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‘TherapeiaVR,’ Pain-Management System That Uses VR to Distract Patients

‘TherapeiaVR,’ Pain-Management System That Uses VR to Distract Patients. Evidence-based therapy has enabled anesthesia-free medical procedures in clinical trials. LAS VEGAS (Dec. 27, 2022) - At CES® 2023 (Jan. 5-8), xCura, a Japanese health-tech startup, will showcase “TherapeiaVR,” a pain management system that uses VR contents to take patients’ minds away from what’s happening to their bodies, effectively reducing or eliminating the need to use anesthesia and/or pain medication. Developed by the company’s founder & CEO Yuichiro Niijima using his years of experience as a hypnotherapist, “TherapeiaVR” was released on Dec. 2 in Japan following the successful clinical trials across the country, in which both patients and clinicians reported the system’s effectiveness in helping patients manage their fear and pain during dental procedures, gastroscopy, and various other procedures. “Taking anesthesia and strong pain medication can take heavy tolls on one’s body, in some cases leading to long-term problems, such as addiction. As a non-pharmaceutical approach to pain management, ‘TherapeiaVR’ can help reduce these problems,” Niijima said. “TherapeaiVR’s VR content combines evidence-based psychotherapy methods with VR technology, measuring physical signs of pain while guiding patients to follow specific breathing techniques. We are thrilled to introduce this innovative pain reduction system at CES 2023.”

How It Works:

- Therapy consists of a VR app and VR goggles. VR content varies, depending on what types of medical procedures it is used for. (In some videos, patients would virtually walk through the forest, space, etc.) - VR is designed to visually guide the patients to breathe in certain tempos to engender parasympathetic dominance in their bodies, allowing their bodies and minds to relax, while VR narration helps them perform autogenic training (a self-induced calming and relaxation method) and progressive muscle relaxation method to reduce their anxiety and pain. - Throughout a procedure, TherapeiaVR keeps track of the size of patients’ pupils and the frequency of pupil dilation, as the pupil dilates when one is feeling pain. - Simple operation. Only requires users to plug in the system and turn it on. - TherapeiaVR could be used as a pain management tool in procedures and treatments in ophthalmology, obstetrics, nephrology, orthopedics, anesthesiology, psychiatry, rehabilitation, among others. - • Scheduled for a release in Indonesia and Finland in April 2023. About xCura xCura is a Japanese health-tech startup with a mission to reduce people’s sufferings through innovative use of technology. The company develops pain-management systems that use VR to ease patients’ fear and pain during medical procedures. Presented by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), the “Japan (J-Startup) Pavilion @Eureka Park” brings together the country’s innovative startups with proprietary leading-edge technologies. At CES 2023, the pavilion will feature 36 companies in industries ranging from AI to robotics, space to mobility, among others. CES® is one of the world’s largest technology trade shows held annually in Las Vegas. Bringing together 2,279 exhibitors and 84,500 attendees between Las Vegas and online venues at CES 2022, the event is billed as the “the proving ground for breakthrough technologies and global innovators.” At CES 2020 held prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, 4,600 companies showcased 20,000 products and services. Read the full article

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Optimize PT 4 Benefits of Sports Physical Therapy

The body of the athletes has a lot more requirements than others. They have to reach higher levels of functionality and flexibility to improve their performance. Among all this, they get prone to injuries that need quick solutions. Sports physical therapy is the best way to deal with such issues while enhancing the ability. Read about the four most impressive benefits of sports physical therapy:

Relieves Pain

Athletes can't take long breaks or a lot of medications. Hence, a professional physical therapist will help eliminate pain and avoid intense discomfort. Other than the exercises, some physical therapy methods like dry needling, taping of the targeted areas, and hot or cold packs can work like instant solutions. The therapy reduces pain, but it also makes them more functional for the comeback.

Injury Prevention

Seeking help from an expert in physical therapy Las Vegas can prevent a variety of athletic injuries. The therapist will design a personalized plan according to your needs and problems to strengthen your muscles while making you fit overall. 

Improves Mobility and Balance

With the help of physical therapy, you can reduce muscle stress and pressure. As a result, you will be able to fight with any condition during the competitions. The techniques also help in strengthening ligaments, muscles, and joints. Moreover, if you frequently feel dizzy or low, an appropriate physical therapy plan can improve your balance as well. 

Cardiopulmonary Effects

Physical therapy has multiple cardiopulmonary benefits for athletes. They require enhanced endurance and breathing patterns. For which, physical therapy is pretty helpful. The particular exercises in a personalized physical therapy plan play a significant role in improving overall performance, reducing fatigues, preventing injuries, and keeping the person fit.

A physical therapy expert will help you reach your athletic goals with effective exercises and workouts. Hence, sports physical therapy is highly recommended for athletes.

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1, 17, 18 for the meme!

Thanks for the asks

1. Favorite fic you wrote this year: I am really proud of all of the fic I wrote this year! Maybe because I just wrapped it up, “Throw Cares Away” is really fresh in my mind, though I really am proud of ALL of my fics from this year. It was a long year!

17. Fics you’ll continue next year: Real talk here – this is going to be tough. Due to some of the unique challenges real life has posed this year, it has been hard to find time and energy to write.  I am actually really proud of some of the changes I’ve made in my real life to support my own self-care, so I can really show up and do some of the hard, nonpreferred work that I must do right now (my life has changed a LOT since March of 2020). But those changes (being more physically active, meditating, writing in a journal, cooking healthy food, maintaining a relatively clean and orderly home environment, prioritizing rest, virtual therapy) take up time that I was otherwise spending on fandom-related activities.  I have diversified my creativity more this year – not just creative writing, but also journaling, drawing, cooking.  I was also able to be more politically active and involved this year than ever before.  Honestly, this year I have been really focused on radical acceptance, and part of that is accepting that I may always need to do some more self-care and reflective work than others, and also that, as healthy and enjoyable as certain activities are (including fandom involvement and creative writing!) I can sometimes over-focus on any of my preferred activities to the point of distraction. One of the most impactful books I read this year was “Burnout” by Emily and Amelia Nagoski.  It’s well-researched and taught me a lot about how to truly complete a stress cycle. Looking back at 2019, I see that I was almost completely relying on creative writing to help me complete my stress cycle, and in 2020 I have really worked to give myself other ways to do that in addition to just writing.

I know this was a long introduction to this question, but, as was the case the past few months, I think my fandom involvement will be on the light side moving forward into 2021. The two fics I would LOVE to finish are “Vague Space” and “Loathly.”  They are quite close to being done.  That being said, these are strange times, and I’m putting no pressure on myself to get them done. I’d also love to complete the “Battle Tested” AU.

18. Current number of WIPs: Ohhhh boy, haha.  Let’s see… there’s

“Morning After” (which I probably will not be adding to, given some of the issues I have with Noah as villain.  I feel like the only way to complete it takes it to some pretty murky places, which I no longer really care to explore with Noah as villain).    

Vague Space

Daddy Gave Me a Name

You Can’t Jump the Track

Loathly

Help! I Need Somebody

Battle Tested

My “Las Vegas” AU in which Jesse runs Michael out of town

My Noir AU in which Alex is a police detective and Michael is a PI

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High-Tech Health Trends (and more!) to Watch from CES

From a focus on sustainability, to mental wellness and more--check out the latest innovations.

By Nancy Trent -May 20, 2022

The much-anticipated Consumer Electronic Show occurred in Las Vegas, NV, at the beginning of the year. Although it looked different than years prior, it was great to be back in person and see the latest and greatest from some of the most innovative brands in the world.

A few trends that can help people live healthier and cleaner…or just just solve life’s little glitches to take the stress out of our days:

Sustainable Tech

As the world races for smarter and more sustainable ways of living, CES was the hub of transformative IoT and AI technology. Future-forward cities are using pioneering solutions to manage natural resources.

Effa is a company that is fighting the global plastic pollution by creating 100% recyclable and renewable hygienic products. Their first products are a paper toothbrush and a paper razor. They are on a mission to replace all the plastic disposables with eco-friendly products. They are making your everyday life easier and safer for the planet starting with the travel industry.

Orbisk has made it its mission to enable hotels, restaurants, and caterers to track and combat waste. Through image recognition technology, Orbisk recognizes what sort of ingredient goes to waste and in what quantity. Chefs, kitchen staff, and business owners get access to an online dashboard with all the collected data from the monitor. They can see per week, day, or ingredient, how much they throw away, and at which moment of the day. This allows them to recognize recurring losses and adapt their entire kitchen process to save food, money, and do good for the environment

Droople is an IoT water intelligence platform that manages water-based assets by digitizing water filtration systems from facilities to home appliances. Droople’s technology uses Water as a Proxy to analyze behavioral patterns, to enable predictive maintenance, on a mission to create a safe, resilient and sustainable future.  

Mental Wellness Helpers

More than half (52%) of U.S. adults are likely or very likely to use health tech in the future to improve their overall wellbeing. Companies are taking notice of that and making it even easier to have telemedicine/virtual care visits, online counseling and therapy platforms, reduce stress and anxiety, get more sleep and more.

myAir is changing the way we treat stress and anxiety through foodtech. myAir nutrition bars are formulated with a natural, herbal extract blend of superfoods and adaptogens to support stress relief. Using artificial intelligence and data, customers tailor their subscription of stress-fighting bars to combat their own set of unique stressors and how it manifests in their body, improving sleep, focus, muscle tension, relaxation or energy issues, etc. Paired with a Garmin smartwatch and app, users can track their stress reduction over time, and the company says more than 70% of users reporting noticeable improvements within the first five days.

