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I wrote down my goals for this year. What are yours?

Keep my grades in tip top shape
Take the WST
Finish my prerequisites
Applyapplyapply to the program
Volunteer somewhere
Stay healthy (Healthy eating. Watch over my pre-existing condition. Breathe through my nose and not my mouth. Floss more. Run/jog/gym)
Read at least six books
Have more devotional time
Have a better relationship with my family/relatives

jayparkinsonmd:

Deepak Chopra:

The physical bodies that you’re using to sit on these chairs, for example, aren’t the ones that you walked in with a little while ago. Even with one breath you take in 10 to the power of 22 atoms. An astronomical amount of raw material that ends up as your heart, brain and kidney cells, your neurons, your DNA. With each breath you breathe out 10 to the power of 22 atoms. It’s an astronomical amount of raw materials that is coming from every bit of your body. You are literally breathing out bits and pieces of your brain tissue and heart and kidney. Actually, technically speaking, we are intimately sharing our organs with each other all the time.
If you do radioactive isotope studies which have been done very elegantly, you can prove beyond a shadow of doubt that you replace 98% of all the atoms in your body in less than one year. You make a new liver every 6 weeks, a new skin once a month, a new stomach lining every 5 days, a new skeleton - it seems so hard and solid, but the skeleton you have now you didn’t have three months ago. Even the brain cells that you think with as carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen, as those basic elements, they weren’t there one year ago. And the DNA that holds memories of millions of years of evolutionary time, in fact hundreds of millions of years; the actual raw material of it comes and goes every six weeks. Those atoms drift in and out like migratory birds every six weeks.
And if you want to be a real stickler about it and account for the last atom and every little sinew and collagen and cartilage, then in less than two and a half years you replace every atom in your body down to the last single atom. So if you think you are your material body then you certainly have a dilemma. Which one are you talking about? The 1991 model is not the same as the 1990 model or even the one from a few months ago.

Photo by me.

Very true. You don’t have the same cells that you used to have when you’re were born, only the ones in your brain (yes, brain cells, nerve cells)… those are the longest living cells in your body.

Deepak Chopra:

The physical bodies that you’re using to sit on these chairs, for example, aren’t the ones that you walked in with a little while ago. Even with one breath you take in 10 to the power of 22 atoms. An astronomical amount of raw material that ends up as your heart, brain and kidney cells, your neurons, your DNA. With each breath you breathe out 10 to the power of 22 atoms. It’s an astronomical amount of raw materials that is coming from every bit of your body. You are literally breathing out bits and pieces of your brain tissue and heart and kidney. Actually, technically speaking, we are intimately sharing our organs with each other all the time.

If you do radioactive isotope studies which have been done very elegantly, you can prove beyond a shadow of doubt that you replace 98% of all the atoms in your body in less than one year. You make a new liver every 6 weeks, a new skin once a month, a new stomach lining every 5 days, a new skeleton - it seems so hard and solid, but the skeleton you have now you didn’t have three months ago. Even the brain cells that you think with as carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen, as those basic elements, they weren’t there one year ago. And the DNA that holds memories of millions of years of evolutionary time, in fact hundreds of millions of years; the actual raw material of it comes and goes every six weeks. Those atoms drift in and out like migratory birds every six weeks.

And if you want to be a real stickler about it and account for the last atom and every little sinew and collagen and cartilage, then in less than two and a half years you replace every atom in your body down to the last single atom. So if you think you are your material body then you certainly have a dilemma. Which one are you talking about? The 1991 model is not the same as the 1990 model or even the one from a few months ago.

Photo by me.

Very true. You don’t have the same cells that you used to have when you’re were born, only the ones in your brain (yes, brain cells, nerve cells)… those are the longest living cells in your body.

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December 16, 2011

Had the best and longest walk along the hills of Hayward. What was supposed to be just a simple hour walk turned into over two hours, my toes might have blisters right now I’m frightened to look. Miguel and I went to Garin Park and took the trail along the Mission and ended up on the opposite side of the trail where it ends as both a residential area and the start of another trail. Thinking that the other trail will lead us back to where we started we both decided to take it. It was our first time, so we didn’t know howlong and how far it would be to the end. The trail we took was pretty in the midday light. The smells of wood and the birds chirping, the coolness in the shade, so wonderful.

But my, my it was hella longer than expected. We went literally around the park, behind the hills, up the winding and sometimes steep trail. It also got warmer as the trees got less dense until it was all just hilly grass. Anyway the end of the trail was actually that steep hill that you can see in the park (or the less steep way around the hill). We came full circle when we reached the truck. I would say we trailed more than three miles. I can’t say its as long as mission peak because i havent been there yet.

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