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Gary Patton

Does SMART Goal Setting Really Work? - 0 views

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  • Does SMART Goal Setting Work? (1)
  • Gary Patton on 19 Feb 12
     
    This is a helpful Blog series on the generic SMART Goal Setting approach. gfp (2012-02-18)
Gary Patton

Gary's Spiritual Gift Mission - Bible Gateway - 0 views

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Gary Patton bible scripture values

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  • Philippians 1:9-11
  • your love may abound still more and more in (B)real knowledge and all discernment
  • approve the things that are excellent
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  • be sincere and blameless
  • filled with the (E)fruit of righteousness
  • to the glory and praise of God
  • Gary Patton on 17 Feb 12
     
    Teaching is a "Spiritual Gift" of Gary F. Patton according to Brother's and Sisters who know him well. Gary's spirit resonates with this discernment. The positive and regular Feedback Gary receives from his co-learners seems to confirm it as well. Philippians 1:9-11, especially the highlighted portions below, prayerfully guide Gary's Ministry in whatever learning environment he serves within the Body of Christ ...online or otherwise. 2012-02-17
Gary Patton

Adam & Eve to be Nude Anew? - Nude Scribe - 1 views

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scripture interpretation scripture bible creation genesis nakedness

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  • Here is Milton's description of Satan's first sight of the "naked Majestie" of Eve and Adam, in Book IV of Paradise Lost:
  • the poet's voice reiterates explicitly that neither nudity nor genitalia are inherently shameful:
  • Adam & Eve to be Nude Anew?
Gary Patton

Public nakedness a good idea - Life & Style - NZ Herald News - 0 views

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naturism

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  • Public nakedness a good idea
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 08 Feb 12
       
      This article by Kevin Sampson introduces the scientific facts around the controversial issue of the impact on children of seeing public nakedness in a non-sexual and naturist context. gfp (2012-02-08)
  • But are such protestations rational or mentally healthy?
  • Is it rational to regard the simply naked adult human body of either sex as offensive?
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  • for everyone their body is a core part of their being.
  • Does it harm children to see naked adults walking, swimming, or sunbathing?
  • There is no evidence that the sight of the naked human adult is likely to cause children harm.
  • Studies show that the experience is either benign or positive.
  • Children are not born believing certain parts of their bodies are dirty, or offensive. They have to be taught that by adults who do it because of their own insecurities or simply to conform to social mores.
  • If children are raised believing their genitals should always be hidden, or are offensive, then this creates a recipe for great anguish as they go through their teenage years with its physical, mental, and hormonal changes.
  • The conflict created between these erroneous beliefs and inner physical forces can create lifetime psychoses in some people.
  • The phrase "Prudery is child abuse with good intentions" is correct.
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 08 Feb 12
       
      One Web definition of 'prudery' is: "primness: excessive or affected modesty."
  • Acceptance of simple public nakedness also confers significant other benefits
  • Naturists know, however, that the human body comes in a bewildering number of sizes and shapes. Once you have seen a multitude of naked people you realise only a few per cent of the population could even aim to achieve the "perfect" body.
  • stress is avoided.
  • children and teenagers grew up in a society where the sight of naked human beings of all ages, in all their glory, faults and imperfections, was common. Young people would then be able to resist the messages of inferiority pushed on to them.
  • The "live and let live" attitude prevails. Also the evidence is that, rather than being harmful, acceptance of simple public nakedness would be beneficial to society.
  • Body perception in this country has become so distorted for women that they feel disgusted about suckling their own infants. That is a very dangerous thing.
  • we should all respect God's wishes on this matter. If He truly wanted us to be naked, we would have been born that way. Wait a minute.
  • Prudery is child abuse. The reasons may not be immediately obvious but they are well understood. Try comparing any body-shame or body-knowledge related indicator, teenage abortion, pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, body dysmorphic disorders for prudish countries such as the USA with those with less body-shame such as Denmark or many other European countries. The outcomes of prudery are appalling.
  • Gary Patton on 08 Feb 12
     
    This article by Kevin Sampson introduces the scientific facts around the controversial issue of the impact on children of seeing public nakedness in a non-sexual and naturist context. gfp (2012-02-08)
Gary Patton

