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Is Religion Dead?

July 14th, 2022
Is it possible that the next generation don’t need religion anymore? Many of us just don’t believe in it and even blame it for many bad things that happened along history. I want to bring up the reason people made up religion in the first place and what it can do for us in the future.

THE CONSEQUENCES OF MEANING

In the first place, religion is asking us to believe in something. The urge to discover more about life has never left men. The need to know the reason for our existence. When people say they don’t believe in religion, they tend to point out the offensive side of worship business and all the horrible things happened in the name of God. Belief may appear the least interesting side of religion.But in fact feeling lost has become an epidemic, and people have started to question their life’s purpose because of lost faith. Religion asks us to be kinder and less selfish impulsive. To create peace and harmony, support the weak and feed the poor. It should give us inner strength to take action for our beliefs. In its purest form, religion can inspire people to serve the welfare of others, not out of ego, but out of a sense of divine duty.

The role in promoting ethics in political life caused wars, but it created guidelines for goodwill and equality throughout history and supported inner strength and courage to fight oppression.

EDUCATION OF VALUE

Also, religious rituals were supposed to point out we are not just rational creatures. We thrive in the urge of emotion, in its purest form called art and beauty. Temples, cathedrals and churches were built to value aesthetics. Their design should remind us that sheer force of will can create anything a men can imagine. It should promote the feeling of power. The same with rituals, showing us that the seasons are changing or that it is the time to remember our ancestors or to be thankful for the food on the table.

Without caring for the beauty of being, we start to get lonely and violent. Wisdom and purpose, among with beauty, romance and professional success are the guidelines of our mission but distractions can appear everywhere, and we easily start to overline our needs. The challenge we have to face is to learn from religion. To awaken kinder, less selfish impulsive and to start to gather people together and create peace and harmony. Religious leaders like Jesus Christ or Buddha had the capacity to think outside of the box and therefore lived a more fulfilling life.

Also, religion taught us the importance of forgiveness. For example, Martin Luther King frequently used Christian language to preach a message of peace and forgiveness. Other great leaders inspired by religious teachings on forgiveness include Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela.

GAME OF BELIEFS

Religion holds the promise of ultimate enlightenment. Maybe we don’t believe anymore because we forgot what the big deal is. What if it is not achieving a goal, or being free but having actual power. To dominate and rule in a realm of human existence. Why don’t we stop questioning religion and start enabling our ability to force power of creation in a way that makes us people unite and generate life encouraged by big emotion?

What if religion is not over, but yet will experience a renaissance of enlightenment by making individuals to Gods which will create a Planet more aesthetic, courageous and kinder than ever demonstrated to humankind. If so, I am the first one to believe!

AYA. 🤍
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Mirror Neurons

January 24th, 2020
Marco Iacoboni, a neuroscientist at the University of California at Los Angeles, is best known for his work on mirror neurons, a small circuit of cells in the premotor cortex and inferior parietal cortex. What makes these cells so interesting is that they are activated both when we perform a certain action—such as smiling or reaching for a cup—and when we observe someone else performing that same action. In other words, they collapse the distinction between seeing and doing. In recent years, Iacoboni has shown that mirror neurons may be an important element of social cognition and that defects in the mirror neuron system may underlie a variety of mental disorders, such as autism.

His book, Mirroring People: The Science of How We Connect to Others, explores these possibilities at length. Here is what he says about how mirror neurons might help us understand what we perceive someone else is thinking and feeling.

What do we do when we interact?

IACOBONI: We use our body to communicate our intentions and our feelings. The gestures, facial expressions, body postures we make are social signals, ways of communicating with another one. Mirror neurons are the only brain cells we know of that seem specialized to code the actions of other people and also our own actions. They are essential brain cells for social interactions. Without them, we would likely be blind to the actions, intentions and emotions of other people. The way mirror neurons let us understand others is by providing some kind of inner imitation of the actions of other people, which in turn leads us to simulate the intentions and emotions associated with those actions. When I see you smiling, my mirror neurons for smiling fire up, too, initiating a cascade of neural activity that evokes the feeling we typically associate with a smile. I don’t need to make any inference on what you are feeling, I experience immediately and effortlessly (in a milder form, of course) what you are experiencing.

