A Shield Against 'Bad Vibes' in the Workplace:Biomusicology, Lexicology, Entrainment, Ecosystems and YOU

“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge;
an argument an exchange of ignorance.”
~ Robert Quillen
Source: Brainy Quote: Argument Quotes

Infographic by PeapodLife: Negative Biomusicalogical & Lexical Entrainment VS. Ecosystem Harmonic & Symbiotic Entrainment at Work

We’ve all been there: the slippery slope and the downward spiral of the escalating argument. Be it at home or in the workplace, we all know the way things can get out of hand and tend to run away from us. Frustration, reactions, anger, aggression, things are said and done and…it rarely turns out well.

What we may not realize is there are real scientific phenomena affecting us during such conflicts. The fundamental principle involved is entrainment. In a general sense, entrainment is the tendency of oscillations or vibrations to synchronize.

Biomusicological entrainment is the phenomenon of entrainment applied specifically to biological organisms, including animals, human beings and ecosystems.  Biomusicalogical entrainment is responsible for everything from groupthink to mob mentality. 

Video: Bystander Revolution: Sam Trammell | Mob Mentality 

Source: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4EfhpNTeOw

And make no mistake; everything the above video talks about applies to adults and adult group dynamics as much as it does for children, adolescents, etc. Why? Because age has nothing to do with the effects of biomusicalogical entrainment.

Lexical entrainment refers to the phenomenon whereby individuals tend to take on characteristics of speech from others in social situations—including intonation, vocabulary, etc.

Some are more sensitive to entrainment than others, but combined, biomusicalogical and lexical entrainment have a very real impact on our relationships and on our effective use of time and energy in the workplace.

Now, compound the effects of these two types of entrainment with the toxic sick buildings and lifeless environments we typically work in—from electromagnetic radiation from office equipment to noise stress, VOC’s and other sources of indoor atmospheric pollution, the list goes on.

There’s much more than just air quality to consider.  And sorry, Google, no amount of board games, beanbag chairs, foosball tables, or other manmade gimmicks can heal what is fundamentally a toxic environment, hostile to the optimum performance of living organisms…including us.

Enter PeapodLife Building EcoSystems & Technology

High order rainforest ecosystems are the BEST solution for countering the effects of negative biomusicalogical and lexical entrainment. The ecosystem acts as an umbrella, enveloping everyone in the space with a biomusicalogical entrainment field of harmony and symbiosis. Every organism—and person—within the field is constantly being entrained biomusicalogically by the infinitely complex interrelationships and balancing efforts of the superorganism in order to maximize  health, wellness and optimal function of each and every individual in said field.   

Image Rendering by PeapodLife: Imagine your office or workplace transformed into an atmosphere of optimal human performance, harmonic and symbiotic relationships, and health & wellness.

Now, are we saying an ecosystem will completely prevent all interpersonal conflict? Certainly not. But what it can do is take the edge off such conflicts. With the over-arching influence of the ecosystem—complete with beautiful orchids, bromeliads, soothing moss, flowing water, meditative fish, ionized living water counteracting the effects of harsh electromagnetic radiation, etc.—some conflicts might be shorter, or less intense, or more quickly resolved.

In the human body, melatonin is the hormone which is involved in the entrainment of the circadian rhythms of physiological functions including sleep timing and high blood pressure. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melatonin Put another way, melatonin is the “calming hormone” in the body which counteracts the forces in us which lead to nervousness, agitation, stress, frustration, anger, etc. 

Think of a PeapodLife ecosystem as constantly washing your office space in a melatonin bath. But, unlike melatonin—which can have the effect of causing drowsiness—ecosystems stimulate the senses and invigorate our energy. In addition, nature boosts the immune system, improves mental faculties, increases inspiration and imagination, and all in all makes people feel better.

Imagine fewer sick days…fewer incidents of employees waking up thinking “ugh…I don’t feel like going into work,” when work is such a pleasant place to be.

How pleasant? Videos can’t do it justice, but here’s one anyway…

Video: PeapodLife Living Wall EcoSystem Fitch Street 

Source: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh1dk19VLwY

Now, just imagine what how all this will make you and your team FEEL? Imagine how much more you and your team will get done, and how much more pleasant an experience you’ll have doing it in the BEST indoor environment possible.  PeapodLife Building Ecosystems & Technology—be at your BEST.