Trans fat rules rejected as burden on food industry - Politics - CBC News - 0 views

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      Gary Patton on 08 Feb 12
       
      Shame on the Conservative Governement of Canada! gfp (2012-02-08)
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REALity February 2012 - 0 views

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  • Gary Patton on 04 Feb 12
     
    REALity is the monthly newsletter of Real Women Canada, a traditional, family-oriented advocacy group of Canadian Men and women. gfp (2012-02-03)
Gary Patton

A Doctor Reviews "Wheat Belly" ...The Dangers of Modern Hybridized Wheat - 0 views

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  • It would be bad enough if we consumed all this wheat as emmer or einkhorn or other primitive varieties, but we don’t.  We get most from a hybrid of Triticum aestivum – our great grandmother’s wheat – called dwarf (or semi-dwarf) wheat, which now comprises more than 99 percent of all wheat grown worldwide.
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 31 Jan 12
       
      A Canadian invented modern, hybridized and dwarf wheat that is grown all over the world. He is lauded for solving the horror of world hunger. Regrettably, his invention has been proven to be killer in the long run!
  • “The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.”
  • Wheat Belly
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 31 Jan 12
       
      Read here how modern hybridized wheat is killing wo(men) worldwide and giving both sexes deadly buldging stomachs plus men estrogen-induced "man boobs" as it, especially the much-touted "whole weat", takes us, inexorably, to an earlier grave than necessary.
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  • Humanity doubtless gained more than it lost in this hunter to farmer changeover when viewed in a big-picture sort of way.
  • Covenant of the Wild, describes how domestic animals formed a pact with humans in which the animals traded a period of safety and survival for their lives.
  • Homo sapiens entered an almost mirror image of this same covenant when they domesticated cereal grasses.* 
  • Ancient forms of wheat didn’t do our forebears a lot of good, and, according to Dr. William Davis’s new book Wheat Belly, the modern forms of the grain do us even less good.
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 02 Feb 12
       
      You'd also be wise to vist Dr. Davis Blog for helpful tips, recipies and ongoing encouragement. It's at http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/ .
  • he ancient Egyptians consumed a diet that would be considered optimal by many people today. 
  • But, as their mummified remains and their contemporary artwork demonstrate, the ancient Egyptians were often fat and were riddled with heart disease, dental caries, bad periodontal disease and no doubt diabetes and hypertension. 
  • Sadly, these same findings are also common among modern man who consumes a more malign version of primitive wheat.
  • Until I read Dr. Davis’s book Wheat Belly, I didn’t really think much about wheat other than its being a major source of carbohydrate in the American diet. 
  • Since reading Michael Pollen’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma I had been conscious of the amount of corn in our modern diet, but I hadn’t thought much about wheat. 
  • In most grocery stores, an entire aisle is devoted to nothing but bread in all its forms.  Then there is typically another large aisle full of cakes, cupcakes, cookies, pies, tarts, sweet rolls, bagels, croissants, brownies, and other sweet baked goods.  The vast majority of the cereal aisle displays products containing primarily wheat.  And if you look at processed foods of all kinds, you’ll find wheat in there. 
  • More food is made with wheat than any other cereal grain.
  • the hybridization of wheat came about in an effort to improve yield
  • In the photos below you can see the difference between wheat grown in the Middle Ages and the dwarf wheat grown today.
  • modern wheat is approximately 70 percent carbohydrate by weight.  The carbohydrate is in the form of a starch called amylopectin A.
  • Because it is the most digestible, it is the form that most enthusiastically increases blood sugar.  This explains why, gram for gram, wheat increases blood sugar to a greater degree than, say, kidney beans or potato chips. 
  • In healthy, slender volunteers, two medium-sized slices of whole wheat bread increase blood sugar by 30 mg/dl (from 93 to 123 mg/dl), no different from white bread.  In people with diabetes, both white and whole grain bread increase blood sugar 70 to 120 mg/dl over starting levels.
  • there are other problems
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 31 Jan 12
       