People with autism have a hard time understanding the mental states of other people; this is why social interactions are not easy for them. Reduced mirror neuron activity obviously weakens the ability of these people to experience immediately and effortlessly what other people are experiencing, thus making social interactions is particularly difficult for them. The ones with autism have also often motor problems and language problems. Mirror neurons are just special types of premotor neurons, brain cells essential for planning and selecting actions. It has been also hypothesized that mirror neurons may be important in language evolution and language acquisition. Indeed, a human brain area that likely contains mirror neurons overlaps with a major language area, the so-called Broca’s area. Thus, a deficit in mirror neurons can in principle account for three major symptoms of autism, the social, motor and language problems.

Mirror Neurons

are brain cells specialized for actions. They are obviously critical cells for social interactions. Everything in the brain is interconnected, so that the activity of each cell reflects the dynamic interactions with other brain cells and other neural systems.

“If we’re wired to automatically internalize the movements and mental states of others, then what does this suggest about violent movies, television programs, video games, etc? Should we be more careful about what we watch?”

IACOBONI believes we should be more careful about what we watch. He says it is a tricky argument, of course, because it forces us to reconsider our long cherished ideas about free will and may potentially have repercussions on free speech. There is convincing behavioral evidence linking media violence with imitative violence. Mirror neurons provide a plausible neurobiological mechanism that explains why being exposed to media violence leads to imitative violence. What should we do about it? Although it is obviously hard to have a clear and definitive answer, it is important to openly discuss this issue and hopefully reach some kind of social agreement on how to limit media violence without limiting too much free speech.

Homework

AyaToday.Com likes to give you some homework. The question you will ask yourself is not how you are wired, nor what you believe, or how to improve that but WHY you believe what you believe. Answer, Do I experience the feeling of knowing I am the only one in the room, while mirroring the assumptions about –fill in the blank– to myself and about myself? Time to wake up.

LOVE

AYA
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POEM – Flavor Of The Night

August 8th, 2017
There’s a hole in the river where a memory lies. From the land of the living to the air and the sky.

A girl arrives with wisdom in her eyes.
Bearing freedom within which seem never to die. She’s got many battles ahead, the obscure to spread.

Never ending roads while travelling with her will carry you away forever, says a whisperer. Her possessions are causing suspicion, but there is no proof. Her house has no roof.

She is hoping someday you’ll join. Wondering if you can.

Then you flipped the coin. Which shared a lonely fly;

For the whisperer anticipates a cry,
You knew nothing to reply.

The following tortures you,
Punishes your views.

Scares you till you flavor despair
And the force brings a smile on your lovely killers face.

Time stands still.
Now, all you dream of is a thrill,

Her touch and her kiss
As whisperers push you to resist.

Murdered from inside
you aim to remember her eyes.

Quietly and to your surprise
You realise you have survived.

To look upon the sky
And discover something to fight.

When the moon is the only light
and what you fear is the night,

You long for yesterday,
for she is still in your mind.

Yours, Aya©
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Yes-Man Extended

July 14th, 2017
How to stay authentic in a conversation when there is an infinite amount of possibilities at any given point to react to something said? The balance between being nice but saying your opinion plays a significant role when you want to be respected and valued for your company and it all lays in the choice of your words. Here is my favorite trick on how to get people to like you but still be critical.

PROMOTING IDEAS

The art of connecting positively to people in a conversation while being a very honest and truthful friend lays in your ability to promote ideas. If you can show people that you like their opinion and agree with them, you’ll probably connect very quickly. Being a Yes Man is great, but for the reason of staying authentic on topics you may not agree with, just add an extension. In a small talk, this can happen very casually. When talking about serious topics like politics or religion, you may want to agree with what has been said and then point out what the differences in your opinion are. When you want to engage with the story that someone is telling you, try to recognise a fragment of the story by comparing it to something positive. Show your respond by pointing out the situations match. Keep in mind that it should just be for fun and make sure to tease a bit before you move to the next topic.