Something is Rotten in the State of the World; time to go SEE Revolution!

Screenshot: PeapodLife: REVOLUTION – the Film about Changing the World Gives a Call to Action PeapodLife is Answering

To cap-off Earth Week 2013, go watch Revolution this weekend; then take a long hard look at the state of your planet, your choices and whether you want “to be or not to be.”

youtube.com: Revolution - Open Your Eyes

Published by revolutionmovie2012 on Mar 19, 2013 

Shakespeare is rolling over in his grave. Never in the history of this humanity has the phrase, “to be or not to be,” ever been more poignant. And yet, when young Canadian marine biologist, ecological activist, and filmmaker Rob Stewart—a modern day Hamlet if we’ve ever seen one—gives us a call to Revolution, the mainstream state reveals how truly rotten it is.

Rotten Tomatoes, the popular meta-review site, does not even feature Revolution on the homepage despite it still playing in theatres. 

Image: Screenshot of Rotten Tomatoes homepage, captured April 23, 2013. 

Note the “Find” bar at the bottom of the window. The search term “revolution” highlighted in pink, and the browser’s response: “Phrase Not Found.” Note also the red maple leaf in the logo; the Canadian version of the site. 

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/

Searching Rotten Tomatoes for the film Revolution is no help. It simply doesn’t register. Why not? With the help of a Google search, we did find the following page:

Image: Screenshot of Rotten Tomatoes entry for “Revolution (2013)” captured April 23, 2013.
Note “No Score Yet…” Only 4 Critic Reviews, 3 “Fresh” (positive), 1 “Rotten” (negative), with 100 User Ratings.  Still, there is no “Audience Score” listed, only “75% want to see” which doesn’t reflect all the 4 and 5-star ratings users have been giving the film.
Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/771317231/ 

What is going on here!? Revolution won awards at the Vancouver, Victoria, Santa Barbara, Atlantic, and Toronto International Film Festivals! Are there not more than four film critics in this country? Where is the media play this film deserves? How about its young, passionate and charismatic director?

IMDb.com lists 9 External Reviews for Revolution. As for User Ratings, IMDb reveals an overwhelming 56.5% of audience members gave the film a score of 10/10. 80% gave it a 7/10 or better. Still, the published “weighted average” comes out to only 5.1 out of 10!? (The actual arithmetic mean is 8.1).

Image: Screenshot of IMDb's User ratings for Revolution (2012/II) captured April 23, 2013. 

Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2350608/ratings

IMBd’s explaination for their weighted average score policy is this:

“Various filters are applied to the raw data in order to eliminate and reduce attempts at 'vote stuffing' by individuals more interested in changing the current rating of a movie than giving their true opinion of it.” 

~ IMBd Help: Weighted Average Ratings 

I guess IMDb doesn’t consider the possibility that a majority of people feel passionately about the film. Are there forces at work aligned against the Revolution we all need to see and take to heart?

Rob Stewart found his funding sources dried up when they discovered what the film was about. Revolution frames the horrors of the tar sands with aboriginal and youth activism. The film shows desperate youth calling for action and reveals the stark silence and callous inaction of governments and big business. Coincidence?  Something smells rotten to PeapodLife…and it’s not tomatoes.

Is the most important documentary on the impacts of climate change since The Inconvenient Truth being muzzled? Swept under the carpet by the powers of State and multinational interests, just as they have done with the toxic pollutants causing the problems in the first place?

Ultimately, it comes down to us: the free-thinkers and doers and the power of the Internet. Watch the Ted-Talk, below. Share this blog entry with all your family & friends. Help them take a cold, deep dive into the state of the oceans, our future, those in control and ask if they want “to be or not to be.”

Let’s not allow this modern-day Hamlet to end in tragedy.

youtube.com: TEDxYouth@Toronto 2011 - Rob Stewart 

"... In his talk, Rob Stewart speaks about the need for a revolution to challenge the status quos of our political and economic systems to save our environment and ultimately our world. "We are going to make it as a civilization, or break it."
Published by TEDxYouthToronto on Apr 8, 2012

Fertilizer Plant Explosion near Waco Texas is a Firey WAKE-UP CALL!

youtube.com: CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Fertilizer Plant Explosion Near Waco, Texas

"Explosions rocked a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, Wednesday evening as firefighters were battling a fire, causing multiple injuries, authorities said..."

