Meditation has many more benefits than I’ve listed here, but these are some core reasons why it is beneficial and why it’s recommended for everyone. That’s the thing about meditation; it’s never a bad idea. Meditating once a day has no negative consequences, assuming you don’t do it while driving or at a work conference. After a while, you’ll feel sharper, refreshed, and more mindful of your thoughts and actions. Simply put, meditation allows you to know yourself better.

Stillness
Things move quicker and more intensely at this point in history than ever before. There are tons of distractions like TV and the internet to make sure we have constant stimulation. It’s rare that our minds ever get a rest. If you feel overwhelmed, as many of us so often do, meditation will help. It will probably be difficult at first; sitting in silence sounds less enticing than eating a tasty snack or watching a sitcom. But once you start meditating, you’ll come to appreciate stillness and tranquility. If you practice meditation for a long time, you’ll find you can retain your stillness even when the world around you is harsh and chaotic. There’s a reason why meditation coaches have been so popular among companies with generally high-stress employees, like investment banks and law firms– meditation helps keep people grounded. Your surroundings may be crazy, but over time meditation allows you to feel secure and at peace internally, in basically any situation.

Focus
Recent studies show that meditating just 5 minutes a day improves focus. That’s pretty impressive. 5 minutes is less than .5 percent of your day. You’ll find that the time you spend meditating is anything but wasted, since the benefits affect you 24/7. Improved focus makes us better at our jobs, our studies and more engaged as conversationalists. Meditation promotes productivity over distractions, and the focus is results in is not stressed-out focused, but diligent, calm focus. That’s a pretty huge benefit.

Decision-making
This ties into the previous two, but I recall one time I was a little kid and couldn’t make a decision, and my teacher told me to stop and count to ten, and then try again. Meditation in the morning is like stopping and counting to ten, but sometimes it lasts for the whole day. The clarity of mind that develops over time will undoubtedly improve your decision-making skills.

Non-attachment
When you first learn meditation, the breath is the most important part of your practice. Breathing is your anchor, meaning it serves as a support you can count on when distracting thoughts pop into your head while you’re sitting. When a thought comes up, just go back to the breath. Distraction? Back to the breath. Focusing on the breath is subconscious training for non-attachment, which is a hugely important part of Buddhism, and also of happiness. When we attach ourselves to thoughts, people, things, etc, we stake our happiness on the possession of them. Meditation teaches us to let go of thoughts; this translates into action in our daily lives, and once you meditate for a while, you’ll find yourself less attached to outcomes and possessions.

Posture
Sitting in Zen meditation promotes upright posture, which not only improves the way you feel physically but also helps with self-confidence and body image. Zen aims not to concern itself with appearances, especially physical appearances, but chances are, if you’re feeling better, you’re looking better too.

Brain power
Not only have studies revealed meditation’s benefits on focus; brain power might improve, too. People who meditate frequently tend to have a thicker cortex in certain parts of their brain. Granted, according to that article, these are people who meditate 20 minutes twice a day, but you can always start small and work your way up to a regimented long-term meditation schedule. Like anything, it just takes practice.

Creativity
The most interesting example here that I’m aware of is legendary film director David Lynch’s wonderful book, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness and Creativity. In it, Lynch discusses how his meditation has influenced his filmmaking style and artistic philosophy. In clearing the mind and reaching into the subconscious, we can come up with new ideas that could have been left undiscovered without the aid of meditation. Doesn’t matter if you’re a painter, writer, or businessperson– new ideas and a new perspective can aid you in anything you do. I’m currently reading Steve Jobs’ biography, and it’s cool to see how many of the ideas he had for designs and business models came from his Zen meditation and Eastern-inspired personal philosophy of minimalism.

Discipline
Lastly– and maybe most importantly– is a benefit of meditation that ties into every other benefit. When you consciously commit to do something for a specific amount of time every day (like meditate twice a day for 10 minutes) you’re training yourself to have self-discipline. This attitude will ideally carry over into other aspects in your life, like work, study and personal problem-solving. Since I’ve started meditating, I find I have more patience and get less frustrated with issues, both personally and professionally. I have a newfound self-discipline that allows me to set deadlines for myself and work things out. I truly think that if you give meditation a try, you’ll find you achieve similar benefits.

Taken From Daily Zen

In recent weeks the star has appeared in public looking increasingly frail.
He was taken to hospital last week following a 999 call from his £8million 12th-century home in Oxfordshire.

