defeat-revised-travel-ban-hold.html
Whether he wins the day or not, he may be taking the safer option as ' So Called Islamic State' move out of Iraq and go for softer targets worldwide.

 

[noirua]

...and suddenly there is a dreadful silence and one is frozen as to what to do, forever.

 

[noirua]

The Odyssey of Homer, Translated by Alexander Pope - 1726

Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for the most part, to shut our ears against conviction; since, from the very gradual character of our education, we must continually forget, and emancipate ourselves from, knowledge previously acquired; we must set aside old notions and embrace fresh ones; and, as we learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labour and anxiety to acquire.

 

[noirua]

Prov. If you put off doing what you ought to do, you will end up not having enough time to do it properly. Jim: have you started looking for a job yet Jim? Oh that can wait 'till tomorrow said Jim: procrastination is the thief of time.

 

[noirua]

Damn! It's Easter again and markets are closed until Tuesday. Will have to rest and holiday. What a pain!

 

[noirua]

Those who set themselves up to, in effect, safeguard others from the effects of free speech and fair comment: Indeed, affect free speech so that reasonable debate becomes impossible. Thus, they increasingly control it in many forms and then, by that, dictate what may be said or discussed. Even to the extent it criticises or damns individuals and blocks free speech and fair comment. Eventually becoming a form of dictatorship in itself.

 

[noirua]

I have decided not to think today.

 

[SirRumpole]

I have decided not to think today.

I think that's a good idea.

 

[noirua]

Back thinking again.

If it is exactly right I will pay over the odds. If however it's not quite there then bin it as far as I'm concerned.

 

[noirua]

Gambling on the ASX small cap and UK AIM markets. Usually buy on news but leave it 1 hour to be sure. Always but always closeout towards the end of the day: otherwise, have a whole list of losers sitting there in a junk portfolio.