The Art of Being Well

If you don’t want to be ill......Speak your feelings

Emotions and feelings that are hidden, repressed, end in illnesses as: gastritis, ulcer, lumbar pains, and spinal. With time, the repression of the feelings degenerates to the cancer. Then, we go to a confidante, to share our intimacy, ours "secret", our errors! The dialogue, the speech, the word, is a powerful remedy and an excellent therapy! 

If you don’t want to be ill......Make Decisions.

The undecided person remains in doubt, in anxiety, in anguish. Indecision accumulates problems, worries and aggressions. Human history is made of decisions. To decide is precisely to know to renounce, to know to lose advantages and values to win others. The undecided people are victims of gastric ailments, nervous pains and problems of the skin. 

If you don’t want to be ill......Find Solutions.

Negative people do not find solutions and they enlarge problems. They prefer lamentation, gossip, and pessimism. It is better to light a match that to regret the darkness. A bee is small, but produces one of the sweetest things that exist. We are what we think. The negative thought generates negative energy that is transformed into illness. 

If you don’t want to be ill......Don’t Live By Appearances.

Who hides reality, pretends, poses and always wants to give the impression of being well. He wants to be seen as perfect, easy-going, etc. But is accumulating tons of weight. A bronze statue with feet of clay. There is nothing worse for the health than to live on appearances and facades. These are people with a lot of varnish and little root. Their destiny is the pharmacy, the hospital and pain. 

If you don’t want to be ill......Accept.

The refusal of acceptance and the absence of self-esteem, make us alienate ourselves. Being at one with ourselves is the core of a healthy life. They, who do not accept this, become envious, jealous, imitators, ultra-competitive, destructive. Be accepted, accept that you are accepted, and accept the criticisms. It is wisdom, good sense and therapy. 

If you don’t want to be ill......Trust.

Who does not trust, does not communicate, is not opened, is not related, does not create deep and stable relations, and does not know to do true friendships. Without confidence, there is not relationship. Distrust is a lack of faith in you and in faith itself. 

If you don’t want to be ill......Do Not Live Life Sad.

Good humor. Laughter. Rest. Happiness. These replenish health and bring long life. The happy person has the gift to improve the environment wherever they live. “Good humor saves us from the hands of the doctor". Happiness is health and therapy.

SILENCE IS MUCH MORE THAN THE ABSENCE OF SOUND

1. Create a space for yourself.

It's very important to have a place or time for just yourself. Have fun creating a room or personal corner that fills you with joy and feels like home. Date yourself and find your likes and dislikes. Enjoy who you are.

2. Spend some quiet time by yourself everyday.

If noise and activity constantly bombard your life, you are drowning out your inner guidance. Enjoy the quiet time, sit or lie down, and just be.

3. Listen to the little voice inside of you.

Learn to distinguish the voices behind your inner dialogues. Don't

Ignore your higher self. You may make your life harder than it needs to be.

4. Ask yourself questions; never assume your answers.

Challenge yourself with questions daily. Work from a self-knowledge base rather than answering to please or rebel against others. Be honest about who you are or you may disappoint yourself and others.

5. Find an activity that fills you with joy.

When we do the things we love, we love the life we have and learn to

Love ourselves.

6. Wake up each morning and do an internal check.

Before you jump out of bed and run off to the next activity, take a few moments to be with yourself and check-in with how you are feeling, what you are thinking, and where you are going.

7. Let your spirit define who you are rather than the outside world.

Don't dress outside in, dress inside out. Wear your spirit proudly and attract more contentment to you. Don't rely on an external image (i.e. clothing, hairstyle, and status symbols) to tell you who you are.

8. Be honest with others about your needs and boundaries.

Once you know what you need, let others know. Don't mix your messages. If you remain silent, there's a chance of disappointing yourself and others more than the truth ever could.

9. Process what others have to say about you.

Don't take their words for Gospel, but don't ignore it. Let perspectives outside of yourself give dimension to your internal picture. Balance between taking peoples words as ultimate truth and ignoring what is being said. Realize everyone sees the world through his or her own filters (past experiences, needs, wants). Listen for the truth with love.

10. Give thanks to the force that created you.

However you name the force that created you; give thanks for who you are.

When you give thanks, you acknowledge your beauty and have the ability to cherish yourself more and more.

JAI SHREE KRISHNA

YOUR IDEA IS STOLEN

All entrepreneurs are sure that they are on to the next big thing since sliced bread. They are also equally sure that their venture would become really huge in no time and that they themselves would be the next Warren Buffet.

Unfortunately, nine out of ten startups fail to make it big. They close down, get bought out, or remain really small forever. Getting bought out is okay in many cases, and remaining small is also not a bad deal. The real show-stopper, then, is the prospect of closing down. What are the most common reasons for startups closing down, and how can you circumvent them?

