The wedding day is the happiest day of our lives. However, what that day is going to look like, depends solely on the couple’s wishes.

35-year-old James Sisson and 32-year-old Ashley Schmeider from California decided to go beyond the traditional and have a more authentic wedding which was more characteristic to their personalities.

They planned their wedding for a whole year, just like any other bride and groom would do, and decided to have it 17,000-feet up in the clouds, on top of Mt. Everest.  So they set on the most exciting journey of their lives.

When they landed in Nepal, in early March, they found out that planning the journey was nothing like going through it.  Together with their photographer Charleton Churchill, the couple climbed the 17,000 feet and reached Base Camp. There they exchanged their vows.

The couple travelled three whole weeks in order to reach their destination, meanwhile undergoing cold, harsh and bad weather conditions.                                  

Altitude sickness and freezing temperatures didn’t stop them to continue to the top where they said their “I do’s”.  

Although all this was challenging for him too, the photographer is really glad for being part of this adventure. He took the most amazing wedding photos. There are no others like them.                                          

Go through some of the photos below and marvel at both the beautiful scenery and beautiful couple.

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The picture above shows an improvement in facial circulation after 20 minutes of grounding, as observed by a Speckle Contrast Laser Imager. Areas in dark blue are with the lowest and those in dark red are with the highest blood circulation.
Left: Before grounding; Right: After grounding. Image Source: Scientific Research Publishing

If you prefer walking barefoot in your yard, you may be onto something very healthy. And come to think of it, how often do you walk barefoot outside? Today’s society doesn’t really consider the effect Nature can have on us as much as it has been respected back in the past.

And most people will only walk barefoot on the ground outside when they are on holiday at the beach. If you are one of these people, then you should consider the following:

Also known as grounding or earthing, walking barefoot on the ground has long been associated with spiritual practices. However, this technique is much more than just a conviction.

Having been built by Nature’s laws, it’s only logical to assume that our most natural state would be the healthiest one in most respects. And when it comes to the feet, the moment they touch the surface of Earth, its intense negative charge starts affecting the body in a number of positive ways.

The electron-rich surface of the earth starts exchanging these electrons with our body and charges it with their antioxidative and free-radical destroying properties – and according to scientists, this is only the tip of the iceberg.

Degenerative diseases

A team of researchers led by Gaétan Chevalier of the Developmental and Cell Biology Department at the University of California at Irvine have studied the effects of Earth’s surface electrons on the human body and have concluded that the solution to fighting chronic degenerative diseases could be right beneath our feet.

 “Contact with the Earth – whether being outside barefoot or indoors connected to grounded conductive systems – may be a simple, natural, and yet profoundly effective environmental strategy against chronic stress, ANS dysfunction, inflammation, pain, poor sleep, disturbed HRV, hypercoagulable blood, and many common health disorders, including cardiovascular disease.”  
– Gaétan Chevalier et al.

Wounds, immune response, chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases

A review done by Nature’s Own Research Association, in collaboration with the University of California at Irvine and the University of Oregon, has found that grounding has a profound effect on our body’s immune response and it serves to reduce and even prevent “the cardinal signs of inflammation following injury.”

The electrons from the Earth which start to circulate our body help in the healing of even the most serious and most persistent open wounds by reducing the inflammation and allowing for the healthy cells to form and the tissue to recover.

The researchers explain that “when mobile electrons are not available, the inflammatory process takes an abnormal course. Areas that are electron deficient are vulnerable to further injury – they become positively charged and will have difficulty warding off infections.”

This results in a “constantly activate and eventually exhausted” immune system, which in due course could fail to make a distinction between the body’s diverse chemical structures and the molecules of bacteria, fungi, parasites, and cancer cells.

The outcome could be a devastating attack of the immune system on the body’s own tissues and organs, which in other words is an autoimmune disease. Grounding does not only help in the prevention, but it is also beneficial in the treatment of this.

Cardiovascular diseases

Another study led by Gaétan Chevalier, published in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, shows that grounding works on the cardiovascular system by increasing the surface charge on the red blood cells, thus reducing the viscosity of the blood and clumping.

Blood viscosity is a major factor in cardiovascular diseases and the research team concludes that grounding is “one of the simplest and yet most profound interventions for helping reduce cardiovascular risk and cardiovascular events.”

