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Eastern Brown Snake – Australia
PEOPLE have events that shape their path in life. Some events solidify the path they are on, some events change their direction in life forever, and some of these events end life. I have had several significant events in my life that have led me to the specific path that I am on. Early in my life I started noticing these things. I also came to understand that these events were to help me become the person that would be meeting higher and higher challenges. This article is about one of those events.
“That Which Does Not Kill You Makes You Stronger”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
There is one thing that strikes fear into Australian’s like nothing else…
As you know, I live in Australia. I enjoy the landscape, the plants, and the wildlife. The diversity of wildlife is an interesting mix. Everywhere I look, I see pretty and colorful birds, like various cockatoos, rosellas, galas, fairy wrens, honey eaters, finches, swallows, magpies, choughs, and many more. Some mornings I wake up to find 300 – 400 sulfur-crested cockatoos in the paddock. In American terms, a fortune on the wing!
I also see many marsupials, such as kangaroos, wallabies, echidnas, and others. The wallabies can be a little tame to the point that you can at least have a good look before they move on. Some people have made them so tame they will eat out of your hand. The echidnas are a little slow, but they sure can dig in fast. Don’t ever try to get one out of the ground after they dig in. It is their instinct to shiver their spikes when they are touched – ouch! At least they cannot throw their spines like the quills of the North American porcupine.
The insects here can be a bit of a mixed bag. The dragon flies are most impressive. They are quite large with striking metallic color. They can eat a huge number of mosquitoes each day. It is not a good idea to grab one, as they can easily take a small bite out of your finger. So, when you find that you have a large amount of dragonflies, you also have a large number of mozzies. “Mozzie” is a shortened name that is used across Australia for any mosquito.
My observations and research have proven useful to me. I have determined that one of the mosquitoes we have is the Asian Tiger Mosquito. That news is NOT good news. The Asian Tiger Mosquito is a carrier of several types of encephalitis type diseases, including Ross River Fever and Dengue Fever. Most people do not realize the mosquito is the leading cause of death around the world. Since it must have a blood feed twice, it is easy for it to transmit diseases.
Of course Australia is world renowned for its flies. They are in interesting lot, which includes sand flies and midges. Don’t even think that a screen on your window will keep them out. Ha, they just walk straight through the holes. Our sand flies leave a little extra punch when they bite you; a caustic that creates a blister. But don’t scratch it. If you do, you will spread the caustic and you will have even a bigger problem. It will also leave a pock for ~6 months while it heals. I created a few tricks of my own making to combat these – a hand-held ionization device made from a gas barbeque igniter. It ionizes the caustic poison.
Spiders and scorpions are also commonplace. Where I live, the climate gets a little too cold for the Sydney Funnelweb Spider. Well, that’s a blessing. But we still have plenty of others you got to keep a watchful eye for.
Yes, I am starting to make this sound like one of the documentaries about the Australian wildlife straight out of America. I guess I was a little saturated with the American way of looking at it before I came here to live. Australia is still an arid hostile environment in most areas. So, nature has equipped its natural inhabitants with some world-class killing tools to survive, you can kill yourself in 5 minutes.
A while ago, I wrote two articles about dealing with fear. You can review the articles here: https://mindtomind.com/test/information_conquers_fear_mental_photography/, and a second article: https://mindtomind.com/test/information_conquers_fear_mental_photography_2/.
The one thing that most people in Australia have is common fear of snakes. This fear can be anywhere between “healthy respect” to “blind, screaming, running phobia” towards snakes. We have 9 out of the top 10 deadliest snakes in the world are here in Australia. We even have 22 out of the top 25 deadliest snakes in the world. So watch out if you ever land here!
The Fierce Snake, or Inland Tiapan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus ), has a venom so toxic it could kill 100 men in a single bite. Luckily, this snake is not around where I live. But, there are plenty of Eastern Brown Snakes (Pseudonaja textilis ) where I live. They have the second most toxic venom in the world. It is estimated that only 2 mg of venom is enough to kill a person. Eastern Brown Snakes are very fast moving and highly aggressive. We do occasionally see them. Most of the times you see them is on the road, after they have been run over by a car.
Now, the reason I brought up about the top 2 deadliest snakes in the entire world will become apparent soon.
Some people wonder if I practice what I teach others about. I do. I would first like to bring your attention to the first article listed above. During the article on dealing with fear, I talk about what information can do for you.
Here is a lesson in basic humanity. (Of course, there will always be someone that will argue the case that it isn’t so, so I will allow for that and say ‘most’.) The amount of specific good information you have on any topic dissipates your amount of fear towards that topic. Therefore, it is relevant to say the LACK of information INCREASES fear. I guess a good argument against this would be about banking. The more true information that you know about banking would send some people out of control into a pit of despair. So, I have done the naysayers out there the benefit of giving them the example forthright.