I’ve seen the story
I’ve read it over once or twice
I said that you say
A little bit of bad advice
I’ve been in trouble
Happened to me all my life
I lie and you lie
And who would get the sharpest knife

You know I shouldn’t be somebody like that
I’m not the kind of man to throw his hat into the ring and
Go down without following through
The day turns into night
Go down without following through
The day turns into night

Ohh
Ohh
Ohh
This is just where I came in

Hope rides on
But I’ll go anywhere
Yes, I’ll go anywhere with you
Time has gone
But I’ll go anywhere
Yes, I’ll go anywhere with you

This is the danger zone
This is where I came in
They know not what they do
Forgive them of their sins
They know they cannot take away
What you have given me

Ohh
Ohh
Ohh
This is just where I came in

Fade into colour
Colour into black and white
Under the bedclothes
Everything will be alright
I know that you know
Nothing ever stays the same
Said so, I said so
The love will never speak its name

Never gonna find somebody like you
Beauty with a brain and a body too
I could never make a move on a woman that leads me on
She’s got a little bit of something for everyone
It’s a little too late and the wolf is on the run

Hope rides on
But I’ll go anywhere
Yes, I’ll go anywhere with you
Time has gone
But I’ll go anywhere
Yes, I’ll go anywhere with you

I always told myself
I would regret this day
That I would fall apart
And watch you walk away
That you would cry out loud
And I would stand beside

Ohh
Ohh
Ohh
This is just where I came in

I can fly
But I’ll go anywhere
Yes, I’ll go anywhere with you

This is the danger zone
This is where I came in
They know not what they do
Forgive them of their sins
They know they cannot take away
What you have given me

Ohh
Ohh
Ohh
This is just where I came in

Ohh
Ohh
Ohh
This is just where I came in

Ohh
Ohh
Ohh
This is just where I came in

Celebrate endings – for they precede new beginnings.
- jlh

In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein

My Mama always said
you’ve got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump

When one door of happiness closes, another opens,
but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller

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Theatrical Review (by Dustin Putman): “Just Go with It” is a remake of 1969′s Walter Matthau-Ingrid Bergman-Goldie Hawn screwball comedy “Cactus Flower,” itself based on a 1965 Broadway show by Abe Burrows that was adapted from the French play “Fleur de cactus” by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy (phew!). It may be a little raunchier and certainly broader, but anyone who has seen more than a few Adam Sandler movies knows he’s a big softy at heart. With Sandler’s near-regular director Dennis Dugan (2010′s “Grown Ups”) by his side and the assistance of screenwriters Allan Loeb (2011′s “The Dilemma”) and Timothy Dowling (2008′s “Role Models”), he rounds off the pricklier edges of the earlier film and comes out with something that is less snarky and certainly a whole lot funnier and sweeter.

Twenty-three years ago, Danny Maccabee (Adam Sandler) was left at the altar, then discovered by happy accident that wearing his would-be wedding ring increased his desirability factor to other women tenfold. In present-day Beverly Hills, Danny has become a successful plastic surgeon and remained single by choice, the latter detail a fact he seriously considers changing after falling for 23-year-old middle school math teacher Palmer (Brooklyn Decker). For once, he doesn’t even think to use the wedding ring trick—that is, until she finds it anyway in his pants pocket. Forced to think quick, Danny devises a false story about how he’s in the midst of getting a divorce. Enter Danny’s trusty assistant Katherine Murphy (Jennifer Aniston), who he convinces to play his soon-to-be ex-wife for what they assume will just be one mutual dinner with Palmer. The mistruths spin fast and wildly from there, and before long Katherine’s kids, Maggie (Bailee Madison) and Michael (Griffin Gluck), are also pulled into the charade as the lot of them find themselves vacationing in Hawaii with Palmer and Danny.

“Just Go with It” skates perilously close to what might have been an audience-insulting plot that could be solved in a minute’s time were the characters treated with half the intelligence of real human beings. That’s still kind of true, but the viewer finally just goes with it when the point is made that Danny—a good man inside—has felt heartbreak in his past and, trying to avoid it again, gone through his adult life not being honest with anyone. Anyone, that is, but Katherine. So amusing and often laugh-out-loud funny are the proceedings that there isn’t much time, anyway, to nitpick the narrative’s stretches in logic and plausibility.

As Danny, Katherine, Maggie and Michael—and later still, Danny’s cousin Eddie (Nick Swardson), pretending to be Katherine’s new German boyfriend Dolph Lundgren—get deeper in over their heads the more fibs they are forced to tell, the movie keeps interest from flagging as the viewer eagerly awaits what sticky situation they’ll find themselves in next. From Katherine’s supposed pill-popping, to aspiring actress Maggie’s decision to play daughter Kiki Dee with a British accent, to the discovery that Katherine’s college frenemy Devlin (Nicole Kidman)—the name she has been using in her pretend role as Danny’s spouse—is staying at the same hotel in Hawaii, the daffy “Three’s Company”-style humor keeps the film’s rhythm moving even when certain scenes, like a hula contest between Katherine and Devlin, drag on too long.