Facial blood flow

By spending even an hour in touch with the ground, a study has found that the electrons entering the body help to restore blood flow regulation to the face. This means “enhanced skin tissue repair and improved facial appearance with possible implications for overall health,” or in other words, less acne and inflammation and quicker healing of any wounds.

Stress and cortisol levels

Connected to the stress response of your body, and a hormone which helps with the regulation of the blood sugar levels, metabolism, inflammation, and memory formulation, Cortisol is a very important hormone.

When out of balance, this hormone is known to cause major stress, interfere with learning and memory, it can lower the function of the immune system, contribute to weight gain, increased blood pressure, and the list goes on.

A study concluded that grounded people exhibited a reduction in cortisol during sleep and a proper alignment of the same with the natural 24-hour circadian rhythm profile.

The list of the positive effects of grounding can be extended to a lot more than this. In short – grounding rebalances your body with its natural rhythm and helps it to recover and restore its functions quickly and efficiently.

HOW TO GET GROUNDED

Grounding doesn’t require a lot of thought. If you have a yard, spending time barefoot on the ground will charge you up with the electrons from Earth’s surface. There are even conductive systems for indoor grounding, which you can use while sleeping, sitting in front of your computer, and you name it.

While we do spend most of our time walking from place to place, and thus being in touch with the Earth’s surface, the problem is that the soles of our shoes insulate us from the negative charge of electrons below.

While leather (and vegan leather) soles allow for some transfer, it’s best to take off your shoes and socks and walk, or just stand on the ground and let your body take what it needs from it.

Most illnesses of the 21^st century are connected to the loss of touch with the ground, as our bodies have become more positively charged and with that more susceptible to infections, degenerative diseases, hormonal imbalance, and autoimmune diseases… the list goes on.

We need to reconnect with our true nature and allow our bodies to start healing the way they were built to. Many people are in desperate need of this.

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Vincent Van Gogh is a true genius and one of the most remarkable artists in the world. His paintings now hang in world’s most popular museums and take the breath away of millions of viewers around the Globe.

However, he was not appreciated in his time, and committed suicide at 37 having sold just one painting in his life.

 In 2004, a group of scientists using the Hubble space telescope came up with a very interesting finding. They saw that around a star there were eddies of a distant cloud of gas and dust which reminded them of Van Gogh’s painting “The Starry Night”.

This led them to think that maybe Van Gogh has solved one of the greatest mysteries in physics today: fluid turbulence.

In “The Starry Night”, Vincent Van Gogh painted the view from the window of his room just before sunrise in an asylum where he admitted himself after cutting his own ear in a psychotic episode in June 1889.

In this painting Van Gogh’s circular movements with his brush created a night sky filled with eddies of stars among swirling clouds.  

Van Gogh and other Impressionists captured light in a different way than their predecessors: across swirling waters or in starlight that melts and twinkles through Milky Way of blue night sky. They noticed that our brain reacts more to light than to color, so they created this effect by luminance – the intensity of the light in the colors on the canvas.

This is because the primitive part of our brains’ visual cortex sees only light and motion, not color. This cortex blends two areas of different colors together if they have the same luminance.

Contrary, our brain’s primary sub-division sees contrasting colors, but doesn’t blend them. When these two brain interpretations happen together, the light in many works by the Impressionists look like they flicker, pulse, and radiate strangely.

This is how Van Gogh with its distinctive way of brush strokes painted something strikingly real about the way in which light moves.

This engaged scientists from England, Mexico, and Spain to study in detail the luminance in Van Gogh’s paintings. They discovered that many Van Gogh’s paintings hold distinct pattern of turbulent fluid structures resembling Kolmogorav’s equation.

They came up with this finding by first digitalizing the paintings and measuring the variation of brightness between any two pixels.

They also concluded that paintings from Van Gogh’s period of psychotic agitation are very similar to fluid turbulence, unlike paintings from his ‘calmer’ period of life. For instance, his “Self-Portrait with Pipe” shows no such correspondence.     

And while it is easy to conclude that his periods of psychotic turbulence and desperation were ‘catalysts’ of his true genius in him, it is not entirely appropriate to just say that Van Gogh’s psychotic episodes solved one of physics most difficult questions.

Still, we can say that the turbulence of his mind enabled him to present the turbulence in nature. Finally, he is the first one to successfully unite his unique mind’s eye with deepest mysteries of movement, fluid, and light in a time of intense suffering and desperation.