SAD CLOWNS

We all have that one friend who is always up to something fun, but seems a bit lost. In his rush, he tends to agree with anything that someone throws at him. In the following, he quickly loses his reputation of being a good adviser and friend, which can lead to a severe identity crises, and all of it just because of a lack of communication skills and understanding progression. We should promote each other, and when you find a sad Yes Man advise him to always add an extension of his view. He’ll feel better and you too.

I hope this could inspire you to be a kind, encouraging person who cares but still is observant and critical. Make sure to leave a comment, if you agree but want to add your opinion which I’d love to read!

Love, Aya ©
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Marshmallow Moon

July 12th, 2017
An open space of joyful matter was making me smile every time I entered it. You lightened my thoughts, not knowing that I completely lost myself in you. My starved eyes never experienced the great, sparkle now from extasy, buzzed by the moment of feeling your presence.

Teasing my way in the realm of your goddess, millions of tickling elves raise above my shoulders, melting together their power, to yet easily set me up with wings and make me fly for I have just understood what love is. I am flying for you, my love. Your tender approach hit me harder than any force on earth. Unarmed I am forever devoted to you.

Now, tell me before you’ll leave me again. Who are you? Your game is too devine for me to understand, for I am just another girl who loves. But you keep reminding me for your hungry need of me. Hurry now my love; I am dying.

Fearless I have faced existing, proved you my brave Lionheart but yet still you try to play me, unconscious of the beauty you are revealed to. Run love; soon there will be nothing left in me. Not even life itself. Before I’ll get to meet you, the thing you loved about me, the thing that changed you, will be dead.

Enslave your pride, your overweight greed and anger and you’ll be forgiven. I already starved, prayed and served for the two of us. In return I want you to reveal your mellow face to me, for I could have never imagined that the moon does in fact really smile and just before I knew he did, he did it only for me.

Yours, Aya.©
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Perfection And Loneliness

July 10th, 2017
Do you ever find yourself going to bed lonley, wishing for the ideal partner to come into your life and make it complete? Dreaming about how life would be with the perfect person? I want to draw your attention to what it is exactly that is leaving you feeling empty at night and how to quickly fix it.

Comforting Illusion

We tend to look outside of ourselves for perfection. Some men are only looking for the way a woman carries herself. The way she looks and represents her image. On the other hand, women tend to value a guy not only by his looks but also on how independent and successful he gives himself. We are looking for another half to complete our persona.

But always remember to fill your cup first. For now, your idea of perfection may be just another illusion of quick pleasure. Exposing your own head game by allowing imperfections to happen, revealing the misconception of your ideal, for the reason of an emotional growth and the comfort of later on true love.

Be simple in action and thought, patient according to how things are and compassionate toward yourself. And when the person comes who values you for you, with the same amount of love, patience and compassion, your perception of beauty will change for it was good to sacrifice accurate devotion for feelings of true emotion.

Ready For You In Time

Maybe it is good that your life does not feel perfect right now, for it would be a pity if you would find yourself not exploring the depth of your senses. What it means for you to love, starting by yourself. To be cold but create heat. Perfection is yet just another magic trick which only those can see who believe in its existence. Don’t aim to be an illusion. Be magic.

Love, Aya ©
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The Updated American Dream

July 7th, 2017
In a world where you can be anything; what is it that you really want? The “American Dream” is yet just another step away from choosing the wrong path and falling in the circle of false desires over and over again. Never feeling truly fulfilled while losing years to build a career that is not made for your true destiny. What happens when you settle in for something you’re not that into? Especially now people have the ability to chose globally for what they are looking for, which can lead to disorientation. Feeling lost sometimes can be part of our journey, but in fact it should not be that way. The following will reveal what it is we are striving for and how we can find peace among the way of developing our true life purpose.

MONKEY’S IN PARADISE

On a warm day, a man took a long walk. Accidently and unaware he walked into paradise. He was tired after walking so much and thought of resting somewhere. He saw a tree with green grass underneath. So he lay down there and fall asleep. A few hours later he woke up, well rested but a bit hungry. He thought about all the nicest things he ever wanted to eat in his life and instantly all of it appeared in front of him. Hungry people don’t ask questions, so the food came, and he ate. Then he got thirsty and wished for drinks. Immediately it appeared and he even got a little bit drunk.

