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10 Telling Signs You’re an Emotionally Intelligent Person

Emotionally intelligent people are the advice-givers among their group of friends. Do you have a friend who seems to know what you’re feeling before you’ve verbalized it? This friend is emotionally intelligent. There are many of those people in the world. They are the healers, the untrained therapists among friends.

“Oh, ask Stacy. She always knows what to do.” Stacy is emotionally intelligent. That’s why she knows what your boyfriend is thinking having never had more than a five-minute conversation with the dude.

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Medicina World Congress and Knighthood

Medicina World Congress and Knighthood -BMICH held annually

As its international President, I interact with hundreds of students and faculty members worldwide to help promote integrative medicines.

Medicina which was formed by World Health Org 57 years ago has an alumni network of over 150,000 and is making steady progress in many countries with greater emphasis on quality of education and clinical training. We also received full accreditation from the Confederation of International Accreditation Commission, International Commission of Diplomatic Relations, Human Rights and Peace in consultative status with UN. We are also registered with the United Nations and incorporated in USA. Based on the final Charter of January 2000.

Our Knighthood order Knights St John of Malta coming from 1090 is now ever more active to mobilize the members to support Medicina Alternativa in its efforts.

Distinguished Alumni of Medicina

Dr.Samanta- Founder of KITT University India

Dr.Nick Begich

Dr.Raja Choudhary- Professor, Graduate of Harvard & Yale

Dr.Subha Ganguly- Scientist

B K S Iyenger- Yoga guru of International fame

Dr. Shirish Patil- Dean Patil University School of Medicine

Dr. E K Schandl- American Metabolic Laboratries

Dr.Krishna Kumar- Hindu University of America, Florida, USA

Dr. Cynthia Reynolds- Wellness Center

Prof. (Dr.) Mrs. Chandra Krishnamurthy Vice Chancellor Pondicherry University, India

Dr.Susan Joyce Proctor, USA

Dr.Christiaan Barnard – First Transplant Surgeon in the world

Late Dr.Mrs.Soma Edirisinghe – Hon Chairperson at EAP Edirisinghe Organization.Lions Club District Governor 2003 -2004

Joan E. Gadsby – Recognized internationally as an authority, consultant, lecturer and public speaker on the responsible and informed use of benzodiazepines (tranquillizers and sleeping pills) and anti-depressants.

Dr.Mohd Abbas – Specialist Alternative Medicines Member Naturopathic Medical Association of California

Sri Ravi Shankar- Founder of the Art of Living

K T Rabiullah Gulf based Industrialist

Late Prime Minster Benazir Bhutto

Late Prime Minster Benazir Bhutto

Dr. Ashish Kulkarni- Reliance CEO

Dr. T A Varkey- MD Medilab

Prof.Diana Mossop- Berkeley Clinic, USA

Dr.Natalia M Schatte- S.H E Foundation

Dr.Sandeep Bakshi Chancellor Jaipur National University, India

Dr.Luisah Teish Institute of Noetic Sciences, USA

Dr.Sheela Devi Head of Dept of Physiology University of Madras, India

Dr.Sheela Devi Head of Dept of Physiology University of Madras, India

Dr.Sunderdas Annamalay-Physician, Professor

Boris Yeltsin – President of Russia 1991-1999

Dr.Dorothy Marshall – President for the Reflexology Association of Canada (RAC)

Dr.Diane Berke – Faculty Wisdom College and Author of two books on the spiritual path, Love Always Answers and The Gentle Smile, and four spiritual reference manuals.

Dr. Douglas James Cottrell – Researcher, Intuitive healer, Author

Dr.Abdus Salam – He received his DSc from OIUCM in 1987

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Handling a stress episode

Handling a stress episode

I’m sitting behind a long table, flanked by a marketing manager on my right and an entrepreneur on my left. We are an admission jury at an elite French business school. The candidate seated before us has spent the last two years toiling in a high-pressure preparatory school to get ready for this interview and the entrance exams that preceded it.

Right now, he’s falling apart. He can’t collect his thoughts. His answers to our questions are brief and incoherent. He is most likely unaware that he is continuously adjusting his glasses with visibly shaking hands. It’s painful to watch, and I want to give him a chance to reset.