Published by zidyboby on Apr 17, 2013

SEE and STOP the MADNESS & embrace Holistic Ecosystemic Organic Agriculture

The amateur video taken yesterday is of an anhydrous ammonia fertilizer plant near Waco, Texas.  Here’s a sobering quote from Wikipedia:

"Ammonia or azane … Although in wide use … is both caustic and hazardous. The global production of ammonia for 2012 is anticipated to be 198 million tonnes,[7] a 35% increase over the estimated 2006 global output of 146.5 million tonnes.[8]"

Wikipedia also says it “contributes significantly to the nutritional needs of terrestrial organisms,” but that is only the case when it is in harmonious holistic union with other compounds which counter-balance its hazardous nature.

When it is separated from the other essential compounds which hold it in holistic balance, its inherent hazardous nature is very likely to express itself. See for yourself:

Image: Texas fertilizer plant explosion  (REUTERS/Mike Stone)

"The blast destroyed 60 to 80 houses, officials said. It reduced a 50-unit apartment complex to what one local official called “a skeleton standing up” and left a horrific landscape of burned-out buildings and blackened rubble.”

Quote & Image Credit The Toronto Sun: News: World: Texas explosion: Rescuers searching for survivors of fertilizer plant blast

 

Image: Texas fertilizer plant explosion  (REUTERS/Mike Stone)

Amid such devastation, the death toll remained a rough estimate of five to 15 people, Swanton said. He said more than 160 people were injured and that number was likely to rise."

Quote & Image Credit The Toronto Sun: News: World: Texas explosion: Rescuers searching for survivors of fertilizer plant blast

Image: Texas fertilizer plant explosion  (REUTERS/Mike Stone)

"Ground motion from the blast registered as a magnitude 2.1 seismic tremor and created a jolt felt 130 km away in Dallas, the U.S. Geological Survey reported."

Quote & Image Credit The Toronto Sun: News: World: Texas explosion: Rescuers searching for survivors of fertilizer plant blast

When we take a materialist, reductive, crude, intellectually antiquated and barbaric approach to nature, we create agents of death and destruction.

We extract highly dangerous and volatile compounds from their natural state (in harmonious balance and holistic union in the natural order of things) and then try to re-assemble them in new and novel ways, with no comprehension of the consequences of our actions.

Let this explosion near Waco be the WAKE-UP CALL we need: Anhydrous Ammonia is NOT natural! It’s true nature is death and destruction. Carnage. And that nature was expressed in no uncertain terms. The videos and photos do not lie! 

That "death energy" is exactly what gets expressed when chemical fertilizers are spread over our food, only the effect is diffused and spread out over a large area and longer period of time, very similar to a nuclear reactor which achieves "controlled" release of radiation and energy over time, as opposed to a nuclear explosion. Nonetheless, in either case the harmful radiation is still produced! 

It’s Time to Embrace Holistic Ecosystemic Organic Agriculture

PeapodLife believes it’s time we stop treating Mother Nature as our own personal Legoland. The fundamental building blocks of life are NOT there to be toyed with, disassembled and rearranged on the whims of a highly mechanical materialist approach (science and technology as we know it).

Rather, Peapod knows the time has come for us to embrace a new science. A science of harmony and balance. A science not of reductive reasoning but a science of expansiveness of awareness; we need Technology which doesn’t reinvent the wheel; rather, it creates on the mighty shoulders of creation itself: the archetypes, shapes, patterns, mathematics and geometries found throughout nature.

Image: Mandala

Image Credit: deviantart.com: Mandala by digitalreflexion

And this applies to more than just science: politics, economics, art, literature. By realigning ourselves with the fundamental matrix of the cosmos (which is not material at all but conscious and energetic), we will blow the doors wide open on our limited and frustrated view of reality and ourselves.

By embracing science and technology which supports and involves the ecosystem, we will get closer to comprehending its true nature: collective interrelated symbiosis in a constant flow of exchanging energies.