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Electric fireplaces come in a wide range of styles, however usually, they use mirrors, LED light and Mylar to give a look of the flame. The log of an electric fireplace may be wood, metal or rock.

Electric Fireplace Installation

The installation of electric fireplaces is a lot less bother than those traditional wood-burning or gas fireplace infixes.  Since they require no gas lines, smokestack or other substructure, you can introduce an electric fireplace anyplace you have an electric plug, and in homes where regular fireplaces are not a conceivable option.

There is no requirement of a chimney, venting or the monitors and care needed in a ventless gas fireplace for electric fireplaces. They don’t give out dangerous fumes such as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide. Also, the task to clean and maintain electric fireplaces is easy as they do not produce any ash or soot.

Add an Electric Fireplace to Your Wall

Many of you will be wondering how difficult it must be to add an electric fireplace to your wall. To your surprise, it is a very easy task and can be done in less than a half hour.

The fixing procedure is simple and it is fundamentally the same as hanging a picture frame or heavy mirror.  Rather than circling wire over screws, you will be inserting a mounting bracket that the firebox will then append to.

What should be kept in consideration is the area of the outlet and cord. Some people may want to move the outlet in the wall so that the cord is holed up behind it. That’s a task beyond the capability of an average home owner and you would want to seek an electrician’s help.

You can use flowers and a little table to camouflage or hide the cord. You can also consider using paintable wire covers which will hide the cord and paint the cover the same shade as your walls. This is an inexpensive and effective solution.

Obviously, each distinct electric fireplace comes with its own unique set of installation instructions. However, in general, the installation approach is quite similar among all of them.

Electric Fireplace Home Decorating Ideas

You will be pleased to see a wide collection of designs in electric fireplaces. They range from modern sleek to a conventional wood look, making them perfect for a great deal of fireplace decorating ideas. You can hang them on a wall, get them in fixed or install them in a cabinet so they look like a part of your household furniture.

You can simply forego modern fireplace installation ideas and resort to installing an electric fireplaced embed in a masonry fireplace or an existing brick opening to make an exceptionally customary atmosphere. This makes all of the appeal of a brick chimney mantel and even a spot to hang the supplying for Santa!

Electric fireplaces come in different shapes and sizes and have a ton of visual choices. They are getting considerably more popular ever since they came up with linear modern models. These adopt the shape of a long narrow fireplace rather than a squared-off conventional fireplace.

Have you installed an electric fireplace to your home or workplace? How was your experience?

Osho for decades have criticized Mother Teresa’s work and the ideology behind her work. He said that under the cover of “serving the poor” there is an agenda of religious conversion and child indoctrination through religious conversion and teaching that is socially unacceptable.

Osho believes that there is a deep conspiracy between politicians and priests. Politicians rule us from the outside, priests rule us from the inside. There is no escape from the influence they have on us although this might be totally unconscious.

Osho received a letter from Mother Teresa as a response to his commentaries against her work. In the letter she wrote: 

Osho says that he does not doubt the sincerity in her letter. However, he feels that whatever she wrote is mechanical and unconscious; almost robot-like. She does not know what she is writing, nor does she understand the adjectives he had called her: the adjectives being deceiver, charlatan, and hypocrite.

On deception…

Osho believes that deception is a double-edged sword because the deceiver by deceiving other is also deceiving himself. He says that Mother Teresa is a deceiver on both sides. Yes, she has been serving with good intentions those in need, but the final results are not based just on good intentions. You may plant seeds for flowers but wind up with thorns no matter how much effort you put on planting them.

“She feeds seven thousand poor people every day. From where does this money come? Who donates this money?”

This is indeed something to think about. The poor have been served for centuries, but there is still poverty in the world. There will always be poverty because the whole society functions by helping the poor. It is society’s way of controlling the masses. Otherwise, they may become murderous and revengeful. By this logic, the same people who donate money to help the poor are the ones exploiting them on the first place. It is a vicious cycle.

So, from where does Mother Teresa get the money?

In 1974, the Pope himself gave her a Cadillac which she sold right away and donated the money to the poor. But the question remains: from where does the Pope got the money to buy the Cadillac in the first place? We all know that the Pope is one of the richest men in the world, and yet not even one percent of this fortune goes to these missionaries of Charity.

This capitalistic machinery exists only for serving the rich by masking this fact so that it looks like they are serving the poor. They make the poor feel that they help them, so they are not revolting against the society. These missions of charity exist only to deceive the poor, to give them hope. If they abandoned them there would be revolution and rebellion out of hopelessness.

