ALBERT CAMUS ON MEDICAL PROGNOSIS

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Mandy Lender

ALBERT CAMUS ON MEDICAL PROGNOSIS

“I have no idea what’s awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.”

~ Albert Camus (1913-1960)

The wit and wisdom of Albert Camus won him a Nobel prize in literature (1957).  It was his kaleidoscopic view of life that shaped him into the great philosopher he was – an existentialist.  The Nobel foundation has no prize for philosophy.   Camus had no medical degree so they did not award him the Nobel prize in medicine.  Therefore they were left with only one choice and awarded him the Nobel Prize in literature.

From the other side of the table – Albert Camus was a patient.  He was diagnosed with tuberculosis at a young age and struggled with recurrences most of his life.

In my book The Master Attractor I have a clear advice:

Stay away from physicians who use the language, “The prognosis is guarded”.  That is euphemism for saying the patients is “terminal”.  Definitely stay away from doctors whose opinion is that “the patient has six months to live”.  How do they know?  Those opinions are held by physicians who are reluctant to do what it takes to cure and heal the patient.

When you or your family member hears a physician who has an opinion on who will die and when, just walk out quickly and find another physician who holds an optimistic view of life.  That particularly applies to cancer patients who may be difficult to heal.

Ironically Camus wrote a novel titled “The Plague”.
Camus died during a car accident.  The driver of the car was his publisher, Michel Gallimard.

© 2013 Mandy Lender MD

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THE VISIONARY LEADER

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Mandy Lender

THE VISIONARY LEADER

A leadership vision is the ability to perceive the possibilities that are available to people, tribe, society or nation and create a novel picture of where the body of people will achieve and be in the future.

A vision is similar in its meaning to the synonymous terms – dream, image, or trance.   A vision is an idea!

A vision sets a clear, focused picture and direction that will take the society to a specific destination.

People are motivated to accomplish when they have a clear understanding of the purpose of a task or activity that promises some benefit to them.  The visionary leader provides this purpose and meaning by developing and sharing his vision and communicating by all means with his followers.

The message of the vision does not address details.  Everything that happens moves the organization or society in the direction of attracting the circumstances and manifesting the vision.

On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King addressed the people assembled on the national mall in Washington DC where he proclaimed the prophetic words: “I have a dream.”  The speech was melodic, it was poetic and it is full of imagery.  As a result it moved the nation and Congress to enact the Civil Rights law.  King was a visionary leader – a Master Attractor – who accomplished his vision by the compelling power of his words.

On May 25, 1961, President John F Kennedy set before Congress a visionary goal to send a man to the moon and return him safe back to earth before the decade is over.  Congress approved and supported this vision.  The first man set his step on the moon on July 21, 1969.

On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan stood by the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and decreed, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”  The Berlin Wall cracked open on November 9, 1989, without bloodshed.  Reagan is now a president revered by all political ideologues as the president who brought down the soviet empire without sending one soldier to battle.

What is happening when a visionary leader sets an objective?

Many fellow men and women see in their mind’s eye that same vision that the leader communicated and join forces to work together to assemble all the matching components, necessary to accomplish and manifest the objective.  Sometimes the idea takes hold in the mind of adversaries too as we saw how Reagan brought to its knees the soviet empire.

Lack of visionary leadership results in apathy and erosion of society.  As the Bible says: “Without vision people perish.”  (Prov. 23:18).  Every leader, regardless of their vision is a Master Attractor.  They attract their followers by the powers of the mind.

© 2013 Mandy Lender

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WHO IS AN ETHICIST?

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Mandy Lender

So who is an Ethicist you ask?

An Ethicist is a person who makes it his business to allocate the blame to others in a manner that seems fair to him.

In deference to the distinguished field of philosophy I avoid here the tempting attempt to psychoanalyze the personality of the ethicist…

(C) 2013 Mandy Lender MD

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BOOKSELLERS ARE INSPIRED BY HABAKKUK

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Mandy Lender

Why pay a bookseller over $181 for a “new” copy of HabakkuK and his Law of Attraction?

That is the going rate on Barnes & Noble web-site for The Vision of HabakkuK. The Law of Attraction in the Holy Bible.

