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Opening on 01-Mar-2020

"There are no Limits for You"
Everything created by God has a purpose and we can gain from the life of every living creature. One would think a flea is a worthless insect. Yet, scientists have discovered a mighty lesson about life from the simple flea.
A group of scientists once took some fleas and put them in a shoebox and recorded the height of their jumps. They noticed is the fleas would jump a certain height each day. The next day, they jumped higher. They kept increasing until they began to hit the top of the shoebox, which to them was their ceiling.
Next, the scientists removed the shoebox cover, they expected that the fleas would jump higher and escape from the box. They observed the fleas and discovered they still jumped at the height they had jumped before. The fleas that no longer had the limit of a cover were not escaping in droves from the box, they had conditioned themselves to limited height, and once they had done that, they could not change it.
What the fleas are teaching us is that we, too, tend to accept our limitations. We feel we can only accomplish a certain amount and we get into that comfort zone and do not try to exceed our limitations. If we think about our life, this is what many people do when it comes to our spiritual life and our meditations. When people feel that is their limit, then they do not put in more time even when they have a chance. Like the fleas they are conditioned to put in the same performance each time, never pushing
themselves to achieve higher goals.
We need to realize that we are capable of doing much more than we are already doing. Why should we settle for the minimum?
At whatever level we are, we need to train ourselves to achieve more. Time is ticking away. If we look at our own lives, are we satisfied that we have done all we can to reach our spiritual goal? If not, can we change something? Can we put in more time? What can we eliminate in our life that is not beneficial so that we can give more time?
Let us not be limited like the fleas in the shoebox. Let us realize that the sky is the limit, or rather, merging with the Divine in the highest spiritual realm is the limit. Let us put in the most time we can. We should try to give spirituality our best effort. Then, we will find that our soul can soar far beyond the limits and finally attain the goal of reuniting with the Divine.

How to train our brains to remember what we need ..
When talking about short-term memories, many of you will think about the movie ‘Gajini’. So lets talk about it for what exactly it is.. Short-term memory is responsible for you to remember Verbal, Visual and Spatial information. People don’t usually remember things in their short-term memory for very long unless they make a conscious effort to ‘move’ them into long-term memory stores.

Here are a few different ways in which you use your short-term memory.

1. Verbal.
Do you forget what you were saying in the middle of a conversation? Find yourself standing on the top of the stairs and can’t remember why you walked up there? These are common phenomena and aren’t signs of serious of memory loss. However, if you want to keep your brain in top shape, find out how to keep your language skills sharp. Whether you want to remember your list of errands or avoid memory loss as you get older, keeping your brain active can overcome signs of Alzheimer’s disease

2. Visual.
Why do some people look so familiar, yet you struggle to remember their names? This is an example of visual memory at work. Use tricks to boost your brain when it comes to remembering faces and other types of visual information

3. Spatial. (Directional)
Do you always find yourself struggling to remember directions? Spatial memory holds the key to getting you to the right destination instead of ending up in the wrong neighbourhood. One trick is to adopt a bird’s eye perspective when you’re in a new place.

Psychologists describe this as a temporary breakdown in your mental dictionary: you can think of the meaning of the word but not what it sounds like. You store information in different parts of your brain. You store images – for example, the picture of an orange – in one part of the brain, and the related meaning, such as a description of an orange, recipes using oranges and the taste of an orange, in another part of the brain. It’s as if the bridge connecting your images and your words is broken.

Here is something you can do as for a start-up to empower your memory
Set yourself a target – for example, name as many political leaders as you can in 30 seconds. Try to name one person every second. Now make it harder – name as many political leaders as you can that start with the letter 'N' in 30 seconds. Try a different topic, maybe fruit or furniture, names of animals... You can add more time on if you find it too easy, or pick harder letters. The goal of this game is to challenge your mind to create connections between items in a category. Also try to think of words you may not use very often. You may even find yourself making a mental store of names required for game when you read the newspaper!
To take it to another level, you can visualise his/her picture, where he lives… if using fruits, how does it looks like, how does it tastes & where does it comes from..
By just playing this game with yourself, you’ll be able to strengthen the bridge connections as mentioned earlier, within a time period you'll be surprised of...

Blood-Brain Barrier.
The blood-brain barrier is a protective boundary that allows only certain gases, nutrients, and other materials to pass from the blood into the brain tissues. In some cases, special molecules help to transport materials across the barrier. Scientists are now learning more about these transportation avenues and other ways to circumvent the barrier to allow beneficial materials, like drugs, to enter the brain. They are also studying why such dangerous entities as bacterial meningitis are able to circumvent the barrier.
The blood-brain barrier is actually a collection of tightly enmeshed cells and other obstacles that effectively serve as a boundary, allowing only oxygen, certain nutrients, and a few other items to pass into brain tissues via the blood. Researchers Paul Ehrlich and Edwin Goldman saw in the late 1800s to early 1900s that dyes injected into the brain and cerebrospinal system would only color blood there, and dyes injected elsewhere would color all the blood except that in the brain and cerebrospinal system. A barrier existed that selectively prohibited various toxins and other substances from entering the brain. This is now known to protect the brain and its myriad nerve cells from diseases and chemicals that might impair its function. It also, however, prevents many helpful medications from penetrating into the brain, and researchers have been studying how to circumvent the barrier for several decades.

