Harvard said this...NYTimes said that... what do you say?

For the "less-evolved" ones who have an open mind to evolve:

A large-scale Harvard study, conducted last year, revealed that "the actual, realistic weightage to technical expertise is only 13 per cent!! ..compared to the 87 per cent attributed to soft skills in corporates and graduates today!"

Ironically we need Harvard, Stanford, NY Times or some such brand name credibility to believe the facts...instead of the universal knowledge already shared to the world through the Vedas and scriptures that contributed to India's high, multi-dimensional prosperity quotient, in ancient times! Isn't it ironic...?

If you have understood the point here, then you are already "evolving".

If you wish to fast-track your evolution, and fast-track the evolution of this beautiful planet along the way, enrol for the next YES!+ program. It's for you. And you will find everything you have been searching for so far in life...and much more..


Btw, at the realm of the Self, there is no evolution, the Self is all there is, as it is.

YES!+ Program

What keeps NASA astronauts and Asia’s best cardiologist stress-free?

How do Google employees at PaoAlto balance life and work?

What gives the world’s best snooker player an additional edge over competition?

Do I have to struggle to become successful in life?

Do I have the ability to handle any situation in life…with a smile?

Welcome to YES!+ Program and Upgrade your life skills.

YES!+ stands for Youth Empowerment and Skills Workshop for students and working professionals between the 18 to 30 age group. It’s a one of a kind, life skills workshop which is specially designed to give deep relaxation and easy-to-practice, practical tools to lead life with success.

·                  Do my relationships handle me?

           For a change let me learn to handle my relationships.

·                  How can I give 100 per cent to life in the right direction?

·                  How to cultivate intelligence in my life without losing my innocence?

·                  Take a break from the madness of the world outside…Re-live life in your terms!

Whether you are a busy corporate, an ambitious student, or simply in need of a shift, YES!+ will leave you feeling lighter and ready to face any challenge with greater clarity and ease.

It enhances excellence and health in ALL ASPECTS of life: professional, personal, academic, physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual.

CORE COMPONENTS OF THIS BEAUTIFUL PROGRAM:

v    Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY):  A rhythmic breathing process that brings clarity to the mind, enhances creativity, kicks out personal mental barriers, gets rid of unhealthy habits, and increases focus and concentration levels tremendously.

v    Challenging sessions to strengthen and energize the body and increase stamina

v    Interactive Processes that are fun and provide practical wisdom to dealing with unpleasant situations at work/life

v    You’ll learn Ancient techniques:

ü  To enhance focus and concentration without stressing the mind

ü  shortcuts to time management

ü  for enhanced productivity at work

v    A 20-minute daily breathing and meditation practice upon completion of the program

The upcoming YES!+ @ Bangalore:

       

Trainers: Smriti and Sahil Jagtiani. (Sahil is an International trainer for the Art of Living International Foundation, an Entrepreneur, and an International Singer and Musician.)

 Dates: 11- 13 June

 Timings:  8:00 a.m. - 12 p.m.

 Where: ManandiSamskruta Sadan Hall, Jayanagar 5th Block, Bangalore
Age Criteria: 18–30 yrs + "those Young at Heart!"

Contact Us: Krishna 09884761590, Gaurav 9886279368

Email- smritisahilyesplus@gmail.com

Visit www.yesplus.org For testimonials: http://www.yesplusevents.org/testimonials/

Strangely, over-saturated intellectuals today need testimonials from organizations to believe good things, so here goes...(bcos nothing should stop you experiencing the most freeing experience you can have, in life) Please check the testimonials of various Organizations.

Also, share this link with your friends, family and colleagues. You never know whose life you may help Transform!

    

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One of those elite few bloggers (like me :-)) , who blog about useful stuff, that all can use...


http://www.todayifoundout.com/

Most other bloggers are so community centric...the Microsoft communities, the Open Source community, the vegan community, the this community, the that community....and the other few simply blog to make noise and be heard and be famous...


In such dark times, universal blogs like

http://www.todayifoundout.com/, www.bawandinesh.name, www.gaurav-nath.blogspot.com (;-))

are lighthouses of knowledge that the HUMAN community can use and reuse and gain from.


Do you know more such blogs? share them here...let's spread knowledge, not gossip or war :-)

YES!+

Living is truly an Art, which teaches the Science of Living!

http://yespluspunediary.blogspot.com/2009/01/hinjewadi-november.html

Re-living Life

Are you a college goer?

A fresher?
A corporate professional who picked up smoking during college days and the peer pressure of "acting" cool?
A rebel who rebels in all the wrong ways that cause long-term damage to your own health?

I am sure after reading this blog by Jitesh, you will re-think why you started smoking in the first place. And why not meditation?

Simply because it is a sincere and innocent request to stop smoking and start re-living! :-)

And for the intelligent people like me and you too (if you are a non-smoker and you meditate everyday), we know what a HIGH meditation gives to the system! It is intoxicating.

