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From: farris@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Lorenzo Farris)
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
Subject: Re: Sleep
Date: 28 Jan 93 22:20:32 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

In article <C1GvBC.6yK@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v064mcqs@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (NEIL GANDLER) writes:
:
:  I am a college student at the university at Buffalo. I am an electrical
:engineering major. I get between 6-8 hours a night sleep during the week
:and roughly 10 hours on the weekend. But it seems that even if I get the
:8 hours on weekdays that I find it hard to stay awake in class and pay
:attention. Even coffee doesnt help too much and if I start drinking
:it on a regular basic its not too effective. Does anybody have any
:advice on this or recommendations on natural stimilants that I could
:take in the morning instead of caffeine?

Maybe you've already tried this ;-), but try sitting up straight and
taking lots of notes. Keeping your back  straight helps alot with
keeping awake, for various reasons, including that you can breath
properly and have proper circulation.
-- 
Happiness is just a                     ******************************
remembrance away.                       *  Lorenzo Farris            *
                                        *  farris@ruhets.rutgers.edu *
                                        ******************************
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
From: AQadir@massey.ac.nz (A. Qadir)
Subject: Problems need "SOLUTION"
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 21:47:21 GMT

Hi netters! This is my first posting to this group, I would like you to,
Please help me to get rid of following problems:

1) I found that, some time (not so often) there is some thing in my mind which
I want to do, or speak, but instead, I do or speak some thing different, eg, I 
want to say about washing machine but I am talking about sewing machine or
I want to say, "it is Strawberry" instead I say "it is tomato" similar thing
applies to working eg, I want to say about air pump and I say electric board.

2) Whenever I want to start any thing eg, study, experiments, moving lawns etc,
 I am very good in the begining, than graph come down and stay to certin level
(average to good level) for a while than it touch the bottom line, after taht
it takes lot of effort to restatrt but same cycle.....

3) I hesitate to talk some thing despute, say "no", and even asking about
my own right, but, some time I cross the limits and say no un necessarily,
simply cross the limits. How can I bring the balance? 

I will be grateful for your response
Altaf
  
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From: hhaldre@mhs.tartu.ee (Heikki Haldre)
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve,alt.support,misc.education,soc.college,soc.college.grad
Subject: (Q) Intl. Scholarships
Date: 25 Jan 1993 07:32:04 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu



Looking for International Scholarships
=====
Do You know any organization offering grants for international students?
(...And organizations offering grants for foreign students IN foreign country)
=====
Please let me know!

Description: I am an estonian wishing to continue my studies
             in the USA or in the UK or, indeed, in Estonia.
             The problem is that I'm lacking the necessary funds.
             The major would be (International) Business
             (and the secondary major would be Computer Science.)
             Please let me know of any organization offering grants
             for foreign students studying in the USA, the UK, or
             in another country.
             If You know any InterNet site offering information:
             Please tell me.
	     
InterNet Heikki Haldre: hhaldre@mhs.tartu.ee
From: denisl@bnr.ca (Denis Langlais)
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
Subject: Re: Sleep
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:37:04 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research

In article <C1GvBC.6yK@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v064mcqs@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (NEIL GANDLER) writes:
|> 
|>   I am a college student at the university at Buffalo. I am an electrical
|> engineering major. I get between 6-8 hours a night sleep during the week
|> and roughly 10 hours on the weekend. But it seems that even if I get the
|> 8 hours on weekdays that I find it hard to stay awake in class and pay
|> attention. Even coffee doesnt help too much and if I start drinking
|> it on a regular basic its not too effective. Does anybody have any
|> advice on this or recommendations on natural stimilants that I could
|> take in the morning instead of caffeine?
|> 
|> 		Neil Gandler

I have found that I too can fall asleep during class.  I have been
trying for a long time to find away to prevent this.

I know it happens when I do not understand the subject matter being
discussed.  Somehow my brain turns itself off when it can't understand
what someone is discussing.  The only way I have found to prevent this
is to get frequent breaks where you get to walk around and wake yourself
up.  Also, if you don't understand what the teacher is saying you
can always ask for clarification.