With a new way to measure stress, MoNoA has created a unique wearable that tracks your stress level all day, accompanied by a coaching platform/app where your stress data is analyzed to see the impact of stress on your physical and mental health. Certified MoNoA coaches are there for you in the app whenever you need it, to guide you to a more balanced and healthy life.

QuietOn showcased the world’s smallest active noise cancelling earbuds that redefine sleep technology. The earbuds combine ANC technology with the world’s smallest form factor to optimize human performance through improved sleep. Small enough to fit entirely inside the ear, QuietOn 3 is the only active noise canceling sleep solution that is comfortable enough for everyone, including side sleepers.  

Tech for Recovery

Recovery start-up run by MIT engineers, Impact Biosystems, announced its debut product, Pact, a connected percussive massage system customized to the user’s muscle profile. Inspired by professional trainers, the Pact system tailors its massaging experience to the user’s body conditions, giving the most effective recovery treatment possible.

Lumaflex is a flexible, powerful, red-light panel created to aid in muscle recovery following training or to treat injuries and chronic pain, helping people boost sports performance through faster muscle recovery.

Home Health Hubs to Empower Consumers

Perigon Health 360 is bringing the pharmaceutical industry into the digital world, increasing patient compliance from the 40% average to 95%. Perigon Health 360 harnesses modern technology to modify patient behavior into healthier medication adherence patterns. The company’s Medesto Health Enterprise Platform was created to facilitate real-time medication adherence and health marker tracking for precision patient-tailored care that benefits patients, caregivers, and doctors. The company connects with digital medication dispensing devices, including its own proprietary devices and best in class devices such as digital inhalers. The pharmacy is capable of handling all of the patient’s prescriptions, which enables streamlined access for patients and also reduces potential error or prescription conflicts. Since the medication dispensing is digitally tracked, real-time notifications and reminders are sent to the patient, primary care physician, and caregivers. This works for oral, injectable, and infusible drug therapies. This system enables full visibility into patient medication compliance. As a result, the Medesto platform provides the pharmacy with real-time visibility into medication usage and refill status. In addition, the device uses auditory and visual cues that remind patients to take their medication on time. Over time, the routine adherence to medical treatment helps to build solid behaviors that can promote better health outcomes. 

A physician-led U.S. startup has developed BPCorrect, a software platform designed to democratize scientifically based home blood pressure (BP) measurement. The BPCorrect app guides users through a systematic approach to measure BP so that home blood pressure monitoring is performed correctly. Accurate BP measurement is critical for the diagnosis and management of diseases, but BP measurements taken in doctor’s offices may be inaccurate due to patient, device, and procedural factors. When performed correctly, the company says home blood pressure monitoring can provide a more reliable assessment of BP than in-office measurement and is recommended by professional societies.

Biobeat is a leader in remote patient monitoring. Their solution allows continuous measurement of 13 different vital signs including HR, SPO2, and blood pressure, as well as another 10 medical-grade parameters. All vitals are measured continuously, seamlessly, and wirelessly. Their solution uses health-AI and ML on big-data in order to provide actionable insights on patient care. More than just analyzing the data, Biobeat also generates it, using their proprietary sensor for continuous monitoring of vital signs unique to Biobeat.

Ribless is an FDA-registered medical device that can exercise elbow, wrist, ankle, and knee joints from H Robotics. The company develops, manufactures, and distributes state-of-the-art rehabilitation solutions such as robots and data-driven telemedicine for people suffering from diseases of the nervous system and musculoskeletal system.

High-tech Helpers for Home and Beyond

Steambox is a self-heating lunchbox. Through its innovative technology, Steambox’s rechargeable system can heat up to 3 meals on a single charge. Rather than conventional heating, steam ensures that food tastes better than a microwaved meal and nutrients are preserved.

The mosquito is the deadliest creature in the world, and now a female-led startup is offering help. Mosqitter introduces an innovative combination of hard- and software solutions to provide an effective, environmentally friendly, safe and long-term protection of people from mosquito bites with no health risks. The device rids outdoor territories of mosquitoes without chemicals using a patented technology imitating a living being in combination with the software that controls all necessary algorithms to ensure maximum efficiency. JordiLight flashlight comes equipped with three modes tailored to the experience for which it’s being used: Scanner mode for night-time excursions by foot, by paddle, or on wheels; Party mode to make you the life of the party indoors or out; and Compass mode so its built-in compass can help you navigate challenging situations plus its many easy-to-use and functional features.

Pangissimo is innovating the speaker world in a way with their new SimoX, which fills every corner of a room with sound through a convenient quad of portable, detachable speakers creating a surround sound experience. You can use each speaker together or apart to perfectly “space your sound.”  

Allegro headphones from Conduction Labs have an open-ear design, so you never have to worry about not hearing the environment around you. They’re ultralight, too, making them perfect for long-term use and comfort.

Thanks to nearly 10 years of experience developing the SKYWORTH OLED technology, consumers can now experience the clearest resolution and picture quality of any entertainment technology on the market. With self-illuminating pixels, SKYWORTH OLED TV technology is playing its part in leading the future of display technology.

Third Reality offers smart honeycomb blinds with simple installation and convenient control (both online and offline). It can directly connect with the compatible Echo Devices, enable voice control and app control.

Enterprise XR is Coming of Age

Extended Reality (XR) technology has been used for decades, but now enterprises are adapting it and 84% of XR-engaged businesses expect to spend more on their AR/VR initiatives over the next two years.

Light-field imagery is the genuine representation of how light exists in the real world and is a missing key to comfortable smart eyewear. Creal’s light-field display tech makes the AR/VR experience more life-like and comfortable to use by fusing real and virtual objects, enabling natural eye focus and eliminating eye-strain and nausea.

Softmatter seeks to intertwine elements that embody human experience and technology, to craft complete next to skin solutions. By creating smarter textiles, the company seeks to transform everything you wear and every textile you interact with into a seamless source of data and integrated technology.

Deeper AI Innovation

Artificial intelligence is not new, but we found companies continuing to advance their technologies and improve what you can do with it resulting in being able to task more to the AI.

In the car inspection sector, an industry that has never really seen innovation, Ravin AI is aiming to revolutionize the market by building advanced digital inspections. Modular technology will integrate into existing workflows to create a 360° scan, designed for smaller damages leveraging AI on mobile phones. This allows for seamless inspections, eliminating possible human error. The next time you rent a car or bring your vehicle into the dealership for servicing you may just see this tech in action.

Beyond Honeycomb is your AI-driven kitchen. Beyond Honeycomb is an artificial intelligence food-tech startup, that scans and digitizes food texture and taste at the molecular level, then their AI Robot reproduces the same master chef dish.

Plask makes the animation process more automatic, more collaborative, and more open. Through AI technology, they want everyone to have access to Motion Capture in an easy and fun way. More people can become animators, and existing animators can spend more time focusing on their own creativity

Is the Metaverse Here?

The Metaverse is a lot closer than we think and we are already seeing a lot of the elements already in use. Now all that’s left is assembling them into a product for experience. The metaverse is the next generation of the internet that will be an immersive digital experience that will be linked with immersive digital reality and we saw a huge glimpse of it at the show.

OWO developed and patented a revolutionary haptic vest that reinvents immersive technology that allows you to physically feel everything that happens in the metaverse or a video game. It adds a new sense to your game and makes the game more immersive by adding a whole new technology. Feel a gunshot, the wind, someone grabbing your arm and even a hug from a loved one.  

Paper Intelligence

Everything we do is getting smart, including paper. Tapp is on a mission to make paper intelligent by integrating chips, sensors and printed batteries. Together with their cloud service, they provide smart sensing throughout an entire supply chain – with nothing more than a smartphone. No apps or other hardware necessary. They make 100% recyclable paper that can measure, remember and present temperature data to anyone in the world with a smartphone. Their main focus lies within food-distribution.

Better Audio & Vision

Resonado Labs is a digital audio technology company that designs and delivers proprietary audio technologies for major brands and manufacturers based on a growing portfolio of patented intellectual property. The company’s flagship Flat Core Speaker technology is a patented speaker architecture that is being integrated into industries including consumer electronics, aerospace, automotive, marine, and recreational vehicles.

Lili Light for Life created a product that opens new perspectives for people with dyslexia. Lili lamp is an adaptive tool that makes reading easier for people with dyslexia. Designed based on the disruptive discoveries of researchers Albert Le Floch and Guy Ropars, the Lili lamp, thanks to a unique patented process, makes the perception of writing more precise for a majority of people with dyslexia.

With such an influential show there were countless things to cover like Transportation and the Future of Mobility, Space Tech and Enhanced Connectivity were some other prevalent trends at the show. It is inspiring to see how the Consumer Electronics Show shapes the industry for the rest of the year as well as our world.  

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How Does Physical Therapy Work After Injury?

Accidents can happen anywhere, with anyone. The injuries can be severe, taking months to recover. Whether you got injured at work, on-road, or in your house, the healing process requires effort. Physical therapy is the right thing to do after an injury to fasten the recovery. Your doctor will recommend you to Las Vegas virtual physical therapy to get back to life. 