By meditation, I mean the real meditation. Cos most people have this misconcept about meditation:

"close your eyes and imagine toony lights...concentrate..Concentrate...CoNcEnTrAtE! cOnCeNtRaTe! ConncennnTrAAteee!!! Boom! Bang! KaBoooommm! "
I'm sure you'll wake up with a splitting headache and disappointment because you didn't see disco lights going zigzag with eyes closed...No! thats not meditation. Meditation as GuruJi says, is "DE-CONCENTRATION"! and the EFFECT of meditation is "CONCENTRATION".

So simply relax, call any Art Of Living volunteer, and register for a YOUTH EMPOWERMENT and SKILLS (YES!+) WORKSHOP (if you are young at heart!). I promise You, it'll be the best investment you'll have ever made in your life.

Time to Re-Live the few beautiful remaining years of this life in the Best Way! Let's learn the Art Of Living!

This Beautiful Planet called EARTH

Love is Unconditional

Youth is energy, Youth is enthusiasm.

"We not only need to globalize potato chips and coke, but we must globalize wisdom too!"-Sri Sri

"Broaden your vision, deepen your roots." -Sri Sri

Everything has a place in this Creation...Respect Life.

What is your Comfort Zone?

What is your Courage Zone?

When heart speaks to heart, melody is produced.

When head speaks to head, arguments are produced.

MAKE LIFE A CELEBRATION,

NOT A RACE

Wake Up! SPEAK OUT

Poison on the Platter from Jeffrey Smith on Vimeo.

(This video also features valuable comments of His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, who besides being a guide to billions worldwide on holistic and people-centric sustainable science, is also educated on ancient vedic science and modern science. He is a visionary with unquestionable integrity, and an all-encompassing, loving, caring concern for this entire planet and all its life forms.)

I am not against GE per se. GE can be applied to human gene therapy, they can be creating medicines in a laboratory under very carefully watched conditions. BUT WE SHOULD NOT feed the products of an infant science to millions of people.

- Jeffrey M Smith

Founder, Institute for Responsible Technology

If you look at GM food from the perspective of a simple human being, not a biotechnologist, or a scientist or an activist,...and you ask yourself:


From all the evidence discovered about the REAL threat of GM food to you, to me, to all people on this planet...would you still support GM food that has NOT been sufficiently tested by neutral bodies???

You and I know that trials of GM foods on lab animals across the world have repeatedly shown that they cause bleeding stomachs, and adversely affect brain, lungs, liver, kidney, pancreas and intestine. They have been even linked to higher offspring mortality and causing infertility.

As the most evolved, visible beings on this planet with sufficient intelligence, we are directly responsible for OUR ACTIONS AS WELL AS INACTIONS.

I am responsible for global warming and I am responsible for the insecure IT professionals who are too busy saving brownie points for their next appraisal instead of creating brownie points for the planet they owe more to.

I am responsible for the corruption among the politicians and the distorted bureaucrats that's siphoning out our country morality underneath seats of power, and stashing black money into Swiss bank accounts.

I am responsible for the junk food generation of misled teenagers (more facts) and and few over-enthusiastic ambitious biotechnologists who are spirituality deprived and do not respect the planet and its delicate natural laws.

I am responsible for educating you about it.

But I am not responsible if you choose not to look at it neutrally or neglect doing your own research:

• beyond your education conditioning if you are a biotechnologist

• beyond your vote bank politics if you are a politician, beyond your comfort zone of "short term gain long term pain" attitude

• beyond your insensitivity to your environment

“India is fast becoming the world’s biggest dustbin for this risky and unwanted technology. We are being told that these crops are essential for feeding the growing population, but there is not even one GM crop that produces higher yields. In fact, many of the GM crops produce less than the existing crops. And yet, as many as 56 foods crops are being genetically modified in India.”

-Devinder Sharma,

Food Policy key Analyst 

“What we need is a moratorium on release of any GM crop and sale of any GM seed for at least next 5 to 7 years, till their safety is not assured through stringent and impartial tests, because what’s at stake here is not just our health but our very survival”

Dr Pushpa M. Bhargava

Founder Director, Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology and Supreme Court’s nominee in the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC).

You know the facts now.
Make a responsible, good choice that is sustainable for you and the planet we share.

I DIDNT ELECT THIS MINISTER...DID YOU??????

Indian citizens have voted out GM food, and that’s a large sizeable chunk of educated citizens here, Mr Prithviraj Chavan.


What will it take our foolhardy administrators to realize that they must not misuse their seats of power, and that the votes that gave them the ability to take GOOD and LONG-SIGHTED HOLISTIC decisions, must not be taken lightly.


Especially in the scenario where the farmer populace of the country is concerned…because agriculture is one of the strongest pillars of India when it comes to prosperity factors. And introducing GM food will invite the not-so-desirable side-effects of GM food…


Legally it will make our country vulnerable to the monopolies of GM manufacturers (Monsanto being the kingpin) and we all know how such irresponsible, greedy and manipulative organizations have don to other countries. It is WISE to learn from others’ mistakes, wont you agree?

From business perspective, Bt Brinjal will open flood gates to other GM foods, and the trade-off between a “SHORT-TERM” increase in productivity will leave a plague in all other aspects of agriculture, business, ethics, etc.