And there is no way to tell if it is an authorized copy of the original book or it may be a fake copy or a stolen copy.
For a book of 70 pages that sells for $181, the price rate per page $2.58.

If you understand the Law of Attraction get your special-copy signed in 4 States at the same moment in time direct from The Source.

www.visionofhabakkuk.com/special_copy.html

Remember:

St. Paul of Tarsus endorsed HabakkuK’s article of faith twice in his original epistles:

Romans 1:17 and Galatians 3:11.

 

 

 

 

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MONEY MAGAZINE: INVEST IN TOASTMASTERS

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Mandy Lender

Money Magazine in its October 2012 issue (p. 70) has a collage article titled:
“WHAT TO DO WITH $1,000 NOW!”

Among other investment ideas it suggests:
“Polish your presentation skills.  Knowing how to effectively communicate ideas to your boss and clients can expand and extend your career.”

So with whom would invest the tuition money for public speaking training?

The writer starts with… $775 for a course run by the National Speakers Association.  Next they suggest: Join Toastmasters International ($192 a year) to learn the art of making witty impromptu remarks.  And then next, pay a private speaking coach.

I enthusiastically support with the idea that training in public speaking is a wonderful investment that keeps on giving.  But the writer is giving bad financial advice when it comes to facts and figures.   The NSA is not a place for beginners.

The place to start is your nearest Toastmasters’ Club.  The nominal annual membership fee is around $100 or less, split in installments.   And no – Toastmasters is not about making witty remarks.  It’s about making short, impactful business and teaching presentations like sales presentations or stump speeches on your feet if you dream to run for election to PTA or any elected public office.

So, if I had only one Grand to invest I’ll invest one tenth of it in Toastmasters International.

 

© 2013 Mandy Lender MD

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INTERVIEW WITH DR. HARPAL KUMAR OF CANCER RESEARCH U.K.

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Mandy Lender

Asked what is the most difficult thing he has dealt at work in oncology Dr. Kumar answered:
“…Not being able to help patients or friends who ask for help on behalf of a loved one, because their cancer is too far advanced.”

When asked if he could go back 10 years and meet his former self what he would say?
“…Be even more ambitious, because the only thing holding us back is our self.”

If you want to read more of this short interview go to:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/healthcare-network/2013/jan/11/cancer-research-uk-dr-harpal-kumar

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7 REASONS TO SLEEP 7 HOURS 7 NIGHTS A WEEK

Posted on December 30, 2012 by Mandy Lender

Sleep is a natural process characterized by low or absent consciousness and very little to absent body motion. The timing of sleep is usually controlled by an internal body clock that is also known as the circadian clock. All mammal animals sleep. There is a special gene that that determines the amount of time that each individual person requires for sleep. The average duration of time required for sleep by an adult person is seven hours.

Lack of adequate sleep is shown to double the risk of death from cardio-vascular diseases (i.e. “heart disease”). Inadequate sleep is associated with high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes. Chronic sleep deficit results in diminished ability to perform high-level cognitive function (i.e. thinking). Sleeping difficulty is associated with psychiatric disorders like depression, alcoholism and bipolar disorder.

Here are 7 reasons why you must sleep 7 hours every night (or day).
 Sleep is required for body healing and restoration. During sleep body organs such as muscles are repaired. Wounds are healed during sleep. The immune system is maintained and revitalized.
 During nightly sleep hormonal functions take place on a cycle called circadian rhythm. Some of those involve the brain’s pineal gland that secretes melatonin that modulates the sleep cycle. The brain’s pituitary gland secretes hormones cyclically. Pituitary secreted growth hormone is mandatory for children’s growth. Pituitary ACTH secretions include orderly secretion of endorphins (among other hormones) that make us feel optimistic and well. Other secreted hormones control appetite.
 During sleep the body’s available stores of immediate energy such as muscle glycogen are replenished.
 Importantly, during sleep the brain takes time to process mental impressions, pleasant and unpleasant emotions, information from our environment and it synthesizes new ideas. Guiltless sexual activity occurs during sleep. Adequate sleep is required for thinking functions like reasoning and decision making. We need our sleep to maintain our sanity.
 During sleep many obnoxious external sensory stimuli are shut out. As a result less adrenaline is secreted and blood pressure comes down naturally. During sleep the heart beat tends to be regular and slower and episodes of irregular heartbeats (palpitations) decline.
 Sleep is required to maintain our safe existence and survival. Restful sleep enhances good judgment during car driving. Car accidents due to impaired driving are caused not only by alcohol but also by lack of adequate sleep. Same is true for prevention of industrial accidents caused while operating heavy mechanical equipment. Commercial aviation pilots are mandated a minimal hours of sleep during long-range trans-oceanic flights.
 Dreaming is an obligatory high level mental activity that takes place during sleep. The function of dreaming is subject to speculations. One thing is clear – dreaming is part of being human. No human would like to be deprived of his or her dreams.