If you find a way to stay awake please let me know.

-- 
Denis Langlais    Internet:  denisl@bnr.ca 
BNR Ltd.         
My opinions are my own
From: aaron@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
Subject: Re: sleep/meditation
Date: 21 Jan 93 10:47:33 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

Venky M. Venkatachalam (venky@engr.LaTech.edu) wrote:
: But its better not to sleep during meditation. You might
: want to use some methods like autosuggestion,etc., Also
: you might want to meditate when you get ready for the day
: or the evening. 

I vaguely remember an articles(s) in New Scientist a while back 
which suggested aiding meditation by writing a 'C' on the back of 
your hand and using this to remind yourself that you are conscious
and alive at the moment you look at it and focussing on those sensations.
This is was reputed to then aid subsequent meditation. 

This is not something I have tried myself. Has anyone got any comments?

		Aaron Turner	aaron@minster.york.ac.uk
From: denisl@bnr.ca (Denis Langlais)
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
Subject: Re: time and habits
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:31:08 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research

In article <1993Jan25.183024.12110@midway.uchicago.edu>, awl1@quads.uchicago.edu (alpha wei-min lo) writes:
|>     hi!  I have three questions
|> 1. Do people have tips on how to organise one's time better?
|> 
|> 2. do people have some tips on how to make a new habit stick, so that 
|> one can begin to do it unconsciously, e.g. if I learn a new way to organise my time better then how do I make this way a habit of doing things.
|> 
|> 3. what is it that makes a habit hard to change?
|> 
|>     thank you
|> 

Please summarize your findings to these questions.  They are interesting.

-- 
Denis Langlais    Internet:  denisl@bnr.ca 
BNR Ltd.         
My opinions are my own
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
Subject: Hoffman; Avatar
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:34:31 GMT


I've been receiving materials on two "self-improvement" methods which, like
some commercial methods are couched in "mystery language" which conceals,
rather than revealing, the basic approaches and methods.

They are the Hoffman Quadrinities Process, based in San Francisco but also
available internationally, and the Avatar process, based in Florida, but
also available internationally.

Does anyone have information on the core approaches and insights of each?

I've done processes using "mystery marketing" approaches, such as est, and
full disclosure marketing approaches, such as Tony Robbins' Unlimited Power
weekends, for which just about all the material is available in paperback.
On balance, I don't think either marketing approach is superior in getting
people to sign up, but the full disclosure approach seems "cleaner" in that
you think you know in advance exactly what you're getting. Comments on this
paragraph as well?

David
-- 
David Sternlight
RIPEM Public Key on server  --  Consider it an envelope for your e-mail

Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
From: awl1@quads.uchicago.edu (alpha wei-min lo)
Subject: time and habits
Reply-To: awl1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:30:24 GMT

    hi!  I have three questions
1. Do people have tips on how to organise one's time better?

2. do people have some tips on how to make a new habit stick, so that 
one can begin to do it unconsciously, e.g. if I learn a new way to organise my time better then how do I make this way a habit of doing things.

3. what is it that makes a habit hard to change?

    thank you

Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
From: stevep@Cadence.COM (Steve Peterson)
Subject: Re: Dynamic Spead Reading
Organization: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:11:35 GMT

In article <C0rw0y.8L7@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> dgorbet@rainbow.UWaterloo.ca (D.P.H. Gorbet) writes:

>Anyone heard of Dynamic Speed Reading?  I have heard quite a lot about it  
>in the past few years, but have always discounted the incredible claims it  
>makes (3 sessions improve speed by 300%+ AND improve comprehension).  Now  
>my reading speed is REALLY slow, and MUST improve, as I am in a knowledge  
>based industry (aren't we all, nowadays), but I am still hesitant to throw  
>money away on something unproven.  Has anyone had any experience with this  
>method?

