Energy of Heart

I had an interesting thought. What's the difference between hydrogen and helium? Helium is an inert, more stable, and non-flammable gas. Compared to hydrogen with is less stable, reactive, and extremely flammable. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, estimated to be about 75 percent of the universe's normal matter. Helium is estimated to be about 25 percent of the atoms in the universe. And that gets me to the real difference. Hydrogen, as the first element on the periodic table, has one proton and one electron. With only one proton, a neutron isn't needed because there isn't a positive to positive repulsion that would occur if there were two protons). However, hydrogen has three isotopes: protium-1H has no neutrons, deuterium-2H with one neutron, and tritium-3H has two neutrons. The difference is helium has two protons and two neutrons, surrounded by two electrons. Since hydrogen isotope can have two neutrons, the key difference between hydrogen and h...

 It's said that "opposites attract."  From my observation this isn't really true. It's more true that similarities, although not sameness, tend to attract. Most people like being around others who are more similar than imposingly different. This is not to say there aren't those who appear to be opposites who get together. What most people label as "opposites" are actually complementary, parts that mesh or go well together. "Two peas in a pod" as some may say.  A common example of "opposites" attracting are the positive and negative ends of a magnet. But, these aren't really opposites. True opposites cannot exist in the same space. Opposite comes from the word oppose. If one side opposes the other side, the two sides cannot exist together. There would have to be some change or compromise on one or both sides for the opposites to be on the same side, and then they would no longer be opposing.  Some examples of real opposites inc...

 One of the biggest challenges to making a significant change is fighting the current system. This applies internally and externally. A big change in how a company does business can bother a lot of people who are used to the old way of doing business. Sometimes the changes are easy to adapt. Other times those changes are more challenging. I believe the he buzz phrase is culture change. The culture is how things are done. The processes, procedures, interaction between different parts/people, written and unwritten rules of conduct and expectation, the pecking order, hierarchy, along with a host of other things are all part of the culture. If a new CEO, with a new vision, is hired to "turn a company around" there can be immense push back by the company's culture. Often the "turn around" is unsuccessful. Success can only happen when the people "buy in" to the new vision and have a vested, even emotional, attachment to that vision. Just as it's difficul...

 We should awake every morning thankful for the new day. We haven't filled the day with regrets and mistakes. It's a blank slate before us, for us to do with according to our choices. A new beginning means that. We start over. We don't carry over the tally from the previous day (or days, weeks, months, or years). We begin anew with zero score. Certainly we need to use the mistakes and regrets and shortcomings of the past to remind us of what not to do. Hopefully we can identify those thoughts that led us to those issues and avoid or change those initiating thoughts. Learn from the past, don't live in it. Our past is just that, past. It'd done. Unfortunately most people have a hard time letting go of the past. Many people keep score of what someone else did, of offenses received (real or perceived), and/or of what they believe is "fair" and how they didn't get what was fair. Maybe it's keeping score of who did what and how many times. Maybe they bel...

Mindfulness is a key to change. For this post, mindfulness is basically the same as awareness. We cannot change something if we don't know what it is we should change. We need to become aware of what should be changed. Where habits are concerned, awareness, or mindfulness, aids us in eliminating a bad habit, modifying one to make us better, or firmly establishing a new one. Too often we do things out of habit, where we don't really even think about what it is we're doing (or thinking). Many habits can be likened to muscle memory where something is done with very little, if any, conscious thought. Our subconscious mind does things in the background based on whatever inputs it receives. These inputs--which are generally external--trigger internal processes, paradigms, beliefs, or mindset response. Some even refer to this as internal programming. We could even refer to some of these as conditional or habitual responses. Our processes began when we were infants, and continued t...

How does who we are relate to the parable of the talents? In the Old Testament a talent is a measurement of weight, estimated to be about 75.6 pounds or 34.27 kilograms. Some Bible scholars believe it should be 100 pounds, referring to the equivalent "hundredweight".  By the New Testament a talent was a sum of money. Scholars are divided about how much it is. Some cite it as being the equivalent of 20 years worth of wages for a common worker. Others are more conservative claiming it was worth $1,000 to $3,000.  Here's another idea of what a talent may be worth. In a different parable where a servant owes his master 10,000 talents it could represent something like 204 metric tons of silver. The word "talent" comes from the Greek and refers to an amount of money that's about 6,000 Greek drachmas or Roman denarii. So based on this the 10,000 talents owed would be equivalent to 60 million denarii. A denarii is considered to be a day's salary. Based on that 6...