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Lifted from theconversation.com from the editor - Jo Adetunji (Editor of The Conversation UK)

Psychological research over the past 50 years has investigated the differences between liking someone, loving someone and being “in love”.

Liking is described as having positive thoughts and feelings towards someone and finding that person’s company rewarding. We often also experience warmth and closeness towards the people we like. In some instances we choose to be emotionally intimate with these people.

When we love someone we experience the same positive thoughts and experiences as when we like a person. But we also experience a deep sense of care and commitment towards that person.

Being “in love” includes all the above but also involves feelings of sexual arousal and attraction. However, research into people’s own views of love suggests that not all love is the same

Romantic love consists of two types: passionate and companionate love. Most romantic relationships, whether they be heterosexual or same sex, involve both these parts.

Passionate love is what people typically consider being “in love”. It includes feelings of passion and an intense longing for someone, to the point they might obsessively think about wanting to be in their arms.

Research looking at changes in romantic love over time typically finds that although passionate love starts high, it declines over the course of a relationship.

There are various reasons for this.

As partners learn more about each other and become more confident in the long-term future of the relationship, routines develop. The opportunities to experience novelty and excitement can also decline, as can the frequency of sexual activity. This can cause passionate love to subside.

Although a reduction in passionate love is not experienced by all couples, various studies report approximately 20-40% of couples experience this downturn. Of couples who have been married in excess of ten years, the steepest downturn is most likely to occur over the second decade.

Life events and transitions can also make it challenging to experience passion. People have competing responsibilities which affect their energy and limit the opportunities to foster passion. Parenthood is an example of this.

Researched and read-out from SubReddit /productivity, with permission from u/Awesome_Pal

Procrastination is Caused by Emotion, Nothing Else. Here's How to Deal.

Procrastination isn't caused by poor time management, so there's no time management system in the world that will help you fix it. Procrastination is not a moral failing, nor a lack of discipline. Trying to appeal to your willpower and push through won't work. Procrastination isn't laziness. Developing a better work ethic or better habits is not the key to success if you're a chronic procrastinator. 

I'm sure many of you (including me) have tried all the systems and tips out there to fix your problem, and none of them have worked. Maybe your "new journey" lasted all of a day or two as you tried to implement your new strategy, and then you went back to your old, procrastinating self. Feelings of guilt, shame, depression, defeat, anxiety all well up again, discouraging you from even trying. You avoid your responsibilities because they seem too hard, too painful to face. "Why can't you just do things like normal people?" you tell yourself.

The reason you can't is because you're overlooking the actual cause of procrastination - emotional dysregulation. If you have ADHD, a mood disorder, or are sensitive to emotion, you're going to have a hard time regulating your emotions, particularly when it comes to tasks or responsibilities that require some effort. You tend to get over-emotional about normal tasks, convincing yourself that they're harder than they are. Negative emotion about something leads to negative thoughts, which leads to procrastination. You've felt and then talked your way out of doing something. To eradicate the negative emotions, you turn to more pleasurable activities to counter them and bring you back to a more comfortable place emotionally.

the key to beating procrastination is learning how to regulate those negative emotions. So how do you do that?

You remove the thought that whatever you need to do as difficult. It's not. Reading a chapter of a book isn't hard. You open the book, start reading, maybe underline some passages or take notes if it's academic in nature, and then close the book when you're done. Your mind has unreasonably built up that activity as a threat or something that will cause suffering to you. But reading a book is a very benign activity. Your mind is lying to you. How many times have you found something to be way easier once you've started than you had built up in your head? Even if it's what we'd label a "difficult" task - maybe the book has a lot of unfamiliar scientific terms you have to learn. So what? All you have to do is learn some new words. It's not that hard, yet our emotions make us believe a monster will be lurking in the shadows waiting to pounce if we start reading, or doing that math assignment, or start on that work project. It's irrational emotion controlling you.

Start telling yourself that the things you need to do are not hard; in fact they're very easy. This thing you need to do is not a big deal at all. Downplay the difficulty (because it's likely not as difficult as you imagine), and convince yourself that doing this thing will be a breeze. Don't allow the emotion of resistance to enter the picture. You need to reframe how you think about your tasks/activities in a positive way, tell yourself they're easy to do, and the negative emotion you usually have towards them will stay away. In other words - cut off your emotions about a task before they take hold. Regulate them. You're an adult, and you have the capacity to do this. 

So next time you're faced with doing something you usually procrastinate on, focus on tamping down your negative emotions, tell yourself the task is easy to do and no big deal, and you'll find that resistance vanish.

How To Manage Burn-Out By Improving Your Sleep Habits?

Rapid Sleep Techniques

1. Military Method

- Assume a comfortable position

- Focus on relaxing each part of your face (eyelids, jaw, lips and brow)

- Take deep breaths, and relax your chest

- Relax your lower body last, going from hips to feet

- Imagine a wave of pressure pushing you downwards

2. Build a Wind Down Routine

- Remove your phone from your bedroom

- Manage down to zero notifications

- Practice breathwork

Tips in getting a good Night's sleep

- Get a regular exposure to sunlight. Try for a least 30 minutes a day

- Avoid nicotine and caffeine. 

- If you nap, try to avoid taking one within six hours of your bed time

- Try to get your workouts in at least two to three hours before bed.

- Stay away from large meals and lot of liquids within a few hours of bedtime.

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~ Othello

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researched and lifted from:

@matt_gray via Twitter, and

Apple Health App from the iPhone

Explain Like I'm 5, lifted with permission from Reddit username: u/practical_cartoonist

Practical_Cartoonist:

What is Calculus, Explain Like I'm Five:

Imagine you've got a big bowl full of water, and there's a little hole in the bottom of the bowl that's letting the water out. How long does it take for all the water to pour out? This is the sort of question you frequently deal with in a calculus class.

