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Inside Out
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Our lives, in modern society, often leave us with a strange sort of emptiness, which we usually don't notice--except for the few quiet moments we give ourselves right before sleep and just after waking. To avoid confronting this emptiness, we tire ourselves out with intense effort at work, jog endlessly to run away from ourselves, gossip lest we mutter the truth, or hypnotize ourselves into a stupor with television. We wonder when our lives will improve and hope that someday, when luck strikes, something magical will make our lives happy and meaningful. In the meantime, we wonder if humanity will be any better for our role in it after we are gone.
The truth is that nothing around us will change unless we change our selves. Since the world is kind enough to reflect to us who we are, we should know that our pleasures, pains, and empty moments are just mirror images of the void within.
This gnawing emptiness is the result of living an illusion, a lie. We deny who we really are and what we believe deep inside for the sake of decorum and societal standards. We unwittingly prolong our denial, since we seldom listen deeply enough to our inner voice and true identity. However, our repressed self constantly nags us from deep within. Even though we may have hidden our true self so well we don't recognize that it even exists, our subconscious certainly feels the conflict and we notice the resulting energy drain. We continue to struggle for "normal" lives, satisfying the illusion of what our past has led us to believe we are. Thus, we are at odds with ourselves from moment to moment, wondering why we are so tired, why our lives are not full of joy and light. This discord is what I call living in illusion.
To satisfy ourselves that the illusion is reality, we must perform actions that make us feel good on the outside. We wear fine clothes to cover weak and misaligned bodies, put on a mask of make-up to hide weary skin, and give to charities to feel better about making money. We talk about honesty only when it benefits us, drink coffee and eat sugar so we no longer feel as tired as we really are, and drape our surroundings with the trappings of temporary prosperity. Not all of these qualities are undesirable, but when the reason we do them is to hide the pain inside, what are we really accomplishing?
I have had deep discourse with super successful people who have attained every goal, but they can't explain why they worked so hard or what they should do next. They have fulfilled every desire and met every want, but they still feel empty. As the Canadian poet Robert William Service writes in his poem, "The Spell of the Yukon,"
I wanted the gold and I sought it; I scrabbled and mucked like a slave Was it famine or scurvy-I fought it I hurled my youth into a grave. I wanted the gold, and I got it Came out with a fortune last fall, Yet somehow life's not what I thought it And somehow the gold isn't all
There is an alternative: living with integrity. Imagine a state of fullness, where life is joyous, everything falls into place and you can access an unlimited stream of energy, wisdom, and power. We can achieve this state of integrity when our outer life matches our inner life. To wit, integrity is being lived when our deepest beliefs and thoughts intermesh perfectly with our daily words and actions. As Socrates said, "Integrity is better than charity. The Gods approve of the depth and not of the tumult of the soul."
Knowing this, what must we do? First we must discover what our innermost beliefs are, and clearly realize that, as the Mother of Pondicherry so aptly put it, "Each one of us has a work to do, a role to fill, a place which we alone can occupy."
In the silent moments when we are still--or involved in inner exercise such as yoga--we must turn our awareness inward to listen to the festering truth. In yoga, we call this Dharma. In the West, we often call this a "life mission" or "purpose." Unless we answer the two questions "Who am I?" and "Why am I here?" honestly and with conviction, all of our words and actions are false--they hide the fact that we do not really know why we do what we do, or why we go where we go. I have learned in the international business world that if you teach people how to answer why, the how will take care of itself.
Once we understand the reason for our life and decide to take the steps to live it, effort will seem easy, passion will infuse each action and we will be at one with our inner and outer surroundings. We will feel full again. We will seek inspiration from everyone around us, and everyone around us will seek inspiration from us. We will strengthen each word and action with the foundation of conviction. We will, at long last, be able to live in integrity.
© 2008 Aadil Palkhivala
Aadil is the author of "Fire of Love", a book for Teachers of Yoga and Students of Life.
To buy a copy- click on this link: www.buyfireoflove.com
Do You Actually Know What's Inside our Tap Water?
It seem to be so normal when we turn on the tap, fill the glass with tap water, drink it or just use it for cooking purposes. Besides consuming the tab water, take shower in it, water the plants with it, wash our clothes and basically our life can not live without tap water. It is so important that we can't live without tap water nowadays because our life depends so much on the tap water. However, have you ever wonder what's inside our tap water?
Scientifically, tap water is made of Hydrogen and Oxygen, to be more precise, it is a combination of 2 hydrogen molecules and one Oxygen molecule; H2O. Lots of the H2O make up the water and it keep in the cycle transforming from H2O (liquid form) to Hydrogen & Oxygen (gas form), and back to H2O again. So, these will go on and go on for as long as we live.
When it rains, the water is being gathered in a damp or water catchments which will be channeled to the reservoir. Water then will be filtered and treated before it reach our house as tap water. During the water treatment by the water works or local municipal, chlorine will be added to water because of low cost and high efficiency in killing just about everything hazardous in the water. Chlorine reacts with water-borne decaying organic matter like leaves, bark, sediment, etc. to create a family of chemicals called trihalomethanes and other highly toxic substances. Trihalomethanes, or THM's, include chemicals such as chloroform, bromoform and dichlorobromethane, all of which are extremely carcinogenic. So, you know now what's inside our tap water.
The chlorine is always at its highest acceptable level in order to be affective. Periodically, test will be carried out to ensure the chlorine level is safe for human consumption, but unfortunately there are still many ways where the tap water will be contaminated before reaching the household. When chlorine level is not sufficient to do its jobs, bacteria can re-infect the water anywhere along the distribution system within hours. It could happened in the main pipes or even the plumbing in your house, the water tank above your house or apartment, or even neighboring pollution, occasional contamination from animals either dying or defecating in the source. Those old distribution using lead and asbestos-lined water pipes, is interjecting lead and asbestos into the water supply. Sadly to say, truly what's inside our tap water, is partly contributed by the tap water distribution networks.
Another " what's inside our tap water " main concern is the presence of chemicals in our tap water. The existence other chemicals even only in trace amounts, are highly toxic and harmful to human being. Leaking underground storage tanks for gasoline or industrial solvents such as TCE (trichloroethane) end up in the groundwater or in the municipal supply through breaks or cracks in the main water pipes. The biggest family of these toxics are VOC's or volatile organic contaminants, including various plastic, gasoline and petroleum products.
Next is the herbicidal group such as dioxin (2-4D) and lindane, used as a defoliant in modern logging operation and found in many wild and rural areas, do not neglect DDT, malathione and other toxics used in insect eradication and control. Also, the THM's mentioned before are a big pollutant because of the amount of chlorination used nationwide. They are a separate class of chemical from chlorine itself. So, it's so scary to know what's inside our tap water!
I am very sure if you really aware of what's inside our tap water, you will think the need to install a whole water filtration system is so important to purify the tap water prior to consuming it. Do not take it likely when our utmost health and wellness is concerned when find out the truth about what's inside our tap water.
About the Author
Alvyn Khoo is a health researcher on water purification issues. He helped 2 teams of people promoting home water purifier from 2 reputable companies in Asia but later decided to stay independent and neutral on his patient in home water purifiers system. Visit his site now at http://www.absolute-filtered-water-site.com to get the facts on how to choose the best water purification system. Drinking water is best consumed as pure as the nature originally intended.
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