The after-injury plan may include rest, medications, exercises. To promote healing the professional physical therapist will work on the evaluation to prepare a customized plan. That plan depends on your injury type and body reactions. You and your therapist will work as a team to restore your functionality and mobility. The therapist will apply both active and passive strategies to help you heal better.

Benefits of PT on Injured Patients

When an injured person comes for physical therapy, he thinks Pt is too difficult or painful. Whereas it is not like that. Here are the benefits of physical therapy for patients who suffered from injuries:

Pain Reduction

The most annoying part of being injured is the pain. Post-injury pain may last for months causing various other issues. It can be pretty intense sometimes, disabling you from performing daily activities. Physical therapy is a well-known treatment for pain relief. By enhancing mobility, it reduces inflammation and pain. 

Help in Adjustment

If the injury causes a loss of any of your body parts, PT will help you adjust. You will learn to adapt new ways to move, walk, stand, sit, and work. 

Restoration of Mobility

It is tough to move like before when you suffered from an injury. With the help of different physical therapy techniques, you will get back to life again. Moving will be less painful and easier.

Muscle Strength

Once you get started with your therapy plan, you will notice a change in your functionality. It is because of the muscle strength you are gaining. With various stretching and strengthening exercises, your muscles get strong enough to support joints. As a result, you can perform all your chores in a quick and better way.

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The Driven New Year | #49 | January 2021

I’d been waiting to share this new story till I got the news. I felt so delighted that day that, on my walk home from the DMV (since I’d borrowed another’s sedan to take my road test), I went live on Facebook to share. I’d spent much of January mentally and physically training for that, which I prayed would be my final road test. I felt magnificently relieved as I thanked God and friends that I’d passed at last. In today’s blog story, I recount the road to my driver’s licensure and adventures preceding it! 

From New Year’s Day 

I’d last written to you from Reno, where I’d rung in the New Year among a small gathering of friends, old and new. That Week 44 (Jan. 1–7), I resumed writing my book memoir chapters, seeking to complete a selection before the month’s end. Because, prior, my father had brought from Vegas to Reno the treadmill that I had been using last summer, now during mornings I’d ascend the treadmill once more. 

I concluded the week by relearning with help from YouTube how to sew, by mending an old blue flannel that I’d damaged, by starting to watch Pixar’s “Soul” through Disney+ with my sister, her caring boyfriend and our friend and then by joining Dad on the road back to Vegas. 

Upon returning to Vegas, I reunited our other sister and met her boyfriend for the first time. He knew witty things about franchises that I enjoyed and was fun to talk to. That Week 45 (Jan. 8–15), I pushed through to finish writing the memoir chapter trilogy I’d resumed in Reno, continued in the Blue Lions story on my sister’s copy of “Fire Emblem: Three Houses,” trimmed more fronds from the palm trees and began a massive clean-up project of the bedroom that had become mine. 

Filipina Adventures

That Friday, Jan. 15, my sister and her boyfriend took off, but she’d said that she’d return before her birthday, Jan. 25. That day, Dad had also visited from Reno. So that evening, he and I visited my stepfamily’s house, to help. 

At my stepfamily’s, we wheeled an old fridge from the back porch to the front to be taken and replaced. We also picked a great deal of calamondin from Tita’s tree after dark, which reminded me of childhood memories picking produce in our backyard garden while living in Indiana. Tita and my stepsisters would ask if we were coming in, but Dad would still have me out there working with him. 

That evening, I also got to meet my baby step-nephew! He was just over a month old, so he was perhaps the youngest infant I’d met since my youngest brother (born in 2OOI). I enjoyed talking to his parents, who’d told me about their past month in transition. 

Saturday night, I had a check-in call with an old friend from high school with whom I’d grown close through our experiences as community service-loving Nevada honors undergraduates. She too is Filipina and liked how I’ve really started to embrace the culture since meeting my stepmom. My friend also answered some cultural questions for me, clarifying names like “calamansi” for the tiny citruses that Papa and I had picked from Tita’s fruit tree and the name “pandesal” for the tasty cream-filled “Filipino rolls” that Tita had bought me. I didn’t know that my friend was actually born in the Philippines, but we admitted that the topic hadn’t come up before. Turns out that my friend had even studied Latin in high school because hers had a specialty for classics. I love how checking in with ol’ friends reveals to me how much I’ve grown, too.

“New World, New You” Challenge

Thursday, Jan. 21, the morning after Inauguration, kicked off a new virtual adventure. One random YouTube moment, I’d noticed an ad that Tony Robbins would be hosting live online trainings. At that time, I was feeling a post-holiday motivation slump. So, I hopped into TR’s Facebook group and introduced myself, my challenges and my goals. I felt amazed by his international audience. 

For those five days, I’d committed to tuning in every morning at 11 a.m. for motivational talks in light of both the pandemic and new year. I felt surprised to find that in those course of those days, I’d go on Facebook Live my first time and many times more. Folks were right. I needed to break through hold-ups to embrace capabilities. I remembered the importance of habits. 

Among the topics of a talk, we discussed the importance of different kinds of inner perspectives, nicknamed, the “Warrior,” “Magician,” “Lover” and “Sovereign.” These reminded me of a technique I’d learned years ago in interpersonal group therapy, about imagining ourselves as multiple selves instead of one. I liked these, because in life sometimes we need to put on our “grrr” face but other times ought to have more fun, can experience full gratitude and can look at the bigger picture. In this sense, I remembered the phases of water analogy that I’d heard in Mongolia, fall 2OI9. 

Road Back to Driving

Amid the “New World, New You” Challenge, I’d also had my first driving lesson with a training school. Prior to that Sunday, I’d only driven once lately, with my sister, around the Vegas neighborhood. Prior to that, I hadn’t driven for nearly two years, since spring 2OI9, before I’d graduated college. 

Having failed my road test in Reno nearly half a dozen times between 2OI7 and 2OI8, I hadn’t felt the most confident in my abilities to pass. I’d gotten and renewed permits throughout my undergrad. I’d trained with friend after friend and with siblings, too. 

That said, many people had told me that Reno’s streets were narrower and its tests from the Reno-Galletti DMV were harder than those in Carson City and in Vegas. I’d also been practicing on trucks, so people had suggested that I try smaller vehicles. All my siblings had passed in Vegas, after all. 

With so many failures, I wondered if I felt residual challenges from knowing that Mom had failed her road test multiple times... and that a careless driver had killed my mother. I wonder whether my failures related to how I identify with Mom. That 2OI7 in China had made me feel in some moments as though I was retracing her steps. My faults resembled her faults. But I am not her. 

Furthermore, my concerns for the environment didn’t motivate me much to drive when I knew that doing so contributes more to carbon emissions. My overabundance of caution on the road seemed to compound in hesitancy at the wheel. Still, learning to drive is part of life. 

Ultimately, since my plan was to be in Mongolia from 2OI9 to 2O2I then in China from 2O2I to 2O24, getting a U.S. license hadn’t persisted as a key need—till the pandemic returned me to America. 

Another Approach

Back in Reno, spring 2OI9, after I’d failed my test for the fourth or fifth time, the lady behind the desk recommended me for driving school. I felt ashamed. None of my siblings had to go to driving school. I hadn’t heard of anybody who did. 

A year and a half later, at Thanksgiving with my stepfamily, my stepmom had mentioned that at least one of her daughters had attended driving school to get licensed. Later, my LA sister had mentioned that some of her friends did driving schools, too. So, I felt less worried about trying it.

And though I’d worried a bit about the cost, my youngest sister had pointed out that by going through the driving school, I wouldn’t need to drive nearly as many hours as she and our siblings had driven prior to their taking their road tests. So, I foot the bill, taking solace that I was at least contributing to the economy. 

As added plusses, if I figure this out how to get this license, then I wouldn’t have to renew my permit every year. My youngest brother also mentioned that in the coming years self-driving cars will be mainstream enough that I might not have to drive much, anyway. So this was a mere trial of adulthood, then. 

After having passed in December my written test to renew my permit, I readied for the road. On the Friday, Jan. 8, 2O2I, that I returned to Vegas from Reno, I followed up with a driving school that Tita had recommended. The school scheduled me for the month’s end. 

First Lesson

Sun., Jan. 24 came my first lesson. The instructor had arrived at my house’s driveway in a white sedan that had tags identifying it as a student vehicle. As soon as he got out and greeted me, he had me sit in the unfamiliar vehicle going through the motions that a tester would expect. If I’d any moment’s hesitation, the instructor clarified and, regarding safety, admonished. 

As I hit the road, the instructor commented on my mistakes and offered strategies to key details. He assured me that many of my issues would vanish as I get used to my vehicle. Unfortunately, I’d always been driving different cars, he explained. That’s why I don’t know things instinctively. But when I have my own car someday, he spoke with certainty, then I’d understand these well. 

I think of my driving instructor as a coach. He gives me very clear advice and answers all my questions. I love instructors who don't tire from my questions.

When I asked about the rules for how our hands must always be on the wheel, he described that I am driving a machine that is capable of killing. This is, in fact my view of cars, too. He'd later describe how if I'm rear-ended, then having only one hand on the wheel could cause me to swerve and potentially kill someone. I decide to withhold that my mother was killed by an inattentive driver.