What I am about to tell you about is my own recent experience when faced with something that could result in a very quick ad painful death. Yes, I had an encounter with an Eastern Brown Snake. And to answer your other question; no, I am not a snake handler. When I come in contact with things like snakes, it is an occasional occurrence, much like it would be for most of you. You are more likely to see a live poisonous snake at your zoo, behind glass. So, remember, I don’t deal with this type of encounter very often.
I often talk about the things you can do to increase your mental abilities and your mind power. I have worked with these methods, the same methods I teach, for many years. When I am thrown into a critical circumstance, my decision making becomes lightning fast at analyzing the event and coming to the conclusion of what I should do in less time it would take to blink – virtually instantaneous. Even better is that I have ample specific information to act from. This all happened so fast, that there was no sense of “thinking about it” happening – just action.
The “action” was: for me to not do anything at all. (Yes, there is action in non-action because it is based upon a decision – consciously of subconsciously.) Therefore, I had no fear response that would have sent fear based pheromones into the air the snake would have sensed. There was only stillness. To me, it was if time had stopped, without any stress. As the snake escaped, I felt the cool belly scales as he slid over my sandaled foot without as much as a second look. He was happy to move on to pick his battles elsewhere – with mice. I too, was happy with the results of the encounter. This entire encounter lasted about 3 seconds.
Those 3 seconds could have changed everything in my life-path. Instead, it turned into an observation I could share with you. Some people may say, “My life passed before my eyes.” No, it didn’t. Just for that instant, it was just me and the snake. Maybe I will just make a joke about it and say, “I would have tasted awful to the snake, so he chose otherwise.”
Don’t panic – Use your head.
Be aware – Don’t wear sandals when you should be wearing appropriate shoes for the setting.
Think! – Arm yourself with appropriate information for your setting or endeavor.
Granted you cannot anticipate everything. But, superior decisions can be made with superior information at hand.
LEARN as much as you can every day. If you have not learned 1 thing each day, then you are not in the world of the living.
Increase your Mind Power – Do whatever you can to increase the adaptability of your brain. Your brain is capable of processing around 200 million of bits of information every second of every day. The more you exercise your brain, the more access you gain. Crossword puzzles are only so effective at brain building. At some point, they are really only good for maintaining a certain level. You need more – MUCH more stimulus if you are going to make a difference.
Discipline yourself – A BIG issue with many of my clients is starting then stopping the training. Whenever you stop before reaching your goals, your conscious mind thinks that you have failed, even when you haven’t. Commitment and Consistency are paramount to your success at anything. Some of my clients have repeated that same start and stop with OTHER trainings from OTHER organizations they took in the past. I don’t want them to repeat the same mistake with my training.
Set Goals for Yourself – If you have small goals, you will have little successes. Some people will do better if they start with something a little less intimidating; like meditation training. If you find that the ideas of what I teach are too overwhelming, then you should probably start with something a little less aggressive, like meditation. Everyone has heard of it and knows what it is about. At least this way you will be finding out more about yourself and how your mind really works. My point is DO SOMETHING. You owe it to your eternal self.
Faithfully,
Do you remember when your grade school teacher would give everyone the word of the day? You were to use it in as many sentences as you could throughout the day. This is a great way to build a good vocabulary… O N E W O R D at a time. Actually, at that rate, you would probably be reincarnated to your next life before you really would have a substantial vocabulary.
Now, before I tell you the exciting bits, I am going to tell you about the word “spry”. It is a very good word, because it can be used in many ways. It is an adjective. Which also means it can be used to describe other words, a person’s mood, an activity, and many more fun things. So, for spry’s sake, here is what it means:
brisk, nimble, agile, lively, active, sprightly, vigorous
So, now you know what spry means.
Here a couple of examples of using spry in a sentence:
Gee, he has a ‘spry’ walk.
I am planning to have a nice ‘spry’ day!
You could even use it in combination with another of my favorite words, “glib”:
I really enjoy a ‘glib spry’ conversation! (Oh! I just remembered. I hadn’t given you the other word yet. Oh well… just a bit, in a ‘glib’ sort of way.)
Don’t worry, it is just all bushwa! (Now there is a very nice sounding word. You would think it would be French… of sorts.)
By now, you may be a little peeved with me for using words that you are not comfortable using. Well, go to your shanty and have a little whinge. When you decide to do something about it, come back and see us.
Really, in the world of today, it is not enough to have a good vocabulary, but you really do need to know what words mean at a deeper level; their vibration, their impact.
I recently queried a person living in Canada about the spelling of their name. Even though the person was Canadian, the name turned out to be Welsh, the country of origin was Wales. My personal curiosities lead me down strange paths from time to time.
