David Foster Wallace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI

This is water.

College is supposed to teach you "how tot think"
But whats truly important is the choice of what to think about.

Skepticism of the value of the totally obvious.

BLIND CERTAINTY- A closed mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up.

Critical awareness.

Perhaps the most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables the tendency to get lost in the abstract argument in my head instead of paying attention to whats going on outside of me.

Pay attention. WAKE UP.

Learning how to think really means learning how to exercising some control over what and how you think.


Learn how tot hunk. How to pay attention.

You get to decide how you get to see it.

The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline and being able to truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad, petty, unsexy ways everyday. THAT is real freedom. That is being educated and understanding how to think.

TRUTH.

Life before death. Simple awareness. Awareness of something so real and essential, thats in plain view the entire time that we have to keep reminding ourselves- this is water. This is water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI

Stop the new world order!

Understand that the way to bring about real change in the world is to participate in non compliance- doing th right thing.

Disconnect yourself from the system.

Realize your connection to others.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8oBhEMOX6Q

Why should we support agricultural development around the world?

http://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/stories/a-farmer-by-skill-if-not-by-choice/


People must help people, around the world, so we can coexist peacefully and happily.

The green revolution -

Farming training centers-

Education eliminates ignorance; teaching yoga to promote population control

Yoga is beneficial for mental health, physical health and mindfulness of how the two are interlinked. Yoga helps those who practice to be more present from moment to moment rather than getting stuck in past memories or daydreaming about the future. True happiness likes in the present moment.

In practicing yoga, stress is reduced and problems that before may have seemed impossible become solvable.
So what are some of todays biggest issues that yoga may help to address in a healthier manner?


Population control has become an issue of our time, for today to world population has exceeded 7 billion people.

"From the five billion in 1987, the planet has now 7.3 billion people. At the world level, the current rapid expansion of the population, which has been accompanied by a disproportionate increase in the usage of resources, represents a major threat to the entire planetary ecosystem; these facts have led some scientists to say that we are going beyond “the planetary boundaries” and we are facing the possibility of a major crisis, called “the sixth extinction.”

Sixth extinction?! What a crisis! Do we have the ability to heal the planet?
What does yoga have to do with population issues?

Well, yoga values recognize that we are all interconnected and interdependent. Yoga values also emphasize solidarity, compassion, and respect of nature. 

Certainly, the international community has recognized the right of couples and individuals to decide the number and spacing of their children. Yoga makes us aware that every right implies also obligations; that the exercise of every right demands also assuming some responsibilities. The famous yoga restriction called Ahimsa, usually translated as “non-harming,” could be better understood as a mandate of respect; respect of others, respect of future generations, and respect of the entire planetary ecosystem.  

Alternate Nostril Breathing

The name alternate nostril breathing is due to the fact that we alternate between the two nostrils when we do the breathing. Yogis believe that this exercise will clean and rejuvenate your vital channels of energy, thus the name nadi sodhana (purification of nadis or channels).

With this exercise, we breathe through only one nostril at a time. The logic behind this exercise is that normal breathing does alternate from one nostril to the other at various times during the day. In a healthy person the breath will alternate between nostrils about every two hours. Because most of us are not in optimum health, this time period varies considerably between people and further reduces our vitality. According to the yogis, when the breath continues to flow in one nostril for more than two hours, as it does with most of us, it will have an adverse effect on our health. If the right nostril is involved, the result is mental and nervous disturbance. If the left nostril is involved, the result is chronic fatigue and reduced brain function. The longer the flow of breath in one nostril, the more serious the illness will be.

The Scientific Confirmation of Alternate Nostril Breathing

Medical science has recently discovered the nasal cycle, something that was known by the yogis thousands of years ago.

Scientists have recently found that we don't breathe equally with both nostrils, that one nostril is much easier to breathe through than the other at any particular time and that this alternates about every three hours. The yogis claim that the natural period is every two hours, but we must remember these studies were done on people who do not have an optimum health level.

Scientists also discovered that the nasal cycle corresponds with brain function. The electrical activity of the brain was found to be greater on the side opposite the less congested nostril. The right side of the brain controls creative activity, while the left side controls logical verbal activity. The research showed that when the left nostril was less obstructed, the right side of the brain was predominant. Test subjects were indeed found to do better on creative tests. Similarly when the right nostril was less obstructed the left side of the brain was predominant. Test subjects did better on verbal skills.

Medical science has not quite caught up with the ancient yogis yet. The yogis went one step further. They observed that a lot of disease was due to the nasal cycle being disturbed; that is, if a person breathed for too long through one nostril. To prevent and correct this condition, they developed the alternate nostril breathing technique. This clears any blockage to air flow in the nostrils and reestablishes the natural nasal cycle. For example, the yogis have known for a long time that prolonged breathing through the left nostril only (over a period of years) will produce asthma. They also know that this so-called incurable disease can be easily eliminated by teaching the patient to breathe through the right nostril until the asthma is cured, and then to prevent it recurring by doing the alternate nostril breathing technique. The yogis also believe that diabetes is caused to a large extent by breathing mainly through the right nostril.

Gardening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0TTKAce8kk

Kids Yoga Training

Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy 
http://www.himalayaninstitute.org/about-us/faculty/

Connecting with Teenagers through yoga:
http://www.doyouyoga.com/6-ways-to-connect-with-teenagers-through-yoga-42458/