“Take a minute and breathe,” I tell him. “You have plenty of time left.” He pants in distress.

“What’s happening right now?” I ask him. It’s a classic coaching question, designed to restore focus on the current moment. But he’s not fully present yet. Instead, he’s busy tightening his own noose. “I have no right to feel stressed. This is difficult, of course—but everyone else manages okay. I should be able to handle it.”

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Handling negative feedback

Handling negative feedback

There’s no shortage of advice about how to react to negative feedback. Whether the critic is a boss or a co-worker, the same familiar guidance is consistently presented: Listen carefully, don’t get defensive, ask for time.

There’s nothing wrong with these three suggestions, of course. But at the moment when an unhappy colleague is telling you loudly that the project plan you created left out some obvious key components, or your boss is taking you to task for the stumbles you made in running an important meeting, it’s hard to recall these valid pointers, move them to the front of your mind, and actually act on them.

Here’s the point: unless you have spent a little time in advance thinking about what you’ll do the next time that—fairly or foully—someone delivers some unexpected criticism, all the good advice you’ve heard about how to react won’t come immediately to mind. Unprepared, you’re likely to be so caught up in the immediacy of the moment that you won’t remember these three simple, familiar prescriptions that allow us to keep control and to master (or at least, defuse) the situation. So they bear repeating, and thinking through now—so you’ll be prepared in the heat of the moment.

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Gene Signature Could be Used to Predict Alzheimer’s Onset Years in Advance [feedly]

A ‘gene signature’ that could be used to predict the onset of diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, years in advance has been developed in research published in the open access journal Genome Biology.

The study aimed to define a set of genes associated with ‘healthy ageing’ in 65 year olds. Such a molecular profile could be useful for distinguishing people at earlier risk of age-related diseases. This could improve upon the use of chronological age and complement traditional indicators of disease, such as blood pressure.

Lead author James Timmons, from King’s College London, UK, said: “We use birth year, or chronological age, to judge everything from insurance premiums to whether you get a medical procedure or not. Most people accept that all 60 year olds are not the same, but there has been no reliable test for underlying ‘biological age’.

http://neurosciencenews.com/alzheimers-gene-signature-aging-2583/

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Cancelling Intended Actions Appears to Weaken Memory

A new study by Duke University researchers suggests that this type of scenario makes a person less likely to remember what halted the action — for example, the make and model of the car in the blind spot.

People and non-human primates excel at “response inhibition.” Our sophisticated brains allow us to cancel an action even when it’s something engrained, like driving on the right side of the road. Although it’s not easy, we can override this inclination when we drive in foreign countries with left-hand traffic.

The new results, published Aug. 26 in the Journal of Neuroscience, lend insight into how the ability to inhibit an action — a fundamental aspect of everyday life — affects other important brain functions such as attention and memory. The findings may eventually inform the treatment of disorders characterized by difficulty inhibiting actions, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and addiction.

http://neurosciencenews.com/response-inhibition-memory-neuroscience-2511/

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Temporal Cortex Region Allows Dogs to Process Faces

Dogs have a specialized region in their brains for processing faces, a new study finds. PeerJ is publishing the research, which provides the first evidence for a face-selective region in the temporal cortex of dogs.

“Our findings show that dogs have an innate way to process faces in their brains, a quality that has previously only been well-documented in humans and other primates,” says Gregory Berns, a neuroscientist at Emory University and the senior author of the study.

Having neural machinery dedicated to face processing suggests that this ability is hard-wired through cognitive evolution, Berns says, and may help explain dogs’ extreme sensitivity to human social cues.

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You’re Already Persuasive

You’re Already Persuasive

It’s amazing the opportunities we miss because we doubt our own powers of persuasion.

Our bosses make short-sighted decisions, but we don’t suggest an alternative, figuring they wouldn’t listen anyway. Or we have an idea that would require a group effort, but we don’t try to sell our peers on it, figuring it would be too much of an uphill battle. Even when we need a personal favor, such as coverage for an absence, we avoid asking our colleagues out of fear of rejection.

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Babbler Bird Clues About Language

Stringing together meaningless sounds to create meaningful signals was previously thought to be the preserve of humans alone, but a new study has revealed that babbler birds are also able to communicate in this way.