Of course, there is never any doubt who Danny will end up with at the end of the film (hint: it’s not the sweet-natured, big-chested blonde who fondly recalls being in Girl Scouts in 1995 and pinpoints ‘NSync’s breakup as her saddest memory). What is so refreshing, however, is that Danny and Katherine don’t start the movie hating each other, but have a friendly longtime working relationship and a shorthand to their barbed sense of humor. Adam Sandler (2009′s “Funny People”) is not exactly stretching with the role of Danny Maccabee—it’s a version of the same one he’s played with relative charm and ease since the mid-’90s—but he does it well. As Katherine, Jennifer Aniston (2009′s “Love Happens”) is a match unlike any Sandler’s had since probably Drew Barrymore in 1998′s “The Wedding Singer.” An active participant in the narrative, just as important as Danny and never falling to the wayside like some generic love interest, Aniston looks to be having a splendid time with a part that is graceful and funny, yet rooted in an emotionally true reality. When Danny and Katherine are goaded by Devlin into sharing out loud all the things they like about each other, Aniston’s and Sandler’s romantic chemistry is undeniable.

The supporting cast is more hit-and-miss. First, the good. Bailee Madison (2010′s “Conviction”) steals her scenes as the theatrical young Maggie, her British accent put-on never failing to rustle up laughs. Nicole Kidman (2010′s “Rabbit Hole”), hidden out of sight in the advertising and promotional campaign, hasn’t been this loose and spontaneous since, perhaps, 2001′s “Moulin Rouge.” It’s nice to see her in a comedy again after several years concentrating on heavy dramas; her Devlin, at first shown to be quite superficial, ultimately reveals unexpected and appreciative layers by the end. And, in a hilarious one-scene bit, Rachel Dratch (2009′s “My Life in Ruins”) is a spitfire as an eyebrow-afflicted patient of Danny’s.

Less successful are Brooklyn Decker, a former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model making her feature acting debut, who has trouble holding her own against the other, more seasoned actors. Decker is appealing as Palmer, but little is asked of her. Her relationship with Danny also is absent of spark and connection, so it never quite gels that he believes she’s the one. Palmer’s continued insistence that she spend time with the rest of Danny’s (fake) family seems more forced than natural in the way the script half-heartedly contrives it. As Eddie/Dolph Lundgren, Nick Swardson’s (2007′s “Blades of Glory”) efforts fall more flat than not. Save for a raucously funny moment involving his attempts to save the life of a choking sheep, the movie doesn’t know quite what to do with him. Sorry to say, Swardson’s role could have been excised and he wouldn’t have been missed.

At nearly a full two hours, “Just Go with It” is lengthy, but dodges wearing out its welcome as Danny and Katherine discover their love for one another to the sights of a gorgeous Hawaiian setting and the sounds of a terrific soundtrack full of original mash-ups using recognizable songs from multiple past decades. In this equation, Palmer gets the short end of the stick, though it does turn out to be a surprisingly wise decision to leave out of the script one key scene everyone will be expecting. As it turns out, it is this decision that Danny makes that almost fully redeems his deceptive behavior. “Just Go with It” isn’t always without faults—e.g., Danny’s relationship with Palmer is especially undernourished; some of the side characters aren’t exactly as sidesplitting as director Dennis Dugan thinks they are, and what is up with the pitiful Pizza Hut and Pepsi product placement?—but as a romantic comedy that works as both rom and com, it’s a pleasant entertainment with, finally, a nice heart.

Read more: http://www.worstpreviews.com/review.php?id=1584&section=review#ixzz1NqzRsiEV

You know I can’t smile without you
I can’t smile without you
I can’t laugh and I can’t sing
I’m finding it hard to do anything
You see I feel sad when you’re sad
I feel glad when you’re glad
If you only knew what I’m going through
I just can’t smile without you

You came along just like a song
And brighten my day
Who would of believed that you where part of a dream
Now it all seems light years away

And now you know I can’t smile without you
I can’t smile without you
I can’t laugh and I can’t sing
I’m finding it hard to do anything
You see I feel sad when your sad
I feel glad when you’re glad
If you only knew what I’m going through
I just can’t smile

Now some people say happiness takes so very long to find
Well, I’m finding it hard leaving your love behind me

And you see I can’t smile without you
I can’t smile without you
I can’t laugh and I can’t sing
I’m finding it hard to do anything
You see I feel glad when you’re glad
I feel sad when you’re sad
If you only knew what I’m going through
I just can’t smile without you

Anyway it was a fun conversation, I appreciate her bluntness to ask the question. That also gave me sometime to reflect about my journey in life.

Thanks for her time, I remember I wrote a note about her some years back but it disappeared as I moved my blog to a different platform:).

Let’s just enjoy the journey and go with the flow of life..:)