You have to have a dream to make a dream come true!

Here are 7 actions you can take to get enough sleep 7 hours 7 days a week.

o Go to bed and sleep 7 hours at about the same time in all of 7 days of the week. Do that even if you work night shifts.
o Create a regular relaxing activity an hour before bedtime. Listen to soothing music or take a warm bath.
o Banish sleep-interrupters from your bedroom. Turn off TV, cell-phone, and computers. The light emitted from your electronic equipment confuses your circadian clock.
o If you sleep regularly during daytime make sure that your bedroom is darkened by proper heavy blinds that block daylight.
o Avoid alcohol and caffeinated beverages before bedtime.
o Melatonin is an over-the-counter natural sleep adjunct. It makes more sense to use melatonin than sleeping pills. Melatonin is useful in recovering from sleep disrupting jet-lag.
o People who cannot sleep because of anxiety will do best to consult a mental health practitioner for help. Further referral to a reputable specialized sleep clinic may provide beneficial advanced remedies.

Disclaimer: nothing in this blog should be construed as a medical advice. Interested readers are encouraged to discuss individual health issues with their health care provider.
© Mandy Lender MD. 2013. All rights reserved.

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THE LAW OF ATTRACTION: OBSESSIVE AND COMPELLING

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Mandy Lender

This blog explains why the Law of Attraction is both obsessive and compelling in its tendency to co-create and manifest.

The Law of Attraction is compelling people to act in alignment with their thoughts, aims or fantasies.  Unless the person holds opposing thoughts or diversionary thoughts, (or fantasies), they will end up sooner or later manifesting it in their reality.  The process of manifesting is obsessive and compels the person into action and acceptance of their new reality.   A new reality may manifest that is somewhat different of what they originally intended or conjured up.

In a prior blog we explained why the Law of Attraction is self-serving and self-preserving.  In order to manifest that which is self-serving the Law of Attraction shifts into an “obsessive gear” and compels the thinker to act in a fashion that is conducive to manifesting the desired “obsession”.

Let us first explain again how we account for the phenomenon of the Law of Attraction.

The essence of the process is that a thought once sparked in a human mind, starts thinking about itself.   In due course, that thought spawns collateral thoughts.   We often call them associated thoughts, known commonly as “associations”.  Next, the new collateral associated thoughts spread throughout the mind as a ripple around the original thought.  The ripples of thoughts expand our awareness to include the target idea that we wish to manifest in our reality.

Compare this mind process to your use of an internet search engine.  You are interested in an item and you enter the name or query into the search engine and press “Enter”.  Then, voila, the search engine returns to you thousands or millions of related information items in a split moment while you still type the item.  It does not matter to the search engine what you entered – an object or a thought.  It is just energy signal to the search engine.

The search engine is neutral.  It does not care and does not pass judgment on the item you asked for information.  Better yet, the search engine does not care if what you search is “true” or “false”.

If you did not get want you want – you modify your search terms and repeat the process.  When you get what you ask for from the search engine, you get it in the form of links leading you to your desired objective.  With the links to information you can now get to assemble and manifest your objective.  You literally get a map with turn by turn directions to your destination, if it is a place that you asked for.

Your quest for what you want gets efficient and faster when you communicate verbally – ask your friends for help and advice.  It’s known as the master-mind phenomenon.

Ask your friends for support; ask for better and faster methods.  Write down what you want.  When you write down your intent or objective you commit your intention to memory and your conscious awareness is aroused and amplified.

Our minds keeps reiterating the search and ask routines obsessively until through various channels the Law of Attraction accumulates for you all the elements (components) that are required and manifests the completed circumstance that you asked.  You may now expect that your objective will come to you.