Your idea is stolen

Ask anyone wanting to start out and they are sure to tell you that the key to their success is their idea. All of them believe that theiridea is so unique and so ground-breaking that many are afraid to discuss the idea with anyone, least it is stolen. In essence, they fear failure from someone stealing their idea.

You only need to look around to understand that this is one of the biggest misnomers about entrepreneurship. Let us, for the moment, accept that your idea is indeed ground-breaking. Assume that you have also kept it a grand secret and have come out with your product or service. What next? How much time will it take for a competitor to come up with a better product, learning from the mistakes you made? If your product is hot, how much time will it take for someone in China to mass-produce it? If you product is a medicine, how many months before someone right here in India comes out with a generic?

If you look around, you will find enough evidence that the first-mover or original inventor advantage does not always work out the way it has been advertised. Consider the GUI for today’s computer. It was created at Xerox Corporation’s Palo Alto Research Centre, but was made popular by Apple in their Lisas and Macs. But who really made money out of the GUI? Microsoft, many years later with Windows, and that too after many attempts! While on the topic of technology products, let us look at a few more examples. Who came up with the idea of a portable music player? Who created the first portable music player? Who cares? But who made the most money off portable music players? One of the last entrants in the field—Apple. Who came up with the first cellphone? Motorola. Who is lord of the cellphone business? Nokia. Or is that Apple? Where is Motorola now? Struggling.

The often held belief that letting your idea out is a stepping stone to failure is wrong. It is not the idea, but the execution that matters. And there, you need to learn from the successes and mistakes, particularly the mistakes of others who went before you. Nanos gigantium humeris insidentes (Successful ones are dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants).

CONNECTION BETWEEN PRICE & VOLUME

There is a close connection between price and volume and it is important for every day trader to understand at least the basics of this relation.

Generally speaking, increasing volume indicates a trend continuation and decreasing volume indicates the end of a trend or a reversal.  You need to be familiar with this when you are day trading.

Lets have a look at some more detailed scenarios as day traders:

1. A price advance with steady increasing volume 
This indicates continuing upward momentum. As the price is climbing, more and more buyers are getting attracted until the stock gets into a stage of euphoria that usually indicates the end of the price advance.

2. A slowing pace of buying with decreasing volume 
This indicates that the top is near. This is also referred to as buying which is drying up. It has two possible outcomes:

• Sellers realize that the top might be near and start selling, causing the stock to reverse lower.
• The stocks starts consolidating and gets supported by strong bids, which indicates that a move higher is likely later.

3. A relatively big volume increase during the price advance with lower volume on the pullback 
This indicates a continuing uptrend. The lower volume during the pullback indicates that there are not enough sellers in the market to drive the stock down.

4. Big buying volume without the price going higher 
This indicates distribution, which means resistance. A big seller is likely in the market. There is no way to tell yet if the buyers will win this battle and are able to drive the price higher, or if they will give up and the stock eventually reverses.

5. A slow and steady movement upward with consistent volume 
This indicates continuing upward momentum. There might be a buyer in the market who is steadily buying shares while trying to not attract too much attention.

6. An extreme acceleration in the price advancing (an almost vertical movement) is usually not sustained 
This indicates the end of this stage of the move (euphoric stage). This is a very common scenario. The best example is the Nasdaq market itself in the beginning of 2000; you all know what happened. Those stages of euphoria are very important exit signals for me. They can also present very interesting entry points especially after a stock had a panic sell off.


One of the ways in which we can find constructive price patterns is by identifying those in which volume rises on rallies or falls or declines. This shows the proper type of action for a strong stock as volume dries up when the buyers leave the table. What this is in statistical terms is correlation. I hope these few notes will spur you on to perhaps create indicators, stock rankings, and base analysis statistics as an aid to identifying better stocks.

The theory is that when price and volume move together, the stock is "acting" correctly. Therefore, the higher the correlation, the better acting the stock is. If the correlation was strongly negative, we may see a constructive short forming. Based on this, let's look at the movement of volume and price for a baseline stock like Microsoft (MSFT).


What we would like to see is that large increases in price correspond to large increases in volume, and vice versa. This would show us that price is being backed up by volume. A statistical way of saying that two series are moving together is correlation. Correlation is bound by 1 and -1, with 1 being a perfect positive correlation and -1 being a perfect negative correlation. An example of a high correlation series is the correlation between rainy days and days with clouds in the sky. An example of high negative correlation would be the correlation between rainy days and the days the pavement stays dry outside.

One thing must be noted though, correlation does not equal causation. Just because price and volume may be highly correlated does not mean that volume is the reason for the price moves. It may be earnings, news, etc. Correlation is calculated as the covariance of two series divided by the product of their standard deviation.