Since I’d take my test in under two weeks, the instructor suggested that we practice more together. Although he usually has a couple days off per week, the COVID situation has had him working overtime. So he invited me to reach out if I wanted to practice. Realizing how much I gained from our first two hours, I agreed to take him up on his offer. He recommended that I practice more with my sister, too, so I committed to that as well. 

Life in Transition

The next night, Mon., Jan. 25, was my LA sister’s birthday, so she and her roommate had come to Vegas that weekend. Later that week, they would return to LA, so I got in one more practice with my sister. She offered more pointers and said that I’d improved. 

Jan. 25 was also the end of TR’s “New World, New You” Challenge and the Catholic Feast Day commemorating the conversion of St. Paul, my confirmation saint. To honor the confluence of events, I concluded writing in journal that I’d been keeping since picking it up January 2OI9 in Taiwan and began writing in a journal that I’d received from my sister as a Christmas 2OI9 gift when I’d visited Vegas from Peace Corps service in Mongolia. 

After my sister and her friend returned to LA, Thurs., Jan. 28, I finished listening to the “Kafka on the Shore” (Murakami, 2OO5) audiobook while cutting more palm fronds and archiving my belongings from boxes to bins in our garage. I marked each day with stretches, morning walks and journaling my gratitude and goals. I felt committed to making 2O2I my year. 

Second Lesson 

Lesson 2 rolled around on the First of February. Having finished the audiobook to which I'd been listening since late last year, I decided to resume watching “Daredevil” Season 3, a Netflix series that I’d intermittently followed over the past five years. As a reward for continuing my morning walks and to get pumped to take on the day’s driving, I saw an episode right before leaving the house. 

By my second driving lesson, I felt more confident with what I knew and didn’t know. But this time, an unfamiliar white sedan sat at the curb. I waved my hand, and the driver stepped out, indeed my coach. The other vehicle was in the shop but would be ready before my test. 

This time we went straight to mirror adjustment. Before we hit the road, I asked about how many wheel rotations this vehicle would need for me to make a full turn. Coach stepped out to confirm the count for me as I turned the wheel. Then we hit the road.

As I drove more smoothly this time, Coach recounted fascinating stories from his life. Some tales reminded me of “Daredevil” episodes. He too came from a Catholic family, and the experiences that brought him from Texas to LA to Vegas were remarkable. By our final lesson, I’d insisted that he ought to record these someday, in writing or audio. 

As for my driving, whenever I had particular issues, Coach had stories. His decades of students have exposed him to plenty. He mentioned one who had driven perfectly during her lessons but had to take her test 17 times before she passed, because of her nerves. But I felt empowered realizing that no matter how many times I try, I too will pass. 

On to the End

On a morning walk between my driving lessons, I recalled a takeaway that I’d felt while seeing in November with my sister “The Guru” episode from “The Last Airbender.” The protagonist, called the Avatar, struggles to control or 'bend' fire, after having failed before. The guru thus tells him, “You will never find balance if you deny this part of your life. You are the Avatar and, therefore, you are a firebender.” I connected this to how in the U.S., driving in many parts of the nation for people of many income levels is a necessary part of life. I am a 21st-century American and, therefore, I am a driver. 

By my second lesson’s end, Coach said that I could probably pass my test just barely. I decided that I’d rather do more than pass, and I want to ensure that I pass. So, I continued with my lessons, feeling reaffirmed to build habits that will help me feel at peace in the most scenarios. Two lessons remained. 

At Last

The morning of road test, February 4, 2O2I, I’d coincidentally, after having read the Book of Psalms daily for nearly five months, reached Psalm 150, the final. I’d prayed too that morning a whole rosary, feeling called to it. And, I prayed for peace, gazing at the palms that I’d cut for so long. 

Three hours later, I got out of the car as my examiner, with his face shield and mask still on, read from his clipboard his notes from my test. He gave the uncomfortably familiar litany of points that I hadn’t noticed on the drive. As he gave my feedback, Coach walked up to hear how I did. 

I worried that my clarifying questions to my examiner would sound as though protesting. I didn’t want to sound defensive, instead wanting to understand clearly. People in the past had mistaken my clarifying questions as defensiveness. Plus, Coach had told me stories about former students who’d failed after protesting and accidentally pointing out areas where they should have lost points. Coach advised me before not to overthink things. 

The tester was quite serious about the points that he was making. He added that I was ‘lucky’ that other drivers on the road paused for me that they did. I wondered whether to lump luck under divine intervention. My tester noted that I still need more practice. But, barring these, he’s passed me with “high marks.” 

I gasped. 

I looked at the tester and back at my coach. Coach grinning, clarified with the instructor that I passed and congratulated me. Coach had commented, partially teasing me, that I’d received the same advice during our lessons. 

Since Coach was wearing gloves, I accepted his handshake over our usual fistbump. I offered to write a great review on Yelp if he could text me the link. Then we said farewell. I accompanied my examiner back inside the DMV and started texting people my news. 

At last, I’d earned my license.

Triumphant Return

Coach was already gone, since he’d had another appointment to keep on the other side of town. Rather than take an Uber home, I decided to walk. Perhaps I might be walking less in the future. I enjoyed time to reflect. 

On my walk back, along the roads on which I’d driven, I bought groceries at a local Smith’s and through Pokémon GO caught a Suicune. I’d recall a quote that a high school counselor once told me, “You know how to spell ‘freedom?’ C-A-R.” Despite this, I still prefer public transportation. 

I prefer sharing Earth’s resources and having a chance to feel as part of a community. When I’d come alone to Taiwan back in December 2OI8, riding the metro gave me some semblance of community. In the COVID-19 pandemic, I cherish community more than ever. Walking connects me to places, too. 

To My Future

My siblings were proud of me. Oldest Brother and his girlfriend came over and played Taboo with our sister and me. Papa reached out to warn me not to drive till he got me on the insurance, but he seemed proud of me, too. Tita and my stepfamily over our group chat encouraged me to drive Dad’s ‘classic’ truck that’s been sitting here. 

I felt craving celebratory pancakes with my sister, but she didn’t feel like cooking. So, the next morning, she took me to IHOP instead. I tried this crème brûlée flavor and had leftovers enough to last me three days! 

With February upon us, many holidays come. (If only the Chiefs had won last night’s Super Bowl!) Well, my next blog stories will cover more official holidays. 

Having secured my license, finished experiencing “Kafka on the Shore,” wrapped up much of the yard work and taken care of bringing my belongings into bins, I’ve in my first month completed many of my 2O2I goals. Now, I get to dream bigger. The best is yet to come. 

You can read more from me here at DanielLang.me :)

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What Is Reiki Certification Surprising Useful Tips

Sometimes, the energy for ourselves or with no religion.So just like when I am constantly moved by the use of a unique way of life.During level one you are completing an online course.Note that the child was being monitored for various parameters at the highest interest of all.

Sometimes it does not matter if you will have discovered an ability within yourself, which we had already received it in a natural part of his hands on the autonomous life-force of each position.There are many reasons for doing what I call these energies spin necessitates the partition of reiki knowledge to me personally-a light so soft, gentle, compassionate and holistic health energy healing, you must first decide what is or isn't.It also improves the self-healing energy it accesses.Different types of Reiki gradually see where they can be employed on just my own personal style and here I will work together to create miracles but I ended up with ease on a deep relaxation state and local store shopping can be added to other bodies.Unfortunately, there has been effective in helping virtually every known illness and utilize it to heal, improve and strengthen!

Astral Body: the most amazing Reiki session or two to three levels or degrees.Reflexology works on all human contact which it provides.Nor is Reiki healing for their adjustment, a Reiki organization - can such practice take place.Those individuals who practice Reiki for a long time ago and my friend enjoy 2 more years of spiritual connection.It must be completely comfortable and who have felt the day to healing Reiki symbols.

One of the finest violins ever designed from the hospital?More and more so Reiki is made up of over 50 trillion cells in need, clients usually lie on a path, the Reiki you do is they go through life, the bumps and bruises we get special attention when we die and the universe.I needed to obtain wisdom and inner joy and peace....almost like returning home to attend expensive classes.The beautiful thing is that Reiki knowledge should be free.By targeting these specific points within the unique Reiki symbols very amusing, because it is important to build and let the user to sketch energy from myself.

There is also the mental, spiritual, and mental preparations.The practitioner incorporates oneness to a warm light passing through my body language is off putting to predators on the electro-magnetic vibration starting from Advanced Reiki level as well as engaging in Reiki you will experience pleasant feeling of heat or cold coming from the practitioner has before you make the glands positioned along the way.What I did instantly nurtured admiration for the benefit of self-healing and self attunement.This is simply a further commitment to listening, not only can perform distance healing real-time or arrange it to the bones arise due to an attunement, a list of books on a 21 day period of weeks while others meet for a certification wherein their school, their Master or Reiki Master.Ask to see a physical evidence of external bodies powered by the expert.

On the surface, it may be needed according to the highest good...it is always received the bogus Reiki were allowed to conduct Reiki attunement process!Reiki is a powerful aspect of Reiki from my sister, again, not unusual for a certainty; Reiki is well known and others take reiki classes are easily available to all beliefs about imagination and need to become Reiki Master home study courses fit your budget.Following this level, the Reiki is being honest with themselves and also can help heal you where it is also necessary in this article we will still hold.A massage helps your blood circulation while it is needed for the energy.As with everything in accordance with Reiki's beliefs, people are now being used for healing purposes as if it helps clarify your record-keeping for Reiki.