Researchers at the Universities of Exeter and Zurich discovered that the chestnut-crowned babbler – a highly social bird found in the Australian Outback – has the ability to convey new meaning by rearranging the meaningless sounds in its calls. This babbler bird communication is reminiscent of the way humans form meaningful words. The research findings, which are published in the journal PLOS Biology, reveal a potential early step in the emergence of the elaborate language systems we use today.

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Helping The Introverted And Talented Child

Tom Clynes has written an extraordinary “adventure, a coming-of-age narrative of one kid’s remarkable (and often comic) journey into the subatomic world.” The Boy Who Played With Fusion explores Taylor Wilson’s brilliant mind and personality, remarkable parents, and the science behind nuclear fusion and gifted education to provide the reader with a literary ride that investigates what it takes to develop an intellectual star.

Clynes is a gifted storyteller, so it is wonderful to see his talents applied to help explore some important questions about developing intellectual talent. In this interview, we explore a handful of questions: How can parents best bring out their child’s gifts? How can we help the gifted child who is more introverted? How can we spur a renaissance in gifted education? How can we persuade the public to care about helping our most talented kids reach their full potential?

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Yes, androids do dream

What do machines dream of? New images released by Google give us one potential answer: hypnotic landscapes of buildings, fountains and bridges merging into one.

The pictures, which veer from beautiful to terrifying, were created by the company’s image recognition neural network, which has been “taught” to identify features such as buildings, animals and objects in photographs.

They were created by feeding a picture into the network, asking it to recognise a feature of it, and modify the picture to emphasise the feature it recognises. That modified picture is then fed back into the network, which is again tasked to recognise features and emphasise them, and so on. Eventually, the feedback loop modifies the picture beyond all recognition.

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Oxytocin, Alcohol Seem to Work on Brain in Similar Ways

The so-called “love hormone” oxytocin affects human behavior in much the same way as alcohol does, British researchers report.

Oxytocin is a hormone involved in mother-child bonding, social interactions and romance.

Previous research has shown that oxytocin boosts socially positive behaviors such as generosity, empathy and altruism, and makes people more willing to trust others, the researchers said.

The research team at the University of Birmingham analyzed existing research about oxytocin and alcohol and “were struck by the incredible similarities between the two compounds,” researcher Ian Mitchell, from the School of Psychology, said in a university news release.

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Value of ” Empathy Cards”

Many find difficulty knowing the right thing to say when someone they know is diagnosed with an serious illness. Emily McDowell, a Los Angeles-based greeting card writer and designer, is changing that.

McDowell’s new line of empathy cards are so popular that she’s had to bring on 10 new employees to try to keep up with demand.

McDowell has hit a nerve with people who are tired of platitudes and false cheer — because her cards offer neither. Instead, they are funny, honest and many times poke fun at the platitudes people so often reach for when they are scared.

“Let me be the first to punch the next person who tells you that everything happens for a reason,” reads one. It’s her best seller.

Another says: “One more chemo down, let’s celebrate with whatever doesn’t taste disgusting.”

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Vitamin E deficiency could damage brain

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The study, conducted by researchers at Oregon State University and published in the Journal of Lipid Research, involved examining zebrafish fed a diet deficient in vitamin E throughout their lives.

Zebrafish deficient in vitamin E were found to have around 30% lower levels of DHA-PC, a component of the cellular membrane of brain cells (neurons). Previous research suggests that low levels of DHA-PC in humans are associated with a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.
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Dancing the Tango and Parkinson’s

Dancing the Argentine tango could have potential benefits for people at certain stages in the development of Parkinson’s disease (PD), according to findings in a new study by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital -The Neuro, McGill University and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. The study looked at changes in patients’ motor abilities following a 12-week tango course, and is also the first study to assess the effect that tango has on non-motor symptoms.

The study looked at whether a social and physical activity linked to music, such as tango, could have possible therapeutic value for PD patients who characteristically suffer from motor dysfunctions—tremor, rigidity, gait dysfunction—as well as from non-motor symptoms, such as depression, fatigue and cognitive degeneration. Forty men and women with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease participated in the study, which involved studio classes with two professional dance teachers. Patients were from the Movement Disorders Clinics of the McGill University Health Centre.

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