“On the surface they serve the poor – but fundamentally, basically, indirectly they serve the rich.”

Osho said that Mother Teresa shouldn’t have won the Nobel Prize, and she felt offended by it.

Nobel, the founder of the Nobel Prize, was one of the greatest criminals in the world; he manufactured weapons resulting with the death of millions of people during the First World War. He accumulated his money from the blood of people. Each year there are dozens of Nobel Prizes given by his money filled with blood.

And now, this money that comes from wars and murder is given to the Missionaries of Charity for serving the poor. By this logic it takes millions of dead people to feed seven thousand people, and to raise a few orphans by making millions of orphans. What a strange world!

Mother Teresa accepted the Nobel Prize out of vanity. She wanted to be admired and respected. On the other hand, Jean Paul Sartre refused the Nobel Prize. He didn’t want money that comes from wrong sources, nor could he accept any respect from an insane society. This man is far more religious than Mother Teresa on this matter.

On charlatanism…

Osho calls these people charlatans because in his belief, a truly religious person could not get a Nobel Prize. Just try to imagine Jesus getting a Nobel Prize, or Socrates. Unbelievable! And these are people who were truly religious by heart.

However, these religious people are often condemned by society because of their rebellious nature. Think about this for a moment: Mother Teresa is praised and considered a saint, while Jesus was condemned like the worst criminal.

If you can’t agree that Mother Teresa is right and Jesus is a criminal, then it must be the other way around – that Jesus is right and Mother Teresa is a charlatan.

On hypocrisy…

Osho calls Mother Teresa a hypocrite because she says one thing and does another. For example, she has rejected a Protestant family that wanted a child with the excuse that they have run out of orphans.

Osho argues how she suddenly ran out of orphans when there are thousands of orphans in the houses she helps and thousands more on the streets of Calcutta.

Moreover, if there weren’t any orphans there, then what was she doing with seven hundred nuns? To whom are these seven hundred nuns mothering?

However, the family was not refused immediately. At first, they were told that they would get an orphan. They just needed to fill a form. So, when they came to the point where they said they are Protestants… Mother Teresa ran out of orphans! If this is not hypocrisy then what is?

“Had they written ‘Catholic’ they would have immediately been given the child.”

This family had even chosen the child, but Mother Teresa rejected them on the premise that they were raised Catholics and it would be bad for the psychological well-being of the child if a Protestant family were to raise it.

On conversion…

The main thing is that these children are all Hindu. If Mother Teresa is so worried about their psychological state then why would she raise them as Catholics? How can their psychology not be disturbed if they were raised as Catholics, but when there is another religion in question there is a problem? If she so believes in her theory then she shouldn’t have converted any child into Catholic religion.

“She is very enthusiastic about converting people. If people were not converted, then who would the Christians in the world have been?”

The fact that Christianity has existed only two thousand years and has the biggest number of believers speaks for itself. And it all comes from conversion. They bribed people by giving them food, military and hospital services.

However, they could never convert a rich Hindu – they can’t bribe the rich, only the poor beggars.

On anger and forgiveness…

In her letter she writes, “For the adjectives you add to my name I forgive you with great love.”

To this Osho says that if you forgive somebody then you must have been angry first. Love does not need forgiveness.

“I don’t forgive Mother Teresa, because I am not angry at all. Why should I forgive her? She must have been angry.”

This is why he said that she was not aware what she was writing.

On choice…

Osho adds yet more attributes to her name: stupid, mediocre, idiotic! He says that she is the one that needs to be forgiven because she writes in her letter that she is “fighting through adoption the sin of abortion”.

“Abortion is not a sin – in this overpopulated world, abortion is virtue.”

If abortion is indeed a sin, then she herself along with the Pope are responsible for it because they were against all birth controlling methods.

It is unforgivable to be against the pill in this time. This pill could make the Earth a paradise if all of us used it wisely when planning our families. But what would Mother Teresa and the Pope do if there were no orphans? This type of paradise most certainly didn’t appeal to them.

In conclusion…

We are not condemning Mother Teresa’s work. She most certainly did a great job helping the poor, but we had the need to present to you a new perspective on her work. I am not sure you agree with this critic, but I am sure that he raises a lot of questions to think about.

Source: www.huffingtonpost.in