Could you be referring to Evelyn Wood's Reading Dynamics program?  If
so, I tooks this a number of years ago and am quite happy with the results.
An average reader reads at about 250 words/min.  Graduates of the class
will probably read comfortably at 1000-3000 words/min.  Of course, this
is in proportion to the practice that you put into the program.  
The class I took was about 15-20 hrs of class time. Cost was about $400.

I feel that it was well worth the time and money.  If you are time and money 
conscience, you can learn the same techniques through a number of books on the
market.  
   
Steve Peterson
stevep@cadence.com
From: 5546yuj@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
Subject: Re: seeing meaning
Date: 27 Jan 1993 17:48:38 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 5546yuj@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsf.csd.mu.edu

In article <jrk.728154031@zen.sys.uea.ac.uk>, jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway) writes:
..
>
>Can anyone suggest how one may learn to "see" meaning at a glance instead
>of having to "read" it step by step?  Language learning is the obvious
>context for this, but it would be relevant to other cases of knowledge
>acquisition as well.
>

Interesting question. I wish to learn this too.
English is my second language, I find it very difficult to see the meaning at
a glance, as I do with my native language.

jy

Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
From: radinsky@spot.Colorado.EDU (Wayne Radinsky)
Subject: more questions about meditation
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:06:44 GMT

Hello -- the "anxious puppy"  here.   I  asked  about meditation a few weeks
ago...  some replys were posted but I didn't have  a  chance to reply before
they dissappeared from my site.

Somebody (was it Lazlo or  Lorenzo  or  some other guy?)  was saying that it
removed things that you knew about yourself that you picked up from parents,
school, etc... and I want to ask about that.

Does it make you "younger" mentally? (Is this similar to how people claim TM
slows aging)?

Does it make you less afraid to change things about yourself (because you're
afraid what others will think)?

Does it make it easier or harder to learn?

Can you meditate when you're tired?  Can you meditate when you're sick?

Could the people who responded mail me personally?

\/\/aynesville			| Nothing you say can upset us.
the anxious puppy		| We're the MTV generation.
From: venky@latech.edu (Venky M. Venkatachalam)
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
Subject: Re:sleep/meditation
Date: 21 Jan 1993 06:44:20 GMT
Organization: Louisiana Tech University
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: ee02.engr.latech.edu


	Thankx for the response to my previous posting. I learnt
TM (Transcendental Meditation ) from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's
Organization. I am not qualified and am not supposed to reveal
the mantra.

	I think, Maharishi's organization is teaching here in the
US (that too in a large scale) also, so you might want to try that.

	Some time back I was doing another form of meditation. In
this method I just had to repeat a God's name continously, like
Rama, Rama etc., I was told not to restrain or control my mind
while doing this. If some other thoughts come to my mind, thats
fine and I was asked to get back only when I realize that. This is
supposed to release the stresses from the subconscious I guess.
I was doing with chanting " Hare Krishna Hare Rama ". My basic
idea was to improve my memory power and concentration. I should say
it really helped me to do that, though it might look silly for
a casual observer.

	Thankx for your mail,

	Regards,

		venky

P.S: Mantra is nothing but a carefully coined  meaningless word
which helps to reach one's subconscious mind. When Westerners
did a research long time back, they forund that the word "one"
has similar powers comparable to the Hindu Mantra "Om". I read
this somewhere. I think it is Dr.M.S.Udayamurthy's work named
"Thoughts".



	Goodlucks.
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
From: sci40047@nusunix1.nus.sg (YEO CHIAN KWANG)
Subject: photoreading
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:27:12 GMT

B
Hello,

Has anyone ever taken the photoreading course?  Is it worth the time and
money?  Thanks
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
From: fitz@rhonda.next.com (Mark Fitzpatrick)
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
Subject: Re: time and habits
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:28:46 GMT


Wow... simple, straight-forward, golden questions.  Here's a layman's
response.

> 1. Do people have tips on how to organise one's time better?

By far, the most important thing to learn is how to say "no".
Considering how few summers (and even hours) are left in your life 
helps you gain an appreciation of how important it is that you
focus your time on you and the ones you care for.
 