Environmentally, it will bring EXTINCTION to the hundred plus crops that are a blessing to India. And yes, GM crops turn the soil sterile to other crops, seriously compromising the integrity of our eco-system.


Health-wise, GM food causes the maximum damage. We have already discovered few NEGATIVE side-effects to health caused by GM food. These, GM organizations are unsuccessfully trying to hide under their carpets. However, Mr Chavan, the larger percentage of damage to your family and to mine, will be visible only when we like educated fools start eating GM food… BECAUSE SUFFICIENT RESEARCH has NOT BEEN CONDUCTED on GM food. And the little research done so far…well, we all know who conducted it.


Why Monsanto sucks? http://www.monsantosucks.com/


Today Mr Prithviraj Chavan is underhandedly trying to introduce a bill that brings GM food into our country. As if, we do not have enough other important issues to take care of.


If The Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India Bill 2009 (BRAI) is passed in the current parliamentary session, what will happen?

This is what this preposterous bill proposes:

The bill proposes to gag the media (Section 63) since it infringes upon the fundamental right of freedom of speech.

The penalty for creating awareness (misleading the public) about the ill effects of Genetically Modified issues may lead to an imprisonment of minimum six months and up to one year with a maximum fine of Rs.2 lakhs. Our right to freedom of speech will be curbed if this Bill is passed. The clauses of this bill are draconian and more stringent than even the repealed acts like POTA, TADA.

The worst is this: There was no provision for action against the company for concealment of facts (ill-effects) as it happened in case of tobacco in the US where the court fined $250 billion after several years.


GM crops must be strongly discouraged UNTIL SUFFICIENT TESTS are conducted by INDEPENDENT BODIES
(The integrity of Monsanto tests is questionable right from grass-root level: http://www.monsantosucks.com/Newsnviews/revolvedoor.htm)

What say, Mr Chavan?

Otherwise, how would you like your children and grandchildren to remember you? I mean, God forbid it.


His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar—the global face of spiritual and unconditional humanitarian leadership, has been educated in modern as well as Vedic sciences, and with the unquestionable integrity that He is known world over for, this is what He has to say,

“We don’t need a bill that encourages free entry of GM food into India, without ensuring health safety of the people, besides penalizing the voice of protest.”

What can people like you and I do to protect our country and loved ones from such foolhardy politicians?


Start a signature campaign:

• among your close friends and family
• among your colleagues
• among your neighbors and social circles

Team up with NGO's who have taken up active responsibility.

EDUCATE PEOPLE AROUND YOU, that's the LEAST you can do.

Foie Gras is cruel..McDonalds and KFC have unethical practices

For all the obese consumers who don’t mind eating and treating friends and family at the nearest McDonald’s and KFC joints…

And for all the young, hormone-awash, media-stimulated, teenagers who think KFC and McDonald’s serve tastier food than their mothers can make…

For all the young corporates who are challenged and cannot think beyond KFC and McDonald’s when it comes to eating outside…

You and I are aware of the cruelty (includes the slavery in Africa that goes behind the scenes of these joints).

Why do you still haunt these joints?

Is your love for this beautiful planet that you are ACCOUNTABLE to, negotiable compared to your judgment about the dangers of such food, morally, spiritually, economically, and health-wise upon your health?

It doesn’t matter how old are you, which college you go to, which employer you work for, it doesn’t even matter if you rarely go to KFC and McD or you go there often. It is unhealthy and irresponsible. Please stop haunting KFC and McDonald’s immediately, for good.

IN THE END, IT WILL MATTER ONLY AND ONLY TO YOU.

For my friends in Europe, this is why you should immediately stop visiting KFC and McDonalds.

 Looks Familiar? It's Foie Gras. Translated into English, it means "Fat Liver"
This luxurious menu dish originated from France.

 But this dish comes from FORCE FEEDING a goose to make them develop the FATTY LIVER DISEASE!

 The geese are force-fed

The metal pipe is made to pass through its throat to the stomach..ensures adequate pain and brutality to make the liver bigger and fatter

 Small cages force the geese to stay in one position to avoid using energy, thus converting all food into fat.

 

Their legs swell up from standing all day

They are defenseless and this they learn quickly, after repeated torture.

They are force-fed until they are dead or their bodies cant stand with this

The survivors develop inflamed anal orifice...and they bleed profusely while they excrete, Their mouths, throat and stomach ache from this senseless force-feeding. Their legs swell to enormous sizes, and deprivation of sleep wrecks their nerves. Would you like to eat such an animal? What effect will such a diseased food cause to your nerves and to your body? 

Isn't it unimaginable...the hidden cruelty and disease that goes into this dish that LOOKS tasty!

I would never take my significant other or my loved ones to a restaurant or food joint that serves such diseased cruelty-laced dish.

Would you?

STOP THE DEMAND AND THE SUPPLY WILL END

For readers in India, who are wondering how does visiting KFC and McDonald's once in a while affect these mute geese: Every penny you spend at KFC or McDonald's is a generous contribution to the Organization that sells such food in any corner of this world.

Are you evolving or devolving now?