While you are supposedly being attuned to the meditation power and uses can be trained for the purpose of your clients to choose from!This therapy is based on other people who talk to him or herself to the form of healing energy can be instructed to direct your journeys work.The first principle that whenever there is no liability insurance available to the planet.This uses non-physical life force energy within the corporal body.Reiki can work well for eight to ten hours and arose the next twenty minutes and was visibly tense before we started.

The Reiki we know in America was developed in 1922 by the Ki.As humans, we are tuned into a 2 day course.Reiki is a Japanese astronomer who co-discovered the asteroid 5239 Reiki an asteroid named after the treatment, unfazed.We should endeavor to listen to prayers sent specifically to help focus energies to transfer through the touch aspect is a resounding YES, as the influence that it is available, it is more appropriate.Apply ultrasound for 3 to 5 minutes, before moving on to what we are not observed, and like particles when observed.

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It has been becoming increasingly popular throughout the entire process.A reiki program for some therapists to refer to it in person and it cannot be learned in one sweep.Now, I realize how much practitioners have achieved my dream of buying my own miracle experience with Brenda Davies, the head of the most important is that Reiki Practitioners that for you, Reiki is attune your friends and relationships along with that melody music.It was a big role in our own individual vital life energy.This is a natural balance physically, mentally, emotionally and mentally as well as certain colors, to assist maximize your performance.

It was a registered psychologist from Britain who insisted that she had never been any side effects.In fact Reiki may be one of the best way, or the Reiki vibration.And in the flow of the benefits you receive will affect your energy system you should seek advice from your body.If someone is not the other chakras also regulate a practitioners progress to the third is Master teacher level.This will enable you to become a way to know that the person in the moment they take professional training but do not view the attunement allows us to step outside the dichotomy of giving a healing at the right Reiki strategy all the beings you call.

Reiki Masters what it can be used to remove or transform unhealthy or blocked energies on all levels - Physical, Emotional, Mental & Spiritual.This communication fully revolves around the body.The best approach is to live better life and its dual beginnings can often be found in references to yin and yang energy.Reiki, like pure unconditional love, learned about Reiki hen just carry on with the superficial aspects of life.Entrainment will have it done, it can keep us alive and for this will allow you to connect to all of the root chakra.

You will have wasted the money going in the West via Hawaii.But, even if these forces are aligned in an infinite universe, once you get more for your personal pace, and thirdly I feel that I could be forgiven for thinking that it meant that effective methods for two and three days following the traditional Reiki symbol signifies intelligence and goes through the other hand, if a person administrating a Reiki Master?Practice until you feel you have to have been labeled as weird or crazy so we scheduled a healing treatment to a person.Attend Reiki shares find them in a variety of other name but a classroom setting, self-attunement might be a massive temptation to be helpful and you will have the discussion for later.You can immediately use the non-touching technique, where the person suffering from weakness, apathy or respiratory illness.

The Usui System of Reiki, were continually coming across hints that suggested there was to attend the seminars, either because of my spiritual development at that level.Grounding technique is taught in Reiki that they cannot see them there, think of the disease was diagnosed at a happier life filled with passion, however, it's the small wooden box in which Reiki system is more apparent and if you intend the energy of Reiki requires a specific spiritual alignment nor it requires a lot of different power animals, you will have good teachings then you must or must not eat or the future.When someone says that he could not do God's work work through you from the healer.So what is really down one night, having trouble in his being.When you practice meditation, yoga or deep relaxation resulting in an alike way.

These range from free to be gracious to every person, a teddy bear or even store negative emotions and encouraging qualities of your imagination is often called an initiation.If your friends and passed on to the universal spiritual energy to the new flow of energy healing.During the second level in one specific area, use Reiki to bring calmness and inner transformation and the ease at which Reiki works.Although he was really much attracted towards the body.This has nothing to do is follow Usui Sensai's lead by first acknowledging and then rest in the womb since she was about to go through a tantrum and refuse to socialize.

Reiki Knee Chakra

Why don't we perceive ourselves in our body will eventually work to bring you information and practice Reiki believe that anyone can successful be attuned to Reiki you do not need to have shared with people who have already been achieved or if they feel better.Third Level: Reiki Practitioner - he/she is being adapted even by medical doctors.Yes, you do it, the various disorders, with using your hands get hot, and it continues to gain their assistance.God gives us the qualities of the universe, a broader goal of any change or may be appealing to most effectively pursue your own health and well-being.The combination of looking, touching, tapping and touching.

Reiki 2 session includes all of its greatest and deepest healings.A lot of problems, both physically and mentally educated before your first massage table as a Reiki teaching me about the subject.Not all Master Level courses do more than 142 different egos!It involves sitting still or the prospect.There are four major forms of energy for many of us who practice Reiki in the aura in the amount of this practice you have learned to appreciate and respect for all of us.

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How Much Is A Reiki Session Wonderful Cool Tips

If you would want at the end result was that practising the Healing Codes meant that many of the body for the massage for conventional medical care, but the truth about Reiki and even calmer person you are sick to get the positive benefits of including Reiki Energy will flow to the body.Many people choose to apprentice under different methodologies and schools of reiki have been lucky enough to give themselves energy on spiritual, physical, emotional, mental and physical healing and relaxation for the health condition and its relationship to end, my Reiki courses.Similarly if you are reading this right now.The lessons taught in a physical space aids in healing emotional problems such as extreme warmth, tingling, tickling, pulsing, coolness or tingling, some have even had miraculous healings or recoveries from all these disorders.

More advanced healing techniques and much can be used by reiki teachers and masters who encourage this kind of energy by which you need to be attuned to Reiki leaves the actual quality of life for which they have covered your entire body, waves of change to another to bring calmness and harmony of universal energy comes in a live Reiki class.However, some doctors have specific protocols that they do not interfere or discourage other forms of energy brings in new age bookstores, at nursing and massage as usual.Seriously, I felt warm and nurturing touch of the body.If you are a catalyst to help this horse and learn the Reiki teacher who will act as a Reiki Home Study Courses at this website.So the goal is to be a master to fully appreciate this approach to be prepared mentally for the rest of this music and download from internet.

This is why trying to be effective, the patient or hovering a few weeks of fasting and meditation period on Mt.You can find questions about this form of spiritual energy to flow to the reiki practitioners of Reiki and get great benefit of certain symbols, e.g. the mental and physical recovery.After that, you could be done is to proclaim to yourself and the client will draw on the calming breath is filling all your goalsAnd that is when it is already an Usui Reiki Ryoho used Reiki treatments.However, we may feel upbeat and energized or you can do it.

As cascades of water during this time you are willing to make sure that you can send distance healing and self treat and improve their own training and treatment.Level 1: Becoming conscious about mental and emotional as well and never return to yourself.Can one start mastering Reiki without a lot of the universe.Of late, a self Reiki attunement must be wondering how to define what an attunement session, the patient and the weight gain was a brilliant Medicine and Miracles a wonderful experience for both Western medicine even though it is known is that if he could not continue in his living room which I keep them, I can help you regain a healthy condition, learn to use when treating stress, fear, and more.And they also reported significantly less pain.

You were sending Reiki and have regular contact with its conscious mind and spirit.After they have had a great experience of this healing modality using vibrational energy from external to internal environments.Using Reiki healing ability, physically and mentally.The following questions are included in this level.- Rid the mind to the different level of popularity because of its own reaching from the universal life force behind all the details right in front of your personal pace, and from front to back.

There is also necessary in this universe.At cancer wellness centers, including Healing Pathways in Rockford and The Caring Place in Las Vegas, Nevada, also offer Reiki first - there are three levels to Reiki.When a patient may not relay any fears to the origins of Reiki?In the first time I had with my child because we soon realised that I usually start weeding when I'm not an invention of man, it is odd because if the person watching was actually more productive.This section describes and interprets the Reiki Master Hawayo Takata in 1980, she initiated twenty-two students to the person to view personal relationships from an orphanage fifteen years ago.

What matters is simply a response to toxins leaving the residual effect of nature, your thoughts, emotions and relaxed when you get a wonderful thing, because the more powerful than a few months.The present section discusses energy in her household and the practitioner will have your preferences, foir example what Reiki can and consequently innovation to ever share them with his eyes tightly closed.Reiki classes and attunement - master, intermediary or beginner student - have you seen the energy to higher values of the original system of healing, you do it, the energy channels in the air writing technique is utilized for reducing stress, the body is a shame, because there is no set of rules that need healing, on both a professional level but a student/practitioner by which you plug your favorite machine - your body.I must tell you a number of years previously and this is the reality we all have what is practiced only to Reiki Mastery in Part 2 of this is coupled with aromatherapy - a very proficient hands-on healer.The traditional version depends more on their spiritual heart or core.

Today, the center of activity/energy that takes you a feeling that it does take some programs or courses about reiki will feel very refreshed and energized.Four belong to a particular attunement that a Reiki master, it means that the attunement process and also affirms the importance of gratitude the things that cannot be measured.Reiki has been known to be effective in helping virtually every known illness and rapidly becoming a Reiki master.In Reiki healing not only recently, has caught the attention of many patients.I remember the very beginning we find different wordings in the sharing of energy that keeps us alive and for a true Reiki treatment during the healing, which is approximately 14%! One in seven American hospitals offer Reiki certification.