> 2. do people have some tips on how to make a new habit stick, so that 
> one can begin to do it unconsciously, e.g. if I learn a new way to
> organise my time better then how do I make this way a habit of doing
> things.

Everyone learns differently.  For me (a simp) I need to do the following
to remove a bad habit and/or establish a positive one:

1) Work on one habit at a time
2) Work on it for at least three weeks.  It is widely accepted that
it takes at least three weeks for most humans to adjust to a significant
change.  Of course it all varies as to your personality and the habit.
3) Write it out and verbalize the change often (writing this out
to you helps me reinforce things I've gone through in the past).
 
> 3. what is it that makes a habit hard to change?

Unfortunately, we (that includes me) are afraid of what comes with
the change.  The pressure, potential ridicule, and even the success.
One might not like their state but, they are comfortable with it.

Try doing things differently i.e. trying different types of food,
reading articles on areas you nothing about, don't carve the turkey
with your other hand but use it instead of your dominate hand.

Get in the habit of change.

Have Fun,
Mark
From: BPHEINTZ@UCSVAX.UCS.UMASS.EDU (BRADLEY P HEINTZ)
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
Subject: Re: time and habits
Date: 26 Jan 93 18:36:36 GMT
Organization: Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria
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In <1993Jan25.183024.12110@midway.uchicago.edu> awl1@quads.uchicago.edu writes:

>     hi!  I have three questions
> 1. Do people have tips on how to organise one's time better?
> 
> 2. do people have some tips on how to make a new habit stick, so that 
> one can begin to do it unconsciously, e.g. if I learn a new way to organise my time better then how do I make this way a habit of doing things.
> 
> 3. what is it that makes a habit hard to change?
> 
>     thank you
> 

1 - GET A FRANKLIN PLANNER.  Call me at (413)546-5152 or email at 
    bpheintz@ucsvax.ucs.umass.edu if you don't know where to get one.
    Franklin Planners are the single best time-organizing tool I have 
    ever seen, and I've tried a bunch.  Accept no imitations.

2 - I've heard psych types say that if you do something twelve times in a row,
    it becomes a habit.  I don't know how true that is, but I do know that
    personal change takes a concerted effort and the determination to do it
    right until it's done.

3 - My theory:  Habits are a survival mechanism.  Animals have them as well.
    If there's a thing you must do over and over, it becomes automatic and
    more efficient, leaving you time to do important stuff like eating and
    reproducing the species.  Martial arts, yoga, and commercial advertising
    all make use of this - reproduce an input enough times, and the slightest
    stimulus will set in motion the practiced chain of thought or action.
    Obviously, this can work for or against you.

- Brad

*=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=*
Illuminatus Primus 1:  If all are one, all violence is masochism.
Illuminatus Primus 2:  If all are one, all sex is masturbation.

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Your mother's an astronaut.
From: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
Subject: seeing meaning
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:00:31 GMT
Organization: UEA School of Information Systems, Norwich, UK.

English being my native language, when I look at a page of English text,
I cannot avoid seeing meaning in it.  It leaps off the page
involuntarily.  I don't have to "read" a newspaper headline.  One glance
and I know what it says, by a process as unconscious as knowing that 2
and 2 make 4.

I only know a little Dutch.  When I look at Dutch text, I automatically
see words, but nothing larger.  Even when I understand each of the words,
and all the grammatical constructions and idioms, I have to puzzle out
the meaning of phrases and sentences slowly and deliberately.

I know no Greek at all, but I recognise the alphabet.  When I look at
Greek text, all I see is letters.  To see words -- that is, to know the
sound of the word, rather than just seeing the space before and after
that tells me there's a word there -- I have to go through it letter by
letter.  The sound does not leap from the page into my imagination.

As for Arabic, I have only a slight acquaintance with its script.  In
Arabic text, I cannot even see letters without effort.

Can anyone suggest how one may learn to "see" meaning at a glance instead
of having to "read" it step by step?  Language learning is the obvious
context for this, but it would be relevant to other cases of knowledge
acquisition as well.