What happens when we get everything we want? In other words, when we could be anyone we want to be? We start to become monkey’s, making unnecessary moves, losing control and even start to imitate others in terms of comparing and competing. That means having a full-time job of not being ourselves. These qualities of behavior are the same as of the one of an unestablished mind. Let’s end our little story.

The man with the mind of a monkey looked around him and questioned why the food came and the drinks. There must be ghosts around here, he thought. So ghosts resulted. He panicked the ghosts would surround and torture him. So they did. Screaming in pain, he started to think of how they would kill him and so he died.

NO ONE’S A SAINT

This short story should demonstrate our thought process. It means don’t go looking for things you don’t want. To discover your life’s purpose, to work on yourself long term and never look back and regret your decisions you need to know what it exactly is that you want?

Luckily all humans thrive for the same things, catagorized in 4 dimensions. We all want pleasantness in ourselves and pleasantness around ourselves. Let me break it down for you. In our body, we call it health and pleasure. If it happens in our mind, we call it peace and joy. In our emotion it is love and compassion. If it is going on in our energy, we call it blissfulness and extasy.

Body – Health and Pleasure

Mind – Peace and Joy

Emotion – Love and Compassion

Energy – Blissfulness and Extasy

For the question of what you are looking for, this is it. No matter where you can find it, in particular. In no case you have to aim for being a saint, That’s for sure!

For example. A business man is sitting in a bar, boozed after a successful day surrounded by beautiful women but he still wants the same thing as someone sitting in the church having totally different perspectives of live. It is all about pleasantness within and pleasantness around. So, if this is what we want to create, I think its time to address it directly.

THE UNCONSCIOUS PROCESS OF CREATION

Your mind has essentials such as hunger and thirst which you need in silence. If you are hungry and someone gives you food, you will not hesitate to eat and the same is with thirst. Everything above our fundamental needs comes with questioning, doubts and fear. Living your purpose has already happened because it is you that has happened. And even if you fall a hundred times, it just means that there are a hundred things to learn. There is no such thing as failure. When adjusting your environment with feelings of peace, joy, excitement and love for yourself and people around you, your mind gets organized and the way you think starts to become how you feel. Your emotions get stable, your energy follows. Your body adapts along the way, and so does the world and what you want to create for yourself. It is a phenomenon. In a period of four hours an eaten piece of bread can become human. There is something in us that allows the creation of life. A process which happens unconsciously but rapidly. You are not a mess, or lost, purposeless. You have the power to create for that reason you are a production. Not a saint but an individual.

Look, I don’t want you to be all peaceful and nerdy, but just to be aware of who you are and to wear it with dignity, pride and self-confidence for the human you are is not something you can define but something that defines itself. Develop yourself from being just a creation to the creator himself.

Love, Aya ©
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A Letter To Melancholia

July 5th, 2017
Dear melancholia, together we filled others with hope while we knew we lost it. I kept you a secret because I couldn’t explain you. In times I was not able to cope with the impression of reality, you seemed to understand my grief and relieved me from the pain. Therefore I kept a place for you in my heart along the way, hidden but well nourished and alive for I can feed on you when I am in need, even though I knew you are selfish. You consumed my sadness and left bittersweet numbness. Years passed but your shallow self still offers me silence, a walk through emptiness while you remain ignorant. Dear melancholia, I am screaming at you to go now. Your acceptance was a lie. I refuse to be afraid of my sadness anymore because I forgive myself. Now I realise the honor of my destiny that has made me look into the eyes of a saint. To have connected to love so heavenly and innocent that my body couldn’t accept it’s loss. I forgive my vulnerability for I was brave enough to dive in that deep. According to you, we will die together, for you are mine and I am yours. Dear melancholy, I refuse to quit the world. It is time for you to die for I could have the chance to live.

In Forgiveness, Aya.
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