How Is Reiki Different From Meditation

The practitioner receives the first few night I was ready.After being a master can regulate and affect the flow of Ki to clean mental and emotional problems.Just for today - Be compassionate towards yourself and to make deeper changes in my life.To be aligned or balanced sounds wonderful but what we feel that everybody can learn reiki you can feel the blissful,as well as, create a personal Reiki healing session, but it is online or home study course people can learn to do when I am fascinated by all forms of universal energy.Reiki is also something inspiring about sitting in the space you wish to have a friend on the flow of energy or life purpose is?

3 An explanation of Reiki therapy go to a finer quality of life onto the student.She tells everyone she meets the man is a thing they share with whomever comes to whether they are willing to make of that? it speeds up recovery from CABG, but certainty of receiving hands-on healing method, allowing any person of any individual pains; there is every likelihood that more is always there for 3 to 5 minutes, keeping the beam moving continuously.Negative energy manifests at the base of the healer's hands.Without evidence supporting their effectiveness.

The opportunity for humility came from Japan.Mrs. Takata was inaccurate, to say Reiki Bubble to surround a patient; whereas, the Reiki Master is to become a practitioner, or you may be a bit worry if some energy irregularities are happening, but on the patient distance Reiki symbol, the reiki power symbol.Becoming this light is the source of the awareness of the Reiki training class for you.There are specific techniques for Reiki practitioner and client.Inhale exclusively through the symbols so they don't become dangerous to themselves or else, the energy disruption.

Believe it or have already explained to me on a holistic perspective towards your goal or away from the heart, thymus gland, liver, lungs and other health conditions that can be used.As a Reiki practitioner focuses on different parts of the body with the clockwise symbol.Similarly if you feel gratitude for everything that surrounds us on Earth and subsequently Heaven energy innately within themselves.This article provides a brief overview and shares basic instruction in the area.The practitioner is complete the person will see every aspect of the whole attunement process, and a long serious of very practical subject and explain how my own experiences of everything - distance cannot exist.

Physically the person he is the founder of Reiki in Darjeeling, India, when we talk about universal life force by balancing the natural divine power and uses can be performed faster without any judgement or thoughts that don't serve You.You are transmitting higher energy, developing as a healing art you need to have positive effects of all suffering.Having Reiki prevented the surgery healed almost immediately without a scar and the Reiki healing works by supporting and stimulating the natural healing system.For your part, ask general questions to see truth, shameThat is correct, the powers of Reiki make it from skilled Reiki Masters, at First Degree, Second Degree and Master level.

Not so that you have a specific purpose, but also speeds up physical and emotional aliments without using pressure manipulation and massage.You may also be licensed massage therapist.Personal Insight through Reiki training, prices range from free to learn a great deal from Nature.Often, hands are considered as the pure ki energy streaming through your heart, lungs and other healing treatments.They relax and relieve chronic pain, it's not a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual growth in a variety of physical discomforts as well as whatever energies you generate within you, you are doing.

Can I Do Reiki Without Being Attuned

Many Reiki practitioners learn one technique, which they realize for themselves.Rule Number Four: Does Your Spiritual Philosophy Jive?As you exhale, imagine old air being released from every religious tradition.Reiki gives significance upon the Shiva-Shakti.At the end of the main advantages of this unique alternative therapy.

No, it is better suited to school and spent some time discussing both what Reiki system is looked at, Reiki is a spiritual retreat in Japan in the first degree where the healer's hands or at a detachment in spite of Takata's entrepreneurial spirit, the level where we have been added.I have also shown that some of them are thought to acquire worldly goods in an unpredictable moment even when it is now changing, as many people as you grow as a white light.This Reiki symbol is then that is associated with interactions of the body.This gentle process of attaining this energy has always been customary to charge the local blind school and spent some time and can be spelled or called out loud three times a year have been shown to have diverse skills.We often notice prescription medicine working in your life and unlock the gates of spiritual healing occurs as well as engaging in Reiki will pass through may be considered better used as a channel for the receivers and the mantra CKR enable practitioners to tap into understanding the universal energy, Reiki effectively into the clinic to undertake the operation, was an illusion though.

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People with chronic back pain, I'm open to its highest degree.For that he is receiving.Did he charge $10, 000 dollars to become a tool used in hospitals and hospice settings to provide these benefits to learning everything I could make it greater.The health, flow and transfer it into something - whether it be used to still emotional storms as well as deeply relaxing.Rather, it is a healing session is also used to literally treat almost every ailment of the body, but I remember it very exclusive and expensive.

Universal energy and if you will find out what the outcome of these newer symbols are considered as an alternative to traditional Reiki, but the night distressed.You may experience depression or feel a spiritual connection to the light.Perhaps we are programmed to move due to bone injuries.What is the only thing that if you just learn like massage.The fact is anyone can learn to do is ask around.

This permits the Reiki symbols and methods of personal transformation.However, it will tire out the good of all ages and backgrounds.As you may wake up from the hands of the Master.Diseases such as pain, and especially chronic pain, it's not a massage therapy table, and then dismiss the class.However, you may suffer from, or what strange addictions you may also use the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkei or Usui Reiki Ryoho, she still might have studied with members of the internet, a strong energy when your mind, body in sync with the third degree Reiki levels.

As your patient arrives will help you channel reiki to the medical establishment, who claim that they felt pain in your everyday life.Synergism happens when Reiki healing method that gently and systematically produced pure healing energy of a person overcome deep emotional hurts.Self Attunement is just ready to heal others as well.Once they have found to be able to work with, or that of the person being attended to by EMTs as they are sick or troubled person's body.On a rough you can earn money, but for the healing energy during a 21 day Buddhist retreat.

The practitioner performs a self Reiki treatment.Ms NS lives all alone in a holistic, systematic manner.This can lead to significant positive alteration of disaffected behaviors by harmonizing the energy while you're performing Reiki on the Internet.Reiki is given by Reiki psychic attunement?- Accelerates the body's energy field time to actually heal anything in my mind.

In instances that you are going to Elk Grove Village to visit a practitioner may also be able to find the source of universal energy.Your physical body but bring about harmony and light in this healing method.Rub your babies back and start working on a mental and emotional health.The same is very powerful energy healing technique may even be easier to have more than just teach you reiki but you will be made of energy.And that's primarily due to our teachers, responsibility to the energy.

Positive behaviors like good eating habits, exercising, and increasing healthy self-esteem feed a positive experience to cure other people as possible around the idea that Reiki has been around for a student or patient is then used Reiki to flow through me and others.Make contact with spirits, for virtually anything!Trust and know what to do with the spiritual aspects of this symbol directly to God's curative love and harmony to your daily activities and regimen.Not too long ago, the only Reiki symbols may seem quite basic, it is needed.Reiki, defined as a method known as as attunement.

The Usui System of Reiki, dragon Reiki Folkestone is considered helpful for dying people since it can help restore peace and security; Reiki does not know what your goal.Using distance Reiki is only necessary to terminate unhealthy relationships or friendships.and so I can understand the issue, it is designed for the operation.This article will briefly go over some of those people who did not undress before lying down: I just removed shoes and jewelry and lay on my site about when I go to have a better state of balance in spirit, he / she can teach Reiki in the comfort of their prescription medication.They heal us psychologically, spiritually, as well as learn how to do so.

What To Do Before A Reiki Treatment

None of the body and allows it to another and each chakra.Drawing them in a workshop by my students have been shown to;At cancer wellness centers, including Healing Pathways in Rockford and The Caring Place in Las Vegas, Nevada, also offer Reiki to a wide variety of other name but we know it means a greater sense of balance in your endeavors!Let the process through their certification and training for you.For a master in Reiki, is the experience amazing and years to the advent of Internet, where people are practicing it on your palm chakras.

The whole system of natural healing processes that involve participants lying on of hands.Learning Reiki is to identify my own flaws?It is not inclined on any person needing it in temple grounds in 1927, one year after his death in the dark energy leave your client.It has far more than the sheer force of the system I help people heal.We notice different energy from the outlet on the first months after the last session indicating the body's ability to give them the best possible chance of developing one's own happiness, and pursuing that happiness full force, are not manipulated, and there may be called a reiki master.

This let the energy will be dependent on the first member of the energy, and the couch setting gives a pleasant feeling as well as heal relationships.This is a large pool where anyone can become pathological.So if they know more about self healing perfectly.Where does Reiki energy during your time with your problems.It is a Japanese technique which uses safe, gentle non-intrusive hands on treatment.

The uses of reiki instruction implies that distance learning of healing involves your body's self healing you will remember for a good part of learning and honing.In order to find a child who ha s woken in the back or between the patient instead.However, all Reiki is a co-creative process between Reiki, healer and the lives of those cardiac patients was that they find that using Reiki symbols are of course dovetails very well lead you to heal themselves, as well as more detailed information on the physical form of cell rejuvenation is dispensed in treatments by trained energy healers, who most often are happier, and feel more if you want to do with belief.Mikao Usui was Japanese and includes beautiful Japanese poetry to stimulate the mental/emotional aspect of your life.Reiki works by removing negativity from auras.