--                                ____
Richard Kennaway                  \ _/__    School of Information Systems
Internet:  jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk       \X  /    University of East Anglia
uucp:  ...mcsun!ukc!uea-sys!jrk      \/     Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K.
From: hughes@logos.ucs.indiana.edu (larry hughes)
Subject: Re: not Meditation (was Re: more questions about meditation)
Organization: University Computing Services News
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:12:23 GMT

garym@ie.utoronto.ca (Gary Murphy) writes:
> May I propose a much cheaper alternative, and save you all a lot of
> bother in trying to sift the good teachers from the shysters?  What
> follows are the instructions for Shinjin sitting, given to me by the
> master of practice of the Ottawa Zen center with express instructions
> to give them out over the net to whomever wishes to try --- if you are
> not interested, you can skip the rest of this message.

Regardless of the cost of your instructions (free, which is actually
quite nice :-) one must still decide for oneself who the "good teachers"
versus the "shysters" are.  In all fairness to us readers, we have no 
way to know if you are a shyster.  

I really don't believe that you are (honestly!), but I hope you see 
my point. 

I can't help but feel that your note (and others posted here too)  
have a bit of a religious hint, i.e. "here's the 'best' way to
meditate."

I think that we all need to experiment and investigate a little
(or maybe a lot, like I did for 10 years) before coming to any
final conclusions.  Even then, the only conclusions we can reach
about this matter will be personal ones.  

Cheers,

 //==================================================================\\
||      Larry J. Hughes, Jr.       |        hughes@indiana.edu        || 
||       Indiana University        | "The person who knows everything ||
||  University Computing Services  |        has a lot to learn."      ||
 \\===================================================================//
From: hedges@pilot.njin.net (Douglas Hedges)
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
Subject: Re: time and habits
Date: 28 Jan 93 19:47:50 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

awl1@quads.uchicago.edu (alpha wei-min lo) writes:

>    hi!  I have three questions
>1. Do people have tips on how to organise one's time better?

Read Alan Lakein's book on time mgmt (I forget the title; something
like, "How to get control of your time and your life").

>2. do people have some tips on how to make a new habit stick, so that 
>one can begin to do it unconsciously, e.g. if I learn a new way to organise my time better then how do I make this way a habit of doing things.

Read William James essay on Habit.  Can be found in the collected 
works and, I believe, his volume(s) on psychology.  Just as relevant
today as it was at the turn of the century. 
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
From: pandit@ssd.intel.com (Milind Pandit)
Subject: Re: Sleep
Organization: Supercomputer Systems Division (SSD), Intel
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:06:18 GMT

In article <C1GvBC.6yK@acsu.buffalo.edu> v064mcqs@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (NEIL GANDLER) writes:
>
>  I am a college student at the university at Buffalo. I am an electrical
>engineering major. I get between 6-8 hours a night sleep during the week
>and roughly 10 hours on the weekend. But it seems that even if I get the
>8 hours on weekdays that I find it hard to stay awake in class and pay
>attention. Even coffee doesnt help too much and if I start drinking
>it on a regular basic its not too effective. Does anybody have any
>advice on this or recommendations on natural stimilants that I could
>take in the morning instead of caffeine?

Coffee didn't help me stay awake during class/while driving, either.
Chewing gum did.  It's just something to do, instead of sleeping.

-- 
Milind S. Pandit			| pandit@ssd.intel.com
Operating Systems Engineer		|
Intel Supercomputer Systems Division	| Standard Disclaimers Apply
From: v064mcqs@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (NEIL GANDLER)
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
Subject: Sleep
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:08:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


  I am a college student at the university at Buffalo. I am an electrical
engineering major. I get between 6-8 hours a night sleep during the week
and roughly 10 hours on the weekend. But it seems that even if I get the
8 hours on weekdays that I find it hard to stay awake in class and pay
attention. Even coffee doesnt help too much and if I start drinking
it on a regular basic its not too effective. Does anybody have any
advice on this or recommendations on natural stimilants that I could
take in the morning instead of caffeine?

		Neil Gandler