Of course you can't answer it because I haven't given you any numbers yet. But even if I had given you numbers, you would probably have trouble thinking how to approach it without the help of calculus.

The reason is that I can't give you a fixed rate for how fast the water is pouring out. If I said it was pouring out at 0.2L/second and there were 20L of water, then it would be a trivial problem to solve: 20/0.2 is 100, so it would take 100 seconds.

But that's not how it works in the real world. In the real world, the water would pour out faster at the start, and slower towards the end. At the start, when the bowl is full of water, there's a lot of heavy water putting pressure on the water at the bottom of the bowl, pushing it out faster. Near the end, when the bowl is nearly empty, the water might just be dribbling out.

It might be that the water's coming out at 0.4L/s at the start and 0.1L/s near the end. Hm. That makes this quite a bit trickier to solve. What can we do about this?

Welcome to calculus!

Calculus was invented to reason about rates of change. If you drop a ball from a shelf, how long does it take to hit the ground? Well it's a bit tricky, because the ball is moving very slowly at the start, and very quickly at the end. It speeds up as it falls, which means we can't just do a simple "distance divided by speed" calculation to figure out how long it takes to hit the ground. We need calculus.

There are two directions to calculus.

"If I know how long it took to hit the ground, can I calculate how quickly it was speeding up?". That's called "derivation".

"If I know how quickly it's speeding up, can I calculate how long it takes to hit the ground?". That's called "integration".

Calculus is going from "rate of change" to "the effect of that change", or vice versa.

What you will learn in calculus is how to do this (in both directions) when your mathematical formula looks in certain ways. Does it look like a polynomial? Follow this rule. Does it look like an exponential? Follow this other rule. Uh oh, it's a fraction. Follow that rule. Oh it's got "sin" and "cos" things in it. Guess what, even more rules.

What you will learn in "pre-calculus" is:

1.        ⁠Practising how to do algebraic manipulations. This is important because in calculus you need to learn a lot of rules, and those rules need you to be comfortable with algebra.

2.        ⁠Limits, which are the theoretical foundation for calculus, and allow you to understand why the rules are actually correct.

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Top 2 Things To Do Before You Hit The Road for a Walk

1. Wear a Mask

2. Wear Spectacles or SunGlasses

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Kung hindi ka naman nasa isang polluted na lugar o hindi ka naman nag cocommute sa open air public transportation at walang peligro para sa aerosols at air pollutants, then go ahead, walk o maglakad nang may pag-iingat pa rin.

As discussed, the awareness and applicability to your current environment or surroundings play a huge factor whenever you go for a walk.

If you're in the province at ang simoy ng hangin ay dipa pollluted, maglakad ka and enjoy the breeze, the air, and the scenaries.

Ngunit kung ikaw ay maglalakad o mag cacardio exercise along national roads where Public Utility vehicles at may usok ang mga sassakyan, please be cautious and protect yourself… best to veer away from those place..

Go for a walk in a park where trees and greeneries are present because these areas will provide negative Ions which is good for the lungs, great to breath in and out, and will enhance your overall health.

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Happy New Year with lotsa love and care to each of you!

My name is Othello, your host.. You Take Care!

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Happy New Year - 2023! Indeed!

Let's all have an amazing 2023.

Keep the never-ending quest for knowledge.

Together let us learn, feed your mind and constantly aim for wisdom.

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Based from HBR or Harvard Business Review author - Scott Kauffman:

Inspiration awakens us to new possibilities, by allowing us to transcend our ordinary experiences  and limitations.

Inspiration propels a person from apathy to possibility, and transforms the way we perceive our own capabilities.

In today's episode, we wanted to recognize and focus the spotlight to a prominent and powerful leader.

Someone who has been an instrument in molding the character of each of the members of the Iglesia Ni Cristo, through his leadership and guidance, and, even extending this noble task to those outside of the Church, by the ways of gospel propagation, to let people know the importance of  and way to salvation on Judgment Day according to the Bible.

It is no easy task! The responsibility is HUGE, quite insurmountable from the imagination of the human mind, but these commitment and duty to teach, uplift and create a positive impact in the lives of mankind in a deeper and meaningful level have been carried on graciously and effectively by the present Administration of the Iglesia Ni Cristo - Brother Eduardo V. Manalo.

Ating pakinggan ang ilan sa mga nakausap nating mga maytungkulin at kapatid sa loob ng Iglesia Ni Cristo -

The way we are living right now is not only an era of INTERESTING TIMES but as well as an era of EXTRA ORDINARY TIMES….

Technology and digital advancement keep on revolutionizing, however, are you also up to speed when it comes to advancing your character and protecting your moral compass?

Who is your inspiration? Are you on the right tack in treading the upright path?

Don't settle for less, be one of the chosen few who gets to say with conviction - that they are not waiting in vain for the ultimate price.

…as your host and being a member of the Church of Christ - I am truly inspired and motivated by the leadership of the Church's administration Brother Eduardo V. Manalo. It's indescribable! For me, the combined love, efforts, sacrifices, and unrelenting care that Brother Eduardo has shown and continuously showing are truly exceptional!

It humbles me so much, it always give the spark of never giving up when sadness kicks in, since it's not always sunshine at all times in our lives. It gives me the strength to continue further, to finish the race that I am bound to complete.

From myself and the team of the Quarantined Tipsters Podcast, we greet you the warmest and Happiest Birthday - Brother Eduardo V. Manalo. More Power!

Celebrating the birthday of Brother Elmar Villanueva, the current Choir Leader as well as an Organist in the Locale Congregation of Imus, District of Cavite South.

Compilation of Birthday Greetings from the choir members.

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