(Here is something fun for the single guys: The next time you find yourself in the awkward position of the opening line to start a conversation, ask an intelligent question that makes the other person think a little; but not so much they go into meltdown over it. You never know where it may lead. You may even get the opportunity to ask a second question. NOTE: Stay away from the topics of politics, sex, and religion. You might go for something like, “What is the spelling of hyperbole?” Just make sure you pronounce it right. If they know the correct spelling, they have potential.)
I would like you to share the fascination and joy of this seemingly boring world of words with me. But you have much to do if you are playing catch up.
There is a training you should take a look at… Gee, I must have forgotten what it was called… It had such a catchy name, too… It just has to be here somewhere…
My aim is to make you THINK.
I want to inspire you to greater heights.
You can find firm footing in the past, but look to your future!
“I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.” ~Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov, a great science fiction writer, accomplished great leaps by using speed reading as his method for gaining information. As a fan for his books, there is only appreciation for his achievements.
Just Imagine what heights his writing could have reached if he gained Information at Light Speed with Mental Photography (ZOXing) as his instrument.
I hope I have found you at a point in your day that you can give a moment to reflect upon this mindful image of greatness.
I became very excited because they seem to offer a lost piece of my life experience that I thought that I would be able to have from the time that I was a child. When I was a youngster my father was a newspaper editor. At night he would sit down and literally flip through the pages of a book and sometimes hand the book to me and say, “Here Son, read me a sentence from anywhere in the book. I thought that it was some kind of trick, but he could do it even if I went around the corner into the hallway. Dad explained to me that he had a photographic memory.
My Mother recently told me, Dad would bring a stack of books to bed each night and read them all in just a few minutes. She asked, “Thornton, what are you doing?” He stopped flipping the pages, looked at her and said, “Reading.” “No one can read that fast.” she replied. “It’s impossible!” He assured her that he could. I thought Dad would always be there for me and never asked him to teach me how this was done. My father died when I was twenty years old. I have lamented my not having gotten an understanding of his photographic memory.
When I read the information on Brain Management and their course on Mental Photography I shouted, “Eureka!” This is something that I want to make sure that all of my children have.” Now they have made it easier to get over the Internet with ZOX Pro Training.
Richard Welch, CEO and Founder says that everyone is born with the ability to learn by Mental Photography and in fact everyone uses it to learn everything – until we are about five years old. That is when we enter the public school system and learn the Rote-Memory System of reading. I believe that is when the brakes are put on our learning process and we move from potential genius into slow thinkers that store most educational matter into our short-term memory rather than our long-term memory. Learning by Mental Photography places matter into our long-term memory. That’s why my father could remember every word in the dictionary without “memorizing” the words. Excitedly, I e-mailed Brain Management and told them I wanted to take my whole family to America to learn this wonderful ability that my father had.
The Brain Management Seminar is truly a Whole Life Enhancement Course, and it is powerful! Mental Photography is used for much more than assimilating information. It is the life force of the course. Mental Photography is the Key for making this all work. As a Brain Management student, you experience Mental Photography, take tests, etc,… then they teach you ways in which to recall that information when you ‘need’ it.” It is a very specific method of directing information into the long-term memory.
During the class, adults and children with dyslexia quickly overcame that problem, and after the seminar function with excellence and confidence in education and writing, and any other challenge.
My father stacked up degrees during his lifetime. He sort of collected them. After all, all he had to do was mentally photograph the books into his long-term memory and take the exams. Now I will be able to learn what was natural to me as a child, and take that ability with me to easily further my education. Why not!? Others are doing it!
There are several languages that I want for my children and myself to know. By Mentally Photographing the cross language dictionaries of any desired language into the long-term memory, it is possible to know the whole vocabulary of a language in as much time as it takes to flip the pages of the book. Then by Mentally Photographing a study book for that language, the only thing you’re short, is knowing the sound of the language. For that you could listen to tapes or speak with someone who speaks that particular language.
The possibilities are limitless with this kind of brainpower. For years scientists have told us that we use less than ten percent of our brain’s capacity. Now I have found the way back into the other ninety percent and intend to see that my wife and children learn it and move through life with the confidence that will be theirs with this command of powerful intelligence that is naturally available for all of our children. This reinforces my personal long held understanding that all of mankind is born genius and then robbed of it by being taught an unnatural method of learning – “reading”. Mental Photography puts real meaning to the phrase, “Be all that you can be!”
Successful Brain Management and Mental Photography Seminars have been taught throughout the world and offer FREE REFRESHERS FOR LIFE. They are committed to the success of their students.
Finally, this superior training is available on the Internet at http://ZOXpro.com/ ZOX Pro Training. It is deceptively over-simplified, and driven to help you succeed.
Revisions: When this article was originally written, ZOX Pro Training was not available to the public. Since then, ZOX Pro Training was created from the Brain Management Seminar. ZOX Pro Training is Brain Management and Mental Photography training in collaboration with Richard Welch, the Founder. – Shannon Panzo
