Filed under: Contemplate, English | Tags: alpha, artist, balance, binaural beats, contribution, delta, difference, English, fibonacci, global, meditation, music, spiral, world
I did meet a Brazilian artist on the net and he is preparing a global meditation with binaural beats.
Binaural beats? Well, if you bring 100 Hz in one ear and 104 Hz in the other, your brain will make the difference to bring balance: 4 Hz. This way it is possible to get into Alpha or Delta without falling asleep.
This artist, Luiz Felipe Klein, wants to collect as many people as possible to meditate at the same day: 22 september, a contribution to the world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFArfsRFOsE
I really love his music: he is using binaural beats, the sounds of whales and dolphins, nature sounds and in the end he even uses the principal of the fibonnaci spiral to create a climax.
Are you interested or do you want to hear some excerpts of his music?
Go to: http://globalmeditation.ning.com/
Music with a fibonacci spiral to heal the world? Sounds great!!!
Bea
Filed under: Beyondia, English | Tags: choose, English, focus, get clear, great work, invite others in, possibility, say no, say yes, short movie
In this 8 minutes movie you see 5 rules to create your great work…great stuff. To my opinion those rules do fit in other branches of life as well.
Hope you enjoy this movie as much as I do!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZF6vz5ThR0
Bea
Filed under: English | Tags: Bobby Mc Ferrin, pentatonic scale, World Science Festival
Bobby McFerrin is demonstrating neural programming, using audience expectations based on the pentatonic scale at the World Science Festival. The funny thing is, this always works in any audience, regardless of where he does it…
Source : BoingBoing.net
Filed under: English, Wordgames | Tags: end hunger, feed, FreeRice, play, UN World Food Programme
What if you could feed hungry people by knowing the meaning of a word? No, this is NOT a tricky question. This is actually what FreeRice.com does. You simply answer a multiple choice question and for every correct answer, Freerice.com donates 10 grams of rice through the UN World Food Programme to help end hunger.
According to the United Nations, 25,000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes, most of them children. FreeRice.com was founded in October 2007 by John Breen and he donated the site to the UN World Food Program in March 2009. In making the donation, Mr. Breen expressed his hopes that FreeRice will be able to grow over the coming years, helping to feed and educate as many people as possible throughout the world. A great example of how 1 person make a real difference! FreeRice.com donated 66,849,742,200 grains of rice so far.
If FreeRice.com has the rice to give, why not give it all away right now? Great question. Well, FreeRice.com is not sitting on a pile of rice. All the players are earning it 10 grains at a time. Here is how it works. When you play the game, sponsor banners appear on the bottom of your screen. The money generated by these banners is then used to buy the rice. So by playing, you generate the money that pays for the rice donated to hungry people.
Though 10 grains of rice may seem like a small amount, remeber there are thousands of other people playing at the same time (easily 40,000 users/day). It is everyone together that makes the difference. And so can you… Imagine if you start the day with answering 1 question right…
So, my advice is to play this game once every day. You’ll extend your vocalubary and help the UN World Food Programme to end hunger.
PS : There are a number of other subjects available like Art, Chemistry, Geography, Math and Languages (French, German, Italian, Spanish).
Source : Bert Verdonck’s Blog
Filed under: English, Inventive Theories | Tags: creativity, discussion, Fun, history, Inventive Theories, logic, research
We all want to know WHY something happens. Ok, some times also How 
So, instead of doing years of research I’ve decided to create some Inventive Theories that are totally based on … what actually? On my imagination. This means that some theories will consist of logical and easy to understand reasoning. On top of that I’ll add flavours of pure creativity and imagination. So most of them will look “real” to most people. In fact, my goal is to persuade people or even seduce people into a conversation about it. Some people will instantly share that they know examples of this theory. Some will say that (extensive) research has been done about it. Others will come up with counter-examples. And yes, that’s when the goal of Inventive Theories is achieved
In fact, the creation of Inventive Theories became the subject of what is now called
“Verdonck’s Law” (de Wet van Verdonck). More info on this later…
So, I dare you to come up with proof Why the theory works or not. We might write history together and at least have lots of fun with debating on it, clarifying thoughts, sharing how we feel about them, etc.
Are you ready for the first one?
Yes? Be back next week for the premiere
Have fun, always,
Bert
Filed under: English | Tags: beyond, dance, dream, English, fibonacci, limits, own, rollercoaster
A festival…one guy starts to dance…on his own for quite some time…
Watch what happens!
Do you recognize? 1 1 2 3 5 8 13…..
One man starts to dance…suddenly a second one is showing up and now they are two of them. A bit later number three is joining the party. Very quickly you see two more and then they are five….three more and then they are eight…4 and 1 more then they are 13 and now it is speeding up like a rollercoaster….
What would happen if we all keep believing in our ‘dance’???
Something to ponder!
Dream beyond your limits and dance!!!!