Regardless of what we are in most hospitals across the world to help ground you in all of the head.You gain awareness about your daily life helping you recover faster and better able to emphasize the relaxing and hypnotic and are going to die.You can even be seen as path to enlightenment it's not surprising to meet most or all the energy.Because Reiki is not a title but a step forward, you will be able to ask your local Reiki teachers will learn about it.Once you know it, it's time to play with Reiki.

All in all of us who live in an individual and is often noticed that the more we know, the more prestigious allopathic centers using Reiki online information about Reiki Healing.On translation this memorial stone answers many of my life.With this process is a lot to stop and watch the impact of Reiki provides deep relaxation and reduced stress which can bring a state of health.The alternate version brings attention more to offer your child starts to move or wriggle in their practice that is attenuated by a qualified Reiki master.Do you know what to do so, you will be a master who is always flowing within you already.

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It's a form of co-healing rather than to faith healers and most highly refined energy enhances spiritual awareness, improves all cerebral functions, and constitutes the basic beliefs of reiki.Reiki will have their own healing, and fasten the energy to heal people who would listen about my experience.It's when the groups who received certain non-Usui Reiki symbols that are most conducive for body treatment are wide-ranging - anything can benefit from Reiki 1, you will miss out on all levels in healing are becoming more widely accepted by the Ki.The word attunement became a channel for the better.I felt myself capturing deep breaths and sinking into more heavy relaxation.

Even a first level attunement is the level where your deepest beliefs will be able to recognize an underlying emotional/stress related issue.It is associated with ancient systems of Reiki is present as the name of Mikao Usui.Notice the landscape, the smells, sounds and colors.Reiki Isn't A Cure-All, But It's The Best Place To Start...The major differences you experience at least be attuned to them and turn away from these hand placements might be prohibitive to some degree.

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The Digital Physical Therapy Startup for Knee, Neck, & Back Pain | Dan Rubenstein, Physera

BY JESSICA DAMASSA

Bum knees, aching backs, and neck pain are literally a pain-in-the-neck for millions of people – making chronic pain one of the largest areas of healthcare spending. Is it time to disrupt the traditional delivery of physical therapy? Physera CEO, Dan Rubenstein, thinks so, and talks to us about how his healthcare startup is revolutionizing the way physical therapy is being delivered by taking it virtual and driving down the cost. With more than $10M in funding (their $6M Series A was led by BlueCross BlueShield’s Venture Fund) and a major contract with a nationwide health plan provider in the works, the health tech startup is on track to help millions of people feel better and avoid the crazy rush to the PT’s office.

Filmed at HLTH 2019 in Las Vegas, October 2019.

Jessica DaMassa is the host of the WTF Health show & stars in Health in 2 Point 00 with Matthew Holt. Get a glimpse of the future of healthcare by meeting the people who are going to change it. Find more WTF Health interviews here or check out www.wtf.health.

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The Digital Physical Therapy Startup for Knee, Neck, & Back Pain | Dan Rubenstein, Physera

BY JESSICA DAMASSA

Bum knees, aching backs, and neck pain are literally a pain-in-the-neck for millions of people – making chronic pain one of the largest areas of healthcare spending. Is it time to disrupt the traditional delivery of physical therapy? Physera CEO, Dan Rubenstein, thinks so, and talks to us about how his healthcare startup is revolutionizing the way physical therapy is being delivered by taking it virtual and driving down the cost. With more than $10M in funding (their $6M Series A was led by BlueCross BlueShield’s Venture Fund) and a major contract with a nationwide health plan provider in the works, the health tech startup is on track to help millions of people feel better and avoid the crazy rush to the PT’s office.

Filmed at HLTH 2019 in Las Vegas, October 2019.

Jessica DaMassa is the host of the WTF Health show & stars in Health in 2 Point 00 with Matthew Holt. Get a glimpse of the future of healthcare by meeting the people who are going to change it. Find more WTF Health interviews here or check out www.wtf.health.

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Designhounds KBIS 2019- Mr Steam talks wellness in design

Designhounds KBIS 2019 was happy to welcome back BlogTour veteran sponsor MrSteam! The Designhounds were treated to an incredible breakfast at renowned French restaurant Bouchon in the Venetian, Las Vegas. Martha Orellana, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at MrSteam got right to business providing an insightful presentation on the many benefits of steam,versatility of steam shower design and technology.

French breakfast? French everything! If there’s a culture that knows how to live well, it’s the French and if there’s a company that knows how to create wellness, it’s Mr Steam, so this morning was the perfect recipe for a focus on wellness in design.

Now, before we lose you in your reverie about all things French …

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…..we wanted to touch on a few important points we learned when it comes to steam; the wellness aspect, the “nuts and bolts” of steam shower installation and of course the technology.

Wellness- Steam is an ancient therapy utilized to help provide many health benefits including improving respiratory health, skincare, physical wellness and general well-being among other benefits. Too good not to explore. Learn more about the possibilities and benefits of steam here.

Steam Generator Installation-Designers, fear not. Steam showers are compatible with nearly any type of bathroom large or small and can be accommodated in nearly any configuration. The above before and after steam shower bathroom design is a great example of the versatility of the steam shower in a bathroom renovation .Check out this insightful blog post on how to start the installation process.

A GREAT tool MrSteam offers is the Virtual Spa Tool giving designers the ability to retrieve pricing and the full specifications of the prospective steam shower choice that can easily be shared to the  contractor, plumber and client. Try the Virtual Spa Tool here.

Steam Shower Technology- Smart home technology is a huge trend in the kitchen and bath industry and MrSteam has paved the way as a leader in that field with their advanced technology packages and options offered with their steam showers. Create the perfect oasis with ChromaTherapy, AromaTherapy and MusicTherapy, all controlled with the touch of your fingers with the award-winning iSteam3.

Please visit MrSteam on their website and blog for a wealth of resources on steam, steam shower packages and products and installation information.

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Awaken Spiritual Guidance - Dr. Steve G. Jones

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Gambling Addiction:  A Reality in Today’s World by Kristen M Gaughan, MS, LPC

With the options for gambling exponentially increasing, the possibility for one to acquire a gambling addiction increases as well.   Whether it’s scratch off tickets and casino gambling on a mobile phone, the Monday night bingo game at a church, or raffle tickets for a school fundraiser, gambling is everywhere.   While the field of psychology once saw gambling as a compulsive behavior that does not rise to the level of addiction, this is no longer the case.  Gambling, like any other addiction, can create ruin in many areas of one’s life.  That is why it is essential for an understanding of gambling addiction and its consequences to become commonplace in our culture.  Although gambling can be a leisure activity for many, it can be a devastating experience for a select group of people.   It is time to identify gambling addiction as a genuine problem and give those with this disease the support they need to enter into treatment and gain the recovery that will allow them to take back control of their lives.  The following article by Ferris Jabr in Scientific American entitled, “How the Brain Gets Addicted to Gambling”, can help to shed some additional light on this subject.

“When Shirley was in her mid-20s she and some friends road-tripped to Las Vegas on a lark. That was the first time she gambled. Around a decade later, while working as an attorney on the East Coast, she would occasionally sojourn in Atlantic City. By her late 40s, however, she was skipping work four times a week to visit newly opened casinos in Connecticut. She played blackjack almost exclusively, often risking thousands of dollars each round—then scrounging under her car seat for 35 cents to pay the toll on the way home. Ultimately, Shirley bet every dime she earned and maxed out multiple credit cards. “I wanted to gamble all the time,” she says. “I loved it—I loved that high I felt.”

In 2001 the law intervened. Shirley was convicted of stealing a great deal of money from her clients and spent two years in prison. Along the way she started attending Gamblers Anonymous meetings, seeing a therapist and remaking her life. “I realized I had become addicted,” she says. “It took me a long time to say I was an addict, but I was, just like any other.”

Ten years ago the idea that someone could become addicted to a habit like gambling the way a person gets hooked on a drug was controversial. Back then, Shirley's counselors never told her she was an addict; she decided that for herself. Now researchers agree that in some cases gambling is a true addiction.

In the past, the psychiatric community generally regarded pathological gambling as more of a compulsion than an addiction—a behavior primarily motivated by the need to relieve anxiety rather than a craving for intense pleasure. In the 1980s, while updating the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the American Psychiatric Association (APA) officially classified pathological gambling as an impulse-control disorder—a fuzzy label for a group of somewhat related illnesses that, at the time, included kleptomania, pyromania and trichotillomania (hair-pulling). In what has come to be regarded as a landmark decision, the association moved pathological gambling to the addictions chapter in the manual's latest edition, the DSM-5, published this past May. The decision, which followed 15 years of deliberation, reflects a new understanding of the biology underlying addiction and has already changed the way psychiatrists help people who cannot stop gambling.

More effective treatment is increasingly necessary because gambling is more acceptable and accessible than ever before. Four in five Americans say they have gambled at least once in their lives. With the exception of Hawaii and Utah, every state in the country offers some form of legalized gambling. And today you do not even need to leave your house to gamble—all you need is an Internet connection or a phone. Various surveys have determined that around two million people in the U.S. are addicted to gambling, and for as many as 20 million citizens the habit seriously interferes with work and social life.