      Most startling and horrifying for me is Dr. Davis' documented comment that of the 35,000 variations of modern hybridized and amylopectin A-packed wheat, including so-called whole wheat, NOT ONE has been tested for it's effects on humans ...even in laboratory animals. The Government bureaucrats and their food-protection regulators of the world simply took the word of profit-motivated food industry leaders and modern weat's inventors. Those supposted to protect us from manufactures wanting to seel us harmful things simply trusted their testimonies that their hybridized and radiated inventions were safe for us to eat. Duh!
  • As with almost any food, the newer the food, the greater the likelihood that it will be problematic to some humans who consume it. 
  • Dr. Davis has finally shucked his bred-in-the-bone cardiologist’s antipathy toward fat in general and saturated fat specifically and has come over to what most of his peers must view as the dark (read: low-carb) side:
  • I can’t recommend this terrific book highly enough.
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 31 Jan 12
       
      Neither can I nor a number of my Friends who have each experienced major quality of life improvements by following Dr. Davis' recommendations ...including significan weight loss. (And my "man boobs" have been painlessly removed and my "wheat belly" is rapidly disappearing in less than a month!)
Gary Patton

Work/Life Balance Is A Myth | Fast Company - 0 views

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  • Work/Life Balance Is A Myth
  • When I ask busy executives to describe a satisfying life, they often envision a scenario in which they work hard but dictate their own assignments.
  • What they really need is control. But, frequently, what they think they want is balance-
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  • That myth compels many of us to view an ideal life as a set of perfectly level scales.
  • In reality, that perfect balance almost never occurs, except for those rare, fleeting moments when the trays pass each other on the way up or down--and we’re too frazzled to appreciate that brief moment of self-actualization anyway.
  • There’s always a lot of chatter in the media about the latest trends in work-life balance.
  • I’ve noticed a couple trends of my own
  • when it comes to work-life balance, we often adopt a victim mind-set.
  • Second, we want to believe there’s a quick fix that we’re somehow overlooking
  • Doing what that guy in the photo was doing is impossible for more than a few minutes at a time.
  • don’t say if no if you don’t have any leverage
  • In practice, however, what I’ve seen is that people often invest that free time in doing more work.
  • Their identity is rooted in work, and that’s where they want to be. Outside of work, in the complex dance of family and community responsibilities, they lose their autonomy. Their professional expertise doesn’t mean much.
  • We need better ways to manage work-life boundaries, understanding that we are subject to phases, often dictated by events out of our control, in which our work lives and personal lives ebb and flow in their demands.
  • Shore up the home front
  • f you feel overworked to the point that you complain about it constantly
  • Quit complaining
  • Say “no” strategically
  • Take control instead
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      Gary Patton on 31 Jan 12
  • Gary Patton on 31 Jan 12
     
    Here's how you can defeat the myth of work-life balance!
Gary Patton

Drinking coffee offers potential health perks - Health - The Buffalo News - 0 views

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  • While we still have more to learn about coffee and health protection, it seems like you have nothing to fear from sitting back, relaxing, and enjoying this fragrant brew. But don’t forget that caffeine and coffee consumption may not be the best prescription for everyone;
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 19 Jan 12
       
      A beverage that causes many people to suffer the withdrawal effects of addiction when they don't drink it or enough of it almost daily CANNOT be all good, eh?
  • A few decades ago, people sipped coffee with trepidation, as doctors cautioned against drinking too much of this “excitable” brew. But now the attitude on coffee and health has come full circle, due to research that reveals this plant-based beverage might actually have some health benefits.
Gary Patton

2012 Cancer Statistics to Fuel the Cancer Scam - 0 views

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wellness health dis-stress cancer statistics Big Pharma

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  • according to researchers in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. The bad news: some cancer rates are on the rise
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 09 Jan 12
       
      Like they have been since before the war on cancer started.
  • lifestyle is a risk factor.
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 09 Jan 12
       