Let us stop the madness of explosions and revolutions "out there." The explosion and revolution we need is within our own consciousness. Start with Quantum Physics. It’s a good start!

Still stuck on materialist scientific dogma? Watch this:

youtube.com: The Quantum Activist (Kvantový aktivista)

Quantum Physics & Consciousness with Dr. Amit Goswami Ph.D.

Published by DTVCZ4 on Nov 21, 2012

REVOLUTION – the Film about Changing the World Gives a Call to Action PeapodLife is Answering

youtube.com: Revolution - Official Trailer 

"Startling, beautiful, and provocative, Revolution inspires audiences from across the globe to start a revolution and change the world forever."

Published by revolutionmovie2012 on Feb 25, 2013

New study shows large majority of people worldwide wholly support ocean sustainability. Do you? http://virg.in/rev
~ Richard Branson Google+ April 15, 2013 7:47 AM

In Revolution, Toronto filmmaker Rob Stewart trains his camera lens and dramatic, emotional storytelling talents squarely on the ultimate subjects of every great tragedy: humanity.

Acclaimed filmmaker Rob Stewart is once again swimming with Sharks. Only this time, the creatures in danger include everyone sitting in the theatre. Literally.

Stewart’s 2007 film Sharkwater was universally acclaimed by both critics and audiences (scoring 79% and 88% respectively on Rotten Tomatoes “Tomatometer”). One could see how general audiences, although moved and wowed by the gorgeous cinematography and passionate storytelling might not warm up to creatures which are regularly featured on television as cold-blooded, bloodthirsty killers.

In Revolution, Stewart trains his camera lens and dramatic, emotional storytelling talents squarely on the ultimate subjects of every great tragedy: humanity.

"In the past, we thought we had to save the polar bears, we thought we had to save the environment. But it's about us, it's about OUR future."
– Revolution - Open Your Eyes Trailer

Here is a link to an interview with Rob Stewart at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival: Revolution 2012 TIFF Interview. It is clear from the passion and determination in his voice that this Toronto, Canada-born marine biologist was born for this. 

But he also seems a little tired and drained after the 4 years it took to film his second feature-length documentary. So is he ready for the REAL sharks (the ones running the show)? Listen to him describe his struggle to raise money for Revolution, even after his success with Sharkwater!

PeapodLife recognizes all the efforts of filmmakers, authors, poets, artists, activists, organizations, volunteers and everyday heroes all over the world fighting the good fight for Divine Mother Nature.  She is under real threat: the precious rare jewel of a planet we call home, all the creatures of the earth, and yes, us…her children (and we are children: from our behavior, that much is clear).

We need a new kind of support: PeapodLife: technology, ecology and humanity like peas in a pod - Advanced Human Habitat!

We need a new kind of support. We need a new kind of life support. We need a life support system that will create not only advanced habitat for humans, but also habitat for advanced humans. We Need Advanced Human Habitat.

We need to recognize our connection to the existing life support system on this planet. The real Revolution is to change the way we see science and technology: not as a means to control, command, dissect and exploit Mother Nature, but to support, comprehend, and align with her life-giving and conscious-raising capabilities.

We need a new kind of “lifepod.” Not the life-pod of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and other sci-fi films, with artificial life support systems, mechanized bio-systems, ecological bio-chemical systems, cybernetic systems, genetically modified organisms…all of which is trying to make its mark in the world.

We need PeapodLife: technology, ecology and humanity like peas in a pod, in accordance with 11 billion years of Mother Nature’s organizational evolutionary genius: ECOSYSTEMS.  By supporting that life support system, we will be making a real revolution: the revolution against the part of ourselves which insists we are not a part of Mother Nature.

But we are. She is the peapod in PeapodLife. The BEST life lies within her nurturing womb…Advanced Human Habitat…PeapodLife. And who knows? After sometime living in PeapodLife, we might even emerge from that nurturing habitat as truly Advanced Humans.

Image Montage: PeapodLife - Advanced Human Habitat - 

Life Support System (Habitat) for Advanced Humans 

Image Credits: Real Human Being by Davinci: Critical Discipleship - Marriage as Human Nature by Karl Hand Hand  +

EcoSystem by PeapodLife + 

Machinery by Zaatar