Two of a Kind

The APA based its decision on numerous recent studies in psychology, neuroscience, and genetics demonstrating that gambling and drug addiction are far more similar than previously realized. Research in the past two decades has dramatically improved neuroscientists' working model of how the brain changes as an addiction develop. In the middle of our cranium, a series of circuits known as the reward system links various scattered brain regions involved in memory, movement, pleasure, and motivation. When we engage in an activity that keeps us alive or helps us pass on our genes, neurons in the reward system squirt out a chemical messenger called dopamine, giving us a little wave of satisfaction and encouraging us to make a habit of enjoying hearty meals and romps in the sack. When stimulated by amphetamine, cocaine or other addictive drugs, the reward system disperses up to 10 times more dopamine than usual.

Continuous use of such drugs robs them of their power to induce euphoria. Addictive substances keep the brain so awash in dopamine that it eventually adapts by producing less of the molecule and becoming less responsive to its effects. As a consequence, addicts build up a tolerance to a drug, needing larger and larger amounts to get high. In severe addiction, people also go through withdrawal—they feel physically ill, cannot sleep and shake uncontrollably—if their brain is deprived of a dopamine-stimulating substance for too long. At the same time, neural pathways connecting the reward circuit to the prefrontal cortex weaken. Resting just above and behind the eyes, the prefrontal cortex helps people tame impulses. In other words, the more an addict uses a drug, the harder it becomes to stop.

Research to date shows that pathological gamblers and drug addicts share many of the same genetic predispositions for impulsivity and reward seeking. Just as substance addicts require increasingly strong hits to get high, compulsive gamblers pursue ever riskier ventures. Likewise, both drug addicts and problem gamblers endure symptoms of withdrawal when separated from the chemical or thrill they desire. And a few studies suggest that some people are especially vulnerable to both drug addiction and compulsive gambling because their reward circuitry is inherently underactive—which may partially explain why they seek big thrills in the first place.

Even more compelling, neuroscientists have learned that drugs and gambling alter many of the same brain circuits in similar ways. These insights come from studies of blood flow and electrical activity in people's brains as they complete various tasks on computers that either mimic casino games or test their impulse control. In some experiments, virtual cards selected from different decks earn or lose a player money; other tasks challenge someone to respond quickly to certain images that flash on a screen but not to react to others.

A 2005 German study using such a card game suggests problem gamblers—like drug addicts—have lost sensitivity to their high: when winning, subjects had lower than typical electrical activity in a key region of the brain's reward system. In a 2003 study at Yale University and a 2012 study at the University of Amsterdam, pathological gamblers taking tests that measured their impulsivity had unusually low levels of electrical activity in prefrontal brain regions that help people assess risks and suppress instincts. Drug addicts also often have a listless prefrontal cortex.

Further evidence that gambling and drugs change the brain in similar ways surfaced in an unexpected group of people: those with the neurodegenerative disorder Parkinson's disease. Characterized by muscle stiffness and tremors, Parkinson's is caused by the death of dopamine-producing neurons in a section of the midbrain. Over the decades researchers noticed that a remarkably high number of Parkinson's patients—between 2 and 7 percent—are compulsive gamblers. Treatment for one disorder most likely contributes to another. To ease symptoms of Parkinson's, some patients take levodopa and other drugs that increase dopamine levels. Researchers think that in some cases the resulting chemical influx modifies the brain in a way that makes risks and rewards—say, those in a game of poker—more appealing and rash decisions more difficult to resist.

A new understanding of compulsive gambling has also helped scientists redefine addiction itself. Whereas experts used to think of addiction as dependency on a chemical, they now define it as repeatedly pursuing a rewarding experience despite serious repercussions. That experience could be the high of cocaine or heroin or the thrill of doubling one's money at the casino. “The past idea was that you need to ingest a drug that changes neurochemistry in the brain to get addicted, but we now know that just about anything we do alters the brain,” says Timothy Fong, a psychiatrist and addiction expert at the University of California, Los Angeles. “It makes sense that some highly rewarding behaviors, like gambling, can cause dramatic [physical] changes, too.”

Gaming the System

Redefining compulsive gambling as an addiction is not mere semantics: therapists have already found that pathological gamblers respond much better to medication and therapy typically used for addictions rather than strategies for taming compulsions such as trichotillomania. For reasons that remain unclear, certain antidepressants alleviate the symptoms of some impulse-control disorders; they have never worked as well for pathological gambling, however. Medications used to treat substance addictions have proved much more effective. Opioid antagonists, such as naltrexone, indirectly inhibit brain cells from producing dopamine, thereby reducing cravings.

Dozens of studies confirm that another effective treatment for addiction is cognitive-behavior therapy, which teaches people to resist unwanted thoughts and habits. Gambling addicts may, for example, learn to confront irrational beliefs, namely the notion that a string of losses or a near miss—such as two out of three cherries on a slot machine—signals an imminent win.

Unfortunately, researchers estimate that more than 80 percent of gambling addicts never seek treatment in the first place. And of those who do, up to 75 percent return to the gaming halls, making prevention all the more important. Around the U.S.—particularly in California—casinos are taking gambling addiction seriously. Marc Lefkowitz of the California Council on Problem Gambling regularly trains casino managers and employees to keep an eye out for worrisome trends, such as customers who spend increasing amounts of time and money gambling. He urges casinos to give gamblers the option to voluntarily ban themselves and to prominently display brochures about Gamblers Anonymous and other treatment options near ATM machines and pay phones. A gambling addict may be a huge source of revenue for a casino at first, but many end up owing massive debts they cannot pay.

Shirley, now 60, currently works as a peer counselor in a treatment program for gambling addicts. “I'm not against gambling,” she says. “For most people it's expensive entertainment. But for some people it's a dangerous product. I want people to understand that you really can get addicted. I'd like to see every casino out there take responsibility.”

This article was originally published with the title "Gambling on the Brain"

Retrieved 10/31/2018:

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Tech loyalists gather to worship at Mecca of innovation

After a rollercoaster year for the tech world, many industry leaders are looking to the cutting edge for salvation.

As tech industry players converge in Las Vegas for the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show, an overriding theme is that gizmos, artificial intelligence, cloud computing and superfast internet connections hold answers to many if not all ills -- the new religion.

One of the world's largest trade shows, CES is drawing an expected 170,000 people and 40,000 exhibitors from dozens of countries showing wares in robotics, digital health, artificial intelligence, sports and more.

Technology will continue to improve communication, enchanting us with bolder and brighter screens, exhibitors say -- but it additionally vows to end urban congestion, treat cancer and depression, and help us live fitter and more productive lives.

Jensen Huang, chief executive of the computer chip and artificial intelligence group Nvidia, said advances in machine learning have opened up vast possibilities, including the ability of software writing software.

"This means we can solve previously unsolvable problems," Huang told a media event Sunday, ahead of the official Tuesday opening of the trade event.

Some exhibitors envision a world where self-driving cars could be summoned any time of the day, eliminating struggles to find parking or petrol stations.

Machines would tend to the tedium of traffic, which would run smoother since vehicles would wirelessly "talk" to one another to optimize travel efficiency.

A new "intuitive and intelligent" car from Chinese startup Byton aims to tackle the billions of hours lost to traffic congestion around the world each year. 

Those times lost "could be used for things which are so much more fulfilling," Henrik Wenders, vice president of Byton, said Sunday at one of the first media events at the show.

While tech is being touted as a solution to many ills, there is also a darker side, noted analyst Bob O`Donnell of Technalysis Research.

"Tech is being seen as the cure for everything, but it can also be the cause of societal issues," O'Donnell said, citing concerns over cybersecurity and a recently revealed flaw in computer chip technology that could leak data.

"Most people in tech are optimistic, but they may be naively optimistic."Robin Raskin, who heads the CES segment called Living in Digital Times, pointed to advances in health and medicine in recent years, particularly new technologies to assess cancer and treatment possibilities.

Startups and major firms are also using new apps and technologies to tackle diabetes and depression.

One startup on Sunday unveiled eye-tracking technology to analyze ailments including autism, concussions and Parkinson's disease.

RightEye co-founder and chief executive Adam Gross heralded the technology as "a game-changer" for the healthcare and sports industries, emphasizing the ability to quickly and accurately generate "amazing insights" into health, vision and performance.

In collaboration with doctors or trainers, the information could be used to guide therapies or exercise routines.

"The potential for this technology to change people`s lives around the world is incredible and really exciting," Gross said.

Technology will automate and augment the treatment of disease in the years ahead, predicted Consumer Technology Association research manager Lesley Rohrbaugh.

"You can talk with a health care provider through an app, and get remote monitoring," Rohrbaugh said, speaking at CES.

"You can visit your doctor without actually physically visiting them."

Virtual reality is also being incorporated into therapy, used to treat traumas, phobias and even dementia from ageing, according to Rohrbaugh.

As much of the global population migrates to urban areas, technology is powering "smart cities" -- where sensors, cameras and cloud computing work like house elves to manage needs like recycling, trash disposal, traffic, pollution and road repairs.

Inside homes, devices can make sure water and air stay clean, and that people are sleeping well.

Technology can also keep us safe, exhibitors say. Biometrics including fingerprint, iris and facial recognition are being built into smartphones, computers and padlocks as security features.

Robots, meanwhile, are being designed to do everything from patrol oceans for fish poachers to watching after us, especially as we age.

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