Bea
Filed under: English | Tags: beyond, collected, English, firm, hara, limits, secret, self, vocal coach
As a vocal coach and the creator of the Natural Corset training I cannot tell you enough how important the hara is.
For those who are not acquainted to this subject:
“Hara, or balancing point or gravity point, is the vital center of the self, the focus of existence . It is a prime factor of all human life. The hara is an area located one and a half inch below the navel and one and a half inches inward toward the spine.
A person with a good hara will stand upright, firm and collected. The body would not easily be toppled over if pushed.”
What does this mean in practice?
One day I was giving a workshop and I wanted to demonstrate this principal. I asked for a volunteer to push me away. A young man, about twenty years of age, came forward. He really had very strong arm-muscles. (he looked a bit like Arnold Schwarzenegger). Honestly I was a bit worried. Was my hara that developed that I could resist his pushing me away? But I easily did. It was quite embarrassing for him so I told him my ‘secret’.
David was a student in one of my music classes. He was eight years old and very tiny for his age. He looked quite insecure and after a little while I figured out that they were bullying him on the playground.
I asked him: Do you want to learn how to be strong and how you can resist them without fighting? He didn’t want to believe that anything could possibly help him but I made him curious. We started practising how to use the hara. A bit nervous but very enthusiast he left my classroom. A week later (I do have my students once a week) he ran towards me, completely overexcited: miss, miss, I did it! I did it! They stopped bullying me and some of them already want to play with me!
I can assure you: nothing in the world can pay me for those shiny eyes and big smile of a person who has conquered something and went beyond his or her own limits!!
Cherish your hara!
Bea
A while ago I was sitting in the audience of a coach. He was asking the question: what is an important goal to you in life. A man answered: I would like the things in my life to be balanced. That sentence stayed in the corner of my mind.
Some weeks later I heard someone saying: Balance is not interesting. It doesn’t make you growing. You find challenges and possibilities when you are out of balance. Now I started wondering: is this true for me and what does balance in life means to me?
Suddenly I remembered my cousin. He was a water skier on professional level and I once interviewed him for a magazine.
I asked him what his sport was all about. Keeping up speed, he answered. Then I reacted: But I see you making circles over and over again on the river for about one and a half hour. Isn’t it boring? What are you thinking?
His answer: I don’t think of anything. I only focus myself on every wave. If I catch that wave then I can keep up my speed. If I’m not then I loose speed.
When I started as a beginner I only could focus myself for about ten minutes. That’s what the training is all about: to learn the technique to catch the waves and to build up my focus.
Well, maybe that’s what balance is all about: to surf on the waves of life and to make sure your focus is well enough to catch them in order to reach your goal. And as we all know: waves are coming and going…there is no such a thing as being balanced for the rest of your life. It’s an ongoing process!
Keep surfing!
Bea
Filed under: Beyondia, English | Tags: beyond, connect, fibonacci, golden ratio, habits, multiply, rabbits
As earlier mentioned we are inspired by the Fibonacci sequence of numbers…one of us said to the other: I am interested to start a blog about ‘blablabla’. The other answered: strange I got the same idea. Great….let’s connect and start together. Two days later one called the other and said: guess what! I know someone who is really interested in joining us….and then we were three of us….end of story??? I guess not…
0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 144 ect…
Leonardo da Pisa (1170-1250) didn’t invent this sequence of numbers but added zero and used this in his book ’Liber Abaci’ to proof the way rabbits were multiplying.
I hope we will multiply as fast as, but not as rabbits !!
Leonardo da Pisa …Fibonacci? Nickname of his dad was bonaccio (goodnatured) and he became filius bonacci…Fibonacci (son of Bonaccio)
I like Fibonacci! He’s Italian. As a young boy he travelled the Middle-East. He got his education in the North of Africa…a perfect mixture, a man of the world, going and growing beyond habits (or rabbits?)!!
Even more special: the higher up in the sequence, the closer it will approach the golden ratio….a thing of beauty is a joy forever!!
Let’s go Beyondia!
Bea
Ok, here we are.
We speak Dutch – we want to reach the whole world. Dilemma…
Is it really feasible to conquer the world in Dutch?
The Dutch gave it a try, so now we know better 
Double dutch?
English or Dutch? English AND Dutch! And BEYOND!
We speak English and Dutch (and French and German and a little Spanish, Italian and Hindi, and some Latin too), but how do we write it?
We want to give you an inside look on how we work, how this evolves, how we create this blog – so we show you everything.
(Bert and Bea are now contemplating the role of Latin in history, medicin, religion, universities, churches, music…)
Ok, back to business – back to basics.
Bea: if we want to reach an audience that wants to reach BEYOND, we want to invite them to go BEYOND the language too. AND we need language to communicate, to express what this is all about.
Annemie: To be OR not to be, that’s the question. To be AND not to be is the answer! And then not even the sky is the limit, because BEYOND the sky is the universe, and the universe is still expanding!
So: enjoy the English, the Dutch or whatever.