      Do they really think? Duh! What a silly statement since this has been a proven, researched fact known for over 50 years. And it's been know all the while that Canadians & Americans have donated billions of dollars. They've done so in response to the Cancer Industry's constant pleading for more money to give to the Drug Industry so it can search for a silver bullet that will never be found because there's no pill that can cure North America's unwise lifestyle choices. So the "promised cure" always seems to be "just over the horizon"! And for how long now have they been telling us that as we foolishly give Big Pharma comanies our hard earned money?
  • The information presented in “Cancer Statistics, 2012” offers hope
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 09 Jan 12
       
      Where's the hope in these horrible statistics?
Gary Patton

How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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wellness health dis-stress yoga

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  • Gary Patton on 09 Jan 12
     
    The physical dangers of yoga. In addition, there are the spiritual dangers. gfp (2012-01-09)
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Sharia Myths & Facts - Muslim Canadian Congress - 0 views

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Islam islamism sharia myths truth

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  • the fight against sharia courts was started and led by Muslims, many of whom have had personal experience with sharia and left their former countries to escape it.
  • If it was divine, there would only be one version of it. Instead there are almost as many versions as there are Muslim communities. Moreover, it has evolved over time. The Sharia laws were developed by men and owe more to their cultures than to the Quran.
  • Not only does the Quran not endorse sharia courts, the whole notion of such courts violates the letter and the spirit of the Quran.
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  • the rights sharia gives women are neither the same as nor equivalent to those given to men. As such sharia is fundamentally incompatible with our Human Rights legislation.
  • Gary Patton on 04 Jan 12
     
    Here's what a reputable group respected by many and representing Canadian Muslims says about Sharia Law. gfp (2012-01-04)
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SMOKE - The Convenient Truth [1st place Worlds Best Presentation Co... - 0 views

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wellness smoking health presentation

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  • Gary Patton on 13 Dec 11
     
    Want to get some tips on who to design a REALL powerful presentation. Encorporate some of the techniques you see here into your next slide presentation. Want to help a Friend re-become a non-smoker ...not just quit smoking..., show them this slide show. (Quitting smoking is easy. Most smokers have done it a lot. Making the adjustments to re-become a non-smoker is the ONLY way back to health and avoid a shortened life!)
Gary Patton

Anger Management | Ten Essentials to Consider - 1 views

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stress dis-stress Anger rage bitterness unforgiveness

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  • Anger is healthy
  • It’s what we do with our anger that makes all the difference to the maintenance of our own health
  • warning to keep our mouth shut and think
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  • Anger arousal symptoms
  • soul solitude time will allow us to trace and track the origins of the triggers so we can understand them
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 30 Nov 11
       
      My problem with Rhoberta's psychology when she points to "understanding" the roots of anger/rage as a route to healing is that it cannot produce freedom from your bondage. (I know this because I knew the emotional and spiritual roots of my rage for the full 25 years that I struggled with my it and that understanding didn't help me one bit. Only knowing "truth" can set you free. Understanding our past pain's roots doesn't produce truth or "freedom" from the pain. Only the truth that Jesus talks about at http://is.gd/NwDqOu can do that. gfp
  • trouble in relationships
  • We have to learn to manage incoming anger, too.
  • one of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves
  • you may not have any boundaries
  • Anger is healthy. It is natural. It is a gift of perception, experience and biology
  • Gary Patton on 30 Nov 11
     
    Anger is one of the most powerful emotions and the most challenging one to manage for most people. Some of us can't "manage" it ...at all. At best, some of us can ONLY moderate our reaction to our amygdala's response to our perception of a violation of our so-called rights. That's why Essential #1 is so crucial. (I know because I fought a losing battle with anger/rage for over 25 years until recently when I re-discovered a truth that I had forgotten as a Jesus Follower. Yeh! We're NOT perfect ...just saved as someone said.) You may enjoy my Tweet for 2011-08-27 apropos Essential #1: "A relationship can only thrive when at least one party knows when to back off!" ~ gfp '42™ gfp
  • Gary Patton on 30 Nov 11
     
    Essential #1 in this article is so crucial. (I know because I fought a losing battle with anger/rage for over 25 years until recently. I have now re-discovered a truth that I had forgotten as a Jesus Follower. Yeh! We're NOT perfect ...just saved as someone said.) gfp
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