TETRIS REDUCES TRAUMA

Here is a very interesting item from The Telegraph which gave me, a Tetris lover, considerable food for thought.

Philip

Playing the video game "Tetris" after a major shock could reduce the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, claim scientists.

British researchers found that playing the popular computer game shortly after the trauma helped wipe out the bad memories and reduce distressing flashbacks.

The psychologists from Oxford University believe the discovery could lead to new treatments for accident victims in hospitals as well as those involved in war zones.

"This is only a first step in showing that this might be a viable approach to preventing post traumatic stress disorder,' said Dr Emily Holmes of the Department of Psychiatry at Oxford University, who led the work.

"This was a pure science experiment about how the mind works from which we can try to understand the bigger picture.

"There is a lot to be done to translate this experimental science result into a potential treatment." (Read more.....)

RAMAKRISHNA'S WISDOM

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (February 18, 1836-August 16, 1886) was a Hindu religious teacher and an influential figure in the Bengal Renaissance of the Nineteenth century. His teachings emphasized God-realization as the highest goal of life, love and devotion for God, the oneness of existence, and the harmony of religions. Some of his transcendental wisdom is quoted below.

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A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.

The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

Only two kinds of people can attain Self knowledge: those whose minds are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, not overcrowded with thoughts borrowed from others, and those who after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realize that they know nothing.

Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God. Who can bind me?', free you shall be.