Expect what you want and let the universe deliver it.  Oftentimes the universe delivers without any effort made on your part.

Thus, we become co-creators of our emerging new reality and this new reality manifests and takes shape around us.  Now that we think about “it”, (whatever “it” may be), we start to see and perceive evidence for it all around us.  When we perceive the conscious evidence for “it”, we start to believe that “it” is truly our empiric reality. Thus our reality becomes our conviction.

The Law of Attraction is a neurophysiologic phenomenon that matches our target seeking thoughts with the corresponding components of the reality that is in alignment with our original thought.

If the thinker holds contradictory or doubtful thoughts about the desired outcome or changes the description of the objective, their central nervous system (mind) enters a state of confusion and will not deliver the desired outcome until the objective is clearly defined. In the case of doubts, expect a delay in manifestation.

Thus, repeated clear thinking and vivid imagination of a desired (or undesired) situation eventually, compellingly and inevitably manifests in the surrounding reality of the thinker.

Can you stop thinking? Try to and find out…

Can you stop searching for what you want?  Not unless your body gets sick.  Some people are carried to the extreme and obsessively keep on asking and searching.  If the results do not bring them emotional satisfaction they feel compelled to ask and seek obsessively until they attract their object or manifest their new reality.

That is why obsession manifests.

Got a question?  Ask me. Write a comment here or e-mail: mandy@mandy1st.com

© 2012 Mandy Lender MD

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STATINS MAY BE CANCER RETARDANTS

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Mandy Lender

 

Cholesterol lowering agents known commonly as statins are used widely to reduce the incidence of atherosclerotic vascular heart disease.  The statins reduce the “bad cholesterol”, known as LDL-C and increase lightly the blood levels of the “good cholesterol’ HDL-C.  The first product Mevacor (lovastatin) was introduced in 1987.  Since then several much more effective statins were released for clinical use.  Known among them are simvastatin (Zocor), atorvastatin (Lipitor) and Rosuvastatin (Crestor).

In 2005 a scientific report appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that use of a statin reduces colon cancer risk by 47 percent.

About a year ago a study published in the Journal Cancer showed that men taking statins may be 30 percent less likely to experience a recurrence of prostatic cancer.

Recently a new study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine (Nov 7, 2012).  This study was conducted among Danish cancer patients shows that patients taking statins have a lower risk of premature death from cancer.  Their risk of death from cancer was reduced by 15 percent.  This risk reduction is seemingly very modest, but traditional chemotherapy reduces the risk of dying only by a similar 15 percent.

It is thought that the statins work against critical cellular functions that control tumor initiation, tumor growth and metastatic cancer spread.

It is estimated that 15 million Americans are taking statins for control of increased cholesterol levels in order to prevent heart disease and strokes.  During the recent years there has been a continuous trend in reduction of cancer because of early detection (like colonoscopies and mammograms) and cancer prevention secondary to reduction in cigarettes smoking.

I find it tempting to speculate that the increasing use of statins has indirectly contributed to the gradual reduction in cancer mortality and the slow rise in the population’s average life span.

Should you be taking a statin medication?   Ask your medical health practitioner this question.

© 2012 Mandy Lender MD

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A DOG, A HORSE AND THE PRESIDENCY

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Mandy Lender

Romney lost his bid for the presidency by the faults and weaknesses of his personality.  It had nothing to do with ideology.  Not much to do with economic plans, nor the federal budget shortfall.  Granted he is a good businessman.

His personality was revealed when he expressed his real feelings.  The voting folks were uneasy with him as a human being.

  • He treated his dog inhumanely. Could he treat his constituents any better?
  • He used every lawyerly esoteric method to reduce his income tax liability.  The real details of his tax returns remain shrouded in mystery.
  • He demonstrated underlying emotions of disdain towards 47 percent of the voting electorate who are “government dependents” (and do not pay taxes?).
  • His attitude towards working women (“binders of women”), and women’s health hurt him among 51 percent of the voting electorate.

Lastly, raising dogs is more popular among the electorate than breeding race horses.

There is more to be said about the differences between the two candidates for the president – living with your mother-in-law in the same household is one little unadvertised virtue that Obama has over Romney.

© 2012 Mandy Lender.

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