Physics (from Ancient Greek: φυσική (ἐπιστήμη), romanized: physikḗ (epistḗmē), lit. 'knowledge of nature', from φύσις phýsis 'nature') is the natural science that studies matter, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.
Physics is one of the most fundamental scientific disciplines, and its main goal is to understand how the universe behaves.

Physics is one of the oldest academic disciplines and, through its inclusion of astronomy, perhaps the oldest. Over much of the past two millennia, physics, chemistry, biology, and certain branches of mathematics were a part of natural philosophy, but during the Scientific Revolution in the 17th century these natural sciences emerged as unique research endeavors in their own right.

Physics intersects with many interdisciplinary areas of research, such as biophysics and quantum chemistry, and the boundaries of physics are not rigidly defined. New ideas in physics often explain the fundamental mechanisms studied by other sciences and suggest new avenues of research in academic disciplines such as mathematics and philosophy.

Advances in physics often enable advances in new technologies. For example, advances in the understanding of electromagnetism, solid-state physics, and nuclear physics led directly to the development of new products that have dramatically transformed modern-day society, such as television, computers, domestic appliances, and nuclear weapons; advances in thermodynamics led to the development of industrialization; and advances in mechanics inspired the development of calculus
Source: Wikipedia.

Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, "knowledge, study, learning") includes the study of such topics as quantity (number theory), structure (algebra), space (geometry),and change (mathematical analysis). It has no generally accepted definition.
Mathematicians seek and use patterns to formulate new conjectures, they resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proof. When mathematical structures are good models of real phenomena, mathematical reasoning can be used to provide insight or predictions about nature. Through the use of abstraction and logic, mathematics developed from counting, calculation, measurement, and the systematic study of the shapes and motions of physical objects. Practical mathematics has been a human activity from as far back as written records exist. The research required to solve mathematical problems can take years or even centuries of sustained inquiry.
Rigorous arguments first appeared in Greek mathematics, most notably in Euclid's Elements. Since the pioneering work of Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932), David Hilbert (1862–1943), and others on axiomatic systems in the late 19th century, it has become customary to view mathematical research as establishing truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions.
Mathematics developed at a relatively slow pace until the Renaissance, when mathematical innovations interacting with new scientific discoveries led to a rapid increase in the rate of mathematical discovery that has continued to the present day.

Going back to history, the English-language word commerce has been derived from the Latin word commercium, from cm ("together") and merx ("merchandise").

The caduceus - used today as the symbol of commerce,and traditionally associated with the Roman god Mercury, patron of commerce, trickery and thieves.
Apart from traditional self-sufficiency, trading became a principal facility of prehistoric people, who bartered what they had for goods and services from each other (the barter system was popular in ancient times where one could get goods and services by offering the other person some other good and service according to their need instead of paying with monetary systems, which developed later). Historian Peter Watson and Ramesh Manickam date the history of long-distance commerce from circa 150,000 years ago. Roman commerce included routes across the Mediterranean and India.

In historic times, the introduction of currency as a standardized money facilitated the wider exchange of goods and services. Numismatists have collections of tokens, which include coins from some Ancient-World large-scale societies, although initial usage involved unmarked lumps of precious metal.

The circulation of a standardized currency provides a method of overcoming the major disadvantage to commerce through use of a barter system, the "double coincidence of wants" (which means if someone wants something from a person, that person should also be in need of a thing or a service which they can provide), necessary for barter trades to occur. For example, if a person who makes pots for a living needs a new house, they may wish to hire someone to build it for them. But they cannot make an equivalent number of pots to equal this service done for them, because even if the builder could build the house, the builder might not want many or need any pots.

Also, the barter system had a major drawback in that whatever goods a person get as payment may not necessarily store for long amounts of time. For example: if a person has got dozens of fruits as his payment, they can't store fruit for long or they may rot - which means a person will have to bear a huge loss.

Currency solved these problems by allowing a society as a whole to assign values and thus to collect goods and services effectively and to store them for later use, or to split them among minions.

During the Middle Ages, commerce developed in Europe through the trading of luxury goods at trade fairs. Some wealth became converted into movable wealth or capital. Banking systems developed where money on account was transferred across national boundaries. Hand-to-hand markets became a feature of town life, and were regulated by town authorities.

Today commerce includes as a subset of itself a complex system of companies which try to maximize their profits by offering products and services to the market (which consists both of individuals and groups and other companies or institutions) at the lowest production cost. A system of international trade has helped to develop the world economy; but, in combination with bilateral or multilateral agreements to lower tariffs or to achieve free trade, has sometimes harmed third-world markets for local products.

-Wikipedia

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